MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mgz18 | 2025-07-04 17:50:39+00:00
When I was 34, I was laying in bed one night and noticed that muscles all over my body were twitching. It didn't go away. A month later I went to a neurologist in my hometown in the midwest for a workup that culminated in a EMG-NCV study (the neurologist doing that study asked if I liked the NY Yankees.. "I do not.. and I've definitely never heard of Lou Gehrig.. so let's get on with it.."). Ultimately he congratulated me on having no signs of ALS or any other neurodegenerative disease and told me to "live your life." He hadn't seen the widespread persistent muscle twitching I was experiencing before. Six months later, I went to another neurologist, this time at Stanford. She did another workup and said the same things as the first guy, except she added, "yeah, we see this fairly often." The diagnosis was "Benign Fasciculation Syndrome" (BFS), aka "we don't know what caused everything to start twitching or how to stop it, but it won't progress and kill you."

What really struck me was that 1) the midwestern neurologist seemed to have never seen symptoms like mine, whereas the Stanford neurologist had seen them often, and 2) the Stanford neurologist linked it to poorly managed anxiety. At the time I was five years into a data scientist role at a big tech company in the bay area (now it's two year later - the symptoms improved somewhat but are still there). I definitely had burnout and mental health problems and was in denial about them ("I have all these great perks, how could my work be causing my mental health issues?").

The best thing you can say about BFS is it isn't physically painful; I am definitely not equating it with the chronic pain issues that others have described on this thread, which seem much tougher. It's another one of those things that has no known cure (diet / lifestyle / mental health improvements help somewhat), is only vaguely understood ("your nerves are oversensitive"), is linked to mental health issues, and seems overrepresented in the bay area (maybe in other tech/urban centers too, I don't know). Two years in, I don't have any answers, just wanted to share in case it's helpful to anyone.
by nickandbro | 2025-07-04 17:50:43+00:00
I run a site, https://vimgolf.ai , where users try to beat a bot that's powered by O3. For the bot, it's goal is to try to transform a start file to a end file using the least amount of vim commands as possible. Can concur that a LLM given the right feedback loops and context, can solve challenging text prompt. But, from my experience this is only for RL based models like O3, Claude 4 with extended thinking, or Gemini 2.5 Pro.
by smcameron | 2025-07-04 17:51:05+00:00
No, every gpu vendor out there would prefer proprietary drivers and with a stable ABI, they could do it, and would do, there is no question about it.

I worked for HP on storage drivers for a decade or so, and had their been a stable ABI, HP would have shipped proprietary storage drivers for everything. Even without a stable ABI, they shipped proprietary drivers at considerable effort, compiling for myriad different distro kernels. It was a nightmare, and good thing too, or there wouldn't be any open source drivers.
by herf | 2025-07-04 17:51:16+00:00
Which SSDs do people rely on? Considering PLP (power loss protection), write endurance/DWPD (no QLC), and other bugs that affect ZFS especially? It is hard to find options that do these things well for <$100/TB, with lower-end datacenter options (e.g., Samsung PM9A3) costing maybe double what you see in a lot of builds.
by daeken | 2025-07-04 17:52:51+00:00
I can nearly single-handedly credit EverQuest with my career. I got my start in the ShowEQ and eqemu sphere, first building little PHP apps to manage servers and such, then reverse-engineering -- I learned x86 and then C++ all to get the lifts in Kelethin working. Hell, nearly 25 years later, any time I work on some new graphics API or game engine, I end up writing an EverQuest zone renderer.

Not my favorite game of all time, but certainly the one with the biggest impact!

Edit to add: also, huge props to that community for both humbling me and teaching me more than I could've imagined. Went from a dumbass 13 year old saying "ROT13? Isn't that some unbreakable encryption?" In the ShowEQ IRC channel because she couldn't imagine saying she didn't know something, to a competent reverse-engineer. I cannot imagine how insufferable I was haha.
by heldrida | 2025-07-04 17:53:00+00:00
I can't see how the team or community are aggressively marketing Zig. There's a lot of buzz around some projects written in Zig, such as Bun and TigerBeetle. Andrew Kelly isn't even on Twitter or X. It almost sounds like you're talking about the 14-year-old indie devs sharing their 1M MRR apps? It's a non-profit, created by real people working very hard to make something valuable for the rest of us... People who could easily be driving Lambos with their talent.

When someone creates something others want, it'll inevitably become popular.

If your app is stable, could you not keep using the version you're happy with?
by kragen | 2025-07-04 17:53:03+00:00
The Māori weren't civilized (they didn't have cities at the time) and were far from the exception; cities didn't hold the bulk of humanity until 11 years ago. We remember Middle Kingdom Egypt and (1500 years later) Han China because they were civilizations and consequently were literate. But throughout almost all of human history, only a small fraction of the population has lived in the civilizations we see looking back. Even in Eurasian civilizations, until the Industrial Revolution, 90+% of the population were relatively unspecialized peasants with skills nearly as broad-based as Laura Ingalls Wilder's parents. It's easy to forget about them because they weren't literate and so can't speak to us from beyond the grave like Epicurus, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Sima Tan, or Marcus Aurelius.

And most people lived outside civilization entirely. They had very diverse lifestyles, but we can make some generalizations. Even when they didnt leave diaries for us to read, we can infer that they had much less specialization, both from economic principles and from archaeological evidence.

It's certainly true that people in civilizations are, and have always been, focused on martial duty, and everyone everywhere is concerned with religious worship, though they may call it something else for social reasons. But people have always been strongly interested in individual happiness, even in civilizations. The Buddha founded one of the most important religions 2500 years ago on the basis of individual happiness, to the point that after he died, one of the most contentious issues among his followers was whether holy people had any duty to help other people achieve happiness as well, the origin of the Mahayana bodhisattva vows. Epicurus's philosophy and Marcus Aurelius's writings are also centered on the pursuit of individual happiness, as is much of Plato and of course the Mohists. Even religions and philosophies that preached lifelong duty and sacrifice above all else, like Christianity and Islam, offer it as a path to individual happiness in the afterlife.
by udayrangpariya | 2025-07-04 17:53:22+00:00
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by pstuart | 2025-07-04 17:55:07+00:00
The mind/body part for dealing with chronic pain is vital to embrace, but isn't always enough. Finding ways to "attack" pain would be a relief to millions.

The best I've been able to find is kratom, but that's not without its concerns -- drug laws are no friend to pain patients (let alone society as a whole).

Pro tip: get a shingles vaccine if you are able to -- postherpetic neuralgia is no fun.
by Whoppertime | 2025-07-04 17:55:40+00:00
Well to start off the cold war timeline. The Greek civil war was an American victory, then China fell to the Communists and we spent decades arguing who lost China. Then the Soviets let off Joe 1 and it turns out the Manhattan project was heavily infiltrated by Soviet Spies which made the American nuclear monopoly a short foot note. The combination of those 2 factors resulted in the Korean War. Which was looking like all of Korea would be lost, then all of Korea could be gained until China entered, resulting in a tie. The lessons learned from Korea made the next war in the region the Vietnam War politically constrained, which succeeded in preventing China from entering the war directly like they did in Korea, but resulted in the entire country of Vietnam being lost to the Communists which was a worse outcome than the tie that was Korea. The Gulf Wars learned the lessons of Vietnam, and the constrained vision of keeping Saddam out of Kuwait meant there was no quagmire. Kosovo was also a success, as there was regime change for the better in the former Yugoslavia. The 2000s after 9/11 were some "fucked up wars", the US military seemed to have learned the lessons from the 90s that they should have gone farther with regime change, and forgot the lessons of the Vietnam War. Taking down Saddam didn't result in a more stable Iraq, Iraq didn't turn into a flourishing democracy. After the US withdrew from the country under Obama you have the emergence of ISIS. Obama also helped decapitate Gaddafi's regime, which made Libya less stable. The actual war parts may be successful but if they're not achieving political or strategic goals those wins do not matter. There's an apocryphal tale of an American and a North Vietnamese general after the war:

American: “You never beat us once.”

North Vietnamese: “True, but irrelevant.”
by abhinavk | 2025-07-04 17:56:00+00:00
> David Cameron has said that Larry is a "bit nervous" around men, speculating that, since Larry was a rescue cat, this may be due to negative experiences in his past. Cameron mentioned that Barack Obama is an apparent exception to this fear: he said, "Funnily enough he liked Obama. Obama gave him a stroke and he was all right with Obama."

> In September 2013 tensions were reportedly growing between Cameron and Larry....

The entire Relationship with other politicians section is a hilarious read.
by wk_end | 2025-07-04 17:56:11+00:00
Haskell and OCaml are excellent for compilers, because - as you suggest - you end up building, walking, and transforming tree data structures where sum types are really useful. Lisp is an odd suggestion there, as it doesn’t really have any built-in support for this sort of thing.

At any rate, that’s not really the case when building an emulator or bytecode interpreter. And Haskell ends up being mostly a liability here, because most work is just going to be imperatively modifying your virtual machine’s state.
by godelski | 2025-07-04 17:56:14+00:00
Last we talked you said you weren't going to put everything behind a login wall. Most importantly, literally any information about the site. In fact, there seems less information than I remember last time.

When I land on your page I know nothing except you're offering to learn vim "the fun way". I would not have guessed what you described.

Don't put everything behind a wall. At least try to convince people that they want to be on the other side
by thisisit | 2025-07-04 17:56:59+00:00
> Zadani in NYC Zadani? You mean Mamdani?

RW often promise one shot "obvious" fix - build the wall, deportation - which the unnamed "they" aren't doing because of vested interest. People don't want complex answers. Its the same as dieting - a magic pill is much better than a well laid out diet plan. Even if the magic pill is going to create long term damage.

The other side is branded as communism or socialism. Like Mamdani.

And many places have being pushing nationalistic pride and stories about the glorious past. This leads nicely into full on fascism. Its always ironic when American RWs like to call others fascist while being the picture perfect example of fascists themselves. Always harping on "MAGA" or "USA! USA!" slogans
by troupo | 2025-07-04 17:57:10+00:00
> And companies are now pursuing the best coin tossing techniques to get tail.

With the only difference that the techniques for throwing coins can be verified by comparing the results of the tosses. More generally it's known as forcing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing_(magic)

What we have instead is companies (and people) saying they have perfected the toss not just for a specific coin, but for any objects in general. When it's very hard to prove that it's true even for a single coin :)

That said, I really like your comment :)
by twodave | 2025-07-04 17:57:23+00:00
Yes, and honestly probably the deepest line in the film (though plenty others are often quoted in my family).

I think there is a lot of strength that comes from waking up and doing the “hard” thing, whatever that is. I’ve had injuries, unexplained health issues, mental health issues, high stress, etc. I have found that for me, at least, refusal to let these things break me and meeting them head-on has been a positive overall for my quality of life.

To abstract it away some, I grew up hearing a lot of family members say things like, “I can’t do X anymore because of Y.” I just refuse to allow any of those damn Ys to kill off my beloved Xs, as far as I am able, despite whatever temporary pain or difficulty it may require me to go through. Sometimes telling the Ys to shut the hell up makes them go away completely. And when it doesn’t, sometimes I just have to be okay “embracing the suck” in order to prevent the Ys from bossing me around.
by criticalfault | 2025-07-04 17:57:58+00:00
I've been following this for a while now.

Kent is in the wrong. Having a lead position in development I would kick Kent of the team.

One thing is to challenge things. What Kent is doing is something completely different. It is obvious he introduced a feature, not only a Bugfix.

If the rules are set in a way that rc1+ gets only Bugfixes, then this is absolutely clear what happens with the feature. Tolerating this once or twice is ok, but Kent is doing this all the time, testing Linus.

Linus is absolutely in the right to kick this out and it's Kent's fault if he does so.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-07-04 17:57:58+00:00
Abstraction explosion is surly detrimental to innovation, but so is "mathification", propelled by rapidly declining computational costs.

Romans tremendously progressed, despite using inferior "math" compared to the Greeks, and Americans compared to the English & French. Note how willingly China ships its top mathys to the US grad school while retaining its best engineers at all costs.

Only technologies that make it into tools/hardware (realware) will survive, the rest are destined to be e-wasted.
by Swizec | 2025-07-04 17:58:33+00:00
> what works best with AI-coding: a strong and thorough idea of what you want, broken up into hundreds of smaller problems, with specific architectural steers on the really critical pieces

As a tech lead who also wears product owner hats sometimes: This is how you should do it with humans also. At least 70% of my job is translating an executive’s “Time travel tower game. No bugs” into that long series of prompts with a strong architectural vision that people can work on as a team with the right levels of abstraction to avoid stepping on each other’s toes.
by SebastianKra | 2025-07-04 17:58:34+00:00
I used to implement a system like this. Unfortunately, its not accessible. You at least need to keep a ref to the button in order to add the aria-haspopup attribute and return focus back to the button when the modal closes. This is why Radix requires you to place a trigger component. You're also not handling escape, not to mention integrating with any popover / dropdown library that will also listen to the escape button.

This pattern to invoke a modal is pretty useful though. I'm experimenting with a hook that returns an anchor component in order to implement the accessibility functionality. Not sure if that's a good idea yet:

const [ModalAnchor, showModal] = useModal() function handleClick() { showModal(<MyModal />) } return <ModalAnchor> <button onClick={handleClick}>Open</button> <ModalAnchor>
by evanjrowley | 2025-07-04 17:59:15+00:00
One way to look at it is ECC has recently become more affordable due to In-Band ECC (IBECC) providing ECC-like functionality for a lot of newer power efficient Intel CPUs.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGEN6-IBECC-Driver

Not every new CPU has it, for example, the Intel N95, N97, N100, N200, i3-N300, and i3-N305 all have it, but the N150 doesn't!

It's kind of disappointing that the low power NAS devices reviewed here, the only one with support for IBECC had a limited BIOS that most likely was missing this option. The ODROID H4 series, CWWK NAS products, AOOSTAR, and various N100 ITX motherboards all support it.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-04 17:59:16+00:00
The problem with cross-compiling for Windows or macOS as targets are the runtimes (sometimes required during compilation or building), not the cross-compiling. This also has nothing to do with C/C++ as a language.

We build for Linux and Windows on Linux using gcc/mingw and don't have any fundamental issues doing so. On macOS we need the headers & libraries for macOS, we have to do those inside a VM.

I'd be extremely surprised if you can cross-compile Zig for macOS on a non-macOS platform, unless it doesn't use any macOS native frameworks at any level.
by vunderba | 2025-07-04 17:59:24+00:00
The ones I've come across in the southwest portion of the U.S. are pretty small, and from Wikipedia: "The average male weighs 8 to 20 kg (18 to 44 lb) and the average female 7 to 18 kg (15 to 40 lb).".

My Pyrenees/husky mix absolutely dwarfs them and they give her a WIDE berth the few times I've seen them while hiking.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-04 18:00:00+00:00
Committees are good-to-acceptable for keeping things going, but bad for initial design or anything requiring a coherent vision and taste. There are some examples of groups that straddled the boundary between a committee and a creative collaboration and produced good designs (Algol 60; RnRS for n ≤ 5; IIRC the design of ZFS was produced by a three-person team), but they are more of an exception, and the secret of tying together such groups remotely doesn’t seem to have been cracked. Even in the keeping things going department, a committee’s inbuilt and implicit self-preservation mechanisms can lead it to keep fiddling with things far longer than would be advisable.
by kragen | 2025-07-04 18:00:49+00:00
Maybe people participating willingly in those societies—indeed, fleeing civilization en masse to the frontier and to join "Indian" tribes, while migration from the tribes to the civilized colonies was almost nil—should tell us that civilization isn't all upside?

Economic productivity is an important means to happiness, because it sucks to go blind or subsist on soft foods because you can't get the necessary medical and dental treatments. And it's terrible to never see your parents again because you don't have the material means to visit them. But there's a point of diminishing returns beyond which sacrificing more of your happiness for continued economic gains amounts to cutting off your nose to spite your face.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-04 18:01:11+00:00
This was years ago now and I came to complete peace and acceptance with it. I don't view it as complete BS tbh. Here is how I look at it:

First of all, there ARE more steps on top of the IC ladder. They are really really exclusive though in our industry. A large company needs thousands of managers, but only a dozen or so those positions. Half those people are really smooth talkers, and the other half are truly remarkable human beings. You can set it as a challenge to yourself to shadow and follow in that direction. It might take you another 10 or 20 years and it might never happen.

The reason I don't view it as BS is because there is a limit on the amount of value a single person can generate. At the end of the day "managers" are viewed as force multipliers. Their job is to direct and control the output of 10 people. A great manager can 2x or 3x the productivity of their team compared to just 10 aimless people with no accountability or structure. Paying that person 2x or 4x is justified. Your entire career in management, from M1 -> CEO is all about trying to convince the one above you that you are a bigger force multiplier than others in your position. That's basically your job.

As an IC, you need to be someone who has had a track record of founding and delivering multiple highly profitable products/business/features/etc. Otherwise, you did, in fact, hit a ceiling of sorts.

From FAANG prospective, for an IC there is a sweet spot between their technical seniority, output vs burnout, and their compensation expectations/asks.
by roscas | 2025-07-04 18:01:18+00:00
While looking at the site I noticed https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own... Youtube is amazing! It hosts billions of videos to all kind of bad content, but still make true content creators feel it's long arm of their laws! It is just pathetic. Just like other anti-social networks like Fakebook and Twitter.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-04 18:01:30+00:00
If anything, the statistics actually suggest these articles were weighted the other way around. tmux-rs stayed on the frontpage much longer than it logically should have, especially compared to this thread.

https://hnrankings.info/44455787/

https://hnrankings.info/44460552/

...in any case, what's the "joke" about this? GPL violation is very serious, Tesla was forced to publish a substantial amount of proprietary code after a similar infraction.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-04 18:01:42+00:00
Their birth rate isn't falling because of barriers to women succeeding in the workplace. The countries which have the most equal and tolerant workplaces and family-friendly policies for working women also have falling birthrates.

It's a modernity problem, imo. More people than ever live isolated away from large support networks of people, substituting online connections for real ones. We also work longer on average, and both spouses work, so childcare and home economics has to be paid for with either money or increasingly previous time. Even a single income household is very aware that they are paying for kids with the lost potential revenue. That choice is harder and harder to make and then justify to increasingly polarized people, some of whom think staying at home is anathema and others who think the exact opposite. Another thing is that people are less connected to their cultural roots and we have less of an old world mentality of "continuing our bloodline" and less desire to sacrifice for "legacy" etc.

A lot more factors I could get into, but in such an environment saying "Oh we're not planning to have kids" is so much easier, no wonder countries around the world are facing this crisis.
by zoechi | 2025-07-04 18:01:49+00:00
Dioxus 0.7 comes with a set of components that cover even most of interaction with the JS side. There are great times ahead. What seems to be missing is modularizing and lazy loading of the WASM moduls to reduce initial download size (I saw some experiments). I immensely enjoy being able to use a sane language+tools for backend and frontend.