MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torginus | 2025-07-14 17:09:29+00:00
* Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure *

I just had a friend complain to me about LeetCode, saying that it's meaningless since everyone just mindlessly grinds the problem sets.

I pointed out to him that it's called studying for the test.
by dimitrios1 | 2025-07-14 17:09:32+00:00
"Defund the police" was and remains wildly unpopular with almost everyone, especially minorities (as a reminder to any of those out touch reading this: there are large racial disparities in who is affected by crime, particularly violent crime) . It was quintessential "progressives are out of touch" ammunition, not only used by republicans (obviously), but also establishment democrats in competitive districts.

As another commenter posted, its about not allowing the creation of the data set in the first place.

We really need everyone in this country to go read "Nothing to Hide" by Daniel Solove, because thats how this crazy shit gets through in the first place: innocuous citizens go "Sure, I got nothing to hide"
by bell-cot | 2025-07-14 17:09:58+00:00
> What happened to all the other...

There's a huge gap between "had the idea" and "had all the technical skills, the $millions in capital, and the managerial ability to actually build it". Then there's the barrier of "and succeed". If you read between the article's lines a bit - these guys had loads of the first 3, yet they're still losing loads of money every month.

But, bigger picture, you have a good point. These articles are obviously cherry-picked stories, with an extremely optimistic "... and the little guy wins!" spin. Ars is writing for an audience of techies who are frustrated with crappy ISP's.
by swat535 | 2025-07-14 17:10:17+00:00
This is the biggeest issue that techies on HN don't understand.

These tech giants are essentially extensions of the United State's government now and fining them or imposing restrictions isn't as simple as fining any corporation due to the geopolitics at play.

The long term solution is for EU to decouple its reliance on American technology. Anything else is a bandaid IMO.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-14 17:10:28+00:00
First, we need an actual meritocracy --- the purest forms of that I've ever experienced were when in the military when in a unit with an officer who both had good ethics _and_ a good understanding the people under his command, and a school system which I briefly attended when I was very young --- my understanding of the school system based on my recollection and how it was explained to me by my parents in the light of more typical schools was that classes were divided between social and academic: academic classes (English and other languages, math, science) were attended at one's ability level, with a four year cap through eighth grade (after which the cap was removed) and social classes (homeroom, social studies, physical education, home economics and shop class) were attended at one's age level. In addition to grades K--12, many of the teachers were accredited as faculty at a local college, and if need be, students were either transported to that college, or professors from the college would come to the school to teach classes. It was not uncommon for students to graduate from high school and simultaneously be awarded a college diploma.
by bot403 | 2025-07-14 17:10:51+00:00
I've seen the putty.org site. It's about the most friendly it could be to putting putty at top and disclaiming association.

The reporter was an unbearable asshole. They were not reporting but pushing and agenda through questions. They were definitely jaq-ing off and trying to push their own view that holding putty.org is unethical. I fail to see what research the so-called "journalist" was conducting.

I applauded Denis. There was no correct answer that could have been given here. The "journalist" just wanted a quote to attach to an article which was already written in their mind about how the site was unethical and "stealing" putty.org.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Asking_Questions
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-14 17:10:55+00:00
I live in Oakland too, and I hate hate hate that we're enabling masked, unnamed government enforcers to kidnap people off the streets and potentially deport them without even verifying they are who they are thought to be.

I also know that we cannot afford to keep letting criminals run this town and destroy public property and kill people on the roads and get away with it
by burnte | 2025-07-14 17:11:14+00:00
I would expect different because there are two major philosophies in business, and they indicate the direction a business will go. There is the philosophy of focus on profit/growth, or focus on costs/value-extraction.

Before anyone straw mans "but you can do both", yes, you can, but only one can be the MAIN way you run a business.

A focus on profit and growth will lead to seeing employees as strategic resources ready to be deployed to serve the business and generate revenue. One wants to enable those employees with the best matching tools that enable the employee to do more. In this case, a growth leader would say "AI can make our people 20% more productive without adding headcount, and lets us refocus another 10% of employees to more productive/profitable tasks, better utilizing the internal knowledge those employees have. These are the companies that tend to become more profitable and successful because leaders understand that good employees are an asset, not a liability.

The other focus, on costs and value extraction, see the business as a zero sum game; in order to increase profits, we must decrease costs or find a way to extract more value from customers. These are the companies that will reduce service levels with no change in pricing to improve profits. They'll understaff a facility to see the "true minimum number of employees" (the bare minimum), depending on some employees to go "above and beyond" to get things done for no additional compensation. They'll get rid of expensive employees, settle for replacements employees who are 75% as good but will work for 65% of the money, and keep headcount the same; worse service, but proportionally lower costs. These are the companies that maybe be huge, but they're not market leaders, they're reactive and basically rent takers.

When a leader begins to resent employees being paid to do their work, it's time for that leader to go, because they'll simply start that company on a decline.

Basically, there are those who understand the difference between cost and value, and those who are too focused on cost to even understand value. If your first response to AI is "we can cut people" you're in the latter camp. Your first reaction is to cut costs, rather than to exploit the new tech for even higher profits.

Eyes on the future instead of the past is how you grow and succeed. Employee success leads to company success. Employees are not a cost center.
by colechristensen | 2025-07-14 17:11:38+00:00
Sometimes it does... sometimes.

I recently had a nice conversation looking for some reading suggestions from an LLM. The first round of suggestions were superb, some of them I'd already read, some were entirely new and turned out great. Maybe a dozen or so great suggestions. Then it was like squeezing blood from a stone but I did get a few more. After that it was like talking to a babbling idiot. Repeating the same suggestions over and over, failing to listen to instructions, and generally just being useless.

LLMs are great on the first pass but the further you get away from that they degrade into uselessness.
by jrm4 | 2025-07-14 17:11:43+00:00
Yup. I would 100% support aggressive localism here, given that the actual service is very easy to replicate. I'd absolutely support an absurdly high tax on any "out-of-town" food delivery service in order to -- maybe "artificially" -- prop up a local one. There is now NO good reason anyone in California deserves a cent for e.g. a local Florida driver delivering local Florida food to a local Florida customer.
by vedantnair | 2025-07-14 17:11:44+00:00
This is Chapter 2 of Config Wars! Today, we’re diving into JSON Schema.

JSON Schema was popularized through its use in validating API requests in the OpenAPI format. Since JSON is universal, it’s quickly become the largest, most well supported schema validation ecosystem.

It boasts a strong community of third-party and code-generation validation libraries that we’ll discuss.

It can natively struggle with overrides (you’ll have to use a templating engine like Jinja), but thankfully, we’ve made this seamless with Miru’s config management tool.
by stouset | 2025-07-14 17:11:55+00:00
This same argument is true for every bit of authority we give to law enforcement agencies (and really, the government in general). We expect they'll use those powers responsibly and within the limitations that we've ascribed, but it's always a risk that they're used irresponsibly and in situations we don't approve of.

Yes, this is an argument for not giving them more authority than necessary, but it's also an argument for holding them accountable when they do act out of bounds.

To this point, any law that gives power to government officials also needs to have explicit and painful consequences for abuse of those powers. Civilians who break the law face punishment and penalties, but government employees are almost never held to account. That needs to change.
by sodapopcan | 2025-07-14 17:12:37+00:00
This is always my thought whenever I hear the "AI let me build a feature in a codebase I didn't know in a language I didn't know" (which is often, there is at one in these comments). Great, but what have you learned? This is fine for small contributions, I guess, but I don't hear a lot of stories of long-term maintenance. Unpopular opinion, though, I know.
by joduplessis | 2025-07-14 17:12:57+00:00
I'm not running so much anymore (foot injury) - but for the last 15 years I've spent an hour+ on the road or in the gym 5 - 6 (sometimes 7) days a week. Also through sickness, injury, etc. It's changed the way I view being alive and healthy - I actually consider it "chronic medication" :) Kudos to the OP though - that's some mad dedication.
by afro88 | 2025-07-14 17:13:47+00:00
I said this when the linked paper was shared and got downvotes: it's based on early 2025 data. My point isn't that it should be completely up to date, but that how we need to consider it in that context. This is pre Claude 4, Claude Code. Pre Gemini 2.5 even. These models are such a big step up from what came previously.

Just like we put a (2023) on articles here so they are considered in the right context, so too this paper should be. Blanket "AI tools slow sown development" statements with a "look this rigorous paper says so!" is ignoring a key variable: the rate of effectiveness improvement. If said paper evaluated with the current models, the picture would be different. Also in 3 months time. AI tools aren't a static thing that either works or don't indefinitely.
by deepsun | 2025-07-14 17:13:59+00:00
Yes, they are just not popular here. All new US houses are built with airducts as well, so it's not just old homes.

By the way, I was always curious why installing splits _in_ the room. I understand multi-story apartments, where there's no other place. But if we're talking about detached houses you have an attic (where the airducts go), or a ceiling (where recessed lights go). Can we put splits in there? I can see problems with power delivery, condensate diversion, but they are the same if we install them _in_ the room. But in return you get fine-tuned climate control, and no pressure difference problems (no need for bypasses to prevent slamming doors with ducts).
by Vegenoid | 2025-07-14 17:14:20+00:00
In some cases, I have not revisited, as I was happy to simply make a small modification for my use only. In others, I have taken the time to ensure the changes are suitable for upstreaming. In my experience, which I have not methodically recorded in any way, the LLM’s changes at this early stage have been pretty good. This is also partly because the changes I am making at the early stage are generally small, usually not requiring adding new functionality but simply hooking up existing functionality to a new input or output.

What’s most useful about the LLM in the early stages is not the actual code it writes, but its reasoning that helps me learn about the structure of the project. I don’t take the code blind, I am more interested in the reasoning than the code itself. I have found this to be reliably useful.
by noleary | 2025-07-14 17:14:28+00:00
> There’s a practicality to having well-made shoes that you can repair — and there’s also romance and nostalgia ... Doing this work affects how you see the world. You become sensitive to art and beauty. You develop a sense of history, time and place. I’ll notice things other people might not notice, like the patina of an older building that’s a little bit worn. I’m drawn to these older buildings that bring in a nostalgia of time, place and character, just like a good pair of shoes can.
by stouset | 2025-07-14 17:14:54+00:00
> This was tried. It generated a generational backlash against the left as petty crime and visible homelessness rose.

Crime has been on a downward trend for a generation, outside of a few areas. In San Francisco specifically, crime also increased due to police officers quietly going on strike against policies they disagreed with. Now that police officers are actually doing their jobs again, shockingly, crime is rapidly falling.

What has actually increased is sensationalist coverage in the media, which you're right, has created a significant political backlash.
by Spivak | 2025-07-14 17:14:58+00:00
I agree with every word of your analysis and I agree that we've tried basically nothing. But this is why I talked about political capital—every one of your suggestions has been available for the last twenty years and nothing has come of it and the problem continues to get worse. When you say something like, "healthy food should be more affordable and readily available" you'll get a lot of nods of agreement but when it comes time to turn that idea into actual policy everyone gets cold feet. Proposals like price caps for whole foods, subsidies for meals that meet some threshold of healthy, sin taxes for unhealthy foods, outright bans of certain ingredients the votes dry right up.

But people want Ozempic, they will actively seek it out, and in numbers that can actually make a dent in the problem. In a way that people don't seek out healthy alternatives or exercise. Because people don't want to be healthy, they want to be skinny. You can't control people, you can only respond to them and, ya know, whatever works man.
by DistractionRect | 2025-07-14 17:15:02+00:00
Probably because the tsa isn't able/allowed to hand out access willy nilly.

It's kinda like how the police need warrants to request cellphone data, but cellphone companies could sell realtime data to third parties who in turn sold it to the police.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684
Show HN: React.tv – User-Curated TV and Ethical React Content
by AshesOfOwls | 2025-07-14 17:15:06+00:00
Hi HN!

I am excited to share the project I have been working on for the last nine months called React.tv.

The original problem I was attempting to solve is "Ethical React Content" on the internet. If you are confused, react content is when a content creator watches media and puts their image and commentary over the media being watched. The current solution to these reaction videos is good faith attribution, where the content creator puts a link to the video being watched in their description in hopes that the audience will click it. This is not ideal, and when done on a livestream with hundreds to thousands in the audience it can remove a large chunk of potential views.

React.tv solves this by allowing you to place your livestream side-by-side with the content being watched. It uses embeds which are synced for everyone watching, meaning that the audience views are funneled back to all the sources being watched.

After several iterations I noticed that a simple watch party system wasn't enough. Traditional watch parties get stale very quickly and force you to keep manually adding content. I wanted the ability for people to find content to react to but also maintain a level of passive consumption. That started with adding playlists from YouTube to the watch party, but those lists became gigantic and hard to navigate.

That's where the idea for user-curated, scheduled TV channels came from.

Create always on TV Channels of content from YouTube and Twitch, up to two weeks at a time. Sync existing YouTube playlists and assign them to time slots which carry over their playback history between days - just like TV channels do. Just like our watch parties, your always on TV channel can swap modes to a watch party with your reaction at any time.

Oh, and all the features you would expect from watch parties of the past are here too such as Requests, voting, and feature rich chat.

Future plans include React VODS where you can watch past reacts, and a streamer guard to avoid TOS infractions.

Thanks for checking it out.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-07-14 17:15:09+00:00
I had this same problem in my 2005-ish Lexus! I got a cheap switch[1] on Amazon and put it in-line with my battery. If I’m going to leave the car undriven for more than a week, I just disconnect the battery with the switch. It’s been great, no complaints so far.

[1] this is the switch I got https://a.co/d/90K0QiH
by fsckboy | 2025-07-14 17:15:23+00:00
replying to that register article:

>he finally finished his nominally 12-month master's degree there

A Sloan SM/MBA is 2 yrs (nominally and actually). There is also a 12 month SM/MBA for "senior executives", so that's probably what is being referred to. But in that case, it wouldn't have been him "finishing" the degree program he had left (because he would not have been taken as a senior executive then), so they probably applied the credits he did have to this other program for which he would have to write a paper anyway.

(as a side quibble, MIT only started offering "an MBA" in the '90's (purely for job-market name recognition) and prior to that time the (same) degree was called SM Management, which is what his original program would have been. the SM is technically "better" because it entails also writing a thesis)

He visited a company I worked at when I was fresh out of school, and he was brought by my office impromptu to see what I was working on. my software crashed immediately, and he laughed, in a friendly way, but didn't ask for my resume.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 17:15:28+00:00
Eh, sorta.

South Dakota v. Dole held that things like the drinking age can only be tied to related items. Road maintenance in exchange for road rules passes muster, and interstate highways is about as "interstate commerce" as you can probably get.

I'm not prepared to consider the Tenth extinct just yet. That is, among other things, a "you nuke us we nuke you" scenario between the two parties. Things like drinking age work because the two parties largely agree on it.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-14 17:15:45+00:00
Well. I bookmarked it now. Seems to have got an update, since the last time I looked at it. Meaning it just works. But not necessarily better than the lighntingmaps.org I've used instead. Different styles for the same thing. Will check in the future from Hamburg, .de and Aspen, CO how accurate it really is.
by neuroelectron | 2025-07-14 17:15:59+00:00
The corruption in California is well known and frankly blatant.

Money laundering through tech startups or crypto shell companies, luxury real estate purchases by Chinese or Russian oligarchs for capital flight or laundering, tech-enabled criminal infrastructure: e.g., encrypted phones (Phantom Secure), dark web hosting, or cartel-facilitated Bitcoin laundering. Not to mention major economy sector capture under the guise of "luxury technocommunism" but enables international crime and tax avoidance.

I'm sure many books have been written about Newsom. I won't go there.
by colmmacc | 2025-07-14 17:16:31+00:00
Ireland has a Citizens Assembly, which is selected by sortition. Ordinary citizens take time out of their lives to participate when assemblies are formed to examine issues of the day. The assembly receives expert and political testimony and evidence, and then votes and makes recommendations that often lead to country-wide referendums.

The process has been very successful at neutralizing contentious topics. The assembly on abortion showed that a healthy majority consensus could emerge, and led to abortion being legalized in Ireland after a constitutional amendment. The political parties generally support the process because it keeps socially divisive topics out of the main political sphere. Ireland also has relatively little money in politics, limits on donations, a standards in public office commission, independent constituency boundary commissions, a multi-seat proportional representation system, limits on media ownership, and the highest percentage of University educated citizens of any country. All in all it's helped Ireland come a long way from the 80s and 90s, when Ireland was much worse on corruption indexes.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-14 17:16:44+00:00
My experience from almost a decade ago, mostly in DSL land, is that most customer calls were "my WiFi doesn't reach through the solid steel wall the router is hung against" and "how do I set up my email" and maybe "I lost the password to my WiFi again". WiFi issues were especially bad when 802.11n got finalised but there were tons of "draft n" WiFi devices out there that almost followed the WiFi spec. I still shudder when I see Atheros listed in device manager.

There were things that made the ISP I worked at special, one of them being that we pretty much defaulted to having customers hook up their own DSL, which meant spending a lot of call time helping people who have no idea what an RJ11 jack is install plugs and adapters.

I've also spent a lot of time on "the password I use for my email doesn't work on my Facebook" and "my USB printer doesn't work". People don't know who to call for tech support so they try their ISP. There was also the occasional "the internet is broken" whenever the user's home page had a different theme or design as well, those usually came in waves.

Once the modem and/or router is installed, most internet services Just Work. There are outages and bad modems and the occasional bad software update to deal with, but they're a relatively low call volume compared to what customers call about.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-14 17:16:47+00:00
Even so, Chrome is still by far the dominant browser on Android, sitting at about 70%[0] between iOS and Android and higher on Android alone. There’s little benefit to be had from Google harassing Android users about browsers, and in fact it could bring users to think worse of Android, so they don’t.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...
by delusional | 2025-07-14 17:16:49+00:00
And then you feel comfortable guaranteeing that it could never be abused?

The issue is being brought up by the state auditor. This article is literally what would happen anyway if your pet policy was enacted. The police would ignore your little policy, and the standard would have to write an article about the abuse. Hopefully that article would drive public opinion enough for change to happen.

This is the system working.