MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by everybodyknows | 2025-12-21 03:10:20+00:00
The article is nonsense -- maybe not surprising, because the author is listening to lies:

> The CEO of HEI Hotels, which owns and manages more than 100 properties in the U.S. across Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, and others including the Westin Grand Central, The Gwen in Chicago, and Revere Hotel in Boston as well as Liberty Hotel Boston and Claremont Resort & Club in Berkeley, explained that,

> He was having a difficult time recruiting employees

> Because they were demanding to be paid more

> So he needed to encourage guests to pay them more via tipping

> If he raised wages, other hotels would match that – but doing a better job getting guests to pay the wages via tipping was a sustainable advantage.

The real reason is to dodge taxes. Wages from the employer are taxed more heavily than tips now (in the US):

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/treasury-irs-issue-guidance-lis...

To the extent that a "TIP" portion of customer payments goes "directly" (as far as the IRS knows) to the employee, Marriott can pay less and still retain the employee, whose take-home hasn't suffered.

This changes the competitive environment for hoteliers -- this sort of coercion of customers will become the norm. Completely predictable of course, to anyone who thought through the implications of "No taxes on TIPs".
by stevage | 2025-12-21 03:10:32+00:00
> it turns out that they got dozens of speed camera tickets per year.

Are you saying you can legally keep driving despite dozens of speed camera tickets in a year, as long as you keep paying the fines?

That's wild.

Around here (Melbourne, Australia), you'd lose your licence very quickly. A single speeding ticket is a minimum of 3 points off your licence (of which you have 12), and bigger infringements lose more points. So at most you could speed 4 times, but probably fewer. And it takes a few years for the points to come back.
by cj | 2025-12-21 03:10:44+00:00
I mean weed really doesn't smell good. If you're not turned off by the smell, it's a learned pleasure. Similar to how nearly every child will dislike the taste of alcohol, yet after drinking for a while they'll learn to tolerate or enjoy it.

It can be a very overpowering smell. When an odor overpowers, it's harder to discern one scent from another.
by a-dub | 2025-12-21 03:11:30+00:00
> The actual code powering Gmail probably dates back to the late 80s or early 90s and has had several hundred thousands of hours of work put into it.

no. google did not exist until the late 90s.

various forms of internet email sure did, but most popular mtas of the google era shared very little code with predecessors from the 80s and early 90s (maybe sendmail) and google almost certainly wrote their own from scratch.

but your first point. that an archive browser that looks like gmail is not equivalent to a full tilt email service backend is valid.
by inkyoto | 2025-12-21 03:11:54+00:00
Solaris, AIX, *BSD and others do not offer overcommit, which is a Linux construct, and they all require enough swap space to be available. Installation manuals provide explicit guidelines on the swap partition sizing, with the rule of thumb being «at least double the RAM size», but almost always more in practice.

That is the conservative design used by several traditional UNIX systems for anonymous memory and MAP_PRIVATE mappings: the kernel accounts for, and may reserve, enough swap to back the potential private pages up front. Tools and docs in the Solaris and BSD family talk explicitly in those terms. An easy way to test it out in a BSD would be disabling the swap partition and trying to launch a large process – it will get killed at startup, and it is not possible to modify this behaviour.

Linux’s default policy is the opposite end of that spectrum: optimistic memory allocation, where allocations and private mappings can succeed without guaranteeing backing store (i.e. swap), with failure deferred to fault time and handled by the OOM killer – that is what Linux calls overcommit.
by ethmarks | 2025-12-21 03:13:32+00:00
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ethmarks

Mine seems to think that I'm some kind of detail-obsessed super-pedant. Personally, I think this is ridiculous. "super" is a Latin stem meaning "beyond", which implies that I've transcended the qualities of pedantry. A better term would be 'pluri-pedant', which denotes someone who is exceptionally punctilious while still remaining within the bounds of being pedantic.
by jonahbenton | 2025-12-21 03:13:37+00:00
The fact is a fact, their diagnosis and narrative is fantasy. A fair number of the stabilized empty apartments are due to the specific points in the 2019 law that too greatly impacted the economics of stabilized apartments. Prior to the 2019 law, it was economic to operate stabilized units, but too easy to unstabilize them, hence the motivation for the law. Replacing those dynamics with section 8 is idiocy.
by zephen | 2025-12-21 03:15:35+00:00
The article author claims that his new version is simpler than the old version.

But the new version is really only simpler TEXTUALLY, because of the post-increment operators:

push(val) { assert(!full()); array[mask(write++)] = val; }

shift() { assert(!empty()); return array[mask(read++)]; }

(If you look at assembly output, it's probably the same or more code.)

But, at least in some languages, those increments might happen before the array access, which could mean that using them causes a race condition.

In fact, in C or C++, those increments are GUARANTEED to happen before the access to array, because they are guaranteed to happen before the calls to mask.

tl;dr -- dude claims to insure he can utilize one more character of his buffer, while writing code that ensures that if he is truly operating at the margins, he will be doing things in the wrong order.
by prescriptivist | 2025-12-21 03:17:14+00:00
I used this in earnest yesterday on my Zillow saved listings. I prompted it to analyze the listings (I've got about 70 or so saved) and summarize the most recent price drops for each one and it mostly failed at the task. It gave the impression that it paginated through all the listings, but I don't think it actually did. I think the mechanism by which it works, which is to click links and take screenshots and analyze them must be some kind of token efficiency trade-off (as opposed to consuming the DOM) and it seems not great at the task.

As a reformed AI skeptic I see the promise in a tool like this, but this is light years behind other Anthropic products in terms of efficacy. Will be interesting to see how it plays out though.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-21 03:17:43+00:00
All things considered Anthropic seems like they’re doing most things the right way, and seemed to be focused on professional use more than OpenAI and Grok, and Opus 4.5 is really an incredibly good model.

Yes, they know how to use their safety research as marketing, and yes, they got a big DoD contract, but I don’t think that fundamentally conflicts with their core mission.

And honestly, some of their research they publish is genuinely interesting.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-21 03:18:25+00:00
Inherently means “qualities or traits that are intrinsic and fundamental, not added or external”

So yea cars are inherently dangerous.

I’m not sure who you think I’m indoctrinated by but around 3000 people are killed every year in my country by cars.

Meanwhile around 200 people are murdered each year.

I’ll give you one try to guess which one dominates the newspapers and public discourse.

And you tell me something about indoctrination, real funny
by Duanemclemore | 2025-12-21 03:18:53+00:00
This is a super cool visualization format, and really tremendous work from the authors. I got to interview Steve (via the web) in the summer of 2023. It was really humbling and amazing. I'm glad the author got to share this extension of his work with him!

When other architects aren't familiar with his genius, I explain that he taught Drop City how to build domes - which is the architectural equivalent of teaching Johnny Ramone how to play a power chord. RIP to one of the absolute giants.
by balderdash | 2025-12-21 03:19:17+00:00
I think the realistic number is is more like 2-4% if it’s not supplemented by working (and sometimes even working) I also think when you add in things like paying for private school/ college, divorces, taxes, carrying cost of real estate, etc. luxury travel/clothes/meals/vacations it’s a big number.

I’m not saying it’s not possible, but I suspect the vast majority of grandchildren of a wealthy couple have meaningfully less than the original couple did, as well as less than their parents did.
by nimih | 2025-12-21 03:19:42+00:00
Well, that seems like a pretty reasonable thing to be pissed off about, thanks for taking the time to elaborate.

I think the overlap between the bureaucratic technologies developed by people who, by all accounts, are genuine lovers of the subjectivity and messiness of music qua human artistic production (e.g. the algorithmic music recommendation engines of the '00s and early '10s; public databases like discogs and musicbrainz; perhaps even the expansive libraries and curated collections in piracy networks like what.cd), and the people who mainly seem interested in extracting as much profit as possible from the vast portfolios of artistic output they have access to (e.g. all of Spotify's current business practices, pretty much), should probably prompt some serious introspection among any technologists who see themselves in that first category.

I read an essay a number of years back, which raised the point that, if you're an academic or researcher working on computer vision, no matter how pure your motives or tall your ivory tower, what do you expect that research to be used for, if not surveillance systems run by the most evil people imaginable. And, thus, shouldn't you share some of that moral culpability? I think about that essay a lot these days, especially in relation to topics like this.
by derf_ | 2025-12-21 03:19:48+00:00
You make it sound easy, but there are relatively few billionaires in the US descended from historically wealthy families [0]. First off, this kind of compounding has only really been possible since the industrial revolution (~200 years). Before that, wealth came primarily from land ownership, which was zero-sum. Second, "no major bad luck" has been pretty hard to come by in most of the world across multi-generational time-scales. The US has had a historically exceptional period for the last 80 years or so, but there is no reason that has to continue. Third, "as long as descendants don't make errors" can also be a significant hurdle. Many Asian countries have a saying: wealth does not last past three generations (not meant to be taken literally, but people say it for a reason).

Also, to start compounding, you have to have enough to compound. Most people instead start off significantly in debt (student debt, mortgage/rent, etc.). Then they try to save enough to be able to raise their children and retire before they become too infirm to work, at which point they start compounding in reverse. All the while, they are competing with everyone else trying to do the same thing for how much they are willing to pay for scarce resources and how little they are willing to receive for their employment. Having your compounding achieve escape velocity is the exception, not the rule, and it has to be that way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missing_Billionaires
by dash2 | 2025-12-21 03:21:24+00:00
It's good and gave me some queasy chuckles. But it's not as fun as the "HN Front Page" from a few days back.

I suspect there's kind of a feedback loop here. An algorithm does X well; it becomes easy to churn out X; we realize that X wasn't as skilful as we thought. In other words, this kind of satire will become seen as stilted and conventional, in the same way that AI art looks stilted and conventional to us today.
by eska | 2025-12-21 03:22:10+00:00
There are many bad things to be said about TempleOS, many aspects of it that seem poorly constructed or wouldn't work in the "real world". I'm going to ignore them here. It's very easy to be negative, but you will never learn anything new by doing so.

I think you should reflect on why you’re so dismissive of other’s work. When I see comments like yours it makes me think the commenter must have some self-worth issues requiring them to put others down in order to feel better about themselves.
by mzajc | 2025-12-21 03:22:45+00:00
> Also structure-wise the first half is the subnet and the second half is the host. That's much more intuitive than IPv4.

This only applies to /64 blocks, which are by no means standard. For instance, tunnelbroker.net will give you a /48 for free. This means IPv6 addresses are essentially free by the billions, but it's difficult to figure out how big of a block they belong to from the outside.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-21 03:23:55+00:00
People would like them if they did the things people actually want. People want to be able to own a home and afford healthcare.

But to do that you have to step on the toes of the banks and the National Association of Realtors and the trades unions on housing costs and the healthcare companies and the AMA on healthcare costs. Which the rest of the public wants you to do, but that's not how you get paid off, so it's not what they do.

Instead they talk a big game but when it comes time to do it, they offer up economic sophism like rent control or medical price controls that not only don't solve the problems but generally make them worse. And then people don't like them because they suck.
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-21 03:25:15+00:00
> On the rare occasions when I'm forced to use Word, I find it an incomprehensible mess. I don't understand why users continue to tolerate it.

Some comments above focus on legal docs. I've provided support to practicing lawyers. They don't have time to learn new tools that maybe support the majority of what they need because people on this site know there are alternatives. They're locked into Word so that they can focus on the part of their work for which they are trained and it's not software like you or me.
by spike021 | 2025-12-21 03:26:04+00:00
I got a dog during COVID and I'm not sure if this is a related issue but the number of times I've had people not brake but accelerate as we're crossing the street or flash their high beams or try to drive around us at the last moment is insane.

there are days where it happens multiple times during one walk and weeks where it happens at least each day of the week.

i'm actually a car guy but when i drive if i see any pedestrians i always slow down and i take it even easier if i see they have small children or dogs since either can randomly stop or dart away.
by inkyoto | 2025-12-21 03:28:23+00:00
> […] the purposes of memory accounting.

This is a crucial distinction and I agree when the problem is framed this way.

The original statement by another GP, however, was that fork(2) is wasteful (it is not).

In fact, I have mentioned it in a sister thread that the OS does not have a way to know of the kind of behaviour the parent or the child will exhibit after forking[0].

Generally speaking, this is in line with the foundational ethos of the UNIX philosophy where UNIX gives its users a wide array of tools tantamount to shotguns that shoot both forward and backward simultaneously and the responsibility for with the number of deaths and permanent maimings ultimately lies with its users. In comparison, memory management in operating systems that run mainframes is substantially more complex and sophisticated.

[0] In a separate thread, somebody else has mentioned a valid reverse scenario where the child idles by after forking and it is the parent that makes its data pages dirty causing the physical memory consumption to baloon.
by orangeboats | 2025-12-21 03:30:05+00:00
>How? Why is using hex any more intuitive than binary or a md5 hash for anyone who doesn’t do networking for a living?

Well, what is the address range for 192.168.0.0/27? That's also non-intuitive for a layman as well.

In the end, IP addresses are made for computers, not humans.

And... just FYI,

>Will torrents suddenly find more seeds and peers?

Suggests to me you have absolutely never tried out torrenting under CGNAT. It's painful.

Not a single seeder can _actively_ send the data to you, your client must seek them by itself and it's not uncommon to have only 1-4 seeders connected!
by mzajc | 2025-12-21 03:30:19+00:00
You should, but the exposure from having no firewall is much higher without NAT. Packets with private network IPs are martians on the internet and will not find their way to your device unless they come from the same network and the ISP's infrastructure doesn't drop them. IPv6 addresses are routable across the internet so the packets will most likely get to your router, meaning anyone on the internet can talk to your LAN in the absence of a firewall.

The reality is that consumer router firmware is horrible in every aspect, especially security, and this isn't going to change with IPv6 rollout. I fear the most likely scenario is that ISPs will set up inbound firewalls on their end, and then we'll be even worse off than we are right now.
by johannesrexx | 2025-12-21 03:30:45+00:00
A proper single-pane WYSIWYG editor that uses Typst under the hood would be able to stop the MSWord train by matching the features end users need.

- Small caps, no problem. - Multilevel heading numbering, no problem - Table of Authority, no problem - Line numbers, no problem. - Paragraph numbers, no problem. - For missing features the community is more than capable of providing extensions to fill the gap. Redlining would be an example.
by malikolivier | 2025-12-21 03:30:53+00:00
I've never smelled cannabis before in my life and don't know what it's supposed to smell like. I live in an area of the world where it's illegal and I guess not many people are smoking it. I may also have had a quite sheltered education.

This year, I went to British Columbia, and there was this weird scent everywhere that I could not describe. My wife said it was cannabis. I'm still not used to it so I don't know if I'll be able to recognize it next time I travel to North America.
by cheney-yan-syd | 2025-12-21 03:31:30+00:00
Hi Everyone

It is a multi-agent chat tool. But what makes it different is you configure the agents to work AGAINST each other rather than let them create a team, spawn sub-agents alike and team up.

The provided link is just a demo and I would like to collect feedbacks on whether this is a good idea or just nonsense.

Why I am making this? I was using ChatGPT guiding me through setting up my own NAS with Proxmox. I am an experienced tech already -- just never used Proxmox the OS before, and not familiar with ZFS of course. ChatGPT speeds me up A LOT, without question, but at the same, I was stuck into some hallucinations from ChatGPT -- very minor problems but make me stuck a very long time. Then for these problems I turned to Perplexity -- which solves the problems like a charm, but again when I am using it for long -- then its flaw drags me into the same hole. So I jumped from this and that consistently, then I realise if I can use them against each other, challenge each other in the first place, it would be easy for me to get a holistic view of the problem I am facing and make wise decisions. Also because I have been involved in the challenge in the beginning, I understand the problems more in depth (rather than be hidden by the promise of AI agents) so when issue happens, I can make clearer decisions.

This link is just a PoC -- only demonstrate the idea of how the agents should work together -- it does not necessarily resolve any problem yet. Also it uses my own AI subscription -- I do not collect your info -- but your info will be sent through to AI service providers (google/openai/x.ai etc).

If you find it interesting, or find opportunities of resolving real problems, contact me at cheney.yan@gmail.com and lets discuss.
by jordwest | 2025-12-21 03:32:32+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I don't think humans are inherently evil. In fact in times of crisis (like the one you mention) we do tend to come together and I think that's evidence that the belief is incorrect.

I just had a discussion the other day with somebody who outright told me that they think humans are inherently evil and must be managed under a system to keep in order. I don't think it's an uncommon belief and nor do I think it's a bleak world because that belief exists, it's just a mistaken belief.

I would argue that you see the belief raise its head far more when people are interacting with others who they don't consider in their "in-group".
by syntaxing | 2025-12-21 03:32:56+00:00
Theres some technical implementations that makes it more efficient like EXO [1]. Jeff Geerling recently did a review on a 4 MAC Studio cluster with RDMA support and you can see that EXO has a noticeable advantage [2].

[1] https://github.com/exo-explore/exo [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_RsUxRjKU
by tqi | 2025-12-21 03:33:09+00:00
- [1]: A study in Canada analyzed crash reports and blood tests to look at the state of drivers responsible for accidents. While alcohol had a very clear and statistically-significant influence on the risk of a driver causing an accident, THC did not.

I don't understand how this study can make that claim just looking at crash report data. The assumption that not at fault drivers are representative of people who aren't in accidents at all is pretty generous? It seems likely that folks who are unimpaired are also better at avoiding accidents / driving defensively
by bongodongobob | 2025-12-21 03:34:19+00:00
In the sense that the US has been anti-intellectualist for decades, I'm kind of ok with it. All the kids who fucked around in school and picked on the nerds for just existing are kind of getting their comeuppance. It's definitely cut off your nose to spite your face type shit, but does give me a little bit of joy. "You stuffed me in a locker and destroyed my social life because I read a book at lunch. I'm going to automate your job away and help billionaires make sure you'll never rise out of poverty."
by lynn123456 | 2025-12-21 03:36:47+00:00
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by mrinfinite | 2025-12-21 03:37:36+00:00
Its cool to see the mail. I now think he did die absolutely.. i had a suspicion he didnt.. but him and chomsky are fucking retarded.. feels like scrolling through twitter for horrible handles trying to sound smart and just lil bitches.. It makes me happier that my work is not very smart, but compared to these guys we arent that bad. I mean he was a geopolitical analyst. he may have been book smart in some sense cause he ordered liebniz at some pont.. but also just sounded like he was super high (probably wasnt)... very surprsing..
by rendaw | 2025-12-21 03:39:32+00:00
Looking at the analysis, I'm totally surprised opera and psytrance are so prolific.

Psy-trance... I thought it was the same as any other electronic genres, but do people get high and just start shoveling psy-trance tracks out or something?

Opera I thought was a very strict discipline, needing rigorous somewhat esoteric training in order to produce the right sounds. How could there be so many opera artists?

I mean, I'm sure there's some misclassification, but chamber music is basically a couple people with any sort of music training on classical instruments so that doesn't surprise me nearly as much... I can easily imagine there being _lots_ of those, and you might come up with a different artist name for each unique set of people you collaborate with.