MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nativeit | 2025-07-03 16:14:39+00:00
Right, but abstract costs are still costs to someone, so how far does that go before mass adoption turns into a mass liability for whomever is ultimately on the hook? It seems like there is this extremely risky wager that everyone is playing--that LLM's will find their "killer app" before the real costs of maintaining them becomes too much to bear. I don't think these kinds of bets often pay off. The opposite actually, I think every truly revolutionary technological advance in the contemporary timeframe has arisen out of its very obvious killer app(s), they were in a sense inevitable. Speculative tech--the blockchain being one of the more salient and frequently tapped examples--tends to work in pretty clear bubbles, in my estimation. I've not yet been convinced this one is any different, aside from the absurd scale at which it has been cynically sold as the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but while that makes it somewhat distinct, it's still a rather poor argument against it being a bubble.
by majkinetor | 2025-07-03 16:14:55+00:00
Yes, I am serious, and I practice that stance more then 2 decades, so its not just talk.

> Prolonged high supplementation doses is actually very dangerous.

Reference please.

Here is one: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15563650.2019.16...

It shows no deaths from vitamins. This is from 2018, but its like that every year. While it doesn't account for damage as its highly uncertain to pinpoint exactly what happened in any human, at least you know there are no deaths, while at the same time, there are deaths for any drug (aspirin for example).

> I’ve also had a family member who did permanent kidney damage by prolonged usage of supplementation.

You mean, you or your doctors suppose it was about supplementation? And what supplementation? You can damage yourself or die with anything, water included, or you come with defective organ from the day 0. All that is not relevant for others.

Bashing on supplements is in any case irresponsible and you spread fear because you are not informed, its similar to anti-vacc movement - it never happens that entire technology domain is invalid - particular instance of drug/supplement/vaccine/herb can be.
by daseiner1 | 2025-07-03 16:15:39+00:00
i would hope by now such reviews are heavily down-weighted on the back end as far as contribution to the overall rating displayed for a given product. seems relatively easy to automatically detect and I struggle to see why Amazon would want deflated reviews for products they're selling.

maybe it's a legal thing, could be viewed as market place manipulation i suppose. and they've certainly had enough worries about anti-trust already.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-03 16:15:52+00:00
i think youre missing the point. because it is so utterly lazy, in many ways the signals that vcs are looking at might be antisignals, in the same way that being in "30 under 30" is not a great signal for potential but maybe a good signal for fraud/being great at getting coffee at morgan stanley.

and if it is, it's toxic because people get into entrepreneurship because they think they have a shot. if they don't, because stupid credential X is not in their pocket, why the fuck should they even try?

of course there is not control. this is a tweet, not a submission to PNAS
by newAccount2025 | 2025-07-03 16:16:02+00:00
I agree with the meat of what you say, but is selective enforcement really so unique to authoritarian governments?

In the US, even before recent administrations, we’ve long had evidence of uneven application of laws. Police love power. Criminalizing more stuff gives them more power to decide who to target.

Look how the war on drugs and policies like stop and frisk have targeted black folks. Even innocuous sounding things like seatbelt laws give police the ability to criminalize “driving while black.”

Meanwhile we’ve long ignored white collar crimes like wage theft. You know rich families aren’t going to be affected by anti-abortion laws.

My heavily tattooed White friends and I recently ignored no trespassing to swim in a nice river in TX. We agreed that if the cops came, I (non tattooed, White) would do the talking.

Anyway, the police have never been interested in holding the rich and powerful to account.
by wnc3141 | 2025-07-03 16:16:58+00:00
Stock market measures two things, 1) the performance of firms within their economic environments. 2) the level of savings to be invested in the stock market.

Both are tied to the labor-share of income. That is, how much income is generated through yield on capital (firm profits returned to shareholders, rents, financial services) compared to earned through labor.

This chart inversely correlates nicely with the stock market. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
by spacemadness | 2025-07-03 16:17:03+00:00
Not exactly tabletop, but this is the issue I have with every Pathfinder build I see for Wrath of the Righteous. Everyone dips into these nonsensical combinations to get a better armor rating, etc. So then you get a Paladin that decided to become a witch for part of the campaign for “reasons”. You can roleplay something, sure, but it’s rather forced by the numbers.
by joshka | 2025-07-03 16:17:09+00:00
Taking a look at the source earlier, I'd guess probably not.

If you're going to move a project to rust, you'd want to actually make it look like rust. Currently it looks like C written in rust. That doesn't make anyone happy really.

(Obv. not a slight on the maintainer here, it's a personal project with a specific approach)
by int_19h | 2025-07-03 16:17:29+00:00
I dunno, color blindness is brought up just as often here IMO.

On the whole I'd say it's a good thing because it means that the various awareness campaigns are working. Better that this kind of stuff is "overdiscussed" than not discussing it at all.

And besides, this focus has some useful side effects. For example, pages designed with screen readers in mind are also that much easier to interact with from scripts and other automation.
by londons_explore | 2025-07-03 16:17:40+00:00
machining metal parts to tight tolerances when they're only a millimeter wide is awfully expensive.

But making tiny things with lithography is really cheap (in volume).

The middle ground is what one needs for a 10 watt vapor compression pump. And to my knowledge nobody has built a 1 watt pump with lithography - although an array of electrostatic scroll compressors does look like it could work.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-07-03 16:18:28+00:00
The argument, I think, is that if AI cannot actually replace these jobs, either other companies will pop up to fill the holes, or they will quickly reverse their position once negative results start coming in.

Sure, you can have all of SalesForce run entirely by AI, but people may just find a better solution that actually works. Claude ran a vending machine after all, but it was deemed a failure.

So yeah, maybe there's a rocky month or two, and I'm not trying to downplay the severity of that...but the demand for the roles these services fulfill will still exist, and become market opportunities
by spmurrayzzz | 2025-07-03 16:18:31+00:00
Concrete example from my own workflows: in my IDE whenever I accept or reject a FIM completion, I capture that data (the prefix, the suffix, the completion, and the thumbs up/down signal) and put it in a database. The resultant dataset is annotated such that I can use it for analysis, debugging, finetuning, prompt mgmt, etc. The "custom" tooling part in this case would be that I'm using a forked version of Zed that I've customized in part for this purpose.
by teiferer | 2025-07-03 16:18:33+00:00
> But for personal projects and open source work, it feels out of reach

Is it? Many hobbies cost much more money. A nice bike (motorbike or road bike, doesn't matter), a sailing boat, golf club/trips, a skiing season pass ... $100/month is significantly less than what you'd burn with those other things. Sure you can program in your free time without such a subscription, and if you enjoy that then by all means, but if it takes away the grunt work and you are having more fun, I don't see the issue.

Gym memberships are in that order of magnitude too, even though you could use some outdoor gym in a city park for free. Maybe those indoor perks of heating, lights, roof and maintained equipment are worth sth? Similar with coding agents for personal projects...
by gpderetta | 2025-07-03 16:18:38+00:00
> Beginning with the type inference (ie using "auto" to declare vars).

GCC (and possibly other compilers) had typeof in the '90s well before D was first released. Macros in the form:

#define TYPEOF(name, expr) typeof(expr) name = expr

Were widely in use since then.

I'm sure that C++ borrowed concepts from D, but type deduction (not inference BTW) is not one of them.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-03 16:18:56+00:00
>> No, meetings are low information density because people are too lazy to plan an agenda and assign homework to a meeting beforehand, so that the meeting can focus on solutioning and actually delivering value.

Honest question, how many people have this happening at where they work?

Most of the meetings where I work at now are on Teams, and are (for the most part) recorded so if people need to drop, or miss it because they can't make it for some reason. This also allows people to go back and watch at a faster speed or skip to presentations or important parts. The huge advantage is those meetings have a transcript so you can also read or scan the transcript instead.

I'm just wondering if in 2025 people are still having meaningless meetings.
by khuknows | 2025-07-03 16:19:07+00:00
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by IAmGraydon | 2025-07-03 16:19:20+00:00
Why does everyone want to invent a conspiracy these days? There's no "concerted flagging campaign". We, the users, are here to uphold the content policies of HN, and we do so by voting to flag posts that violate it. The content policy is what it is, and it doesn't play favorites. There have been MANY political posts in recent times that have not been flagged. Here's a handful in just the last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434239
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-03 16:19:39+00:00
You may be right. The fact is that Falcon 9 was aimed straight at a huge market. So far SpaceX has been brilliantly successful when it has focused on immediate commercial markets.

When it comes to things like space telescopes, a cheap 100 tons to LEO would change the paradigm of how things are developed completely. When it comes to deep space missions that are a one way trip it’s not clear Starship does better than something like the SLS which was cost optimized (see big dumb booster)

The way Starship is being developed, with failure being very much an option, could get to LEO with cost optimizations. Mars is a different animal —- if takes 10 tries to stick a landing you’re going to wait 25 years.

The key problem of deep space colonization or exploitation is the long turnaround time. I did an unpublished study of the problem of turning asteroids into solar sails and concluded that it would be impossible if you disn’t have a physical twin in space near the Earth to teat anything (like fixes to problems) that needs testing. The problem of landing Starship without chopsticks could be tested exhaustively at White Sands, for instance.
by mbanerjeepalmer | 2025-07-03 16:19:41+00:00
Yes I'm not sure I really want to vibe code something that does auto evals on a sample of my OTEL traces any more than I want to build my own analytics library.

Alternatives to Opik include Braintrust (closed), Promptfoo (open, https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo) and Laminar (open, https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr).
by tstrimple | 2025-07-03 16:19:49+00:00
When the Derecho hit Iowa and large parts of my area were without power for over a week we got to discover just how many of our very large enterprise processes were dependent to some degree on "toy" apps built in "toy" technologies running on PCs under people's desks. Some of it clever but all of it fragile. It's easy to be a strong technical person and scoff at their efforts. Look how easily it failed! But it also ran for years with so few issues it never rose to IT's attention before a major event literally took the entire regional company offices offline. It caused us some pain as we had to relocate PCs to buildings with sufficient backup power. But overall the effort was far smaller than building all of those apps with the "proper" tools and processes in the first place.

Large companies can be a red tape nightmare for getting anything built. The process overload will kill simple non-strategic initiatives. I can understand and appreciate less technical people who grab whatever tool they can to solve their own problems when they run into blockers like that. Even if they don't solve it in the best way possible according to experts in the field. That feels like the hacker spirit to me.
by azath92 | 2025-07-03 16:20:12+00:00
hahaha thats a great test case, gona remember that for evals. Did it notice anything? or did it just get confused. we found if you have random preferences it often just says to skim half and skim half, which i suspect it might do in your case.

It _in theory_ should try and pick up a content style (funny stuff??) even if the tech is seemingly random, but i wouldn't be surprised if it just failed.
by tabs_or_spaces | 2025-07-03 16:20:22+00:00
Since this is a business problem.

* It's not clear on how much revenue or new customers is generated by using a coding agent

* It's not clear on how things are going on production. There's only talks about development in the article

I feel ai coding agents will give you the edge. Just this article doesn't talk about revenue or PnL side of things, just perceived costs saved from not employing an engineer.
by lqet | 2025-07-03 16:21:14+00:00
Before I had children, I regularly had nightmares in which I felt an incredible, consuming guilt. Usually the dream started quite normal, and suddenly I "remembered" in the dream that I had killed many, many people in the past and that I had just suppressed this memory for years. The rest of the dream was then usually spent in agony because of the guilt, or in disbelief that the police still hadn't found me. Sometimes some investigator suspected me, and I had to flee from the police or invent alibis.

The dreams stopped right around when my first child was born. Never had them since.
by aisenik | 2025-07-03 16:21:15+00:00
It is essential to understand the concepts involved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

And then you can take your pick of media outlets. The Office Of Remigration is happening, they aren't hiding it. For example:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/politics/rubio-lays-out-detai...

This is just one clear-cut example of the administration prosecuting genocide. There are others, there's plenty of boogeymen.

Assuming you disagree that this is proof of genocide-in-progress, please explain to me how an official policy of ethnic cleansing is not prosecuting genocide. It will be illustrative.

In parting, a digestif, courtesy of the prominent far-right ideologue who's made public claims of a lurid sexual relationship with Trump:

https://xcancel.com/LauraLoomer/status/1939831588902109629#m
by amazingman | 2025-07-03 16:21:30+00:00
It's right there in your framing. The most charitable take available is that you're approaching the problem like a software engineer, and accepting that framing as defensible. It is not. One of the most important facts to remember at the level of government is that while we must abstract human problems in order to solve for them, humans themselves are not abstractions. When perfect becomes the enemy of the good (enough), human suffering increases.

All that aside, feel free to walk your framing back and I'll change mine accordingly.
by cynicalkane | 2025-07-03 16:21:37+00:00
...Sorry, that was unclear. Monad-as-monoids being associative corresponds to certain categorical diagrams being commutative.

It's the concept of categorical commutativity that's what's useful. A collection of types and functions is "commutative" if every way to get from type A to type B yields the same result. It happens a lot in Haskell where most or all of the operations you're interested in commute with each other, which is how Haskell gets its reputation of "if it compiles it works". In particular, if you `fmap` or `bind` two commutative functions, the result becomes commutative, too.
by putzdown | 2025-07-03 16:21:59+00:00
I know that folks are just having fun with this, but it embodies one of the things I dislike about D&D, one of the reasons I simply ignore most of the “rules.” At heart a role playing game happens in the imagination of the players. You can play RPGs entirely in those terms, with no real rules and very few numbers, just storytelling and imagination. On the other hand there are of course many tabletop games that do rely on structure, rules, and numbers, but these tend to limit the scope of what may happen in the game by virtue of having limited elements and rules. You cannot earn a trillion coins in Powergrid, there simply isn’t the time or resources. What is so strange about D&D is that it tries somehow to join these two models of gameplay: the subjective/imaginative and the objective/numeric. When it works, it’s fine (though, as I said, I personally tend to find the imaginative, storytelling part for more compelling than the objective, more tabletop-like part). This railgun embodies some sort of weird distortion in the whole affair. No: of course peasants cannot throw a pole however many thousands feet in a matter of seconds. If the rules somehow imply they can, the rules are dumb. Even if you accept the rules, use your imagination: what will happen to peasant hands and heads with an object passing that rapidly along them? What would happen to peasant skin if it tried to pull a pole with the kind of forces we’re talking about? I truly don’t understand how D&D players think. No disrespect: I’m not saying anyone is dumb. I’m saying that I can’t picture how I would be thinking about a game, or rules, or a line of peasants, such that I would consider for a moment the idea that they might propel a pole in railgun fashion. It’s… kinda funny… kinda. But the fact anyone pursues the joke more than two seconds, much less actually attempts this play with real DMs, is unfathomable to me. I don’t understand how you would be trying to merge the domain of rules with the domain of imagination in order to get yourself into this knot. Does that makes sense at all?
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-07-03 16:21:59+00:00
I do something similar, but the problem is that claude.md keeps on growing.

To tackle this, I converted a custom prompt into an application, but there is an interesting trade-off. The application is deterministic. It cannot deal with unknown situations. In contrast to CC, which is way slower, but can try alternative ways of dealing with an unknown situation.

I ended up with adding an instruction to the custom command to run the application and fix the application code (TDD) if there is a problem. Self healing software… who ever thought
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-03 16:22:00+00:00
> Or you can assume it's implemented sanely

excuse me, have you spent any time in tech? people fucking love to do clever shit that gets people in trouble. using NULL as a not-pointer value signalling absence (without safeguards) is probably the most notorious -- but at least useful, but if you want to get brain meltingly annoying and pervasive, we dont have to stray too far from the idea of operator overloading; c++'s << operator can just go to hell.
by treyd | 2025-07-03 16:22:12+00:00
Eccentricity refers to the shape of the orbit, derivable from the highest and lowest distances in the orbit of the orbiting body (there's actually a bunch of ways to calculate it that are mathematically equivalent). It's related to modeling orbits as conic sections. An eccentricity of 0 is a perfect circle, <1 is a normal elliptical orbit, >=1 is an escaping trajectory.

For example, Earth's orbit around the sun is ~0.0167, Pluto's is 0.248.
by jacobr1 | 2025-07-03 16:22:13+00:00
It is intended as a incremental step to now write revise the unsafe rust into more idiomatic and safe rust. I haven't done rust port yet, but when translating other projects between languages I've also found it useful to first do a 1:1 port to ensure you have a system that works as intended, then refactor from there to clean things up.
by jajko | 2025-07-03 16:22:29+00:00
Coding an actual solution is what, 5-10% of the overall project time?

I dont talk about some SV megacorps where better code can directly affect slightly revenue or valuation and thus more time is spend coding and debugging, I talk about basically all other businesses that somehow need developers.

Even if I would be 10x faster project managers would barely notice that. And I would lose a lot of creative fun that good coding tends to bring. Also debugging, 0 help there its all on you and your mind and experience.

Llms are so far banned in my banking megacorp and I aint complaining.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-07-03 16:22:49+00:00
> One of the major problems would be the absolute destruction caused to those you convinced to line up for this weird tango.

As long as there is an earth-shattering kaboom, I don't see the problem.

That said, if I ever introduced this idea in a game, he would probably introduce me to a tarrasque (for non-DnD people: the tarrasque is pretty damn near invincible and a railgun would probably just piss it off).
by thomascountz | 2025-07-03 16:23:03+00:00
TIL! I enjoy building cloudless apps and have been relying on localstorage for persistence with an "export" button. This is exactly what I've been looking for.

A lot of what I've read about local-first apps included solving for data syncing for collaborative features. I had no idea it could be this simple if all you need is local persistence.
by camgunz | 2025-07-03 16:23:29+00:00
Maybe you dashed this off and I'm digging into a comparison that wasn't meant for deep scrutiny. But ripping wood is an extremely small part of carpentry. The AI hype is literally "have an LLM eat a bug report on GitHub, wait a little while, review the bug fix PR, also this is the least capable this will ever be." That's kind of the whole thing. Sure there's system design, requirements gathering, blah blah blah, but the whole product is legitimately "SWE too expensive? Get Claude!"
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-07-03 16:23:56+00:00
The light flasher has merely persuaded someone to stop breaking the law. Whether or not the lights flashed, the police would not have been able to detect prior speeding, but merely detected speeding near them.

An analogy might be to have a sign in a shop warning thieves of CCTV - the purpose is to prevent theft and is not considered to be helping someone avoid detection, although it does also do that.