MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-15 15:55:21+00:00
At the stage of the AI is currently which really is a very good code generator, what you really should see is a higher valuation of people with all the fundamentals of computer science and a breadth of experience about what you can do in programming.

Contrasted with specific acronyms frameworks, languages and similar buzzwords that dominate computing recruitment.

If you have a tool that can basically take someone who's really good at programming, architecture, analysis, etc, and eliminates the barriers of domain specific knowledge, syntax idiosyncracies, library peculiarities away ..

It should mean a talented IT professional should actually be more useful across more domains. And hiring should reflect that. It's hard to tell right now because hiring is zero apparently.

For example, I haven't coded at rust. I have encoded in c++ in 20 years. Assuming of course that I am a genius, which of course I am right? Assuming that, llm should allow me to both code in a language I don't have a lot of experience in, and adapt to you or enterprises particular code base far more quickly.

Does my value go up? Probably not. Because now I compete with everyone else. That's pretty smart without domain barriers. That's a large increase in supply.

However, large amounts of IT people who don't even know the basics of computer science architecture or those types of things, Will not have any real value compared to an llm.

With the hypnosis of the executives, they do not see a difference between those two different types of professional. They see an IT budget that they want to axe.

One of the fundamental tensions in it management/labor dispute is that someone that manages and maintains a service and codes... is actually a manager. Good it professionals are providing both technical service and managerial service to a company.

Consider what computers used to do. There used to be a room full of actual human computers on calculators doing things, and of course, a manager that oversight oversaw them.

That manager was clearly considered part of the managerial class.

Then came computers and the room of people disappeared and you still had a manager managing an IT application. But without the head count, Management decided that that person wasn't a manager or a member of the manager class.

Yet they had to pay him like that.

See. I think ultimately llms are taking away some of the technical overhead on managing and Enterprise system for a company. But it still needs to be managed. And that person will still be "IT".

And if you don't pay that person reasonably well, your Enterprise will suffer.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-15 15:55:29+00:00
As a former legislative assistant during the Aurora shooting, it's because gun abolitionists and gun fundamentalists are extremely organized interest groups, and risk your chances during a primary.

There is a silent majority that feels the 2nd amendment and gun control can co-exist, but they are not represented by any type of organized lobbying group so that voice is not heard.

It's also become a culture war signifier, so if you are a D who is fine with controlled gun ownership instead of abolition, you will face severe lobbying from Everytown, and if you are a R who is fine with controlled permitting instead of maximalist shall-issue licensing, you will face severe lobbying from the NRA.
by cootsnuck | 2025-08-15 15:55:59+00:00
I can’t tell if you’re being disingenuous, but the very first sentence of the abstract literally says the word "simulate":

> Recent technological advancements have empowered nonhuman entities, such as virtual assistants and humanoid robots, to simulate human intelligence and behavior.

In the paper, "socio-emotional capability" is serving as a behavioral/operational label. Specifically, the ability to understand, express, and respond to emotions. It's used to study perceptions and spillovers. That's it.

The authors manipulate perceived socio-emotional behavior and measure how that shifts human judgments and treatment of others.

Whether that behavior is "illusory" or phenomenally real is orthogonal to the research scope and doesn’t change the results. But regardless, as I said, they quite literally said "simulate", so you should still be satisfied.
by coldtea | 2025-08-15 15:56:10+00:00
>That's like say a band getting an advance to record their album should be illegal.

It should.

>Without access to people with money now a lot of it wouldn't get made.

So be it.

>The other results is art made by those who don't need it, purely made by amateurs, grant funded art, or socially funded art.

Sounds amazing.

We don't need to go with the default vanilla options that are passed as inevitable...
by n4r9 | 2025-08-15 15:56:42+00:00
> have been caught in the past inventing non-existent new sub-species

That's not what happened, and your own links fail to support your narrative. It was genuinely believed - before the passing of the act - that the recently-discovered snail darter was a distinct species. It is still disputed whether it's a distinct species, unique sub-species, distinct population segment, or none of the above. The first three of these would still afford it protections under the Endangered Species Act.
by 0x457 | 2025-08-15 15:57:14+00:00
> I took as supporting the adding the dns implementation

Well, I am supporting it, but I pointed why it's not as straightforward as supporting http-01.

> I don't think that it makes sense for nginx

It makes sense for nginx because ultimately I don't make certificates just for the fun of it, I do it to give it to some HTTP server. So it makes sense.

However, this isn't a future that will be not used by paid users, and F5 seems to be opposing making OSS version users lives better.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-15 15:57:38+00:00
> Are we simply getting old and bitter?

For crypto, no. It's basically only useful for illegal actions, so if you live in a society where illegal is well correlated with "bad", you won't see any benefit from it.

The case for LLM is more complicated. There are positives and negatives. And the case for social networks is even more complicated, because they are objectively not what they used to be anymore.
by amluto | 2025-08-15 15:57:56+00:00
If the US cared about remaining competitive with China, the government would attack this. Example approaches:

a) Smallish hammer: disallow priority based on Chinese patents.

b) Big hammer: if anyone wants to manufacture anything in the US and sell to the US market, give an automatic patent workaround. For example, there could be compulsory licensing, at enforced and genuinely reasonable prices, for all patents, foreign and domestic. If someone wanted to build an SLS printer or an e-ink display here ten years ago, they should have been allowed to while paying a small amount (small enough that the whole enterprise remained profitable) to the respective patent holders. Submarine patents should be completely inapplicable: if I opt to buy compulsory licenses, there should be a limited period for any patent holders to announce themselves, and then the patent holders could fight over the (capped) royalties while I continue to manufacture and sell the product.

c) b, with the system built in a way that works for open source too. I should be able to publish open source things with zero risk regardless of patents. I should be able to sell them and other people should be able to deploy them on their own under terms like (b) that make it economical to do so.
by the_af | 2025-08-15 15:57:57+00:00
> Why the fuck are you so afraid of being accused of pirating? Why do you have to justify to yourself by buying games and then pirating occasionally? I pirate every fucking IP I own. I don’t give a shit. Call me what you want but I’m also not blind to what I do.

Did you bother reading what I wrote? I'm not afraid of anything. I'm explaining why I think you're wrong even though I think people are justified in pirating because available platforms mostly suck and are anticonsumer.

I will summarize it for you again, then proceed to ignore you:

A- You lost this debate decades ago. We already had it, your side lost. Piracy is NOT the same as theft, either morally or legally.

B- You are the pirate here, not me (well, I do occasionally pirate as I argued elsewhere). Look at yourself in the mirror and answer your own questions about why you do it. Don't assume the rest are the same as you, or that they are cheap ass thieves like you (your own words).

C- It's a quality of service thing for most people.

> Does that make your blood boil? That geniuses like you pay for me to enjoy all my entertainment for free because it’s moral?

No, it doesn't upset me at all. Any other things you want to argue?

> So why arrest me?

I don't think you should be arrested. I suggest you take a deep breath and think who you're arguing with and what the actual arguments are.
by dkdcio | 2025-08-15 15:58:26+00:00
> I see statements like this a lot, and I find them unpersuasive because any meaningful definition of "intelligence" is not offered. What, exactly, is the property that humans (allegedly) have and LLMs (allegedly) lack, that allows one to be deemed "intelligent" and the other not?

the ability for long-term planning and, more cogently, actually living in the real world where time passes
by taeric | 2025-08-15 15:58:36+00:00
I mean, with limiting the allowed use of force to guard secrets, we are probably nowhere near as at risk for the worst of the past? As you said, the competition to guard secrets could be quite severe, and they were not exactly good at knowing actual leaks of their secrets versus someone else independently arriving at them.

That is, I think having the assumption of independent discovery would go a long way to preventing abuse.

I could see some hazard that small shops can't protect their secrets from partner manufacturers and such. But that is exactly where we are with a lot of stuff today?
by mtalantikite | 2025-08-15 15:58:56+00:00
I hate to break it to you, but the violent murderers have always been here and they're probably not the people you're thinking of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_Uni...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porvenir_massacre_(1918)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

etc etc etc
Show HN: OpenAVMKit – open-source toolkit for real estate mass appraisal (AVMs)
by larsiusprime | 2025-08-15 15:59:08+00:00
I'm the maintainer of OpenAVMKit. It's a free and open source toolkit for real estate mass appraisal. I want to make it easier for analysts, researchers, and assessors to build automated valuation models (AVMs) from public data sources. It's in early development, but has reached a stage where it's useable and I'm gathering public feedback.

Stuff it can do:

- Data enrichment: add additional data from public sources like OpenStreetMap, Overtrue, US Census, USGS, or your own shapefiles

- Modeling: run many different algorithms, such as MRA, GWR, LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost, as well as ensembles, all through one interface

- Reporting: generate IAAO (International Association of Assessing Officers) compatible ratio studies and other statistics and graphs

- Reproducible workflows: build data pipelines out of input data and settings file, so the same person can reproduce your work on another computer starting with the same ingredients

There's a "getting started" section in the docs with a minimal example that should let you download the test jurisdiction and run through the basic example notebooks.

I'm looking for feedback on what features people are the most interested in and what kinds of tutorials/documentation would be the most helpful for me to focus on.

The official site is here: https://www.openavmkit.com

The github is here: https://www.github.com/larsiusprime/openavmkit

We also have a bit of a writeup on it here: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/openavmkit-a-free-...

Happy to answer any questions in the thread.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-15 15:59:19+00:00
Images and video are great, but everything in moderation. An image here and there to illustrate or demonstrate, but it's probably a good idea to limit yourself before loading time becomes a problem on slower connections.

The real problem that I've noticed in most cases comes from excessive JS. If you don't use JS, then you can't do tracking banner, since you can't track, can't really do ads, and video autoplay via the video tag is already disabled in browsers, so you can't do that either. With no JS, it's functionally impossible to do most of the things the ad-pilled marketers want to do with a website that makes it so horrible for the rest of us.

JS can be used in moderation too, but it opens the door to temptation, and the road from there to slow load times even on good connections is awfully short it seems.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-15 15:59:32+00:00
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early 30s and prescribed Concerta to help manage it

For a few years being medicated for ADHD was a godsend. I was finally able to be more productive and focus on work, my career took off in a huge way, I've literally tripled my income since I started medication

Now I'm incredibly burned out, I've been having pretty severe memory problems, I'm on medical leave from my job to try and course correct a bit here. I don't think this is purely caused by the medication, I think it is stress related as well, but my doctor's only course of action right now is to reduce and re-evaluate my meds

On one hand, being medicated was incredible for me. It felt like it finally let me overcome my demons and be the person I wanted to be and always knew I was capable of being

On the other hand, if it led to my current situation it's probably one of the worst choices I could have ever made. I hate having massive holes in my memory like this, and being burned out this way is extremely difficult to bear

So... If you can balance things better than I could, it's still probably worth being medicated. I don't regret it I just wish it hadn't burned me out like this
by umanwizard | 2025-08-15 16:00:01+00:00
Math and chess are similar in the sense that for humans, both require creativity, logical problem solving, etc.

But they are not at all similar for computers. Chess has a constrained small set of rules and it is pretty straightforward to make a machine that beats humans by brute force computation. Pre-Leela chess programs were just tree search, a hardcoded evaluation function, and lots of pruning heuristics. So those programs are really approaching the game in a fundamentally different way from strong humans, who rely much more on intuition and pattern-recognition rather than calculation. It just turns out the computer approach is actually better than the human one. Sort of like how a car can move faster than a human even though cars don’t do anything much like walking.

Math is not analogous: there’s no obvious algorithm for discovering mathematical proofs or solving difficult problems that could be implemented in a classical, pre-Gen AI computer program.
by eviks | 2025-08-15 16:00:03+00:00
Of course it's correct, even Apple says so only using a different synonym unobscured https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsscreen/sa...

> The distances from the screen’s edges at which content isn’t obscured.

> because you cannot guarantee

That's a condition you've added without justification. Nothing in the term requires it. The term's core benefit is that it's more clarity. Nothing more (in terms of extra guarantees), but nothing less.

But also, you can guarantee, read the API docs again:

> Content in the safe area is guaranteed to be unobscured

Like,

> “safe area to display in”.

So it's not a "safe area", it's a "potentially a safe area"

> bucking industry standard terminology

yes, bad standards should be bucked, preferably before they become standards, but the next best time is immediately after that or any time later.
by pickleglitch | 2025-08-15 16:00:10+00:00
> No one is offering that service because it would be completely illegal.

It would be technically possible to decentralize distribution while still paying rights holders for each download. Laws could be rewritten to accommodate, encourage or even require this.

My biggest gripe with streaming services is that you literally can't legally own the content you paid for. You can only "license" it. Amazon, Google, Apple, whoever can revoke your access at any time and there's nothing you can do about it. There are plenty of examples of this already happening. The rights holders are protected, but the consumer is fucked. It's untenable, in my opinion.
by pc86 | 2025-08-15 16:00:23+00:00
I'm not making a philosophical point. The earlier comment is "I updated a new script and it summarized it," I was simply saying the odds of that script actually being new is very slim. Even though obviously that script or summaries of it do not exist in their entirety in the training data, its individual elements almost certainly do. So it's not really a novel (pun unintended?) summarization.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-15 16:00:40+00:00
> I'm an anarchist.

Yeah we will disagree on that really much, but I only find that tangentially to my point here, except if you think that this ideas is only promoted by anarchists. When this attitude is only promoted by the rare anarchist, then I find that somewhat "okish". My concern is when that attitude becomes commonplace.

> Normal doesn't mean good.

A Norm is a subjective society-wide agreed moral stance. What you seam to mean is what I would expect to be called common.

That's basically my point treating it normal means endorsing it.

> I'm completely opposed to the current judicial system in the USA.

Yet this will also be the judicial system of next year. These things seem to stay constant even across civil wars and revolutions.

That's why I think you should think of it as THE judicial system. It will be also the judicative of your aspired state (unless you disagree that there needs to be a judicative), if you want it to act differently you need to expect it to act differently, while of course still not being surprised when it doesn't.

Somebody on HN recently claimed, that you can't treat your child as a "X" and expect it to not become "X". I think that applies also the state branches.

When you give up and say it has always been like this, then you endorse the current regime.

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Oh, and I parsed

> Most values Americans falsely believe their institutions are upholding

as

(Most values Americans falsely believe) (their institutions are upholding)

instead of

Most values Americans (falsely believe) their institutions are upholding

which totally changes meaning.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-08-15 16:00:52+00:00
I would recommend creating a "cloud account" at a place like AWS or Hetzner or etc. Create an Ubuntu server or similar, install Spring Boot and begin serving your webpages to the world from an IP address. You can also bring in a domain name if you want to.

All told, it's probably $9 a month maximum, and will give you some very good skills and a large amount of freedom.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-15 16:01:53+00:00
I'd argue that unions can help an area be more competitive.

Any carpenter or handyman could nail together a stage for a movie, but members of the Carpenters Local 213 in LA are experts at efficiently building that kind of temporary structure and they do it efficiently. What would be a difficult HR problem in most places is just "call the union hall" in Hollywood; it has some costs, but it has some benefits.
Show HN: I built a directory of public appearances of tech people across the web
by janwilmake | 2025-08-15 16:02:04+00:00
Hey HN! I've always been frustrated by having to follow people across 10 different platforms just to catch what they actually say. Lately I've quit following other media entirely and am just hanging out on twitter, but the amount of things I'm missing is vast, I'm sure.

Recently I started playing with this new API from Parallel AI that let's you do super deep web research and collect tons of datapoints at once. Today I tried to solve my own problem and built Based People using the Task API.

*Features:*

- Finds and tracks public appearances – podcasts, conferences, congressional hearings, interviews, fireside chats, and blogs for 160+ influcential tech people - allows you to follow any of them and build a public appearances feed for yourself

It took me a little trial and error and I spent over $200 (should've tested with small test-set longer), but overall I am really impressed how far webscraping has come (they beat GPT5 in their own benchmark). Repo is linked from the footer for more details.

*Current limitations:*

- Only covers 2024-present (historical data was too much for the AI) - Does not refresh automatically yet, will need a daily or weekly update with a cronjob

Show HN: I built a directory of public appearances of tech people across the web

Right now it's free to use, no signup required to browse. It's also open source if you're curious. Next steps are verifying/improving data quality and deepening the dataset.

Would love your feedback on the concept and execution!
by natebc | 2025-08-15 16:02:11+00:00
Workers and Resources is fantastic!

You even have to lay sewer lines with an appropriate gradient and/or place lift stations to get it to the treatment plant.

Also: it has one of the best soundtracks ... of anything anywhere of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZROr6D2Sb8&list=PLdAfbEvw-2...
by righthand | 2025-08-15 16:02:20+00:00
I think there’s “people dressed better in the past” and there’s “people only took pictures of themselves when they were dressed nicely in the past”.

There were lazy afternoon pants in yesteryear. However you also owned fewer pants, shirts, etc back then as well. You HAD to take care of what you owned and you had less disposable income. You only bought the nicest you could practically afford.

Nice view of how much manufacturing excess changes things.

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I still try to dress nicely. I have a nice linen shirt and pants that I love but they were expensive. I have less expensive nice clothing with patterns, flannel shirts, a pair of wool pants, a pair of corduroys, all varying colors. What I enjoy doing is matching different fabrics and colors. That a lone looks fancier than all cotton ensemble even if the fabrics aren’t expensive. And remember you can always put on a flashy pair of sneakers. Usually shoes don’t even have to match anything.

There are simple things you can do too. For example, you don’t have to buy $150 selvedge jeans to roll the cuff up on your pair. Dressing nicely is about variety and flourishes more than cost really.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-15 16:02:24+00:00
Yes, and I believe this is due to people following how the rich dresses.

In the past, the well-to-do dressed in suites and nice evening wear, so the poorer people start following them.

Then at the start of "Tech" wealth, the people starting those companies tended to dress down, guess what ? Poorer people followed. I kind of expect it has to do with reproduction as in finding a mate :)
by bpt3 | 2025-08-15 16:02:43+00:00
Reporting from the conservative stronghold of the inner DC suburbs, kids are generally not allowed to wander unsupervised until they are in high school.

In my experience, kids have very little unscheduled/unsupervised time in more liberal areas, but I think that has little to nothing to do with political leanings and much more to do with parental expectations and availability of disposable income and leisure time.

Maybe you should try viewing things outside of a political lens, especially one where the other side is unexplainably but unquestionably wrong by default, and see how things look.