MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ak_builds | 2025-07-27 09:53:17+00:00
Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate the depth.

You are right, it ended with a spiteful tone and I should have chosen better world.

I see a lot of people questioning if dopamine deficiency is real. And maybe some more context would help.

1. I am one of the early IVF kids in India. My life is tracked. 2. Do you know 80% of IVF kids born in 90s and tracked have mental health disorders? 3. I have struggled socially all 28 years of my life. I only felt two emotions - happy and sad. Never experienced a mania, so never ticked the box of bipolarity. 4. In 2021, I was told that DaTscan might help. But I couldn't afford back then. 5. In 2023, finally got it done. Results showed little to no release of dopamine.

I was forced to learn about dopamine and when I see the younger generation getting into a certain cycle (of course not as dark as my article), it makes me feel sad. Because it reminds me of how hard it is to get out of that space.

I have piles of reports that prove 'dopamine deficiency'. Yet the comment section is not fully convinced.

I am fortunate that my life is tracked.

So yes, this is the thought process that led to that ending. No one teaches us to care about our bodies and I hope that changes some day.
by em-bee | 2025-07-27 09:53:45+00:00
the tracks should be state-owned, just like public roads, and then train operators should pay for use. (or you could let them use it for free like roads)

that way the state can give priority to passenger rail, and prioritize maintenance and building of rails according to the needs of the people.

it also makes much smaller train operators possible and compete on the same routes.
by ColinWright | 2025-07-27 09:54:27+00:00
I don't know what you're reading, but I gave a link to a post on Mastodon, and then I quote directly from it.

Here's the link:

https://sigmoid.social/@raphaelmilliere/114659355740586289

Here is the text from that post:

Despite extensive safety training, LLMs remain vulnerable to “jailbreaking” through adversarial prompts. Why does this vulnerability persist? In a new open access paper published in Philosophical Studies, I argue this is because current alignment methods are fundamentally shallow.

That Mastodon post then links to a paper by the same person, so one assumes they are giving an accurate summary of their own work.

So I don't know what you are claiming is factually incorrect.
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-27 09:54:45+00:00
This isn't a uniquely American problem. Age verification is a huge pain to implement and completely tanks user sign up metrics. No tech company will do it unless absolutely forced by a major government, eg. see the recent US state-level laws that require age verification for porn sites. Websites are using IP-geo checks to apply the age verification process to as few users as possible.

Also I'd question putting Roblox in the child-friendly category. Hindenburg Research characterized the platform as a "Pedophile Hellscape". They obviously have a financial angle as a short-seller, but they point out some issues that seem pretty significant, in my opinion.

> We found Roblox to be an X-rated pedophile hellscape, replete with users attempting to groom our avatars, groups openly trading child pornography, widely accessible sex games, violent content and extremely abusive speech—all of which is open to young children and all while Roblox has cut content moderation spending to appease Wall Street and boost earnings.

> We put together a brief video compilation of Roblox moderation failures

https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/
by VivaTechnics | 2025-07-27 09:55:27+00:00
I never claimed Stack Exchange should’ve pioneered LLMs. But it’s not merely a web forum company—just as Google isn’t just a search company. Stack Exchange is a 15-year-old tech firm that has stagnated. Innovation has been virtually nonexistent; their idea of progress has long been superficial UI tweaks on a legacy platform.

Even now, Stack Exchange resists adaptation. This very post highlights their `robots.txt` policy, which actively blocks crawlers—a clear signal of protectionism over transparency. They market themselves as community-driven, but the reality is far more corporate and insular.

Stack Overflow’s situation is telling: while search traffic is down a modest –5% to –14% (per their own data), engagement metrics are in freefall. Weekly posts have dropped 16%; monthly questions are down as much as 66% from their peak. That’s not a dip—it’s systemic decay.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-27 09:55:34+00:00
I think this is an example of the creeping effect though. Socialism isn't some grand cure for things. There'd still be countless problems in society (and arguably even more than today) and so you'd have some people claiming then that the solution is to go even more leftward towards communism (as indeed some want to start with today) while others would be arguing for more privatization, as is again already happening in most/all countries with various large scale social programs.

The most fundamental problem we haven't isn't the system, but the people. It seems that all electoral systems are unable to avoid putting people in power that shouldn't be there. Look at basically every Western country and we all seem to be ruled by idiots who have no real vision for anything besides being in power. And so it's not exactly a shock that you get 'systemic' failures.

The same was true in the ancient empires with their dictators and emperors. During the time of enlightened and wise leadership they've have remarkable cities and justice that are inspiring even today. But then of course during times of power hungry hedonic idiots ruling, the societies would crumble and injustice would be ubiquitous. It was never about the system - it was always about the people. The goal should be to have a system that picks great people, but we seem yet to have discovered that. And indeed it may not exist. People that want to be in politics are the last people that should ever be allowed in politics, which poses quite the dilemma!
by ak_builds | 2025-07-27 09:56:22+00:00
DaTscan - this is the scan that I took. The results showed low to no dopamine release.

I appreciate your knowledge and would like to share more information with you to get your perspective. How can I do that?

Another information that might help is, my life is being medically tracked since I was born. I am one of the early IVF kids in India. I have always been exposed to reports that I don't think I would have come across otherwise.
by raffael_de | 2025-07-27 09:56:31+00:00
I doubt that GOS will be able to move the needle on such a decision. But I'm also someone who'd love to have a small and more light-weight smartphone again. A smaller display of maximum 5.1 inches or so would also be in line with a sentiment of using the smartphone for its core purpose over attempting to turn it into a small PC for playing games and what not. I believe this correlates with a more secure phone.
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-27 09:57:52+00:00
If you think I'm impolite then you haven't realized how impolite and insulting you can be while seeming polite.

Let me say this. There may be a misunderstanding and you simply may want easy standards and auth for a specific gov service validation. Like what the UK gov does for tax and the like. Or Ireland. YouGov OpenId kind of access.

The way you were talking about centralization implies, at least to me, some sort of digital id for internet usage which is absolutely terrible and being extremely pushed by lobbyists and governments who love surveillance. If you think this is a conspiracy theory I don't care. It's all a conspiracy theory when it goes against powerful money.

As for calling me naive or libertarian or any of that crap. Ok. Then you're an authoritarian. You're a danger to me and others and you'll claim you do it for my sake or claim that I myself are dangerous for protection "my freedumbs"

> But here in Norway, we seem to have found a stable balance of powers and a stable relationship between the people and our government. So maybe your situation you live in makes the "tyranny" claim more palpable.

Hahahahahahahaha. Yeah right. I know and have lived in Norway. I know the kind of "don't rock the boat" mentality. Everything works right? Because there's money and media won't address the Barnevernet or military abuses nor anything that actually goes wrong.

People who talk in favour of authoritarian tenets and dismiss criticism as "libertarians who come from <bad countries unlike mine>" are super funny.

"I'm angry and not offering a solution", right?. That's just bullshit. You can use that to justify any government measure. The war on drugs, terrorism, etc.

Sweden already shows how surveillance can get insanely intense and nordics communitarian pushdown to prevent criticism of power is extremely effective. Not that you still don't consider yourself superior to others like you clearly express every time you think the world isn't looking. "Er typisk norsk å være god" eh? (Or however that phrase went).

Get offended. We've been through too much shit for me to care about your Overton window.
by AstralStorm | 2025-07-27 09:58:03+00:00
Nah, if you run your own identity service, you're supposed to be able to issue any number of unverified identities yourself.

The problem there is that others do not play at all with these, plus actual trust has to be somehow solved.

Typical solutions to trust in DID involve either a big central service, a government approved signature... Or theoretically a distributed web of trust but that bit is under development.
by voylera | 2025-07-27 09:58:33+00:00
Hi HN, Jaseph here. I'm the creator of Voylera.

After traveling for 13 years, I realized my photo albums were emotionally empty. They were proof of where I'd been, but they failed to capture the feeling of the moment. To solve my own problem, I started building Voylera.

It's a web app where you can pin your emotions to a world map, creating a personal atlas of your travel memories with the context of how you actually felt.

Tech stack: It's built with a Vue.js frontend, a Node.js/Express backend, and uses PostgreSQL for the database. It's currently hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet.

The project is still very early. I'm looking for honest feedback on the concept, user experience, and any technical suggestions you might have.

Thanks for taking a look.
by Theodores | 2025-07-27 10:00:20+00:00
Evolution is only possible along certain paths, for example, we are not going to evolve to have more than four limbs, eyes at the back of our heads or extra hands.

Similarly, at the cell level, we have just the one photosynthesis process in plants and that isn't going to take an entirely different path to work on different wavelengths. The evolutionary investment is in chlorophyll with a magnesium element at the heart of it. Imaginably you would need an entirety different molecule with some other magic atom in the middles of the usual organic chemistry and that isn't going to happen given the sunk cost in the chlorophyll way of doing things. There is a greater chance that we will get six hands than that happening.
by mandmandam | 2025-07-27 10:01:13+00:00
> Surprisingly, and refreshingly, it seems PG himself sees through all of the bullshit and consistently asks questions to understand why people have become ok with the murders of innocent children.

He does, and that was decent.

Still, PG was all aboard with the DOGE machete hacking up government databases to free up tax cuts for the wealthy (and god knows what else). His Twitter has had some truly awful takes lately.
by hopelite | 2025-07-27 10:02:31+00:00
“… at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.”

Which one? *blank stare*

America has a deeply rooted problem with a parasitic and evil, lying, conniving, devious ruling class and their treasonous, accomplice enablers… to clarify what may be dismissed by some because you call them “crackheads”.
by bjackman | 2025-07-27 10:02:40+00:00
I'm gonna copy paste a comment I wrote yesterday that I think fits perfectly here:

As an engineer if you are gonna be a rank and file employee you need to do it for your own reasons. I think the main good reasons to do it are:

1. It's relatively chill and you value the stability. You deliver competence from 9-5 then go home to your family or some other thing that's more important to you than work.

2. You really enjoy the pure engineering side and find meaning in the technical artifact you're creating. Probably it's open source and has some value/community outside of your employer.

3. You're gaining valuable experience that you can later leverage into something else. Probably you're in the first 5 years of your career.

If the main thing driving you is growing a business, and you don't directly own (not options or RSUs or whatever, actual real equity) a significant slice of it, you are very likely misdirecting your energy.

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It sounds like the staff here thought they were in case 2, but they were not. I think that the article explains the reason why nicely: the thing they were building was not part of the commons.
by fjfaase | 2025-07-27 10:03:51+00:00
Hard to tell. It depends on your experience. I would just search for jobs and try to apply. I do not know where you are from. If you are from outside the EU, a potential employer has to apply for a working visa. In two weeks there will be a hacker camp in the Netherlands where there will be people from the security industry attending. The tickets are sold out, but there are still some people offering tickets because they cannot attend: https://wiki.why2025.org/TicketSwap

I am not into cybersecurity, but maybe you can find some people through the program https://why2025.org/programme . Many talks will be streamed online and/or be available online afterwards. You could also look at talks given at previous events.
by evrydayhustling | 2025-07-27 10:05:24+00:00
Feels like cultivating acceptance and indifference to your own entanglements is the most isolationist thing you can actually do. To be entangled is to be biased about what's happening to you... do we think the crocodile was indifferent to the escape of his prey, or to being culled in an act of revenge?

Anyway, if folks enjoy this theme I recommend Scavengers Reign, which does a beautiful job of illustrating struggle with biological entanglement.
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-27 10:07:19+00:00
Define collective democratic ownership and how it conflicts with the rights of individuals. Why does the collective good need to be the future instead "get your hands of my data". Don't you see there's no one true collective and that politics corrupt?

Every time a party in a democracy wins some group claims they're evil and wrong and suddenly it is not 'democratic'. They will label things along partisan lines whereas I'm making the point of protecting the individual no matter what.

We do agree that choice is important so the inflammatory "no future" to one of those choices is a contradiction if you actually want to preserve it.
by Theodores | 2025-07-27 10:07:55+00:00
Fascinating how these tests are something that is an option in America with people getting them.

In the UK we have the NHS and, although private healthcare is available, the NHS are gatekeepers with long waiting lists to see the doctor.

In UK culture you are just not going to 'waste NHS time' by asking for the tests that could inform you on what lifestyle choices you might need to make in order to head off chronic non-communicable diseases. You have to get a chronic disease, then the doctor will interpret the test results and not let you know what the numbers are, just what medication to take, optionally with lifestyle changes.

As a consequence, nobody in the UK knows what their cholesterol levels and whatnot are, yet, in the USA, plenty of people know these numbers.

Do healthcare providers actively upsell testing in the USA?
by remram | 2025-07-27 10:08:06+00:00
At this point, there are good solutions to most of the problems. It is just hard and awkward to avoid the standard library bits and the common tools (e.g. use uv instead of pip, requests instead of urllib, pytest instead of unittest, marimo instead of jupyter, trio instead of asyncio...).

Of course having a "batteries included" language where the batteries hurt you is not great.
by Lyngbakr | 2025-07-27 10:09:30+00:00
I can't put a number on that, unfortunately. I don't do well with diets that require I keep track of all the details — it feels like a chore and I tend to give up — so I decided instead to adopt a simple rule of thumb: avoid carbs where possible. In practice, this means no breads, no pasta, no doughnuts, no sugary foods, etc. Instead, I eat more protein. This works well for me and I lost 15-20 lbs quite quickly and I now maintain a good weight. YMMV, though.

As for cushion time, my practice is very basic: just 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation each day (usually after working out). I feel calmer, less irritable, and more present in everyday life. It's not a panacea, but I find it helps me.
by hopelite | 2025-07-27 10:09:38+00:00
You may not realize this because the vast majority of people don’t realize it, but there are far deeper things going on with both those situations, i.e., how Reagan became what he did and why Carter was so attacked and for so long. It takes immense understanding of history and geopolitical matters beyond what the system’s education system can impart, which makes it challenging to understand things properly.

Think of it like trying to understand the true origins and nature of the Soviet Union while being in the Soviet Union. Only a few people will even be able to achieve such an understanding and only under immense pressures and significant dangers even without speaking out, just alone for having sought out the truth. You cannot understand the Matrix while being plugged into it.
by drysart | 2025-07-27 10:09:59+00:00
She wasn't ousted because shareholders were impatient. She was ousted because under her leadership Yahoo had collapsed to the point that the only thing left to do was to sell it.

When a new CEO is brought in to right a sinking ship (which Yahoo very much was at the time of her hiring), their number one responsibility is to have a solid core strategy based in leveraging the company's existing strengths and then execute competently on it.

She had no solid core strategy. Her strategy at Yahoo, as she described it, was "to throw lots of spaghetti at the purple walls and see what sticks"; which is exactly what she needed to not be doing. She blew a lot of money on a lot of very varied things and ended up with lots of expensive puzzle pieces with no plan for how to fit them all together into something that would stop Yahoo's bleeding.

At the end, the company as a whole had a valuation less than the company's Alibaba investment -- she drove Yahoo not just to zero, but past zero; and that's 100% due to her not understanding how to lead a shrinking company.
by thrance | 2025-07-27 10:10:18+00:00
From the article:

> I’ll argue that Komoot is neither a moral failure nor an outlier but the capitalist system of value extraction working exactly as intended for the platform owners.

If it wasn't for Bending Spoons it would have been another private equity firm. It's not about them being particularly evil, it's about living in a system that makes their existence inevitable.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-27 10:12:19+00:00
> So then why bother with cities at all? High rises are just a different constant factor relative to 40 acre farms after all.

Because of the logarithmic scaling of infrastructure (like supermarkets, doctors, hospitals), and because of the square root scaling of people-density per area vs. total travel distance to said infrastructure.

>> moving goods instead of people scales logarithmically > This is obviously false. There's some average parcel size, and an associated maximum capacity for a delivery van.

You do move bananas by ship from continent to continent. Then you split it up, move it by smaller ships up-river. Then you split it up, move it by truck to each cities distribution center. Then you split it up, move it by smaller truck to each store. Then people buy it.

Obviously logarithmic and the whole reason for ships and freight trains to exist, otherwise we would all get our tropical fruit in person by airplane.

And since we are on a CS-heavy site, talking about scalability, constant factors are irrelevant. That is what scalability means. It is the extrapolation to big numbers, where those constants no longer matter anymore. Of course there might be a local equilibrium for sufficiently small numbers. But that is always temporary as humanity keeps growing.
by sunscream89 | 2025-07-27 10:12:48+00:00
> What are the underlying cognitive mechanisms involved in RV?

Entanglement, a secret culture among us who through lifetimes of development can circumnavigate networked entanglements. Accessing the lowest levels of brain activity, curating the process for subjects who posses a “cargo cult” interface they themselves do not comprehend.

Conclusion: we are not in our own minds and most psycho-spiritual phenomena may be explained by third party curation (handlers.)
by A_Duck | 2025-07-27 10:13:06+00:00
This is a shame though. We should work towards a world where most people can find meaning in what they do.

For now it can work better to be a contractor and have your 'meaning' be a positive reputation in your industry.

More like being a medieval blacksmith. You don't mind what you're making, but you're known in your village by the quality of your work.
by LarMachinarum | 2025-07-27 10:13:43+00:00
In all fairness, that really stands to reason: retrospective analysis is enormously much easier, more precise and less risky than prediction, for the simple reason that after the fact (especially this long and with lots of inside people having spoken up since), there is enormously more data available than before it went downhill. So it's much less a question of having guts than of having access to sufficient data to see enough of the whole picture.
by tom89999 | 2025-07-27 10:14:02+00:00
I am fed up with the linux world. I run Ubuntu on a randomly selected Thinkpad, everything works, outta the box. Why should i buy a new laptop because it holds another cpu doing the exact workload? I cant code faster, cant talk faster with people and being productive 8hrs strait is just a lie. Since almost 10years i read about pre-installed devices, but i dont see them anywhere. Most companies dont have business linux apps and they wont be available, an armada of developers is busy bringing the light of the webcam functioning. Why not specialize in something else like software the entire world runs on like SAP or whatever? Its nice to spend a rainy day to compile your kernel...but the outcome?
by progval | 2025-07-27 10:14:57+00:00
Are you talking about this?

> In the case where TARS is on a circular orbit, the moment of release need not be precisely when v = v_targ, but rather can be at a specific orbital phase position instead.

My understanding is that it means it does not have to be precisely timed with regard to velocity, but has to be with regard to angle.
by mobileturdfctry | 2025-07-27 10:15:02+00:00
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/coaseinmemoriam/problem...

> What has become known since as the "Coasean World,"--where rational actors transact freely without need for institutions, firms, or even law—"is really the world of modern economic theory, one which I was hoping to persuade economists to leave."
by Guvante | 2025-07-27 10:16:34+00:00
Honestly it can be quite difficult, generally speaking the best you can do is release the data in raw machine readable format with a permissive license.

Unless you already have large interested parties "bribing" (not technically of course) the group of controlling members tends to be a weakness of anything crowd sourced.

Especially since it is rarely cut and dry. If the finances aren't working out is it better to sell and keep the site online or not? Are intrusive pop ups begging for donations a better option? There isn't a singular true best option.