MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beloch | 2025-06-08 03:35:54+00:00
> "Basking in Las Vegas' neon glow at the launch, founder Aron D'Souza on Wednesday urged athletes to take a gamble on the novel competition that he believes can transform sports science but that critics deride as a freak show."

It's not a freak show. It's bloodsport.

In sport, if something that enhances performance is permissible, then it's mandatory. Everyone needs to do it just to remain competitive. Whatever banned substances and techniques are allowed in this competition will become compulsory. All of them. All at once. In games with rules, the question is how much can you get away with before you're caught. In these games, it will be a question of how much you can get away with before you die. It will become a race to liver failure, heart-attack, and embolism. This competition will kill people and then be shut down.

The real kicker is that the performances in these games probably won't be that great. Any decent athlete who has a hope of competing elsewhere will steer clear. Steroids, doping, and all that other stuff can only improve bums so far.
by yallpendantools | 2025-06-08 03:37:06+00:00
There is no final word on the matter yet and there are counterpoints to the "Transformative use" argument.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-meta-case-wei...

> "You have companies using copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products," Chhabria told Meta's attorneys. "You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, and you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person."

> "I just don't understand how that can be fair use," Chhabria said.

https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/05/12/copyright-office-weighs-ai...

> Stylistic imitation even without substantial similarity would likely be implicated under such a [market-dilution] theory, which could be considered as a market effect under factor four that diminishes the value of the original work used to train the model.
by programd | 2025-06-08 03:38:08+00:00
Another similar game to Dwarf Fortres is Song of Syx [0]. It's more accessible then DF and I think they can have up to 20,000 entities active in the world at a time. The world map is pretty huge, and the player gets to control a one group among many. Every entity in Song of Syx is individually modelled, though probably not in quite the details that DF is known for.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/
by natmaka | 2025-06-08 03:38:50+00:00
> "we" are winning and "they" are losing

This is a very important rule stated by the War Nerd: 'Most people are not rational, they are TRIBAL: "my gang yay, your gang boo!" It really is that simple. The rest is cosmetics.'

A small human group is compatible with this tribal behavior because the bulk of actions (or at worst their effects) are quickly perceptible to everyone. The larger the group, the less each person understands what is happening, even the effects of what he does.
by clacker-o-matic | 2025-06-08 03:40:23+00:00
took me 3 days but I got all of that implemented! the graph for raw score was more to see rate of score vs position on the page but upvotes gained kinda makes sense (probably not going to change for now since I love the pretty slopes). I spent quite a while tweaking all the colors to meet or exceed the webaim accessibility contrast ratios so hopefully thats better :)
by didgetmaster | 2025-06-08 03:40:43+00:00
There is a difference between building or inventing something that really works, and getting a large percentage of the population to actually adopt it. You could say the thing you worked on 'didn't fail' if it really did what you designed it to do; even though almost no one recognized its value and put it to use improving their life, even in some small way.

History is full of very useful devices that only improved the lives of a few people; while also full of mediocre devices that were widely adopted due to very good marketing.
by Nursie | 2025-06-08 03:41:52+00:00
Starfield (and I speak as someone who put in a couple of hundred hours to the game) has a wealth of problems, but one of them is that they messed up the distribution of even the small-ish number of points of interest that they have.

They put some sort of cooldown timer on them, set way too short, so players see the same half dozen over and over again.

A modder discovered the timer and set it longer, and suddenly found a load more content that very few people had come across before.
by potholereseller | 2025-06-08 03:42:03+00:00
The semi-colon symbol is the single-line comment symbol in Lisp, but the percent symbol means nothing special in Lisp.

SET-MACRO-CHARACTER is used to modify what happens when certain characters are found while reading code. In this case, SET-MACRO-CHARACTER is being used to instruct Lisp to start treating % as if it were a semi-colon (i.e. the third line is a comment), thus extending the syntax of Lisp on-the-fly.

The (GET-MACRO-CHARACTER #\;) portion could have been any code at all; GP could have defined % to do anything, such as "treat the remainder of this line as if it were a line of Python code", using calls to a Python implementation, such as cl-python [0].

[0] = <https://github.com/metawilm/cl-python>
by jaakl | 2025-06-08 03:42:11+00:00
Did you try to put all this (complex and external) context to the context (claude.md or whatever), with intructions how to do proper TDD, before asking for the tests? I know that may be more work than actual coding it as you know all it by heart and external world is always bigger than internal one. But in long term and with teams/codebases with no good TDD practises that might end up with useful test iterations. Of course developer commiting the code is anyway responsible for it, so what I would ban is putting “AI did it” to the commits - it may mentally work as “get out of jail card” attempt for some.
by tmnvdb | 2025-06-08 03:42:16+00:00
I've never encountered cycle time recommended as a metric for evaluating individual developer productivity, making the central premise of this article rather misguided.

The primary value of measuring cycle time is precisely that it captures end-to-end process inefficiencies, variability, and bottlenecks, rather than individual effort. This systemic perspective is fundamental in Kanban methodology, where cycle time and its variance are commonly used to forecast delivery timelines.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-08 03:42:23+00:00
MDN's got your back: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

I recognize this might not help you, but my first one was one of those huge Unleashed books "HTML and CGI" <https://books.google.com/books/about/HTML_and_CGI_unleashed....> which it seems one can still buy for $5

My first real web job out of collage was introducing HTX/IDX[1] to a shop that was still using Visual C++ to make CGI because C++ was the only hammer they had in their toolbox :sob:

1: I'm actually shocked that they still serve documentation for it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/iis/6.0-...
by malnourish | 2025-06-08 03:42:25+00:00
You used your tools well. The times are adapting and it's best we get on with it. It's the only way we can discover another step-change.

I use AI to help craft technical messages to different audiences and get various perspectives on my ideas and questions. It's a tool that's given me more insight into other perspectives than anything else, and it's helped me make some excellent slides.

Executives and senior leadership really need things at different levels. They are abstracting domains like we extract functions. Then there are the technical leaders, who this speaks to. I shared this article with my VP and peers. I expect it will be too much for some, but it remains approachable.

It's not all roses though, I tried using various LLMs to help me draft a personal message and it left me feeling remarkably conflicted. It was my message, but it lost my voice, even when just used to reach my niece's "audience" . I haven't found out how to use it and still allow for my creative emotional expression.

I don't use it for emails, because it still feels professionally dishonest for me; for some reason, presentations don't. I'm bad at them and it helps.

One more thing: I instruct LLMs to not let me meander like this.
Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?
by THENATHE | 2025-06-08 03:43:55+00:00
Very small, curated community posting thoughtful political, general, arts, gaming, etc news (specifically not just tech and “nerd” focused) that has some level of commenting functionality?

I LOVE hackernews but I am finding that I really don’t get a lot of non-tech news here (and I understand that is the point) and so I am looking for something to replace Reddit, TikTok, and google news at getting regular stories.

Some things I have tried:

RSS feeds: don’t really see a practical benefit to this over google news

Google News: want to get away from it as I am trying to excommunicate Google from my life as much as possible, and it misses the comment functions

Apple News: not happy I have to pay money for half of it, and the other problem I have is I could give a rats ass about their “curated” stories and audio news.

Reddit: generally, too mainstream and filled with a bunch of chaff I don’t really want to sift through to get to the nuggets, when the nuggets are quite common on here

TikTok: the world news I have gotten on here is great! But often filled with other videos that distract me or are not something I want to actively fill my time with

Thoughts? If this doesn’t exist, would people be interested in it being created, and does anyone think it has a chance of taking off (and not immediately falling to the slop that is public Internet forums)?
by haberman | 2025-06-08 03:46:15+00:00
I have the opposite experience. Several years ago I didn't worry too much about people using private variables.

Then I noticed people were using them, preventing me from making important changes. So I created a pseudo-"private" facility using macros, where people had to write FOOLIB_PRIVATE(var) to get at the internal var.

Then I noticed (I kid you not) people started writing FOOLIB_PRIVATE(var) in their own code. Completely circumventing my attempt to hide these internal members. And I can't entirely blame them, they were trying to get something done, and they felt it was the fastest way to do it.

After this experience, I consider it an absolute requirement to have a real "private" struct member facility in a language.

I respect Andrew and I think he's done a hell of a job with Zig. I also understand the concern with the Java precedent and lots of wordy getters/setters around trivial variables. But I feel like Rust (and even C++) is a great counterexample that private struct variables can be done in a reasonable way. Most of the time there's no need to have getters/setters for every individual struct member.
by exabrial | 2025-06-08 03:47:36+00:00
> Fray is a concurrency testing tool for Java that can help you find and debug tricky race conditions that manifest as assertion violations, run-time exceptions, or deadlocks. It performs controlled concurrency testing using state-of-the-art techniques such as probabilistic concurrency testing or partial order sampling.

> Fray also provides deterministic replay capabilities for debugging specific thread interleavings. Fray is designed to be easy to use and can be integrated into existing testing frameworks.

I wish I had this 20 years ago.
by mindslight | 2025-06-08 03:48:54+00:00
Sure, there is work that "needs doing". This doesn't mean there is anyone willing to pay to get that work done, especially at a livable wage that someone can base their life on (including some surplus such that they have slack to recover from making mistakes due to being less intellectual).

Even for something with an economically-demanded niche like planting trees, several guys with a shovel are beaten by two guys with a skid steer - putting us right back to the capital wins dynamic where the person who can afford to invest in the skid steer now bids down the now-surplus manual laborers who can't.

Eldercare could definitely use 2-3x the labor, but the whole goal of nursing homes is to turn the screws the other way. Then once you have staffing running extremely thin and unsupervised, the gatekeeping credentials become highly important.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-08 03:49:05+00:00
Atkinson at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/JQymn5flcek?si=2TMJ8b9zsR_Kitj-&t=1297

Also, it's here in the documentary that someone expresses the excitement anticipating the smart phone. It's hard to watch for me now and not shake my head, "Oh, it's not quite as wonderful as you imagined."
by THENATHE | 2025-06-08 03:49:55+00:00
Quality user experience in things that are core functions of use, and specifically them not getting bogged down (or potentially “bricked” by) the need for luxury, or ads, or ease of use.

In a car, the driver seat should, in my mind, be manually adjusted. Why? Because if the motor breaks because it has to adjust each time you sit down, and the last person to use the car is my mother or girlfriend, I literally cannot drive my car until it gets fixed because I am too tall.

But something like heated/cooled seats is perfectly fine to have as a luxury, because if my seat cooler fan breaks, I just have a sweaty back as if I didn’t have a seat cooler.

Same with manual transmissions: if I ever have my transmission start acting up and I don’t have the money to bring my car to the shop, I could probably fix it, albeit with a lot of difficulty and cursing. But an automatic? No way in hell.

Plus, my manual lasts longer, stays cooler, tows more, is more fun, provides more control, keeps me more aware and focused while driving, and is a theft deterrent.

You can apply this logic to anything: if the object becomes useless without it, it should be as basic, durable, strong, resilient, and/or foolproof as possible, but when the object would not break without it, it can have as much luxury as desired.
by tomhow | 2025-06-08 03:51:18+00:00
Thanks for being transparent about this, but we’re not wanting substantially LLM-generated content on HN.

We’ve been asking the community to refrain from publicly accusing authors of posting LLM-generated articles and comments. But the other side of that is that we expect authors to post content thay they’ve created themselves.

It’s one thing to use an LLM for proof-reading and editing suggestions, but quite another for “60%” of an article to be LLM-generated. For that reason I’m having to bury the post.

Edit: I changed this decision after further information and reflection. See this comment for further details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215719
by nilirl | 2025-06-08 03:53:21+00:00
Lot of visual noise because of model specific comments. Or maybe that's just the examples here.

But as a human, I do like the CLAUDE.md file. It's like documentation for dev reasoning and choices. I like that.

Is this faster than old style codebases but with developers having the LLM chat open as they work? Seems like this ups the learning curve. The code here doesn't look very approachable.
by Nursie | 2025-06-08 03:53:26+00:00
I’ve played fewer hours but gone through the whole story and about eight trips through the unity.

I don’t think it’s a failed game so much as one that’s not lived up to what it could be. The story is occasionally great but not always so. Most of the procedurally generated planets are entirely pointless and dull. You can see where they abandoned and downscaled ideas because there are still rough edges - the ‘fuel’ system that never was, for instance.

Overall I enjoyed the game, but it definitely falls into the same “banality of the infinite” trap that No Man’s Sky does
by jltsiren | 2025-06-08 03:55:11+00:00
As a city grows, it's common for the transit system to evolve from direct bus routes to trunk lines supported by local buses. Maybe there was a good bus service to the city center when you bought your home. But now the buses only go to the nearest transit hub, because there is no space for all the buses in the city center anymore. While the average quality of transit may have improved, your services are slower and less convenient than they used to be.
by THENATHE | 2025-06-08 03:56:58+00:00
The only thing I really don’t agree with is SaaS. There are numerous benefits to the end consumer as long as you phrase your thinking in the right way. Take Adobe, what most people consider to be the most gratuitous SaaS. I want photoshop in 2006, so I buy elements for $100 and get a shitty outdated version for the rest of my life. Or, I spend $8/mo on something that is constantly improving and adding new features, and get other programs too!

My workplace uses indesign, illustrator, and photoshop. But because the whole package was made available, we started messing around with premier and after effects and ended up adding a couple of skills to our design repertoire that we never would have fucked around with otherwise.

Plus, games that have SaaS last longer. Granted, skins are kinda lame. But think of a game like Helldivers 2, where the “battle pass” is earnable by in game play OR you can skip ahead with money. Great game, option to support the developers leads desire to keep development going instead of abandoning a game right after launch because “their work is done”.
by energy123 | 2025-06-08 03:58:12+00:00
This is so farfetched and I find it absolutely bizarre that anyone can have a worldview where they think this level of conspiracy is the most likely explanation for any of these things. It runs contrary to the point of a conspiracy which is to do things that benefit you. Being called a pedophile and splitting your base is not to your benefit.

Even if it was to his benefit to get called a pedophile, there still would be no reason to assume 4D-chess genius. The malignant narcissist and drug explanation is right there. The long track record of infighting and interpersonal fallouts is right there. The track record of falsely calling people pedophiles is also right there.

But for some reason we must discard all reason and conclude that Trump and Musk are conspiring.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-08 03:59:06+00:00
Holy moley. Thanks for sharing. I had to work with the API version a lot the last week and it was frustrating how "old" it felt intelligence-wise. This is in another league, I hope it's 4.1 x audio training, I'd love to talk to this. Current one is passable for hands-free RAG, that's it for me.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-08 03:59:48+00:00
Oddly enough I had been considering making a similar thread but asking for something akin to HN but with less non-tech news. Perhaps the question that both I and OP are asking is, does anyone know of a site that stays on topic?

>Thoughts? If this doesn’t exist, would people be interested in it being created, and does anyone think it has a chance of taking off

There is absolutely a market for it but it will eventually become a tech forum.

Edit: I apologize for the meta posting, Saturday night, what can I say.

Edit: Prepended "Edit:" to my apology even though it wasn't an edit, it seems more appropriate as an edit. Once again, I apologize for the meta posting, Saturday night, what can I say.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-06-08 04:00:15+00:00
Trump has a reputation for walking in on women and teens in the dressing areas at his pageants. At least one of Epstein's GFs said Trump assaulted her. Epstein said he was Trump's closest friend.

It's very possible the Epstein files do have (or used to have) damning evidence. Though IME folks who call themselves MAGA are unlikely to take any evidence seriously.

Trump himself has said he believes he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it.
by roenxi | 2025-06-08 04:00:52+00:00
Words like "protest" or "riot" leap to mind. It is more comparable to something like CHAZ in 2020 which could technically be called an insurrection or rebellion, but realistically was more of an unruly protest.

An insurrection would traditionally involve a little planning and a little more seriousness in the attempt. Maybe a plan that could conceivably lead to a change in government.
Show HN: Datatune- Perform data transformations with Natural Language using LLMs
by abhijithneil | 2025-06-08 04:01:11+00:00
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by mdp2021 | 2025-06-08 04:02:37+00:00
So, it seems you are saying that there exist products that, giving "pleasure upon command", make people akin to Damasio's rats - they would constantly go to the pleasure trigger.

But people are not rats: they are or can be made aware that crude pleasure is a negligible factor. Duties and other values count much more.

The dopaminergic system is inferior to judgement.

If there are issue in managing the dopaminergic system, the issue is cultural - and has to be treated in that framework.

It's like with the cognitive disaster in many medical doctors, that seem to equate "quality of life" with "pleasure" (in their own twisted ignorant subdevelopment): health itself has an extremely high value, crude veneers like said pleasure have not or can be plain countervalues.
by cyberax | 2025-06-08 04:03:51+00:00
Sigh. People are WAAAY too accepting of urbanist propaganda.

Buses are _barely_ more effective than cars. A regular passenger car with 4 people is more efficient than a city bus. An EV needs 2.5 people (these numbers are for the US).

The explanation is simple:

1. Buses have to drive _all_ _the_ _time_, even when there are few passengers. As a result, the average bus load tends to be around 10-20 people. And you can not increase the bus interval to compensate for it because it makes off-rush-hour bus commutes impractical.

2. Buses have INCREDIBLY polluting components: 2-3 drivers for each bus needed to provide the service. They are by far the dirtiest part of the bus. This part can be removed with the self-driving hardware, but...

A full self-driving bus also makes no sense. It defeats the main advantage of self-driving: door-to-door transportation.

That being said, self-driving mini-buses seating 6-10 people are a good idea for rush hour transit.
by bitwize | 2025-06-08 04:04:16+00:00
> Don Quijote has no such signs and does not demand your passport to enter or shop.

The one I visited had just such a sign posted at the entrance.

> Customs and immigration officials everywhere ask probing questions to catch smugglers and criminals.

I've never been asked such questions by customs in Australia, Canada, France, or the UK. The only ones who gave me a harder time were the American customs officials, as I was re-entering my own fucking country from Canada. They couldn't even be bothered to smile or act polite.

For good or ill, Japanese trust of foreigners is much lower than in the Western world. Maybe they loosened up a bit since 2011 but they're tightening back up now what with idiot streamers gaijin-smashing into construction sites and the like. Racism and open discrimination against people who even look foreign is higher than what a Canadian or Brit would be used to. Given that the Japanese are more interested in preserving their culture against foreign influence than the Brits or Canadians, it makes sense, yes. But it still felt dystopian at the point of entry. Once I'd cleared that hurdle, though, I had a great time in Japan and most of the people I met were pretty laid back.