MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LostMyLogin | 2026-01-02 07:37:22+00:00
From the Uber website:

> If you select the Priority Delivery option, a Priority Fee will be added on top of the delivery fee for your order to be dropped off first in case of a batched delivery.

Looks as if the only requirement is that you are first in a batched delivery. However, does not cover anything about picking up at multiple locations or waiting for separate orders. Nor does it explain multiple priority orders in a batch.
by stroebs | 2026-01-02 07:38:48+00:00
This resonated hugely with me, with the grand addition that I moved to a different country a week before COVID lockdown. I’ve since reached a lot of pretty big life milestones (house, career, spouse, kid (soon)) and realised my life was still pretty empty because I’m not the introvert I once thought I was.

What I’m personally missing is the social capital. “Just invite people to stuff” doesn’t work, because my prior in-person social network is fragmented over 3 continents and many more countries and time zones. Minting new social capital is difficult - joining social events requires an invite to a social event to meet other people to start the process.
by utopiah | 2026-01-02 07:39:34+00:00
> Baldur's Gate 3 Linux build is a slideshow on Nvidia cards

Not at all my experience which makes me question the rest. Also https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940 most people seem quite happy with it so it's not a "me" problem.

Finally the "10-30% drop in average FPS across the board" might be correct, then so what? I understand a LOT of gamers want to have "the best" performance for what they paid good money for but pretty much NO game becomes less fun with even a 30% FPS drop, you just adjust the settings and go play. I think a lot of gamers do get confused and consider maximizing performances itself as a game. It might be fun, and that's 100% OK, but it's also NOT what playing an actual game is about.
by mdhb | 2026-01-02 07:40:19+00:00
This is silly IMO.

Technologies like HTTP and Wasm are truly excellent tools for cross platform software delivery and browsers are an ideal sandboxed execution environment.

This idea that the web should only be for straight up HTML documents is a broken mental model.

Apple have a multi-billion dollar income stream that is firmly premised on the fact that nobody could deliver software on their platform unless they could steal 30% of the companies profits and as such spent a huge amount of time and effort undermining the idea that the web could ever be an app platform but you’re not compelled to cheerlead for Apple’s profit margins and anti-consumer bullshit.
by pzo | 2026-01-02 07:40:37+00:00
the question is if this is not survivor bias - 'Those were great parents and they where not ready so' doesn't implicate that most people that are not ready will be great parents.

It also what you want to optimize for. I would prefer to have hordes of good parents that just only dozens of great one in society. We most likely can also say: "Most worst parents didn't feel ready"
by sodafountan | 2026-01-02 07:40:44+00:00
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. This is actually a really good solution that I hadn't thought of.

I'm eager for the web3 economy to truly take off. There are so many little improvements to the way things work with blockchain compared to the black hole that is fiat currency; it's astounding.

But yes, in essence, if the post is true, then this is a misrepresentation of what the service is actually doing. Being able to verify where your payment is going on a publicly available blockchain would provide customers and employees with some clarity.
by wredcoll | 2026-01-02 07:41:49+00:00
Boy this smells a lot like early days of blogging about block chains, specifically ethereum and friends.

It's not that there's nothing useful, maybe even important, in there, it's just so far it's all just the easy parts: playing around inside a computer.

I've noticed a certain trend over the years where you get certain types of projects that get lots of hype and excitement and much progress seems to be made, but when you dig deep enough you find out that it's all just the fun, easy sort of progress.

The fun progress, which not at all coincidentallly tends to also be the easy progress, is the type that happens solely inside a computer.

What do I mean by that? I mean programs who only operate at the level of artificial computer abstractions.

The hard part is always dealing with "the real world": hardware that returns "impossible" results to your nicely abstract api functions, things that stop working in places they really shouldn't be able to, or even, and this is the really tricky bit, dealing with humans.

Databases are a good example of this kind of thing. It's easy to start off a database writing all the clever (and fun) bits like btrees and hash maps and chained hashes that spill to disk to optimize certain types of tables and so on, but I'd wager that at least half of the code in a "real" database like sqlite or postgresql is devoted to dealing with strange hardware errors or leaky api abstractions across multiple platforms or the various ways a human can send nonsensical input into the system and really screw things up.

I'd also bet that this type of code is a lot less fun to write and took much longer than the rest (which incidentally is why I always get annoyes when programming language demos show code with only a happy path, but that's another rant and this comment is already excessive).

Anyways, this AI thing is definitely a gold rush and it's important to keep in mind that there was in fact a lot of gold that got dug up but, as everyone constantly repeats, the more consistent way to benefit is sell the shovels and this is very definitely an ad for a shovel.
by toast0 | 2026-01-02 07:42:14+00:00
Most of the instrument cluster is superfluous. My 81 Vanagon has only these and it's fine:

Speedometer (which starts at 10 mph and I've managed to adjust so it's about right at 40ish but reports 70 mph when you're doing 60), odometer (5.1 digits), fuel gauge (non-linear, but consistent, the top half is a lot bigger than the bottom half). And then some lights: brake warning lamp (but the bulb is burnt out and doesn't seem replacable), high beam indicator, alternator indicator, turn signal indicator (one led for both directions!), low oil pressure indicator, and EGR indicator which really just turns on 10,000 miles after you push the button on the box under the front of the car.

Don't even need a tach, cause they put one dot on the speedo where you should shift out of first, two dots where you should shift out of second, and three dots where you should shift out of third.

The gauge lights come on when the headlights are on, so that's a subtle indicator too, I guess.

Don't really need much more than that. There was an optional clock in my model year, but mine doesn't have one.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-02 07:42:29+00:00
That is only one condition among the conditions that had to be satisfied by the sampling rate, and there are an infinity of multiples which satisfy this condition, so this condition is insufficient to determine the choice of the sampling frequency.

Another condition that had to be satisfied by the sampling frequency was to be high enough in comparison with the maximum bandwidth of the video signal, but not much higher than necessary.

Among the common multiples of the line frequencies, 13.5 MHz was chosen because it also satisfied the second condition, which is the condition that I have discussed, i.e. that it was possible to choose 13.5 MHz only because the analog video bandwidth had been standardized to values smaller than needed for square pixels, otherwise for the sampling frequency a common multiple of the line frequencies that is greater than 15 MHz would have been required (which is 20.25 MHz).
by Etheryte | 2026-01-02 07:42:34+00:00
I always struggle to understand this level of entitlement. No one is forcing you to use any of these projects. The vast majority of the time, drive-by bug reports by users are a complete waste of time because they're either a user error or not described in sufficient detail to debug. In other words, mostly noise, and adding more noise isn't really helpful.

If you want to contribute, a much better way is to work on bugs that are already well defined. There is generally no shortage of known bugs in software, there is however a shortage of people fixing them.
by zaptheimpaler | 2026-01-02 07:42:55+00:00
It's kind of like when people say Google is getting worse and has too many spam results even while I suspect they're actually improving, but the volume and quality of spam has gone up 100x so it looks like they're doing worse. The question is what is the base rate of attempts to cheat and how many of those attempts does kernel anti-cheat prevent vs. conventional mechanisms. I don't have the answer, but my intuition is cheating is more accessible and viral in many ways now with professional level marketplaces and actors working to build and sell cheats. I also don't think the industry would dedicate so much effort into invasive anti-cheat which is difficult, risky and gets them negative PR unless they felt it truly necessary. Counter Strike a few years ago had huge, huge numbers of cheaters and the super popular games like that attract a lot of attention. But ultimately, this is a cat and mouse game like search & SEO, so you're right there are still cheaters and getting that number to 0 is probably impossible.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-02 07:43:12+00:00
If true (I'm not sure), this is kind of economics in action. There's a monopolistic market maker, screwing every last cent out of providers, with enormous power imbalances. The market maker is semi monopolistic, the labour is low-skilled, with little bargaining power and few better options. The "winners" are shareholders of the company and to some extent the end customers (who, other things being equal, would have to pay more for the labour).

In other words, I see this not a special greed of this particular company, but a logical conclusion of the economic system it operates in.

(I'm not saying it is good either. Only that raging against the symptom is a bit misplaced, and instead you should focus attention at the causes).
by Too | 2026-01-02 07:43:42+00:00
GitHub desperately needs a feature to pin comments in issues or sort by reactions.

Very often in those infamous bugs that has been open for years, having hundreds of ”me too” comments, there are gems with workarounds or reproductions, unfortunately hidden somewhere under 4 iterations of ”click to load 8 more comments”, making it difficult to find. This generates even more ”anyone know how to solve this” spam, further contributing to the difficulty to find the good post.
by metroholografix | 2026-01-02 07:43:53+00:00
If you want Scheme, go use Scheme because these are not arguments for Common Lisp. There is tons of value in the CL specification being this big and I'm happy I can still run code I wrote more than 25 years ago (or third party code written more than 50 years ago) without any issues.

Generally, contemporary folks that propose improvements to the CL spec tend to be misinformed / misguided and/or lacking experience to realize why their proposed improvements are bad ideas.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-02 07:43:57+00:00
Saying “we call them human assets in the database” is a dead giveaway the author is lying.

No sensible food delivery company would do such a thing - it’s a scandal waiting to happen - so the maximum number of companies that would ever do such a thing is either zero or one. Therefore claiming they’re called “human assets” in the database would instantly uniquely identify the company and the company could then correlate with recent resignations and sue the crap out of this individual for violation of the NDA that they are making very clear they’re aware of and are knowingly violating.

Any sensible engineer would know all of this and would not divulge such a conspicuously specific tidbit. No matter how drunk they are.

Therefore, nothing else this person says is credible. Therefore I call bullshit on the whole thing.
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-02 07:44:23+00:00
> I firmly believe that Nvidia doesn't want the general public to ever have better hardware than what is current as people could just run their own local models and take away from the ridiculous money they're making from data centers.

You're underestimating them. They don't even want rich professional users to own hardware that could compete with their datacenter cash cow.

Take RTX 6000 Pro, a $10k USD GPU. They say in their marketing materials that these have fifth-generation tensor cores. This is a lie, as you can't really use any 5th-gen specific features.

Take a look at their PTX docs[1]. The RTX 6000 Pro is sm_120 in that table, while their datacenter GPUs are sm_100/sm110. See the 'tcgen05' instructions in the table? It's called 'tcgen05' because it stands for "Tensor Core GEN 05". And they're all unsupported on sm_120.

[1] - https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/#rele...
by DecoPerson | 2026-01-02 07:45:17+00:00
I know little about stocks, but I've heard China doesn't allow shorting stocks and many other "advanced" stock products/instruments. You can buy, sell and trade stocks, and nothing else. They also audit to ensure stocks are not oversold/traded (e.g.: selling stock you don’t own in the hopes you’ll obtain some in time to fulfil an order).

Maybe that's why they behave differently?
by utopiah | 2026-01-02 07:46:58+00:00
Been working and playing on Linux for years, from 2D indie e.g. Baba is You to AAA e.g. Elden Ring, BG3, Expedition 33 to AAA VR e.g. Half-life: Alyx to VR indie e.g. Cubism and my experience has just been great.

It's MY system and I do whatever the heck I want, from play boring stuff to weird prototyping. I get no, like literally 0, anti-feature. I'm not "scared" that an update will limit my agency. I'm just zen and that is priceless.

Also, quite importantly, it works wonderfully with all my other devices and peripherals. I go from Bluetooh headsets easily, I switch monitors, video projectors, XR devices, CV camera inputs, I share files with KDE Connect, I receive SMS notification from my (deGoogled) Android phone, I reply from my desktop, I get notification when my SteamDeck is soon out of battery, etc. ALL my devices play nicely with each other.

So yes, Linux is good now. It's been for a while but it's been even better for the last few years.
by mdhb | 2026-01-02 07:47:10+00:00
Just want to be super clear here… the other party in this question being Apple who is currently the worlds richest company who makes the worlds buggiest browser as seen here https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...

The idea that you’re pushing is a hole that Apple themselves have dug on purpose, this is not an oversight but a very intentional decision of theirs to protect their profit margins that their main user retention strategy is that many courts in the world especially the US are never going to force them to compete freely in an open marketplace with consumer choice is a factor.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-02 07:47:34+00:00
Yes, but the government is notoriously inefficient and ineffective.

Bitcoin was started right under their noses (and I'm not just referring to the U.S government here, but all national governments), and it continues to operate all across the globe. It's kind of what makes it so interesting, you can't really kill it, it's like a good financial virus.

I hate to break it to you, but the infrastructure of payment processing and business has already been upended by Bitcoin alone. It's only a matter of time before we see layer-2 solutions like the one OP mentioned.

Bitcoin might not be the best blockchain to target for small-scale financial transactions like delivery apps, but you catch my drift. Just about any blockchain would do in this scenario.
by Lapsa | 2026-01-02 07:47:41+00:00
I still don't see it. bunch of word salad. writing "safer nicotine products" in quotation marks and emphasizing that they ain't safe as if nobody's noticing a straw man argument. from what I gathered - whole thing is based upon Swedish research that states death is 2 times more likely (!!!) AFTER the heart attack while explicitly stating: "No increased risk of MI incidence has been observed in previous studies". because funky data extrapolation. oh well - at least they ain't crying that nicotine is the cause of cancer...
by jameshilliard | 2026-01-02 07:47:50+00:00
> Even a cursory search of spending 5 minutes on their academic careers would have given you a better understanding of who the better scholar is.

Yeah, one is a real historian and the other calls a Holocaust denier "a very good historian"[0].

> Of course Benny Morris takes a more balanced view. He’s trying hard to make up for the imbalance.

Maybe neutral is a better word, Benny Morris is certainly much less of an activist than someone like Norman Finkelstein.

[0] https://www.thejc.com/news/norman-finkelstein-praises-holoca...
by utopiah | 2026-01-02 07:49:02+00:00
Meh, I wouldn't read too much into it. They might be a backend dev but that doesn't make them perfectly rational under stress. Being in a whistle blower situation makes smart people do dumb things.

To me it's coherent BUT I'll still wait from a source I trust, e.g. 404 Media, to actually do journalism. I'm not saying it's fanfic or not, I'm saying "Noted, might read about it later in few days in a proper format with verified claims." nothing more.
by arianvanp | 2026-01-02 07:49:41+00:00
It's open source. Somebody will simply publish an AUR package with a custom kernel that is one command away. You're underestimating the capability of motivated nerds to make a good UX when needed :p. This is how we ended up with SteamOS in the first place

But given Linux kernel is monolithic and you can enforce signing of kernel modules too, using TPM to make sure the Kernel isn't tampered with is honestly the way to go.
by IncRnd | 2026-01-02 07:51:10+00:00
That's not what I received from ChatGPT. This is:

The fuel filler door is on the left side (driver’s side) of the vehicle. Therefore, the little arrow on the dash fuel gauge should point to the left to indicate that.

(Most Buick Rivieras of that era had the fuel filler on the driver’s side, though official Buick manuals or build sheets from 1978 confirm this location.)
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-02 07:51:23+00:00
> we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison

This in particular sounds very fake to me.

If they are delaying the regular orders, then they are either a) having drivers sit idle or b) freeing up resources for the priority orders.

In the (b) case this would just deliver the promised prioritization behavior, not evil and not what OP is claiming.

In the (a) case where they are actually having drivers sit idle, then they are reducing the throughput of their system significantly. Which might be fine for a quick A/B test on a subset of customers, but as framed this is basically a psy op to trick customers en masse into thinking the priority order is faster when it really isn’t. To have that effect, you would need to deploy this to all customers long enough for them to organically switch back and forth between priority and regular enough times to notice the difference. That seems like it couldn’t possibly be better than the much simpler option of just implementing the priority behavior and reducing its effect down to zero slowly over time (which would be evil but isn’t the claim).
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-02 07:52:19+00:00
Yep, digital goods is the big one for a "transparency disruption" in my view.

For me at least, if I am to buy some music I should be able to know how much an artist is going to get along with all their "tag-alongs." Payments should be fast, reliable, useful, easy; and even variable, biased, delayed and aggregated.
Show HN: A community-rated watch database focused on real-world use
by sahil423 | 2026-01-02 07:52:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m testing an idea: a Fragrantica-style database, but for watches.

Instead of hype reviews or spec sheets, watches are rated on real-world factors like value for money, durability, comfort, and long-term accuracy.

This is a very early MVP (mostly a landing page) to validate whether the idea is useful.

I’d really appreciate honest feedback — what’s missing, what feels unnecessary, or whether you’d use something like this at all.
by mdhb | 2026-01-02 07:52:56+00:00
This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest here but just to make it ever clearer for anyone else here’s a chart showing the number of bugs that only occur in a single browser.

https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...

It’s undeniable that Apple makes a dogshit browser.
by neiman | 2026-01-02 07:53:53+00:00
I recently made a radical proposal of public domain rules; It's inspired by GNU software licenses. It goes like this:

1. Anyone can use anything that is in the public domain.

2. Any creation that uses elements from the public domain is also, automatically, in the public domain.

3. Activate retroactively: When the first book in a series (for example) gets into the public domain, then the whole series (and franchise) becomes public domain.

(3) depends on what the initial rule is for something to get into the public domain.

P.S: It's a thought experiment, not as an actual "let's implement it now!" thing.
by fevercell | 2026-01-02 07:54:16+00:00
When I was studying to get my Technician-class ham radio license a few weeks ago I was slightly curious as to why there were questions relating to space stations and satellites, like "any ametaur with a radio license can contact the ISS" and such, but I paid those thoughts no mind as I was being hasty trying to legally fiddle with my APRS tracker in a weather balloon.

I should re-review those exam questions; I might be licensed to do a lot more than I know I can.
by alx_the_new_guy | 2026-01-02 07:54:35+00:00
If you care about your food being warm enough to eat, why not just pick it up yourself?

I got a glimpse of this "delivery economy" myself last week, so

Self pick-up was:

>2x faster (20min vs ~40min estimate, probably more in the end), could be better if I actually knew the area and picked a better parking spot

>1/3 cheaper (total dropped from 30$ to 20$. I'm not from the US, and make roughly 6$/hr, so the sum is more significant than it seems)

>food was probably generally more fresh, but I don't eat sushi much, so can't tell the difference

>also, food was probably less banged up, because I'm not on the clock and don't drive like a madman

some counterpoints:

> we were already driving home from somewhere, the place was the opposite way though

> we live in a dense city, but not too dense, so owning a car and driving it around is possible even on a not so large income, but everything is pretty close

Generally, my family never stopped doing things "the old way", we barely use any delivery services, taxi, and everything the gig economy is involved in. Likely saves us good amount of money in subtle ways. Also, specifically not giving money to those platfoms is a minor benifit in my book.

I get there are people who are disabled, busy (parents with small children, ...), and so on, but it seems to me that for most people the barrier is psychological, and is about task/mode switching more than actual time and effort.