MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creer | 2025-05-28 18:57:21+00:00
It's possible to do both: you can collect your paycheck WHILE looking for a better job (because this one is toxic). And now you know to interview more seriously the people at that potential new employer.

An essential part of "the job" is to get done what the company wants you to do. Even when that's stupid. Fair. But toxic jobs are still toxic to us, and staying is still our decision. Pending finding another better job - but sometimes even before having found the better job because sanity matters.
by mattdesl | 2025-05-28 18:57:33+00:00
I think the techniques in “Weight Agnostic Neural Networks” should be applicable here, too. It uses a variant of NEAT I believe. This would allow for learning the topology and wiring rather than just gates. But, in practice it is probably pretty slow, and may not be all that different than a pruned and optimized DLGN..

https://weightagnostic.github.io/
by scdnc | 2025-05-28 18:57:37+00:00
I don't care much about that anymore because their VPN service has really gone bad. They are great in terms of privacy, but in every other aspect, they suck. Their VPN randomly disconnects again and again, once even without the killswitch being activated. They are getting blocked from websites much more often than other VPNs, making the service barely usable while costing a lot more. Plus, there are many other minor issues. I really hope they improve because I want to keep using them
by gr4vityWall | 2025-05-28 18:57:39+00:00
> Some thesises had hallucinated sources, some had AI slop blogs as sources, the texts are robotic and boring. But should I fail them, out of principle on what the ideal University should be?

I don't think you should fail them - instead, give them feedback on how to improve their thesis themselves, and how to make better use of tools like ChatGPT.

If instead of flat out failing to turn in their thesis, instead they are submitting work that needs more iteration due to bad use of AI, that sounds like a net win to me. The latter can be turned into something useful.
by runjake | 2025-05-28 18:57:46+00:00
Why not both?

I'm in my mid-50s. I enjoy writing a simple utility function by hand. I care about craft and form.

But, I also care about increased productivity, exploring new technologies, and the wonders of AI.

Being into one doesn't negate the other.

I believe this says more about the tendency for our minds to close off to new ideas and stimulus as we get older. There's a reason that most people's "ideal era" is in their high school years.

I urge you to foster more resilience and adaptability and shun the traps of "back in my day-ism".
by Nevermark | 2025-05-28 18:57:55+00:00
> To be clear, I am not particularly pro or anti AI. Here’s what I currently think:

> • [...]

> • AI writing is often bland and boring but better than the average person’s writing.

Yes, that is exactly the right thing to do.

Without style prompts, a model should produce competent output with generic style. Anything that is not "bland and boring" is going to make a lot of people unhappy, and be mismatched to most contexts.

So great success.

On the flip side, it is incredibly easy to add style via directions.

The right way to request a style you like is going to take some iteration, or style samples, because style is subjective and models can produce an infinite variety of styles.

Again, exactly what we want. Great success again.

It takes time to absorb that models are such uniquely broad tools we can't expect them to match preferences without specific requests. In humans, that is done by soaking up context. Models only have the context you give them, but are far more versatile.
by eaglelamp | 2025-05-28 18:57:55+00:00
There is no meaningful discourse because there is no meaningful decision at stake. The owning class has decided that “AI” will be shoved into any plausible orifice and the “discourse” online is just a reaction to a decision that has already been made.

Frankly the noise being made online about AI boils down to social posturing in nearly all cases. Even the author is striking a pose of a nuanced intellectual, but this pose, like the ones he opposes, will have no impact on events.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-05-28 18:58:06+00:00
Caring takes time, so it's a currency.

Triage your caring like you handle high or low priority requests in any other job you would. Being mindful of what is consuming your time and your brain's free cycles is so imporant.

Some people have become burned-out of caring, and it's dangerous. Burned-out by the internet pulling at their attention all the time, their phone notifications blasting to them telling them something is important but it isn't. Breaking news, but it's about a celebrity's dramatic encounter at a rewards event, and not about our politicians stealing from us.

The era of smartphones have made us emotionally stunted and and opposite of mindful.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-28 18:58:52+00:00
I think this is hilarious, because it's exactly the type of low effort response that tends to dominate general conversations about AI.

You are making the author's point.

I think there's a lot more nuance in

> "isn’t it cool how this can replace the work that you do? Eventually we won’t even need you and you can go get a hobby to spend the rest of your life."

than you'd like to admit, and some conversations that are worth having in earnest instead of simply resorting to trivial things like

> "Maybe the discourse sucks because the reality of it sucks?"

Maybe the reality of it doesn't suck?

In the same way that a reality where we have things like bulldozers, printing presses, looms, and a cotton gin doesn't actually suck, at the end of the day.

It absolutely sucked for some people, some of the time - and that's an important part of the conversation, but it's not the conversation "end of sentence".
by ameliaquining | 2025-05-28 19:01:06+00:00
WebKitGTK benefits from sharing a codebase with WebKit for iOS, which web developers do care about supporting. There can still be bugs in the Linux-specific platform integration code, but that's not most of the codebase, so any given app is less likely to run across a bug in it. It's not as reliable as more mainstream browser-OS combinations, but saying that most apps don't work is an exaggeration.
by miiiiiike | 2025-05-28 19:01:25+00:00
Hahaha! I spent the morning explaining to a network installer who bought the wrong jacks and tools for the project that I wasn't going to keep the incorrect jacks and pay for the correct ones just so he wouldn't have to accept the return of "products that no one wants." Correct, no one wants them, me especially.

Don't work with incompetent people. Even if you set a low bar for success they'll just go and find a way to trip over it.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-28 19:01:57+00:00
Very cool.

The German Post already has "digital stamps", you buy them online and then you just have to write a couple of symbols on the envelope.

If you combined these together you would get a letter which can be fully paid for and addressed by writing a couple of symbols on it, only meaningful to the computer system. In a way this is making the physical world quite digital.
by sillyboi | 2025-05-28 19:02:05+00:00
It would be great to see an up-to-date benchmark comparing modern cross-platform frameworks like Tauri, Flutter, Electron, React Native, and others.

Key metrics could include:

- Target bundle size

- Memory usage (RAM)

- Startup time

- CPU consumption under load

- Disk usage

- e.t.c.

Additionally, for frameworks like Tauri, it would be useful to include a WebView compatibility matrix, since the rendering behavior and performance can vary significantly depending on the WebView version used on each platform (e.g., macOS WKWebView vs. Windows WebView2, or Linux GTK WebKit). This divergence can affect both UI fidelity and performance, so capturing those differences in a visual format or table could help developers make more informed choices.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-05-28 19:02:15+00:00
“ you will find that the GCD is always financial self-interest”

I think most people want to have security and some predictability for their lives. One way to achieve this is by having money but there are other ways too. Reducing humans to purely economical beings who always want to maximize profit is a gross simplification that appeals to economists and bankers but it doesn’t reflect reality.
by ankit219 | 2025-05-28 19:02:47+00:00
Thats how a lot of application layer startups are going to make money. There is a bunch of high quality usage data. Either you monetize it yourself (cursor), get acquired (windsurf) or provide that data to others at a fee (lmsys, mercor). This is inevitable and a market for this is just going to increaase. If you want to prevent this as an org, there arent many ways out. Either use open source models you can deploy, or deal directly with model providers where you can sign specific contracts.
by kiselitza | 2025-05-28 19:02:50+00:00
Maybe you thought of an SDK-like client/wrapper for calling certain APIs, so it sounds natural to call it an API client? Here you can check a list of currently OSS API clients (competitors to Voiden - the tool I posted about) https://github.com/stepci/awesome-api-clients Will join the list soon after we go OSS too. :)
by Terr_ | 2025-05-28 19:03:49+00:00
Trying to bracket-down the problem a bit, does this seem fair?

1. Ideological purity tests, as opposed to anti-fraud measures.

2. Investigation when issuing visa, rather than border-searches by customs etc.

3. Applies to tourists and students, as opposed to other visas which are part of a path to permanent residency.
by noleary | 2025-05-28 19:04:19+00:00
We know the Stack Auth team well, and we really respect what they're up to! We have a really high opinion of them. I'd be curious how they'd assess the comparison.

First, of course you can often use either of our two products in many cases. We do compete!

Second, I think we focus on subtly different customers. There are cases where they're a better fit and cases where I'd assess us to be a better fit. For example, Stack Auth is pretty closely aligned to the Next.js ecosystem. They're really quite strong at serving Next.js. They also have a billing and payments product that's likely interesting to companies with a heavy self-service motion. On the other hand, Tesseral serves only B2B software, and we're not as focused on Next.js (SDK currently in the works). If, for instance, you have a Go backend and sell large enterprise-y deals, we're probably a better fit.

But this will probably evolve over time. I'd expect this comparison to be outdated within a few months.

Overall, I expect our companies will drift in slightly different directions over time. We're both very early stage companies that have focused on pretty foundational features so far.
by mac-mc | 2025-05-28 19:04:39+00:00
How much of it was the UI, and how much of was the non-ux code? Could've you achieved many of the same gains by creating a local backend in rust for things like indexing and leaving the UI as a more lightweight electron app while saving a lot more time in a rewrite? How much dev time was the UX rewrite compared to the backend rewrite?
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-28 19:05:17+00:00
Signature required shifts the burden of proof.

If your drill press had been delivered to the wrong person, and the sender had chosen insured delivery (which automatically requires a signature), it would be easy to prove that the signature on file with the transporter did not match the actual signature of the recipient (i.e. you) (unless a fraudster forged your signature, that is).

Mind you, from what I understand, the seller is legally responsible up to the point of delivery in the Netherlands*. Therefore, even if your drill press hadn’t been sent with required signature, the shop would still be responsible in case it had been lost (but then the loss would come out of their own pocket, rather than that of the transporter).

Disclaimer: not a lawyer.

* Assuming you’re from the Netherlands due to your user name.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-28 19:05:17+00:00
Buybacks do not do that any more than dividends do. Buybacks merely allow publicly listed stock owners to precisely time their capital gains tax events.

Surely, there is some amount of income that a business’s owner is allowed to pocket without bad intentions, which may or may not come at the cost of long term investments. Especially in stable/declining businesses.
by paulcole | 2025-05-28 19:05:26+00:00
I don't understand this comment. He literally did tell a person this.

> I discovered that his portfolio was worth more than $4M and I asked him why he was working at IBM if he was "rich". His answer was that he enjoyed working at IBM, you could just "spend" stock as you would lose out on future growth, and what would he do with his time if he wasn't working?
by Klonoar | 2025-05-28 19:05:34+00:00
Last I checked, WebkitGTK does not have parity with WebKit on iOS, and plenty of devs do test on that platform anyway - so I'm not sure what you're talking about? You're right to correct someone saying _most_ apps don't work, but it's also not cool to just sweep the WebkitGTK issue under the rug and pretend it's not an issue at all. It's bitten plenty of people who build on Tauri.

Additionally, the issues people find with WebkitGTK/Tauri aren't always web related, usually moreso Linux related (weird blank screens, issues with rendering certain stacked items, etc).
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-28 19:06:11+00:00
Office has long been the special case inside Windows Update (or Microsoft Update in the years where the brand changed whether you had Office installed or not), since the earliest days of Windows Update. Windows Update started as Office Update in the Office 97 era before becoming an out-of-the-box Windows thing in Windows 98, as I recall it. (The internet doesn't seem to have images of the Office 97 "Office Update" tool, so either my memory is foggy or it truly was short-lived enough that the general internet and Wikipedia have forgotten it.) In Windows 8 and 10 Microsoft tried to move Office updates into the Store and were mostly successful just about the time that the Office team decided they were bored with the Store and moved back "home" to Windows Update (or Microsoft Update, I suppose, if you insist).

If Office is no longer the special case in Windows Update and more applications can use it, that would be interesting. A lot of third party drivers have already been using it more, and that also seemed a special case before. Opening it up as a platform for any third party seems like a long time coming.

(Visual Studio is an interesting case, too, because some of it has always had security updates in Windows Update, but yet more of it is not updated that way than is. Originally the border lines were "owned by Windows components" versus "Visual Studio owned components" but those lines have become so blurry, especially in the .NET 5+ era where Windows no longer owns anything about .NET, but Windows Update still serves critical security patches.)
by righthand | 2025-05-28 19:06:48+00:00
> than you'd like to admit, and some conversations that are worth having in earnest instead of simply resorting to trivial things like

Sure the author wants to talk about technical specifics of Llms. Yet Llms enable a lot of people to avoid understanding even the technical points of it. That would disincentivize people from understanding enough to have discourse which the author considers valuable.

> In the same way that a reality where we have things like bulldozers, printing presses, looms, and a cotton gin doesn't actually suck, at the end of the day.

I really don’t care about the grand scheme of things type responses to criticism of Llms. But for the sake of argument why should I care about discussing Llms and their technical aspects if in the grand scheme of things we’re all to eventually die?

It is the end of the sentence because most people can’t imagine what comes next besides not having a job. It’s not that they won’t be fine if a super AI takes over tomorrow, it’s that is literally the limit of their concerns today is making money for themselves.

It might be different if Llms actually made the users richer but it doesn’t it makes the corporations richer.
by johnb231 | 2025-05-28 19:07:07+00:00
Apple is faster at single core and can match or exceed the 14900k at multi core in some applications.

They are not for gaming. They are much faster than Intel for video editing due to hardware codecs.

The Mac Mini / iMac / Apple Studio / Mac Pro are more than enough for most desktop users and provide high performance without obnoxious fan noise. The high end Intel chips draw ~300 watts. I need a silent desktop.
by ARandomerDude | 2025-05-28 19:07:27+00:00
> And yet very few people raise their kids in community. In the US, 71% of children grow up in single family homes.

This is the fundamental misconception of the article. Living with your own family does not equate to being raised outside a community. Church, school, little league, etc. are all community networks that huge swaths of society participate in regularly.
by altairprime | 2025-05-28 19:07:49+00:00
One reason not stated by the author is that U.S. culture and tends to handle badly the ebb and flow of physical intimacy among co-residents and their guests, not only through the excuse of jealousy as a conduit for physical and emotional abuse, but also by applying the playground puritanical ‘cooties’ logic to (almost exclusively) women who have been ‘contaminated’ for future relations by a prior partner within the community. Not that communes uniformly handle this any better — jealousy and power plays can still tear up an open-partners community! — but as all constant human coexistence groupings such as work, school, and churches demonstrate: where people are around each other often, intimacy and its successor attractions will crop up without regard for monogamous fidelity. So, given the U.S. puritanical tendencies, it makes sense that they avoid coresidency: isolating humans inhibits (somewhat) intimacy outside of the married partner.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-28 19:08:27+00:00
Google didn't have to pay anyone back in 1999 or early 2000s.

Google paying Mozilla and Apple to be the "standard" search engine absolutely means it is a bad product. IMO it's purely anticompetitive too, but I'm a competitive market radical.

I feel similarly for how chrome didn't win by being "good", it won by being bundled, and by putting one click "Hey hey click here" buttons on google.com.
by mikewarot | 2025-05-28 19:08:32+00:00
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is amazingly cheap to dip your toes into. For about $40 you can get a little kit of a receiver, and a few antenna that can listen to almost all local transmissions, radio, aircraft, navigation, ham radio, etc. GNU Radio is the toolkit that can let you do almost anything with it, using a GUI front end.

With FreeCAD and a 3d printer, you can make almost anything, including gears, which I'm especially interested in.

With the Arduino IDE, you can program a huge swath of controllers to build almost any control system you need for projects using the above tools.

Gage Blocks are magical, you can spend $200ish, and have precision measured in microns.

All of the above can be leveraged to do almost anything thanks to youtube, and all the people sharing their hobbies. If you want to measure micrograms cheap, or make almost atomically flat surfaces, etc... there's likely more than a few tutorials on the subject.

Thanks to the internet, you could run your own forum, or use an existing one, to meet up with others interested in any given subject.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-28 19:08:42+00:00
My experiences volunteering at goodwill and habit for humanity ReStore.

A bag will come in full of items. A small subset of that bag will be pulled out to go on shelves. The majority of the bag will be sent to "salvage" (trash/recycling).

Some folks have a curated selection of items they bring in that mostly get accepted, but usually the folks doing that just take it to a real consignment shop, or sell it on something like facebook marketplace.

Generally - a large portion of the donations are exactly this situation: used items in a big trashbag that come in after a move (or eviction [or death]).

They go in the trash. Where the owner probably should have put them a while back. I also don't like how much churn exists in our modern consumption economy - but it's not doing favors to pretend it doesn't exist. Much of our "stuff" is low cost, semi-consumable items that will end up trashed - by design. I don't like it either, but saying "Donate it" is like pretending recycling is going to solve plastic pollution.
by ameliaquining | 2025-05-28 19:08:44+00:00
Does anyone actually choose to ship an Electron app instead of a web app in order to benefit from UI consistency? Most Electron apps I've seen either share a codebase with a web app that's also made available (so the codebase still has to be tested cross-browser), or else can't be web apps because they need full filesystem privileges or otherwise don't work with the browser's security model.
by seadan83 | 2025-05-28 19:08:48+00:00
The focus on short term results could generally be true. Perhaps... generally nothing is true though of course.

(1) consider how many stocks are delisted and/or go out of business. We might be thinking with survivorship bias. A cook google gave this headline "America has lost 43% of listed companies since 1996" (though, more research would be needed to really be sure that's accurate and to determine any more nuances that might be important).

(2) If there are an ever-present amount of short term rewards/results, then we would get growth. A series of short term growth would be hard to distinguish from long term growth.

(3) Long term and short term growth can be mixed, and the strategy does not have to be static. A company could hop back and forth between them. This point contradicts the premise a bit, at the same time we can't discount long term from the noise that we see (it could be signal).

(4) Stock price is not necessarily always tied to financial results. It's supposed to be the sum of all future revenue divided by the number of shares (or something like that), thus, stock price is in part also the expectation of revenue and not actual revenue. Tesla is a notable example, the price of their stock is still very high, with anticipation of amazing revenue gains, but recently their revenue has not been growing by a ton.
by rendx | 2025-05-28 19:09:08+00:00
As a European, I strongly prefer slow and decentralized and the principle of subsidiarity over quick and easy to corrupt, as current history demonstrates. To me, it is a tradeoff well worth it.

Many seem not to be familiar with that fundamental core principle of the European Union:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(European_Union)
by tomjakubowski | 2025-05-28 19:09:08+00:00
> significantly slower without an IDE, compiler or debugger … In fact, I don't think you would be a professional programmer if you didn't have them.

This is a strange take. Programmers were around before any of those tools were. And today, even many professional programmers do their work without using any of them: they use text editors, they write interpreted languages, and they use printf()-debugging or other techniques.