MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piltdownman | 2025-07-10 14:43:34+00:00
In Ireland, approximately 41% of young adults aged 18 to 34 live with their parents as of 2024. It was 32% in 2011. This is an economic abhorration that has stolen significant independent adult lifespan from an entire generation.

This is caused by an Irish cultural distaste for apartments - as they're generally not setup for modern living, are typified by poor soundproofing and insulation, and marred by fire insulation and other scandals - leading to a decreased stock. Include the Help-To-Buy scheme applicable only to new-build houses on greenfield estates, and the HAP social-welfare payment which set an artificial floor on rents for apartments, and its the case that the average apartment rent is 1.5-2x the cost of servicing the mortgage at a 90% LTV.

This results in an average rent in Dublin of €2,500, with Open-market rents in the capital rising at annual rate of 5.2%. The most recent median (50th percentile) salary is €43,221, which comes from a 2023 CSO report. That's a monthly net salary of €3,000 per person.

The National Asset Management Agency, set up in the recession to take on all the in-default property and babysit it till prices rose again, has a huge part to play. Combine this with a non-fit-for-purpose Planning and Appeals process, and you literally have builders suing the government for blocking developments.

As of November 1st 2024, there were just over 2,400 homes available to rent across the ENTIRE COUNTRY OF IRELAND, down 14 per cent on the same date a year previously and well below the 2015-2019 average of almost 4,400.

All of this laid the foundations for disaster. Now the increased materials and energy costs since Covid-19, combined with a relative collapse in our building sector prior, have meant that building apartments in Dublin has largely become commercially unfeasible, as construction costs are now higher than what buyers are willing to pay.

https://www.independent.ie/business/unviable-construction-st...
by xienze | 2025-07-10 14:44:01+00:00
> and people thought it'll empower people by letting programs navigate services for them programmatically?

I don’t think that concept died because of nefarious business-related reasons but rather that building true HATEOAS APIs is hard and the utility of “automatically navigable APIs” is quite limited. It’s a neat trick to point a generic API client at an API and crawl it automatically, but hardly anyone consumes APIs that way. We read the API docs and construct integrations suited to the task at hand, manually.
by senkora | 2025-07-10 14:44:24+00:00
This is true, but it was surprising to me because I know that the gravity on the moon is 17% of the gravity on earth.

It turns out that what I was missing is that an object on the surface of the moon is much closer to the center of the moon than the same object would be on earth, because the radius of the moon is much less than the radius of the earth, and gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two objects.

mass_ratio / radius_ratio^2 = gravity_ratio

0.0123 / 0.273^2 = 0.17

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=mass+of+moon+%2F+mass+o...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=gravity+on+moon+%2F+gra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity#Characterization

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=radius+of+the+moon+%2F+...
by themdonuts | 2025-07-10 14:44:54+00:00
It was a massive difference when I started in Cape Verde. Specially the way of working, level of service and insurance options available (mostly non-existent). It's very satisfying to look back and the progress made over the years where, in a way, I helped to improve the customer service provided by the small local companies, closer to what you would see in the western world.

What's also funny is that the "1st dollar" coming in in any business is such a rush, such an excitement. That still holds true in my case! Even though the business is the same across the 3 websites, it's such an excitement to see the Madeira one growing (where I started more recently), compared to the Azores where I've been at for some years now.
by summarity | 2025-07-10 14:44:55+00:00
Or even more important: pathological users.

Actually malicious users are rare. Pathological users have a bias to be the _most_ demanding users when actually paying _the least_ (or nothing). It's a drain on every step in the support funnel. But what drives the business are users that both have a large scale of use and still have growth potential.

the worst tend to be just above the free tier, on the lowest paid plan available. Raising the minimum is an effective way to reduce this pain.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-07-10 14:45:20+00:00
But subreddits are free, and unlimited. You can make one yourself if you don't like how another one is moderated. People that like your approach can gather there. Of course that takes effort and is not easy, but Reddit itself (for the most part) is not banning you or your sub if you want to make a right wing house plant subreddit. If you want to make a pro Luigi anti transgender house plant subreddit, it probably gets banned.

Leftist subreddits also get banned for breaking site wide rules. The /r/chapotraphouse subreddit got banned in 2020, for example.

Reddit is best experienced in general by ignoring default subs and finding smaller ones that are relevant to your interests.

Moderating a large sub is hard. The scale is just too big, and it's individual volunteers doing it.
by speeder | 2025-07-10 14:45:27+00:00
They might use rotating wings to fly instead of jet turbines, but yes.

EDIT: To make things clearer, the word Missile is quite old, and predates rockets. missile is any object that is propelled somehow to hit a target. So even a stone launched from a sling by a caveman is already a missile. The other guy mentioned precision guided missiles though... and he is still correct in the word usage there.
by bloak | 2025-07-10 14:45:34+00:00
> In France, it's about 63%.

How do you even measure that? What counts as French?

(I'm reminded of this from the first page of a famous novel: La race, ce que t’appelles comme ça, c’est seulement ce grand ramassis de miteux dans mon genre, chassieux, puceux, transis, qui ont échoué ici poursuivis par la faim, la peste, les tumeurs et le froid, venus vaincus des quatre coins du monde. Ils ne pouvaient pas aller plus loin à cause de la mer. C’est ça la France et puis c’est ça les Français.)
by jltsiren | 2025-07-10 14:45:36+00:00
In some countries, kids learn some of that already in basic / secondary education. As a consequence of the same Humboldtian ideology that gave rise to the research university.

If schools help people become upstanding and well-informed citizens (which includes learning how the core institutions of the society came to be), they can supposedly pick vocational and other practical skills when needed. On the other hand, if schools focus on practical and directly useful skills, people's ability to see the big picture may be lacking.

In other words, you speak of symptoms of living in a society that has embraced the research university but not the ideology behind it.
by bluGill | 2025-07-10 14:45:36+00:00
Why are you doing this? Your kids should be able to find their own playmates. If you live on a farm I can see that kids can't get to anyone else's place without your help. The neighbor girl comes over to our house often to play with my daughter often. My son is annoyed that there are so few boys his age in walking distance (but we keep telling him to go visit the ones we know are in the neighborhood). We are lucky that neighbor girl is really outgoing as otherwise my daughter would sit at home complaining there is nobody to play with just like my son does...
by chris_va | 2025-07-10 14:45:38+00:00
Trondheim also has a university (which increases the odds of a party happening), and one could also walk across the entire city in less than an hour :). Most cities in the US suffer from being designed around cars, but that has not changed in the last 50 years, so I don't think it explains the decline.

It's been years, but I hope Den Gode Nabo is still fun.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-10 14:46:22+00:00
I think what you're saying is that we need a world where more things are built out of pure functions with explicit inputs. And I agree.

Wasm lets you take something that is coincidentally pure and run it in a way that ensures that it'll stay that way even for novel inputs, but you're still treating it like a black box... Just a particularly well behaved one.

Sometimes you need that because you're dealing with somebody else's code and they weren't especially interested in providing the kinds of assurances that you'd like to have. So I agree, it is a step in the right direction.

But if you want to author code that gives users such assurances, building to wasm is a rather small step. There only so much that can be done at the bytecode level. Much more can be done at a language level (Unison comes to mind, which goes so far as to eliminate the function's name as a source of works-differently-on-my-machine, though Haskell is probably a more common choice).
by kiririn | 2025-07-10 14:46:30+00:00
>Full-text search is entirely client side (not via IMAP)

Setting up server-side Xapian full-text search and disabling the crap client-side one in Thunderbird was one of the best improvements I made to my email usability. What makes your client-side search better? It's usually not speed I'm looking for, but rather precision, such as double quoted phrases (sorely missing from Thunderbird's client-side search), filtering by a mixture of things, etc.

I wish more clients had an option for server-side-only search (looking at you, iOS Mail.app) and/or had a nice UI for it (ctrl+shift+f dialog in Thunderbird is janky but gets results)
by echelon | 2025-07-10 14:46:48+00:00
Phones are the reason.

Everyone gets quick and lazy dopamine from phones. Why bother with anything else?

Think about how much time goes into phones. Who has time to plan? Who has time to coordinate?

Phones are probably why the birth rate is declining too.

You don't even need a house to party. You can use a pavilion at a park, go out in the woods like the rednecks I grew up around did, party at the trailer park. Homes are by no means a limiting factor.

It's 100% our phones.
by barrell | 2025-07-10 14:47:01+00:00
Yeah like I said I reach for loop first and foremost. This is what it would look like with comments if it were actually something complicated (although the comments are quite trivial here):

(loop [coll [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] memo []] (if (< (count coll) 5) memo ;; Stop once there are less than 5 items (->> (take 5 coll) ;; Take the first 5 days (reduce +) ;; Sum them (* 0.20) ;; Divide by 5 (conj memo) ;; Append to the end of the memo (recur (rest coll)) ;; Recur for remaining elements ,,,))))

Realistically if performance was a consideration I would probably do:

(loop [[a b c d e :as coll] [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] memo []] (if-not e memo (recur (rest coll) (conj memo (/ (+ a b c d e) 5))))))

Should be ~15 times faster to avoid the nested loop. If you want to change the min size it's still pretty clean:

(loop [[a b c d e :as coll] [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] memo []] (if-not c memo (recur (rest coll) (conj memo (/ (+ a b c d e) (cond e 5 d 4 c 3))))))))
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-10 14:47:20+00:00
They need some local buffers batteries, and some fallback power generation via the grid. But it benefits them if they can run on cheap renewables most of the time. And of course steel production processes can be adapted to be more flexible as well. Current steel production isn't optimized but when the choice is between shutting down for a few days or falling back to some relatively expensive power source, shutting down might be the more economical option. The idea behind flexible pricing is that large consumers of energy can optimize for that with batteries and storage. Charge when it's cheap, discharge when it isn't. Sell power when it gets really expensive.
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-10 14:47:55+00:00
When I was in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s, we'd go hang out somewhere with each other IRL and then when it got late and we got home we'd meet up in some online game (usually Starcraft or Diablo). So we'd still be hanging out at least two nights a week IRL.

If we counted only online gaming then we'd have been hanging out every night.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-07-10 14:48:01+00:00
this is known as "consideration", and is fairly common in Oil & Gas.

can't speak to other orgs but I know people who basically were given 80% of salary + health insurance coverage to politely fuck-off from the job market for ~2 years. Very specific list of orgs and roles they cannot do, otherwise anything is game.

My buddy basically took his time off and did a Master's, worked part time doing handyman work / light farm stuff, and then jumped back into a 6 figure gig.
by tom_m | 2025-07-10 14:48:12+00:00
Learn about LangChain and MCP. Honestly, 90%+ of apps and startups aren't doing anything unique or crazy. They're orchestrating and applying AI to various things. That means there's no moat, no secret sauce, and in many cases little effort. There's this concept of "AI slop" for content and I think it extends to startups/software as well.

Here's the thing. We're very likely to continue seeing VC funding in the slop. Counterintuitive, right? Why invest in these startups that are known to fail?

...because, if you connect the dots, the same VCs investing in these are those invested in the companies selling the LLMs. So it's literally funding companies to use and promote LLMs. Keep growing the hype and bubble. Keep normalizing LLM token cost. Keep playing on the FOMO. Bring on the AI doom.

It's absolutely worth having all of these startups fail for them. They'll spend millions and maybe billions in marketing. That's what most of these startups are - marketing. Pawns.

Remember, if you want to follow the whole (what I call) "AI doomer timeline" towards the end of it you'll realize that all/most SaaS startups will have a near zero or zero value. Why? Because anyone will be able to simply prompt AI to build the software they need. Not just "one size fits all" SaaS software that comes with limitations, missing features you need (but not enough of the other users need), other multi-tenant issues, and security concerns, and of course recurring cost...but people are going to be able to build CUSTOM single-tenant software with AI without recurring costs.

SaaS was always based on the age old question of buy vs. build. The only reason it works is because it cost more to build (and maintain). On our "AI doomer timeline" this will eventually shift and no longer be the case.

Ergo, these startups are mostly doomed for failure and it's in the best interest of VCs to invest in them to accelerate the timeline. Their goal is to increase AI adoption and phase out SaaS.
by AIPedant | 2025-07-10 14:48:30+00:00
A lot of the questions are simple subject matter knowledge, and some of them are multiple-choice. Asking LLMs multiple-choice questions is scientific malpractice: it is not interesting that statistical next-token predictors can attain superhuman performance on multiple choice tests. We've all known since children that you can go pretty far on a Scantron by using surface heuristics and a vague familiarity with the material.

I will add that, as an unfair smell test, the very name "Humanity's Last Exam" implies an arrogant contempt for scientific reasoning, and I would not be at all surprised if they were corrupt in a similar way as Frontier Math and OpenAI - maybe xAI funded HLE in exchange for peeking at the questions.
by simplicio | 2025-07-10 14:48:42+00:00
Eh, I feel like my (and most peoples) main exposure to house parties was in HS and college when basically no one owns their own home. Rented apartments, houses and family homes seemed to work fine then, I can't really think why that wouldn't be the case now.

Note the age-group with the biggest drop is 15-24, its not like the average 18 year old owned their own home circa 1995.
by irusensei | 2025-07-10 14:49:06+00:00
> I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute

I don't think that gesture was a nazi salute and was grossly taken out of context by everyone who hates the guy. I don't like Elon Musk either but stressing over something like that exacerbates the appearance that the accuser has a biased opinion. It also made the media who covered this for weeks desperate and very shallow.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-10 14:49:38+00:00
>That's not true. Bias and agenda have always existed, but there was a time when news sources clearly distinguished facts from opinions. In the US the shift arguably happened in 1987 when the fairness doctrine was abolished, and for-profit media companies were given freedom to publish anything they wanted.

It's plausible that pre-1987 that journalism was better but I very much doubt it. There's tons of Vietnam war era journalism that was terribly bad.

>That's a bold take, if I ever saw one. You're actually saying that social media is a good thing for journalism?

Depends on your point of view. From government point of view it's terrible. If it's journalists being held accountable for their lies and agendas, way worse. These journalists will obviously hold anti-social media positions due to this.

But from the consumer of news point of view it's a fantastic improvement. Today i read an article about a 'prohibited night-vision' in Canada but there's literally no such thing in Canada. All night vision is legal in Canada.

>If anything, social media exacerbated the free-for-all problem of reporting. Suddenly, everyone was a news reporter, with zero moral or integrity obligations.

That's how freedom of the press works correct. If you dont have moral and integrity, good luck getting an audience.

>There's nothing inherently flawed about traditional news media. It just needs to be strongly regulated to report facts rather than opinions[1]. This regulation is literally impossible on social media. Journalism is not something anyone with a social media account can or should do. I'm not saying that journalism can't exist on social media—it certainly can. But on its own it's not a place where journalism can thrive.

The government regulating the news is literally the opposite of freedom of the press.

>I would go a step further and make journalism a licensed profession, with its own variant of the Hippocratic Oath. Making the line between fact and fiction as clear as possible is essential to living in reality. Otherwise, words can be weaponized and people can be manipulated into thinking and acting in ways that are beneficial to those in power.

So the government will revoke freedom of the press and license journalists? Just dont do that in my country, thanks.

>[1] To counter the argument "who gets to be the arbitrer of truth?",

You want the government to license journalists. You want to make the government the arbiter of truth.
by anenefan | 2025-07-10 14:49:53+00:00
I learned by my first mobile phone (mid 90s) one does not want to be constantly moments away from having to field answers or sort out some BS was either not time sensitive, not that hard for someone to learn something for themselves or for that someone to learn how to ask other people they don't or wouldn't often talk to.

For personal purposes - use an email client that doesn't send read notification would be the first step. Set it to text, don't do links to documents and enjoy the bliss. The job unfortunately, one is somewhat stuck if they must use various messaging services.
by Cubre | 2025-07-10 14:49:56+00:00
Are you implying it "ain't" ground truth because it's not perfect? Ground truth is simply a term used in machine learning to denote a dataset's labels. A quote extracted from the link that you sent acknowledges that ground truth may not be perfect: "inaccuracies in the ground truth will correlate to inaccuracies in the resulting spam/non-spam verdicts".
by ksec | 2025-07-10 14:50:33+00:00
Many comments about Python 2-3 moves. The problem with Python was that 2 to 3 offers little to no incentive.

So I sometimes wonder why JIT isn't used as a motivation to move / remove features. Basically if you want JIT to work, your code has to be x ready or without feature x. So if you still want those performance improvements you will have to move forward.
by arandomusername | 2025-07-10 14:50:40+00:00
Replacing white people with foreigners is basic human rights?

If the population is decreasing, then let it. There will be a new equillibrium where people are repopulating at replacement rate, just lower than current population. But if we continue to import millions of foreign people, that equillibrium will never be found as the country is slowly destroyed.

> many men are becoming politically incompatible to women

It's actually women that are becoming super liberal. Men are more even more liberal now than they were 50 years ago.

> Figureheads like Andrew Tate spread brain rot that men are owed relationships

Yeah I don't think he ever said anything of that sort. I don't like him and I find him immoral, but I don't believe he is the problem here.

> encourage that they demonstrate the worst concepts of masculinity imaginable

That's untrue. Women seek leaders and strong men.

> So white women are increasingly pursuing happiness through careers and friends and hobbies instead

Anti-depressant use in white women is at it's highest, and I think they are the number one consumer? So doesn't seem like that pursuit of happiness is working out for them.

> And they're not having kids until they feel ready

True, by the time they want to have kids they are too old. A lot of them don't realize there's a biological clock.

> What would you do? Force them into marriages they don't want and impregnate them against their will? This is how freedom works.

Stop importing foreigners to replace them? If the population decreases, then let it.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-10 14:50:56+00:00
If anyone is unfamiliar with fatbergs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg

That I've heard, the best way to minimize fatbergs would be to put a hefty tax on "flushable" wipes. Unfortunately, the companies which manufacture them all know that breaking consumers' fell-good delusions (that the wipes are guilt-free flushable) would tank their sales. And politicians are always happy to let lobby-savvy corporations externalize their costs onto the public purse.
by bluGill | 2025-07-10 14:51:03+00:00
Very few places on earth are like that. Even in Europe's dense cities there are a lot of cars, get outside of that and there is no hope of an alternative. Though Europe is somewhat likely to have a bar within walking distance of your house, but a lot of people in Europe drive to whatever bar they drink in at least sometime.

Most of the world's public transportation sees themselves as a way to get to work and so parties which happen off hours in places hard for transport to reach get bad or no service.
by beagle3 | 2025-07-10 14:52:06+00:00
The only feature I am missing in Thunderbird is “group by sender, sort groups by latest receive date in group”. I don’t remember what client I used that had this (outlook, perhaps?) but for me it works so much better than other arrangements:

You still see all the latest correspondence, but also immediately all previous correspondence from the same sender (if you expand the group) whether or not it’s a reply thread.
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-10 14:52:28+00:00
Well, the loneliness coming through on those posts might just be from the fact that the people that are posting on social media like that are, in fact, lonely and looking for connection. I have a pretty extensive morning routine of practicing music, sitting for meditation/pranayama, food, shower all before work, and then Muay Thai or yoga or strength training in the evening. I just don't post it on social media because I don't have social media. I still go out to see music/art and friends etc, but I also live in NYC where it's easy to do that.