MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saaaaaam | 2025-06-09 10:06:33+00:00
I’m really not sure what I just read. I mean, I know what I read in terms of the words - but I don’t understand what its purpose is. But I don’t necessarily think it matters…

It was thoroughly diverting, held my attention and made me wish that more people wrote pieces like this where the only real purpose is the conceit, and the subsequent journey the author takes you on.
by vrnvu | 2025-06-09 10:07:49+00:00
> When publishing software, you make a promise to your users.

Just to add on to that. Beyond a promise, it's a contract, and someone has to be responsible and accountable for it.

Like when you're walking or driving and see a traffic light... you don't stop to wonder if there's a race condition or if another signal is out of sync. You trust it and act.

Unfortunately, it feels like in software today, promises are made... but rarely kept. And worse, most people just seem to accept that. If traffic lights were broken, we'd just need to upgrade to the next version right?
by graemep | 2025-06-09 10:08:00+00:00
> Judaism isn't Christianity any more than Islam is

All three share common beliefs and values. Christians and Jews worship the same God.

Islam IS closely related to Judaism and Christianity and the Quran explicitly states Muslims worship the same God.

> Trying to apply Christian norms to Jewish practices usually ends up in a pogrom when Christians realize that Judaism isn't Christianity.

BS. Thinking about where we agree and where we disagree leads to greater understanding. Pogroms are motivated by ethnic differences and othering people, not by theology, religious law, or anything thoughtful.

> I have no idea why the right in America has run with the whole "Judaeo-Christian Western Culture"

Is it a right wing concept? The term seems far more widely used to me than that. They see correct to me, because western culture (that of the left, as well as the right!) is a product of Christianity, which is an offshoot of Judaism, so you cannot ignore the Jewish influence.

> when Christianity was founded from the start on not being Judaism and making a clean break with it.

It was far from a clean break, and the intention was not a clean break. There was much argument (see Acts) in early Christianity about which Jewish practices to follow. Christians use Jewish scriptures and prayers and symbolism. The first Christians were Jews, and they would not even have considered themselves converts at that point, just those who followed the promised (to Jews!) messiah.

> You might as well say Cristiano-Islamic culture since there was about as much impact on Western thought by Islam as there was by Judaism.

Not true because Judaism and Christian culture had a greater and longer lasting history of geographical and cultural overlap than Christianity and Islam.

On the other hand, all three religions have a lot in common.
by csomar | 2025-06-09 10:08:59+00:00
At first, I thought this was about generating a resume, as in creating a resume for the user. There is a niche demand for that where you can charge, maybe, $5 one time fee to create a user resume.

There is no demand for "resume website". There is demand for jobs/employment. Your website doesn't offer that and if it were, things kind of function differently (employees apply for the jobs; aka a job board).
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-09 10:09:04+00:00
You're being downvoted unfairly, because the fact of the matter is that the only science being done in orbit that fundamentally requires humans is research into the effects of microgravity on the human body.

But we know it's bad, and we know the fix: Just simulate gravity by spinning the spacecraft like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, or in Interstellar. Easy.

There's this... thing... with NASA that you can recognise once you see it, because you will see it, over and over: Once they find something that the government is willing to fund, they will never stop researching that thing, because to "solve" the problem is to turn the funding tap off.

My favourite example of this phenomenom is water and/or life on Mars. There's been a ludicrous volume of press releases (like clockwork!) about possible life (or water) on Mars. However, notably, not a single mission to Mars has ever included any instrument that could definitively disprove that there is life or water on Mars. To do so would be an instant off-switch for billions in funding, so "oops" these instruments are always omitted.

Send a microscope! A frigging microscope! One! They're not that big or heavy!

Nope, can't do it. That would be the end, you see? Got to keep sending magnetometers, microphones, cameras, stereo cameras, all sorts of things. Just not anything that would accidentally prove that there's nothing to find.
by MagnumOpus | 2025-06-09 10:10:03+00:00
Here it is more a case of “cities were so beautiful before we destroyed them with all the firebombing by the Royal Air Force”…

Half of Wuppertal’s buildings were destroyed by the end of WW2. Some cities had the leeway to rebuild historical ornamented buildings, many others built as cheaply and quickly as possible because it was more important to create more shelter rather than prettier housing.

Edit: Though I very much agree on the ugliness of the excessive street furniture and car parking space!
by mdp2021 | 2025-06-09 10:10:59+00:00
> we were honest

I am quite honest and the subset of users that fill your description - unconsciously treating text from deficient authors as tea leaves - have psychiatric issues.

Surely many people consult LLMs because of the value within their right answers, which exist owing to having encoded information and some emergent idea processing, and attempting to tame the wrong ones. They consult LLMs because that's what we have, limited as it is, for some problems.

Your argument falls immediately because people in the consultation of unreliable documents cannot be confused with people in the consultation of tools for other kinds of thinking: the thought under test is outside in the first case, inside in the second (contextually).

You have fallen in a very bad use of 'we'.
by aitchnyu | 2025-06-09 10:11:49+00:00
From a lazy search, the measures are to trigger a reaction, but not intense enough send you to hospital. Fasted state (first thing in morning) can enhance absorption and avoid interference with food. (hot) showers cause vasodilation and exercise causes increased heart rate, both which increase allergen absorption enough trigger adverse reaction. If you have taken it for a year, your doctor may probably not worry about a too-intense reaction.

I'm also taking dust mite immunotherapy and assumed this article applies to me.
by buran77 | 2025-06-09 10:12:56+00:00
> what high-profile companies like OpenAI do, vs. what low-profile industry giants like Cisco and Oracle have been doing

Not that I disagree but you're whatabouting your way into an argument, and you used to be against it [0]. And you're not even doing it to establish a pattern or bring up some history, it's just for the sake of it.

It's an analysis about OpenAI. You agree that the author is not wrong but immediately detract from the credibility of the analysis because they haven't included a specific "whatabout"?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872884
by davedx | 2025-06-09 10:13:00+00:00
I stumbled on the paper the article talks about on /r/LocalLlama (this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1l6ibwg/when_yo...)

I found this comment to be relevant: "Keep in mind this whitepaper is really just Apple circling the wagons because they have dick for proprietary AI tech."

When you question the source, it really does raise eyebrows, especially as an Apple shareholder: that these Apple employees are busy not working on their own AI programme that's now insanely far behind other big tech companies, but are instead spending their time casting shade on the reasoning models developed at other AI labs.

What's the motivation here, really? The paper itself isn't particularly insightful or ground-breaking.
by motorest | 2025-06-09 10:14:51+00:00
I guess this epiphany meant the company did some progress on how to deploy and run their Kubernetes clusters, but the blog post reads like "we were messing our deployment strategy really badly and causing us a whole lot of problems for no good reason". I mean, calling their setup "chaos monkey" sounds like a desperate attempt to whitewash the problems they were creating for themselves.

And what was the magic ingredient? Switching to committed use nodes that can give customers up to a 70% discount? Was this supposed to be surprising?

I mean, take any intro course on the fundamentals of any cloud provider. Cost management is always one of the first topics covered. The difference between spot instance and committed pricing is rendered quite obvious.

The cloud 101 recommendation was always committed instances to cover baseline, and spin up any other instance type, perhaps spot instances, to handle peaks.

Is this what they are celebrating? That someone at the company finally paid attention to a cloud 101 course?
by calebkaiser | 2025-06-09 10:15:04+00:00
Before getting too invested in any conclusions drawn from this piece, it's important to recognize this is mostly PR from Chatterbox.

From the Chatterbox site:

> Our patented AIMI platform independently validates your AI models & data, generating quantitative AI risk metrics at scale.

The article's subtitle:

> Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption
by Aeolun | 2025-06-09 10:15:31+00:00
I’ve seen a lot more monorails than just two. Are we talking only about hanging monorails (since I was about both above and below)?

The one that immediately comes to mind is the Tama monorail.

Yurikamome Is technically not a monorail, but it pretty close in terms of experience.

Tokyo Disney Resort Line is also an actual monorail.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-09 10:16:25+00:00
Exactly, and in the business world, those using force multipliers outsmart and outwork their competitors. It's that simple. People are projecting all sorts of hyperbole, morals, outrage, panic, fear, and other nonsense onto LLMs. But in the end they are tools that are available at extremely low cost that do vaguely useful things if you manage to prompt them right. Which isn't all that hard with a little practice.

I've been doing that for a few years now, I understand the limitations and strengths. I'm a programmer that also does marketing and sales when needed. LLMs have made the former a lot less tedious and the latter a lot easier. There are still things I have to do manually. But there are also whole categories of things that LLMs do for me quickly, reliably, and efficiently.

The impact on big companies is that the strategy of hiring large amounts of people and getting them to do vaguely useful things by prompting them right at great expense is now being challenged by companies doing the same things with a lot less people (see what I did there). LLMs eliminate all the tedious stuff in companies. A lot of admin and legal stuff. Some low level communication work (answering support emails, writing press releases, etc). There's a lot of stuff that companies do or have to do that is not really their core business but just stuff that needs doing. If you run a small startup, that stuff consumes a lot of your time. I speak from experience. Guess what I use LLMs for? All of it. As much as I can. Because that means more quality time with our actual core product. Things are still tedious. But I get through more of it quicker.
by metalman | 2025-06-09 10:17:01+00:00
Houston eh!, well let me tell you that I use the GOES sattelites for local weather observation, and general real time views of varios conditions..... and Houston is the one city that stands right out, instantly visible and radiating in the infra red, never been there, but your spoke roads must be fucking HUGE, to be vissible from geosynchronous orbit, the whole thing working as a heat absorber/radiator. as a "controll" try as I might, Mexico city (others),remain invisible in the same images
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-09 10:17:05+00:00
It of course depends on the company, area and vertical but yes, there is a lot of stiffness. German humour is not mainstream:)

But every European country has its specificities - in France for instance you have an ungodly controlled chaos and draining bureaucracy (I am French).

Having worked in many, many countries in the world, Europeans cities/companies are on the top for me, all taken into account.
by jacobp100 | 2025-06-09 10:17:24+00:00
I do iOS dev as a side-hobby too (https://jacobdoescode.com/)

People are right it isn’t anywhere near a salary, but I have fun and it has opened job opportunities too

For marketing, I found /r/Apple very receptive to self promotion posts - just make sure you meet the criteria. You can also do a discount period and advertise on /r/AppHookup. Last Black Friday I reduced a $2 to 29c (lowest allowed price) and made just shy of $500, and it boosted my place in the store search

Best of luck!
by nosianu | 2025-06-09 10:19:41+00:00
> So any and all human communication is divination in your book?

Words from an AI are just words.

Words in a human brain have more or less (depending on the individual's experiences) "stuff" attached to them: From direct sensory inputs to complex networks of experiences and though. Human thought is mainly not based on words. Language is an add-on. (People without language - never learned, or sometimes temporarily disabled due to drugs, or permanently due to injury, transient or permanent aphasia - are still consciously thinking people.)

Words in a human brain are an expression of deeper structure in the brain.

Words from an AI have nothing behind them but word statistics, devoid of any real world, just words based on words.

Random example sentence: "The company needs to expand into a new country's market."

When an AI writes this, there is no real world meaning behind it whatsoever.

When a fresh out of college person writes this it's based on some shallow real world experience, and lots of hearsay.

When an experienced person actually having done such expansion in the past says it a huge network of their experience with people and impressions is behind it, a feeling for where the difficulties lie and what to expect IRL with a lot of real-world-experience based detail. When such a person expands on the original statement chances are highest that any follow-up statements will also represent real life quite well, because they are drawn not from text analysis, but from those deeper structures created by and during the process of the person actually performing and experiencing the task.

But the words can be exactly the same. Words from a human can be of the same (low) quality as that of an AI, if they just parrot something they read or heard somewhere, although even then the words will have more depth than the "zero" on AI words, because even the stupidest person has some degree of actual real life forming their neural network, and not solely analysis of other's texts.
Show HN: Visualize nested list properties in the CodeLLDB debugger
by hexomancer | 2025-06-09 10:20:41+00:00
One of my pain points when debugging c++ is when I want to inspect some nested property of a list (e.g. list[i].someprop.somemethod()). Some debuggers have methods of displaying such nested expressions but as far as I know it is not possible in vscode (please prove me wrong!). So I made this simple visualizer script for CodeLLDB which does that.
by Aldipower | 2025-06-09 10:21:02+00:00
I've used Kagi the last month and was quite satisfied. But the payment model (not the price) is completely PITA. I did a pre-payment of 15 $ via PayPal. First this options is extremely hidden. Second after I reached the limit of searches for the month, I could not get additional searches for the month, but had to wait for the next. So I was blocked with searching and I moved back to Google. My left-over 7$ are rotting there now.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-09 10:21:31+00:00
First choose your country. It will be much more difficult to get a job in France than in, say, Poland for an American (because of how the US is perceived)

Then you need to look at the company and see if they already have some US staff. Some do, some don't.

Finally you must have a very unique set of skills to be taken into consideration. We have plenty of excellent people in high tech.

Finally, but you know that already, you raw pay will take a huge cut.
by defrost | 2025-06-09 10:25:11+00:00
I read it that way also, a failure to proritise what should be mandated safety checks prior to delaring the line open for use, caused by a cascading chain of jamming too much work into too short a shift.

My father had many stints on many mine sites as a leading foreman in charge of shift workers and yard crews .. it's been Occ Health and Safety protocol since the 1970s (in Australia at least) to post game events that result in death, injury, or even a near miss in order to adapt procedures to minimise similar things happening again.

As I read it, at the time of this accident they hadn't gotten to the stage of mandated safety checks and trial runs prior to live runs.

Incidents like these are why many workplaces have check lists and strict protocols.

The working at night part is largely irrelevant to the actual accident, in this part of the world we run the longest heaviest trains in the world 24/7/365 largely fatal accident free and have dedicated safety officers looking out around the clock.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-09 10:28:49+00:00
It's interesting.

My most surprising observation about having children is that, although instinctively you think you'll be doing much much less fun stuff than before children, it's not actually true. Yes, there is a decrease, and you tend to be more tired. But even aside from whether children themselves are fun, I got much better at squeezing fun out of less free time. I'd say I do 80% of sports etc I did pre-kids. And then as the kids get bigger, they do become genuinely fun. I take mine climbing. It's not hardcore, more sweet and mellow, but it's fun.

What did massively change for me is relationship dynamics, but that's perhaps a different story.
by rajnathani | 2025-06-09 10:29:15+00:00
A side: Apple Notes needs to get the ability to export all notes at once, without having to export each note 1-by-1 as a PDF. We have so much important text information on the notes app on our phones (whether iPhone or Android), and the ability to easily export this out (we're not even talking multimedia MP4 data, etc.) easily should be one of the most core features.
by Aachen | 2025-06-09 10:29:56+00:00
I also find it steep. I've got several reservations such as always needing to be logged in on all devices where you want to use it / it being gated in general (most software projects I support are available to everyone equally) and the search results not being better than anything else, but 5$/month would be okay to support this concept... but that hasn't got enough searches included. You also pay double for image searches because it'll already incur a credit for the web results before you click on images

Skipping past the top two sponsored results in DDG really isn't that big a deal and still diversifies the search market from Google's monopoly, so paying the equivalent of a streaming subscription service... idk. None of my friends seem interested in paying for what is currently free (on top of the hassle of being logged in everywhere all the time) so sharing a duo/family account isn't an option for me either. Maybe that's something that would put it in reach for you?

Edit: apparently they've shared what it costs them to provide the service:

> a single search costs us 1.5 cents to deliver

https://kagifeedback.org/d/687-implement-regional-pricing/23

They charge 54€$/year for 3600 searches, which is.... precisely 1.5 cents per search. That sounds a little bit too convenient that the claimed cost price is precisely what they charge

This is either not the cost price or relies on people not using their subscription, otherwise you could never recoup R&D costs. Maybe this is total expenses divided by number of searches being run? I.e., it includes wages for the devs working on new features, their administration, etc. (fixed costs) and isn't actually the expense that each additional search incurs to deliver

DDG displays up to 2 ads above search results (most of the time I get none: trying just now, I saw 1 ad when doing two product searches and one knowledge search). The most favorable figure for 1000 ad impressions is 6$ according to <https://spideraf.com/learning-hub/what-is-the-average-cost-p...>. That's 0.6 cents per ad if the advertising network costs nothing. Advertising on DDG goes via Microsoft, so they'll take a cut: <https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/adverti...>. Guessing that they take 10% (I expect it's more), you're looking at 0.2 cents average revenue for each search I did just now. (Not a reliable figure but as a ballpark estimate.) DDG must have much lower costs somehow (maybe they just take results from Bing verbatim and have few costs of their own)
by xg15 | 2025-06-09 10:30:52+00:00
> As workers flooded to the growing cities of Barmen and Elberfeld – which merged in 1929 and were renamed Wuppertal in 1930 – the authorities realised a public transport system was needed. Other cities were going underground, but Wuppertal’s rocky soil and narrow, steep valley made any sort of U-Bahn impossible, forcing the Schwebebahn’s inventor, Eugen Langen, to look up instead.

Was a bit confused at this paragraph, as to why it would suddenly date the inception of the Schwebebahn in the 1930s when the same article began with the maiden voyage in 1901.

So to clarify this: The Schwebebahn really is older than the city of Wuppertal. The city only existed as a single municipality since 1929, so half the time the article talks about "Wuppertal", it really means Barmen and Elberfeld.

So if there was no municipality, who did plan, approve and fund the project? Both cities, in a joint planning commission.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn#Histor...
by windward | 2025-06-09 10:30:58+00:00
Parents, teachers and media spent a lot of time telling my having a baby would ruin my life. They didn't want me to be a teen parent. I get it.

But most of the scaremongering wasn't about teen parenthood. It was just about parenthood, and life once you have too many responsibilities to enjoy being a teen. So once you do reach the age that raising children is more responsible, you still have to get past the same fears.

Society has an irritating way of 'hazing' its juniors by telling them life keeps on going downhill. So far I've found the opposite, and that I'd be better equipped to handle it anyway.
by mirekrusin | 2025-06-09 10:31:04+00:00
It's interesting to still hear this kind of sentiment.

> People seem to think producing text has some value of its own.

Reading this sentence makes me think that the author actually never seen agentic work in action? Producing value out of text does work and one of good examples is putting it in a loop with some form of verification output. It's easy to do with programming - type checker, tests, linter etc. – so it can chat by itself with it's own results until the problem is solved.

I also find it personally strange that so often discussions require reminder that rate of change in capabilities is also big part of "the thing" (as opposed to pure capabilities today). It changes on weekly/monthly basis and it changes in one direction only.
by immibis | 2025-06-09 10:31:32+00:00
That's just one category of stuff that ISPs do. In the context of "who do I pay to get Internet at home", cloudflare is not an option, but in the context of the internet itself they are one. Hetzner, for example, is an ISP that mainly provides server hosting. There are companies that only provide Internet service at data centers too.