skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious... if anyone can read the source fast...

Are the game state updates and input coupled with the frame rate, as in most beginner game development tutorials out there, or did the "AI" do the right thing and decouple them?
> Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches

For street usage, I think those cars are popular because they’re beautiful more than because they’re fast (or because enthusiasts like them).

My utterly soulless Lexus will drive more than fast enough to get me in serious trouble. No one will look at it and feel stirred by its beauty, whereas the typical Ferrari or Porsche coupe will look at least appealing to most and beautiful to many, even those who can’t tell the three marques apart or even unaided recall the name Lamborghini.
The title is a great hook, but it doesn't really cover what's being described... which is the TikTokification of everything and (implicitly) that there's some bait & switch going on.
It's important to look at the competition as well for this. I think we can all agree that streaming is here to stay. But how are the others faring here? In a more and more fragmented landscape, Netflix still has the fattest offering. Also the quality of the service (aka, search, languages offered, subtitles, trailers, stream quality, own productions...) is way better than say Prime or Disney+. So why shouldn't they be leading the stats? Even if you think they suck, compared to the rest of the pack they suck the least.
You've got it backwards, Netflix doesn't want people to just doom-scroll, the users want to doom-scroll.

Attention destroying apps reduce the long term focus and reward centers such that doom-scrolling through the catalog probably feels better than just watching something. Most of the folks I know who start a movie or show immediately pull out their phones anyway to scroll elsewhere.
> A journalist posted a altered photo not a meme.

When there's a blank template of someone holding a sign, and people are adding on messages intended to be humorous/satirical (e.g: https://x.com/Wrdlbrmpfd_Wrdl/status/1618755937355063296) then spreading it on social media, that'd generally be called a meme.

> The photo is based on a real photo of her holding a paper with „we remember“ written on it.

I linked the original and edited version above, yeah.

To be pedantic, Bendels' edit appears to be based on a blank template used by other posts (e.g: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnrNpDzXgAEsmtI.jpg) and not directly on the original photo itself.

> Those satires have lead to insults and death threats in the past and people like him know that.

People sending death threats or calling for violence should be prosecuted. But I do not think it's reasonable to criminialize satire like this on the basis that it might "lead to insults" from other people.

Or at the very least, if you do hold that view, you should see why others would consider it an impediment on free speech.
I spend the majority of my time quietly in a room alone, and I'm still suffering.
Yes, it was very common with Perl, even before PHP.
I've written quite a lot of dynamic webpages with FastCGI and Perl and it led to fast and direct results. Combined with mod_perl you also could held this in memory. This was around 2000-2005.
A few options on the landscape is usually a good thing.
And would exclude all of the R&D, certification and testing, procurement, and in some cases depreciation from factories/equipment
I have seen other companies (including one of my previous employers) done this kind of things, either forcing the managers to go back to IC or remove them totally.
I agree with your specific point. I think copyright should last for 50 years. That would protect long running franchises like Harry Potter or the Dresden Files but still allow things like Spiderman and Aretha Franklin to be freely reimagined.

However, most of the examples in the article should still be protected. Lara Croft first appeared 29 years ago. Any copyright system should still be protecting IP from 1996.
There are ways to handle side effects with pure functions only (it’s kind of cheating, because the actual side effects are performed by the non-pure runtime/framework that’s abstracted away, while the pure user code just defines when to perform them and how to respond to them). It’s possible, but it gets very awkward very fast. I wouldn’t use FP for any part of the code that deals with IO.
This is brilliant! It really is context dependent. There's probably exceptions to that though.

I heard an example yesterday that dealt with a more "universally" negative trait: a boss gave feedback to a colleague who was widely considered an asshole.

Everyone had already told him to stop being an asshole and that didn't help at all. That's not actionable.

Instead, they boiled it down to four specific behaviors that produced the complaints, and then came up with alternative behaviors to execute in those situations.

The complaints went away within a week.

Source: Alex Hormozi

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Edit: I've just read a few of the other posts on this blog (Terrible Software), they are equally brilliant. Highly recommended.
> If you need AI to tell you about a guest and tell you what to ask them, why are you having them on your podcast?

Podcasts today are little but another appendage of the PR grist mill. Like reality TV, it costs almost nothing to produce yet it can be stuffed with just as many ads. Tools like this help lower the bar even further. Why put out one pod a week when you can churn out 3?

Of the top 100 podcasts today, at least half that are in the "lifestyle" genre where the hosts do nothing besides interview Internet personalities in the wellness, productivity and finance sectors. The pods are 2-3 hours long (more ads can be fit in that way) and I've noticed that the hosts often know zero about the guest and figure it out along the way.
I have about 6 years of ruby experience and if you're saying that ruby has "easily predictable syntax"...

You really should try lisp. I liked clojure a lot coming from ruby because it has a lot of nice ergonomics other lisps lack. I think youd get a lot out of it.
As is always the case, they are high on their own supply. Netflix, and a ton of other companies, are terminally ill gambling addicts.
Yeah definitely. I'm not oblivious to the potential gain to the business. I'm just frustrated with the user experience of the core banking products. And it seems like this is the direction other banks might like to follow.
Hm so your point is life is programming ?
Maybe it depends on your listening habits, but for me, Spotify and Netflix are very different experiences.

Spotify has almost anything I look for. Netflix I struggle to find anything of interest.
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Look for a lead abatement company. The surface test kits only test the surface. A dedicated company should have a X-ray device that can determine if there is lead that has been painted over. Also get soil tests since houses with lead paint will have been scraped and that leads to lead going into the soil around the house.
It has to be built by those enthusiasts
To suffer is human for sure, no amount of technology or progress would solve that fundamental state of being.

That said, it is quite possible to be content with what you have and actually experience joy and fulfillment, you don't even need all the modern luxuries and even your basic needs to be met for that. But disease, pain, discomfort and an endless class of issues that stem from the "other people" category are a forever reality.

In my experience, if you can figure out how to get along with your own self, lead a life you yourself approve of and be content with your situation, suffering becomes something you experience once in a long while as you adapt to new situations, not a perpetually endured reality.
which is also what I feel about the Spotify algorthim at times — no matter what I'm listening to, it invariably brings me back to what it thinks are my "old reliables" once it gets onto recommending stuff.

I might just listen to it, if I have it on in the background, which then in turn feeds the algorithm that it made the "correct choice", but it's a million miles away from, say, listening to a radio DJ where you like their rough output but they're cherry-picking what to play next.
Friendships and Firewalls
Although I mostly agree with the author's point, it was an unpleasant read because the anger transpires too much in the writing. There's some ridiculous exaggerations in there because of that.
With 70% of the population from the middle east, yes.
Not just A/B test but all happening while cost optimizations happen.

The key metric seems to be no longer how many users you can make sign up, but how can I keep an subscription running at lowest cost to serve possible.

The UHD price is not worth it for a long term subscription, and the HD quality is subpar.
That’s leg work you have to do on your own.

Just like football scouts need to actually visit some niche teams and watch not that interesting stuff to find talent before it is too late.

With tech it might be easier because you might create niche groups so those people come to you.

Just like PG created HN. Nowadays HN is too mainstream so all ideas here are seem already popular so it is like going to scout high school t am that won local championship everyone already knows which players are lined for pro contracts.
For some reason I kept opening it up and the feed would irritate me. This has fixed it:

www.linkedin.com##main[aria-label="Main Feed"] .scaffold-finite-scroll__content
Cool tech, but for some reason, the very first sentence in every reply the AI gives in the demo videos is really off-putting to me personally. It seems to me like perhaps this kind of joyful helpfulness introductory sentence is expected in US culture, but it immediately turned me off. I come from a culture that is less verbose in general and more to the point, so this feels like a mismatch right away.
Any color as long it is black (of course).
Corollary: many wrongly think the account creation spam is a BOT issue, they forget about click farms (real humans) using VPNs.

And AI strapped to mouse and keyboard on an headless google or apple web engine trained with the data of click farms (or directly trained by the humans there) is lurking around the corner... if not already there, ofc.
I really love Crystal, but always bummed that its web ecosystem doesn't perform as well as it should on benchmarks:
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23
Thanks for explaining!
To me Rama looks so high level, that somebody feeling the pain of not having it should be launching new projects all the time, like a consultancy.
We should hold Obama to account. But at this point I'd settle for enforcing the Constitution.

No need for false equivalence.
I never believed any FP evangelist ever since I realized I can't even write quicksort with it *.

(* Yes, you can technically write it procedurally like a good C programmer, sure.)
Not defending Apple which I have my annoyances with, but at some point a company can saturate its area of focus and expertise and do well in it.

Apple is really successful, and so what's the problem exactly? They try some new products that aren't successful? Other companies do too, like Google, Samsung, etc.
I wouldn’t give TikTok too much credit or blame. The process started earlier, with snapchat stories UX dominating platforms, and feeds UX becoming popular before that, etc...

There is an aphorism that with enough A/B testing every website turns into a porn app or a gambling app. I guess we’re observing something similar.
This sounds like an economic problem with no obvious solution: network effects => monopoly => "optimising" for typical user. Where there isn't a monopoly (or anything close to a monopoly) you find different firms specialising in different ways. For example, small independent restaurants survive by being distinctive, not by trying to imitate McDonald's.

YouTube and LinkedIn are practically monopolies. Netflix isn't a monopoly in the same way but you usually don't have a choice of streaming services for watching a particular film or series so it's different from being able to buy the same cheese or the same wine from any of several different supermarkets.
Yes, but even if you take the first definition of the Oxford or the second of Wiktionary, then still would Mastodon be a Social Network, as it does match both descriptions.
I would say they're popular because they are expensive. It's bragging rights, conspicuous consumption…
You can't just say this without providing a source.
I'm not seeing any broadcasts.

What it does is it has a private network for the containers and itself (all containers get their own unique IP, so there's no port mapping needed).

http://orb.local simply lists all running containers.

The host-names are automatically derived from the containername / directoryname / compose project, but you can add other hostnames as well by adding docker labels.

It works really well.
I love the landing page! Clean and modern, that's how it should be with any new software!
Pixel-perfect alignment shouldn't be a goal. The web is for documents.
I hope this is an April Fool's joke.

I just retired after 19 years in the pharma industry. Animal testing is essential for new drug safety assessment because off-target damage to tissues cannot be detected using any method other than entire animals since drug byproducts from digestion or absorption do not exist in the lab -- in vitro or in silico. Measuring drug effects on the body requires exposure to ALL of an animal's tissues to see which will react. Drug efficacy too can't be measured usefully without full body animal and human studies.

Whomever proposed this obviously did not talk to _anyone_ in the pharma industry. The strategy is completely and dangerously clueless. I'm sure Derek Lowe will very soon explain this in more detail in his blog at Science.

Washington has gone insane.
A quick Google search shows that there are somewhere in the range of 20,000 electrical engineers who graduate US universities every year. Even if not all of them do electronics, and not all of the ones are considered “skilled” (by this author’s definition), there are not a “countable” amount.
As someone who is routinely impressed by Home Assistant and its official iOS app, I think you will have a tough time convincing users to switch.

> For comparison, Home Assistant’s Nabu Casa service costs several times more.

Undercutting Home Assistant's added services on price doesn't feel particularly elegant since this is what they use to fund HA development.
I to miss old internet where everything is placed under a catalog, instead of endless stream of crap I dont like.
India is a country, not a color of person. It's more like relating school shootings to the US, where an American child sitting in the US would definitely relate and find it accurate.
By risk taking on good ideas rather than always trying to pivot your way from the status quo.

Product-Market fit is great if you're developing a SaaS business but it's not necessarily going to give you new inventions — something new is speaking to a potential gap in the market that doesn't currently exist.
Appreciate your detailed and thoughtful comment.

1.) Agree, need to add a description to the README. Will do.

3.) Wildcard record support would be cool. Also want to support hot loading of hosts.json without needing to restart the server. Building an API is probably not going to happen (time constraints), but hot loading support allows users to use their tools of choice to simply modify the hosts.json file.

4.) Yup, the ability to override the default fallback DNS resolver is needed. Most likely will implement as an ENVAR.

5.) Serving TXT and other record types probably not going to happen (again time constraints).
Related: Underwater scenes for the movie, "The Abyss", were filmed in an incomplete nuclear power plant in South Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Nuclear_Power_Plant
*Excluding tariffs.

It's good they are being transparent. This is the future. Does "produce" include staff salaries involved in manufacture? Does it include salaries for staff in R&D?
>It ruins the feeling of being able to use _just_ the retro system to connect to the Internet

Surely there's a modern modem in the way somewhere?
I hate algo feeds that change each time I refresh.

On LI I lost already like 3 articles that I really wanted to read but I clicked notification and I can never get that articles back.
I've had quite my fill of "real time" and "interactive" web pages. Slow, bloated, terrible UX as often as not.

Even Datastar/HTMX might be too much. Server-side HTML can get you very, very far in most applications. It's faster, lighter, and looks and feels cleaner.

Case in point: do you really prefer a heavy, real time interactive message board like the default interface of Reddit? Because we're talking on HN, which is super fast, light, usable, and completely server-side.
Could someone explain the metaphor? I'm struggling to see the connection between AI and the rest of the post.
Aren’t those models 5c per call though? I think that would add up.
I’m sympathetic to the desire to recapture the electricity of early Twitter, but I’m reminded of the famous quote that “a man cannot step in the same river twice.”

I’m on Bluesky too, and it’s alright, but the internet has changed, the world has changed, and I have changed. It can’t ever be quite the same experience.
I've been thinking lately "I wonder how to make a longbow?" and here it is.
Please don't assume Trump=All of America. Just say Trump.
I wrote some code today and I relied on the new behaviour. I felt a little dirty.
We need more government regulations and enforcement to solve this problem. There's no other solution in a capitalist environment
Dude... delete that. That’s an important spoiler for a show that just came out a week ago. Yeah, he's in White Lotus S3. That’s all you needed to say.
This is clever. Now can we stop the whole USA without the constitution exercise?
Sometimes you don't want your workflow to be subject to the whims of some LLM API provider.
We need art, too. We may not know what we need it for, but we evidently need it for something.

We've been making art for a really long time. We've been smearing colors onto surfaces for at least tens of thousands of years, and carving patterns into rocks and shells for at least hundreds of thousands of years.

Everywhere you find human communities, you find some kind of art. We must need it for something. If we didn't then it wouldn't be so ubiquitous.
I wonder how much it costs to do the following -- let's backtrack.

We already know that US companies can design phones, like Apple.

OK so the next step is to figure out where to source the components -- and under the context of OP's article, that means which components can be sourced directly from the US, or from the EU (i.e. manufactured inside EU, not branded in EU but sourced elsewhere).

Once we can figure out which components are economically feasible to be manufactured in the US and EU with the tariff, we might be able to go from there and slowly expand the operation to the rest of the chain.
Yeah, more like Netflix (and we might as well add Amazon here) became popular because of "the long tail". Once, I could easily find 1930's classics like "Stella Dallas" on Netflix (and early Ultravox! on Amazon when they would have to be ordered from brick and mortar music stores at the time).

For some reason (perhaps because it costs money to keep a large catalog?) Netflix retracted the long tail while Amazon at least kept theirs unfurled.
Weathergraph – Beautiful hour-by-hour weather forecast at a glance
Ask HN: What are you using Gemini 2.5 Pro for?
I have been blown away by how good it actually is when using it in Google AI Studio and turning the temperature down to 0.7 or less.

The "vibe coding" claims about one shotting entire non-trivial programs finally seem actually possible.
I’m experiencing this in Peloton-land. They have an app that purports to be for home gym enthusiasts but is actually optimized for people who want to take instructor-led classes on their phone. Certain features don’t work as advertised and I quickly reasoned that while this is a pain in my side most users don’t care. If they did, Peloton would fix it.
> the change was driven by enthusiasts recommending the latest and greatest to their less-technically-inclined friends and family

No it wasn't. It was driven by shady crapware distribution schemes and intentionally subtly broken sites under the big G umbrella.
Animated background makes this unreadable. Didn't make it past first sentence.
!!! Finally, the media is moving on from moaning about boomers and millennials while completely ignoring gen X! I wonder what stereotypes they will inherit; 'losers' seems a bit simplistic.

(My theory is that the media's complete gen X blindness is because most editors are gen X; as those editors start to cycle out and get replaced with millennials, the ire of the media will turn on gen X (and on zoomers), and no-one will ever mention avocados again.)
I recently gave this another go, and was pleasantly surprised that I could install Steam easily, the nVidia card was detected and driver installed, and I quickly installed the "Resident Evil 4" remake with awesome performance and no glitchiness

Then I rebooted my system and found that Steam had broken Gnome and I couldn't log in and had to go into safe mode and debug from the command line. 1 hour in, 1 thing installed.

I'll try again in 10 years.
As someone who is into producing visual and musical art for no monetary benefit, and happens to do a lot of backpacking and is very into the geology of the areas I backpack in, yes. I would absolutely find great value in something akin to trekking into remote, hard to reach areas just to see some rocks shaped by ancient glaciers.

If that all makes me "sick", then fuck yeah, proud to be mentally ill. It's truly sad that doing something for pleasure, education, love, fascination and reverence (like being fascinated about how our planet shaped itself, or learning to play the guitar because you love music and think it's fun) is viewed as "mad" or "sick" if there isn't some kind of monetary return. YMMV indeed, but money is not everything.

What's sick, in my eyes, is only being able to view things through the lens of monetary value.
Passwords and Password Managers and Passkeys, oh my
i wonder why this tiny website costs a lot per month. wouldnt it fit np on a free tier of Pages or Cloudflare. Id volunteer to migrate it from wordpress or whatever they run on.
Perhaps they’re not breaking the ground they did with new products like they did with old ones (iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc), but it’s not as if someone else is doing it, or their products aren’t leaders in their category…it’s like faulting someone for going from ground breaking to “just” best in class
Honestly that last sentence about Substack hit me hard.

I just want them to import a syntax highlighting library but instead they are pushing video content into my face
I don't see how the US can compete with China on sheer production and access to manufacturers and suppliers of tech, compared to cities like Shanghai, Qingdao and Shenzhen, among others. It's like a candy store for engineers. Building a single plant just isn't economically feasible when you have so much uncertainty from the chaos at the WH. Not to mention, this will take a decade or much, much more.

A better way (IMO) to do it would have been tax incentives to build US plants to move manufacturing back in the US, have research university programs as feeders for tech innovation centers, and funding for technical colleges to expand their programs for skilled labor needed instead of gutting multiple agencies that would have overseen/guided this expansion. And oversight, of course. And attainable goals set in contracts to receive funding, not just, "here's a pile of money we'll forget about in 4 years."
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