MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-03 12:32:04+00:00
Do you think immigrants now have different rates of assimilation than they did 100 years ago? What do you base that on? Because they don't. Immigrants have always formed ethnic groupings because that's how you stay safe. You build Chinatown or little Havana or whatever. At first these places are for 'undesirables' outside the proper good mainstream, but over generations they become a part of the fabric of society and ideas and culture percolate out. It's literally how it's always worked. For some reason there is a new wave of pampered jackboot hopefuls that think this wave of immigrants is somehow uniquely outrageously different from mainstream white culture and so must be prevented from modifying our precious sacred culture.

Pro tip: we are a culture of mutts. We draw strength from constant change. That's why we've been successful. And it's been dragging the right wing kicking and screaming the whole time. The things your great grandfather cried outrage about are now your treasured culture that must be protected.

It would be a little comical how little perspective the right wing has, if it wasn't a bit sad.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-08-03 12:32:14+00:00
> Lemme tell you a secret about global event ordering in chat rooms: nobody cares. These aren’t bank transactions. If two users get the same two messages in opposite order from each other then it’s fine, even in a formal setting like a university talk or a work chatroom, and it can be fixed by the client as soon as the authoritative server decides on what ordering is correct.

Well, it depends on the level of inconsistency. Ironically, I'm in a bridged Tg-to-Matrix chat room on the Matrix side and regularly get dozens of messages in a shuffled order. Even though the messages have timestamps, it's very confusing. I tend to just ignore this room. So much for ordering guarantees.
by Mawr | 2025-08-03 12:33:07+00:00
> There is absolutely zero chance any respectable study would support that focusing on maintaining exactly 110 km in a 110km is safer than allowing a 10% buffer (going 10km over) so you can focus on the road and spend more of your attention on spatial awareness than staring at the odometer.

You can accomplish that equally easily by sticking to 100 km/h.

What is it with the word "limit" that is so hard to understand? It's not the suggested speed, nor the target speed, nor the minimum speed. It's the maximum speed.
by Saline9515 | 2025-08-03 12:33:35+00:00
My comment was not about those people, who are minimum-wage temp workers and a tiny minority compared to the mass of cyclists in Paris.

In the case of Helsinki, they don't have a particularly outstanding biking infrastructure, but they have stellar public transports. And clean, very clean. I'd choose that everyday, which is much more inclusive and far less dangerous for everyone. Especially in a aging society.
by jon-wood | 2025-08-03 12:34:25+00:00
I can only assume you’re either not in the UK yourself, or you’re one of those people who thinks that because they drive even the shortest distances everyone else does. I walk daily, anything from down the road to a shop to right across town, most of the roads are set up to deal with that and have decent crossings so I don’t get mowed down by a car.

The suggestion that people don’t walk in London is hilarious to me, have you never seen a central London street as people leave work? You can barely move for pedestrians.
by danielbln | 2025-08-03 12:34:26+00:00
I wish, but as it stands right now LLMs have to be driven and caged ruthlessly. Conventions, architecture, interfaces, testing, integration. Yes, you can YOLO it and just let it cook up _something_, but that something will an unmaintainable mess. So I'm removing my brain from the abstraction level of code (as much as I dare), but most definitely not from everything else.
by st3fan | 2025-08-03 12:36:52+00:00
"Gecko Security by Gecko Security would like permission to: act on your behalf"

Hard no. I will never give tools full access to my GitHub.

Please consider using the new style app with fine grained permissions and the ability to pick specific repositories. What you are asking now is way over the top. "Act on your behalf" means you do your scanning as "me" which means you have admin on all my things and all the orgs i a involved with.

Hard no. I will never sign up for tools that do this. it is a huge security risk. And completely unnecessary from your perspective - just implement the proper (new/modern) app flow instead.
by iainmerrick | 2025-08-03 12:36:59+00:00
Isn’t there a bootstrapping thing going on here, though?

The only way to memorize all those random-ish pronunciations is with a lot of practice, and the best way to do that is with a lot of reading, so you have rich context and meaning to draw on to help you memorize stuff.

But if you can’t read, how do you even get started with that practice? Maybe there are better ways, but in English, phonics seems like a pretty decent way to get started with simple children’s books.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-03 12:38:13+00:00
> Most countries don't have this advanced classes thing.

They actually do. They just group the advanced classes in an elite "prep schools" track, whereas everyone else gets the crappy "vocational schools" track. The worst part about this is the pathological incentives it creates among teachers. No one wants to teach bad students, so the "vocational" track gets the worst teachers, and the divergence in outcomes becomes ingrained.
by conartist6 | 2025-08-03 12:39:46+00:00
My form of skepticism is just waiting for proof. Happy to wait. Costs me nothing. Just get the proof from your hands to mine without it vanishing into smoke.

I think software engineering opens the mind a little to being willing to believe things that should be impossible. Some of my bugs are certainly ghost stories: "...and the programmer never figured out how something that weird could be happening!" Others have pushed me to the brink of questioning my own sanity, only to have it all snap back into place when the explanation is finally laid bare.

While I have no particular reason to "believe in ESP" it is impossible not to recognize the very real state it puts a person in to have seen some kind of evidence that nobody else will believe, and I don't necessarily see any reason to suppose that someone somewhere in this psychic card testing didn't see evidence of some real information transfer effect. But what effect?

We know beyond doubt that people can pick up on perceptual signals without really understanding what we're picking up on. I once had the strange experience of "seeing" a cat in pitch black because I was creeping up some stairs and the cat was a few feet directly in front of my head. I'll swear to you up and down that I never saw it with my eyes, though I couldn't say for sure. I'm convinced that I actually heard it, not even its breathing but the lack of any ambient room noise coming from directly in front of me caused an immediate cognitive dissonance in some part of my brain that knew nothing should be there to absorb sound. In the immediate moment this led to my knowing something irretrievably that at the time I really could not say how I knew. But also I was blessed with proof. I reached out, and there was a cat there.

I guess my point is that the most logical explanation to me is that in a card-guessing experiment you have two players who keep careful records but who both want the guessing game to be won by the guesser. You're allowed to keep playing with different guessers and to keep practicing the game until you get results, so it's logical to me that you should eventually find a guesser with whom you build a rapport, and who becomes able to pick up on impossibly small clues that the clue-giver does not know they are giving and the guesser does not know they are receiving. Nothing about my skepticism of supernatural claims prevents me thinking a guesser could develop an outside-logic means of perception that could explain those kinds of results.
by layer8 | 2025-08-03 12:40:39+00:00
> Common topics include:

> - ideas related to current projects

> - musings about blog posts, articles, user feedback

> - “what if” suggestions

> - photos from recent trips or hobbies

> - rubber ducking a problem

Work-related and private topics should be separated, IMO. Some might be interested in the former but not the latter, and also might be interested in them at different times (of the day/week). There’s also the formal/legal aspect that the work-related topics can count as work time whereas the private ones doesn’t.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-03 12:40:43+00:00
Voter demographics, car lobbyism and/or corruption.

Eg. in Germany we’re held hostage by pensioners, who have cars as part of their identity and their pensions swallowing major parts of the state’s tax income. The car industry would be really unhappy, if the "joy to ride" was diminished by any amount, so politicians sing their song. Traffic won’t be slowed, bike infrastructure won’t be built, shit‘s not gonna get fixed.

I presume politics isn’t as lucrative in Finland and everything is smaller, fewer cooks.
by thunky | 2025-08-03 12:42:01+00:00
> By using AI, you learn how to use AI, not necessarily how to build architecturally sound and maintainable software

> will not necessarily make you a more knowledgeable programmer

I think we'd better start separating "building software" from programming, because the act of programming is going to continue to get less and less valuable.

I would argue that programming has been very overvalued for a while even before AI. And the industry believes it's own hype with a healthy dose of elitism mixed in.

But now AI is removing the facade and it's showing that the idea and the architecture is actually the important part, not the coding if it.
by bitwize | 2025-08-03 12:42:40+00:00
"Well, Mike, let's talk performance: your code is good, you get along well with your teammates, but you just haven't been rambling enough in the rambling channel. So unfortunately I'm going to have to put you on a PIP. If we don't see an improvement to at least 3 ramblings per week, further action may be taken, up to and including termination. Sorry it has to be this way, but we've got KPIs to hit."
by ruszki | 2025-08-03 12:43:57+00:00
I’ve never used such rambling channel, but I “ramble” quite a lot. For me, the chore is not ramblings, but scheduled meetings. On my dailies, no new information is created, and basically I just repeat things which are known already by interested parties. I never wait for meetings to say things. I would just loose time.

Also, during informal random meetings, scrum masters don’t kill spark of great ideas by saying “we should discuss these elsewhere”. It happened numerous times.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-08-03 12:44:29+00:00
I read both statements, I'm just not as willing as you apparently are to take their claims at face value.

In a dispute between two parties, one side's claims about the other are not to be taken as gospel. This applies to both sides.

Whether or not or other people have made similar complaints about JP is actually one of the few independently verifiable claims that can be made in a case like this, so I would argue that speculating about this aspect is especially egregious.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-03 12:45:08+00:00
Of course they are a cultural status symbol.

That said, mountainous forest work is obviously a more prominent use case in the alps than it is in the US.

US trucks that are owned by individuals are not primarily seen as tools. 70% of US truck owners have only one vehicle, so their primary purpose is to be used as a luxury barge and family hauler. Not much different than the huge cars that Americans preferred to drive in the 1950s and 1970s. There has always been a thread of huge cruiser style vehicles in American auto culture and this continues today.

When it comes to work, towing capacity and generic American suburbia workloads tend to dominate (large houses with big projects, longer drives, etc).

Not saying that these tanks are a "practical choice", but they are perhaps better viewed through the lens of luxury barges.

Hunting is a good point, but from what I've gleaned it's a subculture that sort of stands alone and has a huge "gear" component. I think that it's somewhat common to have small specialized vehicles for that use case, like ATV style vehicles of various sorts. Ex: last time I was in North Carolina I saw someone with this dune buggy thing suited for that... and it was being hauled around behind a massive truck, naturally. Off-roading and hunting culture also overlaps a bit, and there is a legitimate off-road culture that is quite separate from the Big Truck culture. These people will often have two vehicles, so the Big Truck would be used for the aforementioned luxury cruising and status, while as you said, a more suitable vehicle is used for the actual rough terrain.

They do have a fairly unique status power in much of the US. If a small business owner drives up in a sports car, they may get jokes, but for some reason driving up in a new GMC 2500HD is sort of seen as a mark of a "working man's success" instead of being flashy and showing off. It's something you can drive up and meet clients without about how you are going to look. That said, I'm speaking from experience in southern and midwest culture, but that's where the majority of the US population lives. When I was in New York you would see these monster trucks much less often, and as you said the driver was often much more ostentatious I'm trying to flagrantly stand out rather than subtly rise above without getting called out as one does in the midwest.
by jobs_throwaway | 2025-08-03 12:45:43+00:00
group discussions over zoom just don't work IMO. The sound only allows one person at a time to speak so its extremely your-turn-my-turn in a way that an organic, in-person group socialization isn't. It isn't as jarring in a 1:1 because you can watch that person's face and without much effort predict when they're going to speak and so not interrupt them. When it goes beyond that, the flow of the conversation gets stilted
by emir | 2025-08-03 12:45:53+00:00
I was trying out some no-code website builders to understand how they work. One of the most well-known and frequently mentioned ones is @boltdotnew . I asked it to create a simple website. It built it using React. When I requested an iteration focused on SEO, it didn’t include the package.json file this time. Only package-lock.json was there, and apparently, I needed a token to fix the error.

Another frustrating part was during onboarding. It asked a few questions, and even though I selected that I’m a pro user, it still asked for payment because of such a simple issue. If it had been more realistic, for example by saying on my second prompt that I reached the limit, I would have paid without hesitation.
by comrade1234 | 2025-08-03 12:46:13+00:00
I'm kind of curious what IntelliJ's deal is with the different providers. I usually just keep it set to Claude but there are others that you can pick. I don't pay extra for the AI assistant - it's part of my regular subscription. I don't think I use the AI features as heavily as many others, but it does feed my code base to whoever I'm set to...
by globular-toast | 2025-08-03 12:46:31+00:00
I walk everywhere. I've walked across large portions of the country (literally weeks of walking at a time). London is one of the "certain places", as are other inner cities. Outer cities and the countryside are owned by cars. People aren't getting hurt because they only walk in designated areas. Cars are basically required in other places. Just a few weirdos like me walking and cycling.
by caminante | 2025-08-03 12:46:41+00:00
>for a nice 2279sqft.

Are you intentionally ignoring you said "nice" for what most would consider to be a source of ridicule (4BR SFH in 2k sqft). BTW, you haven't made an argument about real estate differences. The smaller home might be a better deal.

And you're using a turn of phrase that is the opposite of your apparent intent.
by benreesman | 2025-08-03 12:47:12+00:00
It means that markets organize somehow. Even black markets in prison have rules (and for all I know, sensible ones under the circumstances). The drug trade has rules and norms.

Cartels form and collude, the JP Morgans or Goulds of the world see excessive competition next to their neat steel or railroad trusts and decide to organize it. And sometimes this can even be an improvement (those old telephone poles with like 90 separate junctions just got too tall to be safe!)

But on average, the public would like (or should want) a say in how markets are organized, because it is both possible and lucrative to induce market failure. Big Tech is especially good at this (its arguably far more their speciality than technology is).

Markets are inevitable (try to stop them forming if you don't believe me), but market failures are generally not inevitable, they are generally the result of poorly refereed markets.
by bluGill | 2025-08-03 12:47:40+00:00
You cannot rent a truck with a bed. Try it - nearly all rental 'trucks' have storng use restrictions such that you can't use them as a truck. even home depot trucks are for taking your purchases home and can't be used for other truck work. Even if you can use it, they often check the condition so if what you haul will scratch the bed you are out of luck.

if you manage to navigate that and find a truck that will work - the cost is so high that you are money ahead owning your own truck after rediculasly few rentals.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-03 12:48:36+00:00
Mathematics are not relevant when we have hype and vibes. We can't have facts and projections and no path to profitability distract us from our final goal.

Which, of course, is to donate money to Sama so he can create AGI and be less lonely with his robotic girlfriend, I mean...change the world for the better somehow. /s
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-03 12:48:39+00:00
I've been (over) using em-dashes ever since I discovered them. I have no intention of changing.

Curiously, I find in editing my dad's auto-biography that a certain generation went crazy over-inserting commas — wherever they think you might want to pause to take a breath or something. To my eye (ear?) the result is a staccato sentence.

But the truth is I know nothing about grammar rules — I slept through sentence diagramming in elementary school.
Show HN: Sync and mount volumes on GPUs sourced from popular cloud providers
by naklecha | 2025-08-03 12:48:43+00:00
a platform which enables you to sync & mount storage volumes on gpus sourced from popular cloud providers like lambdalabs, runpod, hyperbolic, nebius etc. save your team countless hours every month.

unavailable gpus in your volume's region, is incredibly annoying. on cloudy, your volumes will always be mountable on any gpu config. this is the worst cloudy will ever be, but i recommend trying it anyway. you will be surprised :)
by weatherlite | 2025-08-03 12:49:38+00:00
> I've clearly mentioned full robots and this is all a forward looking conversation about future AI which will have bodies and can interact like humans. There is going to be real competition for humans soon and I think people are overestimating the value of humans a lot.

When do you think soon is ? It could easily be 20-30 years imo till there are humanoid robots intelligent enough to carry a long term relationship, e.g substitute other humans altogether. Not to mention most people still want intimate relationship ...yeah that thing called sex, while I'm sure someone is working on it somewhere this is gonna take a while to automate. So for us here on this threat I wouldn't bet on this thing as a cure for loneliness anytime soon.
by ben_w | 2025-08-03 12:50:46+00:00
15 year old, so c. 2010.

I can easily belive it, though the closest Civic mpg report I found was for a 2012-14 model:

What is the fuel economy, Honda Civic IX Hatchback 2.2 i-DTEC (150 Hp)? 4.4 l/100 km 53.46 US mpg 64.2 UK mpg 22.73 km/l

- https://www.auto-data.net/en/honda-civic-ix-hatchback-2.2-i-...

I had use of a Renault Megane for a bit, it was getting something a bit better than that: https://www.auto-data.net/en/renault-megane-iii-phase-ii-201...

American cars just aren't at all efficient by anyone else's standards.
by larrydag | 2025-08-03 12:52:37+00:00
I agree. Group channels on relevant topics is very helpful. Especially on technical details relevant to getting work done.

Yet here goes my rant. Nothing can replace a good in-person interaction. Perhaps I'm the old guy in the room. When teams are trying to build something there is nothing like water-cooler talk and banter about the work that helps relate shared challenges. Granted this is going to very specific to organizational needs.

I don't work in software development so perhaps my needs are different than most on Hackernews. I've managed teams in person and remotely. I've found that managing in person is a much more productive way to work.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-08-03 12:53:18+00:00
> 1. Replace our error codes on individual routes with a global list of errors, so every error on every route maps to a global id of this-route-this-error. When you receive one you get not only the id but a link to (2)

> 2. Generate docs pages for every single one of these errors that note where they come from, metadata, over time we also want to add notes to all these pages about what these errors are, how people have triggered them in the past and how people have solved them.

I don't like having LLMs follow links because that adds costs and latency. Imagine your conversation is already a few hundred thousand tokens, and, let's say, some error occurred, so you enter the error with an ID and a link to the generated docs into the chat. Now, something that needs to be noted is that the LLM may decide to not even open the link, it may decide to try and fix the error on its own, so it may need to be encouraged to open your links. Let's say the LLM did decide to open the link and made a corresponding tool call. At that point, you already spent a few hundred thousand tokens and a few seconds, just for the LLM to make the decision to read the docs. I think this can be optimized by inlining the docs into the response (use XML).

> 3. Create what we are currently calling a "DevOps MCP" for our cloud. This MCP is not like a full control MCP, its almost completely read only, and its for pulling logs and seeing whats going on. The usecase is primarily — AI knows API request failed, AI looks at recent API requests, finds the failed one, can then pull the error code, then pull the docs to solve it, then solve it.

I love this idea. Any time something goes wrong, the user, without the need to look through logs, can just ask the LLM to use the dev MCP server to find the error. I imagine this would greatly reduce the mental burden when encountering errors. But once again, I think there should be as much inlining as possible because indirections are expensive.

> As noted in the post, I've tried (and failed) repeatedly to generate good SDK docs, and I'm not clear what the right solution for the future of SDKs is. I believe it needs more code generation, as my dream SDK docs for AI would include flattened type definitions for all the inputs with every single method, and I'm not sure exactly how to achieve that today.

I ran into the same problem, and yeah, I haven't seen anyone make documentation generators for LLMs yet, so one way to achieve this is to write one yourself, and perhaps open source it. I would look for an existing parser implementation, e.g. if your language has a formatter, I would try and steal from there. If it's TypeScript, I would use swc's crates. Once you have that, collect API function signatures, type definitions, etc, and format as LLM-friendly markdown files.