MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2025-04-24 16:10:07+00:00
Or they only show a few friends' posts if you haven't opened Facebook for a while. This makes it appear more social and organic than you last remember, and for good reasons: if you come back, Facebook hopes they can develop your habit over time; also, it makes curious people like you less worried about this addicting app. But then, once they know you're finally coming back regularly, they can turn up the dopamine level gradually, and make social posts harder to find. You'll doomscroll to find them, and they know it.

Every dealer probably knows better than to let people overdose on their first sniff. Especially if they're relapsing.
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-24 16:10:11+00:00
Idk, a few years ago when chatgpt came out he was saying things like "if we're still alive in 3 years (...)" where chatgpt 3.5 was still a glorified transformer. And modern llms still are. It's the constant fear mongering that stings my nerves.

And well, I'm not surprised nobody knows which generation of Ai could undergo an increase causing our extinction, it's not even sure if there could exist such a thing, let alone know which generation
by tialaramex | 2025-04-24 16:10:27+00:00
> It just doesn’t matter in daily life.

Like a lot of mathematics it does matter in your daily life but you actually just don't think about it because of course this works - unless you're an American and so no it doesn't.

The A-series paper sizes mean everything scales very naturally. Poster? Pamphlet? It's just the same ratios again but bigger or smaller. There is a single design where this works, and that's why the A-series exists, you can't just pick anything, only this works.
by simpaticoder | 2025-04-24 16:10:36+00:00
Strictly speaking, a philosophy can't turn away from values. A person can, but philosophy itself is, to a first order approximation, an immutable bundle of values.

Of course this naive view quickly falls apart when interpretation comes into play, as it always must. In the extreme, one may assert that "philosophy" is encoded in the behavior of it's adherents, and these behaviors may have little or nothing to do with the "canonical" representation of the philosophy as immutable text. Or more precisely the behavior and words can be profoundly decoupled. Many examples of this decoupling occurs to your thought (and mine). So when you say that a philosophy can "turn away" from values, in this sense that is true.

I prefer to think of philosophies as a kind of Platonic ideal, which are then subject to all the foibles of the humans who associate themselves to them. There are some subtle problems with this view, which I'd rather not confront.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-24 16:10:42+00:00
I’m happily married, have plenty of friends and family and I don’t see myself not working until someone won’t hire me. I’m 50.

My wife and started traveling a lot after Covid lifted and I started working remotely. We did the “digital nomad” thing for a year across the US until the year before last and even since then we are on a plane to do something for fun around a dozen times a year. Going forward, we have 6-8 “vacations” planned per year for the next few years and sometimes we stay in another city for a month at a time.

This was before I had unlimited PTO and plan on averaging 30 days a year. Work isn’t a limiting factor.

It’s a lot easier to spend $20K-$30K+ a year (plus playing the credit card points game) when you have income coming in. Also everything you mentioned is a lot easier to do when you are young and healthy than when you are 65.

I couldn’t possibly see having our travel schedule later in life. True we aren’t “young”. But we are both gym rats
by jokethrowaway | 2025-04-24 16:11:33+00:00
The concept of "piracy" and copyright is completely ridiculous. Real piracy involves stealing, destroying and killing, not copying numbers.

I never entered in a contract with you, producer of goods or innovation, you have no right to forbid me from copying anything.

You may prevent your own customers from facilitating access of non paying customers to their goods (by making them sign a contract) and even persecute them in a civil court (for breach of contract).

The fact that governments allow copyright owners to censor information on the internet to protect their commercial interest is just absolutely insane and incredibly damaging to the freedom of circulation of culture and ideas.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-04-24 16:11:41+00:00
One of my issues with ActivityPub is that there is no such thing as a cut-down completely static AP feed for blogs. I want Mastodon users to be able to follow my static blog but I don't want to implement the machinery to have full interactivity.

Basically an RSS bridge would work fine. I know such things already exist but it would be cool if it was built into AP.

Right now I just manually post my blog post to my Mastodon account which is perfectly fine.
by aanet | 2025-04-24 16:11:58+00:00
_Well, look, there’s no doubt there is an opportunity here, though obviously I won’t be doing it myself. There are many things I would do to save western civilisation, but having Elon Musk’s baby is not going to be one of them. Apart from anything else, I wouldn’t want to have to call my child “XL5”, “R Daneel Olivaw”, or any other bonkers name plucked from a sci-fi novel he’s still obsessed with, but which the rest of us stopped regarding as Holy Scripture around the time we got interested in girls. Then again, I guess they’re no worse than “Trevor”._

_Anyway, for some years the Tesla-chief-turned-Trump-henchman has been so worried about population shrinkage that he believes it is his job to raise the birth rate, which admittedly sounds more fun than going to Mars. He is now spending a lot of money supporting his many children and has been quite open about the fact that he is looking to expand his payroll. Details of the interview process are vague, but it looks like Musk has fathered 14 children so far, which certainly puts Boris Johnson’s efforts in the shade. He is super serious about this mission, apparently telling one of his prospective mums about his ambition “to reach legion-level before the apocalypse”. Legion-level, eh. That’s some serious Boys from Brazil enterprise you are talking about. That level of commitment could take a chap out of circulation for a while. A Roman legion was 4,000-6,000 strong. That’s a lot of mini-Musks to accommodate and a lot of willing vehicles, though it may explain why Donald Trump is so determined to secure Greenland. These kids have got to live somewhere, at least till he can get them all to Mars. And have you seen the cost of land in California? Anyway, this is a serious opportunity, and with technology wiping out all the ordinary jobs, whelping for Elon could be a growth sector, until he decides to industrialise the whole process in some new business venture called something like Foundation or The Hatchery._
by p3rls | 2025-04-24 16:12:38+00:00
Jesus christ, used to believe what I believe? bro there's literally a pop self-help recommendation at the bottom of your reply. I guess we should be grateful it's not a ted talk or betterhelp.com review.

No one is measuring your soul by jira task completions.

What I'm saying is such a 'live, laugh, love' philosophy (but with more profanity) is equivalent to jira task completions and your soul is measured entirely differently.
by trefoiled | 2025-04-24 16:12:39+00:00
There's an exception to this I've seen since a relative started working in the game industry. There are executives in that industry who have a retinue of loyal followers. The studios the executive works for may change regularly, but his followers come with him each time. These workers will spend their entire career serving one man, and in exchange he always has a job lined up for them and seems to trust them the same way they trust him. It's very different from my experience in the rest of the tech industry, but I'm sure it happens to a limited extent there too.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-24 16:13:03+00:00
I work with a recruiting agency to find short-term contract gigs while I'm looking for more permanent work. It gives me breathing room that allows me to be much more selective about which permanent positions I'm willing to take. "Short term" here means 3-6 month contracts, not a couple of days, so this may not meet your needs.

The key is to find a good agency. There are lots of bad ones. If this is an avenue that might interest you, I recommend asking around the dev crowd in your area to find out which ones are good.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-24 16:13:03+00:00
>Now there is at least an attempt to address our budget.

NO THERE IS NOT

DOGE hasn't saved a dime, and by cutting IRS employees has already cost more than they could ever save, meanwhile the Trump admin is pushing a budget that just keeps adding to the deficit to pay for more tax cuts for the hyperwealthy.

Why are you so unaware of these things?
by uticus | 2025-04-24 16:13:06+00:00
> At the end of them you can still ask "how does the computer really work?" and not have a good answer. They tend to pass over topics that are difficult even though they are important. I will take you through the difficult issues because that is the only way to move on to masterful programming

> This book teaches assembly language for x86 processors and the GNU/Linux operating system. Therefore we will be giving all of the examples using the GNU/Linux standard GCC tool set.

interesting, close to the machine to teach how the machine works while also pulling in programming concepts.

> Thus, programming is not as much about communicating to a computer as it is communicating to those who come after you.

100% - unfortunately the content is light or non-existent on concepts i would say are essential to this part of programming, like:

- how to set up code to be easily maintained

- how to navigate code from others, especially those who don't think like you

- how to collaborate with others to create a program as a team

- etc

...would be interesting to see how the author would pair these concepts with x86 assembler examples.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-24 16:14:07+00:00
> The show didn’t just entertain; it created a shared cultural experience.

This is what was lost to streaming for the most part. There are no televised events, outside of sports, that I’m aware of that connects people together. Personalised entertainment makes it hard to have a water cooler discussion about the sopranos or some dumb commercial for Budweiser or whatever. The last vestiges of this are meme movies like the Minecraft movie or maybe old franchises like fast and furious. There’s really very little left that connects disparate people together in terms of media.
Ask HN: How do you retain both technical and domain knowledge long-term?
by kaushikbose | 2025-04-24 16:14:10+00:00
I'm exploring a learning system that addresses the dual challenge many of us face: remembering both technical concepts AND the business domain knowledge needed to apply them effectively. After years of coding in different industries, I've noticed that understanding the domain (finance, healthcare, e-commerce, etc.) is often as challenging as mastering the technical stack, yet most learning tools focus solely on the technical side. Some questions I'm curious about:

How do you currently capture and retain domain-specific knowledge alongside technical concepts? What's your biggest challenge when onboarding to a new codebase with an unfamiliar business domain? Have you tried using flash cards or spaced repetition for either technical or domain knowledge? What worked or didn't? Would you find value in a tool that could help teams build shared mental models of both their tech stack and business domain? How do you currently transfer domain knowledge between team members?

I'm in early validation stages and would appreciate your insights before building anything. If there's enough interest, I'll share what I learn from this thread.
by Throw9444 | 2025-04-24 16:14:11+00:00
I imagine first you’d have to define success in a way others might agree with. And talent, for that matter—most notable talents can’t be easily exploited by capital.

But, I do know for sure that being wealthy is correlated to neither skill nor hard work, but savvy leverage of the skill and hard work of others. That shit has to end. You should make proportional to the work you put in. Shareholders and investors are even worse.

But whatever. I do not expect the world to improve at this point. We’re just stuck in a shitty place (as humanity) and asked to be grateful for the insight of the rich.
by jerf | 2025-04-24 16:14:18+00:00
Just for fun: 2023 US electrical power generation was 4,178 terawatt-hours [1], or 1.5e19 joules [2]. Divided by 115 that would be approx. 1.3e17 joules. The Hiroshima bomb was 6e13 joules [3]. Which would leave each of those lightning strikes that can supply the US annual electricity needs as outputting approximately 2200 Hiroshima bomb's worth of energy.

I think we'd have a very different relationship to lightning if each of them were 2200 nuke's worth of energy.

Incidentally, this puts the US electrical power generation per year at 250,000 bombs/year, which is an intriguing way of looking at it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Unit...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=4178%20terawatt%20hour...

[3]: https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=hi...
by tart-lemonade | 2025-04-24 16:14:33+00:00
I had to file by mail because I moved to a new state and got 2 W-2s for the same job, of which the W-2 for the former state left the federal fields (1-13) blank. This weird W-2 apparently makes me ineligible for e-file.

Edit: In hindsight, I could have just waited until the start of 2025 to update my address in the HR system and gotten a single, normal W-2, but then I would be both violating the remote work rules (by not adding my new work location) and (probably) committing tax fraud.
by hollerith | 2025-04-24 16:15:49+00:00
He has been saying for a couple of years that it is possible any day now, but in the same breath he has always added that it is more likely 10 or 20 or 30 years from now than it is today.

It is not a contradiction be confident of the outcome while remaining very uncertain of the timing.

If an AI is created and deployed that is clearly much "better at reality" than people are (and human organizations are, e.g., the FBI), that can discover new scientific laws and invent new technologies and be very persuasive, and we survive, then he will have been proved wrong.
by joduplessis | 2025-04-24 16:16:09+00:00
I'm surprised about the amount of comments here berating FB & social media companies. You have the option to deactivate your account and stop using it, to "vote with your feet". Meta is a company and will maximise revenue & engagement - what's actually more worrying is that people still use these sites and doom scroll their nights away (generally speaking of course).
by randcraw | 2025-04-24 16:16:13+00:00
Some people like to play a musical instrument, others to compose music. Those who play range from classicists, who have limited ability to improvise or interpret, to popular or jazz, or composition, where creativity and subtle expression is the life blood of the work.

Programming is similar to music. (A great many software innovators in the 70s and 80s had musical roots). But AI prunes away all the creativity and stylistic expression from the composition and the performance when designing and building software, reducing the enterprise to mere specification -- as if the libretto of the opera were merely an outline, and even that was based on Cliff Notes.

The case for using AI to code is driven strictly by economics and speed. Stylistically and creatively, AI is a no-brainer.
by sixplusone | 2025-04-24 16:16:41+00:00
Fiber is not necessary, and can be the cause of constipation. Your body has ways of managing, and individuals who don't eat fiber have more motility:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3435786/

"Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms"
by p0w3n3d | 2025-04-24 16:17:30+00:00
Let me guess: when game creators were thinking about result visuals were they considering that everyone would have this good pc monitor with exact square pixel, or were they taking into account possible distortions that would occur on average CRT?

Also: people playing retro nowadays use shaders to emulate CRT https://youtube.com/shorts/W_ZI3w9CYnI
by michaelmallari | 2025-04-24 16:17:47+00:00
Does this AI blog help spark startup ideas? https://michaelmallari.bitbucket.io

With 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, founders just have to follow the money (and get started). 2024 AI startup funding momentum is continuing to 2025. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/here-are-the-19-us-ai-star...
by chw9e | 2025-04-24 16:17:51+00:00
The things I'm usually tabbing through in cursor are not the things that make me feel a lot of enjoyment in your work. The things that are most enjoyable are usually the system level design aspects, the refactorings to make things work better. These you can brainstorm with AI, but cannot delegate to AI today.

The rest is glorified boilerplate that I find usually saps me of my energy, not gives me energy. I'm a fan of anything that can help me skip over that and get to the more enjoyable work.
by gen220 | 2025-04-24 16:18:31+00:00
Submitting this after reading this article[0] that interviews the person who runs the company.

It's an interesting intersection of the "prepping" community, internet archival / offline access to some of the more valuable pieces of the internet, and the recent deletion of US governmental resources.

[0]: https://www.404media.co/sales-of-hard-drives-prepper-disk-fo...
by ascagnel_ | 2025-04-24 16:19:08+00:00
It's open-source in the same way TiVo was "open-source" back in the day: yeah, you get the code, but you can't do anything with it in a practical sense.

Also, that article was published in 2013 and only received light updates in 2018 -- and its core arguments haven't really aged even with the additional five years.
by Nursie | 2025-04-24 16:19:09+00:00
It’s not universal though - they don’t work for me, I don’t want or care about any of the “value add” in a feed. I don’t want reels, I’m not there for suggestions.

Clearly I’m a minority as I’m sure they have research saying it does drive engagement for large Numbers of people, but Facebook appears to be worse for all that other stuff and as a result is failing everyone.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-04-24 16:19:26+00:00
I would put Meta, the Elon Musk companies, Uber, and some others in a separate category from Amazon, Apple, and Google. To be sure, Amazon, Apple, and Google have done some very immoral things, but there does seem to be something in the culture of those companies that understands that they wield enormous power and that sees value in acting responsibly - even if it's just because they think being cartoonishly evil isn't in their long-term interest. I do think there's been a change in ethos from the Jobs/Bezos/Page/Brin generation of leadership to the Musk/Zuckerberg generation.
by blueprint | 2025-04-24 16:19:44+00:00
yeah - he killed it

when was the last time you were social on Facebook?

and maybe threads would count if it weren't 95% filled with bots and mentally ill weirdos pretending to know quantum physics (and how dare you judge them for doing so; whether or not they know quantum mechanics is like totally subjective and your frequency is clearly too low).

so either social is not dead or he killed it
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-24 16:19:50+00:00
Not even specific to the tech industry (not that you were saying it was).

My ex- was working towards becoming a veterinarian. During a gap in schooling, she looked at some jobs as a tech or assistant.

She found a good fit, and got to the point of having an offer. But she was having a crisis of conscience. The ad, and interviewers, had talked about how they wanted people who would be invested and committed in the practice. Not in and out in a few months. But she knew that in 9-10 months she would be doing more schooling. Could she take the job in good conscience, knowing that?

Absolutely she could. I said this to her:

Okay, so they're asking for someone who'll be there for years, is committed to them.

Say you start work, and in three months there's a recession, or just a downturn in their business. Is their response more likely to be:

1) "Business is hard, times are tough, but you are committed to us and we are committed to you, so no layoffs, no firings, no pay decreases. Let's get through this together."

or will it be

2) "Business is hard, times are tough, so today will be your last day at XYZ Vet Hospital, thank you for your service."
by jakozaur | 2025-04-24 16:19:59+00:00
It would be even better if SQL had pipe syntax. SQL is amazing, but its ordering isn’t intuitive, and only CTEs provide a reliable way to preview intermediate results. With pipes, each step could clearly show intermediate outputs.

Example:

FROM orders |> WHERE order_date >= '2024-01-01' |> AGGREGATE SUM(order_amount) AS total_spent GROUP BY customer_id |> WHERE total_spent > 1000 |> INNER JOIN customers USING(customer_id) |> CALL ENRICH.APOLLO(EMAIL > customers.email) |> AGGREGATE COUNT(*) high_value_customer GROUP BY company.country
by Frieren | 2025-04-24 16:20:16+00:00
Yes. Social sites had a card blanche to publish anything without consequences because it was user-generated content.

Social sites used that power to publish their own stuff under the same protection.

That has broken the system. Social media sites are 100% responsible for all the misinformation, scams, and hate that they publish or promote. And they should be legally accountable for it.

"We are not accountable because the users are the ones posting the media"... but we post and promote whatever we want is a terrible way for the world to work.
by jandrese | 2025-04-24 16:20:35+00:00
Facebook is probably the worst social media company at combating AI bot spam, although it is a tight race with Twitter/X. Even with aggressive pruning of AI generated "content" it's impossible to get ahead. No matter how many bots you block there are 10 more to take their place. I had to abandon the platform.

Facebook doesn't even seem to care that their platform is being strangled with fake posts. At least Twitter/X has the excuse that Elon fired the people who were trying to combat the spam. I don't know what Facebook's excuse is.
by burningChrome | 2025-04-24 16:20:43+00:00
I've been on Instagram for less than a year for a photography and now my feed regularly includes what people are now calling "rage bait". which I found are people purposefully posting things to get people to engage with their content and are rewarded when more people comment on that content.

I 100% agree that I cannot see a future where people think this is healthy and can continue.
by imgabe | 2025-04-24 16:20:48+00:00
> But it can certainly influence other people's perception of you... I think what we all have to decide though is how much that matters to us, should we decide to buy one anyway.

Yes, this is a concern, and it's a direct result of the phenomenon I'm talking about. There are violent, stupid people who will attack you because they think that buying a product means you endorse every political opinion every person who made that product ever had.

I'm actually looking to buy a car soon, and I've considered this in regard to Tesla. Do I want to deal with having my car keyed or painted or set on fire because of what someone thinks about Elon? Do I want to potentially put myself or my family in danger because someone thinks that attacking a random Tesla consumer is the best way to effect change in the world? And, frankly, no, I don't. But that's what I'm talking about. If you find yourself attacking strangers or destroying their property because you disagree with the politics of some CEO the person you're attacking has never met, you are in fact the bad guy.