MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dh2022 | 2025-08-02 16:11:38+00:00
Oh my God, you are so naive. Normal stuff in NK is watching your kids wasting away because of lack of calories (average North Korean is 10 inches shorter than average South Korean-even though 70nyears ago they were the same people genetically). Is living with a radio in your home that does not stop singing praise to the regime - neighbors will report you if they think you turned off the radio. If they have free thoughts they do not share these out of their family (and most likely hide them from their kids because kids talk unsupervised). I could go on for a page or so but I hope you get the idea.
by mtalantikite | 2025-08-02 16:11:47+00:00
A friend of mine had passes to Rage Against the Machine with Run the Jewels at MSG a couple years ago and brought me. A few songs into the RATM set I realized there weren't that many young people in the stadium, because there wasn't a sea of phones recording everything for social media. Just tens of thousands of people pretty locked in to the moment. A younger act and all you see are thousands of screens glowing.

I've always felt that we (older millennials) sort of hit a sweet spot technology wise. We pretty naturally straddled that analog to digital world.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-02 16:11:49+00:00
That's not quite what I am saying. You need to learn about calories and build a proper intuition about them before really getting into exercising. Otherwise you end up easily out eating what you burn.

I have known way too many people who regularly exercise but still cannot lose weight. The problem they have is that thry burn 500 calories exercising, and then go unknowingly eat 900 calories because they exercised.
by wussboy | 2025-08-02 16:11:57+00:00
I think it's important to call out the difference between "what I prefer" and "what is good for me". We understand this fully in many aspects of our lives (from "My body prefers to do heroin" to "I prefer not to exercise but I do it because it's good for me").

I see a lot of comments here along the lines of "I prefer to live alone because roommates are a pain in the ass", but I think there might be a lot of value to doing this because it's good for you. Living with other people forces us to corral our worst tendencies, to break out of virtual worlds to engage in the real one, to form bonds that will force us to grow and change.

I think it's strange that our preference in this area, but not many others, could be so dominant over what is good for us.
by raffael_de | 2025-08-02 16:12:03+00:00
> Because this is just describing what it’s like to have a family and a household.

Actually, not at all. A co-living arrangement of adults (or WG for Wohngemeinschaft, as we call it in Germany) is not well advised to work like a family household. A family has someone being the father, someone else being the mother and then there are children. While some WGs might stabilize into such a pattern for a while, it is certainly doomed to fail and end in drama. It's more like a team at work - which infamously isn't a family either.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-02 16:12:32+00:00
This is true where I live also. This feral subset of the homeless are ruining every nice public space that we used to have. Libraries, parks, trails. Patience and tolerance is wearing thin; everything that is tried to help them is just abused and shit on (often literally). More and more people are starting to say no, we don't want to tolerate this behavior here, if that's how you want to live then do it somewhere else.
by giantrobot | 2025-08-02 16:12:53+00:00
> on one hand, this is coming from the fat acceptance / body positivity movement, which needs people to believe that diet and exercise are futile

I think it's much more about people not really understanding how their bodies work. Losing the first few pounds on a diet is easy because it's water weight you drop as soon as you stop constantly eating sugar (soda, snacks, etc). Actually losing fat is much harder because it requires actual caloric reduction in your diet.

Many people starting diets have no idea how their body will lose weight and get disheartened when the second ten pound loss is way harder and takes longer than the first ten pounds. People will justify all sorts of things when they're desperate and disillusioned.
by appease7727 | 2025-08-02 16:12:54+00:00
Honestly at this point who would seriously use any Microsoft UI framework? They've abandoned 100% of their previous UI frameworks unfinished when they get distracted by a new, shinier framework.

Why use a busted incomplete framework missing basic features when there's entire ecosystems of open source cross-platform frameworks being actively maintained and which actually have all the features you need?

Really this is just another UWP destined to be forgotten and scorned.
by xnyan | 2025-08-02 16:12:55+00:00
> But it would be nice if we can acknowledge that people who actually make an effort to wear their gear and maintain situational awareness generally aren't well represented in the statistics.

The data says you are 25 times more likely to die per mile driven versus a car. If we were talking about personal experience, my motorcycle training instructor with 3 decades of experience was killed a few years ago by someone in an SUV making a left turn. It was broad daylight, they had all the gear, they were doing everything right, the person in the car was not paying attention and made a last second left with no time to react.

Even doing everything right you are still significantly more likely to die on a motorcycle in a car per mile driven. again, I ride motorcycles and I accept that risk.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-02 16:13:47+00:00
Harvesting the pages for the JIT and somehow reusing them to prewarm the JIT state, not the heap state overall. The heap state itself is definitely solved by the simple prewarming you describe because of the various state within various code paths that might take time to initialize/prewarm.

I’m not saying it’s not helpful. I’m just flagging that JIT research is pretty clear that the performance improvements from JIT are hugely dependent on actually running the realistic code paths and data types that you see over and over again. If there’s divergence you get suboptimal or even negative gains because the JIT will start generating code for the misoptimization which you actually don’t care about. If you actually have control of the JIT then you can mitigate some of these problems but it sounds like you don’t in which case it’s something to keep in mind as a problem at scale. ie could end up being 5-10% of global compute I think if all your traffic is JIT and certainly would negatively impact latencies of this code running on your service. Of course I’m sure you’ve got bigger technical problems to solve. It’s a very interesting approach for sure. Great idea!
by kanbara | 2025-08-02 16:14:52+00:00
>propaganda

you mean a movement where an entire half of the population have been treated as less than, coerced, not has the same rights, earn less money, and are still routinely demonized with 2000 year old paleolithic thinking?

why do men think they can get away with everything, and that the moment women try to speak up they are evil?
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-02 16:15:07+00:00
I'm a white-collar knowledge worker. There is no downside to me getting my hands dirty with real work during my thinking time – that's time I can't spend with my family if I want to get anything done, because unstructured social interaction takes up the same space in my brain as the knowledge work does.

And the marginal utility of having cleaner toilet facilities increases dramatically when they tip over the boundary between "clean" and "not-clean". Given an apron and long gloves, I'd happily (most days, at least) clean shit off the wall, or pull pads out the U-bend, if it increased the chance the room was clean when I had to use it.

If I were able to choose whether or not to clean the toilets, and someone kept leaving them in a right state, then after the second-to-fourth time, I'd set aside some time to identify the culprits, and then I'd take measures to ensure they stopped, starting with confronting them over it: first in private (if possible), and subsequently in front of people whose opinions I'd expect them to care about. I might escalate further if it continued without good reason. This is not an option available to cleaning staff on the poverty line, who rarely have the time in their schedule to do this, and might be sacked if they used their breaktime to pull an insubordinate stunt like that. (I would not be capable of working in those conditions, and I expect I'd develop new and fascinating mental health problems if subjected to them.)

There is a major difference between volunteering to do something, and having your ability to live in your home contingent upon you doing it, as regards people's willingness to do various tasks.
by brandall10 | 2025-08-02 16:15:23+00:00
When Attention is All You Need was published, the market as it stands didn't exist. It's like comparing the pre-Jordan NBA to post. Same game, different league.

I'd argue the top individual researchers figure into the overall AI spend. They are the people leading teams/labs and are a marketable asset in a number of ways. Extrapolate this further outward - why does Jony Ive deserve to be part of a $6B aquihire? Why does Mira Murati deserve to be leading a 5 month old company valued at $12B with only 50 employees? Neither contributed fundamental research leading to where we are today.
by pron | 2025-08-02 16:15:41+00:00
> IFNDR is a catastrophe because it truly does render the entire software without meaning.

In the language. I.e. the language assigns no meaning to source the program, which is, indeed, the "catastrophic" impact of UB (or IFNDR) within the theory of the language. But since a running program takes the form of an executable, and the executable always has a defined meaning in another language (machine code), while C++ has nothing to say about what such programs do (i.e. that's the end of the helpfulness of that theory) that doesn't mean we can't talk about or care about the meaning of the executable.

An executable that crashes and an executable that leaks all your secrets have very different consequences, and while the C++ spec says absolutely nothing about the relationship between different UBs and these behaviours, that doesn't mean that these relationships don't exist.

A mathematical singularity in a physical theory means that that particular theory has nothing to say about the physics of that situation, not that there's no actual physics going on, and the physics that is actually going on could be more or less "catastrophic" depending on what we mean by that.
by karaterobot | 2025-08-02 16:16:13+00:00
Here's how little I understand business: $45 million in revenue, earned by taking a totally fair 10% of subscriptions that other people do all the work to get, seems like it ought to be enough. If leadership is trying to scale up to be thousands of employees, or to go public, they are lunatics and deserve to fail. Why not just run a successful newsletter platform?
by OKRainbowKid | 2025-08-02 16:18:19+00:00
The world might be better than it has been throughout most of history, but the trend seems to be pointing downward, and to me it seems like we are steering towards several tipping points (or cliffs, phrased more dramatically), and the people in power seem to have little interest in changing course.

This drags me down immensely, even though economically, I am doing alright. It seems like short/mid term economy/GDP is all that governments are optimizing for - actual well-being of the average citizen seems pretty far down on the list.
by wwweston | 2025-08-02 16:19:05+00:00
The crucial understanding is that incentives are cross aligned because the product is risk coverage.

The more immediate/pressing your need for risk coverage, the worse it is for them to sell it to you. The less you need it, the better it is for them to sell it to you and the worse for you to buy it.

Pretty different than ice cream or cars or housing. Too many people just think “oh corporate greed” without thinking about the underlying economics (partly because of how us culture pretends markets are magic).
by salawat | 2025-08-02 16:19:13+00:00
And why shouldn't they be? The Xenials and late boomers intellectual chops got funneled into an industry specifically intended to attack and monopolize their attention loops and data. To their credit, they're probably having a healthier response to the entire thing than I do by pushing back against further unwelcome intrusion even if it's still pretty subconscious for a lot of them at this point.
by kbelder | 2025-08-02 16:19:41+00:00
I was going to ask about Win32. I haven't had to do it in a while, but if I had to write a desktop app in windows, that would be what I would reach for. It's still supported... is their any indication that it won't be for many years to come?

Also, it looks better, in my humble opinion. It's probably lacking features that I'm uninterested in.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 16:19:49+00:00
> If you want to go hang out with friends it will cost you $4-8 for a cup of coffee. A dinner starts at $50/person. A trip to an amusement park is over $100 easily. The median individual income in the US currently is just over $65k/year or about $32.50/hour. That means half the workforce makes less than that. When an 8oz cocktail costs you an hour of your life because you work for minimum wage, you’d rather stay home and watch TikTok.

These comments are so strange to read. There’s an entire world of people out there doing things and socializing without buying cocktails or $100 amusement park tickets to do it.

You don’t need to pay anything more than what it takes to get you to someone else or a common meeting spot like a walk through the park.

In the fitness world there’s a never ending stream of people who complain that they want to get in shape but can’t afford a $100/month gym membership. When you explain to them that the $20/month budget gym is fine or you can buy some $30 quality running shoes on clearance, they either disappear or get angry because you’ve pierced their excuse for avoiding the activity. I tend to see something similar when you explain that you don’t need to buy $8 coffees or $100 amusement park tickets to socialize with people.
by swores | 2025-08-02 16:20:05+00:00
Is this correct?

It doesn't seem so to me, either from the way it works or from what little of the code I've looked at...

But I don't have time to do more than the quick glance I just did at a few of the files of each and need to run, so hopefully someone cleverer than me who won't need as much time as me to answer the question could confirm while I'm afk
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-02 16:20:21+00:00
I interviewed one guy who probably was one of them and he was not a genius enough that I could ignore the aura of confusion and sus. I didn't think it was NK until way later but now it makes sense

Probably got lucky otherwise I would have no work myself because I think the client isn't that rich, they would go out of business from ransomware attack
by literalAardvark | 2025-08-02 16:20:29+00:00
If she was obscured by an A-pillar she was likely riding too far to the side of the road.

There's a reason that we have safety classes, and it's that being safe is emphatically not intuitive.

You're much, much safer on the center wheel track.

I don't mean to be rude or accuse anyone, it's just that this kind of blind confidence gives everyone the wrong ideas.
by eliezerpujols | 2025-08-02 16:20:38+00:00
Hi! I'm Eli, founder of TapTrap, LLC. We built an AI-powered truth or dare game that adapts to your group's vibe in real-time.

Check it out at www.taptrap.app

The idea came at a house party. We were using ChatGPT to generate dares while another app picked who was next. It was clunky, the dares were either too tame or insane, and switching between apps killed the vibe. Plus, those roulette games felt boring as everyone was away waiting for the roulette to pick someone, while touching the screen feels closer and engaging. That night I thought: what if one app could do all this but actually understand party dynamics?

TapTrap uses a fine-tuned AI model to create thousands of pre-generated dares for different moods (Casual, Mild, Spicy, No Limits, Couple, Family). The content updates daily based on what users skip or complete across the platform. This way the game evolves and stays fresh instead of being the same static deck forever.

The app includes a penalty system for refused dares, support for multiple languages, and thousands of pre-generated challenges. Everyone stays engaged because you're all touching the screen together to see who's next.

It's free to try with basic categories. Premium is $2.99/month and unlocks all categories, the ability to create your own custom dares or questions, and advanced penalties. We have 39,000+ downloads in the last 90 days.

Would love your feedback on the concept and any ideas for making parties more fun!
by Bradlinc | 2025-08-02 16:20:39+00:00
I had a roommate for the first time again in my early 30s after getting divorced. Looking back now I enjoyed it. I felt that I had to grow up and get my own place again after our lease was up. I think this was true, at the time I did have a two year old daughter and we were living illegally in a warehouse. Not the best way to raise a small child. However, if I could go back, I think I would have found another communal living space. My roommate on the other hand may have more mixed feeling about it given the screaming two year old and my constant cooking of monkfish… which was later barred from the menu.
by stouset | 2025-08-02 16:20:52+00:00
Unless there’s a bug and it panics?

At a minimum now you’ve also got to scan for nil dereferences. Maybe that simple code between the mutex is pulled out into a function in a later commit. Then the function body is changed in the next commit to do something less simple.

This is all depressingly reminiscent of listening to die-hard C enthusiasts insist that avoiding use-after-free bugs and out of bounds reads and other issues are easy as long as you write code perfectly all the time. It’s easy as long as you just always do the right thing.

It’s okay to admit your language of choice has weaknesses. You don’t have to stop using go just because you can acknowledge that data races can creep in if you’re not diligent enough.
by robbomacrae | 2025-08-02 16:22:09+00:00
With these agentic coders you can have better conversations about the code. My favorite use case with CC is after a day coding I can ask it to for a thorough review of the changes, a file, or even the whole project.. setting it to work when I go off to bed and have it ranking issues and even proposing a fix for the most important ones. If you get the prompt right and enable permissions it can work for quite a long time independently.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 16:22:40+00:00
Then go for a walk in the closest park instead of a hike an hour away.

Play volleyball on the free net at the local park instead of signing up for pickleball and buying great.

The people who want to avoid activities and socialization will always pick the more expensive activities so they can dismiss them. Yet go into the real world and people have no problem finding ways to socialize and have fun without spending much money.
by kayson | 2025-08-02 16:23:19+00:00
> According to Cadence’s admissions and court documents, employees of Cadence China did not disclose to and/or concealed from other Cadence personnel, including Cadence’s export compliance personnel, that exports to CSCC were in fact intended for delivery to NUDT and/or the PRC military. For example, in May 2015, a few months after NUDT was added to the Entity List, Cadence’s then-head of sales in China emailed colleagues, cautioning them to refer to their customer as CSCC in English and NUDT only in Chinese characters, writing that “the subject [was] too sensitive.”

Interesting. Sounds like Cadence China employees went rogue. Nonetheless, Cadence USA is on the hook.
by pistachiosPower | 2025-08-02 16:23:30+00:00
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by jjulius | 2025-08-02 16:23:58+00:00
> A dinner starts at $50/person.

I went to dinner with a friend last night and my meal was $22. I go to lunch with coworkers and often only spend ~$15-ish.

One also doesn't need to do activities that cost money in order to hang out with people one knows. Get together and play board games or cards. I hung out with my friends last weekend - we brought our records over and DJ'd, someone brought some frozen burgers, I supplied some THC tincture I've had for months, another person brought a cheap bottle of wine they also already had. We had a blast for like seven hours.

Hiking is also fantastic, and free!
by fsloth | 2025-08-02 16:24:07+00:00
Yes! Valuable, fundamental, etc. - do it yourself, the slow path.

Boring, uninspiring, commodity - and most of all - easily reversible and not critical - to the LLM it goes!

When learning things intrinsic motivation makes one unreasonably effective. So if there is a field you like - just focus on it. This will let you proceed much faster at _valuable_ things which all in all is the best use of ones time in any case.

Software crafting when you are not at a job should be fun. If it’s not fun, just do the least effort that suits your purpose. And be super diligent only about the parts _you_ care about.

IMHO people who think everyone should do everything from first principles with the diligence of a swiss clocksmith are just being difficult. It’s _one_ way of doing it but it’s not the _only right way_.

Care about important things. If a thing is not important and not interesting just deal with it the least painfull way and focus on something value adding.
by aunty_helen | 2025-08-02 16:24:18+00:00
I agree with this wholeheartedly, but those 100$ amusement parks have a lot of budget to advertise and make it seem like they’re the only place to go on your free time.

No body is putting up billboards for silent reading clubs so they get drowned out making it appear as if those options aren’t there. Advertising works.
by dekhn | 2025-08-02 16:24:22+00:00
Noam was already one of Google's top AI researchers and a personal friend of Jeff Dean (head of Google AI, at least in title). He worked on some of the early (~2002) search systems at Google and patented some of their most powerful technoloigies at the time- which were critical in making Google Search a product that was popular, and highly profitable.