MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adolph | 2025-12-09 03:32:51+00:00
All recent HEBs have dedicated grocery pickup staging space. I chatted with a staffer once. It is like its own little grocery store where they keep selections of hot, cold and room temperature bags of selected groceries temperature controlled until the orderer comes and they put them together and bring them out.

The ones in Bellaire and Meyerland are two level with parking (aka flooding space) below the store and a smaller parking lot on the second level with the store. Bellaire also has a fancy fuel cell setup for some reason. The single level HEB in Montrose(ish) was built into the site of an old complex of charming but nearly abandoned standalone quad/duplexes with many mature oaks. They seem to have retained nearly all of the trees on the grounds in greenspaces within the parking lot and entryway.

Here's some street view of Montrose. They also had a bike air and repair system when it opened. I'm not certain if it stayed in good repair itself. https://maps.app.goo.gl/KxHAvDqKca4E8L8a7
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-09 03:33:45+00:00
I would like to see the finance team that codes all their own C code and is adamant it needs to be in Emacs, especially because if they are that deep in Emacs I'd be wondering why they are insisting on C rather than Emacslisp or something even more esoteric like GNU Guile or someone's custom Forth to Fortran compiler…

But to answer the question, that is where I finished. We weren't "okay with it" that the finance team insisted on a C# to Excel files in SharePoint/OneDrive via Microsoft Graph turducken. We lived with it because the finance team had enough of the metaphorical keys to the car to be deeply in the driver's seat of that project. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and deliver what the customer wants.
by elektronika | 2025-12-09 03:33:55+00:00
>If you care about minimizing child mortality, increasing literacy, pulling people up out of poverty, you should be a capitalist, as it's empirically the best way to meet those goals If you look at it empirically, the majority of people brought out of poverty (and I suspect the other metrics but am not as familiar with them) in the past few decades have been in China as the result of deliberate policies by the CPC.
by Arch485 | 2025-12-09 03:35:45+00:00
Well, if you're unable to read, you're not going to figure out what the buttons do by reading the textual labels :p

Further, if you have difficulty reading, it's easier to parse the meaning of an abstract symbol, so you'd use that instead of a textual label when available. (I say this as someone who is a really slow reader. I use icons when I can)
by hoistbypetard | 2025-12-09 03:36:11+00:00
Interesting. I know I'm not a very demanding user of word processing or presentation software. But I've been using zoho for basic business stuff for one of my businesses since 2019, and I wouldn't call it crap. It's not amazing, but I pay something like $12/user/year. And I get shared docs/sheets/decks + pretty decent email. And their transactional email service (zeptomail) is actually top notch IMO.

What missing integration makes you say "it's crap" and what do you consider a good version of that thing?
by unsungNovelty | 2025-12-09 03:36:36+00:00
I dont know the political angle. But if the DVDs and Blurays still keeping rolling under Paramount for WB Archives, I want Paramount to get it. It's super unlikely that Netflix will let the WB Archive live with physical media.

I mean, the way things are going, it's unlikely in both the cases. But I would get more time to collect everything I want by then with Paramount. Also, under Paramount WB Archive would be in the spotlight far more than under Netflix.
by jordwest | 2025-12-09 03:37:30+00:00
Yeah I know it's an unrealistic ideal but it's fun to think about.

That said my theory about power and privilege is that it's actually just a symptom of a deep fear of death. The reason gaining more money/power/status never lets up is because there's no amount of money/power/status that can satiate that fear, but somehow naively there's a belief that it can. I wouldn't be surprised if most people who have any amount of wealth has a terrible fear of losing it all, and to somebody whose identity is tied to that wealth, that's as good as death.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-09 03:37:59+00:00
Starting with the ads. Windows 11 was launched for precisely this purpose. Because what better way to milk daily revenue from existing millions of Windows PCs than to show desktop-level ads. The actual product price increases are an added boost to the M$ coffers. Microsoft thinks that most students/home users will not run away instead to Linux and OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and maybe it's right, since they had decades to do so.
by qwert12345887 | 2025-12-09 03:38:18+00:00
I was just about to start building something like this.

* Ability to branch off—similar to Zoom breakout rooms—where you preserve context but temporarily go into a 1:1 space with the AI. Great for brief deep-dive moments. * Typing slows down thinking and breaks flow. Voice APIs are finally good enough that voice should be first-class. * Privacy matters a lot. Especially for personal sessions. The ability to completely wipe everything is critical—one preserved context across threads is enough to lose trust.

It would also be useful if both sides could select the "AI mode" for a new thread:

* Nurture mode: healthy listening, feelings, emotional context. * Finance mode: results-oriented, financially logical, grounded in reality. * Career mode: guidance, planning, and professional reasoning. * Adventurous mode: creative, exploratory, high-novelty thinking and so on.

Next step: gentle preferences nudges. Maybe ask one simple question per week to learn about the user’s likes/dislikes. Make it editable and transparent.
by Veserv | 2025-12-09 03:39:11+00:00
It does not, those are just very inefficient tracing profilers. You can literally trace C programs in 10-30% overhead. For Python you should only accept low single-digit overhead on average with 10% overhead only in degenerate cases with large numbers of tiny functions [1]. Anything more means your tracer is inefficient.

[1] https://functiontrace.com/
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-09 03:40:29+00:00
Something that is advertised as 10x improvement in productivity isn't like your personal preferences for git or a few dinky bash aliases or whatever. It's more like a secret personal project test-suite, or a whole data pipeline you're keeping private while everyone else is laboriously doing things manually.

Assuming 10x is real, then again the question: why would anyone do that? The only answers I can come up with are that they cannot share it (incompetence) or that they don't want to (sabotage). You're saying the third option is.. people just like working 8 hours while this guy works 1? Seems unlikely. Even if that's not sabotaging coworkers it's still sabotaging the business
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-09 03:42:48+00:00
And how about charging more in store than online?

On two separate occasions, I stopped by Walmart recently and spent $0.50 extra and $1.50 extra by walking in, going to the aisle, and picking up the item myself.

The Walmart app even tells you that the price on the app is only for online orders. But I didn’t want to wait for an unknown amount of time for a Walmart employee to bring it out to my car (been more than 10 to 15min a few times).

So basically, I pay extra to avoid that volatility in time to run that errand, and I do more work for it.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-09 03:42:57+00:00
If you're a fan of de-emphasizing your agency with the passive voice, then you can say "less could be cared for by me" or just "less could be cared for" if you totally want to totally avoid responsibility for not caring.

I loved MrHeather's comment (who worked with Weird Al to animate Word Crimes):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823632

MrHeather on April 9, 2020 | parent | next [–]

When I first met with Al about this project, I was quick to point out that linguists would disagree with about a third of the "advice" he's giving out. His immediate reply was "WELL THEY'RE WRONG"--really loudly in the "Weird Al" character voice.

In my mind the joke is that the song's narrator is a know-it-all character that shouldn't be taken entirely seriously. But on the other hand, a lot of educators have contacted me to tell me they use the song as a learning tool.
by creer | 2025-12-09 03:43:01+00:00
Sure, if you have too much business that you can't be bothered to check these other leads. Same for browser incompatibility: you end up with a form which demands no blocking of anything, many specific js capabilities, MSIE only (I kid - you would think), etc, etc. Each incompatibility might only concern 2% of the population, but the whole mess mostly works flawlessly on the CEO's computer.

A single qualifying question like "What sport does your team play?" is a good direction - instead of the data fetishism of these forms.
by Benjammer | 2025-12-09 03:44:12+00:00
>It is the loose equivalent of asking why are you getting hung up on the type of a variable in a programming language? A float or a string? Who cares if it works?

No, it's not. This is like me saying "string and float are two types of variables" and you going "what is a 'type' even??? Bertrand Russell said some bullshit and that means I'm right and you suck!"
by LarsDu88 | 2025-12-09 03:45:05+00:00
I feel many folks are missing the forest for the trees.

1. Build robots to change the narrative around overpriced stock for EV company

2. Align with right wing politicians to eliminate illegal immigration.

3. If AI for robotics is solved, congrats, you eliminated the competition.

4. If AI doesn't pan out, congrats, all the firms relying on illegal immigrants can now buy your robots and have those same illegal immigrants teleoperate the robots from their home countries.

Its like win win for amoral broligarchy
by abakker | 2025-12-09 03:45:07+00:00
and, its so cheap. there are alternatives for individual components, but nothing that comes close to being this low cost. And, the ultimate value is that if you buy a niche tool (like notion) then only people with licenses can use it. Everybody at the company has office, so it's easy to share/collaborate. You have to really commit to avoiding office at all if you're going to replace parts of it.
by Rick76 | 2025-12-09 03:46:14+00:00
Linus Torvald was in a recent Linus Tech Tips video and I think his take was good.

Why can't it be both a bubble and revolutionary?

I use it, I'm cautious with it, but it is useful, if it wasn't stack overflow wouldn't be where it is today.

Now, that doesn't mean that these crazy investments will bear fruit. Lately, money just doesn't feel real at all. Trillions are being invested and investors are hoping for returns within 5 years!?
by strken | 2025-12-09 03:46:26+00:00
Part of this is the huge ZIRP-driven salary bubble in the US. If good software engineers were as cheap as good structural engineers, you'd be able to stick three of them in a room for $500k a year and add a part-time manager and they'd churn out line-of-business software for some weird little niche that saves 50 skilled-employee-years per year and costs $20k a seat.

The bubble means that a) the salaries are higher, b) the total addressable market has to justify those salaries, c) everyone cargo cults the success stories, and so d) the best practices are all based on the idea that you're going to hyperscale and therefore need a bazillion microservices hooked up to multiple distributed databases that either use atomic clocks or are only eventually consistent, distributed queues and logs for everything, four separate UIs that work on web/iOS/android/desktop, an entire hadoop cluster, some kind of k8s/mesos/ECS abomination, etc.

The rest of the world, and apparently even the rest of the US, has engineering that looks a little more like this, but it's still influenced by hyperscaler best practices.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-09 03:46:40+00:00
a16z makes me wish venture capital worked on a "three strikes and you're out" policy. The damage they've done to the American economy is likely immeasurable, and they show no signs of actually investing in tomorrow's tech any time soon. They're the Penn and Teller of perennial bagholders.

Click back through their submissions long enough and they're singing the praises of data science: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=a16z.com&kind=story&n...

Oh look, here's their Web3 and Blockchain phase: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=a16z.com&kind=story&n...
by stonecharioteer | 2025-12-09 03:48:39+00:00
Manning wins points for giving me DRM free books and for their website. It's really nice and I like reading the books on it. So much so that I wish I could sync pdfs to the Web progress.

Good job Manning!

I hate the UX of O'reilly. Great books, but horrible HX. That company seems to have people who do not dogfood.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-09 03:48:51+00:00
This may be how you personally interpret these things, but it is not how it has been interpreted universally for many centuries now. The freedom to do something has nothing to do with how easy it is to do, or even the absolute viability. For a basic example of the latter, every US citizen by birth has the freedom to become President some day, yet of course it is literally impossible for more than 0.000006% of people to achieve that within their expected lifetimes.

This is why constitutional guarantees of rights, the world round, are generally completely meaningless.
by chii | 2025-12-09 03:49:04+00:00
> Saying party X plans to do something

but that's not the whole thing being said.

Party X may have been planning on something, but party Y threw a wrench in the middle, causing party X to have to make some response. By implication, party X believes party Y to be throwing a wrench, hence, party X must act. Therefore, party Y also must be planning something that counteracts party X's desires. If it weren't so, party X would not act (as that costs money).
by twodave | 2025-12-09 03:49:04+00:00
I’m not anti-AI; I use it every day. But I also think all this hand-wringing is overblown and unbalanced. LLMs, because of what they are, will never replace a thoughtful engineer. If you’re writing code for a living at the level of an LLM then your job was probably already expendable before LLMs showed up.
by sethhochberg | 2025-12-09 03:50:21+00:00
There are examples of the warehouse-based model working, but they clearly require both density _and_ mindshare. Its not clear Kroger had either based on the other comments in here. FreshDirect in NYC has been operating since the early 2000s with a fleet of tiny trucks with a couple of employees in them and a giant FC with essentially zero retail footprint.

(As an aside, they also have some of the best meat and produce you can get in the city without going to a farmers market. So many retail grocery stores here lack loading docks, the food handling getting from the truck to the sidewalk to the basement of the store to the shelves is really, really rough especially during the summer months. Skipping that and going warehouse-to-home has advantages)
by klempner | 2025-12-09 03:50:39+00:00
Sure, in the middle of a magnitude 9 earthquake I'd rather be in the middle of a suburban golf course (as long as it is far from any coastal tsunami) than any building, but I don't spend the majority of my time outside.

Two issues: 1. If you're making this choice during an earthquake, "outside" is often not a grassy field but rather the fall zone for debris from whatever building you're exiting. 2. If the earthquake is big/strong enough that you're in any real danger of building level issues, the shaking will be strong enough that if you try to run for the outside you're very likely to just fall and injure yourself.
by jrowen | 2025-12-09 03:51:10+00:00
Super heady.

> Linguistic indirection is something of a hallmark of the cultural heritage sector and while it may sometimes be necessary for financial or budgetary reasons it is, in most cases, profoundly harmful or at least a counter-productive distraction and a waste of time.

If linguistic indirection is a term of art, I'm not familiar with it, but it seems like a great way to describe this:

> Digital transformation is the manifestation through commercialization — which is to say financial means and industrial availability — of tools and processes whose introduction shines a light on issues and challenges which were always present but otherwise able to remain unseen.

I may eventually get to the wall label part but this is tough.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-12-09 03:51:54+00:00
I believe your thinking is sound. Creating original things is one of the fundamental ways to fulfillment, I believe. As long as the goal of your creation is to create for yourself — and yourself only — I believe it can lead to the highest level of achievement. I would caution that creation can be addictive almost as much as consumption. Seeing the number of likes on a video you created go up is extremely addictive and can lead yourself towards overworking to make the next creation. Almost every big youtuber goes through a phase of burnout as they try and chase bigger and bigger hits. Additionally, you are beholden to Youtube not screwing you over which may lead to a situation where YouTube has power over your personal fulfillment.

If you haven’t already I would check out the book “Hooked” as well to learn more about the addictive patterns that are put out there to trap you.
by fruitplants | 2025-12-09 03:52:33+00:00
I may be wrong but I think it's mostly for things like enterprise support in case something goes wrong. IBM has had a large footprint in enterprises (WebSphere MQ, etc). People don't want disruptions in case your own kafka cluster with in-house engineers accountable for everything. So having enterprise support for product/ infra gives a sense of safety. At times rightly so. Depends on a lot of factors- risk appetite, capabilities of in-house engineers, what's at stake, and mostly psychological safety, etc.
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-09 03:53:39+00:00
I will get buried for saying this, but DPRK survived as a people, investing everything into a nuclear program to survive. The reason nobody did anything is they firmly built a defense against intervention, and given how the korean war went, how various US interventions looked after that, it was the correct thing to do. The most the US could do to them in recent years was murder some innocent fishermen. It has tried to starve them and failed.
by Faiqhanif | 2025-12-09 03:54:02+00:00
Hello HN,

I built Era because I was frustrated with LLM hallucinations and the high cost of inference.

Era is an experimental cognitive architecture that replaces neural networks with deterministic math: 1. "Truth" is calculated using Force-Directed Graphs (consensus attracts, outliers repel). 2. "Mood" is simulated using Lorenz Attractors (chaos theory). 3. "Memory" is mapped onto a 3D Toroidal topology.

It runs locally on CPU, costs $0/query (excluding search API), and in my benchmark of 120 queries, it achieved 99% accuracy on fact verification with zero hallucinations.

It is obviously not a replacement for LLMs in creative writing, but for "grounded" tasks (verification, causal reasoning), it offers a transparent, lightweight alternative.

The core engines (1-8) are open source (Apache 2.0). I'd love your feedback on the architecture.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-09 03:54:32+00:00
What does bothering to read some distributed systems literature have to do with demanding unnecessary perfection? Did NATS have in their docs that JetStream accepted split brain conditions as a reality, or that metadata corruption could silently delete a topic? You could maybe argue the fsync default was a tradeoff, though I think it’s a bad one (not the existence of the flag, just the default being “false”). The rest are not the kind of bugs you expect to see in a 5 year old persistence layer.
by chii | 2025-12-09 03:54:47+00:00
It's hard to cancel popular shows for political reasons (at least in america) - it's too transparent.

But its possible to starve them of talent, funding and eventually let them wither into obscurity, by not promoting nor giving it the opportunity to flourish.

But there's still youtube even if these incumbent media outlets are compromised - independents can still create and distribute there. This is very different from the airwaves or cable.
by stopbulying | 2025-12-09 03:57:34+00:00
Twitter.com/{username}/status/{tweetid} URLs redirect to x.com, because X continues to host the HTTP redirect (so that all of the existing links to tweets from other sites continue to work).

X acquired the database of tweets that billions of twitter.com URLs point to.

X acquired the Twitter trademarks when they acquired Twitter.

Probably millions of other users of the Twitter brand assets (in accordance with the posted Twitter brand guidelines) have not yet updated their Twitter bird logos to the X X.

To defend such trademarks, X corp must prosecute competing social media sites that misuse its trademarks and word marks out of accordance with the posted brand guidelines.

There is no statutory requirement for a company to continue to host brand guidelines for retained and/or actively used trademarks in order to retain their USPTO trademarks.

Did they register Twitter.new with intent to compete with Twitter.com in the Social Media space?

What does USPTO call the Twitter/X trademark exclusivity industry category?

That's confusing to the average consumer.

Isn't that like typo squatting?
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-09 03:57:37+00:00
I had giardia one time .. actually I still have it :(

I went to see the physician to treat it, a MD, at least I thought. The doc said he wanted to give me "ivermectin" to eliminate the infection(!!!). Ivermectin(!?!). is this a weird COVID quack? I don't see how a HORSE DEWORMER has any place in human medicine - I'd rather keep the giardia, thanks, then take some quack horse dewormer drug
by somenameforme | 2025-12-09 03:59:21+00:00
Yip, the famous example here being John Maynard Keynes, of Keynesian economics. [1] He predicted a 15 hour work week following productivity gains that we have long since surpassed. And not only did he think we'd have a 15 hour work week, he felt that it'd be mostly voluntary - with people working that much only to give themselves a sense of purpose and accomplishment.

Instead our productivity went way above anything he could imagine, yet there was no radical shift in labor. We just instead started making billionaires by the thousand, and soon enough we can add trillionaires. He underestimated how many people were willing to designate the pursuit of wealth as the meaning of life itself.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
by enduser | 2025-12-09 03:59:51+00:00
This is a very insightful take. People forget that there is competition between corporations and nations that drives an arms race. The humans at risk of job displacement are the ones who lack the skill and experience to oversee the robots. But if one company/nation has a workforce that is effectively 1000x, then the next company/nation needs to compete. The companies/countries that retire their humans and try to automate everything will be out-competed by companies/countries that use humans and robots together to maximum effect.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-12-09 04:00:09+00:00
Suggesting that personal fulfillment should not be controlled by a corporation is not elitist — it is philosophy. You disagree with my philosophy, which is fine.

I typed out my ideas as they came to me, so I may have missed the mark. The core idea I want to portray is that you can choose not to play the game of for profit corporations. You can walk away.