MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgoody | 2025-07-13 23:49:14+00:00
This is quite a personal thing... I'm terrible at note taking and I've tried a few methods. I find organising this kind of "data" very difficult and I also find habit forming around note taking very difficult also. Finally, I always hated the idea of daily notes/journaling, so I resisted it for the longest time.

But when I finally started making a journal it was a lifeline. It works so well for me. I stop worrying about what I'm writing, how well I'm writing it, how I'm structuring it, where I'm storing it... and I just write it.

If it's something pertinent to what I"m working on, then it'll be a note from the last few days. Old notes, I just don't worry about.

I do have a page for "todo" type thing and I'm still working on that and I also write "proper" documentation separately. But daily notes are a huge win for me.
by kylecazar | 2025-07-13 23:49:43+00:00
Lobbyists muddy the incentive waters a bit when it comes to politics.

But I agree with your conclusion. I don't think there are many truly net negative companies/sectors/ideas that aren't either dead or on their way out -- but I'm sure you'd agree we should still hold tech accountable and optimize for our own benefit.

Btw, as a lifelong Carlin fan, I find myself asking what he would think pretty often :)
by sothatsit | 2025-07-13 23:49:43+00:00
> If it were 95% of anything useful, Anthropic would not still have >1000 employees

I think firing people does not come as a logical conclusion of 95% of code being written by Claude Code. There is a big difference between AI autonomously writing code and developers just finding it easier to prompt changes rather than typing them manually.

In one case, you have an automated software engineer, and may be able to reduce your headcount. In the other, developers may just be slightly more productive or even just enjoy writing code using AI more, but the coding is still very much driven by the developers themselves. I think right now Claude Code shows signs of (1) for simple cases, but mostly falls into the (2) bucket.
by lutusp | 2025-07-13 23:50:15+00:00
> In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X.

This is instructive. It suggests that, unless they get paid, people aren't inclined to unfollow conversations that are destructive or misleading. It supports the idea that, over time, toxic conversations naturally attract an increasing number of followers.

In the old Usenet days, apart from the few moderated forums, there was no mechanism to remove trolls/ideologues, consequently it made the Wild West resemble a tea party by comparison. In modern times, everything is different, yet everything is the same. Those who operate online forums have every incentive to tolerate abusive participants, because they attract people to the platform, to see ads.

My favorite story about this comes from Howard Stern, a so-called "shock jock". Owners of radio stations began to worry that Stern's bizarre content would drive people away. But audience studies discovered something: people who agreed with Stern stayed tuned in, just to hear what he would say next. And people who disagreed with Stern ... wait for it ... also stayed tuned in, to hear what he would say next.

This may seem orthogonal, but it seems people don't learn debate rules in school any more. If debate rules were enforced online, it would kill off much of the toxic content, but would greatly reduce the number of participants.

Imagine a world where trolls are expelled from fora because they refuse to address any legitimate topic, preferring personal attacks and other logical fallacies, behavior that would get them expelled from a formal college debate.

But I may expect too much. We're talking about a population of average intelligence, the same people who asked Dave Brubeck "How many musicians are in your quartet?"
by mjevans | 2025-07-13 23:50:37+00:00
I wouldn't say you are wrong, but I would also postulate.

The smallest, simplest, 'useful' (in terms of useful enough that lots of devs did good work with it and thus it might also be 'popular') ASM sets are probably also sufficient to start with. Provided you've got a good guide to using them, and also ideally a good sheet for why given instructions are packed the way they are in binary.

I do agree you're more likely to find pointers to such resources in more classic architectures. They're also more likely to be easy to find free copies of useful literature.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-07-13 23:51:57+00:00
However, the case of meditation/mindfulness shows that it can take a very long time between a treatment being invented and it being proven to work. It was called pseudoscience until it was statistically proven to work. Unproven is not disproven.

But it takes discernment to know which unproven thing might work and won't hurt though. TCM sounds more dangerous than not because the herbs you can get will be unregulated and possibly contaminated.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-13 23:52:01+00:00
> ... investor-owned homes account for roughly 20% of the nation's 86 million single-family homes, the firm said.

> Of those, mom-and-pop investors, or those who own between 1 and 5 homes, account for 85% of all investor-owned residential properties, while those with between 6 and 10 properties account for another 5%.

> Institutional investors that own 1,000 or more homes account for only about 2.2% of all investor-owned homes, the firm said.

> ...

> Out of a group of eight of the biggest companies that own and lease single-family houses, including Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent, six sold more homes in the second quarter than they bought ...

SO - how many of those mom-and-pop investors are mostly buying homes as investments? Vs. how many are building a well-to-do lifestyle, with a "cabin on the lake up north", and "winter condo in Florida"? (Or buying homes for their less-well-to-do children, maybe with some inheritance tax dodges baked in?)

EDIT: The issue with "investor" is here:

> Nearly 27% of all homes sold in the first three months of the year were bought by investors -- the highest share in at least five years, according to a report by real estate data provider BatchData.

How much does BatchData actually know about the finances and lifestyles of the "mom-and-pop" buyers which it has labeled as "investors"? (Vs. "developers", or "fixer-uppers", or multi-home lifestylers, vs. ...)

I don't think we can tell.
by terminalshort | 2025-07-13 23:52:35+00:00
> The availability and convenience of these different opioids has unquestionably increased opioid addictions.

You are making my point for me. The harsh restrictions on opioids haven't actually decreased the availability for addicts who are willing to go to black markets and risk dangerous injectibles and fent laced street drugs. All the restrictions have done is make it much more difficult for legitimate users like me. I broke my collar bone a few years back and was barely given any pills and had to live with a lot more pain than I should have. And the justification is that these harsh restrictions make it harder for addicts to get it, but as you pointed out, it actually doesn't even do that.

As for marijuana I would bet that the increase in the number of users has been more due to the decrease in public perception of how harmful it is rather than from its legalization. Is the usage increase limited to the states where it has been legalized? Furthermore, it doesn't matter if the usage increases, only if the problematic usage increases. Is there any indication that this increase corresponds to more serious potheads or just more casual smokers?
by matt-attack | 2025-07-13 23:53:02+00:00
I agree. This article from The Atlantic is a perfect example. Read the prompts the author used. It’s like he went through effort to try to get it say something bad. And when the model called him out he just kept trying harder.

The responses seemed perfectly reasonable giving the line of questioning.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/new-g...
by awesome_dude | 2025-07-13 23:54:18+00:00
I read this response and immediately thought - it's not an exclusive problem of the Chinese academia, Western academia is struggling HARD with the problem.

It's such a big problem in Western academia that the political class in several countries are able to deny "experts", and their understandings.

People in general have seen so many missteps within Western academia, both allowing some really poor science to be published, and wrongly denying (and ridiculing) what turned out to be solid (thankfully some of these things are discovered when actual scientific method is employed and hypothesis are tested), that they are willing to accept politicians who deny science.
by lazide | 2025-07-13 23:55:00+00:00
Depends on your definition of value. There are many investments structured in a way that mere ownership, as long as comps go up in the local market, will cause increases in value.

Don’t look down.

It’s also why the current admin seems really intent on bullying Powell into decreasing the fed rate - Trump and many of his friends are very exposed to real estate.
by atombender | 2025-07-13 23:55:59+00:00
I really, really disliked that show. They completely mangled the plots, for one; Autofac is a great story, but the adaptation bears little resemblance to it.

They also made some odd choices that didn't really emphasize the qualities that PKD is known for. "Autofac" is the only really classic story here. Why not "The Electric Ant", "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (rights still owned by the Total Recall producers maybe?), "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", or "Faith of Our Fathers"? Or, indeed, Second Variety?
by Animats | 2025-07-13 23:56:13+00:00
Customer profiling for restaurants is now available as a hosted service.[1] The industry term is "unified guest profile".

"Imagine this: A guest walks into your hotel. The front desk greets them by name, already knows they prefer a room away from the elevator, and offers a complimentary drink, the same cocktail they ordered at your rooftop bar during their last stay. At breakfast the waiter suggests asks if the guest wants the usual omelet or the menu to try something new, and at checkout, they’re offered a late checkout because their flight doesn’t leave until 8 p.m.

That’s not sci-fi. That’s what happens when your guest data systems actually talk to each other."[2]

[1] https://www.hungerrush.com/restaurant-marketing-loyalty/the-...

[2] https://www.hospitalitynet.org/explainer/4127923.html
by FpUser | 2025-07-13 23:56:40+00:00
I would never allow any potential client ask me ANY political questions. Not because I like any political figure but because I am trying not to encourage fucking thought control. I hope we are not on Nazi Germany yet. It is just simply not their fucking business. On the other hand if they offer me a million in cold hard cash just for that I would tell then anything they want to hear.
by mjevans | 2025-07-13 23:57:05+00:00
The header is new, but what's it working with on the server side? Were there any other considerations for the selection of the value?

Though in contrast to that, sometimes the criteria is just that a given number of bits aren't useful, so the output of a different hash is truncated to the desired size.

Maybe part of the driving criteria os compatibility with E.G. the oldest supported Android version? Or maybe some version of Windows seen in legacy devices in poor countries? There might be good reasons beyond just 'header is new, everything must be state of the art'.
by ahepp | 2025-07-13 23:57:27+00:00
There's a wide spectrum between "extremely efficient" and "insanely ridiculous". To keep it short, I think the incentives are pretty well aligned here. There's not much of an incentive for either party to waste our collective time.

I would be interested to explore a "quick hire, quick fire" philosophy, but I'm not sure it would lead to overall greater satisfaction. Employers don't like to fire people and employees don't like to be fired.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-13 23:58:12+00:00
The problem exists in Western academia as well, but not to the same magnitude as in much of Asia.

In Western and especially American academia, there are private sector grants and commercialization avenues for research. Outside of top tier programs (think Peking tier programs in China or AIIMS tier programs in India), that's nonexistent in most Asian countries, so your department's funding is at the whim of government bureaucrats who tend to be recruited via civil service exams and promoted based on political loyalty, not based on domain experience.

Furthermore, Folk Medicine programs are heavily sponsored in a number of Asian countries as a misguided attempt at building an MLP pipeline plus as a cash grab by local or provincial governments who often treat these kinds of programs as businesses.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-13 23:59:07+00:00
If investors are buying homes to rent them out, then is this really a bad thing?

I know a lot of people who have struggled to find homes to rent when they need to move to a new city with a family for a shorter-term job like a year or two. All the homes available are for sale, none are to rent.

If it's to rent, it's not taking any living space off the market.

And with elevated mortgage rates, it could be smart for people to rent now rather than buy, waiting to buy until interest rates come down.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-13 23:59:47+00:00
Many moons ago I was celebrating an anniversary with my parents and sister at a smallish, but very good, restaurant downtown.

As we were chatting while waiting for the dessert, the whole restaurant started singing "Happy Birthday", as the waiter (and owner) came with the dessert, sparkler and all.

I sooo wanted to just disappear.

Turned out my mom had told the waiter/owner about the occasion, and he had unbeknownst to my mom gotten all the other guests in on it.

Nice thought, just totally not my thing.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-07-13 23:59:50+00:00
I've tried this tool a few times over the years. It's quite far from being intuitive. Maybe it makes sense to professionals to work in the field full-time, but for a regular mortal who just wants to edit a video, it's impossible to grasp.

Even something as basic as opening a video file is a huge challenge. I can't just open a video file. Instead, I need to "create a new project", which requires that I specify the exact resolution and FPS of the video file beforehand (why!?). After I use a completely separate tool to extract these attributes from the video that I'm editing, I have a blank canvas onto which I can drag the actual video.
by hajile | 2025-07-14 00:00:05+00:00
Lua was designed in 1993. This was back when MS-DOS was still cutting edge and the 66MHz Pentium was cutting-edge consumer technology.

Even "modern" languages often don't have features like first-class functions, closures, proper tail calls, etc that Lua has had for a very long time now. LuaJIT also trades blows with JS almost certainly making it the fastest or second-fastest dynamic language around.

There's a lot to like about the language (aside from array indexes starting at 1), but I think you are right about the ecosystem and probably right about most of community.
by tmtvl | 2025-07-14 00:00:15+00:00
I'm gonna recommend Final Fantasy VI. The FF games generally aren't sequels to each other (the ones that are have titles like Final Fantasy X-2) and FF6, while on the older side, is not only very beginner-friendly, but also has quite good writing.

So-called JRPGs (Japanese Role-Playing Games) tend to offer decent bang-for-buck and are generally more controller-friendly than CRPGs (Computer Role-Playing Games). Besides the Final Fantasy games you could also check out the Persona series.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-14 00:00:21+00:00
> My theory is that if you're extremely pessimistic about technology or politics, you probably won't like anything that happens when large groups of humans make collective decisions. There's an air of let's go back to the good old days when we were hunter gatherers to the whole thing.

Hunter gatherer is the only alternative to a society under total dominance by mega-corps? This reminds me of individual stories from life under communism and brutal dictatorships where the dystopia is so omnipresent you don’t even remember what was before, nor could imagine anything meaningfully different. Instead, you take joy in the little things, like (today) the scraps left over after another market war – ”at least now we have a search engine”, ”I can order a taxi from an app”. I understand it, because it has been such a dominant force in the kind of second reincarnation of neoliberalism since ~80s in the US in particular. This apathy is the perfect wet blanket to prevent systemic change and perpetuate the status quo – no suppression of dissent is needed if there is no imagination or expectation of a better society. A lot of powerful interests are spending a lot of effort trying to convince us that any meaningful change would make things even worse, not better.

In my opinion, the best way to break these cycles is to study the past, other countries and many times smaller local communities. There are countless examples of well functioning systems if you pay attention. And new ones being established all the time. I’ve seen local markets completely flourish in just a decade, because of good policy. Once you see these things, and know in your heart it’s possible, there’s no going back.

I’m intentionally a bit vague here, because what’s meaningful to one person can be inconsequential to another. Which is why it’s so important to discover these things on your own. That’s the way to turn complacency into hope, and hope into organized action.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 00:00:32+00:00
Some of the Trumpiest voters are "evangelicals who don't go Church". On the other hand there is the strange case of the Mormons who have made Utah one of the reddest states in the nation although it has low levels of dark personality, inequality and corruption whereas my state of New York is the opposite. (Louisiana in the other hand is red and dark and Vermont blue and light)

I have a lot of respect for the values of many Mormons such as Steven Covey but boy does it drive me crazy that they pulled out of supporting the Scouts when the Scouts opened up to gays.

People have numerous reasons for voting the way they do, I know from conversations that there were people who weren't thinking from a "always blue" or "always red" frame but saw the last election as a comparison. They saw Trump and Harris as bad alternatives and picked the one they thought was least bad. Overall the college-educated voted for Harris and others voted for Trump. The argument that "Trump is bad for democracy" wasn't as salient for people as "Harris is ineffective".
by peab | 2025-07-14 00:00:35+00:00
Yeah, we definitely still need homes to be available for rent.

If you move a lot, or want to be able to move easily and explore different cities or even neighborhoods within a city, renting is way easier than if you'd have to go through the hassle of buying.

What sucks is when private companies start owning too many houses and they have unfair advantages over regular folks. For example, they have teams of lawyers.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-07-14 00:01:00+00:00
To be clear, my view is not one rooted in moral judgment, and certainly not directed at sex workers.

Rather, it’s grounded in trauma ethics. The statistical prevalence of CSA amongst sex workers is incredibly high — nearly universal.

Sex work itself is quite often a form of trauma reenactment, and the degree to which they engage in disassociation in order to perform is staggering.

I believe that in a very real and ethical sense, pornography and other forms of sex work entails the commodification of disassociation, and the consumption of maladaptive trauma responses rooted in CSA.

In effect, it amounts to taking pleasure in the psychological aftershocks of abuse.

I’m not convinced that porn abolition is even possible, but that it is important to be honest about the ethical fault almost universally implicit in sex work.
by rtpg | 2025-07-14 00:01:08+00:00
I'm not particularly bought into the traditional chinese medicine stuff but isn't the line more drawn at how "normal" medicine is about synthesizing specific doses of chemicals to give those?

Meanwhile if someone told me "yeah eating a bunch of ginger when you have a cold is good to you because ginger has a bunch of stuff that's good for your body then" I don't have a particularly hard time believing it. Sure! Why not!

The article's critique about symptom management rather than disease management is legit though. And the precision for actual research is good. But at the end of the day if my body needs some stuff for symptom management and some TCM strategy involves me giving myself like 20x the dose of it... well it's something, isn't it? Though you could argue about it "deserving" credit or not.

Nobody whines about the unscientificness of giving yourself a bunch of salt through chicken noodle soup after a hangover.
by croemer | 2025-07-14 00:01:25+00:00
They cite LinkedIn profiles with 25 connections as easy tell tale signs. Well, I've got news for you: hacked LinkedIn profiles. Happened to a colleague of mine. Profile with more than a thousand genuine, reputable connections got hacked. Picture and name got changed to something East Asian sounding/looking. CV got changed to US defense contracting. Luckily this tripped some automatic account lockdown otherwise it might have well gone undiscovered for a while. Few people will remember every single LinkedIn connection, there's no notification of name change in messages etc. Quite likely this profile was sold to North Korean fake IT workers.