MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jobigoud | 2025-07-16 23:38:27+00:00
But you are mixing input and output.

It's obvious if you think about learning a foreign language. Parsing written text silently is a completely different task than producing speech with the right intonations, even if you recognize the words.

Reading aloud fluidly requires a certain speed and anticipation. You have to be reading the next word in your head while you are still pronouncing the previous one. This isn't necessarily correlated with reading comprehension which is purely input.
by khurs | 2025-07-16 23:38:30+00:00
What would a programmer rather work on. Some boring app for someone else, or an app to solve a problem he has of his own.

What is more enjoyable, working on the language and database dictated by work, or whatever tech he wants to use.

As long as a person gets out of bed and does a days work doing something productive in some way, it doesn't matter that it's not traditional work.
by dmix | 2025-07-16 23:38:32+00:00
The unions will use their government connections to force the job to exist even if it doesn't need to be. They'll figure out a way to get a union driver sitting in an fully autonomous truck for some invented safety checkbox

I remember Louis CK said he had a hell of a time trying to run his own comedy shows so he could offer lower ticket prices for his fans, but because every bit of the theaters were unionized it got really expensive fast and failed. They couldn't even touch the curtains, they had to pay a union guy to stand around all day and his only job was pulling a curtain cord at the right time. Which was some NYC rule.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-16 23:38:46+00:00
> Even though this is an obvious type

An obvious typo, you might even say!

When correcting someone on a finer point, it’s only fair to subject yourself to the same even-handed criticism before posting.

(I am a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist when it comes to spelling and grammar, but I am a stickler for the rules when it’s time to follow them! It’s fair to assume that we didn’t know there was going to be a test, and I have made typos also. I just thought this was ironic. Carry on!)
by yxie | 2025-07-16 23:39:13+00:00
Like many of you, I've found AI incredibly powerful, but its integration into daily workflows often feels clunky. The constant need to switch tabs, copy-paste, and manage multiple LLM windows is a significant productivity drain.

This led me to build Concon (www.concon.pro), a native Mac app designed to address this. My goal was to create an AI companion that lives inside your existing applications. A quick double-tap of Control, and an AI assistant appears right where you are – whether you're coding, writing, or Browse.

Concon brings together over 70 different LLMs (including GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more) into one unified, in-app experience. For me, the biggest win is eliminating context-switching and staying focused on the task at hand.

I'm curious about your experiences. How do you manage AI tools in your workflow? Do you see in-app, integrated AI as the future, or are there other paradigms you find more promising?
by consumer451 | 2025-07-16 23:39:17+00:00
So, comma.ai but for construction. That's pretty cool. Although as another user mentioned, right to repair/modify is likely the worst in heavy equipment.

I wonder how that problem could be solved. Could something along the lines of warranty and service indemnification work, maybe?

But really, an acquisition by the OEM might be the only way to make this work in the long term?
by javier2 | 2025-07-16 23:39:29+00:00
> I only traded out my iphone 12 mini just recently for an iphone 16 pro (likely the last apple product I will ever buy but thats another story) and aside from the camera it is basically the same. Just heavier, awkward to hold and slightly worse designed.

Just did the exact same thing 5 months ago.. I still miss my 12 mini. Would strongly consider buying a 13 mini instead of its even being sold anymore.
by napowderly | 2025-07-16 23:40:38+00:00
We think both are pretty important. For most people, the ato language should be sufficiently powerful, for module designers we have a python interface that allows for more complex designs.

For example the INA228 from TI has a funky addressing scheme that is not possible to describe in ato, so we create a hybrid module:

atopile for the main structure: https://github.com/atopile/packages/blob/multi/adafruit_heis...

compose in an 'addressor' python module: https://github.com/atopile/packages/blob/multi/adafruit_heis...
by ipdashc | 2025-07-16 23:40:44+00:00
> I have rarely met someone with a STEM degree who was entirely unable to get a decent paying job.

I mean. Have you met anyone who's graduated in the past year or two?

I'm exaggerating, but seriously, I know multiple people who graduated with CS or IT degrees from reputable institutions, some with decent prior experience, and they've gotten nothing back for months if not years. Plenty of similar stories in this thread. It's pretty bad out there. Agreed that it's still probably better than the proverbial philosophy or art degree, but still.
by leereeves | 2025-07-16 23:41:28+00:00
> That crosses the Eighth-Amendment line against cruel and unusual punishment, ignores the court’s authority, and shifts our problems onto another country instead of taking responsibility for them ourselves.

The Supreme Court approved the deportation 7-2.

Edit: Nothing the Supreme Court does is strictly procedural. Unlike other courts, they have complete freedom to ignore precedent and procedure and rule (or refuse to hear the case) based on the outcome they desire, and they frequently do so.
by snozolli | 2025-07-16 23:41:48+00:00
I'm not the guy you asked, but given the way that things are going right now, if you're currently gainfully employed and not miserable, then you should continue banking money for as long as you can.

For every romantic story you read about someone selling their stuff and striking out into the world, there are a bunch more stories of people who ruined a reasonable life trajectory chasing a vague dream or simply fleeing discontent.

Talking to a therapist and practicing gratitude is a lot cheaper than burning through life savings. That said, if you're genuinely miserable in your life and career, definitely pursue changes. You should probably consult professionals (therapists, life coaches) in that case, too.
by namibj | 2025-07-16 23:42:04+00:00
If you can automate efficiently enough, you can build far finer structures.

For example look at how detailed the structure and weld arrangement is for modern cars, vs. back when robots only just started to take care of the frame welding on the assembly line.

Or how optical HDMI cables are affordable because they use fully automated UV-cure-resin-glued fiber alignment straight from the cable end into the optoelectronic chips, without needing optical connectors or any other human-labor to get the light path connected up. That's how they manage to do it the conceptually easiest way: amplifier->laser->fiber->photodiode->amplifier, and repeat for the 4 high-speed pairs. Also handing the low speed communication channel separately with just normal wires as signal degradation isn't an issue for that.

Or for example 3d printer infill: that's something no one would do manually in such a way, but if it's just automated it's quite desirable/efficient.

App rental e-scooters: they rely on automation to organize even when parked "pretty much anywhere they're not gonna block traffic", and as such become relevant for even short trips.

If you have an unsupervised robot that lays bricks for you to build up a house, you can get away with smaller bricks (and thus a lighter/cheaper machine needing a smaller crane to lift up/out of higher floors), than if you need a human to supervise it.

Smaller machine if slower means more machines, meaning cheaper production of the machines due to scale.

Auto-feeders for nail guns in construction means more smaller nails as placing 3 in a row takes barely longer than just 2. Especially if the nail gun could, say, run like an optical mouse and automatically trigger at a configured spacing while dragged along a surface with the trigger held down.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-16 23:42:17+00:00
It is expressly forbidden to place test calls in the UK to 999. I could pretend to be a confused pensioner calling a taxi but that is not right and I can;t write that up.

The generally accepted method is to subscribe to your TSP's emergency number provision, when doing VOIP. However, it never gets tested and what if a 9 was typed as an 8 in the dialpan?

I used to put in ATAs which are SIP to copper voice bridges (for want of a better phrase) but copper is going away and ATAs are bit thin on the ground these days.

I like change in general but there are some pretty fundamental changes that our gov have not noticed might cause a few issues soon.

Ironically for me: My house is within the nearest town boundary and has copper from the cabinet provision (FTTC). The cabinet is about 500m away. We have had four separate teams rock up to pull fibre to my door and failed. Each one have decried the last team and said it will be fine by close of play.

I am seriously considering putting in wifi PtP to my office from home.
by SkyMarshal | 2025-07-16 23:43:39+00:00
TLDR: "China has enforced a “real-name registration” system for over a decade, meaning that Chinese internet companies almost always know the true identity of users who are, say, ordering a dress online, leaving a social media comment or playing a video game.

With the new centralized ID system, the Chinese government will take over the process. Users who submit a trove of personal information — including scans of their faces — will receive a unique code to access online accounts.

This means that companies, like social media site Weibo or online shopping behemoth Alibaba, will no longer be able to see the personal information of their users with digital IDs — but Chinese authorities will be able to see the real identity behind online accounts across a range of sites."
by op00to | 2025-07-16 23:43:41+00:00
Right, it’s more that you don’t trust the existing alerts because morons are issuing them than that there are too many. I totally get that! If you knew the alerts were coming from someone who knew what they were doing, you’d tolerate them.

They do the same thing with Amber Alerts in my area. It got to a point where it was multiple times a week, it’s common sense to tune it out or turn ‘em off.
by spicybright | 2025-07-16 23:44:35+00:00
Every cellphone without a valid service plan is still required to be able to call 911 in most places of the world, including the US, and carriers eat the costs. It should be obvious why.

Frankly it's weird they're making a clone of a classic touch tone corded phone and somehow get around this. Especially for a kids product when we teach kids to call 911 in an emergency.
by devilbunny | 2025-07-16 23:44:50+00:00
I always figured that they just couldn't wrap their heads around a good way to monetize it.

It was painfully slow on netbooks, but it did work, and we used to use it to live-comment on LOST episodes with two other couples that we're friends with (but live in different cities, so we couldn't just have a watch party every week).
by int_19h | 2025-07-16 23:45:17+00:00
Le Guin was also anarchist-minded in real life, too. I recall her explicitly endorsing Murray Bookchin in her late years.

The Dispossessed is excellent literature regardless of one's politics, though. The anarchist society depicted in it is utopian, but shown with warts and all fully exposed, and that makes it that much more believable.

I find that it pairs great with Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which, while very different in terms of language and writing (but also great!), sort of does a similar exposition of an anarcho-capitalist utopia - again, warts and all.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-16 23:45:51+00:00
I think it is anti-American to discriminate on the basis of origin. Where you are from has no bearing on many if not most jobs. I may not be making the point you think I’m making, I’m making a nuanced point that we have a duty to report treason, and we have a duty to report whatever it is when you have an ongoing state of affairs in which there exists a stated or effective policy of only (or never) hiring a certain group of people.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 23:46:29+00:00
We will develop solutions by then, ideally.

The "illness" is very simple, in my mind.

As rights for women progress, they choose not to have children. Which makes a lot of sense - having children is risky. The reason women in underdeveloped countries choose to have them is because they have less rights and less autonomy, as well as a worse economy.

If you're poor and require a husband to function, then having children is a huge boon. Not that you have much of a choice - your husband usually chooses. He bears little to no risk to having children, so of course he says yes.

What we cannot do in the West is backtrack on education and equality. It would probably work, yes, but we would literally develop backwards. Our economy relies on women working, our economy relies on education, etc.

So, instead, we should make having children a sweeter deal, rather than pseudo-forcing women to have children. We should offer generous and safe maternity leave, we should offer free childcare, and we should implement universal healthcare to eliminate risks associated with infant care, pregnancy, and postpartum care. We could even make higher-education free, to eliminate risks associated with saving for college.

Basically, women aren't having children because it's incredibly risky for little to no gain. By having children, you are ensuring greater economic hardship, health challenges, and less autonomy. It's a Catch 22 - if you choose to stay home, you have sabotaged your career. If you choose to work, you must pay exorbitant childcare fees.

We should not be surprised that women are opting out.
by realo | 2025-07-16 23:46:57+00:00
There you go.

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...

And if one asks Claude.ai , one gets this:

Bottom Line: US infrastructure costs are dramatically higher than Europe - often 10-30 times more expensive for transit projects, with subway construction in NYC costing $3.2 billion per kilometer compared to just $100 million per kilometer in cities like Madrid.
by xyzelement | 2025-07-16 23:47:26+00:00
One thing is always missing from the analysis of collapsed fertility is the recognition that truly religious people seem immune to the problem. Religious Jews, mormons, muslims, etc are having as many kids as a hundred years ago, if not more thanks to modern medicine and things that made things easier (I know guys with 11 kids, imagine doing that before diapers.)

From that perspective, much of the analysis about the systematic causes seems bunk - the same forces (eg the economy, costs, etc.) affect everyone. An ultra-orthodox woman averages 6.6 kids, while an atheist - about 1, despite the fact that they might live in the same Brooklyn zip code for instance.

It's just that - somehow - religious people maintain the motivation and energy to do it while atheism somehow doesn't create the same inspiration and ability. To be clear, fertility rate of around 1 means that each generation of atheists will be half the size of the previous one. So in one sense, the fertility problem will "solve itself" as subsequent generations are dominated by children of those who haven't lost their faiths.

I suspect part of the problem here is that secular society fails to turn an inward look on itself and recognize that their "secularity" is at the very least co-morbid with this problem.

I don't really have a solution since it's not like someone's going to read this and go "oh shit better pray up if I want to be a dad" (though it seems like that's true) but just wanted to point out the obvious connection between religiosity and being immune from this infertility on average.
by leereeves | 2025-07-16 23:47:33+00:00
> Guatemala and Honduras, where the 2023 homicide rates (≈17 and 31 per 100,000, UNODC) remain among the highest in the hemisphere and where LGBT killings continue at a pace far above population share (Honduras’ observatory logged 40 LGBT murders in 2022 alone)

Assuming your stats are accurate, the population of Honduras is 11 million, so 31 per 100k equals 3410 murders. 40 LGBT murders is only 1% of that, significantly below the population share for a likely number of LGBT people (around 8%).

Please check your stats more carefully so I don't have to, thanks.

Edit: However you try to obfuscate it, the plain fact is, 40 murders among 11 million people is an LGBT homicide rate of 0.4 per 100k. That's extraordinarily low, and you're trying to misrepresent it as a death trap.

I didn't "cherry-pick" that statistic. You chose it. Now you don't like the obvious conclusion it leads to, so you're changing to a different argument about solving crimes. I don't think you're even interested in discussing this honestly.
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by jokera | 2025-07-16 23:47:37+00:00
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by mercutio2 | 2025-07-16 23:48:08+00:00
Do you realize how extensively companies have to document their buybacks? Who is deceived?

There is zero fraud implied or even suggested by stock buybacks. They are heavily-publicized-in-advance returns of capital to shareholders. That's it. The sales are often offset by the creation of new stock via RSUs, and in that case just reduce the dilution intrinsic to RSUs.

Shareholders want executives to be incentive-aligned to reduce agency problems. Stock based compensation furthers that goal. If a manager doesn't think they have a better use of spare capital than returning it to shareholders, returning the capital is exactly what shareholders want. There's nothing nefarious here.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-16 23:48:25+00:00
In some ways, A is easier, but not in all ways. Each has its own difficulties.

These are not the only possibilities, though; a third possibility might be:

C) Make a simpler set of features which are compatible with some parts of WWW and implement that.

However, you can do two or all three things if you want to do; you are not limited to doing only one thing. I think all three of these (A, B, C) have their own benefits, so you don't need only one.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-16 23:48:47+00:00
That makes no sense. The only phone companies that make money from how often you use your phone and buy apps on it are Apple and Google. If there were a market for it other companies would make them.

As far as the mini phones - because physics - the battery life is atrocious. That was one of the main drivers for me to get a larger phone. Well that and because I can pull down the Control Center and use the widget to make everything on my phone larger and still be able to use it without wearing my glasses. With my glasses, I keep everything the smallest size
by jamesy0ung | 2025-07-16 23:49:06+00:00
As an Aussie computer science student, I do wonder what they are actually looking for. I know full well that uni isn’t teaching anything useful (heck my uni doesn’t even allow compsci students to take C programming) so I try and extend my knowledge by working on projects in my own time. Recently I’ve been getting into reverse engineering, before that I was writing my own shell from scratch in C. Is this good stuff to do job-wise?
by panny | 2025-07-16 23:49:13+00:00
>Obviously spilling trillions of tons of poison into the air, water, and soil year after year for over a century is causing problems

CO2 is poison to you, but it's how all plants grow. And we need plants.

I'm disappointed that the article is so poor. It merely rehashes talking points from one side. It doesn't even touch on the core argument made by the other side. The argument made by every climate activist at the end of the day. The n-word. Nuclear. Every argument about climate change always comes back to

>We can't keep using fossil fuels, and renewables aren't enough energy. We need nuclear!

The entire climate change problem was designed with a nuclear solution in mind. And the nuclear solution is a trap. Centralize all energy generation in the hands of a powerful few, and outlaw other forms of energy. No Iran, you cannot have nuclear energy, you must buy it from the few powerful people who get to control it. No John American, you cannot generate your own energy, don't be silly. Now open your wallet and buy nuclear, at whatever price we set.
by cycomanic | 2025-07-16 23:49:47+00:00
Do you have any evidence or are you just pulling this out of thin air? All sources I can find estimate pre construction costs between 3 and 10% depending on type of infrastructure and where it is (the US according to [1] is on the lower end with 3-5%). To put this in perspective the profit margins on construction projects is 7% according to [2], which also does attribute skilled labour shortages as the main factor behind increasing construction cost.

[1] https://srgexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/The-cost-of... [2] https://publications.turnerandtownsend.com/international-con...
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-16 23:50:44+00:00
I am sure that it is because the porn industry settled on Git :)

Anyways, I started on Mercurial, and I think it has a better UX, but technically I now prefer Git. The success of Mercurial over Git surprised me a little because of that, Git is not an easy version control system to get into, at least when compared to Mercurial, it shouldn't help adoption, but I guess it is just because some big names decided on Git.

Mercurial and Git use the same fundamental principles, and one is not really better than the other, just details.
by sircastor | 2025-07-16 23:50:51+00:00
My iPhone 12 Mini's camera just broke (the zoom is failing..) I have been poking around for any solution that is around the same size. The best answer is generally never-heard-of companies that pop new phone models out and no certainty as to how long they'll last or be supported. That's on top of having to switch platforms (again).

I'm resigned to getting a new iPhone in Sept - reluctantly.
by willmarch | 2025-07-16 23:51:09+00:00
The 7-2 order was about procedure, not substance. The Court said the district judge picked the wrong tool when he demanded 14 days’ notice—it did NOT rule that sending people to a war-torn state where they face torture is constitutional or consistent with our treaty obligations. Even the Founders distinguished between legal technicalities and natural-rights violations: an act can pass procedural muster and still be, in Madison’s words, ‘an abridgment of the rights of mankind.’ This deportation plan remains exactly that.

Response to your edit: Emergency shadow-docket orders don’t confer moral or constitutional absolution; they just postpone the real fight. By the founders’ own logic, knowingly dumping people into a war zone where torture is likely remains a breach of the natural-rights compact—no matter how many procedural shortcuts the government wins in the meantime.