MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-18 00:52:36+00:00
It isn't just about having something to talk about at a dinner party. It is about doing something productive and worth-while. There is a massive feeling of accomplishment from doing some that is productive. Having something interesting to talk about is an additional benefit. A good portion of those people that were pro-active and learned to stream, turned it into a side income. I wish I had done that. I was desperately trying to find a job after being laid off.

You get none of these benefits from watching Netflix on the sofa. In fact it is likely to make you miserable. A lot of people were negatively affected over COVID. A lot of people regressed into a shell and had a form of depression. I spoke to people mid lockdowns who were working from home and were saying "If I can't go out and enjoy myself, there is no point in earning this money".

I don't consider myself shy, but I find interacting in person now a lot more stressful than I did before COVID lockdowns.

There were other problems during COVID. A lot of people increased intake of booze. I am glad I had given up drinking the year before (I was an alcoholic) because I worry about what I would have been like. There was an increase in domestic violence in the UK (probably related to the increase in alcohol consumption). I am sure there are other issues I had forgotten about.
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by astrange | 2025-07-18 00:54:33+00:00
I think Americans are culturally afraid other people will take their jobs, so they love industry barriers to entry. Even when this means the only people working in a given field are all about to retire.

The hardcore version of this is labor unions of course, but the small version is occupational licensing for all kinds of small-time occupations like hairdressing.

They shouldn't worry so much, since Americans are also culturally afraid of any kind of job where you have to do X if they think they aren't an "X person", to the point they won't apply to do it for any amount of money. Applies to physical labor (farmworkers) as much as mental (anything where you have to do math).
by bison3 | 2025-07-18 00:55:47+00:00
I personally wouldn’t put much weight behind what is in 10-Ks. These can often be written by the same law firms for multiple businesses using largely the same language. Also, as others have pointed out, the risk section 1a on 10-Ks are more of a CYA than anything else. For what it is worth i think Meta even lists Zucks hobbies(aviation, surfing etc.) as a risk.
by alganet | 2025-07-18 00:56:17+00:00
> I think you’re quite far off

No threat then. If I'm that off, why even engage?

> you’ve reacted to pushback terribly

Felt like the right thing to do.

> It’s about questioning the fabric of your personal reality

You're just repeating what I said now, but with poorer details, less references, in an angry tone directed at me instead of directing it at a more general abstraction.

I showed you where the spoon is, and you tried to use it to hit me in the balls.

However, this is not about balls.
by cobbal | 2025-07-18 00:56:20+00:00
Probably possible. But if I see something that is AI, I won't bother to engage with it. I'm happier to engage with a human-written piece of bad writing, because it's a meeting of two human minds. There's some innate value to that. Me trying to understand an AI's mind? Not a worthwhile endeavor.

It gets more complicated by the fact that many people don't mark what's AI and what's not, and harder to be certain every day. Many people putting out the slop will have different priorities, and don't care if they're wasting my time.

Meandering back to your point, I would be happy to look at AI-co-created art as long as I knew in advance that it significantly expressed the mind of the human who created it.

Since I can't get people to mark what is AI, I've instead considered signing off all my writing with:

(The above was written by a human without assistance from AI)
by rglullis | 2025-07-18 00:56:27+00:00
> You're framing this whole conversation as if there's a single, universally agreed-upon set of "problems with the modern web."

No, I'm framing this as "go ask 1000 different people to make a list of the top 10 issues they have with the web, and we will be able to solve 99.995% of them without ditching the web browser and start using a Gemini client to access documents instead".

All the problems you are describing are tractable with a web browser. Disable javascript, disable external stylesheets, run all the websites you want to read through wallabag and then just browse with a preset userstyle. Use lynx for all I care. That's all there is to it. Any of these approaches will get you the same type of experience you'd be getting from a Gemini client - with the difference that we won't need to know or care about it.

You might keep looking for justification for experimenting with other things. You might find joy in using them. It's all good, but completely orthogonal to the point. At the end of the day I'm just saying we do not need to switch to a different transport protocol in order to experience a saner web, and y'all are acting like just I'm calling your kid ugly.
by 0x457 | 2025-07-18 00:58:30+00:00
I have this toy agent I'm writing, I always laugh that I, human, write a code that generates human-readable markdown, that I feed to llm where I ask it to produce a json, so I can parse (by code I, or it wrote) and output in a consistent human-readable form.

I'm thinking about let it output freeform and then use another model to use to force that into structured.
by ropable | 2025-07-18 00:58:30+00:00
There's a segment of the population who are vehemently against the idea of undeserving/lazy/the wrong people receiving any kind of welfare benefit, and the concept of UBI really, really triggers that segment. To the point where rational analysis goes straight out the window.

I'm quite certain that all the same arguments were had about every kind of retirement or disability pension everywhere. Many of our societies are producing an enormous amount of resources surplus to our basic needs, often distributed very unevenly. Putting some of that surplus towards ensuring all members are at least housed and fed would not be a bad thing.
by bitpush | 2025-07-18 00:59:04+00:00
This is a reasonable approach, but unfortunately misses what made Apple soooo successful. Apple is the master of controlling the brand. Apple DOES NOT like to highlight their suppliers. Nobody knows who makes iPhones displays, or sensors, or RAMs.

They love to "invent" brands that they control, so that they can commodotize the underlying supplier. Hey user, it is a retina display and dont worry whether it is LG or Samsung is making it.

Apple tried this with AI, calling it "Apple Intelligence". Unfortunately that faltered. Now Apple will have to come out and say "iPhone with ChatGPT" or "Siri with Claude". AND APPLE HATES THAT. HATES IT WITH PASSION.

People will start to associate smartness with ChatGPT or Claude, and Apple loses control and OpenAI/Anthropic's leverage goes up.

Apple has painted themselves into a corner. And as I said elsewhere, it is a train-wreck happening in slowmotion.
by serf | 2025-07-18 00:59:35+00:00
>Let's either demand these things from both sides or from neither. Just because your experience matches one side, doesn't mean that experiences different from yours should require a higher degree of scrutiny.

Sort of.

The people that are happy with it and praising the avenues offered by LLM/AI solutions are creating codebases that fulfill their requirements, whatever those might be.

The people that seem to be unhappy with it tend to have the universal complaints of either "it produces garbage" , or "I'm slower with it.".

Maybe i'm showing my age here, but I remember these same exact discussions between people that either praised or disparaged search engines. The alternative being an internet Yellowpages (which was a thing for many years.)

The ones that praised it tended to be people who were taught or otherwise figured out how to use metadata tags like date:/onsite: , whereas the ones that disparaged it tended to be the folks who would search for things like "who won the game" and then proceed to click every scam/porno link on this green Earth and then blame Google/gdg/lycos/whatever when they were exposed to whatever they clicked.

in other words : proof is kind of in the pudding.

I wouldn't care about the compiler logs from a user that ignored all syntax and grammar rules of a language after picking it up last week, either -- but it's useful for successful devs to share their experiences both good and bad.

I care more about the opinions of those that know the rules of the game -- let the actual teams behind these software deal with the user testing and feedback from people that don't want to learn conventions.
by anton-c | 2025-07-18 00:59:43+00:00
If it's AI art/vid with an AI voice reading an AI script(as has become common on youtube) it will always be slop, regardless of how high quality the output is.

I want to know a person's ideas, not a computers regurgitation of others'. It's low effort and usually lacks a point.

Now it doesnt have zero usefulness in writing/the arts. Probably tons tbh. For instance someone using AI voice because they aren't an English speaker and want to talk to that audience, or using it to clean up grainy film is different (in my opinion) than genning the writing or art.

Things made without enough human in the loop - I've found - lack purpose and identity. I dont see AI changing there. If it wasn't a good idea from the start, ai isn't gonna fix that. No amount of awesome cgi or a-list actors saves a terrible script.

The only people I see pushing stuff like ai music is spotify so it doesn't have to pay royalties, but everyone I speak to hates it. The listeners, artists, and the record labels those models stole from. Probably instrument and audio software makers too. When people figure out a pic is AI they voice frustration and embarrassment.

There's more in the word 'slop' than just bad content. Comments/posts on here or reddit often get slaughtered solely because it was written by AI and the user wasn't skilled enough to hide it. Some people just don't like reading something a machine trying to sound like a person wrote.

I don't doubt we will advance to the stage where it becomes on the same level quality-wise, but doubt most people would be wanting AI content while human made stuff is available. It will still be considered low effort slop by many, I believe.
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by andrei_says_ | 2025-07-18 01:01:17+00:00
Years ago I read Luis Bunuel’s biography. When he visited Hollywood (in the 50s or maybe 60s) he made a small device out of paper which allowed him to predict the plot of the typical Hollywood movie.

It was made out of a few wheels, the outer one larger than the inner ones, all attached with a pin in the middle. He had written types and characters and events on the edges of the outer wheels.

He would ask you how the movie starts, what were the main characters, adjust the outer wheels containing these items and get the rest of the plot with very high accuracy.

Hollywood is a home of amazing masterful artists but the suits mostly bet on what has proven to work.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-18 01:01:17+00:00
> There is still risk, but this is a form of risk which is not neccessary and can be reduced.

It reduces it a little bit. But if you drop the risk of a random site being malicious by 25% that's not a very important change. The user still has to be wary. That reduction is not worth anything as drastic as blocking the site.

> We are talking about blogs that don't use https because they don't sell things. Expired certificates are out of scope of this comment thread.

I got the impression we were primarily talking about broken https. It's definitely not out of scope entirely:

"If it says the certificate for your bank is expired, you need to stop. If it says the certificate for the 10 year old public blog post that was linked by a 5 year old Reddit post as describing the solution to your problem, that should not matter, and you just want to read the non-secret contents of whatever is on that page regardless of whether the site's maintainer turned on HTTP to HTTPS redirects and then neglected to renew the certificate."
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-18 01:03:35+00:00
> But when you’ve been grinding for 40 years … yeah for sure most people stop working.

I’d like to emphasize “grinding” here. For many it’s a grind in the truest sense, involving decades of backbreaking physical work. For others it’s immense stress to keep a roof over their family’s head no matter what. By the time retirement rolls around practically everybody has been burned out to some degree but had to power through regardless simply because quitting wasn’t an option.

Yeah, under conditions like that, people are indeed going to stop working the very second they’re no longer required to in order to survive. Things like UBI, 4-day work weeks, remote work, and fair compensation would all improve that situation measurably.
by WantonQuantum | 2025-07-18 01:03:52+00:00
I would love to be asked this question in an interview. For context, I first learned to program in BASIC, Logo and assembly on an Apple IIe. I have a computer science degree where we studied CPU architectures, operating system implementations, etc. I worked in telecommunications for many years. I have a hobby interest in electronics. I also have a hobby interest in physics, especially quantum physics. If I had a whiteboard to keep track of what I was talking about, I think I could comfortably talk for well over an hour. For example, did you know that when an electrical signal flows through a wire, the majority of the energy flows outside the wire rather than via the movement of electrons within the wire? Did you know that electromagnetism is actually part of the electroweak force and that fact was proved by the LHC's discovery of the Higg's boson? Did you know that activity in someone's motor cortex is already spiking before they are consciously aware that they have "decided" to press the enter key? Did you know that twisted pair ethernet cables are twisted to reduce the effect of interference? Did you know that most ethernet hubs these days are actually switches and so CSMACD is rarely needed anymore? If it's https then the browser is validating the server's public key. The TLS connection is established by a key exchange protocol but most traffic is encrypted my symmetric encryption because it less CPU intensive? Most CPUs these days have special instructions for speeding up crypto calculations. It's probably a TCP connection. Some websites (like google) put a lot of effort into sending the landing page in few enough bytes that TCP flow control won't kick in and oblige the client to acknowledge receipt of any packets before the whole page is sent (although some rules are bent here to achieve this). Data is usually compressed by the server before encryption, gzip compression uses lempel ziv and huffman. Images are probably JPEG with a very interesting compression scheme. If there's javascript in the page I can talk about the implementation of language in a browser. On so on.
by sothatsit | 2025-07-18 01:03:59+00:00
The best results I get are for things like writing a new database migration and plumbing the data through to an API endpoint. That touches a lot of the codebase, but is not particularly complicated, so this process works quite well for that. Especially because it is easy for me to review.

I have also used this for creating new UI components or admin pages. One thing I have noticed is that the planning step is pretty good at searching through existing UI components to follow their patterns to maintain consistency. If I just asked Claude to make the change straight away, it often won't follow the patterns of our codebase.

But for UI components, adding new pages, or things like that, it is usually more useful just as a starting point and I will often need to go in and tweak things from there. But often it is a pretty good starting point. And if it's not, I can just discard the changes anyway.

I find this is not worth it for very small tasks though, like adding a simple button or making a small behaviour change to a UI component. It will usually overcomplicate these small tasks and add in big testing rigs or performance optimisations, or other irrelevant concerns. It is like it doesn't want to produce a very short plan. So, for things like this I will use Claude interactively, or just make the change manually. Honestly, even if it did do a good job at these small tasks, it would still seem like overkill.
by hboon | 2025-07-18 01:05:14+00:00
> One user, who asked not to be identified, said it has been impossible to advance his project since the usage limits came into effect. “It just stopped the ability to make progress,” the user told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really nothing else that’s competitive with the capability set of Claude Code right now.”

PMF.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-18 01:05:17+00:00
Just anecdata.

I stopped when I was 55 (didn't have a choice, actually). Fortunately, I had saved wisely, and lived frugally, so I was able to stop working (which was good, because no one wanted me, anyway).

I actually get more done, every day (like, seven days a week), than I did when getting paid.

ToMAYto, ToMAHto...
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-18 01:05:27+00:00
> Yes, because that's a transfer to different people. That's not a problem

Sorry I don't agree. The tax has already been paid when the person was alive. There shouldn't be a an additional tax on top because it is given to others after they died. Which is what is happening.

> The problem is that it's not just treated as income to the recipients—which it manifestly is—with the income tax then being modified to include both advance recognition and windfall spreading options to allow taxpayers to deal with irregular income in a fair basis with more regular income.

The problem wouldn't exist if the tax was abolished.

> This is also the problem with capital gains tax. And its not the people who have the kind of income that avoids regular income taxation that are getting screwed by that.

Again another case of a problem that wouldn't exist if the tax (capital gains) was abolished.
by enraged_camel | 2025-07-18 01:06:18+00:00
>> But it does not sound like they made a poor choice.

I think the thing that's not obvious to young people is that choices that seem good at any given time may turn out to be poor choices further down the line. The guy who traveled the world while working one hour a day telling engineers what to do over email probably had a great young adulthood. It sounds like he paid for it later, though, by getting laid off and having difficulty finding another job.

This doesn't mean that those who worked their asses off didn't get screwed over, but on average they probably did better professionally - and by proxy, financially.
by bitpush | 2025-07-18 01:06:27+00:00
> I don’t really understand why Apple has to provide a ChatGPT product

Control. It boils down to control. If you own a platform, you want to make your "suppliers" (apps in this case) as substitutable as possible.

If people start associating ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini as the main reasons to buy a phone, at some point in the future, they'll think - gee, most of what I'm doing on the phone is interacting with $app, and I can get the $app elsewhere.
by programjames | 2025-07-18 01:08:33+00:00
I feel like you're quoting me, but not reading what I said.

> > I think the left has also really shot themselves in the foot by talking about UBI as "helping struggling people get by" or accusing opposers of being unempathetic

> I mean it's less an accusation of being unempathetic and more just an observation of the facts on the ground, isn't it?

> > When you forcibly take money from someone, and use it to fund your project, it comes from a place of very selective empathy

Are these "facts" actually grounded, or are you just doing a POV play? Like if I said, "everyone deserves chocolate ice cream", and you said "wow, how unempathetic, don't you care about everyone getting vanilla?" You talk about things not being scalable for society; well guess what, your version of empathy is one of them. Not everyone is going to care about the same causes as you, and attacking people for that will not convince them you actually care about them. What will is if you tell them why they're better off funding your pet project.
by sandspar | 2025-07-18 01:09:27+00:00
I guess people generally try to maximize reward per lifetime. Some people try to increase their lifetime, albeit with smaller reward per unit time (eating their spinach). A few rare people try to maximize reward per unit time, even at the cost of a longer life. Felix lived to 56, skydiving all the way. Although he died younger than the average Austrian, he probably experienced greater sum reward. I suppose the gamble is that with his lifestyle, he could have died in his teens - in which case the sum of his reward would be lower than an "eat your spinach" 80 year old.

I wonder if you could cross compare: perhaps the sum reward of Felix's 56 fun years is about the same as a Greenland shark's 400 boring years.
by btown | 2025-07-18 01:09:33+00:00
One of the things I love about computing and computer science is how the wide variety of tools available, built over multiple generations, provide people with the leverage to bring their highly complex ideas to life. No matter how they work best, they can use those tools as a way to keep their mind focused on larger goals with broader context without yak shaving every hole punched in a punchcard.

You see a person whose conception of programming is different from yours; I see a person who's finding joy in the act of creating computer programs, and who will be able to bring even more of their ideas to life than they would have beforehand. That's something to celebrate, I think.
by EGreg | 2025-07-18 01:09:36+00:00
I know a universal one.

One is Alaska’s Permanent Fund. Look at their gini index among all 50 states since the fund launched.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pop4.398

And the conclusions are similar. Better health. Lower inequality

The other is Manitoba’s MINCOME experiment, they randomly selected people — it was doing very well but somehow the powers that be pulled the plug: https://humanrights.ca/story/manitobas-mincome-experiment