MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-02 19:42:05+00:00
I think income is still too crude and misleading. You really need some kind of complex individual economic health measure made of many indicators.

But a more informative proxy would be median net worth - individual, not household, with married couple net worth divided by two for simplicity - as a fairly simple assets vs liabilities calculation.

The net worth distribution would be even more revealing because it would highlight the difference between owners and renters.

This still doesn't reveal net worth stability. In the US you can - and many people do - go from a seven figure net worth to bankruptcy because of a health crisis or (increasingly) a climate disaster.

So you'd want a supplemental distribution showing how variable net worth is, how many people are reduced to bankruptcy at each decile, and how much movement there is in each decile.

Reducing these kinds of complexities to a single number seems misleading at best.
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-07-02 19:42:06+00:00
Pretty much.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Usage_in_AI-generated_tex... :

> In April 2025, Rolling Stone reported on the growing perception that the em dash is a hallmark of AI-generated writing, particularly by ChatGPT. The article noted how this idea spread through social media, where users began referring to it as the "ChatGPT hyphen" and how these users advised avoiding it to appear more human.
by zerocrates | 2025-07-02 19:42:08+00:00
The reaction comes from some combination of

- opposition to generative AI in general

- a view that AI, unlike search which also relies on crawling, offers you no benefits in return

- crawlers from the AI firms being less well-behaved than the legacy search crawlers, not obeying robots.txt, crawling more often, more aggressively, more completely, more redundantly, from more widely-distributed addresses

- companies sneaking in AI crawling underneath their existing tolerated/whitelisted user-agents (Facebook was pretty clearly doing this with "facebookexternalhit" that people would have allowed to get Facebook previews; they eventually made a new agent for their crawling activity)

- a simultaneous huge spike in obvious crawler activity with spoofed user agents: e.g. a constant random cycling between every version of Chrome or Firefox or any browser ever released; who this is or how many different actors it is and whether they're even doing crawling for AI, who knows, but it's a fair bet.

Better optimization and caching can make this all not matter so much but not everything can be cached, and plenty of small operations got by just fine without all this extra traffic, and would get by just fine without it, so can you really blame them for turning to blocking?
by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-02 19:42:15+00:00
Timeless quote:

> If Jimmy Allred says it’s raining, and W. Lee O’Daniel says it isn’t raining, Texas newspapermen quote them both, and don’t look out the window to see which is lying, and to tell the readers what the truth is at the moment.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/11/14/rain-look/

If an AI tool, or for that matter a meddling editor, says a headline is "framing the action as unprecedented in a way that might subtly critique the administration", the correct response is "yes, that was the idea".
by zarekr | 2025-07-02 19:42:17+00:00
Crafting software is a trade, not a profession. I say this without disrespecting either, because I do both myself (qualified lawyer, software dev)

A profession at the very least has a central governing body that is regulated and hands out certificates that have an inherent value because they enable the holder to do something that is typically restricted unless you hold it: law, medicine, accountancy.

The certificates you speak of are typically designed by commercial entities that are usually there to make money off people through education rather than regulate and control how their services are delivered.

So are they worthwhile in the real world? IMO no, someone who can demonstrate their ability to apply their skills as a dev in order to solve my business needs is much more attractive than someone who’s completed a course about how to use LangChain but hasn’t got a clue how to apply that to a real world problem.

For your bonus q, I can only speak to my own experience, but even holding an LLM in corporate tax from King’s College London was not a significant enough advantage when I was applying to become a lawyer 20 years ago - the firms wanted people with commercial knowledge and practical experience then, and I doubt anything has changed now - whether for law firms or software companies.
by osmsucks | 2025-07-02 19:42:23+00:00
> LLMs seem to be really good at reproducing the classic Ball of Mud, that can't really be refactored or understood.

This, but but only for code. I've seen "leaders" at work suggest that we "embrace" AI, even for handling production systems and managing their complexity. That's like saying: "We've built this obscure, inscrutable system, therefore we need another obscure, inscrutable system on top of it in order to understand it!". To me, this sounds deranged, but the amount of gaslighting that's going on also makes you think you're the only to believe that...
by themanmaran | 2025-07-02 19:42:45+00:00
> Now think about a bad software product that you might encounter briefly or you are forced to use: a poorly designed electronic kiosk with 1000ms lag on every interaction, or a hospital electronic system. I think there's a high chance that the people building them rarely use them, or not at all.

To be fair, it would be hard for me to build hospital EHR software if I were also checking myself into the hospital every day.

At my former company we built software for enrolling seniors into Medicare. It was as polished as we could possibly make it, but none of the engineers were 65+ and so pretty hard to dogfood.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-02 19:42:50+00:00
Those stress patterns already do exist in sentences. What do you think the difference is between a word that is pronounced without its citation form primary stress ("at most one primary stressed syllable") and a sentence that is pronounced with several more or less equally stressed syllables?

The difference between primary and secondary word stress disappears when the word is put into a sentence.

There are stress patterns in sentences that don't exist in lexical words, but they do exist in compound phrases, and there is no symmetrical situation of stress patterns in words that don't happen in sentences.
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-07-02 19:43:19+00:00
I honestly do not believe hardly any of the studies about adderall. I am an adhd patient and playing tennis on amphetamines once spiked my heart rate above 200. Not good. Also vasoconstrictors + valsalva technique for lifting heavy weights = anuerysm risk.

So, respectifully to the studies, im calling bullshit.
by vorpalhex | 2025-07-02 19:43:19+00:00
> In general, Europe spends more on academic research than the US, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of GDP.

This statement appears to be incorrect.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d... has the EU at $380B

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332 has the US Fed (not state) at $880B.
by chowells | 2025-07-02 19:43:44+00:00
> They don't try to be helpful, they only do exactly what they are told.

This is how software should work. Attempting to be "helpful" usually makes things worse. Doing exactly what it's told makes it predictable and usable.

Just look at how much of the HTML 5 spec is a nightmare of parsing rules for handling malformed SGML. Look at how it got there - all the invocations of Postel's law justifying attempting to handle malformed input in "helpful" ways, until things were eventually such a compatibility nightmare that a new spec was created to give precise rules for parsing every single input the same way. "Helpful" was specified away, because it was so broken.

Now if only screen readers provided consistency in following rules, too. They're not in a great state, but your attempted solution is worse.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-02 19:43:53+00:00
That depends a lot on art direction and stylization. Highly stylized games scale up to high resolutions shockingly well even with less detailed, lower resolution models and textures. Breath of the Wild is one good example that looks great by modern standards at high resolutions, and there’s many others that manage to look a lot less dated than they are with similarly cartoony styles.

If “realistic” graphics are the objective though, then yes, better displays pose serious problems. Personally I think it’s probably better to avoid art styles that age like milk, though, or to go for a pseudo-realistic direction that is reasonably true to life while mixing in just enough stylization to scale well and not look dated at record speeds. Japanese studios seem pretty good at this.
by gopalv | 2025-07-02 19:44:57+00:00
My favourite part of these research publications from the US Gov is the licensing.

All of the USDS work is published with "No Copyright".

The SAT filters however still do not support incremental building, which is one of bloom filters fun features when you use them in distributed databases (you can build N of them and then OR bloom filters to get a single one).

I imagine it will still be incredibly useful where you can iterate over them and do OR the old fashioned way, but at higher accuracy for the same size.
by seanalltogether | 2025-07-02 19:45:00+00:00
This clearly demonstrates that the developer doesn't know what they're talking about. If anything, android is more secure because you can

A. Sideload an app so that google play store doesn't know you've installed it. B: Run periodic background tasks to poll any https endpoint so no service provider has logs of device ids for push notifications. C: Create local notifications on the device.

In this case the only logs that any company could be asked to produce is server logs which only show ip addresses.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-02 19:45:01+00:00
These threads always seem to be what can China do to me in a limited way of thinking that China cannot jail you or something. However, do you think all of the Chinese data scrapers are not doing something similar to Facebook where every source of data gathering ultimately gets tied back to you? Once China has a dosier on every single person on the planet regardless of country they live, they can then start using their algos to influence you in ways well beyond advertising. If they can have their algos show you content that causes you to change your mind on who you are voting for or some other method of having you do something to make changes in your local/state/federal elections, then that's much worse to me than some feigned threat of Chinese advertising making you buy something
by epistasis | 2025-07-02 19:45:50+00:00
I think we are very kindred spirits. If you have thoughts on what to do, please share because I'm desperate to find out.

I think that US culture is far closer to Russia or Belarus in culture these days than Ukraine. The Ukrainians I know all said "why aren't the Americans all out in the streets" when Trump started doing all these things. Because that's what Ukrainians do when there's injustice. In the US, those who resist feel defeated already, because of the reelection of somebody who was clearly criminal and has no respect for democracy, and there's very little leadership on pushing back.

I think the energy may come back, we in the US may find our strength again. But the information environment is so poisoned that I fear only violence will finally break through to the poisoned minds, and I really really don't want it to come to that. Maidan happened in Ukraine because the general populace said "we won't tolerate the government beating students doing protests." In the US, we've become quite tolerant of that, and even of the masked police.

I want to stay and fight, but I don't know how. I don't know if anybody knows how. Eastern Europe is about 10-20 years ahead of where the US is in terms of government evolution, because the fall of the USSR caused a speed-run through.
by nicksergeant | 2025-07-02 19:46:12+00:00
The new AI search restricts results to a specific location - you can't search for "remote", for example. So "frontend in my network" returns 5 results, whereas the old Classic Search with the "In My Network" toggle returns 392 results.

FWIW, I didn't know the current search was a new "AI search" and that the "classic search" still provides this functionality, when I built this :)
by hcarvalhoalves | 2025-07-02 19:46:14+00:00
> Why would you want to “focus on the underlying content” here? Tab bars and toolbars still cover the underlying content, and the more transparent/translucent they are, the worse. When something fades to the background, it literally ceases to be in the foreground, so there’s no point in focusing on it. This is like proposing an interface that helps you focus your sight on your peripheral vision.

I believe that's exactly what Apple wants. This new design direction appears to be a strategy to unify all UI for VR as well.

If all controls are designed to be translucent, they (Apple) have freedom to put the control anywhere on the user's field of view on VR and allow "focus on the underlying content" (which in the case of VR, is the real world).

Time will tell if this approach makes sense for 2D screens.
by geysersam | 2025-07-02 19:46:41+00:00
That actually makes a ton of sense and I don't know why you are being downvoted! In AR there's much more space, so padding and rounded corners matter less, and in VR you don't want control surfaces obstructing the view completely. It's useful to be able to see there's "something" behind that navigation icon. Even if you can't distinguish it clearly at least you won't walk into it.

Not saying it's a good bet for Apple or for users, but it seems that's the bet they are making.
by acdha | 2025-07-02 19:46:59+00:00
If you define “corrupt” as not asking for bribes on duty, perhaps. If you use the common definition of the term to include things like being bound by the law the same as the average person, however, that’s tragically untrue. Officers routinely cover up the misconduct of their fellows and force rehiring of the few officers who are held accountable even for serious crimes.
by nico | 2025-07-02 19:47:59+00:00
Great initiative

I tried watching for a bit on makertube, but the stream kept dropping for me... it would work for 30-60s, then I would get a loading spinner. If I refreshed the page, and clicked the play button again, it would work ok again for 30-60s and then would get the spinner

It would be cool to see something more automated though, like a scraper that goes through all the listings and aggregates the results... then maybe add an LLM/chat on top to ask it questions

Anyway, thank you for putting it together, hope to see more soon, and good luck
by xvilka | 2025-07-02 19:48:10+00:00
Rizin[1] (from `dev` git) has good support of Hexagon ISA and MDT images as well as RzIL uplifting, see the implementation [2]. Would definitely help for the static analysis in addition to these tools.

[1] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/tree/dev/librz/arch/isa/he...
by zie | 2025-07-02 19:49:14+00:00
> I can respect resisting pressure to be part of the hearing world, but there are certainly ways in which deafness impacts one's safety and opportunities.

I agree, but that's not a result of me being deaf, it's a result of the hearing world just blindly assuming everyone can hear these things. People screw up hearing sirens or "on your left" or whatever ALL the time, even if they are hearing (distracted, headphones, etc).

If we took away the assumption that everyone can hear everything all the time, it would help everyone, not just people who are deaf.

For instance, studies show that subtitles/captions being always on helps retention of the information you just watched[0]. Yet subtitles/captions not even being included is still the default for many types of media. When captions are included, often times they are wrong, either subtly or grossly. Even in education settings where one would think people want the information retained pretty much never ever bother to include or turn on captions. Despite decades of studies saying captions help a lot.

Go to your local home improvement store and try to buy a battery powered smoke/fire alarm that will work for deaf people. I'm betting despite lots of options the chances are basically 0 for finding one(yet they do exist in the world). Finding one that works with wired 110V is a little above zero. What if it was the other way around instead, and it was hard/impossible to find a fire/smoke alarm that didn't work for deaf/HoH people?

0: UW-Madison did a comprehensive overview[0] of over 100 empirical studies in 2015 showing that captions are useful for everyone, not just deaf/hard of hearing people. "The empirical evidence is clear: Captions, also known as same-language subtitles, benefit everyone who watches videos." They recommended just always showing captions.

source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5214590/
by TZubiri | 2025-07-02 19:49:32+00:00
Yup, definitely has felt that way for years, they do try to consolidate but it takes years. When I was trying to setup something for customer support I was navigating all of their redundant products, Teams, Skype, Skype for Business (different thing), Lync.

But that is way more normal for microsoft, because it's about redundant products that get merged eventually. What's not typical is internal dependencies being exposed, the case above were many MSFT teams/products in the same tier, the case in this article is many MSFT teams/products in a single vertical, at different tiers of the supply chain.

It's possible that this is more a feature of open source, this being an open source MSFT product (.NET core) and the report having been filed through an open source channel (github issues). I think that if the issue were submitted to some account manager or customer service rep through a channel linked to a paying customer account, the response would have been very different.

But you cannot expect a quality customer service response if there's no $ being paid to the maintainers. Whether it be Microsoft or whatever FOSS project.
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 19:50:38+00:00
>It's time we acknowledge that the purpose of most UI "progress" or "change" is sales.

It's time we separate sales from UI progress.

If they want to "attract prospective users and persuade existing users that the functionality of the product is new, efficient, or otherwise "good." they can make substantial changes, of which there are numerous areas currently lacking.

Which is what they did in the first 10 or so years of OS X.
by ivape | 2025-07-02 19:51:46+00:00
Why do we care so much if jobs are created or not created? The market is the market, either we need more jobs or we don't. If there are not enough jobs, then what are we going to do? Create more? We're just dressing up socialism in capitalism's clothes. If you want to seriously do capitalism, then there is absolutely no reason to measure employment. If it's zero then it's correct, if it's 100% then it's correct, the number is always correct.

The problem isn't employment. It's food and shelter. Why do we care so much if people have jobs? Because in America you will die homeless and starve without one. The core issue is much further down Maslow's hierarchy.

The food and housing are too expensive so much so that we are now flabbergasted by the reality of the end game of this system, and we're trying to use euphemistic metrics to broom the larger issue (food and a roof) under the bed. The situation is so bad that a large percentage of Americans are absolutely fine dragging anything that resembles economic competition (immigrants) by their fucking ears off the street, mom dad and child, and dumping them in some random country. The larger US population is unable to cede even an ounce of empathy because their wallets are held hostage by a loan-based society/growth-oriented pricing (my house MUST be worth 40% more since I bought it - really? I see.). We're at an inflection point.

This could be a false analogy, but I'll throw it out there. Imagine a startup that cannot sell their product because it simply sucks. Now imagine not coming to terms with that and doing relentless A/B testing and pointing at the data from that. You won't solve shit with that data, go back to the drawing board.

Infinite growth and infinite "go work more and harder" doesn't sound like the path forward for America. This is very much a "work smarter" situation, because you have to be stupid to keep buying that paradigm. The deal we made with capitalism had nothing to do with annihilating our core conscious of feeding and housing everyone. Capitalism was never supposed to eradicate that human virtue and certainly not add a layer of "must have money and must have job" to stay dry/warm and not hungry, and at the very least not be in constant financial anxiety (which is the day-to-day psychological torment the average American faces).

Another way to interpret employment numbers is to simply meditatively say out loud "There's 70k people this month that are on the rails because this society is that cut-throat about money for literally everything, down to the bagel, down to the roof".

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Anyway, the new bill congress just passed targeted SNAP, so we definitely cut off more people from affordable food. This entire country is going to need something like SNAP for 300+ million Americans in about 10 years, so we'll all get to watch the poetry of this one.
by rorylaitila | 2025-07-02 19:52:04+00:00
Yeah there are certainly diminishing returns. It's just that if they had N employees today, it's very unlikely they were at the top of their s-curve, such that N+1 employees is now net negative. Unless the business was already very mature. Most companies are expecting to grow revenue.

So it would be the exceptional case that firing employees because they were suddenly more productive makes sense.

What's more likely is they were already overhired and the new found "efficiency" is the excuse to resize.

Edit: btw this comes up IRL for me all the time in my work. Companies default play is to cut expenses to hit desired margin. It's much more beneficial in most cases to keep the team but increase their efficiency and handle more revenue. There are diminishing returns to profit by cutting back.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-02 19:52:20+00:00
> OSS

> people are making trillions off the free labor of people like you and me

I read "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" to also include LLMs and especially the cases that we most deeply disagree with.

Either we believe in the principles of OSS or we do not. If you do not like the idea of your intellectual property being used for commercial purposes then this model is definitely not for you.

There is no shame in keeping your source code and other IP a secret. If you have strong expectations of being compensated for your work, then perhaps a different licensing and distribution model is what you are after.

> that information is then being locked behinds paywalls and becoming more difficult to be found through search

Sure - If you give up and delete everything. No one is forcing you to put your blog and GH repos behind a paywall.
by TZubiri | 2025-07-02 19:52:21+00:00
Right, as a customer you always prefer that it happen out of sight, but I guess these are the very tradeoffs of choosing open source software, you can't get the best of both worlds.

That said, maybe a slight change like, "I'll open a ticket with the other team" instead of "you should open a ticket with the other team" makes all the difference. But like I said in another comment, if you open a ticket on github, you aren't paying for that support, you should aim to have a commercial relationship with Microsoft and then raise the issue through that commercial channel.

Otherwise you have no recourse to complain, you are getting everything as-is.