MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-05-10 19:39:39+00:00
With respect, I think you should probably re-examine the meaning of the words you use here. You use words in a way that doesn't meet their established definition.

It would meet objective definition if you replaced 'capitalist' with 'socialist', which may have been what you meant, but that's merely an observation I make, not what you actually say.

The entire paragraph is quite contradictory, and lacks truth, and by extension it is entirely unclear what you mean, and it appears like you are confused when you use words and make statements that can't meet their definition.

You may want to clarify what you mean.

In order for it to be 'capitalist' true to its definition, you need to be able to achieve profit with it in purchasing power, but the outcomes of the entire business lifecycle resulting from this, taken as a whole, instead destroy that ability for everyone.

The companies involved didn't start on their merits seeking profit, they were funded by non-reserve debt issuance or money-printing which is the state picking winners and losers.

If they were capitalist they wouldn't have released model weights to the public. The only reason you would free a resource like that is if your goal was something not profit-driven (i.e. contagion towards chaos to justify control or succinctly totalism).
by spicymaki | 2025-05-10 19:39:40+00:00
You are incorrect.

ADHD is not caused by isolation or addictive tech. ADHD is passed down genetically and is caused by a difference dopamine regulation. People with ADHD have low baseline dopamine (A neurotransmitter that plays a role in reward, motivation, mood, etc.), that is why they hyper focus when they are in the zone. The brain is starved for dopamine and when there is spike in dopamine it causes an intense reaction.

ADHD may have been useful preindustrial societies, but today it is maladaptive.

Excessive use of addictive tech can mimic ADHD symptoms, but is not the same. People with ADHD are adversely affected by addictive tech.

The symptoms mimic “bad behavior” so some skeptics think you can just beat it out of them or yell at them to just stop. That might mitigate the problem for very short time (perhaps due to a short dopamine rush), but they fall back into a low dopamine state afterwards.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-10 19:39:57+00:00
> Why pay for ten salaries—or even one intermediary—when a client could learn to command the agents directly?

Because if it takes one full-time person to coordinate the agents, and those agents together perform a function that the client wants to support some other endeavor, in order to replace the agent coordinator, they would have to abandon the other things they do for the endeavor for which they are hiring the firm supplying the agents.

If the client was literally completely passive and had no other role in their task than hiring the firm for something that wasn't part of a larger effort thet were actively engaged in, then, sure, they would have nothing relevant to the task to sacrifice by being the agent coordinator, they'd just need to spend the time learning to be an agent coordinator, and then actually become an active full-time participant rather than completely passive -- but presumably they were passive because that's exactly the level of engagement they were willing to put in, or, at least, because they found that being more active in the task had some associated disutility.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-10 19:41:34+00:00
Censorship is good sometimes. It's how you reduce harm from an LLM. The LLM chatbot that convinced a teenager to kill himself should've had censorship built in, among many other things.

AI autocorrect doesn't want you to type "fuck" or "cunt" and will suggest all manner of similar sounding words, and there's a reason for that. People want censorship, because they want their computers to be decent.

That said, the 4chan LLM was pretty funny for a while if you ignore the blatant -isms, but I can't think of a legitimate use case for it beyond shitposting.
by malux85 | 2025-05-10 19:41:40+00:00
When I was a teenager at high school I used to compare everyone else to myself a lot (I think everyone does since it’s part of building your identity)

I remember thinking “ok there’s a future doctor, and there’s a great manager of some sort”

But I never really grokked that everyone from those classes is now in society somewhere. Remember that idiot sitting there chewing the wood on his desk? He probably has a job now - what on earth is he doing?!
by johnnyjeans | 2025-05-10 19:41:40+00:00
> Odin isn't a C++ alternative by any stretch

Perhaps not modern C++, but I would absolutely place it in the same weightclass as CFront and C++98 (albeit with less bugs and more ergonomics than those). I know you've placed the language adjacent to gamedev, so an appropriate metaphor, I feel like Odin is up to the task of making something with the complexity of a Goldsrc game, or a Dreamcast game. I feel like I could churn out half a million lines of high density soft real-time code quite happily.

Excited to see how it evolves through the years. Keep up the good work!
by throwanem | 2025-05-10 19:42:31+00:00
Oh, I see, I wasn't clear. I meant specifically a policy underwriter, as opposed to something like GMAC of old. I've updated my original comment with the necessary adjective.

Looking over GMAC's history via Wikipedia, I find they did underwrite insurance for a time and that no other US insurance company originated within an automaker. That suggests to me Tesla's operating model here is indeed about as unusual in context as I originally - well, intuited, I suppose. I think that's interesting.
by Scotrix | 2025-05-10 19:43:13+00:00
Couldn’t agree more, played the whole day today trying to get a HTTP MCP server with Claude running.

Absolutely terrible, no clear spec, absolute useless errors and/or just broken behaviour without telling what’s wrong. Reference implementations and frameworks are not working either, so only reverse engineering + trial & error until it runs, yaaay.

Feels like the early 2000 over and over again, trying to make something work.
by dend | 2025-05-10 19:43:35+00:00
Just to add one piece of clarification - the comment around authorization is a bit out-of-date. We've worked closely with Anthropic and the broader security community to update that part of MCP and implement a proper separation between resource server (RS) and authorization server (AS) when it comes to roles. You can see this spec in draft[1] (it will be there until a new protocol version is ratified).

[1]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/au...
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-10 19:43:49+00:00
> How do you imagine they would respond to your suggestion they abandon their responsibility to their children to find a more mentally stimulating job?

Did I say that? Also, there's a career ladder at McDonalds open for all their employees. Apart from this, the skills you learn at McDonalds is transferable to other occupations in the same sector or other sectors. I should know, I worked those kind of jobs, much worse than McDonalds. So it's quite easy for me to imagine what that's like.

I'm not going to entertain the idea that somebody is locked into their current occupation for life, unless they are a literal slave. My suggestions and advice has no benefit for people who are enslaved, but does that mean that the ideas cannot be discussed at all? Does your comment have any benefit for somebody in that situation? Maybe we should never discuss exercise and health because some people have medical conditions? We shouldn't discuss diet and cooking because some people have allergies, and so on.

Most of us need to work to survive, so let's make the best of it. I also need to sleep to survive, and I do my best to enjoy it. The same with eating etc.

The replies to my initial comment demonstrates the spiritual divide. Just by me stating that i love working, people here get the wildest assumptions into their head, because they cannot imagine anybody enjoying work by and for itself.
by nguyenanhung | 2025-05-10 19:44:12+00:00
D.M ADS is a fork of WireHole, which is a combination of WireGuard, PiHole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create and deploy a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities (via Pihole), and DNS caching with additional privacy options.
by erxam | 2025-05-10 19:45:03+00:00
Is it really?

I think any potential competitors face many of the same pitfalls as, say, Chrome competitors do. Maybe even worse. Google slams its weight around when web standards are being designed so as to unilaterally benefit Chrome, but (at least in theory) it's a fundamentally cooperative process where everyone at least gets some sort of input to direct where each standard goes.

In GMail's case, they can just arbitrarily shut off any competitor who might be gaining steam and kill them off before they can reach critical mass and sustain themselves. Just categorize them as 'spam' and make sure to redirect their emails 100% of the time and they've won.

EDIT: just saw your edit. You're kinda right, but if Fastmail ever really starts growing then Google will take harsher actions to stymie it off. Maybe if a lot of small services start to collectively take a bigger slice of the market then they'd succeed at keeping Google at bay? I'm not so sure.
by dang | 2025-05-10 19:45:06+00:00
Related. Others?

Understanding the Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42348655 - Dec 2024 (97 comments)

Moving my game project from C to the Odin language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42030704 - Nov 2024 (19 comments)

Golang developers should try Odin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41969839 - Oct 2024 (7 comments)

Marketing the Odin programming language is weird - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41913319 - Oct 2024 (101 comments)

Odin isn't getting more features. The syntax is done - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40873431 - July 2024 (3 comments)

Introduction to the Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688899 - June 2024 (60 comments)

Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38836512 - Jan 2024 (102 comments)

Small joys of programming in Odin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36812175 - July 2023 (61 comments)

A Review of the Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799499 - Sept 2022 (140 comments)

I like Odin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626543 - Aug 2022 (204 comments)

Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394000 - Feb 2022 (42 comments)

The Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22199942 - Jan 2020 (141 comments)

The Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075638 - June 2019 (3 comments)
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-05-10 19:45:10+00:00
I remember that when the release versions about 10 years came on the market, but I have not heard those claims in quite a while from any credible sources.

I am certainly not authoritative. My vague recollection is that offset crashes Tesla didn't do quite as well at, so since then Tesla's ironclad safety rating has since waned
by Geee | 2025-05-10 19:45:21+00:00
This whole idea doesn't make any sense. Someone with a world ID could still be running AI agents on their behalf with their private key, or use stolen / bought keys from other people. On the other hand, Sam Altman could be running millions of fake personas, because they can generate keys from thin air. Also, Sam Altman would have the power to invalidate your keys, or the keys of people he doesn't like. It would be an absolute catastrophe if this system was used for voting or something important.
by tom_m | 2025-05-10 19:45:58+00:00
You can have Copilot use Claude now but I'm not sure it's the default. I found the latest Gemini Pro 2.5 to be much better than Claude Sonnet anyway...but yes, these are all more or less the same at this point.

One thing people don't realize is there's also randomness in the answers. Also, some of the editors allow you to tweak temperature and others do not. This is why I found Roo Code extension to be better.
by j45 | 2025-05-10 19:46:00+00:00
Where the experts are the ones who's incomes would be threatened, there is likely some merit in what they're saying, but also some digital literacy skills.

I don't know that AI "advisory" chatbots can replace humans.

Could they help an individual organize their thoughts for more productive time with professionals? Probably.

Could such tech help individuals learn about different terminology, their usage and how to think about it? Probably.

Could there be .. a net results of spending fewer hours (and cost if the case) for the same progress? And be able to make it further with advice into improvement?

Maybe the baseline of advisory expertise in any field exists more around the beginner stage than not.
by keithwhor | 2025-05-10 19:46:28+00:00
On MCP's Streamable HTTP launch I posted a issue asking if we should just simplify everything for remote MCP servers to just be HTTP requests.

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

MCP as a spec is really promising; a universal way to connect LLMs to tools. But in practice you hit a lot of edge cases really quickly. To name a few; auth, streaming of tool responses, custom instructions per tool, verifying tool authenticity (is the server I'm using trustworthy?). It's still not entirely clear (*for remote servers*) to me what you can do with MCP that you can't do with just a REST API, the latter being a much more straightforward integration path.

If other vendors do adopt MCP (OpenAI and Gemini have promised to) the problem they're going to run into very quickly is that they want to do things (provide UI elements, interaction layers) that go beyond the MCP spec. And a huge amount of MCP server integrations will just be lackluster at best; perhaps I'm wrong -- but if I'm { OpenAI, Anthropic, Google } I don't want a consumer installing Bob's Homegrown Stripe Integration from a link they found on 10 Best MCP Integrations, sharing their secret key, and getting (A) a broken experience that doesn't match the brand or worse yet, (B) credentials stolen.
by tgma | 2025-05-10 19:47:07+00:00
You can disable stories. The UX still is shit. Again, death by a thousand cuts. As for Indonesia or whatever, I am sure people Stories increases engagement that boosts Signal executives morale thinking they are more relevant and can stick it to Zuck. I just don’t want it in a serious messaging app that hopes to be used in place of iMessage or Google Messages and since we are debating opinions, I take Apple’s judgement on design over aggregate clicks from Indonesians.
by homeonthemtn | 2025-05-10 19:48:19+00:00
Funny that the rise of ADHD runs parallel to the advent of the Internet, and only evidently striking Americans.

Perhaps what you're describing is one form of it, and if so, we should develop a better naming convention to get rid of the ambiguity. Or go the cop-out approach and say it's a "spectrum" so you're never truly wrong, and never truly accurate.
by bitwize | 2025-05-10 19:48:48+00:00
I've been asked unpleasant questions about working into the night, and I've seen working outside regular hours listed as a red flag on "how to detect employee fraud" guides. So however bizarre you may think it is, it's real, and companies are well within their rights to behave this way. Remember, in the USA your employer has the right to fire you for any reason except the ones specifically enumerated in the Civil Rights Act, or if it violates your employment contract.

Most people working in "tech" are implementing business functions and processes, and are answerable to people on the business side of things. Academic R&D is a whole different animal.
by badlucklottery | 2025-05-10 19:48:57+00:00
> then why on earth is the Tesla stock not going down?

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

TSLA's value has never been correlated to the fundamentals of the business. So it continuing to do so isn't super surprising.

As long as there's a steady supply of unsavvy investors/future bag-holders willing to buy, it'll keep climbing.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-10 19:49:08+00:00
I think you should strive for definitive proof and also acknowledge that you will probably never get there.

To be honest, the title did seem click baity leading to one to assume there was a possible misreading of the era. But I think this should be unflagged because as foldr points out downthread [0], the family wanted the passages removed not some editors generations later?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945450
by kstrauser | 2025-05-10 19:51:07+00:00
That’s mostly true, but not quite. For instance, suppose you aim to support all of 32/64-bit and little/big-endian. You’ll likely end up factoring straightforward math operations out into standalone functions. Granted, those will probably get inlined, but it may mean your structure is more abstracted than it would be otherwise. Just supporting the options has implications.

That’s not the strongest example. I just meant it to be illustrative of the idea.
by bgnn | 2025-05-10 19:53:04+00:00
Wealth providing freedom is not an objective fact. It depends on your philosophical standpoint. I know a lot of people who would rather live cheap and small and be creative (as in arts). What you describe is for them wasting your potential to create. In certain cultures a stable job (like being government employee) is the ultimate freedom because you know how will you live, even in your retirement, no matter what. Some cultures like Japan and Korea extended this to private sector. But at the end, is it really freedom what people seek, or is it stability and safety for future? This is why people gave away their freedom in transition to feudalism in history. At the end if the day, how free are you if you are from one economic downturn or one costly disease away from losing it all?
by phreno | 2025-05-10 19:53:24+00:00
I look forward to your fascinating work on phrenology next.

It’s always amazing such smurt people like you always seem to forget your own statistical irrelevance.

“Oh no the sound forms don’t come out just right.” What a giant foot going to squish us? Minus the anxiety of being smiting you’re projecting some bizarre obligation to your lived experience.

Why don’t you say things in the old Latin language? Yeah that’s right we move on from written and spoken traditions, just need to properly apply physical statistics to the real engineering. The stupid babble is in a YT video is far removed from actually building a bridge or another context where the physics matters more than the Anglicanized circumlocution.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-10 19:53:34+00:00
Any security feature that can be totally defeated with a spicy HDMI splitter and a 2nd computer should not exist.

This stuff looks much more to me like "fuck the user" than anything else. I am 100% convinced there is a cult of evil bastards at Microsoft, et. al. that is hellbent on making everyone's UI/UX as janky as possible.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-05-10 19:54:11+00:00
> What an unnecessarily snark and dismissive comment to make about someone's work.

The snark was intended, however any dismissiveness concerning Ginger Bill's effort was not. However, when you make a decision like "Odin will never have a package manager", you may be choosing to condemn your project to niche status, in this day and age. Now, niche status is fine, but it definitionally comes with a limited audience. Like "this game will only ever be a text based roguelike."
by phendrenad2 | 2025-05-10 19:54:16+00:00
Damn, you could have cribbed this list from my own notes on various business/startup books over the years.

I like the idea that business books have an emotional appeal. I think it comes from buying the book itself. The more famous a book is, the more people will feel good about reading it, no matter how little it practically benefits them. I think there's a related psychological effect where luxury items sometimes sell more when their price increases.

I think that most business books hyperfocus on one or a few simplified "rules" (hell, Ray Dalio's book is literally called "Principles") and ignore any messy complications or cofactors. If you really want a laugh, read Smart's "Topgrading" which spends an entire half a book telling you that later chapters are going to really improve your hiring process, and the second half of the book repeating some simple rules without bothering to defend them against obvious objections. "Punished by Rewards" makes a simple case and then burns through the remainder of the pages dissing Skinner. "Built to Last" is a collection of anecdotes about business that make bold and authoritative statements that are still up for debate (such as where exactly Hewlett Packard went wrong). "Blitzscaling" hangs its entire thesis on the success of the Sambear brothers, which seems ridiculous to me.
by Teever | 2025-05-10 19:54:19+00:00
Some of the mitigation techniques aren't feasible for the employees to implement, and some employers would actively stop the employees from implementing them without pressure from sufficiently empowered regulatory bodies to force the employers to implement them.

I'll give you an example. I used to have a job that involved cutting concrete pipes with a saw. The employer provided an N95 mask that kind of worked but didn't really provide proper proper protection. The saw I used had a water hookup that would allow you to connect a water tank to it which would have completely eliminated the dust from forming as the pipe was being cut.

I'm assuming that the law mandated the provision of masks but it did not mandate the use of water when cutting the concrete. As a result the ineffective mask solution was provided by the employer while the effective solution was not.

It would not have been practical for me as an employee to self source a water tank and a water source. Hell this employer couldn't even provide the workers with fresh drinking water all the time, despite the job being the literally installation of water pipes.
by mrandish | 2025-05-10 19:54:34+00:00
Yep, in 2014 Intel's Haswell architecture was a banger. It was one of those occasional node+design intersections which yields a CPU with an unusually long useful lifespan due to a combination of Haswell being stronger than a typical gen and the many generations that followed being decidedly 'meh'. In fact, I still run a Haswell i5 in a well-optimized, slightly overclocked retro gaming system (with a more modern SSD and GFX card).

About a year ago I looked into what practical benefits I'd gain if I upgraded the CPU and mobo to a more recent (but still used) spec from eBay. Using it mainly for retro game emulation and virtual pinball, I assessed single core performance and no CPU/mobo upgrade looked potentially compelling in real-world performance until at least 2020-ish - which is pretty crazy. Even then, one of the primary benefits would be access to NVME drives. It reminded me how much Intel under-performed and, more broadly, how the end of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling combined around roughly 2010-ish to end the 30+ year 'Golden Era' of scaling that gave us computers which often roughly doubled performance across a broad range of applications which you could feel in everyday use - AND at >30% lower price - every three years or so.

Nowadays 8% to 15% performance uplift across mainstream applications at the same price is considered good and people are delighted if the performance is >15% OR if the price for the same performance drops >15%. If a generation delivers both >15% performance AND >15% lower price it would be stop-the-presses newsworthy. Kind of sad how our far our expectations have fallen compared to 1995-2005 when >30% perf at <30% price was considered baseline and >50% at <50% price was good and ~double perf at around half price was "great deal, time to upgrade again boys!".