MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imjustaghost | 2025-05-30 06:06:02+00:00
This is a good point. I am a married man. As a woman, my wife cannot give me guy time - hence I love to hang out with my friends (who are all guys) - and I cannot give her girl time - hence she loves to hang out with her friends (who are all girls). The only women I am happy to be friendly with are colleagues (in a professional manner), family and ladies that my wife and I are friends with.

A lot of people baulk at this sort of arrangement/tolerance - but I bet it's quite common.
by flomo | 2025-05-30 06:06:11+00:00
I worked with a few different types of Flash guys. The top guys were artists, they delivered awesome stuff that nobody has seen since. (But, like the website, it was hardcoded to desktop dimensions.) They made a great living doing this stuff. Some of them jumped to HTML5, but that whole 'flash splash' thing largely went out-of-style.

There was also more of the run of the mill 'hero animation', jquery was good enough for that. I think they still use Adobe Animate for banner ads.

And then there was the junior guy who was good at flash and just wanted the entire web to be flash, and that was more of the debate because some assistant creative director thought it was slick.

(And lest I forget, there were also the ActionScript guys who spent all day in their IDE writing MVC code, and rarely using the Flash editor.)
by palmfacehn | 2025-05-30 06:06:56+00:00
These are all good points. Like others here, I will preemptively state my dislike of the political classes.

Perhaps if financial regulations were not so onerous, traditional payment processors like PayPal would be able to handle more types of transactions with a lower overhead. As it is, the large number of prohibited categories creates a demand for cryptocurrency. As you noted, inflationary monetary policy is another source of discontent. Perhaps if central bankers had exercised a bit more restraint, there would be less demand for cryptocurrency. The same can be said for capital controls and more...

So there is a bit of irony when posters appeal for even heavier regulations and prohibitions. These are the forces which have created demand for wholly unregulated markets. It shouldn't be hard to see how these overreaches have created a counterbalancing force. Tragically, these overreaches generate a safe-haven for additional bad actors.
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-30 06:07:32+00:00
I know I am an old angry guy but I really don't want things to 'feel' (not sure what that even is) more modern; I have projects that bring me millions a year which are running for over 2 decades now and this kind of 'modern' is just obsolete next year. I like profit and not being bothered by updates every 5 seconds. I have a simple stack, my saas apps are violently fast and they run for decades without me touching anything but some bugs/features. The modern feel is not required and in fact detrimental to just making bucketloads of business value and company wealth imho. But then again, we never had investors, so I don't know how it feels to burn other people's money.
by rendall | 2025-05-30 06:08:08+00:00
I appreciate the nostalgic tone here, but its core critique that Flash allowed Adobe to dominate the web feels oddly selective, especially looking back now.

Flash wasn’t perfect. It had major security flaws, a proprietary runtime, and a clunky update system. But Flash emerged when browsers themselves were insecure, standards were immature, and the web could not deliver expressive, interactive content. Flash filled that gap, and did so brilliantly in a way not matched even today.

The real irony is how quaint worries about Adobe’s control seem today. Google and Apple now hold that same power, wielding it with more reach and less accountability. Chrome effectively defines the web, and Apple’s restrictions on Safari for iOS block entire categories of web apps. Where Flash was a creative toolkit, today's web prioritizes tracking, monetization, and App Store lock-in. Previously one company defined the runtime; now a handful dictate standards, browsers, ad models, and even UX paradigms.

Flash may have been proprietary, but it sparked a wildly decentralized creative culture, from Newgrounds to weird experimental microsites, that today's web hasn’t matched. Flash let creatives take risks and lead the conversation. By contrast, today’s web is sterile, cautious, and suffocated by performance metrics and SEO compliance.

Flash didn’t kill the open web. It kept it interesting while standards matured. Once those standards caught up, Flash was pushed aside. But let’s not pretend what replaced it is a victory for openness or creativity.
by merek | 2025-05-30 06:08:21+00:00
I'm a big fan of YouTube anti-scammer vigilantes. They bait scammers, expose their tactics, humorously waste their time, or even manage a counter attack.

I believe these guys can be a big part of the solution. YouTube creates a financial incentive for individuals to go down this route, and apart from being entertaining to viewers, it broadens awareness of scammer tactics, which hopefully means more people detect scams early.

I wish these guys success and hope to see more anti-scam YouTubers appear.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/@NanoBaiter

https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
by jonfromsf | 2025-05-30 06:08:32+00:00
These were a huge part of the American social fabric in the past. Most of the organizations are still active, although smaller than before. There's Freemasons, The Elks, Rotary International, American Legion, VFW, Knights of Columbus, Loyal order of Moose, Shriners, Lions Club, Kiwanis ...
by materiallie | 2025-05-30 06:08:35+00:00
This is my experience, too. As a concrete example, I'll need to write a mapper function to convert between a protobuf type and Go type. The types are mirror reflections of each other, and I feed the complete APIs of both in my prompt.

I've yet to find an LLM that can reliability generate mapping code between proto.Foo{ID string} to gomodel.Foo{ID string}.

It still saves me time, because even 50% accuracy is still half that I don't have to write myself.

But it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills whenever I read about AI hype. I'm open to the idea that I'm prompting wrong, need a better workflow, etc. But I'm not a luddite, I've "reached up and put in the work" and am always trying to learn new tools.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-30 06:11:34+00:00
I’m simply saying that the problem is almost exactly equivalent to the trolley problem.

Would you steer the trolley to the track with one man on it? If yes, and you believe you could save more than one person with $1 million, then you would also press the button!

> And what you're doing is neither novel nor surprising. This is the exact rationalization most of every person we now view in history as awful also used. They acknowledge they're doing some awful things in the present, but rationalize it by imagining the utopia that it will bring in.

This is also true for the trolley problem! He who pulls the lever does an awful thing (kills one man) in the pursuit of some benefit to society (saving five others).

(The ethics of the trolley problem itself have been discussed at length, so I don’t think we need to repeat those arguments here.)

And again, many religious wars have been and are fought! Religious leaders haven’t theoretically killed people in the pursuit of utopia, they have literally, actually done that!

After all: that’s the subject of our discussion: not whether people are moral, but whether religious people are more moral than the baseline.
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-30 06:11:48+00:00
Related: Interpol urges to stop using "Pig Butchering":

> INTERPOL argues that the term ‘pig butchering’ dehumanizes and shames victims of such frauds, deterring people from coming forward to seek help and provide information to the authorities.

"Romance baiting" is proposed instead.

https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2024/INTERPOL-...
by camillomiller | 2025-05-30 06:12:01+00:00
Do we have references for how correct these type of predictions were in the past about similar claims?

That said, it seems to check out. Everything we do, every technological step forward, is always inevitably configured within the frame of a capitalistic belief system, with the myth of growth locked in place as its central device.

My existential angst definitely didn’t need this read today.
by atoav | 2025-05-30 06:13:03+00:00
Not to be that guy, but I always wondered how "reign a 1000 years" square with the Jesus as he was in fact depicted in the bible. Didn't exactly strike me as the guy who would be interested in reigning, more like a guy who the people who acrually like to reign would get rid off because he's an uppity socialist that gives common folks ideas that make them demand more of their lives.
by nthingtohide | 2025-05-30 06:13:21+00:00
Wrt disabling enemy satellites by destroying them to pieces, we can create more problems, the so called space debris chain reaction Kessler Syndrome.

Watch at 0:40 @ Space War is Real, Here's How it Works

https://youtu.be/JZqa2wQdORo

> Kessler Syndrome is a hypothetical scenario, proposed by NASA scientist Donald Kessler in 1978, where a chain reaction of collisions between space debris and satellites leads to a catastrophic increase in debris, potentially rendering Earth's orbit unusable. This increase in debris would make space travel and communication more dangerous and difficult.

Can countries actively plan strategies to use Kessler Syndrome to their advantage? Can Starlink satellites be destroyed easily by this method since they are present in the same orbit?
by deivid | 2025-05-30 06:13:50+00:00
> It’s really, really easy to get a better code sample than the one shown here.

The problem is that in a team setting, you can't control the type of "code sample" that your teammates send for review.

It's frequently the case that some teammates will request review for this kind of slop, while outsourcing all the "thinking" to the reviewer.

As a revwiewer, I now have to review much more code (LLMs absolutely increase the amount of code per hour you can put out), which is often unfiltered LLM output, so it needs more careful and thorough review.

Essentially, a careless developer with access to an LLM can now perform a cheap DoS on reviewers.
by solatic | 2025-05-30 06:15:43+00:00
Human coders are necessary because writing code is a political act of deciding between different trade-offs. antirez's whole post is explaining to Gemini what the trade-offs even were in the first place. No analysis of a codebase in isolation (i.e. without talking to the original coders, and without comments in the code) can distinguish between intentional prioritization of certain trade-offs or whether behavior is unintentional / written by a human in an imperfect way because they didn't know any better / buggy.

LLMs will never be able to figure out for themselves what your project's politics are and what trade-offs are supposed to be made. The penultimate model will still require a user to explain the trade-offs in a prompt.
by carabiner | 2025-05-30 06:16:18+00:00
Last one I tried was Grouper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper_social_club

You'd meet up for dinner at a local place that was usually pretty good, with 2-3 other people, mostly tech-adjacent. Dinners were pretty polite, a little awkward, mildly stimulating, but I never made real relationships from it. Seems like the same idea has emerged with https://timeleft.com.

I don't know. It seems like the best way to make friends is to force people to do some other task next to each other a few days per week and let things form organically after they are around each other for a few years.
by baq | 2025-05-30 06:17:25+00:00
I have first read the limits to growth about two decades ago and it left me with a feeling of dread. Technology, if it’s even developed, only takes us so far.

The good things I observe are consistent mispredictions about e.g. solar power and a rather obvious lack of impact of AI robotics, this was hard sci-fi even 10 years ago and it’s a kinda unnoticed trend brewing around the world. The model designers would be considered clowns if they added humanoid robots to the population at any point in the timeline and now I think we can say in the next few years we’ll have to start doing exactly that.

Where does that leave humanity in 2050 is anyone’s guess. Looks like a race towards singularity, because if we don’t get there, we collapse.
by gambiting | 2025-05-30 06:17:54+00:00
>>I am literally batting social opportunities away due to lack of time and resources.

That is exactly what the "male loneliness epidemic" is though, no? I don't know what definition you are using, but to me it's definitely the fact that we just don't have the time to go out and be social among other things, not that there aren't opportunities in the first place.
by atoav | 2025-05-30 06:18:09+00:00
On that note: Trumps golden dome has the chance to end this paradigm, since with it the US can now Nuke countries that it likes without direct payback (which is probably the point of the whole thing in the first place).

The problem with that is that it changes the incentive on nukes into using them in more concealed, non-attributable ways, like smuggling a suitcase nuke into Manhatten and have everybody wonder which nations or terrorist organization it was.
by gattilorenz | 2025-05-30 06:18:18+00:00
Timberwolf on Youtube has a series of great videos about car physics in games.

How it developed over the years: https://youtu.be/_IMN9XVYSiY

How a few games worked: https://youtu.be/hcmSBwLKVOY https://youtu.be/p5s-zbXtDoo

Absolutely recommended!
by _whiteCaps_ | 2025-05-30 06:18:37+00:00
No... 3k just for the radio - actually, an IC-9700 is about $2k now.

Then add the yagi antenna, az/el moon tracker, amplifier, coax, etc. It really starts to add up.

I've never done this but I've worked a bunch of satellites and the ISS repeater. It's generally the same stuff, just a bit more powerful and precise.
by cyberax | 2025-05-30 06:19:14+00:00
These kinds of analyses are just pure BS. I remember reading (and believing) them in 2005, about how oil was going to become unaffordably scarce by 2020.

Right before the fracking revolution happened.

If you look at earlier estimates, we were supposed to have 20 billion people on Earth now.

> also seems to be peaking right about now indicating that despite continuous growth in the global population, we are experiencing declining global food production.

The per-capita caloric supply is growing: https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-30 06:21:46+00:00
> They're made possible by that. The stacking of fuel, on it's own, does not magically create fire.

The fire triangle is fuel, oxygen and heat. Oxygen is in the air at all times. When the fuel is on the ground, the only thing remaining is heat, and there are both artificial and natural sources of heat. Which means there is going to be a fire whether there is an artificial source or not.

> Of course it is. We're talking about liability and costs. It's extremely relevant.

We're talking about snookering the electric ratepayer for the cost of inevitable fires by pretending that removing one source of heat could have prevented the fire.

There is a plausible case that having more frequent fires is less damaging because it prevents fuel from accumulating. The more fuel is allowed to accumulate the bigger and faster spreading the next fire is when it happens, and the more difficult it is for firefighters to prevent it from spreading into populated areas.

> Then no one should live in California at all.

There aren't that many fires in modern urban areas because the urban areas aren't full of dead vegetation.

The people who choose to live in fire-prone woods are making a different choice.

> Do you honestly expect this wouldn't be the _norm_?

The issue is that decisions should be made using reason rather than political machinations. Because it isn't actually the power utility paying for this, it's the rate payers. When it should be the people buying houses in a tinder box.

> We're talking about millions of people here representing billions of dollars of economic activity.

Which seems like a dumb thing to put in places that are inevitably going to be incinerated?

> Do we want to measure risk realistically?

The way you do this is by putting the cost of the fires on the insurance companies rather than the utility companies, and in turn the insurance premiums of the people who live there rather than the utility bills of the people who live somewhere else.

> What about those who inherited that land and home?

You're not required to use something dangerous just because you got it from your parents.
by me4502 | 2025-05-30 06:22:34+00:00
This feels like what typically happens when new areas of medicine or treatments are discovered. Suddenly everyone wants to use it in unproven areas, and market it to desperate people with a poor prognosis, or poorly understood/treated conditions.

I have POTS, a form of dysautonomia, and have been given some exercises that stimulate the vagus nerve that do appear to assist during acute episodes, but not long term. A handful of conditions will probably be found where it can help, and the rest will end up being placebo or “snake oil salesperson” type behaviour.
by chneu | 2025-05-30 06:22:36+00:00
While there are a lot of incompetent idiots in this admin, don't forget that a lot of them are grifters who are only trying to get rich/powerful while they can.

I don't like doing the Hitler comparison, but the similarities are definitely there. A lot of the Nazis thought Hitler was a "useful idiot" that they could use and then get rid of. Trump is very similar.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-30 06:24:29+00:00
> about how oil was going to become unaffordably scarce by 2020. right before the fracking revolution happened.

and before that the same thing happened. you can find books in the library from the 70's saying the same thing about oil by the year 2000

all that's happened is that commodity economics kick in. the scarcity of oil prompts people to pay more for the oil. the higher price of oil makes investors realize they can write larger checks to people aiming to explore for oil in harder to reach places with expensive machinery, to make enough to pay back the investors.

which is why deep sea expeditions took off, which is why fracking took off

the trend is likely to continue

this is what occurs in some other commodity markets as well
by xenadu02 | 2025-05-30 06:24:58+00:00
Well you are also commanded to pay your taxes (render undo Caesar what is Caesar's) and obey+respect authorities (slaves obey your masters). All part of being "in the world" but not "of the world". You could infer the NT is advising against being politically active in any form but I admit you don't have to read it that way.

It doesn't say pay your taxes as long as there is no waste. Or the government spends the money wisely. It just says pay.

Doesn't say obey kings/rulers/masters if they treat you well. Or you voted for them. Or you agree with their policies. It just says obey.

All of which is very much the opposite of Evangelical Christianity in the modern USA - much of it is completely corrupted by political power and wealth. It usually only makes people angry or dismissive when you point that out.
by viraptor | 2025-05-30 06:25:11+00:00
This is a tricky one with most cases I could find not actually documenting how much people were taking. With some cases mentioning people taking 500+mg, it's hard to tell how much causes problems. The original threshold was set by basically "we haven't seen issues with under 500mg, so set it to half that - 250mg it is".

Btw, if you take more than 100mg, the serum level will easily go out of range for usual labs. (400+ nmol)
by flomo | 2025-05-30 06:25:24+00:00
I could speculate, it was partially because of that blog post. The more social nerds are encouraged to cast out the antisocial stinky ones. Instead of a whisper campaign, there's a social media ejection.

(Nerds in particular have been lured into fake socializing with fake friends on a discord or something. I've seen this where someone disappears and it's like "i dunno, maybe he got busy with life". None of their 'friends' really care if he's dead or not, because if he really did get "get busy", that is an indictment on them.)
by oconnor663 | 2025-05-30 06:25:27+00:00
> 27 years later, talking to the latest Siri, it makes just as many mistakes as it did back then

Have you tried talking to ChatGPT voice mode? It's mind blowing. You just have a conversation with it. In any language. About anything. The other day I wanted to know about the difference between cast iron and wrought iron, and it turned into a 10 or 15 minute conversation. That's maybe a good example of an "easy" topic for LLMs (lots of textbooks for it to memorize), but the world is full of easy topics that I know nothing about!
by cjohnson318 | 2025-05-30 06:26:54+00:00
I think a lot of this boils down to the fact that most men are too insecure to engage with each other meaningfully. This causes them to appear overly competitive, or uninterested. How many times have you spoken to another man that can't stop trying to one-up you, or cannot be bothered to ask you a single question? That's the majority of my interactions with other men.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-30 06:26:54+00:00
If there were not negative externalities being subsidized, i.e. perversely encouraged, then growth would always be good.

The problem with economic growth into negative sum gold mines, is not only the immediate and cumulative damage so far, but that all that damage is what funds and incentivizes existing and new actors to compound the damage.

Compound. Compound. That doesn't stop easily.

Whether that is fossil fuel, plastic or surveillance/manipulation media. (None of which I have an ideological issue with, if they are taxed or pay for the harm they do, each market would quickly find N new and clever ways to substitute, avoid or mitigate the damage.)

Once large corporations start making money where there is a negative sum conflict of interest, growth by definition is very very bad.

But the problem isn't "growth".
by Aziell | 2025-05-30 06:28:10+00:00
I used to think big batteries were just for short-term backup. Didn't expect California to reach the point where they can actually support part of the grid. Before, when the wind stopped or the sun went down, you'd need gas to kick in. Now, in many cases, batteries are enough. That said, I do wonder what happens when all these batteries get old. Are we just pushing the next problem down the road?
by varun_ch | 2025-05-30 06:28:23+00:00
I think this is someone that would be really helpful to me. I use Firefox, which has fairly ‘meh’ browser profile support at the moment. If I click a link systemwide, it’ll usually open in the wrong profile (whatever Firefox considers the ‘default’)

I used to use Arc, and loved the system they had to let you pick a profile to open a link with.

Would this let me see a prompt when clicking on a link, and let me decide which Firefox profile to use/additionally pick other browsers? That sounds like it would be perfect.
by rendall | 2025-05-30 06:28:28+00:00
These are quotes from Steve Jobs:

> "New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too)."

> "HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on a third party browser plug-in (like Flash)."

> "Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content."

> "If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?"

> "HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member."

I view these as cynical. HTML5 has yet to match the experience that Flash delivered, and I believe Jobs knew that it could not even at the time he said it.