MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j1elo | 2025-06-02 20:47:04+00:00
I'm sorry for the snark in my comment, it intended to just be a funny joke due to the capitalization thing (in Go that's what separates public from private fields, which is a weirdness of the language that surprises people the first time they get to learn it)

As others said, while "open" does indeed mean "reachable" or "available" in this context of source code, it happens that "open source" is a well defined thing to allow not only access, but also modification, reuse, and distribution without limitations. So the "open" in "open source" has its meaning brought to the highest level of openness.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-02 20:47:40+00:00
If people were easy enough to convince that they had been deceived, then I'd not mind so much. It's the extraordinary lengths people will go to in order to protect the bullshit they acquired with far less scepticism. Genuinely wild leaps of logic, shallowness of reasoning, on-the-face-of-it non-sequiturs, claims offered as great defeaters which require only a single moment of reflection to see through.

This is the problem. The problem is how bullshit conscripts its dupes into this self-degradation and bad faith dialogue with others.

And of course, how there are mechanisms in society (LLMs now one of them) which correlate this self-degrading shallowness of reasoning -- so that all at once an expert is faced with millions of people with half-baked notions and a great desire to preserve them.
by peeters | 2025-06-02 20:47:43+00:00
> If I’m reading between the lines what you are saying is that ”Andor is actually intelligent and high quality art … sci-fi can’t be high quality art”? I’m exaggerating to make a point.

Nope not at all, for example I personally would put the Expanse firmly in the genre of sci-fi. The major themes it explores centre around its setting; it doesn't happen to exist in a futuristic space setting; the entire show would cease to function as a concept without it. Major plot lines exist specifically to explore the "what-ifs" of that fictional future. And honestly, while I acknowledge it's intelligent and extremely well loved by its fans, it's one that I'd have trouble recommending to people that aren't big into sci fi, for that reason.

But compare that to something like Firefly, where's it's basically a heist/western that happens to be set in outer space.
by immibis | 2025-06-02 20:48:36+00:00
80% of it is the world's largest and longest-running Ponzi scheme. Because it's a Ponzi scheme, it brings negative expected value (maybe the other 20% cancels it out, maybe not). But because it's the world's largest and longest-running, you'd better participate because the chance it collapses at the exact moment you didn't invest but everyone else did is pretty low, and you can't let them outcompete you in the short term. You have a significant chance of not being the bottom tier of the Ponzi, unfortunately. If you do invest and it does crash, you're no worse off than everyone else.

That's for general market trends. Individual stocks also make no sense. You could buy and hold some very stable company's stock but you're making a relative pittance compared to just, like, changing jobs or something. Expected compound interest is not high enough to justify the risk of a catastrophic crash; also if you think a crash will happen any time in the next forever, you're better off holding cash or low-risk bonds until after the crash and jumping in then, as that will more than make up for the compound interest you make up on.

In the past, compound interest has been significantly higher than expected, and very much worth it, but only due to survivorship bias. There are many reasons to think the next 60 years won't be anything like the last 60.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-06-02 20:48:56+00:00
it is the result of data analysis. the computer program isn't explaining anything, or recommending anything. it's simply presenting the results of querying data analyzed at scale and returning the "most likely" result (as determined by the system prompt and human input from developers and users of the program). "most likely" is still a super-fuzzy grey area.

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/computers-c...
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by nuancebydefault | 2025-06-02 20:49:09+00:00
I'm much a people pleaser and I constantly seem to yearn for validation. I see life as a web of relationships and I want all of them to be good. Especially when someone doesn't respect what I do for them or say to them in good faith, this is very hard for me to take in. I wonder how to get out of this cycle of needing validation. I also wonder where this need comes from. If anybody can shed a light, i would be grateful.
by khedoros1 | 2025-06-02 20:49:10+00:00
I skipped typing classes altogether, and I'm not sure how; they were a requirement in every school district I attended and a prerequisite to the programming classes that I took instead. My typing has developed "organically"; I use most of my fingers at least sometimes, but heavier on index and middle.

> IRC and AIM in the 90s/00s were the big drivers for fast typing.

Those are how I developed my touch typing; the incentive was to see everything happening in the chatroom full of friends without missing anything, and being able to react quickly.

> The tactile response and feel of an electric typewriter is pretty cool.

Granddad was a retired IBM employee, and had a Selectric typewriter (either II or III, not sure). That thing felt (and sounded) awesome. The whir of the flywheel, the amazing feedback of the "thunk" of the ball hitting the ribbon. I used to type random crap that didn't need to be typed just to use that thing for a few minutes.
by ludicity | 2025-06-02 20:49:11+00:00
It isn't bad financially, but I make much less money than I did two years ago. If I had taken any of the jobs I was offered, I think it would have been a 30K to 100K raise. Also the number is slowly going up, and unlike a day job, no one will tell me I'm earning "enough". If I hit enough to salary myself 500K one day, there will be no social norms preventing HR from giving me that.

I am way, way happier. I've met some really amazing people from all over the world. I also have access to a level of technical mentorship that has totally changed the way I engineer -- but you get other people too. I've spent a lot of time with the mythical thoughtful CEO (can confirm that they are an outlier and the median CEO is as bullheaded as they appear), gotten the inside scoop on a lot of stuff that used to confuse the hell out of me, and last week got invited to a group of writers in Melbourne that are helping me get a book out! And it's also, for me, a special kind of awe-inspiring to meet people that have produced truly great literature. I'd never had had the opportunity before that.

That's like, roughly what you'll get at 100 to 200 people if you write things that repel the energy you don't like. At a few thousand subscribers it gets a bit hairier because you don't have time to talk to everyone. I'm also definitely someone that leans hard enough into the parasociality that it becomes regular sociality, which might not be for everyone, and perhaps I'll run into a real sicko one day and regret it.
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by lechatonnoir | 2025-06-02 20:50:06+00:00
The trouble for me is, what is actually "proper form"?

People I've asked, including on the MonkeyType discord, don't seem to have very uniform opinions about it. Lots of fast typists have highly idiosyncratic strategies, as we see in this thread, but trying to get faster than ~150wpm (tested, which translates to more like ~100 in regular settings) feels to me to be limited by hand tension.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-02 20:50:08+00:00
You're not saying it's more convenient to read on a phone. You're saying that it's more convenient to bring your phone.

Sure, but we can all choose our habits. If I'm stuck waiting at a doctor's office, I will read on my phone like everybody else. But in all other situations, when you actively want to read, an e-reader is better.
by scheibo | 2025-06-02 20:50:08+00:00
Most existing Pokémon projects are written in JS/TS, Python, or C#. This engine is targeted primarily towards AI projects (https://pkmn.ai/projects/) where speed is of the utmost importance, hence a low level language like Zig shines (C/C++/Rust were also considered, Zig was actually the last choice here, it just ended up being the best one). TypeScript is convenient because its a decent scripting/glue language and plays well with the existing Pokémon Showdown codebase for easy integration testing.

The performance numbers for Generation I will not change as other generations get implemented (by design), and Pokémon Showdown will likely fare better as the game logic gets more complex but I would still expect at least a 1000x difference in performance even for modern generations - the things that make Pokémon Showdown slow do not go away as the generations increase, there is just perhaps less irrelevant stuff happening in later generations to slow things down.

The Zig patch in the source tree is optional and for performance reasons... but a ~20% performance boost is hard to pass up. This is not a general purpose patch, it is only relevant to this project which makes heavy use of sub-byte integers and has a very very comprehensive testing suite to ensure that the undefined behavior that could occur if this patch were applied and used to compile arbitrary Zig problems are not an issue.
by xracy | 2025-06-02 20:50:21+00:00
> What currency could replace the dollar?

I think the comment is that the danger to the dollar is that people are asking this question. I can think of 3 possible answers to what could replace the dollar.

1. The Yuan

2. The Euro

Distant

3. The Indian Rupee

Both of the first 2 are maybe not immediately ready to be the reserve currency, but if I'm in charge of either of these 2 currencies, I would certainly be thinking about how I could go about making myself the reserve currency. Especially as the US has demonstrated a capability of volatility and uncertainty twice in the last 10 years.

Maybe no one is ready for this, but if you didn't start asking this question the first time this administration came around, the last 5 months have probably convinced you to make a 3-4 year plan to figure out how. (If we are asking this question, I have to imagine that gov't's more incentivized to consider this, are figuring this out themselves).
by mattlondon | 2025-06-02 20:50:26+00:00
Same here with diagonal hands and straight wrists. I sometimes wonder "why" I haven't got RSI but I assume it is because typing the "wrong way" allows you to keep your hands in a natural comfortable position, rather than the awkward positioning for wrists elbows shoulders and fingers required to do it the "right way".

That and chiclet keyboards being so much more comfortable to use than big chunky keys
by hoakiet98 | 2025-06-02 20:51:08+00:00
> What's up with the recent trend of YC being open source?

To be fair, we were open source before we got into YC. YC didn't mandate any business model, and the vast majority of our batchmates (empirically, 90%) were closed-source.

> Is it an ideology thing, a sign of confidence, or is it really that consumers prefer open source software?

I personally think it's a competitive advantage for distribution, differentiation, and attracting talent. Also as an engineer, I just like OSS.
by fzzzy | 2025-06-02 20:51:33+00:00
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by bee_rider | 2025-06-02 20:51:36+00:00
We’re in a transitional stage at the moment, so I’m not too worried about maladaptive shitty writing becoming the norm (although, it sucks that your kid is being punished for our failure to adapt).

It would be totally nuts to take points off for using spell check. An LLM should be able to provide style check without causing any concerns; it will become the norm, and then too good prose won’t cause any flags to be thrown.
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by varispeed | 2025-06-02 20:53:00+00:00
You're making two contradictory claims.

First, you say big consultancies would face similar crackdowns if they paid their workers like contractors. But that ignores the fact that big consultancies already do far worse - they pay those workers far less, charge the client multiple times more, and funnel profits through complex corporate tax minimisation schemes. And somehow, that's fine?

> Pay low, pay no income tax, national insurance or employers national insurance, and take the rest in dividends.

That's a misleading argument. Taxes aren't hypothecated - it doesn't matter if it's labelled income tax, NICs, or dividends. What matters is overall tax contribution relative to the full value of the work delivered.

A contractor's small business typically generated more total taxable value - as both personal and business tax - compared to the portion of client fees that actually passed through to consultancy employees and stayed in UK tax channels, once the consultancy layered on profit extraction, internal costs, and offshore routing.

Secondly, this "tax avoidance" narrative was easy to sell because most people don't understand how the tax system works - and because the independent contractor is visible, familiar, and easy to resent. They look just like the person judging them - maybe even sit at the next desk - but they're earning more and keeping the rewards of their own work.

It's far easier to stir anger at that visible success than to explain how large firms quietly charge clients £1,000 a day for the same job, pay the employee £45k, and funnel the surplus offshore. The real extraction happens invisibly - while the system trains people to aim their anger sideways, not upwards.

> Large companies are just harder to control.

That's no excuse. They could have been included under IR35 - they weren't, because the system is designed to shield institutional profit chains, not treat all labour pipelines equally.

And no, it's absolutely about class - because IR35 rests on the assumption that a skilled, independent worker cannot possibly run a legitimate business, only a disguised employee gaming the system. That's structural classism - whether you acknowledge it or not.
by jchw | 2025-06-02 20:54:13+00:00
I used to type >140 WPM at high accuracy when I was younger without home row. These days I think I likely sit closer to 90 WPM or so, since I really just don't really need to type super fast very often and am pretty out of practice. I reckon home row is probably not terrible or anything, but like a lot of weird old ergonomics advice, I just don't trust the idea that you must or possibly even should use home row. For example, the best advice regarding ergonomics I've ever had is not to have proper posture at all times, but rather to get up more frequently and not sit in the same position for too long. Likewise, it feels a lot more natural to let my hands move around a bit, and as it would turn out my mouse arm is the one that wound up having more discomfort from long term computer usage. So clearly, YMMV. But a lot of us who didn't do home row are confused; some people will go as far as to say it's literally wrong not to, and I say, burden of proof is on you all.
by doublerabbit | 2025-06-02 20:54:18+00:00
Text is okay to moderate but media uploads. The content that gets posted is psychologically poisoning.

I had a short gig working for a shady YouPorn site clone allowing users to upload their own pornography content.

Jeeze, what's been seen cannot be unseen. The folk that post this content and think it's okay to do so is wtf. It really makes you wonder where did we go wrong.
by nand_gate | 2025-06-02 20:54:34+00:00
I'm biased but my money's on the end result of AI being fewer engineers per team but also teams as a concept becoming obsolete.

Why keep legacy structures, with luxuries like POs or PMs if AI becomes powerful as you say - it'll just be 'one man startups' for better or worse.

Any empire-building VP should probably fear the wishful AI future they're praying for!
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-02 20:54:47+00:00
Similar here.

I grew up playing multiplayer games on PC, and my natural resting spots sound similar to yours: straight wrists, left hand defaults closer to a-w-d than a-s-d-f.

I avoid most pinky use outside of modifier keys, and there aren't strict finger-letter assignments. Middle of the keyboard gets hit by whatever hand makes it more likely to alternate nicely while typing a word.

Main benefit I see is that I know a lot of folks my age now complaining of RSI when typing, and I don't seem to have any of that (mouse related - yes, keyboard - no).

Funny since I didn't really make much association, but I also was learning to play piano at the same time I was learning to type.

Gaming was a lot more of an incentive to learn how to type quickly back in the days where you could only communicate with text chat.
by talkingtab | 2025-06-02 20:54:57+00:00
Good thoughts. Made me think. I had not connected the trust issue as you did, but was aware of it. One thing that concerns me is the tracking ads that are the business model for the consumer internet. Even worse than the tracking is the targeting. At some point I saw some supposed code from twitter or another, that was basically ``` if (isDemocrat) showD() else if (isRepublican) showR() ``` The net(!) effect is that people develop completely different world views which tend to be echo chambers. To my mind this is the cause of much dysfunction. The democratic party still does not get the source of the gigantic dissatisfaction that many, many people have for the way things are. In their echo chamber, the concept that many people have real and valid concerns is verboten.

Unless the New York Times readers can figure out that the people they call "haters" are in fact suffering things there will be no alternative to those people who are capitalizing on that suffering. IMO.

As for trust, I believe one large step is to prevent targeting. Otherwise the alternative is to develop another business model. [Edit for spelling a tiny bit more of clarity]
by prmph | 2025-06-02 20:55:01+00:00
I couldn't agree more. This has been my exact experience.

Like you I'll probably write a blog post and show, prompt by prompt, just how shockingly bad Claude frequently is. And it's supposed to be one of the best at AI assisted coding, which mean the others are even worse.

That'll either convince people, match their experiences, or show me up to be the worst prompter ever.
by lechatonnoir | 2025-06-02 20:55:18+00:00
you assert that people know a killer app when they see one

a bunch of people think that something like chatgpt is a killer app, and they know it when they see it. you assert that it obviously is not, so clearly the above intuition isn't working for the purposes of discussion.

instead, someone should define the term so that we know what we're talking about, and i offer you the ability to do it so that the frame of the discussion can be favorable to your point of view. but you are also not willing to do that, so how do you expect to convince anyone of your viewpoint?