MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-31 17:18:33+00:00
Ok. I didn't say his speech bugged me, I said it was noticeably different to other people's speech.

I understand that speech and conversation branches. That's normal, that's not an issue. What makes it notable is how random the jumps seem to be, the seeming lack of logical connections between them, and the apparent randomness of when they rejoin the main branch, if they ever do.

The examples you show display very predictable stack-like behaviour which is very different to what is shown in the article.
by majormajor | 2025-08-31 17:18:43+00:00
> That sounds great until you have a massive issue that costs the company real money and leadership asks why you weren't logging everything in full fidelity?

You should have an answer, right? Like, in your case, you run a lot of logging, and you know why. So if it's off, you say "because it would cost X/million dollars a year and we decided not to do it."

Course, if you're the one who set it up, you should have the receipts on when that decision was made. This can be tricky sometimes because a lot of software dev ICs are strangely insulated from direct budgets, but if you're presented with an option that would be helpful but would cost a ton of money, it's generally a good thing to at least quickly run by someone higher up to confirm the desired direction.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-31 17:18:57+00:00
The study takes all the advancements you mention into account, and says that even with that rate of progression, the specified life extension target (100y) is unlikely. Just like perpetual motion or time travel.

On the other hand, people have been claiming "breakthroughs" in all 3, so if that is what you want to hope for, that's cool. It just doesn't factor into our forecasts for any of the 3.
by timr | 2025-08-31 17:19:14+00:00
> That does not make it non-political. The FDA has both political appointees and civil service roles, just like other government agencies. https://www.opm.gov/frequently-asked-questions/political-app...

OK, so which one is this position? Do you actually know?

(Google tells me that the position of CBER director is officially non-political, though since Peter Marks was forced to resign, it's now "more political than before".)

> lmao

Yeah, you're not being partisan at all. I tell you that Prasad is a liberal (an extremely well-documented fact), and your response is..."lmao".
by nwallin | 2025-08-31 17:20:29+00:00
> With a copyright, people are allowed to do anything similar to you, so long as they do not derive their work from yours.

John C. Fogerty famously got sued by John C. Fogerty for sounding too similar to John C. Fogerty.

https://blogs.law.gwu.edu/mcir/case/fantasy-v-fogerty/
by alwa | 2025-08-31 17:20:38+00:00
Dirty, sure; but quick? I counted three reboots, patching tools, and several trips to random Internet DLL watering holes in there…

Made me nostalgic for the era of my life that involved tactics like “blindly fish around black-backgrounded webpages for sketchy patches from authors with names like -=TeAm MeGACOyoTE=-”

I went in expecting it to be quick (and to be like, just use DaVinci, dude), but I was pleasantly surprised by a flavor closer to “the madness of art”
by zahlman | 2025-08-31 17:20:45+00:00
> ADHD diagnosis is extremely easy to get.

I am in Canada. My family doctor apparently cannot do this, and has advised that a private specialist would be quite expensive (not that I'd know where to start looking anyway). I can't fathom that an online questionnaire would lead to legal access here to stimulant medications, considering that even things like SudaFed are controlled. And anyway if I am going to feel safe with a medication I don't want it prescribed on the basis of self-reporting on "extremely leading questions".

> will probably still start with atomoxetine (it's not a stimulant)

First I've heard of this one.

> How exactly is this supposed to work?

By "this" I indeed meant dealing with the "not diagnosed" hurdle.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-08-31 17:20:50+00:00
>>> An example: you have to fill out some government form. You’re averse to it because you worry about making a mistake. And just the thought of opening the form fills you with dread. So, take the boxes in the form, and make a spreadsheet for them. If fonts/colours/emojis/etc. if that makes it feel more personal, or like something you designed and created. Then fill out the form in the spreadsheet. And then copy the values to the form and submit.

Oh wow this spoke to me - do it a lot …
by zamalek | 2025-08-31 17:21:30+00:00
I'm a through-and-through JJ convert. One papercut I have experienced a few times (though I am getting much better at avoiding) is what to do when I forget to `jj new`. Assuming that I have pushed the current bookmark to the remote, is there any way to recover a new change that is the diff against the remote? I have tried rebasing, but that leads to bookmark ambiguity instead of the solution I'm looking for.
by balder1991 | 2025-08-31 17:21:59+00:00
What I notice here in Brazil is that most local news channels get the bulk of their money from TV ads. They all have a badly done website-blog with news that are very superficial (like 2 paragraphs) just to fill them with ads up and down and try to get something from it.

The big channels nowadays usually have 2 websites: one that is free and full of ads and pop-ups with very superficial news (seemingly written by interns) and one with actual quality analysis, journalism etc. that allow you access of 3 articles a month before you need to pay or something of that sorts.

I think the “serving ads” business hasn’t worked for a while.
by octoberfranklin | 2025-08-31 17:22:00+00:00
> 4. Enforce antitrust laws. / Break up monopolies.

I've given up hope of politically-appointed prosecutors ever doing a thorough and effective job of this. Sure there are some high-profile cases (AT&T, Standard Oil, Microsoft (almost), Google (maybe), etc) but the vast majority go unprosecuted.

There are really only two ways to fix the antitrust disaster:

1. Private right of action (like RICO) for the Sherman Act -- let nonprofits and individuals file the charges. This takes the implicit pardon power away from politically-appointed prosecutors.

2. Graduated corporate income tax, which creates a natural diseconomy of scale. The income tax code already contains a decades-old mechanism (search for "common control" in the IRC) to prevent evasion using shell-company shenanighans. It's very well tested, it works, and it has been working since the 1980s -- mainly to prevent US persons from evading the extra requirements for owning controlling interests in foreign corporations.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-31 17:22:12+00:00
Anyone who took macroeconomics knows that stratifying an economy of ~370 million people by ambition ends with the most ambitious employees working the behind-the-counter at McDonalds. None of them ever end up at the fed, or filling white-collar corporate seats, that's been an open secret since the '80s. By the sound of it, you're just regurgitating Tweets you read in 202X while VCs were insecure about China whooping their ass in natsec, AI and robotics.

Support ambition all you want - just don't come crying to us when the B2C market dries up entirely.
by BoredPositron | 2025-08-31 17:22:29+00:00
That's just how large communities operate, especially in heated environments. It's always been this way. That said your example really fails to demonstrate effective community interaction. The argument apparently had value to readers who naturally wanted to verify the claims. You're essentially expecting people on the verge of changing their views to simply take the word of someone challenging those views with a "trust me bro" approach. Rather than engaging meaningfully, you attempt to invalidate their perfectly reasonable request for sources in your response. After reading the linked thread I would also disengage and keep a red flag for your username in my mind.
by Jordan-117 | 2025-08-31 17:22:41+00:00
I used to think jailbreaking was the only way to do this, and mourned my adblocker tweaks when Apple made jailbreaking practically impossible. But turns out sideloading on iOS is a pretty easy alternative: just install AltStore via your computer, sign in with your Apple ID, and then import and install the YTLitePlus .ipa from their GitHub[1]. This gets you a YouTube clone with adblocking, SponsorBlock, custom UI controls, and all sorts of other quality-of-life features. You can even sign into and sync with your existing YouTube account.

The only downside is that free Apple accounts must renew their certificate in AltStore (while connected to their computer's home network) once a week, or else it'll all be deactivated and you'll have to reinstall AltStore and YTLitePlus from scratch. But you can pay $99 for a year-long developer account, set a recurring reminder to renew, or worst case YTLitePlus makes it easy to export your settings so you can quickly restore it after reinstalling.

[1] https://github.com/YTLitePlus/YTLitePlus
by dns_snek | 2025-08-31 17:22:44+00:00
Definitely make sure to check since it's easy to test and easy to treat, but remember that it could be both. What blows is that some doctors can become really dismissive of the idea that you might have something like ADHD if your chart already carries a different label (thyroid, personality disorders, depression, etc.) so watch out for that, it can be a challenge to get them to take it seriously.
by andoma | 2025-08-31 17:23:33+00:00
I visited Bletchley Park museum this summer when in London. Can recommend and it's also really easy to get there; just a 50 minute train ride from London Euston station, and 5 minute walk to the museum. Entire family enjoyed the museum (have two teenage kids). There is also the "National Museum of Computing" located next to it which contains the Bombe, Collosus and related equipment. As I understand it most (or all?) of the original hardware was destroyed after the war to avoid leaking any information about the British code breaking skills. Thus, the machines on display are replicas, but should be fully working.

The computer museum also exhibits post-war computers all the way to modern machines. I'd say that museum is more for the geeks while the Bletchley Park museum is definitely worth a visit even if you're not into computers.
by Kye | 2025-08-31 17:23:57+00:00
>> "No AI or stem separation."

That's unfortunate. Live's ML-based sample tagging and similar sound search have been a huge help. I don't think I could give it up. I guess this wouldn't matter if you don't do much with samples but samples are a huge part of modern music production.

I've followed BitWig for a while now and it's increasingly clear with each release that they have a particular kind of music production in mind, and it's not for me. That's a good thing: being differentiated is how every other DAW has survived. I just had some hope it might permit a path to Linux for me and the way I make music some day.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-31 17:24:44+00:00
> Paying money doesn't actually make people trustworthy.

This is fundamentally a naive understanding of both security and certificates. Paying money absolutely makes people trustworthy because it's prohibitive to do it at scale. You might have one paid malicious certificate but you can have thousands of free ones. The one malicious domain gets banned, the thousands are whack-a-mole forever.

Further, certificates used to indicate identity in more than a "the domain you are connected to" sense. There was a big PR campaign to wreck EV certs but EV certs generally were extremely secure. And even Google, who most loudly complained about EV, has reintroduced the Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) to replace it and use for new things like BIMI.
by wand3r | 2025-08-31 17:24:48+00:00
> You can't even unlock the bootloader on most of the quality Android phones.

Can you not do this on Samsung phones? I was considering buying a used s22 ultra as an iPhone user to explore more freedom and pirate apps, etc. Is andoid really this locked down now? I have heard that quite a bit, but can't you sideload or install any apps you want on Android? Why do you need to unlock the bootloader?
by BeetleB | 2025-08-31 17:25:05+00:00
I had used jj for only a month before I switched back to git for a particular project at work. I felt that jj was *really* nice, but nothing more.

After returning to vanilla git, I was missing the jj convenience within hours.

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Aug/the-jujutsu-effect/
by thramp | 2025-08-31 17:26:23+00:00
I’d second Rain’s reply, but having gone from git to sapling to jujutsu, I feel like the jump from sapling to jujutsu was as big as the jump from git to sapling, in terms of “oh, this is a way nicer workflow”. I really like and miss Sapling’s interactive smart log, but I found jj’s conceptual simplicity to be more compelling than ISL. That said, VisualJJ and Jujutsu Kaizen (both listed on https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/community_tools/) might give you the ISL-style experience you’re looking for.
by StefanBatory | 2025-08-31 17:26:56+00:00
With therapy I of course agree - I do think that people are overmedicated. It should be the last resort.

But even on that, it's unlikely that someone will concur it might be that. General vibe I got was that, as I said - it's something you grow out.

And sometimes I find myself doubting, maybe they're right and it's something wrong with us? Many times I have wondered if it is just my subconscious way of trying to avoid responsibility for myself.
by jchw | 2025-08-31 17:26:56+00:00
> I'm personally one of the largest critics of how Bluesky Social PBC treat Japanese anime-style illustrators, so I share your frustration here. Though it's worth noting that large Mastodon instances do the same kind of moderation. Trying to follow illustrators on misskey.io from mastodon.social is very much a toin coss if they're censored or not.

I can't stress this enough: I don't find it acceptable to ban people if they like posts or follow someone who gets banned. That sort of guilt-by-association is insane. It's one thing to be more censorial than Twitter, which is a choice you can make if you want to, but Bluesky went many steps way too far in how they enforce the rules. I still can't even fathom what actually got me banned, and the cowards there would never admit it (because they know it was wrong.) The only way I'd ever consider going back is if they announced that they fired everyone who thought that was a good idea.

If they're willing to do insane shit like that, I would absolutely not trust any of the other aspects of the components ran by Bluesky Social PBC, so it's far more than an AppView that is needed for sure.

Then there's the fact that Bluesky Social PBC constantly advertised itself as a decentralized alternative to Twitter back before it had launched, well, any decentralized components. Before you could run your own PDS, and certainly before they stopped requiring whitelisting. People make a lot of hooplah about how users shouldn't care about decentralization. Well, a lot of people leaving Twitter at the time did care about decentralization, because they were tired of what was happening to their Internet and wanted a durable alternative. To this day, Bluesky doesn't really actually practically have any of the properties of decentralization that anyone would care about. They know it damn well.

I hate that everybody is just going to let this happen, and I hate that Bluesky proponents jump in and try their hardest to make it seem like there's hope for things to not be controlled by one entity. There isn't. It's a complete load of shit.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-31 17:27:01+00:00
> If being organized makes you feel good

> If you are very OCD

Please educate yourself, OCD is serious shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_d...

Some people with OCD literally starve to death, because they can't leave their house. Commonly you find those affected washing their hands repeatedly until they bleed... and then some more. It is absolute not a "what makes you feel good" kinda thing, it's a dysfunctional and irrational mental world model enforced by a crippling sense of doom, anxiety and shame, which will consume life (especially if "very OCD").

Most importantly, for those with actual OCD, you absolutely aren't advised to embrace that destructive, irrational world model by leaning in on compulsions. You cannot really exploit it for good, by definition. And by definition, it isn't benign.

I wish people would stop attributing a quirky/controlling personality, a desire for order, symmetry and tidy rooms to a serious mental disorder. You wouldn't twist major depression, schizophrenia, or cluster B disorders like that. If you feel left out on the identity game, go read Lord of the Rings, or Das Kapital, try horse riding, or golf.

Quite honestly, for me this casts serious shade on the whole article. Because "ADHD" is similarly misattributed and casually "self-diagnosed". Maybe the author just got very ADHD by browsing too much Insta and later found stimulants to be stimulating. Much easier to cure that kind of ADHD through abstinence and structure. (Although coming up with elaborate routines and revolutionary hacks, which are a total breakthrough for a whole month, is a very ADHD thing...)
by timr | 2025-08-31 17:27:03+00:00
> Yes, we do. His role is not a civil service one.

Incorrect. I just looked it up. It's a civil service appointment.

> Go on, document it.

He's said many, many times on his podcast(s), twitter and elsewhere that he's on the left, and that he voted for Sanders. So sure, I could dig each one of those up for you, or you could actually believe it when people on the right attack him for being a "lefist". Like this, for example:

"Vinay Prasad Is a Bernie Sanders Acolyte in MAHA Drag"

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/vinay-prasad-is-a-bernie-sanders...
by matula | 2025-08-31 17:27:16+00:00
I've been at this for many years. If I want to implement a new feature that ties together various systems and delivers an expected output, I know the general steps that I need to take. About 80% of those steps are creating and stubbing out new files with the general methods and objects I know will be needed, and all the test cases. So... I could either spend the next 4 hours doing that, or spend 3 minutes filling out a CLAUDE.md with the specs and 5 minutes having Claude do it (and fairly well).

I feel no shame in doing the later. I've also learned enough about LLMs that I know how to write that CLAUDE.md so it sticks to best practices. YMMV.
Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
by angelochecked | 2025-08-31 17:27:17+00:00
My current daily routine looks like this:

- 8:00~9:00 – Getting ready for work

- 9:00–13:00 – Work

- 13:00–14:00 – Lunch + YouTube

- 14:00–18:00 – Work

- 18:00–20:00 – Break from work + Dinner + YouTube

- 20:00~1:00 – YouTube, gaming, occasional events, personal projects, or sports. Lately, I’ve noticed my screen time during this period has increased a lot, and I’ve been feeling lazy to do anything productive—mostly just doomscrolling or watching videos

What’s your routine like? How do you manage your time, maintain social connections, avoid digital distractions, and stay on track with your goals and learning?
by bitwize | 2025-08-31 17:27:48+00:00
> operate cars safely

Personal vehicles have turned out to be A Bad Idea, and now the consensus appears to be we should be moving toward more -- perhaps exclusive -- use of public transport, rather than expect people to own a car.

I'm beginning to wonder if the same isn't true of personal "general purpose computing" devices. 99% of people would choose the locked down device, especially if it makes their favorite apps available: Instagram, Netflix, etc. Which it may not if it were open, because then it could not provide guarantees against piracy or tampering by the end user. But still, from an end user perspective, knowing that stuff from bad actors will be prevented or at least severely hampered is a source of peace of mind.

Nintendo figured this out 40 years ago: buy our locked down system, and we can provide a guarantee against the enshittification spiral that tanked the home video game market in 1983, leading to landfills full of unsold cartridges. It sold like hotcakes.
AI for analytical DIY mental health
by sn0n | 2025-08-31 17:28:08+00:00
Recently started asking Google Gemini a lot of questions about shadow work, EMDR, self help and personal growth. I don't view it as a friend, but a guide and assistant to get tldr type information for my own self help journey.

Things like "walk me through a shadow work, start to finish" and "what does that process look like for xyz?"

I'm a self learner, as I imagine many of us here are. We enjoy digging into topics on our own and figuring them out. I know everything has "disclaimers" because everyone these days is afraid of litigation literally taking away their livelihood, and they "highly suggest a professional" and "doing it yourself is dangerous" along with the "self harm" risks of psychosis and whatever else,... But is there really potential here? I feel I'm facing demons head on that I never would have considered otherwise.

What are your thoughts?
by dvdkon | 2025-08-31 17:28:35+00:00
Why are you assuming the result will be a "hodgepodge" or "tangled mess of wires"? Unless you take it apart, you won't be able to tell if a product runs on a bespoke PCB with SoC, a Raspberry Pi, or an old phone's hardware. Plenty of commercial hardware today is just an Android phone with some custom apps and system modifications, only it's generally a new, expensive, "enterprise-ready" device.

> There's a dozen apps that allow your phone to be repurposed as cameras or GPS trackers today, what's holding back their adoption?

Personally I think it's the lack of control over devices that's hindering these apps. A common modern phone doesn't let you replace the system UI with some purpose-built app, it doesn't let you run without a battery, it doesn't even let you disable all notifications. The result just isn't up to snuff unless the user/device manufacturer has full access to reduce the system to just the parts they need.

> If you read my initial comment you'd see it states in no uncertain terms that I'm skeptical of the argument that it'll meaningfully reduce e-waste, ...

And you haven't provided any meaningful counterargument so far. You still seem to be under the impression that reusing phones means hobbyists "gluing phones" places, but that's far from what I'm advocating.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-31 17:28:43+00:00
I support part of the conclusion:

> Leadership from the Global North’s liberals and social democrats is a false hope. We must seek leadership from ourselves, from our own traditions and our movements. We fight to bring vitality back to our cultures, to deepen our own theories and philosophies, to seek references amongst our own thinkers. This is a deeper struggle than an electoral one alone

I.e.: there is a clear cultural crisis that cannot defend the First Principles effectively. An intellectual intervention is needed - also in face of the occasional blindness I am reading in other articles on the Tricontinental.
by AngryData | 2025-08-31 17:28:57+00:00
I fail to see what your question has to do with the topic at hand or anything I said. Poor labor rights is a fact regardless of the value of the US dollar on the world market. The US does not represent a socialist economic system in any significant way. People also go through great lengths to get into the Chinese market, or escape any number of other poor economies across the globe. That doesn't make the places they are going automatically good or right or socialist or capitalist.