MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2025-06-28 17:31:52+00:00
Any exposed fluids (mostly saliva) technically boils but you can think of it as evaporation to avoid layperson associations with heat -- it's all about low pressure, not about heat in layperson terms.

Whether you freeze or not depends on whether you're in the sun or not. Spacesuits are white to reflect as much light as feasible mostly to keep the astronauts from cooking. For example, surface of the moon can heat to 120° C / 250° Fahrenheit / 400 K.

Over time I'm sure all the liquids will manage to escape. Here's what happens to blood not contained by blood vessels and skin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3MOLqA3WA
by noisy_boy | 2025-06-28 17:32:06+00:00
It is amazing how things can be interpreted that differently. How heartless you have to be to not even spare a kind thought about the moments she lovingly put away the things for her loved child. If the person is a hoarder, they will do that for each and everything, not just for things that remind one of the memories of the loved ones.

Just wow.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-28 17:32:26+00:00
You don't understand. The "probes" WOULD BE the creators. Biological life is far too fragile to survive interstellar travel but AI running on much more durable hardware makes it downright easy.

And they wouldn't have to be inherently self-replicating.

When you can live millions of years your idea of what is "slow" changes pretty drastically.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-06-28 17:32:31+00:00
nettanyahu has tried to bribe iranian jews to come to israel. they've chosen not to so I can't imagine its that bad for them there. additionally, iranian jews have positionsof power in government and mandated representation. it would be a very easy argument to make that iranian jews in iran are treated much better than non jewish palestinians have ever been treated in israel.
by toomanyrichies | 2025-06-28 17:32:46+00:00
Interesting. The way I interpreted the article, ChatGPT was being described as the perfect cult leader, as opposed to follower.

A person at the end of their rope, grasping for answers to their existential questions, hears about an all-knowing oracle. The oracle listens to all manner of questions and thoughts, no matter how incoherent, and provides truthful-sounding “wisdom” on demand 24/7. The oracle even fits in your pocket, they can go with you everywhere, so leader and follower are never apart. And because these conversations are taking place privately, it feels like the oracle is revealing the truth to them and them alone, like Moses receiving the 10 Commandments.

For someone with the right mix of psychological issues, that could be a potent cocktail.
by JM_SG | 2025-06-28 17:33:03+00:00
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by taeric | 2025-06-28 17:33:25+00:00
Another poster was pointing out that this is not necessarily what is meant by templates in the post. I can see the distinction, but not really sure it changes my view. Since the post is largely more javascript literals for dom objects, it is hard for me not to bring that back to the design implications? Literally comes back to "people love JSX" many times. Why? Because it lets them get things to the presentation layer that is their browser.

I took some time to dive into how extensive JavaScript has made the word template in their world. I confess it reads a bit excessive to me. More than a bit, really. Tagged templates, in particular, look like one of the biggest foot guns I've ever seen.

I took it to design because I don't know of any other real reason to template the DOM other than for design purposes. Indeed, reading on the linked proposal, this is to make reactive things on a page. And that will have to be married to a design at some point. Often the entire point of introducing names that are exported from data to a rendered document is for the presentation implications of it. Otherwise, you'd just output the data?
by smeej | 2025-06-28 17:33:31+00:00
I cannot say this often enough: Treat LLMs like narcissists. They behave exactly the same way. They make things up with impunity and have no idea they are doing it. They will say whatever keeps you agreeing with them and thinking well of them, but cannot and will not take responsibility for anything, especially their errors. They might even act like they agree with you that "errors occurred," but there is no possibility of self-reflection.

The only difference is that these are computers. They cannot be otherwise. It is "their fault," in the sense that there is a fault in the situation and it's in them, but they're not moral agents like narcissists are.

But looking at them through "narcissist filter" glasses will really help you understand how they're working.
by goranmoomin | 2025-06-28 17:33:43+00:00
This is a blatantly false comment. For the sake of other viewers on HN that is not familiar with Korean politics, this is totally fake (and is probably pushing the views of the Korean alt-right).

United States sharply criticized Yoon after his unconstitutional martial law declaration, publishing pretty strong remarks that it was illegimate[0]. They have consistently spoke (in diplomatic language) that they do not support Yoon until he was impeached.

Impeaching Yoon was supported by 75% of the country [1] and anti-Yoon protests were not seen as anti-US nor pro-China at all.

The newly elected president, Lee Jae Myung, is not seen as anti-US nor pro-China in Korea (he does have a less anti-China stance than his predecessor), and any claims of election fraud claim is baseless[2] and without evidence.

The few paragraphs on telegram groups are groups that are run by the alt-right that send reports of anti-Yoon social influencers to the CIA, arguing that they were anti-US and communists[3] (yes, the red fear and the cold war is still a thing in South Korea, thanks to the North Korean regime, no, we do not recognize North Korea as a sovereign state)

Yes people are affected due to the new visa process, PhD students big among the affected, but no, big businesses are not being blocked sending their workers to the US. Samsung is not struggling getting visas.

This is a totally baseless fake news. Please don’t let this information spread. Thanks.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-south-koreas-yoon-badl...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Yoon_Suk_Yeol#O...

[2]: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36RG6PF

[3]: https://koreaherald.com/article/10019148

———— Not trying to shoot the messenger, but the user has a history of getting flagged with far-right racial comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405917, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203934, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203849

They also got flagged previously by arguing the sentiment of the Korean alt-right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43431867

And also say that they submit AI-generated comments as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pkkkzip

I would not trust this person’s comments.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-28 17:34:29+00:00
Of course there isn't a single way, here's a couple of questions that might guide your choices, alo

1- ABCDEFG or Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si? The first is more typical in the US, the rest in Europe and RoW 2- Tabs or Sheets? Sheets are more classical, tabs are common in pop and rock.

You mentioned gypsy and flamenco style, I think those are very folklorish, so I think video would be better suited (there's just no notation for fast strumming patterns), and tablatures would be appropriate.

But to get a true connection to flamenco you need to find people that play flamenco, whether IRL or online. I don't think it's a style of music that is learned through textbooks, as you mention, perhaps not even in tabs, but I may be underestimating the art.
by luckylion | 2025-06-28 17:34:37+00:00
That's true, but aren't they still tribal in practice? Granted, that's getting into very broad strokes, but libertarians don't feel different in e.g. defending transgressions of other libertarians, their reaction is tribal (like everyone else's).

That's not a moral failure in my view, it's just the default state of humans. Possibly connected to self-interest, everyone tends to view others from "his tribe" favorable, people from random unrelated tribes somewhat neutral, and people from enemy/rival tribes more negative.

That doesn't change much, but more wealthy / free societies create more elaborate tribes than just genetic relationship or age. Now you can join the iphone owners, console gamers, or flat earth believers, or you can join the dog owners (cat owners are a rival tribe, but they'll band together if you're from the pet-hater-tribe), bmw-drivers, or one of the linux-user subtribes (and look down on the windows- and macos-tribes).
by codingdave | 2025-06-28 17:34:59+00:00
Because your filter of "top startups" likely already is filtering out all the bootstrapped success stories because "they are not startups". It is rejecting anything that succeeded via slow deliberate growth because they are not the "top", nor are they from the last couple of years. Your chosen filter shows you the people playing the VC game, and yes that game is mostly played by the same crowd who chooses the Ivy League.
by CharlesW | 2025-06-28 17:35:04+00:00
> …I don't know what the solution is other than reinforcing that it's just a model, and has never experienced anything.

I've tried reason, but even with technical audiences who should know better, the "you can't logic your way out of emotions" wall is a real thing. Anyone dealing with this will be better served by leveraging field-tested ideas drawn from cult-recovery practice, digital behavioral addiction research, and clinical psychology.
Ask HN: Will LLM coding assistants make web client-side frameworks obsolete?
by king7532 | 2025-06-28 17:35:58+00:00
With AI assistants now capable of writing plain, vanilla JavaScript and managing DOM manipulation, state, and even complex interactions without frameworks, I'm questioning whether we still need the React ecosystem. LLMs can generate pure HTML/CSS/JS that's often more performant, has zero dependencies, and is easier to debug.

Are we holding onto frameworks out of habit, or do they still provide genuine value that AI-generated vanilla code can't match? What are the real trade-offs here - beyond developer familiarity and existing tooling?

Curious to hear from those who've experimented with LLM-generated vanilla JS for production web apps versus traditional framework approaches.
by Phlebsy | 2025-06-28 17:36:03+00:00
Something missing is the confidence that comes from being perceived that way as well. You're a high performer at a high prestige/competitive school - you're going to feel more like you can do everything the other successful people from that school can do compared to someone from a no-pedigree state school who wouldn't have access to those role models or tracks to see what's possible and be more likely to just go with the flow and accept a safe job offer.

Even if we assumed that there was nothing special about the capabilities of people who finish Ivy League educations, that's still a powerful effect. Add in that they are either competitive enough or have well connected enough families to get into said school, and it's a multiplying effect on top.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-28 17:36:16+00:00
Can authors of such articles at least cite Dijkstra's "On the foolishness of "natural language programming"." which appeared eons ago ? Which presents an argument against the "english is a programming language" hype.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
by bird0861 | 2025-06-28 17:36:18+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFtmrpuwNY

https://mannlab.com/eyetap

Dr Steve Mann who eventually led the Google Glass team (along with Dr Thad Starner, who like Mann was also a frequent poster in the MIT wearhard mailing list) did this ages ago with a system he and his students called Eyetap.

Mann is famous for among other things being probably the first person to be roughed up for being borged out.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/17/cyborg...

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/at-airport-gat...
by duskwuff | 2025-06-28 17:36:44+00:00
> why is it you can talk endlessly with ChatGPT models (specifically I'm referring to the configuration of the models and the application) about a dangerous delusion but not chemical weapons??

Because only one of these things can be reliably detected by a safety model. Users discussing delusional beliefs are hard for a machine to identify in a general fashion; there's a lot of overlap with discussions about religion and philosophy, or with role-playing or worldbuilding exercises.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-28 17:37:08+00:00
Not the parent but I raised 5 and spent lots of time with their educators.

A school board meeting comes with limitations on what can be communicated. It often isn't a good fit to introduce new factors because there is no time learn and evaluate them properly.

School boards are commonly composed of non-technical people. They will be limited in their ability to judge the risks that are presented. Besides time, they'll need to have access to (and trust) qualified people of good judgment. It's a lot of prequalifiers.

And all of the above aside, school board positions have recently become appealing to agenda-driven bad actors. If they happen to be on your board, whatever you present will be viewed thru the lens of their agenda. Good outcomes tend to starve in that environment.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-28 17:37:20+00:00
I see this attitude a lot. The idea that people finding value from AI are mediocre programmers.

I've been staff level at Meta and Google and many other companies in my career. I've been in the industry over 20 years now. I can talk to peers in the industry at that level and above and the sentiment is pretty universal. "This saves a lot of time, we need engineers to learn to use this asap". Such decisions are not coming from a vacuum. It's literally your most senior engineers advising management that leads to these mandates.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-06-28 17:37:30+00:00
Make no mistake - it is not surprising to find UX issues on Macbooks. My main quirks that I hated and how I addressed them:

Note that the items below are based on my personal opinion only:

1. Finder always seemed to suck ass - been the same for 10+ years lol. I use QSpace Pro as my full-time file explorer/manager.

2. Alt-Tab behavior also sucked for me -having to hold down controls and no thumbnail views....fixed with the AltTab app.

3. Can't control system volume when connected to an external monitor not made by Apple. Fixed with an app called SoundControl

4. Spotlight is lame and slow as hell - fixed with Alfred

5. No clipboard manager built-in - I use an app called Copy'Em Paste for this.
by Straw | 2025-06-28 17:37:38+00:00
Yes, that's right, dividing by that ratio essentially barely affects the number in a sense that 'adjacent' numbers in that notation give a much bigger change.

10↑↑10,000,000 / (sand grains per universe) is vastly larger than, say, 10↑↑9,999,999

So on system we're using to write these numbers, there's really no better way to write (very big)/ (only universally big) than by writing exactly that, and then in the notation for very big, it pretty much rounds to just (very big).
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-28 17:37:41+00:00
It’s a social construct. The gatekeepers for money need to have some vetting of the founders. They have people they call at the big schools. The dude from SUNY Binghamton is an unknown unless someone can vouch.

The schools are super selective for people who are smart and can execute the strategy to get in, which is similar to sone aspects of the types of business VC want to incubate.
by odyssey7 | 2025-06-28 17:38:12+00:00
I've experienced this while leaving a different company that used a rare language.

It's a tough situation being experienced in <peculiar language for Company A> when you need to ace technical interviews in <mainstream language for Company B>.

Once you have a few years of promotions, it gets even tougher when you need to compete with <mainstream language> senior+ software engineer candidates at the destination company. Maybe <flashy brand name> was enough to land the interview, but experience mismatches and limitations can remain apparent in the interview itself.
by throw310822 | 2025-06-28 17:38:15+00:00
The situation is not static. The oppression of the Palestinians is active, progressive, and happens every day. This is not a state you're born in, but it is something you actively participate in or decide to ignore. Those who say "this is just the situation now" are disingenuous, as new crimes by one side against the other are perpetrated every day.
by tritipsocial | 2025-06-28 17:38:42+00:00
Just as a matter of context, here are the current headlines from the futurism front page:

- NASA Is in Full Meltdown

- ChatGPT Tells User to Mix Bleach and Vinegar

- Video Shows Large Crane Collapsing at Safety-Plagued SpaceX Rocket Facility

- Alert: There's a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean
by bovermyer | 2025-06-28 17:38:56+00:00
This sounds like it came from a place of fear. This is not an indictment, incidentally; just an observation. You choose language like "nuclear" and "destruction" and "lobotomise" and end with a plea to not make similar choices.

I'm in my forties. I have gone through multiple cycles of collecting and purging. How that feels has changed over the years. Sometimes I have regretted getting rid of some things, but that frequency is far, far lower than the number of times I haven't cared or even noticed. And those times I have regretted it have not resulted in obsessive thinking about what I've lost or what might have been.

Further, having a "reset" has proven valuable on more than one occasion, as it opens up new pathways that I might otherwise have not even considered. You speak of relearning everything as if it's forcing yourself to repeat the same path all over again, with no new learning and just a pointless sacrifice of what little time we have. In my experience, "relearning" usually entails discovering entirely new experiences and paths to knowledge along a general set of guidelines through half-memories.

To put it another way, starting over is not guaranteed suffering, it's an opportunity to discover new things.
by ipython | 2025-06-28 17:39:32+00:00
This article is based upon an interview from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic....

That NYT interview with Ross Douthat is just a lame attempt by Thiel to rehabilitate his image. From the interview, regarding how we as a society entered into a state of technological stagnation, and his subsequent support of Trump in 2016 as a way to "redirect the Titanic from the iceberg it was heading to, or whatever the metaphor is, to really change course as a society":

"I didn’t have great expectations about what Trump would do in a positive way, but I thought at least, for the first time in 100 years, we had a Republican who was not giving us this syrupy Bush nonsense. It was not the same as progress, but we could at least have a conversation. In retrospect, this was a preposterous fantasy."

Really? You, arguably the most influential and successful inventor of the modern age, couldn't foresee that Trump is just going to leverage his populism to further cement the power structures that brought him into power? How was that ever going to lead to societal level change in a way that would bring about an explosion of science and technological innovation?

Nah, I'd believe that Thiel (correctly) sensed that Trump was a vessel through which he could accumulate much more power and wealth, due to Trump's brazen cronyism and corruption.

So now Thiel needs to somehow distance himself from Musk, Trump, and everyone else to try and recover whatever dignity he can. The only good news I can see is that, if he truly has any sort of crystal ball, he senses the winds starting to shift and the political power of MAGA waning.
by boricj | 2025-06-28 17:40:08+00:00
> I think they were expecting you to fail.

Maybe, but I already had a reputation of being the dark wizard back then. If anything, the other students in my group went along with this because they knew I could overcome any problem... regardless of the cost on my sanity.

> How did you handle the debugging the raspberry pi on real hardware?

Painfully through serial output. I didn't have access to a JTAG probe at the time (I'm not even sure the Raspberry Pi could be debugged that way) and documentation was exceedingly poor.

After that experience, I refuse to debug anything hardware-related without at the very least a GDB stub.
by diekhans | 2025-06-28 17:41:12+00:00
The article doesn't understand programmers. People will stay because they are passionate about OCaml and there are not a lot of OCaml jobs.

When hiring for a permanent position, I have the expectation that a programmer can learn a new language and environment. An OCaml programmer for a position that is python or C would be looked on very favorably. Far more attention-getting than “full-stack programmer”.
by tdeck | 2025-06-28 17:41:22+00:00
> The ethnic cleansing/settler-colonialist paradigm is easy for outsiders to project on the region.

"Outsiders" like the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association that funded Zionist settlement in Palestine? The problem with folks who try to claim that this is ahistorical is that contemporary Zionists talked all the time about colonizing Palestine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Jewish_Colonizatio...
by markasoftware | 2025-06-28 17:41:30+00:00
Having worked in the quant industry outside of JS, and being good friends with a couple JS employees, I'm of the opinion that in 2025 ocaml is hurting JS more than it helps them. Using an obscure programming language absolutely can help out your hiring effort at a small company; for example, I did an internship at quite possibly the only US-based company doing Common Lisp that hired undergrad interns. All my coworkers were extremely talented because (a) people who use Common Lisp are definitely PL enthusiasts rather than your typical FAANG-oriented CS college student and (b) without anywhere else to really go for an internship, they all ended up at this company and (c) they only needed a few interns so could afford to select only those who had prior common lisp experience.

But Jane Street is big enough now that 90%+ of their software hires aren't joining /because/ of ocaml, but in spite of it. The well of existing ocaml (or more generally, functional programming) enthusiasts who are qualified and willing to work for JS has been depleted for some time now. Rather than ocaml being a sort of shibboleth to hire only engineers who are passionate about programming languages, JS now hires the same sorts of engineers who would work at any other quant fund (ie, generally smart CS students who grinded C++, python, and leetcode questions in college), offers them slightly more money and a slightly nicer office than their competitors, and sends them all through a 2-week ocaml bootcamp.

but oh well, maybe ocaml is still worth it for the 10% of hires who actually are FP enthusiasts and would have otherwise gone into academia.