MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rowanG077 | 2025-08-06 20:37:32+00:00
To me it would be equivalent of saying "Yeah C sucks and is verbose, Let's make a C generator using python. Look ma I can even make generic data structures and function".

That is to say I think the generator approach is a dead end. A local optimum before we move to real languages. Sure it's a lot better than bare Verillog/SV/VHDL but that bar is very low. I believe gaving native language contructs that supports designing and simulating hardware is much more powerful.
by atomfinger | 2025-08-06 20:37:36+00:00
> Isn't it obvious that "nazi bullshit" isn't welcome? Like a no-brainer?

Unfortunately, not in this day and age.

> Why does a programming language feel the need to say this?

It's less about "the language saying it" and more about the standards of the community that surrounds the language.

For a language to thrive, it needs a community of people contributing to it. If it doesn't, it'll eventually die unused. As such, there's more than "just the language"; it is also a community-building effort.

> Also, the phrase "nazi bullshit" is severely...

IMHO, you're reading too much into the word "bullshit".
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-06 20:37:52+00:00
>Listening to non-technical folks, they genuinely believe the internet is entirely hardcore smut that’s destroying kids and that we’re actively soliciting minors with sexual content.

For the majority of people "the internet" just means Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Tiktok, GMail, Amazon and Youtube. There's not much prono stuff there harming kids in order to have the government implement more radical measures than the laws we already have (COPPA in the US, other shit in the EU).

If they'd really want to help kids they would just ban Tiktok and Instagram and all these instant dopamine brainrot apps, not sites where kids might see some breasts.
by poszlem | 2025-08-06 20:38:06+00:00
Ah yes, the eternal horseshoe of censorship, where both ends of the political spectrum discover they're passionate defenders of "the children" and "democracy" whenever it's convenient for controlling what others can see and say.

The same payment processor chokepoints and platform pressure tactics you're describing have been gleefully wielded by progressive activists to deplatform "dangerous misinformation," "hate speech," and "extremist content."

Remember when everyone cheered Mastercard and Visa cutting off WikiLeaks? Or Cloudflare and Kiwifarm? Or celebrated when payment processors started dropping anyone deemed "problematic"? The infrastructure for financial censorship didn't materialize overnight when Christian groups discovered it existed.

The left pioneered the modern "advertiser pressure" playbook - organizing campaigns to get platforms to ban everything from "Russian disinformation" to "COVID misinformation" to whatever qualified as this week's "stochastic terrorism." The same NGO-to-government pipeline exists there too: activist groups coordinate with sympathetic staffers, push model legislation, and pressure companies through ESG scores and brand safety concerns.

Both sides have their "think of the children" trump cards. One side waves "grooming" and "pornography," the other waves "radicalization" and "harmful content." Both genuinely believe they're saving society from moral decay, they just disagree violently on what that decay looks like.

The real tragedy is that both camps are so busy fighting their culture war that they've handed unprecedented censorship power to payment processors and tech platforms who answer to no one. Congratulations to both teams - you've successfully created the infrastructure for whoever wins to impose their vision of morality on everyone else.
by WCSTombs | 2025-08-06 20:38:40+00:00
> Compare this to a Workflow. All that YAML, all that code from someone else, all that additional complexity in spinning up containers or maintaining runners—just to build a static site? Nah, we've been played for absolute fools.

> While there are definitely valid use cases for Actions, I suspect they are fewer and further between than we've led ourselves to believe.

I use Actions to run automated tests and build documentation previews for my open source projects, which I think are very common use cases. I think this could be one of the largest obstacles to a lot of open source projects moving off GitHub, which when ignored like this reduces the credibility of a "How to Ditch GitHub" article. Don't misunderstand - I'm not saying that moving off GitHub can't or shouldn't be done even in these cases, but there's going to be some friction that deters people.

The point about static sites is pretty valid, but I'd point out that the method the article describes is just obfuscated FTP. Unless you really want the domain provided by Codeberg, wouldn't it be better to use a simpler free web host (not a software forge) and just upload your built site onto it?
by tptacek | 2025-08-06 20:39:52+00:00
People say this but then never draw the rest of the owl. It costs money, substantial money, to hold on to a house. As soon as you propose that you're going to close that gap by renting the house out, you're competing in the market with everybody else letting out houses, and supply-and-demand kicks in.

Can you explain the mechanism by which accumulating vacant houses would provide the same reward structure as crypto speculation?
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-06 20:39:53+00:00
Marginal thinking is useful on the demand side (that's what the marginal revolution was about). But it makes absolutely zero sense on the supply side: for pretty much every business, upfront costs dwarf marginal cost of production. Think of most businesses: the salaries are negotiated in advance, you must order stuff to your suppliers before you can sell them and all the CapEx is spent before you can use the productive capital. The cost of producing one more item with what you already have paid (inputs+workers+capital) is pretty much zero.

What makes sense if working on average costs, and that's why it's the metric that is being used by every real companies out there.

But then you can't show the nice graphic showing supply and demand curves nicely crossing each other at the equilibrium price anymore…

Economists should have ditched Ricardo's view of the supply side long ago like they did for the demand side (labor theory of value was crap and was rightly abandoned).
by cortesoft | 2025-08-06 20:40:54+00:00
Not really. For me, coding was a solo activity for many years. I learned to program on my own from books in the early 90s, and I didn't even have internet to talk to anyone about it. I would build things for hours every day, all by myself. I loved it.

When I decided to go into software development professionally, learning to code with others was a struggle. I am used to doing everything myself without having to consider what others want or need.
by specialist | 2025-08-06 20:41:16+00:00
> associate the idea of a national ID with the "mark of the beast"

This was absolutely true during the 2000s.

The huge irony is that having a national ID (central authenticator issuing globally unique identifiers) is the only way to protect PII, at the field level, at rest.

Per the Translucent Database strategy. Which I won't repeat here. Unless the peanut gallery develops a genuine interest.

In other words, not having Real ID (or equiv) enables our panoptic surveillance capitalistic dystopia.
by simonw | 2025-08-06 20:41:19+00:00
I like the term "asynchronous coding agent" for this class of software. I found a couple of other examples of it in use, which makes me hope it's going to stick:

- https://blog.langchain.com/introducing-open-swe-an-open-sour...

- https://github.com/newsroom/press-releases/coding-agent-for-...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-06 20:41:19+00:00
> Long distances mean you will get tired and/or sweat.

Yes, that's what happens when you exercise, and judging by how fat Americans are, seems like they could use some.

>Lot of 2 lane roads without shoulders or sidewalks makes cycling on them scary.

How do ebikes fix this? It's still a bike, not a tank.
by jart | 2025-08-06 20:41:35+00:00
Open source doesn't have any kind of filter for participation, like a stringent hiring process, or requirement of academic achievement, which makes them entitled to respect. A lot of people show up who are unqualified, schizo, etc. It's demoralizing if a project treats those people and puts them on the same level as your best guys. Keep in mind, open source has no titles, no job levels, and no salary. So respect is the only thing people can hope to earn by participating, therefore it's totally ridiculous to give that out for free, because then people have nothing to gain and nothing to look forward to earning. These days the solution to this conundrum is to just ban everyone who isn't employed by a big tech company and shut down the comments section. However open source grew up in the 90's / 2000's culture that highly valued free speech and open participation. If you have to take the omegas in, like Linux did, then they have to play the omega role. This is better in some ways, because omegas are still part of the group, and still cared for, and many of them improve and grow past that role.
by dang | 2025-08-06 20:41:53+00:00
Related:

Unix and Multics (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315724 - May 2024 (76 comments)

Unix and Multics History - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065928 - April 2024 (3 comments)

Multics and AS400：DPS8M on IBM PASE for I (OS/400) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308420 - Feb 2024 (4 comments)

Multics Simulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304367 - Aug 2023 (15 comments)

So! You want to use Multics? (1979) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33366716 - Oct 2022 (5 comments)

Wordmul: Wordle for Multics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31636949 - June 2022 (3 comments)

Nobody learned the most important lesson from Multics vs. Unix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29783423 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

Multics MR12.7 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006036 - July 2021 (25 comments)

Multics Public Access - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128765 - May 2021 (33 comments)

Ban.ai Public Access Multics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611468 - Jan 2021 (6 comments)

Multics Simulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22994027 - April 2020 (20 comments)

Multics: An Ancestor of Unix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892923 - Dec 2019 (33 comments)

Multics Intro Course (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715014 - Dec 2018 (9 comments)

Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation (2002) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956386 - April 2018 (3 comments)

Public Access Multics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16875552 - April 2018 (3 comments)

48-Year-Old Multics operating system resurrected - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14728441 - July 2017 (9 comments)

Multics Execution Environment (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364234 - Oct 2015 (1 comment)

Introduction to Multics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6985277 - Dec 2013 (1 comment)
by serial_dev | 2025-08-06 20:42:07+00:00
It works surprisingly well, I’d say it gives better results than Google Translate. I can say that German, Spanish, and even Hungarian results are all consistently good. I often say “answer in English, German, and Hungarian” when I want to make sure I practice all these languages and I can discuss some topics in any language. I usually write in English, and add if it should answer in other languages.
by danaris | 2025-08-06 20:42:32+00:00
"Happy enough" not to be willing to give up their autonomy and jump through a whole bunch of bullshit hoops to get housing.

"Happy enough" that housing that excludes queer people, men (or people who look like men), people who need to not have their names be public information because they're hiding from abusive prior partners/parents, pets, people who are currently addicted to drugs (and thus cannot realistically never have drugs around), or any of a host of other restrictions, will not be something they consider an option.

(Note that these restrictions are a) from separate sources, not all on the same thing, and b) things I've heard about in the context of shelters, rather than low-income housing; however, it would not surprise me in the least if similar restrictions were placed on various programs to help house the homeless.)
by tptacek | 2025-08-06 20:42:33+00:00
Private equity owns virtually none of the homes in the municipality I live in, just outside the city of Chicago, adjacent to redlined neighborhoods with abysmal schools full of families who would love a chance at the resources we have. Despite insanely high property taxes that depress housing values, our home prices set new records every year.

Homeowners here would just love to spend a year workshopping regulations to prevent investors from buying homes. They know that those regulations would do nothing at all to address the scarcity that drives their home prices, and wouldn't result in them having to adapt to large numbers of new neighbors.

It's the exact same reason they obsess over inclusionary zoning ordinances (IZOs). Affordability is so important! That's why we need new, toothier regulations to ensure that no new housing projects here can ever pencil out for the developers.

PE is a complete sideshow. The root cause of the housing crisis is exclusionary zoning.
by andrewla | 2025-08-06 20:42:52+00:00
This article commits the cardinal sin of homeless discourse -- trying to conflate two things:

1. The "homeless problem", that is, the problem of mentally deranged or violent vagrants that make public spaces less usable or unwelcoming. This is difficult to impossible to measure, both in impact and in extent.

2. The "transient homeless", that is, the down-on-their-luck or otherwise situationally homeless people. This is easy to measure because these people will attempt to secure housing and services to get back on their feet.

Fixing #2, while worthwhile in itself, does nothing to fix #1. But well-intentioned people trying to fix "homelessness" find it much easier to address #2 because there are measurable outcomes, and no messy compromises to be made about civil liberties or individual freedom vs civil order. And this relies on the fact that since the same word is used, that it carries the same connotations. People hear "reduce homelessness" and they think that this means fewer people screaming about brainwaves and starting fights on the subway, but that's a completely separate issue.

EDIT: removed discussion of SROs to another top level comment to avoid confusing discourse here
by legitster | 2025-08-06 20:43:04+00:00
Tent living is something like the middle class of homelessness. You have a private space, you can can acquire things, you can choose where you live and who you live around, and you don't have to jump through hoops to maintain your status.

Even for the "long-term" housing programs you have a lot of rules you have to follow and can easily fall out if you commit a minor crime.

If you realize that our human ancestors lived in hovels and tents for thousands and thousands of years, it's not too hard to believe that modern humans can adapt back to similar living conditions.
by rumaisarn2 | 2025-08-06 20:43:11+00:00
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by thewebguyd | 2025-08-06 20:43:18+00:00
True, the early days these sites were genuinely helpful. The monetization model was a little different though which is what I think kept them useful. You'd use the content just to drive traffic, which would result in ad clicks on your banner ads, etc.

Then "content marketing" took over, and the content itself was now also used to sell a product or service, sort of an early form of influencer marketing and that is when I think it all started to go down hill. We stopped seeing the more in depth content which actually taught something, and more surface level keywords that were just used to drive you to their product/service.

OTOH, the early web was also full of niche forums, most viewable without an account and indexable, of about any topic you could imagine where you could interact with knowledgeable folks in that niche. Google would have been more helpful to users by surfacing more of those forums vs. the blogs.

Those forums are IMO the real loss here. Communities have moved into discord, or another closed platform that doesn't appear on the web, and many that require accounts or even invitations to just view read only.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-08-06 20:43:21+00:00
Ugh, paradigmatic. We've seen these same criticisms leveled against Mathematics. It makes no more sense here either.

Fringe activist asks "why does this not focus on fringe heterodox notions and topics completely irrelevant to the subject?" If you already know the answer, don't ask.

Even for STEM they ask to corrupt the pursuit of truth and scientific rigor in service of a worldview.
by izacus | 2025-08-06 20:43:25+00:00
Sometimes I feel community here can be a bit deliberately obtuse, but "I don't want Google and other companies reading my mail, but I'm ok with police scanning messages to catch child molesters." really isn't a rare position in the wild. Or a contradictory one.

The privacy laws you talk about all also have carveouts for governmental, intelligence and military work. No matter the hand wringing here, most EU governments (and even citizens) don't consider privacy legislation to require equivalent footing for governments and for private corporations. A lot of EU citizens are fine with laws like GDPR not holding for law enforcement and other similar institutions. Despite the risks and history.
by iLemming | 2025-08-06 20:44:01+00:00
> is needlessly condescending.

While this may sound condesending, I believe it's understandable where the snub is coming from. VSCode doesn't need evangelism - it has become the de facto standard that every programmer is expected to know. Emacs occupies a different position entirely, and when curious newcomers encounter comments like "I used Emacs for 15 years before switching to...", they draw conclusions that may not reflect the full picture. Upon closer examination, these long-time "experts" often reveal they barely engaged with Emacs beyond basic editing - they've never published packages (which is actually far simpler than creating VSCode extensions), never written custom functions, never even added a simple advice for their own needs. This isn't truly "using Emacs"; it's merely dabbling in it.

Unlike conventional tools where years translate to expertise along a predictable curve, Emacs rewards deep engagement over mere time served. When someone who spent years passively using Emacs criticizes it publicly, they inadvertently discourage potential users who might have discovered something transformative. The damage is disproportionate: criticizing VSCode barely makes a dent in its massive user base, but dismissing Emacs can deter the very people who would thrive in its ecosystem - those willing to invest in understanding a tool that becomes an extension of their thinking rather than just another tool.

Therefore, of course I would be confrontational. I honestly have not ever seen an accurate, honest, factual review of Emacs criticism and comparison with other tools in the same space, because simply there isn't any other tool that operates at the same level. Critics compare surface features while missing that Emacs is essentially a different category of software altogether.
by cyberax | 2025-08-06 20:44:05+00:00
> You're saying that increasing supply (all else being equal) will increase prices?

Yep. Exactly. With the caveat: the increase happens by increasing the _density_.

> Seems like that turns standard econ on its head, so can you help me understand who you reached that conclusion?

Here's another example. Suppose you give a billion dollars to everyone. Will everyone just become rich?

Housing is similar. When you build denser housing, it increases the attractiveness of the area for employers. They get access to a larger labor pool, so companies near dense housing are long-term more competitive.

This in turn increases the housing price, as workers want to live closer to employers.

Rinse, wash, repeat.

The end result: no large city managed to lower down housing costs by increasing density. It's a simple verifiable fact.

Edit: I checked data for Western Europe, Russia, US, Japan. It's possible that some citi in India or Malaysia managed to do that. But I don't have data for them.
by daedrdev | 2025-08-06 20:44:23+00:00
In a busy season at work more people work overtime, which is a very simple a marginal cost that increases with production.

If we have a sudden surge in production, suppliers can get us goods much faster than usual but only if we pay more, another marginal cost, no?

If there is not marginal cost, then there is never decreasing economies of scale, which is blatantly wrong if you've ever seen the HR of a company get less efficient as it grows

I get that the marginal cost to copying a piece of software is a few cents of electricity, but for sure in the real world there are plenty of marginal costs.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-06 20:44:24+00:00
Yeah... it was crazy fast for the time, but when you lose, you lose. Not nearly as bad as the 3TB Seagate enterprise drives I had in an 8 drive array... 6 of the 8 failed days after the relatively short warranty. I've had exceedingly good luck with all the ssd/nvme drives I've used though.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-06 20:44:32+00:00
> A wealth of research has examined the causes of homelessness over the past two decades. These studies consistently find that the cost of housing is by far the primary driver. For example, several studies have concluded that an area’s median rent correlates far more closely with its homelessness rate than factors such as weather, poverty rate, and rates of mental illness or substance use.

Curious to know about how homeless correlates to city / town / urban / suburban ect.

I don't encounter homelessness in expensive towns, but I do encounter it in expensive cities.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-08-06 20:44:40+00:00
What does "pearl clutching" have to do with the truth? The whole point is nobody knows what the outcome will be for people being on these things for weight loss long term.

Some people think things will be great, and we've already got everything figured out. Other people are not so optimistic. Neither side knows the future. There is no "truth" here that you have exclusive access to.

This is why I said it's great that everyone can make that risk analysis themselves. If someone comes along and takes these meds off the market for no good reason, then there's something to complain about.
by ilamont | 2025-08-06 20:44:55+00:00
> The lowest-cost housing is not in dense slums. It's in the rural areas and smaller cities.

You can buy houses in rural New York for $100k-$150k. In St. Paul, it's not hard to find a house for $300k.

Yet most of the discussion revolves around fixing the situation in coastal cities, instead of working on incentives or infrastructure that would encourage people to see what's available in the hundreds of counties and smaller cities that have ample affordable stock.