MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9x39 | 2025-08-19 19:39:48+00:00
Every time I read explorations into basic income or cash transfers, I look for any signs that recipients' models of how money or wealth work are changing, and I don't see it. Thus, it seems to me like an evergreen source of naivete where the directors of cash expect the structural problems from not understanding those concepts to erode, but never do.

I wonder about the possibility of a graduated financial literacy scale for participants that studies can use.

For example, I have too many connections to the financially struggling to not ask for the receipts when they complain to me. Well, they demur, the cost of living is expensive. Okay, but can I see your spending? Typically never, but when I do, it's bad loans, unrestrained taxis-for-your-burritos and impulse purchases that fritter their income away $5-50 at a time indefinitely. There is no saving. There is no wealth. Only impulsivity. Nor is there change or recognition. New or bigger income sources only change one variable of their equation while their spending behaviors are fixed, and the outcomes are the same.
by 0x457 | 2025-08-19 19:39:56+00:00
GH Apps already use short-lived tokens that can be scoped per repo. You mint a token using your private key and exchange it for a token via API. Then you use that token and dispose of it. That's the only way to use GH Apps (User Access Tokens which are the same thing, but require user interaction) Those tokens always expire.

I'd rather GitHub finally fix their registry to allow these GH Apps to push/pull with that instead of PAT.
by iLemming | 2025-08-19 19:40:01+00:00
I may not sound nice at times, but I strive to be kind. Kindness implies honesty. Why is it easier to learn a foreign language around kids? Because kids (with no malice in their hearts) would tell you the truth - when you mispronounce things, they'd laugh at your mistakes. When it comes to spreading truth about Emacs, I'd rather be like a kid.

I don't think the comment above justified characterizing it as a "stick", but I suppose that is something you wanted to say to me long ago, and I appreciate your veracity. If you give me more constructive suggestions for changing my rhetoric, I may even promise to consider changing my narrative, but at this point, I don't even see what's wrong with it, really.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-19 19:40:25+00:00
Fraud is very real, but let me count the reasons why chargebacks rarely matter:

1. They don't matter for unapproved charges and renewals because crypto doesn't allow charges at all.

2. They don't matter for buying from large sites like Amazon, Ebay, Google, etc. because these large sites will quickly freeze a user's account completely if a chargeback is introduced. Most orders these days go through the large sites.

3. Chargebacks filed with Visa/MC (not Amex) require substantial evidence and follow-up for them to succeed. They are not easy. The time spent on retrieving the money back is hardly worth it for someone with a full-time job.
by simoncion | 2025-08-19 19:40:39+00:00
> My ideal is the simple systemd services: description, dependencies, one command to start, done.

> ...

> But scrolling down to the bottom of the manpage I see a pretty long sample script, and that's exactly what I want to see completely gone.

First: I know that you read my comment. The two OpenRC service files that I embedded in it are typical service files. The one in the man page serves as a feature demo, as is appropriate for a man page. [0]

Second: necessary complexity has to live somewhere. Complex OpenRC service files are complex nearly always because the work that their author is doing needs to get done. As folks observe, SystemD service files often are used to invoke a bunch of scripts. As I have demonstrated, you can choose to write OpenRC service files in exactly the same style as you'd use to write a SystemD service file. [1] But if you choose to write OpenRC service files in only that style, and if you need to do complex things as part of service lifecycle management, then you'll need to do what SystemD forces you to do and push that logic out to separate scripts/programs.

Necessary complexity has to live somewhere.

> I don't want to look at a 3-way way merge of a service during an upgrade ever again and try and figure out what's all that jank doing.

I've been using Gentoo Linux for twenty-three years. In the handful of times I've had to examine a service file update, the changes to it have never not been straightforward.

> ...it might not even be actual Bash? Can't tell from the manpage.

It's sh, handled by openrc-run. I'll quote from the service-script-guide that I linked to previously. See [2]:

Service scripts are shell scripts. OpenRC aims at using only the standardized POSIX sh subset for portability reasons. The default interpreter (build-time toggle) is /bin/sh, so using for example mksh is not a problem. OpenRC has been tested with busybox's sh, ash, dash, bash, mksh, zsh and possibly others. Using busybox's sh has been difficult as it replaces commands with builtins that don't offer the expected features. The interpreter for service scripts is #!/sbin/openrc-run. Not using this interpreter will break the use of dependencies and is not supported.

[0] You noticed that the commands added to the service file are named "eat" and "drink"? If nothing else indicated to you that this was a feature demo, that should have.

[1] It's a lot less work to write them in this "key, value" style, and it's obviously good to do so whenever reasonably possible.

[2] <https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-...>
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-08-19 19:40:39+00:00
IANAL, if there is a very clear legal requirement to identify every user in the system to determine their age, and the bots remain unfazed, then the ID verification mechanism is clearly broken. If the ID mechanism is clearly broken (wontfix situation), then the social media entity has willingly ignored their legal obligation to ID children. Someone will very likely sue the social media company for that.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-08-19 19:40:46+00:00
Not obvious from the title, but this is a great post on why it's a terrible terrible time to be an entry-level developer right now:

* Job market sucks for junior devs due to the end of ZIRP and normalization of layoffs

* Dearth of good developer role models due to the "public sphere" getting worse (collapse of developer twitter community, rise of vacuous influencers). I'm a little skeptical about this one as I didn't really benefit much from these sources myself when getting into the industry. And there's always hacker news, which is doing fine!

* Loss of good mentorship opportunities due to rise of remote work

* AI tools are good for seniors who already know how to do things, but terrible for junior devs trying to learn. This is the forklifts metaphor. (And AI is probably not helping the junior dev job market either, although that was already bad for other reasons as mentioned above.)

I am truly worried about where the next generation of senior devs is going to come from. Some juniors, maybe 10% of them, will be fine no matter what: brilliant engineers who are disciplined enough to teach themselves the skills they need and can also adapt well to AI dev tools. I don't worry about them. But I worry about what happens to the median junior engineer, and consequently what our profession will look like in 10-20 years.
by Zobat | 2025-08-19 19:40:48+00:00
I do like having access to stuff while doing similar stuff. Perhaps I'm just a little too lazy to learn that stuff while still getting paid to know other stuff. And I do have just about every tool/feature you mentioned, just not in a single user interface.

I guess the path to Emacs was more of a possibility/probability earlier in my career and I might find it later but for now I'll alt+tab to the browser and/or open a new tab when I need to look up any etymology and stick to navigating around Visual Studio like a pro while they still pay me to do it.
by simonsarris | 2025-08-19 19:41:02+00:00
https://www.post-bridge.com/ by Jack Fricks was mostly(?) made via vibe coding.

Note there's a small core set of features and then relentless refining going into the product after that. I think products that require the opposite, a relentless expansion of features vs tightening bolts may be much more doomed.
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-08-19 19:41:03+00:00
I think things are breaking, for sure, but how badly and in what ways is very local. To your point (and my point, a bit), with current market conditions, many homeowners are staying in their homes rather than moving. We had a pretty long period of very mortgage rates, and now rates are higher. Home prices have not decreased, either. So someone with a home that is a little too big has something valuable that they want to hang to, and buying a smaller house is, at least for now, not necessarily a good financial decision. But if housing were not an investment, a elderly retired couple could just move to a smaller house and not think too much about it. But it is an investment, so they stay in their unnecessarily large house hoping the market changes in their favor.
by c4wrd | 2025-08-19 19:41:29+00:00
Obsidian's plug-in ecosystem is fantastic. I've used Obsidian for three years as a replacement for Notion, and I have never used the Graph mode. My Obsidian plugins enable automatic task synchronization with TickTick (where I manage my tasks) and allow me to set up features like templates. I strongly recommend giving it a spin.

The only downside for me is the inability to use it from a web browser. This isn't a major issue for my workflows.
by bko | 2025-08-19 19:41:55+00:00
> 100k invested in the market - untouched - will decay a certain percentage a year in purchasing power due to inflation but will outpace it due to returns.

What's your point? That inflation is a thing? The S&P 500 has delivered an average annual return of 10.33% since 1957, but when adjusted for inflation, the real return drops to 6.47%.

> In 20 years you might be able to get into a home with the cash

Why are you hung up on owning a home? There are 100 other things you could do w/ a windfall with a better return than buying a home. Invest in education is probably one of the more high return things you can do w/ a windfall

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
by SigmundA | 2025-08-19 19:41:57+00:00
>But much further than that, the point is that we need God's forgiveness - a forgiveness that is completely unreasonable.

Why would one need forgiveness from their creator? He created us and the universe we exist in. There is nothing we do or think that is not a result of his design, so why should we ask forgiveness for doing exactly what we were designed to do?

It would be like expecting an AI I created to ask forgiveness from me for something bad it did, this is ridiculous, it's the creators fault not the creations.
by shandrodo | 2025-08-19 19:42:47+00:00
I suppose “It is difficult to get a man to understand something” and all, but I’ll try to help you understand.

The OP provided you one such “time bomb”: pre-existing condition. This was, 40 years ago, a totally innocuous phrase and then it became a rally cry of health insurers’ “delay,deny,defend” modus operandi.

If a large language model is taking notes for a doctor how will you defend against it slipping in phrases such as this to allow insurers to avoid their responsibilities?

Tell me how your product is designed to defend people from health insurers, or admit how your product is designed to help health insurers.
by moefh | 2025-08-19 19:42:49+00:00
I don't see anything in your links that remotely supports your original claim that "The majority of atheists globally believe in astrology".

Even if you expand your claim to add fengshui, it's entirely plausible that only about 10% of the Chinese population are atheists who believe in fengshui. That would mean only 17% of Chinese atheists believe in fengshui.
by lwansbrough | 2025-08-19 19:43:09+00:00
Too bad most of this is meaningless, and the actual policy is the only thing standing between America and another 50 years of housing crises. When the so called progressive millennial is pitching rent control as the solution to housing in the largest city in the US you already know it's fucking Joever.

Social policy is popular among millennials, that doesn't make it good. Mamdani and his followers are wilfully ignorant to the root causes of the issues NYC is facing.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-19 19:43:09+00:00
The last thing I'm going to care about comparing distros is whether they used the same naming pattern as Microsoft instead of Apple. To give credit to their author, it sounds like their name really is Anduin Xue and this is their OS, not that they intended for it to sound confusing. Not all that different than how Debian was named, beyond including OS at the end.

https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about
by klelatti | 2025-08-19 19:43:56+00:00
The people (about 2,000) are London based and work for a UK registered company so in both practical and legal senses the work is in the UK (eg employment taxes are paid in the UK). That the product of that work may be sold to another country for a price that transfers profits elsewhere doesn't change either of these facts.

I don't agree with the statement that you're challenging but Google DeepMind's operations in London make it (still) an important centre for AI research and is probably why the UK is ranked third on many international AI country rankings.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-19 19:44:04+00:00
fwiw, this article is more serious and concise for those of us who dont like this sort of long-winded stylistic prose.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkey...

Also this is all a bit white-washed. This underground was in use until the 1920's when the mass killing of Christian Ottomans across Anatolia happened, which is the largely unacknowledged Greek genocide. The genocide included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches through the Syrian Desert, expulsions, summary executions, and the destruction of Eastern Orthodox cultural, historical, and religious monuments. Several hundred thousand Ottoman Greeks died during this period.

It was perpetrated by the government of the Ottoman Empire led by the Three Pashas and by the Government of the Grand National Assembly led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, against the indigenous Greek population of the Empire.

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

There's something positively evil about playing this up as some kind of whimsical "gee, what happened?" It was genocide.

tldr; This city is 'forgotten' because the Turks slaughtered the Greeks living there and chased off the survivors who would have had knowledge of its expansive underground.
$1T Agent Interoperability in Plain Sight
by Antonioromero10 | 2025-08-19 19:44:16+00:00
Over the past few weeks I stumbled onto something that feels obvious in hindsight, but I haven’t seen written up anywhere.

If you frame a prompt so the model must separate what it knows concretely from what it’s only hypothesizing, and force it to draw a clear boundary (e.g. an ASCII divider), it will start externalizing its reasoning in a way that’s:

Safe — no hidden chain-of-thought dump.

Model-agnostic — works across GPT-4, Claude, etc.

Practical — usable in production today.

Even more interesting: when the model hits fuzziness, you can instruct it to fall back into a simulation mode (e.g. “run two calls/branches to explore uncertainty”). That creates a lightweight form of interpretability at the interaction level.

This is not neuron probing or alignment-by-research-paper. It’s just conversational scaffolding that lets you see the “shadow” of the model’s reasoning in real time.

Example prompt:

stream all ur response and simulated reasoning through a single ASCII WIREFRAME Diff response

be honest as u can and your goal is too: Don't try and respond back to me blurring the lines try and be explicit in your response between what you think is concrete versus a literal ASCII wire frame line to show where your hypothesis and fuzziness starts to override & when that happens, you should fall back to an interesting turn, which is to run a simulation of tool Calls based on that

-----

Example structure:

## Concrete Knowledge [List of what it knows for sure]

----------------------------------------

## Hypothesis Zone [Speculative reasoning starts here]

----------------------------------------

## Simulation Fallback [Two parallel reasoning branches]

This reliably produces:

Verifiable facts in the first section.

Explicit speculation in the second.

Parallel reasoning in the third.

Why it matters:

Humans can audit confidence boundaries live.

It gives a safe, scalable way to monitor reasoning in production agents.

Could become a standardized interpretability protocol without touching weights or internals.

I think of it as interaction-level interpretability. If labs invested real time here, it could complement all the weight-level work going on in transparency research.

Curious if anyone else has tried something like this, or if labs are already quietly experimenting with similar interaction protocols.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-19 19:44:35+00:00
> MPs have argued, for example, that Apple could easily undermine the business model of phone-snatchers by introducing a “kill switch”, but it won’t because of “strong commercial incentives”.

MPs are stupid then. Which thankfully this article points out. Apple (and I assume Android) already allow for remote bricking/locking of your devices. Apple won't let you disable Find My or other security measures without your passcode and Apple has a way to disable turning off Find My if you aren't home/normal location (so if someone snatches your phone while you are out and they also shoulder-surfed your passcode they still can't disable it).

I have no clue what "strong commercial incentives" these MPs are referring to but I assume it's just general (tech or otherwise) incompetency of elected officials.
by jjfoooo4 | 2025-08-19 19:44:43+00:00
People using their free offering for personal use is a critical part of Notion's sales pipeline. It's a hell of a lot easier to sell a piece of software to a company when all it's internal users have already trained themselves how to use it in their personal time. Those users are probably the ones generating the enterprise sales lead in the first place

See also: Google Docs
by moomoo11 | 2025-08-19 19:45:24+00:00
I like how you repeat talking points instead of conceding anything like I did.

It’s why America and her people (whether they were born here or immigrated here to become American) are greater than anyone else. We accept our faults, and yet we still strive to build a better world.

And when dealing with such scenarios, whether in business or geopolitics, I’m always partial to the genuine winner who gave an actual shit.
by hinkley | 2025-08-19 19:45:27+00:00
There are books I feel I should read but never could sit through, and that's where I got started. I'm terrible at picking meter out of poetry, so I tried several times to start Homer and got four pages in before I wanted to gouge my eyes out. Finally listened to it during my daily commute.

Did a lot more while landscaping and walking for distance. Now I have a few favorites I just go through repeatedly when doing errands.

I had a friend who just ripped the audio track off of her favorite movies for road trips.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-19 19:45:35+00:00
The main point of UBI isn't “more money solves problems”, it is “replacing means testing of benefits with unconditional benefits removes adverse effects of the rapid clawback of benefits with increasing-but-still-low income”.

Giving individuals money without changing the policy context doesn't actually test the mechanism of action proposed for UBI. (It does, arguably, test the mechanism of action of some proposed private charity [or business-linked] alternatives which do involve cash transfers and don't involve changing the public policy context and incentives, but that's a whole different issue.)
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-19 19:45:50+00:00
11’s design language (Fluent) in itself isn’t bad. Personally I find it preferable over the antialiased Windows 1.x look that reigned from 8 through 10. It also implements dark mode more completely than 10 does which is nice.

What makes 11 bad is all the other stuff, like ads in your start menu, taskbar losing functionality, endless background processes being added, etc.

That said there really should be a DE that has built in settings that produce legally distinct but spiritually aligned XP and 7 clone environments.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-19 19:45:58+00:00
Yes but users who are satisfied by an alternative (Obsidian) which can't be used with teams aren't their audience. If the user wanted to introduce the tool to their team, they wouldn't be satisfied with Obsidian. Google Docs is one link share away from team-sharing. Obsidian requires ditching Obsidian to share the practice with your team.
by simonw | 2025-08-19 19:46:07+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450812#44451491 - "Google's AI overviews is the single worst AI-driven experience in widespread use today"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44778764#44778850 - "Meta AI gave people a "share" option with several levels of click though required to share a post and it was a fiasco"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752546#44755224 - "Claude Opus 4 is 5x the price of Claude Sonnet 4. I don't think it's 5x as good."
by libraryofbabel | 2025-08-19 19:46:11+00:00
Yeah. Honestly my advice to a junior dev right now would be:

1) Keep up with the trends by reading hacker news. Be on the lookout for decent blog posts but ignore social media and most of youtube.

2) BUT your best bet for actually leveling up is reading these ten books I'll give you (Designing Data-Intensive Applications, etc. etc.), plus doing side projects to get hands-on practice.
by bombcar | 2025-08-19 19:46:12+00:00
Some places the "When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England." quote is closer to the truth than you'd expect, but yes, "good strong land" is one of the keys to a long-lasting structure.

Building very slowly can alert you to issues there, but they didn't always catch them (Pisa for example).
by anonymousiam | 2025-08-19 19:46:34+00:00
Additional crippled features:

- Requirement to use ONLY the Apple web renderer (WebKit)

- Why does my iPad Pro take minutes to refresh my email boxes and show new messages, when it's not doing anything else at all? Email on all my other devices is snappy.

- Little or no support for emulation of other platforms.

- No way to turn off participation in the "Find My" BLE mesh network. I'd rather have a choice about whether or not I want to use my battery/network to support their mesh network.

With Apple's announcement about incorporating AI into all their future products, I'm not certain that I will not be buying anything else from them.
by foolswisdom | 2025-08-19 19:46:37+00:00
Why? It's not obvious that an employee works 2080 hours, for example, because they take vacation (or work extra), so charging a 2100th of salary doesn't cover vacation benefit. Also, the employer will pay part of health insurance, and that isn't included in the salary number, so why would it be covered by a calculation from the salary.