MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheDong | 2025-04-08 11:07:44+00:00
yaml is roughly as disciplined as malbolge.

Writing any meaningful amount of logic or configuration in yaml will inevitably lead to the future super-sentient yaml-based AI torturing you for all eternity for having taken any part in cursing it to a yaml-based existence. The thought-experiment of "Roko's typed configuration language" is hopefully enough for you to realize how this blog post needs to be deleted from the internet for our own safety.
by dagw | 2025-04-08 11:07:56+00:00
whether I would need to worry too much about looks at the office

'Uniforms' can go both ways. Would a person who only owns white Oxford shirts and monochrome dress pants have to go out and buy a new wardrobe he would feel very uncomfortable in if he wanted to work there? People who wear 20 year old band t-shirts can be every bit as judgemental about looks as people who wear tailored Italian suits.
by mjburgess | 2025-04-08 11:09:27+00:00
They're being replaced by ecologies useful to humans, here a variety of crops and the like. I'm unconvinced that the land should exist for some specific species of mice and birds, but not for us.

All I really hear is that some very small group of aesthetically-minded human apes are precious about one more variety of bird, against the interest of very many other human apes that need to eat.

If the new ecology were really extremely desolate, we might weigh up this a little differently, sure. But the article's entire analysis is that these new ecologies are genuinely "natural" in the sense of self-sustaining, and varied, and so on.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-04-08 11:09:32+00:00
>get largely ignored, in part due to a tightly integrated hierarchy of social rules and expectations

I think this might change in the future when men realize the social contract reward for it has been reduced to rubble.

>male behaviour completely changes (often for the worse) when a woman walks into the room

I observed this many times and disliked it to the point of acting the reverse (disinterested) which ironically resulted in the opposite outcome at least temporarily. I think it certainly applies to women too but is just less observable because its more passive instead of active. The standard of the average men is also a lot "lower" (actual average) compared to women's to get active.
by huijzer | 2025-04-08 11:11:30+00:00
I think society hasn’t figured out the incentives for elders currently. In private settings it’s fine, but in the work context I’ve seen few incentives for >50 year olds to support younger generations. To the contrary, many of these people fear losing their job just before retirement so choose risk-averse behavior. At the same time, unlike in the village, the juniors are not their relatives so that is also not incentivizing any positive behavior.

And yes there are of course very nice people who are the exception, but from what I’ve seen they are truly the exception. As Charlie Munger put it “Well, I think I’ve been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I’ve underestimated it. And never a year passes but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther.”
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-08 11:11:46+00:00
> Norway does more goods trade with China and for more advanced / complex goods. Norway is funding USA’s direct geopolitical competitor.

Generally, if you want other countries to do what you want, then you aim for that rather than pushing them towards China, or worse, making China seem like the best trading partner in the world.

But whatevs, you guys do you I suppose.
by Zak | 2025-04-08 11:12:23+00:00
The thing I think a lot of people don't want to acknowledge is that unlike so many issues with grey areas and middle ground, this one is binary: either criminals can have secure communication, or nobody can.

I don't want a world in which nobody can have secure communications, so I must accept that criminals will have it, and police will have to work a little harder to catch them.

It gets worse though. More sophisticated criminals will find ways to do it even if it's illegal, so a law mandating backdoors will hurt the general population and stupid criminals, but not the smart, dangerous ones.
by housecarpenter | 2025-04-08 11:12:36+00:00
As somebody with autism, one thing I'd say from my experience (I don't know how many people will agree) is that interviewing has felt like a much more severe stress test of my soft skills than anything I've had to do while actually being employed. While employed, the vast majority of my social interactions are oriented around some technical task that I need to work on with other people, and conveying information effectively so as to bring about the completion of this task. This is precisely the kind of social interaction that I feel most competent in--I feel like I'm pretty good at it, actually! What I struggle with are social interactions that are more open-ended, that are more about emotional connections and getting people to like you, and I feel like interviewing is an interaction of the latter type.

In this respect interviewing is a bit like LeetCode. LeetCode problems and writing code to satisfy business requirements are both "coding" but they're quite different kinds of coding; someone being able to do the former is probably good evidence they can do the latter, but there are also plenty of people who can do the latter without being able to do the former. So it is, in my view, with interviewing vs. interacting with people on the job.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-08 11:14:55+00:00
> Humans have weird failure modes that are odds with their 'intelligence'. We just choose to call them funny names and laugh about it sometimes. These Machines have theirs. That's all there is to it.

Yes, that's all there is to it and it's not enough. I ain't paying for another defective organism that makes mistakes in entirely novel ways. At least with humans you know how to guide them back on course.

If that's the peak of "AI" evolution today, I am not impressed.
by freeamz | 2025-04-08 11:14:56+00:00
I have made many many web pages over the last 15 years of so that is for just a few months or days. What I do is archive it on way back machine, and if the page works on way back machine then that is my stamp of approval for the page. It can also tell you the page is self contained! It works pretty well with WebGL and event audio playlist. There is NO point of making web dev so complicated just because FANNG company are using the framework. It is designed for they corporate structure. Anyone else should NOT use FANNG based framework!

For long term web, I stay way from SPA with a long stick.
by rayiner | 2025-04-08 11:14:59+00:00
You said the Garcia situation as a big deal, and I said it was not because he was properly deported for being associated with MS13. The mistake by the administration was only with respect to where he was deported.

The immigration judge’s decision that he was deportable for being associated with MS13 isn’t up for debate at this point. But it’s highly relevant to show the deportation was proper.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-04-08 11:15:45+00:00
Potentially, but I'd say we're more reacting.

I will feel and itch and subconsciously scratch it, especially if I'm concentrating on something. That's an subsystem independent of conscious thought.

I suppose it does make sense - that our early evolution consisted of a bunch of small, specific background processes that enables an individual's life to continue; a single celled organism doesn't have neurons but exactly these processes - chemical reactions that keep it "alive".

Then I imagine that some of these processes became complex enough that they needed to be represented by some form of logic, hence evolving neurons.

Subsequently, organisms comprised of many thousands or more of such neuronal subsystems developed higher order subsystems to be able to control/trigger those subsystems based on more advanced stimuli or combinations thereof.

And finally us. I imagine the next step, evolution found that consciousness/intelligence, an overall direction of the efforts of all of these subsystems (still not all consciously controlled) and therefore direction of an individual was much more effective; anticipation, planning and other behaviours of the highest order.

I wouldn't be surprised if, given enough time and the right conditions, that sustained evolution would result in any or most creatures on this planet evolving a conscious brain - I suppose we were just lucky.
by mariusor | 2025-04-08 11:15:53+00:00
> What's wrong with asking people to prove they're disabled

It's dehumanizing, it's lacking empathy, and it usually ends up having people trivialise the problem a person might suffer from.

As long as the disability doesn't prevent a person from executing their contractual obligations, gatekeeping a position behind "you need to be able to function in society" is an indecent request to people that have difficulties doing so.

And from personal experience, once you're in the second half of your life, looking for an autism diagnosis and then using that to fight the gauntlet of bureaucracy required to get a government approved "stigma certificate" is a chore that really eats into one's provision of spoons.

I for one would like my manager and my employer to understand when I tell them I have trouble in loud open spaces with many people and disruptions, and I would prefer to do my job at home in a comfortable environment.

How do you propose I demonstrate to you that being in an office severely impairs my ability to reason about problems and write code? Is heart rate enough? Are higher bugs per feature enough? Is being an asshole to people enough?
by bayindirh | 2025-04-08 11:16:25+00:00
When I'm in similar positions, if I see the honesty and feel the connection, I change the tone a bit to take off my corporate/higher up hat and make friendly remarks like that.

When caught in vulnerable positions, some people are very open to sincere remarks, but the situation is fragile. Not wounding the person further is the key.

I always try to remind myself, that I don't need to cut with the sword of truth. I can (and shall) point with it, too.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-04-08 11:16:33+00:00
The problem is that weakening encryption in public services only hurts law abiding citizens.

The criminals per definition don't care what they use, as long as it's unbreakable, so in the event that strong encryption is outlawed, they'll just switch to illegal encryption, or any other form of secret communication.

If you implement a backdoor in iMessage, criminals will stop using that, and switch to Signal (they probably already have long before this), or setup private message services, or anything in between.

Governments falsely claim that they've always had the right to pry in your private data, but while they've always had the option (provided proper paperwork from courts) to tap your phone and read your mail, they've never been able to simply dig through everything you ever wrote at any point in time. All the so called privileges they had were reactive, going forward in time after they had proven in a court that you should be the target for investigation. If they purposely weaken encryption, they will have unrestricted access to everything you've ever said or written.

Worst case, Weakening encryption for the average user only leads to "minority report" style arrests, where you can be arrested for "thoughtcrime" for something you're written and never published, but because it's no longer a secret, "anybody" can read and interpret on it.
by watercolorblind | 2025-04-08 11:16:56+00:00
A physically impaired person can be a good yoga instructor: they'll suggest alternatives, different/better cues, or provide more accessible classes such as yin or seated yoga.

Just because they are physically impaired now doesn't mean they were before, and an instructor won't necessarily move through the poses with the class since they can have 2-3 classes per day.
by julik | 2025-04-08 11:16:59+00:00
> Why in gods name ship bun.

I try to avoid that strong of a language (although believe me - when this was going about I was very, very angry indeed). I think the reason was exactly removing the "npm hell" for users and not requiring any dependencies for using Tailwind.

The irony of it being, of course, that for some situations Bun turned out _more_ of a problem than shipping npm modules would be.

I was also advised to "use Tailwind as an NPM module for now". Only - I couldn't because the only "pure-JS" variant I could find was some months old, and the current builds all work through that bun-based 100MB binary.

The idea was good. The execution by the maintainers - and this is my subjective opinion, again - is not. An experimental JS runtime supported by one person is not a good fit for this.
Show HN: Side Reader – Read and Chat with PDF on the ChatGPT and Claude Websites
by cyberpanda | 2025-04-08 11:17:16+00:00
Side Reader is a Chrome extension that allows you to read and chat effortlessly with any PDF on the ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek website. Today, most LLM applications support uploading PDF files for chat. Beyond this basic functionality, some PDF chat tools offer a better interactive experience. Side Reader can bring this enhanced interactive reading experience with PDFs to LLM applications.
by Clubber | 2025-04-08 11:17:31+00:00
That's because you are assuming the DPRK's culture is like western culture. It isn't. They have secret police everywhere and if you say anything that isn't positive about the state, you will get disappeared and your whole family probably will too. This is understood at a very young age. They would need have to have a group of people isolated from this practice since birth for a couple of generations before they can pass this test.

https://libertyinnorthkorea.org/learn-nk-challenges

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/what-happens-to-you...
by throw10920 | 2025-04-08 11:18:28+00:00
While I get the emotional appeal, I still don't understand the use-case for htmx. If you're making a completely static page, you just use HTML. If you're making a dynamic page, then you want to push as much logic to the client as possible because far more users are latency-limited than compute-limited (compare [1] vs [2]), so you use normal frontend technologies. Mixing htmx and traditional frontend tech seems like it'd result in extra unnecessary complexity. What's the target audience?

Edit: "Normal/traditional frontend" here means both vanilla (HTML+JS+CSS) and the most popular frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Next).

[1] https://danluu.com/slow-device/

[2] https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
by 3np | 2025-04-08 11:18:36+00:00
How big of a difference it makes obviously depends on your OS and how you run your browser.

I guess your choices are

1. Educate yourself on the nitty-gritty and make an educated decision

2. Reason from first principles and apply general best-practices

3. Trust your vendors fully unless provided proof of vulnerability

I suggest 1 and 2.

> Surely if an exploit can go as far as to gain access to the browser pw mgr, they can do basically anything userspace, including execute payloads against all the other pw mgrs on the system?

If that is true for you, I really suggest hardening your system.
by EncomLab | 2025-04-08 11:20:23+00:00
Alan Kay has promulgated many famous truths about computer science - one of them being that among all fields of study, it has the least regard for the people and discoveries that brought it to where it is today. Maybe it's just my own sense of history as I move into my 4th and likely last decade of working with computers, but I find this to be both true and lamentable.

This was a great article - thanks for sharing!
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-04-08 11:20:41+00:00
I think we can safely assume that Tesla, in it's current state, is done for.

Used car dealers won't take them as trade-ins, and neither will Tesla (which basically just auctions them off). Sales have dropped around 50%, and is still dropping, and with tariffs on steel, aluminium, and just about everything not made in the US, they're about to get a whole lot more expensive.

I'm not even sure that removing the CEO will fix the problem. People associate Elon Musk with Tesla, and even a very public outing of him will not change people associating hime with it.
by mariusor | 2025-04-08 11:20:58+00:00
I wasn't trying to claim that only capitalists dehumanize people. But that's what we mostly see today because that's the majority of our society.

When it comes to the types of disabilities that are being discussed in this thread and that I was referring to - to say varied types of autism - I doubt any type of organisation that treats employees as "resources" will work in a decent way.
by julik | 2025-04-08 11:21:39+00:00
I know the feeling. The way it works is that Tailwind parses your HTML, finds `mb-4` and thus knows that it needs to emit the `.mb-4 { margin-bottom: some-var-calc-thing-in-4-increments-of-your-layout }.

So it is not as much of a compiler - it is a preprocessor, with the idea being to output just the utility classes that you use. With "all" the utility classes being this multi-MB CDN version... only if it worked.
by jalapenos | 2025-04-08 11:21:45+00:00
The solution to this is just build competitors and prey on their market.

It's basically impossible for companies to get managers who can perform at the level required to not end up becoming a blunt instrument "more features now" shitshow.

Just find companies that have reached this stagnant state with deep backlogs, subscribe to their product and study it, rebuild it from scratch the right way, and stick ads on that company name as keyword.

Then when you eventually start strangling them and the MBA simpletons at the top knee jerk with cuts, poach their best staff they didn't cut, and ask them "of those they cut, who would you have kept", and reach out to them.

Basically the only way this situation gets "fixed".
by pjmlp | 2025-04-08 11:21:48+00:00
Exactly the same way as using an IDE, their genesis trace back to the various workstation environments at Xerox PARC, Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Tajo/Xerox Development Environment (XDE) with Mesa, Mesa/Cedar, and their influence in other programming language ecosystems.

The way Java IDEs work on their virtual project filesystem mimics a Smalltalk image for example.
by Biologist123 | 2025-04-08 11:22:39+00:00
Well done in getting this up immediately. Pieces like this BBC piece are either implicit or explicit propaganda to define “nature” as a world without humans. Even the word “freakosystem”, as novel as it is, sets up an implicit good/bad dichotomy.

Edit: If you on-board the assumption that all change is bad, you potentially open yourself up to a great deal of anxiety associated with that change.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-08 11:23:04+00:00
Assume their recommendation is not aimed at you, but at the 99% who like the idea of running their own mail server...but lack the skills and commitment to do that securely, over time.

DigitalOcean might not be the target of the resulting spam tsunamis, but they still bear a fair hunk of the "support & consequences" costs.
by codemonkey-zeta | 2025-04-08 11:23:11+00:00
> “You didn’t solve anything! Doing validation is complex and you just magic wanded it away by designing a perfect interface for it.” Yes. Exactly. That is what interfaces are supposed to do. Better semantics make it possible for the programmer to describe what the element does, and for someone else to take care of the details for them.

Gosh I couldn't agree more, what a wonderfully succinct way to communicate what I spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to explain to my colleagues when designing programs!

[EDIT]: I just realized I had read this on one of the linked articles https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/behavior-belongs-in-h...
by matthewsinclair | 2025-04-08 11:23:21+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I will check that out.

In between you doing that and me thinking on it overnight, I ended up writing up my thoughts as a blog post [0], which I have submitted here to HN as well [1].

[0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620407
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-04-08 11:23:53+00:00
If someone prescribed you stimulants based solely on ASRS-5, that's malpractice(at least in most the west, I obviously can't speak for every country), and I'm sorry that happened to you. You could have a strong malpractice case if "almost ruined my life" can be well documented. In that case I suggest talking to a lawyer. If what you mean is you did the self-screening and picked ip some adderall on the black market then, then I guess you're outta luck.

And I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Your advice is good. Get properly diagnosed by a professional. Amphetamine or any other adhd medication is not something you wanna take every day unless you have adhd. And even then, only if it's severe enough to seriously worsen your quality of life.

My ADHD is extremely severe. Without meds I tend to end up smoking large amounts of hash and turning my apartment into a garbage dump as I gain weight and my muscles atrophy from inactivity. I've been back on meds for about 6 months now; my place is spotless, I smoke one spliff every 4 weeks(mostly to learn moderation), I'm losing weight, doing cardio every morning, quit smoking cigarettes, and just recently started coding a bit again. For me it's a total lifesaver.
by jagermo | 2025-04-08 11:24:44+00:00
i mean, it's genius. they're keeping all the cybertrucks, are breaking them down and when importing steel is too expensive to buy because of the tariffs, they'll make a killing! Every cybertruck is basically a rolling depot of valuable resources! It really is 5D Jenga they are playing, you simply have to be very intelligent to understand. /s
by froh | 2025-04-08 11:24:53+00:00
TIL that not only the software side was chaotic (served as the backdrop of Fred Brook's "Mythical Man Month"), but also the hardware side almost failed.

the article here ends around 1971 --- the mainframe would later save IBM again, twice, once when they replaced aluminum with copper in interconnects, and then when some crazy IBM Fellow had a team port Linux to s390. Which marked the birth of "enterprise Linux", i.e. Linux running the data centre, for real.
by kolektiv | 2025-04-08 11:25:39+00:00
Very likely. I remember reading a while back about developers who thought of rendering things on the server side as novel, which was absolutely wild to someone who was writing web pages before JS was a thing! It's such a shame because HTTP + HTML is actually a very, very simple system to learn with literally decades of hard-won knowledge baked in (particularly HTTP and surrounding standards). People end up inventing incredibly complex solutions to problems that could have been alleviated by reading a few RFCs.
by eadmund | 2025-04-08 11:26:00+00:00
> it's unfair for artists to have their works sucked up

I never thought it was unfair to artists for others to look at their work and imitate it. That seems to me to be what artists have been doing since the second caveman looked at a hand painting on a cave wall and thought, ‘huh, that’s pretty neat! I’d like to try my hand at that!’
by stafferxrr | 2025-04-08 11:26:17+00:00
It is like how I am not impressed by the models when it comes to progress with chemistry knowledge.

Why? Because I know so little about chemistry myself that I wouldn't even know what to start asking the model as to be impressed by the answer.

For the model to be useful at all, I would have to learn basic chemistry myself.

Many though I suspect are in this same situation with all subjects. They really don't know much of anything and are therefore unimpressed by the models response in the same way I am not impressed with chemistry responses.