MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by linuxhansl | 2025-08-03 10:42:27+00:00
It seems to be great at writing tests, spitting out UI code, and many other things where there are many examples around.

Among other things I work on database optimizers and there Claude fails spectacularly. It produces wrong code, fails to find the right places where to hook up an abstraction, overlooks affects on other parts of the code, and generally confidently proposes changes that simply do not work at all (to put it mildly).

Your mileage may vary... It seems to be depend heavily on the amount of existing (open) code around.
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-03 10:42:32+00:00
It’s a University: students are there to learn. Mulituser UNIX machines are great place to learn; I probably wouldn’t be where I am now if I hadn’t cut my teeth on AIX, with ircii and pine for mail and X windows and a public_html directory making exploration fun and easy. Sure, you can give a student Outlook365 access and Wordpress, but will he learn anything from them?
by palata | 2025-08-03 10:42:53+00:00
rclone is amazing!

May I ask why you went from a wrapper around restic to rclone and not to restic? My understanding is that rclone doesn't make snapshots, does it?

I use restic (with rclone), which encrypts and handles snapshots automatically. It doesn't work with a pgp key, though, I use a password.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-08-03 10:43:30+00:00
This is unreadable. Increase the contrast, please...

Edit: I may be falsely blaming the contrast, but something about the design is causing me eye strain. Im not sure what. Here is a screenshot how the site looks to me: https://imgur.com/a/LNVCMRc Maybe someone else can figure it out.
by jcgl | 2025-08-03 10:44:22+00:00
That reduced length is doubtless a big part of how they seem able operate successfully in the urban fabric. It’d be unthinkable with American-sized trucks and trailers.

Tangentially, the smaller ambulances and fire trucks here seem so much more sensible than what you see in America. Generally, I’d remark that many city design problems get easier if you can scale down the problem. In this case, the problem of managing and integrating motor vehicles.

Tangent to the tangent: I sure don’t miss the ear-splitting sirens you hear in the US. Good god.
by Mordisquitos | 2025-08-03 10:44:36+00:00
> Paul Bloom (the author if this article) is pretty legendary in the psychology realm.

Even though the headline caught my attention and agrees with my own intuitions, I was committing the all-too-common HN sin of going through the comments without even having clicked on the article—I am too lazy by default for a full New Yorker article, however much I appreciate their quality.

However, as soon as I saw you mentioned it was written by Paul Bloom, I made a point of reading through it. Thanks!
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-03 10:44:37+00:00
Not really. I have been writing my own software for personal use for several years. Yes, it’s quiet but it does everything I want as fast as I could want it to happen.

The worst thing about this is complete loss of compatibility to the world of corporate software employment. Other software developers do not think like this. In the land of employment you work on what you are told, no more and no less. If the stuff you work on is slow you just get to bitch about it. If there are frustrations or missing features then you simply wait for a patch that may never come.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-03 10:44:42+00:00
Monopolies are natural in highly technical industries. But monopolies don't last forever. New technologies wipe out monopolies all the time. ChatGPT is disrupting Google search monopoly. Solar/EV is disrupting oil. Tools like V0 is disrupting Figma. ChatGPT itself is disrupting iOS and Android. The list goes on and on and on.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-03 10:45:57+00:00
Fasting also leads to breaking down fat via lipolysis during ketogenesis. Burning calories via exercise, including cardio, primarily stops you from _gaining_ weight.

So yes of course at the end of the day it is about calorie restriction, but fasting helps force your body into a state where it needs to break down stored calories -- ie. fat tissue.
by graemep | 2025-08-03 10:46:11+00:00
> I learned phonics and became an excellent reader without hesitation. Later, some morons in the education system created "better" reading techniques, f*cking up my younger brothers and sisters.

I, my siblings, and my kids all learned to read using whole words and we are all excellent readers.

Neither your family nor mine are statistically significant samples.

My experience of teaching my kids words before letters was that it was pretty easy.

On the other hand we all learned to read young, and at home, and with the assumption it was a fun thing to do, all of which makes it a very different experience to learning at school in classes.
by drtgh | 2025-08-03 10:46:34+00:00
Very disturbing, the article talks about the number of bits to be read per cell like if it were only a matter of speed.

In addition to your comment (related), when 3D-NAND cells are read, interference by the traces (charge-trap disturbs) requires the neighbour cells to be refreshed with writes, if the controller wants to conserve data integrity. This did not happen with 2D-NAND in the past.

Reading data from one cell in 3D-NAND involves writing cells; reading data in 3D-NAND consumes disk endurance.

(Not to mention, temperature/number of layers/endurance)
by 9dev | 2025-08-03 10:47:17+00:00
The cynic in me says this ends up as yet another list of channels that I need to scan for anything interesting, and interact with to keep up an appearance of engagement.

I appreciate any effort to increase social cohesion in remote teams, but intermingling it with one of the main stressors of my work environment—keeping up with team communication—isn’t the right way IMHO.
by rablackburn | 2025-08-03 10:47:52+00:00
I did read the post, but allow me to also recommend rambling when you’re remote.

As in, take time in your day to wander and roam. (I would go for a ~1hr hike in the mornings as my “commute”)

It gives you a sense of distinction from being home or “at work”. The routine cardio, and musings you have while walking make it well worth it.
by xp84 | 2025-08-03 10:48:30+00:00
> France also has huge numbers of socially disadvantaged immigrants,

> mismanaged immigration-who, not how many

Until I got here I was going to post to suggest that you were allowing yourself to believe that because some of the immigrants were of the successful type that there wasn’t a vast number of immigrants who are very poor and of the type GP was talking about.

But I, you and GP agree on the “mismanagement of who.”

I believe Western countries, especially the Left in Europe, UK, and US, are in a very awkward state right now because it’s obvious that we are losing the very things that make our countries attractive to these economic immigrants if we keep the de facto open borders policies (meaning most professionals can’t immigrate to the UK without years of paperwork and just the right job offer, but if someone with no marketable skills and a long criminal record and no ID shows up on a dinghy he gets free hotel for several years while they prepare to adjudicate his claim that he faces danger at home).

Anyway anyone not in utter denial knows the above is unsustainable but they also are uncomfortable knowing that the people of hundreds of completely failed countries are suffering, and in theory if we could let one of them come to France, Australia, USA, UK, he/she would be better off. But they don’t know how to reconcile “can save a few” with “can’t literally bring all poor people here without destroying our country.”
by pelagicAustral | 2025-08-03 10:49:55+00:00
How did this climbed to hard into the first position is out of my reach, truth is, without so much effort around me I feel like I've outdone myself in a dream, so powerful and clean, that I even shadow myself into irrelevance. /s

This whole post is so self-serving and iconoclastic it kind of feels like satire, and if it was, it would be gold, but it's not.... I mean, I don't think it is...

The post ends with a "read me or not, but if you want more of my genius, pay me", which I guess it's alright, since I would pay Carmack to write about Doom all day long, but some guy with dogs "curled" around it, writing about how hard it is to conceptualize his next "Sistine chapel"? GTFO
by elric | 2025-08-03 10:51:04+00:00
> This analysis revealed a systematic failure affecting tens of thousands of children across North Carolina alone, wasting human potential on a massive scale.

What? How is this a waste of human potential? Presumably the kids that didn't take HS Algebra took other classes instead, and probably did well at those. Not taking Algebra does not make you a failure at life, it does not waste human potential on a massive scale.
by 0points | 2025-08-03 10:51:24+00:00
> By an astonishing coincidence, the number of bits in the input format is approximately the log2 of the number of MD5 evaluations that a five-year-old GPU can do in an hour.

I read this to mean he calculated a matching hash on his GPU, in order to tune the magic constants of his app to produce the desired output.

> There are no magic numbers in the program

There are several:

long z,x,G;main(){for(puts("P1\n80 80"),scanf("%10lx",&G);3-z/2160;x=++z%81/8-5)putchar(5>x?!(16>>(x^-(x<1))+1&G<<5>>z/648*5)^49:10);}
by XorNot | 2025-08-03 10:51:33+00:00
Mocking? The safety of vaccines has been continuously, rigorously studied by scientists the world over, and specifically unlikely vectors of danger have been studied and restudied because they became specific targets of the anti-vax movement as the source of danger. Ingredients which were proven to be non-dangerous were removed to try and keep vaccination rates up anyway.

The anti-vax movement is mocked because everything else was tried. And frankly you must be terminally online to think this is a problem, because the medical establishment bends over backwards to try and ensure kids are vaccinated. The anti-vaxxers get mocked in exactly one place: the internet, on Twitter, where they aggressively seek out and try to belittle others are spread misinformation. And then retreat into accusing people telling them off or correcting them that they're "causing them to reject science" as though they didn't start from the same position they already held.

It was actually annoyingly difficult when my son was born to stress to the hospital to give him all the routine vaccines as soon as possible, give him the Vitmin K etc. because the medical establishment doesn't know if a routine protective intervention, presented the wrong way, is going to lead to that child never receiving appropriate basic precautionary care.
by brabel | 2025-08-03 10:52:50+00:00
I live in Sweden where taking 5 weeks off in the summer is the rule. Never got used to it, I take just 2 or 3 and leave the rest of mu vacations for the winter… but I almost never take the full 5 weeks and end up accumulating it over the years. I think I have over 12 weeks pending even after already having taken 3 weeks in July. I just get too bored and start coding anyway, so why not just work and get paid for doing it !
by cycomanic | 2025-08-03 10:53:22+00:00
I fail to see the prejudice?

The OP said, I quote:

> This is a breath of fresh air. Modern pick up trucks post-2017 are giant vehicles with high danger to pedestrians. They are often touted as off road capable with high utility, and I see them in pristine condition on city streets hauling a totality of one human.

That's not a prejudice that's literally how they are marketed and used to a large extend.

The second poster said, he is not using it that way, sure fine nobody said that _everybody_ is using a pick up truck this way, however as the reply to the other post said, there is ample research that the majority of pickup trucks are never used offroad and hardly ever have anything in their bed. Why did the responder feel triggered? And let's not ignore the fact that people driving pickups on the road does have a cost for everyone else, they reduce safety for everyone not in a pick up as well as pedastrians and cyclist, they have poorer milage so are contributing unnecessarily to climate change...

Now as to the point of all prejudice is bad. That's a pretty strong statement. Are you not judging people by their actions? If someone walks around with a swastika (sorry for godwins law, but you made an absolute statement) on his sleeve, is it prejudice to judge him?
by bschne | 2025-08-03 10:53:55+00:00
Tangentially related to this issue: I went back to university for a CS undergrad in my mid-20s after already having some experience writing code. One thing that really struck me while both TAing and informally supporting others in an intro programming class with somewhat subpar teaching was how many people went through the whole thing never grokking how the code was actually parsed by the computer. They would sort of learn how to solve problems, but many would still constantly get tripped up by things like confusing meaningful keywords and function names with arbitrary naming of variables and so on. At the beginning, the course just sort of jumped straight to showing finished code for simple problems, introducing python library functions, and so on — without ever really having students develop a low-level understanding of what was going on (by which I don't mean "what's the machine code this turns into", just "how is this code structured at the low level").
Show HN: Htvend, a tool to capture internet dependencies
by aeijdenberg | 2025-08-03 10:54:15+00:00
htvend is a tool designed to make it easy (or at least possible), to build OCI (ie Docker) images, in a more trustworthy and reliable way.

That is, in a way that tightly controls which assets that they pull in so that things can be easily rebuilt without needing internet access, for situations including air-gapped networks, or simply a desire to not inadvertently bring in upstream changes while trying to make a small tweak to a private script.

It works by starting a local HTTP/HTTPS proxy server, then starting a subprocess with appropriate environment variables and certificate files set. It has special support for passing these into the RUN context for building of images, so that existing Dockerfiles can be used without modification.

Let me know what you think.
by devttyeu | 2025-08-03 10:55:03+00:00
I don't think most people grasp how abstractly high even 1 DWPD is compared to enterprise HDDs. On the enterprise side you'll often read that a hard drive is rated for maybe 550TB/year, translating to 0.05~0.1 DRWPD [1] (yes, combined read AND write) and you have to be fine with that. (..yeah admittedly the workloads for each are quite different, you can realistically achieve >1 DWPD on an nvme with e.g. a large LSM database).

What makes NVMe endurance ratings even better (though not for warranty purposes) is when your workload has sequential writes you can expect much higher effective endurance as most DWPD metrics are calculated for random 4k write, which is just about the worst case for flash with multi-megabyte erase blocks. It's my understanding that it's also in large part why there is some push for Zoned (hm-smr like) NVMe, where you can declare much higher DWPD.

* [1] https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-03 10:55:41+00:00
Ohhh that one. Yes I was looking for one too at one point but I kinda wanted a more traditional feel. The 525 is way more practical though because it has colours and you can use a flatscreen which doesn't use so much desk space.

But even the 520 is a boring design like I mentioned. I loved the design of the 220 and the 320. Also the VT05 which looks really star trek although that thing was massive. It didn't even have a CPU, just rows and rows of boards filled with discrete logic chips.
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by safety1st | 2025-08-03 10:56:12+00:00
> I used to think that once I made it ... stashed away some savings to weather a health crisis or creative drought ... I’d finally feel free to slow down ... Instead, accomplishment—and the sense of “arrival” I imagined would come with it—proved elusive.

I mean, yes? You do indeed need an emergency fund, and the theory, which various retirement vehicles are designed to support, is you set up your affairs to permanently slow down at around 65.

Before that is outside of the reach of most people, but if you want to do it sooner, the way is straightforward: increase your savings rate.

It's math and economics... once you don't need the income anymore, you get to slow down, until then, you manage your stress and anxiety as best as you can.

I am also self employed, fortunate enough to be in the technology profession where we're relatively well paid - I hit the "I could stop at 65" number a few years ago and the way I see it every year I put in at this point, is just bring that number down lower. At some point my age and that number will meet in the middle.
by smoody07 | 2025-08-03 10:56:13+00:00
This. I watched my friends become Dads and change a bit, but I couldn't quite put it to words. I would feel scared to hold any baby. Then son is born, I'm trying everything to help him burp, and I'm learning the tonal language of his cries. Every taxi driver is a possible Dad I can relate to, and every kid is a glimpse into the future.
by wltr | 2025-08-03 10:56:25+00:00
I say that as someone who knows Photoshop/Illustrator for ~20 years, and Adobe did very little to improve it for almost two decades. It loses to any modern counterpart. Figma, Affinity Suite, Pixelmator Pro, they are much better. So, for me, the complexity of Adobe’s software is rather their sheer incompetence and lack of will to do things better. They think they’re too big to fail, but I hope they’ll just go bankrupt quickly. They deserve it.
by elric | 2025-08-03 10:56:31+00:00
Depends on your definition of both of those terms. Being able to solve a simple equation is generally useful. You probably don't need much more than that to understand Set Theory or much of Logic. You can learn to write proofs without knowing calculus, etc.

Maths is such a wide field that terms like "advanced" have little meaning imo. Or rather, advanced doesn't have to mean complex, and even complex doesn't have to mean inscrutable. But then even simple problems can turn out to be fiendishly hard.
by audinobs | 2025-08-03 10:57:08+00:00
I think you are right but the expectations of young people are up much more.

These are all relative valuations with your pears and expectations. No one cares we are all vastly more wealthy than people living a 100 years ago.

People know how much Jamie Dimon is worth. No one cares they basically have more abundance today than JP Morgan himself.

It is also the difference that when I was in my 20s I had no illusions that I was going to become Michael Jackson or a popular TV sitcom actor since I never danced, sang or acted. Now though you do have that anxiety since people your own age are famous and wealthy from nothing more than network effects.

When I was in my 20s the only people that seemed to have disposable income were drug dealers lol. It was easy to not feel anxiety that I wasn't as well off as a drug dealer.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-08-03 10:58:57+00:00
one of the first cases, where "gun kill human" and not the National Riffle Organisation's argumentation "humans kill humans, but not guns".

If no one had guns, no one would die from scrunity of whom ever. Very unpopular opinion, I understand, but as an european where guns are "forbidden", I fully support "no guns" politics because my experience show, its better for me not to be killed on any ocassions - which obviously did not happen till today. Thank you Europa.
by password321 | 2025-08-03 10:58:58+00:00
> In the UK, for example, there's a well documented trend of pubs and clubs shutting as business declines.

Just to be clear, this is a sign of a cultural shift. Pubs are an old English tradition that people aren't interested in as much anymore. They would rather go to a sushi restaurant or go get curry. Same thing has happened with fish and chips shops.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-03 10:59:38+00:00
> Presumably the kids that didn't take HS Algebra took other classes instead, and probably did well at those.

The article repeatedly mentions kids who were forced to retake classes/material that they had already achieved mastery on. Moreover the way the system is set up, not taking Algebra in junior high means that you won't be allowed to take the most advanced math classes in the final years of high school. Either of these amounts to a serious waste of potential.

It also seriously impacts college access, since your average college course requires either "College Algebra" (which has a severe weed-out effect on those who didn't already achieve mastery in K-12 math, because you can't really teach the entirety of K-12 in one college semester!) or even calculus.
by Archer6621 | 2025-08-03 11:00:22+00:00
By using AI, you learn how to use AI, not necessarily how to build architecturally sound and maintainable software, so being able to do much more in a limited amount of time will not necessarily make you a more knowledgeable programmer, or at least that knowledge will most likely only be surface-level pattern recognition. It still needs to be combined with hands-on building your own thing, to truly understand the nuts and bolts of such projects.
by mcv | 2025-08-03 11:00:38+00:00
It probably wasn't even hostility; it's just that accounts is also an infrastructure component. And when that fails, everything fails. Tying everything to a single account creates a single point of failure.

It's one of the reasons I don't use my Google account for everything (another is that I don't want them to know everything about me), and I strongly dislike Google's and Microsoft's attempts to force their accounts on me for everything.
by seanwilson | 2025-08-03 11:01:23+00:00
> “people do a large number of consistency checks beyond what is in the published proofs, which makes the chances the claimed results are correct much, much higher.”

I imagine one bias is because formal verification is such a huge effort, you're only going to do it for really interesting and impactful proofs, which means the proofs that get formal verified will already have been reviewed and critiqued a lot, and will be less likely to have glaring critical errors.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-03 11:01:31+00:00
First of all how do you know it's true?

That being said, that makes zero sense. Just linking to a library, doesn't precluded using a protocol over a socket to talk to a graphic/audio server. Access control like remote code isolation (webAPIs), CORS and DRM also don't change anything about decoding and mixing video streams.
by crote | 2025-08-03 11:01:36+00:00
I disagree, idiots are everywhere.

The thing is, the vast majority of people - regardless of culture - have some basic sense of self-preservation. Speeding is easy when that 30km/h road is designed like a 120km/h highway. Speeding is a lot harder when that 30km/h road has speed bumps, chicanes, bottlenecks, and is paved with bricks rather than asphalt: if you try to speed, it'll quickly feel like you need to be a professional rally driver to keep your car under control.

Deliberately making roads "unsafe" forces people to slow down, which in turn actually makes it safe.