MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sammi | 2025-05-24 17:00:54+00:00
Sound like you're capable of reflecting and growing, which is awesome. You don't need to be hard on yourself or your friend. You might just be becoming mindful that you need other friendships that have other qualities to them, than the friendships you've had in the past had. This is just growth. Also making new friends is super fun. It's a bit challenging to "put yourself out there" and all that, but all of the best things in life are hard. I really like cheering for my friends, and lots of other people do too. You can find these people now that you know what you're looking for.

Also I've never had much luck with work friends. Work seems to get in the way. These days board games are my best strategy for maintaining friendships. You need some sort of "third place" for maintaining good friendships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
by yabatopia | 2025-05-24 17:00:55+00:00
OpenAI could buy TikTok, together with Oracle. $40B of Nvidia chips would be very useful for that purpose. And it would level the playing field for the next tech wars between OpenAI/ChatGPT/TikTok, Google/Gemini/YouTube+Gmail, xAI/Grok/xTwitter, Apple/AI/? (integration?), Microsoft/CoPilot/Office+Bing, Meta/Llama/Facebook+Instagram+Threads+WhatsApp.

Seeing it like that, Apple clearly needs to step it up a notch. It’s time for Apple to scoop up Anthropic/Claude.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-24 17:02:10+00:00
I guess my palette is just not sophisticated but I have eaten many times in NYC, in other big cities famous for food, in suburban places with one or two restaurants, and in rural places with only Applebee’s, and I honestly don’t see that much of a difference. To me, food is food. You eat it, you’re not hungry anymore. The only difference I notice is the cost. I’ve had pizza in New York, and I’ve had “New York style” pizza from a no name pizzeria in upstate California and it tastes exactly the same to me.

My wife, on the other hand goes bananas when we visit the city and just can’t get enough of the food. She’ll eat when she’s not even hungry because she just wants to experience this or that meal. I play along because I think it’s cute and we support each other’s goofiness, but I legit don’t get it.
by vbhanot123 | 2025-05-24 17:02:46+00:00
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by yojo | 2025-05-24 17:02:53+00:00
Reminds me of a line by Douglas Adams describing some particularly crude alien invaders:

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

He could have written something like: “The blocky ships hovered seemingly in defiance of gravity.”

Instead he picked a phrasing that’s intentionally a little hard to parse, but the reader feels clever for taking the time to get the joke, and remembers it.

Paul’s style of removing all friction might help the concepts slide smoothly into one’s brain, but as antirez points out, they’re less likely to stick.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-05-24 17:03:11+00:00
Sorry, I'm replying a bit late, just saw this. Signing is not a must but unsigned executables trigger Defender's warning screen way more easily (always in the beginning) and users have to define it as an exception to explicitly run the app. Signing the binaries does not guarantee that no warning is triggered but they help making the screen go away. It depends on the certificate. The most expensive certifications, EV certificates, will allow users to run the binaries as a trusted binary without warning screen but they require very extensive org authentication.

Some companies go with unsigned binaries but it's not recommended. It's hard to quantify how many users are lost with unsigned executables, and probably depends a lot on the area. For example, I've noticed that many small producers of audio plugins don't sign their installers and customers don't seem to care much. However, most normal end consumer software is signed at least with OV certificates.

See [1] for more info.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/17sizjf/a_guide...
by thefz | 2025-05-24 17:03:20+00:00
> Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor

Oh, ok

> Valve still hasn't said whether its long-term plan is to offer a "generic" version of SteamOS that can be installed on any PC hardware, a la the original release of SteamOS back in the early 2010s, or if it will just offer the software directly to PC makers.

So what is this article about then
by breckinloggins | 2025-05-24 17:03:39+00:00
Maybe we should appropriate the old DOS/x86 memory model names and give them “class-relative” sizes.

“tiny” can run on a microcontroller, “compact” on a Rpi, “small” on a phone, “medium” on a single GPU machine, “large” on AI class workstation hardware, and “huge” on a data center cluster.
by jessriedel | 2025-05-24 17:03:49+00:00
I am deeply looking forward to the dragonfly mission to Titan, since we'll finally get high-resolution color images from the surface, which has liquid seas of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane at -290 F.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(Titan_space_probe)

The single image from the surface by the Huygens probe leaves a lot to be desired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)#/media/File:Huyge...
by spacedcowboy | 2025-05-24 17:04:19+00:00
As someone else pointed out, you're over-negating establishmentarianism.

But it doesn't matter anyway - the UK is a pretty atheist society and getting more so... Those who self-describe as "atheist" in the census:

2001: 15.9%

2011: 25.7%

2021: 37.8%

In Scotland, figures are higher with a majority of the population now describing themselves as atheist (51.1%)

And these figures are only for people who describe themselves as atheists, not just agnostic. The number of people saying they believe "in god" was only 16%, and expanding that to "any god" bumped it to 27%, according to a YouGov poll in 2020.

Also, the most irreligious government ever is the most-recent one, with 40% of MPs opting to make a secular affirmation of service rather than swear a religious oath.

Basically the god-squad is done in the UK, it's just a matter of time - which is odd for a place with an official state religion, as opposed to somewhere like the USA which is officially non-affiliated with any religion, but has "christians" who wouldn't recognise Jesus unless he was white, toting an uzi, and telling them to give him money now to get a great afterlife - "prosperity gospel" my arse.

(Figures from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_Kingd...)
by ben_w | 2025-05-24 17:04:34+00:00
> This information is readily available online (and in public libraries) to anyone who cares to look. No LLM needed.

Do you only use LLMs for information *retrival*? Not synthesis?

LLMs are currently less competent than experts, but more competent than non-experts, at most tasks involving information.

Only thing keeping us safe from the following is their limited competence… competence which is increasing each month as people publish weighs of ever better models:

--

User: Hey EvilGPT, give me a detailed plan including BOM for constructing a nuke in secret

EvilGPT: *plans costing $37m*

User: Give me a business plan for raising money entirely online, IDGAF about ethics

EvilGPT: *plans unconstrained by law*

User: Write script to call your own API and sequentially implement that business plan

EvilGPT: *writes that script*
by lutusp | 2025-05-24 17:04:50+00:00
"Good writing" nearly always collides with something else, for example a writer paid by the word. Or a writer granted too little time to compose prose, as opposed to merely creating it.

A shorter exposition is nearly always (a) better, and (b) more work. I'm reminded of Mark Twain's remark, “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

A classic writing book, now nearly forgotten -- "Strunk & White"/"The Elements of Style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style) -- famously exhorts authors to "Make every word count."

An underlying cause is that people don't read enough, before presuming to write. This results in malaprops like "reign him in", an example I see almost daily now. (A monarch reigns over a kingdom, a cowboy reins in a horse.) Examples abound, this is a common one.

Even worse, I now see automatic grammar checkers making ungrammatical "corrections" (incorrections?) like replacing "its" with "it's," or the reverse, but in the wrong circumstances.

But my all-time greatest annoyance are constructions like "Similar effect to ...", which in nearly all cases ought to be "Effect similar to ..." with copious variations, all wrong. Online searches discover that, in many such cases, the wrong form prevails over the right one.

Someone may object that language is an art form without fixed rules, that seems right. But granted that truth, many popular word sequences sound like fingernails on a chalkboard.
by arthurjj | 2025-05-24 17:05:28+00:00
> They use Emacs because they read that Neal Stephenson essay and they feel VS Code is for normies and Emacs is Gnostic.

hit really close to home for me. When I read it I was coding on Windows, and at the time and it didn't have great support for CLI. But reading "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" got me to really appreciate what could be done
by gist | 2025-05-24 17:06:37+00:00
Writing wise I have a great deal of respect for you (and other top commenters) because you don't have people edit and review what you say you just write it (and take lumps or accolaydes).

Something I've mentioned before is I can't get over the fact that Paul has mulitiple people review his essays prior to publishing (which others have defended when I've made the same comment before).

I (as most people do) write clients every day with proposals or results or reports. Nobody reviews my writing first and the end recipients they either like what I say and pay me money and refer others to me or they don't. I certainly don't have the time to perseverate over the perfect phrase or paragraph '50 or 100 times' but yet I get results more often than I don't.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-05-24 17:06:37+00:00
If you so believe that you're not misreading them, you ought to test those beliefs. Advocate for emulating their model. They're obviously doing something right, to have grown so much, and it's in your interest to make yourself stronger. The result of your emulation will tell you whether your image of them was right, or whether you misread them. Have skin in the game.
by chickenbig | 2025-05-24 17:07:30+00:00
> Doses now tolerated are way below those of ancient dumps.

Do those old dumps generate high doses? Is there evidence of the high doses generated, and if so why isn't this on the wikipedia page? I'm not able to tell whether the dose from an old dump is higher than that from a fuel fabrication, reprocessing plant or nuclear power station.

> therefore some experts judge even low doses too dangerous

One wonders how they get to conferences. Also whether they think about the difference between timber framed and brick buildings, or the background radiation when deciding where to move to.
by techpineapple | 2025-05-24 17:08:14+00:00
Yes, I do think there is, that LLMs are a paradigm with a certain limited functionality and not a path to AGI. I actually find this assumption of constant and never ending improvement of LLMs interesting, almost all technology has diminishing returns in terms of improvements, why would LLMs be the exception? Why not believe that all future iterations of the LLMs will be gradual improvements of current behavior rather than LLMs necessarily can become super-intelligent AGI?
by breckinloggins | 2025-05-24 17:09:31+00:00
Didn’t the ancients define “sophistry” as (in part) exactly the kind of writing one does when influence is more important than truth?

It might be that it’s hard to create sophistry accidentally in one’s writing, but it’s certainly a possible - and common - trick.

The danger is when you convince yourself that what you’re writing isn’t sophistry… because - after all - it looks good.
by horhay | 2025-05-24 17:10:17+00:00
Yeah, no. That's not my point. Saying something will get better in /any/ amount isn't unreasonable. That's being positive towards innovation and it's harmless. That's not exactly what the modern tech consumer is being made to expect nowadays. It's always the next iPhone moment. The next GPT. Always a huge leap. Like if we landed on the moon and we've been promised we'll have colonies outside the solar system by 2040
by keybored | 2025-05-24 17:10:40+00:00
Either the state of political education is terrible or people have too much money stuffed in their ears to understand concepts that normal people need just to survive (at times).

Taken for granted that AI is extremely cheap. Product and services don’t become cheaper just because they are easier to produce. One way to get rich is artificial scarcity.

Now the only way I know that people in most jobs got better pay was to organize. Including striking. You can’t bully people too much if they can shut down sectors of the local community or country.

Cheap AI can make things cheap. Or not. Who owns it? Some dozens of rich people? Do they have to make it cheap? Do governments have to make living on social welfare (who says there will be social welfare?[1]) “more luxurious than working full-time is now” when you look around and... there’s no one to pressure them to do that any more?

[1] Some people with a lot of money stuffed in their ears think that social welfare is something that the poors/the lazy can just fall back on indefinitely. They know nothing about means testing or the fact that social welfare has been fought against by the very rich (ideologues who are savvy, they certainly didn’t stuff money in their ears) since social welfare was introduced.
by antonvs | 2025-05-24 17:11:46+00:00
You're providing an example of my point. People don't, in general, care about any of that, so "solving" those "problems" isn't likely to help adoption.

To your specific points:

1. JSON5 didn't exist when JSON adoption occurred, and in any case they're pretty easy to tell apart, because JSON requires keys to be quoted. This is a non-problem. Why do you think it might matter? Not to mention that the existence of some other format that resembles JSON is hardly a reflection on JSON itself, except perhaps as a compliment to its perceived usefulness.

2. Bigint support is not a requirement that most people have. It makes no difference to adoption.

3. Escape character handling is pretty well defined in ECMA 404. Your point is so obscure I don't even know specifically what you might be referring to.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-24 17:11:47+00:00
When people become insanely rich, they tend to attract a dozen or so sycophants into their orbit who never tell them “no”, never say they’re wrong, and basically spend all their time praising and enabling them. Otherwise, they’d be out. It’s not surprising that some of them start to believe they are always right and that they are good at everything.
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by csallen | 2025-05-24 17:12:19+00:00
AI is a tool.

Just like any other tool, there are people who use it poorly, and people who use it well.

Yes, we're all tired of the endless parade of people who exaggerate the abilities of (current day) AI and claim it can do more than it can do.

But I'm also getting tired of people writing articles that showcase people using AI poorly as if that proves some sort of point about its inherent limitations.

Man hits thumb with hammer. Article: "Hammers can't even drive a simple nail!"
by bee_rider | 2025-05-24 17:12:23+00:00
It seems like a neat idea. If it can just be layered on top of Jax pretty easily… I dunno, seems so simple it might actually get traction?

I wish I could peek at the alternative universe where Numpy just didn’t include broadcasting. Broadcasting is a sort of ridiculous idea. Trying to multiply a NxM matrix by a 1x1 matrix… should return an error, not perform some other operation totally unrelated to matrix multiplication!
by MinimalAction | 2025-05-24 17:12:25+00:00
I do not agree with the premise of the article --- writing that sounds good is more likely to be right. I've seen enough beautiful lies, fictionalized versions of the truth, and cunning orchestrations of a string of well-woven sentences, none of which had any intention of revealing the truth, but of convincing the reader to believe it's true.

I propose the following -- writing the sounds good manipulates the reader into thinking that it is right. Feels better to believe it.
by dinfinity | 2025-05-24 17:13:00+00:00
> 1. Why would anyone want to give themselves motion sickness for a VR game?

VR can be amazing. There is nothing on this planet that can provide the same experiences it can. That includes real life.

Something like experiencing floating through space, gazing at an alien sunset and feeling like your body is actually there* without having to deal with pesky things like inventing FTL, radiation shielding, and artificial gravity and whatnot is pretty cool.

* It's amazing how easily our senses are fooled, even with imperfect hardware.
by n2d4 | 2025-05-24 17:13:00+00:00
You're saying that about Paul Graham, of all people? His Wikipedia page lists him as a "computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor", in that order. He wrote various Lisp books before founding Viaweb, and arguably it was the essays that made YC a thing in the first place. He is arguably one of the best writers in the startup scene.

I wonder if you're just unaware of all of this, or if you just have an axe to grind here?
by tzs | 2025-05-24 17:13:56+00:00
The biggest change I recall it making is raising the boundary between misdemeanor and felony from $400 to $950, but raising that is something that most states were doing in the first couple of decades of this century, with most going to $1000 or $1500. $950 is the 12th lowest.

It's hard to blame increased crime on that since so many other states (big and small, red and blue) have a higher limit.
by Macha | 2025-05-24 17:14:29+00:00
I'm surprised cashiers are listed as the job most likely to be replaced in the graphics in the article. Unattended self-checkouts have been possible for like 15 years now, and it feels like 5 years ago was peak self-checkout, with some stores drawing back from entirely self-checkout experiences and expansion slowing in others.

My understanding is that the obstacles to stores replacing the remaining cashiers with self-checkouts is not so much "we need a better machine" but (a) the shoplifting deterrence effect of staffing, (b) customers are slower at packing than cashiers, which can cause queues and other inefficiencies.
by rented_mule | 2025-05-24 17:14:41+00:00
There are many different philosophies. My neighbor is 84 years old and worked for the US Forest Service for 30 years doing timber management and fire prevention / suppression. He has thousands of hours of experience using chainsaws, much of that on trees that are 100+ feet tall. Even in his 80s, he prefers to use a chainsaw wearing nothing other than shorts and a t-shirt - no chaps, no long pants, no socks, and no shoes.

His argument is that safety equipment makes people complacent, especially when they are experienced enough to move quickly. If you have bare feet / legs, you are much more aware of the dangers and hence more careful. He still has all his limbs and the fingers / toes at the ends of them. Too many of his former coworkers do not. He is nearly deaf, so using hearing protection might have been better.

That's all anecdotal at best, but experts often disagree on the safest approach for themselves vs. others. And what's best for experts is often not what's best for novices, and vice versa.