MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-14 17:17:10+00:00
In general, I see people doing things online that they would not do offline, in much the same way one acts professionally at a workplace while not so at home, they're simply different spaces, so that is why I ask why they are different.

The point about technologists is not meant to be patronizing, it's a trend I've seen. The article itself shows that people seem to be "mind blown" by such restaurant social media stalking, but I doubt they'd be so if a restaurant followed them around in person.

Hence, I see evidence of the two types of interactions being different while I do not see any evidence, in this thread or others, of them being the same, that is why I made the top level comment that I did.

Anyway, this is becoming a long thread and I don't think there's much to be said further on my side. I hope you have a good day.
by roamerz | 2025-07-14 17:17:15+00:00
>>What is the mechanism for enforcing laws passed by legislature?

Probably the same as it is at the federal level - voting out of office. During the Biden/Harris term there was a complete dereliction of duty when it came to border enforcement. Actually it was worse than that - they helped people illegally cross the border, even flew them in on the taxpayer dime. This is why we have President Trump today.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-14 17:17:16+00:00
As one of the many people who are fairly experienced in AI (but at small startups) and hasn't had Zuck personally knock on my door, I have had a few moments of "wait, 9 figure salary? Can I at least get 7 figures?"

But the truth is it's not "just" about experience. Most of these people have been pushing the limits of their fields for their entire careers. It's not like having "the time/money/freedom" to do it is randomly distributed even among talented, smart people. The people in this talent pool where all likely aggressive researchers in a very specialized field, then likely fought hard to get on elite teams working close to the metal on these massive scale inference problems, and they continued to follow this path until they got where they are.

And the truth is, if you're at least "good" in this space, you do get your piece of the pie at the appropriate scale. I'm still making regular dev income, but my last round of job searching (just a few months ago) was insane. I had to quit my job early because I couldn't manage the all the teams I was talking to. I've been through some hot tech markets over my career, but never anything like this. Meanwhile many of my non-AI peers are really struggling to find new roles.

So there's no reason to cast shade on the genuine talent of these people (though I think we all feel that frustration from time to time).
by keiferski | 2025-07-14 17:17:28+00:00
I think it could work well if you added two things:

1. A filtering mechanism after the selection process. E.g., basic civics questions like how many states are there, a background check, and so on. To make sure you don't pick anyone that's compromised or incapable of serving.

2. A training program that acclimates new members to the system. If terms are say, six years long, then the first year can be entirely devoted to training.
by skissane | 2025-07-14 17:17:34+00:00
> They switched from 30-day to 90-day refills. Suddenly, patients had to think about their medication four times a year instead of twelve. Adherence rates shot up almost immediately.

When I have a “refill” (here in Australia we call them “repeats”) due, my pharmacy sends me an SMS… I just reply “yes please” and that goes straight to the pharmacist who dispenses, and I get another SMS telling me the dispensed medication is ready to pick up

I’m on tirzepatide and I’m committed but I’m “going a bit slow” because the side effects started to get a bit too much. Still, my base expectation is I’m taking a GLP-1 agonist for the rest of my life, unless my doctor tells me I have to stop for some reason, or I somehow go bankrupt and can’t afford it any more.
by chatmasta | 2025-07-14 17:18:41+00:00
fwiw, if I were evaluating these proxies against each other, I would be intrigued by the solution built by people from the Envoy team. Envoy is great software and I’m sure there are many lessons you took from building it.

It looks like you’re even building on Envoy as the foundation for the system which just makes it more compelling.
by SquirrelOnFire | 2025-07-14 17:20:05+00:00
Speed of development of something important isn't necessarily good. Humans are bad at absorbing a lot of change at once and it takes time to recognize and mitigate second-order effects. There's plenty of benefit to the systems that disruptors operate within (society) to not moving as fast as possible... of course since our economic systems don't factor in externalities, we've instead turned all of society into a commons.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-14 17:20:09+00:00
Its noteworthy to me that it took till 1943 for the reality of the threat to be taken seriously for this outcome

People making parallels I feel have been inaccurate, as the parallels right now are much closer to Europe's 1933 happenings, and people act like 1945's happenings is what will happen the very next day

Not sure what to make of that, just noticing that these particular "resistances" didn't have a prior allegory to watch, and made these choices eventually, and still how late into the story we know that these things occurred
by johnfn | 2025-07-14 17:20:13+00:00
My solution to getting bored is to run harder. Zone 4 heart rate is really the sweet spot for me. It's intense enough that I don't get bored - it's like all the energy that would typically make my mind look for stimulation gets sucked up and directed towards running instead. But, critically, it isn't that hard to sustain - I can do 30-40 minutes of Zone 4 and, while it isn't exactly a walk in the park, it's infinitely psychologically easier than full-out sprints.

Be careful to avoid injury, however. I wouldn't recommend this until you've already got a solid running base of miles to build upon.
by noracists | 2025-07-14 17:20:35+00:00
Sending people back to their home country, especially when 50% are criminals, is not the same as the holocaust. Comparing it to such is disgusting and insulting to the actual victims of Nazi violence.

ICE is often operating in a racist and dehumanizing way, but it is nowhere near the level of organized atrocity that it is regularly compared to.
by 9dev | 2025-07-14 17:20:39+00:00
We have to set the lower bar somewhere. Am I a spreadsheet engineer now because I calculate expenses in Excel? No, because that would be ridiculous.

More to the point: If the system you’re interacting with isn’t deterministic, you don’t understand how it really works internally, and you’re prodding it to see what happens if you do this instead of that—then that just isn’t engineering! or at least not in the sense that the word has been used, not without it becoming a term void of any specific meaning.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-14 17:20:41+00:00
Not sure why the down votes. You are correct. The intro from your link:

"The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $4.103 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2024.[1] It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California was an independent nation, it would rank as the fourth largest economy in the world in nominal terms, behind Germany and ahead of Japan."
by rapatel0 | 2025-07-14 17:20:42+00:00
The supremacy clause of the constitution asserts that federal law takes precedence over state laws. There are thousands of state laws on the books that are basically rendered null, because a federal law overrides it. One clear example is segregation which was on the books in some states decades after the civil rights movement.

The federal government and DOJ has declined to prosecute Marijuana, but they definitely have the right to do so.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-14 17:20:50+00:00
"Everything that we're doing is all underground."

This indicates that their local and state governments aren't (at this time) captured by the incumbent cable provider.

A captured state gov will pass laws to thwart new infra deployment, commonly written by ISP interests. A captured local gov will never approve deployment or slow-walk permitting in an attempt to bankrupt the upstart.

more explainers: New suburban fiber infrastructure means either trenching or pole hanging. The local gov issues permits for both but poles also require the cooperation of the pole owners. This last adds the PSC to the mix.

Recalcitrant pole owners are known to stall and kill infrastructure deployment - especially where going underground isn't an option. Some PSCs mandate that pole owners cooperate. Some PSCs abdicate that responsibility and are examples of regulatory capture.
by allthedatas | 2025-07-14 17:21:03+00:00
Datasets are created to be used. Once created they will eventually likely be used for purposes other than the original intention. Depending on the power dynamics in play this may be more or less likely.

There are many many such cases and they are obviously not limited to the current regime. Governments will collect all the data they are permitted to collect without a harsh public response, and they will always have a 'good' reason -- just ask them! After all it's for your own good!

Datasets with personal data create a target for crime and for abuses. The problem is these datasets exist at all, thereby reducing humans to numbers. People are not resources and not material not matter what HR says. Reducing people to numbers is to reduce them to something less than they are -- no dataset (model trained on it) captures everything.

We need real privacy laws not the ridiculous current situation. There should be clear consent required without coercion for any data collection -- a necessarily very high bar.

Unauthorized collection of personal data (i.e. without explicit consent not tied to any benefit bait) should be a federal crime and the organizational leadership should always be held to account. That and that alone will curtail future abuses. Otherwise we are just always complaining after the fact and it will keep happening.

That said, good luck getting any government in this world to go along without a revolution.
by bityard | 2025-07-14 17:21:19+00:00
I love biking! And I do bike a lot. In fact, I often bike and run on the same day. But where I live, biking is only feasible about 5 months out of the year unless I invest in a bunch of cold weather gear. (And impossible at least 2 months out of the year due to snow/ice/slush/etc.)
by mystraline | 2025-07-14 17:21:49+00:00
> LEOs are just going to act like unaccountable criminal gangs, and that that mentality has crept so far into the police forces that a thin blue line punisher sticker is an acceptable bit of kit for a cruiser.

Well, they are unaccountable state-sanctioned gangs.

They can legally steal (forfeiture).

They can 'smell something' and legally trespass.

They can shoot and kill you for basically any reason. But they can fall back and say 'I thought they were reaching for a weapon'.

SCOTUS, even with more liberal justices, have repeatedly said they are shielded from 'official capacities', and that they have absolutely no requirement of protecting and serving.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-07-14 17:22:04+00:00
> best handled by the people who have dedicated their lives to becoming politicians, the same way that getting your house wired is probably best done by someone who spent their life becoming an electrician

Being an electrician makes you good at wiring houses in ways that work, that pass code inspections, and that don't burn down. The feedback loop isn't perfect (you're likely to succeed for a while if you produce flawed work fast that looks good enough to your boss), but it's at least feeding back in the right direction.

Being a politician makes you good at different things - fundraising, advertising, speeches, getting your name in the news - which are totally unrelated or even opposed to creating and executing legislation that is good for society. Sortition says that this relationship is so bad that the outcome under a lottery (the 50th percentile, eliminating the 49% of the population who would be better than average at the job) results in better outcomes than career politicians.
by ribosometronome | 2025-07-14 17:22:20+00:00
>>> be angry at those who didn't follow through with promises to severely reduce funding to their police departments in 2020

>>This was tried. It generated a generational backlash against the left as petty crime and visible homelessness rose.

>Chesa Boudin.

Chesa Boudin is not a police budget, that's a completely unserious nonsequitor. SF's police budget rose throughout the defund the police movement, just not as high as initially allocated. https://abc7news.com/post/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-depa...
by rob | 2025-07-14 17:22:39+00:00
It's cool if you're on desktop Slack or Messenger or something between friends, but making a conscious choice to go into your phone's settings and turn capitalization off for everything you do is a bit weird and over the top.

Seems to be a trend though now to do it everywhere in public. I've seen the htmx author do that and the guy who wrote the second forked version of opencode.
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-14 17:23:01+00:00
Thank you for this comment. I've been to a lot of Michelin (and other fine dining) restaurants and this is how I've seen it play out too. People are generally delighted when service like this happens, not creeped out as lots of commenters here seem to imply.

And this, "they can only find what you make public. They're not like, DM'ing people on your friends' lists etc. or hiring a private investigator to stalk you," has been exactly what I've been saying on this thread too, but somehow people think they should be able to keep their profile public yet not have people read through it; that's literally what the word public means.
by jdiff | 2025-07-14 17:23:43+00:00
They make great autocompletion engines, most of the time. It's nice when it can recognize that I'm replicating a specific math formula and expands out the next dozen lines for me. It's less nice when it predicts code that's not even syntactically valid for the language or the correct API for the library I'm using. Those times, for whatever reason, seem to be popping up a lot in the last few weeks so I find myself disabling those suggestions more often than not.
by chandureddyvari | 2025-07-14 17:23:46+00:00
I use Roo code with orchestrator(Boomerang) mode which pretty much has similar workflow. The orchestrator calls the architect to design the specs, and after iterating and agreeing on the approach, it is handed over to Code mode to execute the tasks. Google Gemini 2.5 pro is pretty good at orchestration due to its 1M context and I use claude sonnet 4 for code mode.

What else does Kiro do differently?

Edit: The hooks feature looks nifty. How is the memory management handled? Any codebase indexing etc? Support to add external MCP servers like context7 etc?
by bigyabai | 2025-07-14 17:24:05+00:00
Another example for the whiteboard of "why 'invest in founders not ideas' doesn't work" I suppose.

The more I look back on it, working for a YC-funded company will forever remain the black eye of my resume. I don't feel even a lick of pride "solving" the "problems" that YC perceives to be important. The greatest minds of my generation are looking at China and envying the confidence of their state.
by jtsnow | 2025-07-14 17:24:26+00:00
I wonder if unconventional writing styles are becoming the signal for deliberate content. If text is too polished– or even using certain punctuation– can lead to readers questioning whether AI assisted in the creation of the text.

A quick search shows that others have made this connection between Altman and lowercase and non-AI authenticity: https://ted-merz.com/2023/12/18/writing-in-lowercase/

It looks like this particular blog previously used conventional capitalization from 2017 to late 2023. The first post in this style appears to hint at a kind of shift in identity of the author, so perhaps, in this instance it is more a signal of personal expression or tribalism than non-AI-ness. Then again, we may see the line between the two continue to blur.
by blake1 | 2025-07-14 17:24:34+00:00
I think a reasonable summary of the study referenced is that: "AI creates the perception of productivity enhancements far beyond the reality."

Even within the study, there were some participants who saw mild improvements to productivity, but most had a significant drop in productivity. This thread is now full of people telling their story about huge productivity gains they made with AI, but none of the comments contend with the central insight of this study: that these productivity gains are illusions. AI is a product designed to make you value the product.

In matters of personal value, perception is reality, no question. Anyone relying heavily on AI should really be worried that it is mostly a tool for warping their self-perception, one that creates dependency and a false sense of accomplishment. After all, it speaks a highly optimized stream of tokens at you, and you really have to wonder what the optimization goal was.
by everforward | 2025-07-14 17:24:43+00:00
> These things will keep happening until it is no longer socially acceptable to advocate for the creation of data collection programs that are a necessary precondition.

The root issue here is that the government is no longer able or willing to control and bind their own law enforcement agencies. Agreed that this program was a bad idea, but the wider issue that law enforcement agencies can and do wantonly disregard direct orders from the state. There's the direct issue of impact on people as a result, and the more intangible idea of the questionable legitimacy of a government that is not able to control its own enforcement agencies.

This needs to be met with swift repercussions for both the individuals that participated, as well as the agencies that allowed it. Lacking that, it seems a reasonable inference that enforcement agencies are no longer bound by the will of the people and are in fact the ruling government.
by duxup | 2025-07-14 17:25:18+00:00
There's a strange DEI phobia some folks have picked up. I'm not particularly partial to DEI polices myself (I think many are misplaced at best), but also I can say I've never personally been hurt by them. But there are many people who feel very hurt by this idea of DEI, they're extremely emotional about it, and yet if you ask them what they personally have experienced ... it's often nothing.

It's wild that so much emotion, fear and anger can be stirred up with a topic that has not touched them.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-07-14 17:26:01+00:00
Absolutely beautiful visualizations.

These are way beyond anything I've done, but you can actually do these with compute shaders in real time and they look quite good.

I played with using Godot to do this kind of slime simulation (inspired by Sebastian Lague) when they released compute shaders: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/compute-shaders?tab=readme-o....

Edit:

Here's a good webgpu demo (not by me) of this kind of simulation https://shridhar2602.github.io/WebGPU-Slime-Simulation/
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-14 17:26:16+00:00
The idea is, you could have a language like Rust, but with linear rather than affine types. Such a language would have RAII-like idioms, but no implicit destructors; instead, it'd be a compile-time error to have a non-Copy local variable whose value is not always moved out of it before its scope ends (i.e., to write code that in Rust could include an implicit destructor call). So you would have explicit deallocation functions like in C, but unlike in C you could not have resource leaks from forgetting to call them, because the compiler would not let you.

To the extent that you subscribe to a principle like "invisible function calls are never okay", this solves that without undermining Rust's safety story more broadly. I have no idea whether proponents of "better C" type languages have this as their core rationale; I personally don't see the appeal of that flavor of language design.
by the_gastropod | 2025-07-14 17:26:18+00:00
This is such funny gatekeeping. I don't know what % of the U.S. population could even run 1 mile at all without stopping, but I'm certain it's well under 50%, much less do at least that every day for 10 years. This is an impressive feat. For real, shame on you for crapping on this person's very respectable achievement.
by rapatel0 | 2025-07-14 17:26:21+00:00
The supremacy clause of the constitution asserts that federal law takes precedence over state laws. There are thousands of state laws on the books that are basically rendered null, because a federal law overrides it. One clear example is segregation laws like interracial marriage which was on the books in some states decades after the civil rights movement.

Example: Alabama was the last state to remove its ban on interracial marriage from its statutes in 2000, though this was largely symbolic as interracial marriage was legalized nationwide by the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.

There is probably a specific federal law enforcement authority that may or may not be in conflict with the state law. It's unclear if this is a 10th amendment violation for the state or if federal law enforcement is granted this authority
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 17:27:01+00:00
It works great in really large codebases!

I've published a sample project that is medium sized, about 20k lines encompassing a game client, game server, and background service: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro This has been all developed by Kiro. The way Kiro is able to work in these larger projects is thanks to steering files like these:

- Structure, helps Kiro navigate the large project: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro/blob/main/.kiro...

- Tech, helps Kiro stay consistent with the tech it uses in a large project: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro/blob/main/.kiro...

And yes, the specs do help a lot. They help Kiro spend more time gathering context before getting to work, which helps the new features integrate into the existing codebase better, with less duplication, and more accuracy.
by mprovost | 2025-07-14 17:27:31+00:00
Two relevant quotes from writers who could not be more different:

“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” - William F Buckley Jr

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Douglas Adams
by PicassoCTs | 2025-07-14 17:27:31+00:00
China has the same culture- and the same scamming problematic. Its like a bigger mafiosi promising to solve crime and restore order by sending a lowlevel thief to the fishes.

Low-thrust societies can not be repaired by topdown level commands. All that happens, is yet another paint job, another face restoring measurement, while the rot behind remains the same.This is not some "aberration" from the fringe of the Chinese empire- this right here, is a sample of its core values under the CCP, undiluted by propaganda cosmetics.
by rmdashrfv | 2025-07-14 17:27:32+00:00
It's also worse than that. It uses the Raycast logo directly in the launcher itself. Which is odd because just above this, OP says:

"I've actually thought about that before; I've tried to be extremely clear in the project's README with a disclaimer that this is a non-commercial hobby project and is not affiliated with the official Raycast team in any way."

Clearly a bright kid, but that's quite a fumble. Among my ideas for being extremely clear about not being affiliated with Raycast I would have to say using their name and using their logo together would be the worst way to communicate that.