MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlnewton | 2025-05-14 12:46:22+00:00
I started a new passion project last year. I don't know if it counts as a huge project, but I could tell going in that it would be the largest and most ambitious solo project I've ever taken on. Given that this is a project that nobody is paying me for, I have the luxury of not having to give any deadlines, so depending on your situation, your mileage may vary.

Firstly, whenever I encounter a bug or an idea that I don't want to interrupt my flow, I make a note of it. I'm currently using a Github project board for this. You don't have to use any complicated features to do this, it can be essentially used as a todo list so that you keep track of the things you want to implement. These things should be broken down into small achievable tasks.

I have embraced the idea that this project might take me literally years to finish, or it might never truly be finished. There are a great number of successful software projects that are never finished! Linux, for instance! I've given myself the odd fleeting thought to how much time it would take for a v1.0.0, but never tried to calculate it. I've accepted that it'll be done when it's done. Especially given that I don't know if I'll be too busy to work on it in a few weeks time.

This way, by not worrying about when it'll be done, I'm finding myself in that flow state of just working on the thing that I want to work on right now.
by pjc50 | 2025-05-14 12:46:25+00:00
> Teen pregnancies are at an all time low everywhere in the developed world and it's not just thanks to the availability of contraception, but also a generational shift in attitudes towards risk taking.

Yes - and this was a policy objective! People hated teenage pregnancy. Religious organisations condemned it from the pulpit. The Catholic Church in Ireland had a little gulag for teenage mothers: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-...

We (the West, generally) have successfully put the fear of god (including metaphorically, for atheists) into people that they MUST NOT HAVE CHILDREN THEY CANNOT SUPPORT. We have provided them with means for not having children. Now everyone is surprised?
by zigzag312 | 2025-05-14 12:46:31+00:00
Replace "knowledge" with "required knowledge". It's not about how efficiently you can learn, but how much do you need to learn in a specific amount of time. If you need to learn a lot in short amount of time (which is a hard thing to do) the curve is steep. You can flatten the curve by increasing the time you have available or by requiring less knowledge.
by sseagull | 2025-05-14 12:46:47+00:00
Spot on, but this in particular

> people tend to not live near parents anymore so they lose free childcare

For some reason I don't see this mentioned as often, but I've always felt it a significant root cause (among many of course).

Childcare is really expensive, but it used to be "free". I grew up with grandparents/aunts/uncles/older cousins available to baby sit me. But now very much of my cohort have moved away from our home region for better jobs. My nearest family is a 4 hour drive away.

Combine this with a strong individuality streak (less reliance on neighbors and community) and you have to turn to very expensive childcare.

Raising children without that support is very daunting, at least to me.
by artyom | 2025-05-14 12:47:08+00:00
I mostly agree with the original comment. Most of the western world is anti-family, with rare exceptions (e.g. Finland) with policies that nobody is willing to imitate.

And even with great child-raising policies, Finland has a fertility rate as bad as the rest.

Problem is always money. Why society is going to subsidize 2 year of paternity leaves for everyone? Better and easier to complain about "kids nowadays".

It's not just telling people what having kids is or is not, it's that the MONEY spent on family promotion is laughable. Countries with those policies are just putting a bandaid. People is already NOT having children.

The reason all this is "mostly okay anyway" is that everyone normalized being selfish. So money and time and resources are spent on oneself, and that's okay, who's going to require anything different from the government?

Kids are tomorrow's most valuable infrastructure asset. We're just poisoning the water supply.
by myrmidon | 2025-05-14 12:47:18+00:00
Fully agree. Also, using LLMs for things like this can have bad side-effects, too, simply because it raises the noise-floor:

By spelling out things that are not noteworthy enough for a human, you make it more difficult to find comments that are (and were). Injecting a lot of irrelevant information can hamper understanding even if it is technically completely correct.
by bilsbie | 2025-05-14 12:47:54+00:00
I wish cancellation policies were more reasonable or they offered some kind of inexpensive cancellation insurance. It’s hard to always know where you’ll be months in advance.

Also do they let your search by final price now or do they still hide a bunch of fees?

Why even allow fees? Make the owners set a price that includes what they need for cleaning, etc.
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-14 12:47:56+00:00
I just want to comment that the trend where "average" workers pushing 50 are undesirable, is a very scary one. And it should be for everyone.

Any present day 45-year old must assume that they will have to work AT LEAST 20 more years, but most likely 25. This generation will be working well into their 70s.

Statistically, the majority will be average - or "mediocre".

Economically, it is very unsustainable to have a system where only the top 20%-30% of people over 50 will be able to keep their job. You'll end up with a very large number of people that end up on welfare, or unable to spend money like the modern society is designed (less spending, less revenue for companies).
by joshstrange | 2025-05-14 12:48:00+00:00
I’m incredibly disappointed by this news. I really enjoyed Neon but I seriously doubt I’m going to like Databricks’ stewardship if it. And that’s if they even still care about catering to people like me and don’t jack the prices us.

I guess it’s time to go back to the well of managed/serverless Postgres options…
by ck2 | 2025-05-14 12:48:25+00:00
My favorite "lasers at distance" thing will be when amateurs can get a few photons back from the mirrors left on the moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment...

Not quite there yet at the amateur level, private industry soon, but then there is the question of safety to air traffic.

Can you imagine the first moon data link? JWST has 8mbps
by Kiro | 2025-05-14 12:48:28+00:00
The community showcase makes it look all over the place and hard to understand what it is (is it just another engine?). I love the current graphics on the homepage though. I'm also sure it's a good choice for their target audience who probably knows RPG Maker but want to make it 3D, which is in fact nostalgic since they probably grew up with Minecraft etc.
by JeremyNT | 2025-05-14 12:48:47+00:00
The plural of anecdote is not data, but your personal experience definitely aligns with the "vibes."

AI will remove the need for a lot of tech worker cycles. Period. The idea that "some new work" will just show up to fill the void seems ludicrous on the face of it.

There will never be a need for "junior developer" type work, and "senior developer" types will be able to LLMs to generate working software that they can audit / maintain.

There's no new untapped market for "tech labor" that can plausibly emerge. Companies see this future, even if it's not here yet. Even if they aren't doing layoffs yet, they are downsizing through attrition, assuming the robots will replace the lost labor.

I've been in this field for 25 years. I consider myself pretty good at what I do. Although I can ask the robots to do more and more of my job for me to try and stay employed, I know I'll find little joy in that. I'm just hoping I can make it to retirement, or my spouse can support me.

As a society it's not fair to put people in this position where all their expertise and craft becomes worthless, but that is how capitalism works.

The Luddites knew it. Now it is our turn.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-05-14 12:48:47+00:00
> can make or break a team

I don't think Stallman cares about that nearly as much as you do. He already resolved that problem by making his work about collaboration instead of competition. That's really the whole point of free software in the first place.

Of course, that doesn't mean I'm here to encourage idiosyncrasies. My entire point is that you aren't going to win such a person over with an appeal to authority, because that was their point already.
by pizlonator | 2025-05-14 12:48:54+00:00
> The stuff Fil-C adds is on the same footing as `unsafe` code in Rust- its implementation isn't checked, but its surface area is designed so that (if the implementation is correct) the rest of the program can't break it.

It’s not the same.

The Fil-C runtime is the same runtime in every client of Fil-C. It’s a single common trusted compute base and there’s no reason for it to grow.

On the other hand Rust programmers use unsafe all over the place, not just in some core libraries.
by therealcamino | 2025-05-14 12:49:13+00:00
I hope we get more concrete information on this. It's very concerning if verified, especially with the Spain and Portugal blackout being so recent.

Remote bricking has already happened on a small scale through normal internet connectivity: [Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42279010) Installed inverters remotely disabled after a dispute between a contract manufacturer and a client. In the HN discussion from November there are comments from security-conscious and off-grid folks talking about how they protect their systems, and none of that would be effective if there's a hidden channel.
by kotaKat | 2025-05-14 12:49:19+00:00
To be fair, all the credit card preapprovals in the mail help ensure every last American is reached by mail, even if it means by mule train.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/mule-ma...

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatla...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-14 12:49:27+00:00
I am sorry that you're going through this. For what it's worth (not much, I'm afraid), I feel your pain. The difference for me, was that I had saved enough to be able to walk away from the rat race.

It's highly likely that some self-reflection could help, here. I have found it to be useful, but also extremely difficult and humbling (and very much worth it).

It sounds like the main issue, is getting past the "gatekeepers," whether AI, or the classic Clueless HR Droid. As far as your résumé goes, there's no difference.

So the obvious answer, is to figure out how to craft your CV to get past them. This was never something that I mastered, myself. I probably could have done better, if I had put the effort into it. In my case, I often got at least phone screenings. It was after that, that the wheels came off.

Upstate NY is pretty moribund. It is the ruins of an old manufacturing economy. Cheap housing, but there's a reason for that cheap. It sounds like any job would be remote, unless you got something in Albany or Rochester (the only two places up there that really use tech).

I would gently suggest that part of that "self-reflection," is to avoid public online polemics. They are probably not gonna help.

Sincerely, good luck.
iOS app that analyzes link behavior like nutrition label, no cloud, open source
by sigbyte | 2025-05-14 12:49:34+00:00
Hi,

After a relative got phished by a link impersonating their bank, I wanted to create an app to help them ,and others, evaluate the trustworthiness of a link on the fly.

LegitURL is a strict, local-first iOS app that analyzes a link like a browser would, but shows everything clearly and doesn’t try to "fix" anything.

It checks: - Domain structure (e.g. brand impersonation, gibberish, encoding tricks) - TLS certificate (issuer, SANs, expiry) - HTTP headers (HSTS, CSP, redirect behavior) - Cookies and script behavior

It gives a score like a nutrition label ( ) and explicitly shows the final URL if there's a redirect chain.

Everything runs locally, except for HTTPS GET to the links (sandboxed, no cookies, no session data). There’s no cloud, no tracking, no backend.

The app is currently in *TestFlight beta* while waiting for App Store review. It’s free and open source (AGPLv3).

I’d love feedback, especially from folks who know more than me.

GitHub: https://github.com/sigfault-byte/LegitURL TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VESrumtr
by kaibee | 2025-05-14 12:49:56+00:00
> So while you may see this as a valid reason/excuse for yourself not to have kids, it doesn't explain broader fertility declines.

C'mon you have the whole answer right here.

Its a prisoners dilemma. People aren't stupid. For any one individual, it makes sense to wait and defer having kids until they're more economically secure. They know that. So what happens when _everyone_ is under that same incentive structure? Well, some people eventually pull the trigger and just yolo it, if they _really_ wanted kids. They probably aren't as economically secure as they wanted to be, but make the personal sacrifices to do it anyway. But you probably also have a lot of people/couples who are depressed that they didn't reach the position they expected to and depressed people generally don't want to have kids.
by Juliate | 2025-05-14 12:49:56+00:00
(Catholic too here)

1/ there's a huge difference between what happens during a confession, and what happens during a psychotherapy session, as well about what you are to discuss, as well as how you are to understand, and work on your issues. Different worldviews, different outcomes sought, different remediations.

You may explore and find common grounds between the notions of sin and human limitations/wounds/imperfection and psychological suffering, and between absolution/reconciliation and behavioural change, emotional processing, but those are still very specific, different things, that have their own names for good reasons. That's why you may do both: confession + psychotherapy.

Freud was certainly influenced by, because very critical of religion he understood more as an illusion. Saying he copied/replaced it seems a bit far fetched.

2/ People and humanity existed long before the Church instituted these sacraments around the XIIth century. Sharing burdens, seeking guidance, finding closure, penance, identifying, naming and processing emotions is as old as... humanity. Greek philosophical schools and secret cults. Pre-antiquity cults. Eastern meditation traditions.

The Church did not invent it, psychotherapy did not invent it. Both shaped it in specific ways.
by sanderjd | 2025-05-14 12:51:45+00:00
Two points:

1. In rich countries (like the US, where I live), some of the cost of children is subsidized for poor people.

2. Middle class parents are very unlikely to raise their children at the same cost as poor parents. If they can afford better things for their kids, they will. There is enormous social (even moral) pressure on parents to make sacrifices for their kids.

Note that I think both of these things are good things. But the upshot is that, in pure economic terms, the short term cost of kids for society and for parents is high. Long term, they are a great investment, but even this is more true for society at large than for parents directly.

But if parents were only thinking about children in pure economic terms, birth rates would be even lower than they are. There are other really good reasons to have kids. But I think a lot of young people don't see or hear about that, or don't believe parents when they say it.

There was a great article from Cartoons Hate Her[0] where she made the point that one thing you can do to increase the odds your children will want to have children is to "make parenting look fun". The way I would say this is that you want to make sure kids aren't only aware of the not-fun parts (when their parents are mad and frustrated, it's obvious), but also the times when you're really enjoying having them around.

I think this applies at the society level too. Parenting does suck, but it's also awesome. We don't need to lie about the sucky parts, but we should make sure that's not all we're showing young people.

0: https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/how-to-have-grandchildren
by sho | 2025-05-14 12:52:01+00:00
I tried it out at the start of a new project last year. After 3 weeks, I finally threw in the towel and started from scratch in plain phoenix. By day 2 or 3 I'd surpassed what I'd managed to somehow get working, mostly by trial and error, in Ash.

I am 100% on board with the vision, but the learning curve is absolutely brutal, and at least at the time the documentation was simply not anywhere close to where it needed to be. Something this different needs a truly giant "cookbook" to show, you know, how to use the damn thing. That was lacking and there was nothing to learn from online besides the most basic toy applications. Also, it was, at least at the time, slow as hell. All those damn macros.

Plus - elixir is already niche. Ash is a niche within a niche. I need to be able to hire people who can get up to speed in days, not weeks or months. There's a chicken and egg problem with something this ambitious - no-one uses it because no-one uses it. I hope it breaks out of this dilemma but professionally I can't bet the company that it does.

As I said I really like the idea. Anyone who has maintained an OpenAPI app will jump for joy with documentation and tests moving automatically and in lockstep with the core domain logic. But for me, at the time, it was too early, too risky and too obscure. I do wish it well though - I love these kind of moonshots and I look forward to trying it again as soon as I can.
by anonymous_54321 | 2025-05-14 12:52:02+00:00
Designing cities for families with young children is expensive. I skimmed the articles and did not see any notable coverage of:

* Bedrooms, bedrooms, bedrooms! Families with 2-3 children need 3-4 bedrooms. I estimate over 90% of the housing stock is < 3 bedrooms in my nearby city of over 500,000 people.

* Noise insulation. Babies cry a lot. Being neighbors of a family with a new baby will degrade your sleep quality. Thick walls with noise-cancelling features greatly help.

I'd love to see data on a city that has such housing stock available for families not in the top 10% of income, where crime is not 50% higher than its suburbs.
by pizlonator | 2025-05-14 12:52:22+00:00
> Surely Fil-C cannot provide direct access to syscalls without violating the safety guarantee. There must be something ensuring that what the kernel interprets as a pointer is actually a valid pointer.

This is exactly what Fil-C does.

> all the known disadvantages of C and C++

The main disadvantage of C and C++ is unsafety and fil-C comprehensively fixes that.

> edit: I feel bad writing such a dismissive comment, but it's hard to avoid reacting that way when I see unrealistically rosy portrayals of projects.

How is my portrayal unrealistically rosy?

Even the fact that you know what the current perf costs are is the result of me being brutally honest about its perf.

I suspect something else is going on.
by asdxrfx | 2025-05-14 12:52:23+00:00
Thank you, Rajiv. I appreciate you taking the time to share that perspective.

You're absolutely right: the language should reflect how our users think and talk, not just how the standards are formally defined. It's valuable to hear this from someone with real experience in the space. I'll definitely keep that framing in mind as we refine both our product and messaging.

Besides that, based on your experience, I wanted to ask for advice. We launched Lumoar 10 days ago and have already onboarded 50+ active users. Given this early traction, do you think it's worth starting investor conversations now, or should we focus more on deepening product-market fit before going down that path?

Would really value your thoughts on how you'd approach this phase based on your experience.
by wsc981 | 2025-05-14 12:52:34+00:00
I've also had a bad experience with Wise.

They temporarily blocked a transfer to my personal account, a small amount of money from my sister for my daughter's birthday.

They were asking who this person was that this money was being sent to. And what the reason was for this money being sent to my account.

Eventually they released the money, but it makes Wise feel unsafe. Why make me jump through hoops for an insignificant amount of money?
by viraptor | 2025-05-14 12:52:43+00:00
It's also a big difference in your environment. A desktop with spare power, decoding a video from an untrusted source? You probably want the safe version.

A farm of isolated machines doing batch transcoding jobs? Give me every single % improvement you can. They can get completely owned and still won't be able to access anything useful or even reach out to the network. A crash/violation will be registered and a new batch will get a clean slate anyway.
by billy99k | 2025-05-14 12:53:56+00:00
I think everyone should be getting at least familiar with chatGPT/AI, because it's here to stay.

However,

"Ms. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor’s slide presentations and discovered other telltale signs of A.I.: distorted text, photos of office workers with extraneous body parts and egregious misspellings."

This is just lazy. It sounds like the professor put no effort into the lesson and just pasted the output directly to slides. I would complain too.
by creakingstairs | 2025-05-14 12:53:59+00:00
I guess I'll give it another try. I quite liked the idea behind it but last time I tried, I gave up mid way. Because everything was a macro, there was no auto-complete and that coupled with sparse documentation with buggy website (at the time, looks like its completely different now) was too frustrating.

I also wonder how well this would work with upcoming type system.
by delfinom | 2025-05-14 12:54:15+00:00
Insurance doesn't mean you are not responsible my dude, way to completely misunderstand insurance.

Insurance just covers financial damage, and it's the insurer making a bet with you that they will profit off the premiums they calculated for your particular coverage instead of you causing an insurance payout that would be in the red for them.

And if you intentionally committed an act that would cause a payout, the insurance would almost certainly void your coverage and claim.
by koonsolo | 2025-05-14 12:54:21+00:00
Blender is great, I also use it. It's a nice example on how a non-developer tool is successful with open source.

There are/were plenty of open source RPG makers, but they never gained any real traction.

I considered open sourcing my product in the past (did so with a previous game), so maybe one day. I still have some big things planned :).
by kitten_mittens_ | 2025-05-14 12:54:27+00:00
On the northern edge of Jamaica Plain (east of Brookline in Boston proper), there's a pretty stark example of Brookline's accumulated advantages. On the Boston side of the pond that separates the two, there's Jamaica Way. It's a four lane road with few pedestrian crossings, and drivers regularly going way over the 25mph speed limit. The multi family housing on the Boston side is significantly cheaper and denser as well. It too has a trolley (the E branch of the Green Line), but unlike the Brookline side, the trolley on the Boston side isn't grade separated, so it's quite slow. It also typically runs older rolling stock.
by rayiner | 2025-05-14 12:55:14+00:00
Median income for a family in Brookline: $122,000. Median home price: $1.19 million. Judging by the homogenous demographics, almost no refugees or recent immigrants other than perhaps high-skilled Boston tech and education sector workers.

It’s easy to create a city that works for families as long as you use economic redlining to exclude everyone who suffers from the social problems that affect every major U.S. city.