MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-12-05 14:05:41+00:00
I question that. I would expect in most cases that even if you manage to free up some memory you only have a little bit longer to run before something else uses all the memory and you are back to the original out of memory problem but no place to free up more. Not to mention those caches you just cleared should exist for a good reason and so your program is running slower in the mean time.
by Rastonbury | 2025-12-05 14:05:43+00:00
You don't see reduced competiton? HBO Max and Netflix are director competitors, post acqusition Netflix no longer had to compete hard with shows like Succession. The expanded catalog makes it even harder for smaller streamers to compete.

On sports rights Netflix no longer has to bid and compete with HBO, and same story having a bigger live sport inventory.

This is not unlike consolidation of food distributors where the end up wielding strong pricing power, farmers have fewer options to sell to and restaurants have few options to buy from. The middleman profits.

But yeah Netflix will probably spin off Cable
by SilverBirch | 2025-12-05 14:05:45+00:00
I couldn't disagree more with this description of why technical debt exists and it's a dangerous line of reasoning. Sure, maybe requirements weren't clarified. But often it's impossible to clarify them and you have to build something and even if the requirements were clear to begin with who is to say they'll still be the same by the time you've finished the project let alone 5 years later. Maybe the develop chose a stable and dependable technology because it's battle worn and proven? Maybe the sales person has to manage an impossible situation between an engineering team which can't commit to the time line needed to win the sale?

There are lots of good reasons tech debt exists, and it's worrying that this person seems to think that they all boil down to "I don't know how but someone, somewhere, fucked up"
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-05 14:06:02+00:00
> I don't think you need passport control level ID for this kind of thing.

I 100% whole heartedly agree.

For uk mobile ISPs there is already a system that stopped most of the nasty stuff from getting past. It was pretty difficult to circumvent, hence why I turned it off for me. If that could have been rolled out wider, with an account password for turning it off, that would have been more than enough.
by ryandvm | 2025-12-05 14:06:12+00:00
It seems like back-testing an LLM is going to require significant white-washing of the test data to prevent the LLM from just trading on historical trends it is aware of.

Scrubbing symbol names wouldn't even be enough because I suspect some of these LLMs could "figure out" which stock is, say NVDA, based on the topology of its performance graph.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-05 14:06:24+00:00
There's a difference between caring about your personal work product (and reputation), your colleagues on a personal and professional level, and your employer as an entity.

I expect my employees to show up to work and put forth a solid effort on a regular basis. Note that this doesn't mean a constant death march towards some unreasonable objective, or anything even close to it. Just apply yourself using the skills we agree you have for the pay we also agreed upon for 8 hours a day on average. In my field, this means you have pay that is well above the norm for an average software developer, and the working conditions are good or better.

A shocking number of people are incapable of this, and generally are also the same people who would claim that "they didn't start this".
by frumplestlatz | 2025-12-05 14:06:36+00:00
> On X, anyone can pay to obtain the ‘verified' status without the company meaningfully verifying who is behind the account, making it difficult for users to judge the authenticity of accounts and content they engage with.

Caveat emptor. Sounds like the EU wants to push privacy-invading KYC requirements.

> … and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers.

That’s a wild thing to try to force a company to do with our data. And I deeply suspect they’d use that data to justify more reasons to engage in regulatory lawfare against sites like X.

The entire complaint reads as remarkably invasive. I think it’s time for the US to put the EU and UK regulatory class back in their place. How about we withhold $X*100 dollars in NATO spending for every $X dollars they fine a US company under laws like this.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-05 14:06:38+00:00
There is more competition than ever. That is why these legacy companies are being bought and sold.

Amazon/Apple/Comcast/Disney/Netflix/Oracle are all in the business of selling video, plus they are competing for attention with Youtube/Tiktok/Reddit/HN/etc.

There is also Sony and Lionsgate and A24 not selling direct to customers.
by Retric | 2025-12-05 14:06:44+00:00
Wealthy societies can change their practices rather than seeking maximum short term efficiency that’s ultimately the solution not any one set of practices.

Regenerative agriculture doesn’t produces nearly as much food from the same resources so that’s only an option if you’ve escaped the trap.

Similarly there’s plenty of nitrogen in the atmosphere genetic engineering is a viable solution as long as you’re willing to take a slight hit to productivity as plants need energy to use atmospheric nitrogen.

Alternatively we can spend more energy to capture atmospheric nitrogen, but again only if we can avoid maximize output while minimizing inputs. And so fort across every issue you’re talking about.

> things that will make industrial agriculture itself impossible

You can continue to do all of those things across geological timeframes. Industrial agriculture doesn’t need healthy oceans, natural topsoil, or current levels of CO2. Carbon capture to produce chemical feedstocks or even fuels isn’t an efficient process, but it’s a proven technology. If batteries weren’t an option for example, we wouldn’t just give up.
by hopelite | 2025-12-05 14:06:51+00:00
“Big oil” is not demonic it is your God as much as it is everyone’s God that uses electricity and all the things you have that are only possible through oil. You are likely not even remotely aware of just how many things you have and do that are only possible because of oil.

Hint: it’s basically 100% of things you have and do. Even your minor deities, Renewable Energy are all a creation and possible due to your God, Big Oil.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-05 14:06:53+00:00
> Real estate cannot be both affordable and considered an investment. If it's affordable, that means the price is staying flat relative to inflation, which makes it a poor investment. If it's a good investment, that means the value is rising faster than inflation, which means unaffordability is inevitable.

This is a misunderstanding of what makes something a good investment. Something is a good investment if it's better for you than your other alternatives.

Suppose you buy a house and then have a mortgage payment equivalent to the amount you'd have been paying in rent until the mortgage is paid off. At that point you have an asset worth e.g. $200,000 and you no longer have a mortgage payment. By contrast, if you'd been paying rent instead then you'd have to continue paying rent. That makes the house a good investment even if its value hasn't increased by a single cent since you bought it -- it could even have been a good investment if its value has gone down, because its true value is in not having to pay rent. Paying $300,000 over time for a house which is now worth $200,000 leaves you $200,000 ahead of the person who paid $300,000 in rent in order to end up with the asset you can find on the inside of an empty box.

Likewise, suppose you're in the landlord business. In one city it costs a million dollars to buy a two bedroom unit and then you can rent it out for $10,000/month. In another city the same two bedroom unit costs $10,000 to buy but then you could only rent it out for $100/month. If your business is to buy the property and rent it out, is one of these a better investment than the other? No, the ROI is exactly the same for both of them and either one could plausibly be a good investment even without any appreciation.

In both cases the value of the property doesn't have to increase to make it a good investment and in both cases the value of the property may not even come into play, because if you're planning to keep the asset in order to live in it or rent it out then you can't simultaneously sell it. And for homeowners, even if you were planning to sell it eventually, you'd then still need somewhere to live, so having all housing cost more isn't doing the average homeowner any good. If they sold they'd only have to pay the higher price to live somewhere else.

However, there is one major difference between homeowners and landlords. If you increase the supply of housing, rents go down. For homeowners that doesn't matter, because they're "renting" to themselves; they pay (opportunity cost) and receive (imputed rent) in equal amounts, so it doesn't matter to them if local rents change -- or it benefits them because it lowers local cost of living and then they pay lower prices for local things. Whereas landlords will fight you on that to their last breath, because that's their actual return on investment. Which is why they're the villains and they need to lose.
by frost_dev | 2025-12-05 14:07:09+00:00
This is a genuinely interesting concept and it feels unique.

After exploring the site (i literally had to go to all the pages to get what the site is for), i had to really try to understand the core use or meaningfulness of the site as the presentation makes it harder to absorb. There’s a lot of dense text, so adding clearer visual hierarchy or a few concrete examples could help people understand the value much faster.

Also, as already pointed out, it is not responsive on mobile. Some buttons only click on specific parts, which might be an HTML/container issue. Then there is no navbar so moving between pages feels a little confusing. And having “Legal” appear as a primary button is a bit unexpected to me

It just feels like the presentation needs a bit of polish so the product can shine through more clearly and the message clearly communicated.
by mrweasel | 2025-12-05 14:07:26+00:00
So I believe it actually worse that the article makes it out to be.

Currently AI "solutions" being implemented in places like call centers are often technical solutions attempting to pave over organizational problems. Many IT solutions are like that. We refuse to fix the underlying problems, so we layer software on top, so we won't notice the stupidity below.

IT companies will happily take the money and write the code, broken as it might be, because the real problems aren't actually resolved. That to me is a problem. Companies needs to be way better at saying no, and offer help address the underlying issues instead, even if they aren't technical in nature.
by PearlRiver | 2025-12-05 14:07:29+00:00
This was inevitable. Technology was bound to catch up. Hollywood actually panicked in the 1960s. But those screens were tiny. Nobody wants to see the Godfather on a cheap 1974 Panasonic.

But TV today is at least 55 inch and in crisp 4k resolution. A modern TV is good enough for most content.

It is not Netflix that killed the movieplex. They were just the first to utilise the new tools. The movie theater became the steam locomotive.
by lxgr | 2025-12-05 14:08:00+00:00
Netflix outside of the US is a very different experience.

In the US, it's mostly their own productions and older content they explicitly acquired, but elsewhere, especially in markets that don't have a local HBO or Disney streaming service, they have incredible backlogs.

I remember finding basically everything I could wish for on there when traveling in SE Asia almost a decade ago, compared to a still decent offering in Western Europe, and mostly cobwebs in the US.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-05 14:08:08+00:00
The web should always have been a programming language, with all the usual constructs available in both the display and markup layers.

But instead of a single unified standard library for the industry we got a sprawling, ludicrous mess of multiple poorly thought-out semi-compatible technologies, with an associated sub-industry of half-baked fixes and add-ons.
by Scaevolus | 2025-12-05 14:08:26+00:00
None of Google's public source search engines (android, chromium, bazel) use Zoekt. They use Google's web indexing technology adapted for trigrams, which was mostly developed to support their massive internal monorepo, but exposed for a few of their major open source projects too.

You can index private repos with Sourcegraph, but it's a paid feature ($19/mo/user+).
by esafak | 2025-12-05 14:08:33+00:00
> "Modern" languages try to avoid exceptions by using sum types and pattern matching plus lots of sugar to make this bearable. I personally dislike both exceptions and its emulation via sum types. ... I personally prefer to make the error state part of the objects: Streams can be in an error state, floats can be NaN and integers should be low(int) if they are invalid.

Special values like NaN are half-assed sum types. The latter give you compiler guarantees.
by Ray20 | 2025-12-05 14:08:37+00:00
> I don't think a person with integrity is likely to vote for such an openly corrupt conman.

As far as I understand, it was precisely because of situations like the one described in the article that people voted for him.

In practice, you don't need to be honest and incorruptible to win an election. You just need to be more honest and incorruptible than your opponent.
by tclancy | 2025-12-05 14:08:43+00:00
Are you complaining about this project or RSS in general? Because your complaint applies to both. I loved the era of RSS readers. Maybe I never sent anyone money but it was never the point. That was a way to feel properly connected to an Internet stranger, to stay up on what was going on and what they thought. It doesn’t have to be financial remuneration at the end of every flow chart. "It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.
by Thorrez | 2025-12-05 14:09:02+00:00
More single young adults 18-29 live with a roommate than alone. Of course people clearly prefer living alone. But it's more expensive. Housing is already expensive, so something that makes it even more expensive is possibly not the best idea.

>In 1990 7.4% of single young adults were living with a roommate, increasing to 8.1% in 2000. From 2010 through 2022 the share was stable, reaching 8.7% in 2022.

>From 1990 through 2016 the share of single young adults living alone remained relatively stable, ranging from 6.0% to 6.8%. However, the share increased to 8.2% in 2022.

Although I think this does include current students.

https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/FP...
by shufflerofrocks | 2025-12-05 14:09:19+00:00
My blood always boils a little whenever I read about Netflix's "Not second-screen enough" business model.

What shitty point we've enshittified to, where we prioritise passive slop consumption over active enriching one.

All of this is a result of the algorithmic media addiction people have been engineered into, in my opinion. Every moment you're not consuming something is a moment you're wasting, and a moment you have to spend alone with your thoughts (which is too terrfying for people now apparently).

A proper solution to current video content landscape used to be piracy - Netflix literally succeded early on in streaming because they were more convenient than pirating stuff. But with these Media Moguls lobbying hard to crack down on piracy (at the risk of privacy), it does look pretty bleak.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-05 14:09:24+00:00
My YOShInOn reader basically looks like this. It takes a few 1000 up/down judgements to make good content-based recs [1], a reader that does collaborative filtering probably learns faster.

[1] train a BERT+SVM classifer to predict my judgements, create 20 k-Means clusters to get some diversity, take the top N from each cluster, blend in a certain fraction of randoms to keep it honest.

The clusters are unsupervised and identify big interest areas such as programming, sports, climate change, advanced manufacturing, anime, without putting labels on the clusters -- the clusters do change from run to run but so what. If I really wanted a stable classification I would probably start with clusters, give them names, merge/split a little, and make a training set to supervised classifier to those classes.
by vrighter | 2025-12-05 14:09:39+00:00
I regularly need to write messages in both english and my native maltese. Sometimes in the same message. Autocorrect is more of a hindrance than a help to me there. If the problem was that I make too many errors, then figuring out a way to reduce errors was more useful to me. To that end, I ended up using a chorded keyboard with only 6 buttons (PentiKeyboard) that overlays on the whole screen. Now each button is bigger than my thumb and (after working through the pain of learning it fluently) while my speed is slightly slower, my error rate is way down.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-05 14:09:53+00:00
The "marketplace of ideas" narrative was always a trick. And it worked.

Conservatives and reactionaries want to get their ideas into the mainstream but they know that just going straight out and saying race science or whatever will not get play in mainstream media. So they make the argument about how these ideas (which they claim not to hold) are being silenced by illiberal institutions. Then centrist organizations, who do at least want to believe that they ascribe to these principles, take the bait. Suddenly the New York Times is writing feature story after feature story about how universities are being oh so mean to the professor who writes "I don't shy away from the word 'superior'" and "everybody wants to live in the countries run by white people" (she didn't even get fired, by the way).

This convinces some center-left folks that various institutions have gone to far and they become participants in efforts to expel black people, women, and lgbt people from institutions of power.

But now people like Chris Rufo don't need the New York Times anymore, so they are happy to start saying that actually businesses should be allowed to only hire married men and that the civil rights act should be overturned.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-05 14:10:17+00:00
> Whether the main culprit is the bribing corporation or the bribed official is also not very interesting.

This is just an opinion of yours, and not in itself interesting either.

It's also a bad idea: if you mis-assign blame away from the regulator who is getting paid out of hard-earned taxes to be misinformed and corrupt, and to the lobbyist, which seems to happen all the time in this topic, then you're never going to fix the problem.
by Hendrikto | 2025-12-05 14:10:43+00:00
> I am not sure what has happened over the decades regarding actually being proud of the work you produce.

Simple:

1. People lost ownership of the things they work on. In the early 1900s, more than half of the workforce was self-employed. Today, it is 10% in the US, 13% in the EU.

What you produce is not “yours”, it’s “your employer’s”. You don’t have ownership, and very limited to no agency.

2. People lost any tangible connection to the quality and quantity of their output.

Most workers don’t get rewarded for working harder and producing more or better output. On the contrary, they are often penalized with more and/or harder work.

To quote Office Space: “That makes a man work just hard enough not to get fired.”

3. People lost their humanity. They are no longer persons. They are resources. Human resources. And they are treated like it.

They are exploited for gain and dumped when no longer needed.
by PurpleRamen | 2025-12-05 14:10:47+00:00
> I rarely want to read all of a websites content from beginning to end

I get the impression this person is using RSS reader wrong. Or is there really a culture of people you are using RSS like a youtube-channel, consuming everything from beginning to end? For me the purpose of RSS is to get the newest headlines, choose the interesting articles and skip the rest. This means there is a limited list of items to check each day, and a finishing line.

> The whole appeal of TikTok, for those who haven't wasted hours of their lives on it, is that I get served content based on an algorithm that determines what I might think is useful or fun.

But TikTok is even worse. It's an endless stream of content, pressuring you constantly, always pushing you on the "just one more"-train. How is that even better? This all reads more like this person should use a readlater-list, not a different RSS reader.
by hansvm | 2025-12-05 14:11:05+00:00
> You know, when I was young, I was able to rent an apartment while being a cashier in a grocery store.

You still can almost everywhere outside of places like SF? I just spot-checked some data, and in Minneapolis for example currently available apartments are comparable to what they were when I was looking 10 years ago, cashier wages have gone up 45%, and that often comes with healthcare benefits now. It's not an especially wealthy life, but a single person should be very comfortable (that's a comparable hourly wage and apartment cost to what I had delivering pizza at some other part of my life, and I lived comfortably and was able to save up to splurge on a nicer used Miata and the down payment for a small house).
by bpt3 | 2025-12-05 14:11:13+00:00
You need to make people include some sort of objective evidence with their argument, and either have a (hopefully benevolent) dictator solve the "vim vs. emacs" problems or just let people pick their environment and sort out any issues they create themselves.

If you're trying to pick a development language by committee, something is already very wrong. That something would be a people problem I suppose (because everything is), but it's really a strategic problem of the business.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-12-05 14:11:22+00:00
That still doesn't give any context that would support the action.

If seed counterfeiting is "a big problem", then banning seed sharing is "an even bigger, worse problem". What context justifies causing a bigger, worse problem to address a smaller problem?

Occam's razor suggests that the primary motivation was protecting corporate profits anyways, not addressing seed counterfeiting.
by varsis | 2025-12-05 14:11:38+00:00
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by Noaidi | 2025-12-05 14:11:51+00:00
Then pay people so they have a reason to care their work. This is like a wife beating husband wondering why his wife to care more about him.

every company in the united states could become a co-op and nothing would change for the business and everything would change for the workers. And everyone would be much happier at work and you would have the caring people you want.

It is the system that is the problem, not the people.