MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swat535 | 2025-08-02 22:14:45+00:00
Good point, additionally, how do you expect the relationship to grow if you are not unable to unfortunately secure basic private lodging?

Most women might be fine with this arrangement while casually dating in younger years but I have yet to see anyone being at ease in this situation.

Don't forget that we are talking about 30+ years old, at this age most people are looking for something stable, of course you can always find exceptions but your available pool of candidates shrinks.
by floating-io | 2025-08-02 22:14:46+00:00
My fear of this sort of thing happening is why I don't use github or gitlab.com for primary hosting of my source code; only mirrors. I do primary source control in house, and keep backups on top of that.

It's also why nothing in my AWS account is "canonical storage". If I need, say, a database in AWS, it is live-mirrored to somewhere within my control, on hardware I own, even if that thing never sees any production traffic beyond the mirror itself. Plus backups.

That way, if this ever happens, I can recover fairly easily. The backups protect me from my own mistakes, and the local canonical copies and backups protect me from theirs.

Granted, it gets harder and more expensive with increasing scale, but it's a necessary expense if you care at all about business continuity issues. On a personal level, it's much cheaper though, especially these days.
by derektank | 2025-08-02 22:14:53+00:00
It was a decision intended to foster racial and socioeconomic diversity, adopted in 2020[1]. It will likely be reversed in the 2026/2027 school year[2]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WxAVUXfKCdhSlFa8rYZqTBC-Zmz...

[2] https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll/student-assignment-poli...
by GauntletWizard | 2025-08-02 22:15:08+00:00
I am really hoping that the "Coyote v. Acme" movie set to release next year, as well as "The Day The Earth Blew Up" from last year, revive interest in The Looney Tunes. They are iconic Americana, omnipresent for nearly a century, but mismanaged for the last 10-15 years. What could have been with Space Jam 2...
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-02 22:15:09+00:00
99% of humans have not experienced a human-level intelligence validating them in the way they want. We know this is a very addictive experience, so why wouldn't people be drawn to it once AI companions are verisimilitudinous enough to have that effect?

The alternative? Make the real world a more worthwhile prospect. However in many ways, people are not afforded validation unless they are exceptional in some way. By definition not everyone can be exceptional, so AI will offer the chance for everyone to feel that way.

I believe it could be a good thing. If AI can offer everyone validation, people's brains won't be in "status starvation" mode. Humans used to deal with disease and famines much more frequently than they do now, but now in developed countries most people are physically satiated, so that doesn't become an oppressive cloud hanging over everything. Emotional and status-affirming satiation could have a similarly ameliorative effect on the population, leading to interactions not being inundated with subtle status games and anxieties.
by the_real_cher | 2025-08-02 22:15:15+00:00
I dont thin you read it.

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by tokioyoyo | 2025-08-02 22:17:01+00:00
A bartender in Copenhagen had a long rant about “nowadays, kids look at themselves as brands”, and it’s been stuck in my head. I’m not even that old, but noticed more people think how everything is “cringe”, and wouldn’t want to be seen while doing that activity.

It’s an eventual conclusion of everything having cameras, and thinking of being caught in a TikTok drama. This also tracks how most of the kids nowadays want to become a YouTuber. Which is, basically, being their own brands.
by floating-io | 2025-08-02 22:19:12+00:00
While that is certainly true, the idea that they can so rapidly decimate your data without the possibility to restore is still terrifying if that's your only copy of that data.

They should have to hold it for at least 90 days. In my opinion, it should be more like six months to a year.

In my mind, it's exactly equivalent to a storage space destroying your car five days after you miss a payment. They effectively stole and destroyed the data when they should have been required to return it to the actual owner.

Of course, that's my opinion of how it should be. AFAIK, there is no real legal framework, and how it actually is is entirely up to your provider, which is one reason I never trust them.
by godelski | 2025-08-02 22:19:18+00:00
I think I'm mostly with you but it also depends how it exactly plays out.

Like I definitely think it is better for society if the economic forces are incentivizing pursuit of knowledge more than pursuit of pure entertainment[0]. But I think we also need to be a bit careful here. You need some celebrities to be the embodiment of an idea but the distribution can be too sharp and undermine, what I think we both agree on is, the goal.

Yeah, I think, on average, a $100M researcher is generating more net good for a society (and world) than a $100M sports player or actor. Maybe not in every instance, but I feel pretty confident about this on average. But at the same time, do we get more with one $100M researcher or 100 $1M researchers? It's important to recognize that we're talking about such large sums of money that at any of these levels people would be living in extreme luxury. Even in SV the per capita income is <$150k/yr, while the median income is medium income is like half that. You'd be easily in the top 1%. (The top 10% for San Jose is $275k/yr)

I think we also need to be a bit careful in recognizing how motivation can misalign incentives and goals. Is the money encouraging more to do research and push humanity's knowledge forward? Or is the money now just another means for people that just want money to exploit, who have no interest in advancing humanity's knowledge? Obviously it is a lot more complicated and both are happening but I think it is worth recognizing that if things shift towards the latter than they actually make it harder to achieve the original goals.

So on paper, I'm 100% with you. But I'm not exactly sure the paper is matching reality.

[0] To be clear, I don't think entertainment has no value. It has a lot and it plays a critical role in society.
by llamataboot | 2025-08-02 22:20:10+00:00
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Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Python, Ops (Heroku/AWS/Docker), CI/CD, API Design, System Architecture, thoughtful experimentation. Some: React, IoT, bit o elm, ML, LLM ops and automation.

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I solve problems at every level of abstraction—from the 10,000-foot view down to the code you don't have to write. My first career as a social worker and policy statistician means I never forget the 'who' and 'why' behind the technology. I've been building for the web since '95 and have worked at every stage of startup, plus solo consulting.

I have a special love for complex system design, wrangling crappy third-party APIs, and hunting down really weird bugs. I can step in as a PM in a pinch, but I'd rather work with your great PMs.

Also open to short-term engagements around a specific issue (performance bottlenecks, test suite optimization, a particular stuck feature, etc) at a weekly rate.

I'm looking for a team that genuinely believes their work is making the world a bit better (or even... a lot!)
by pavlov | 2025-08-02 22:20:53+00:00
Yes, in rural Finland 17-year-old boys who just got their license regularly end up killing themselves and their friends by reckless driving.

I believe there is cultural issue with boys’ upbringing. Recently my 8-year-old daughter was spending a week with her mother’s relatives in middle Finland. One day she sent me a picture of an old Volvo in a ditch. “Guess what dad, my cousin drove it off the road and I was in the car!”

The cousin in question is ten years old. I was absolutely furious that they let the boy drive a real car and that my little girl was in it with no adult supervision. But my in-laws didn’t see a problem: “He was only driving on a private road — there’s no risk — everybody does it here — this is the best way to get the boys used to engines and driving.”

In my opinion this is how you train teenagers to think that safety and rules don’t matter, and that they’re invulnerable. But I can’t change these people’s views, so all I can do is try to make sure my daughter doesn’t ride with her cousins from now on.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-02 22:21:14+00:00
I don't think AI will be a winner-take-all scenario. If that is to happen, I think the following assumptions must hold:

1) The winner immediately becomes a monopoly

2) All investments are directed from competitors, to the winner

3) Research on AGI/ASI ceases

I don't see how any of these would be viable. Right now there's an incremental model arms race, with no companies holding a secret sauce so powerful that they're miles above the rest.

I think it will continue like it does today. Some company will break through with some sort of AGI model, and the competitors will follow. Then open source models will be released. Same with ASI.

The things that will be important and guarded are: data and compute.
by everforward | 2025-08-02 22:22:37+00:00
Fwiw, this is how my American neighborhood is set up and it's completely tolerable. Nobody is more than 5 or 6 blocks from a "through traffic road".

It's also got stop signs on virtually every intersection, so speeding is basically gone. A lot of people ignore speed limits, but I've never met anyone that blanket ignores stop signs on 4 way intersections. You're not getting much faster than 20mph in a single city block without making a very obvious amount of noise (at least in an ICE).
by shkkmo | 2025-08-02 22:22:49+00:00
> The problem with escooters is that basically any accident is "bad"

Factually false. Out of well over 1000 annual collosions in GB in 2023 there were a a handful of deaths but they were all the e-scooter riders.

> The real world has a lot of hard sticky-out bits (and perhaps ironically cars don't due to crash testing rules,

The most dangerous parts of the streets for scooters are the cars, not the other "sticky-out" bits that don't move and are pretty easy to avoid if you aren't drunk or on your phone or not looking forward. Less than a quarter of e-scooter accidents involved no other vehicle and I'd be willing to bet those tended to be less serious.

E-scooters are great because they aren't as dangerous to other people. People get to make their own choices about risk tolerance, speed and gear all while presenting less hazard to the public when they make bad choices.

> you have no protection

The protection you get in a car comes from the added mass that also makes you so much more dangerous to other road users.
by ako | 2025-08-02 22:23:15+00:00
I'm on a pro plan, also run into limits within 2 hours, then have to wait until the limits of the 5 hour window reset (next reset is in 1 hour 40 minutes at 2am)...

You can just ask claude to review your code, write down standard, verify that code is produced according to standards and guidelines. And if it finds that project is not consistent, ask it to make a plan and execute on the plan.

Ask, ask, ask.
by doublerabbit | 2025-08-02 22:23:40+00:00
The only language I find sane at the moment. Maybe Ruby, otherwise to me every other language feels like it's in bed with an Enterprise companies stilfing their escort or just chasing its tail.

Say what you want about TCL but it does it job and it does it well. 80's style.

00's languages have not impressed me at all. All tied up in red tape bullshite.

But hey, they're popular for a reason, just not me. I get called an unorthodox coder for a reason.
by slashdave | 2025-08-02 22:23:42+00:00
Put your valuables into a safe deposit box. Or, buy some stocks.

Some accident occurs. You don't pay your bill, address changes, etc. You have at least two entire years to contact the holder and claim your property. After that point, it is passed to the state as unclaimed property. You still have an opportunity to claim it.

Digital data? Screw that! One mistake, everything deleted.
by globular-toast | 2025-08-02 22:23:46+00:00
I've had this idea myself so cool to see it implemented.

What I'd really like is a kind of universal web caching backend. So everything I access goes through a cache and I have the option of viewing from cache if something goes offline or changes. I could also mark things as "favourite" so they don't ever expire from the cache. Does such a thing exist?
by nodesocket | 2025-08-02 22:23:52+00:00
The risk to pedestrians is pretty much a non-factor in this. It’s going to come down to business / agriculture adoption where I see the largest market opportunity. Think service technicians such as HVAC, plumbers, construction. If these can make financial sense in terms of ROI and cost of ownership then Telo can make it. Currently the base price of $41,500 is a bit on the higher end, though of course will save dramatically on fuel and maintenance over industry standard vans and light trucks.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-02 22:24:27+00:00
> Then they all appeared on The Archive and he finally got rid of them.

Sometimes you're the person who is uploading them to public archives. Because everybody else threw them all away, and you saved them until the technology made archiving practical enough.

I've been replacing all of my physical media for years, but the reason I can do that now is because other people scan/rip and archive/share the stuff. You also have unique stuff that you may not even know is unique. When you find something in your house that you can't find online, scan it and you're paying everybody back for all of the scanning they did for you.

With the CD-ROMs, you should just glide through them one by one and check if you can find the stuff online. If you can, throw them in the trash. If you can't, copy their contents to a folder, and throw them in the trash. Go through the folder over the next hour or next 20 years (however long it takes to get around to it) and take the things you can't find online that you think somebody might want, and get those things to that somebody (uploading to archive.org is always a good place to start.)

edit: I know for a fact that for a lot of people, uploading somewhere on the internet is their standard pre-deletion ritual.
by hkpack | 2025-08-02 22:24:29+00:00
Or maybe, listen out, not everyone is stupid and the reality is just really complicated?

As an anecdote, my daughter was learning reading in her native language in school starting with letters, then syllables and had a very hard time moving past that with a lot of support from teachers and family.

She started learning to read in English almost 5 years later by reading the whole words from the start and outperformed her reading and comprehension speed to her native language very quickly.

There are huge number of variables in play and common sense frequently doesn't work.
by tlogan | 2025-08-02 22:24:34+00:00
Essentially, this was the cheapest solution for our “limousine liberals” to address the problem of racial and economic segregation in San Francisco’s public schools. The idea was simple: since schools in areas like Hunter’s Point struggle, while those in neighborhoods like the Sunset perform well, the district decided to send students from Hunter’s Point to Sunset schools, and vice versa in order to “balance” outcomes.

But in practice, it backfired. Most families in the Sunset opted out: either by enrolling their children in private schools or moving out of city. The policy didn’t create meaningful integration; it just hollowed out neighborhood public schools and made traffic worse.

A striking example: St. Ignatius Catholic school located on Sunset Boulevard is now undergoing a $200 million campus expansion, while SFUSD is closing public schools due to declining enrollment.
by Kephael | 2025-08-02 22:24:34+00:00
This is a bad marketing idea to compare a golf cart like this to a Toyota Tacoma. There is practically zero ground clearance and a unibody frame, this will high center in places where I regularly drive my Tacoma. Tacoma wins on ruggedness, lower total cost of ownership thanks to a significantly lower price and having limited depreciation.

Unless these are priced at under $30,000 for the AWD, these will flop commercially.

If the CAFE standards could be fixed, we could get ICE and hybrid trucks that are smaller and more affordable, the EV route is too expensive and the products are strange.
by woodruffw | 2025-08-02 22:24:56+00:00
I think the bigger scandal in NYC isn't the removal (it was a single lane removed as part of a 15+ year back-and-forth beef), but the fact that the city isn't even close to meeting its legal obligations around constructing new lanes[1].

(That's not to say that the removal isn't shameful and nakedly for hizzoner's political gain; I just think it's not the "big" thing.)

[1]: https://projects.transalt.org/bikelanes
by kiba | 2025-08-02 22:25:13+00:00
It's the land and other non-reproducible privileges, not all form of wealth. The imbalance is not between capital and labor, but land. Land can be in the form of copyright, patents, even domain names, the orbitals in the sky, the electromagnetic spectrum.

Capital can be used to produce more capital, but you cannot produce more land, more electromagnetic spectrum, more orbitals, etc.

The housing crisis is a restriction on what activity are allowed on land, and incentive structure that prioritize hoarding of land over engaging in societal beneficial activities.

I suggest you read up Georgism, the tax ideology that had largely disappeared from political life in the west.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-02 22:25:17+00:00
Okay, I can find this board policy. However, I still can’t square your account with theirs, see https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll/student-assignment-poli...

> Students applying for a SFUSD schools submit a preferred or ranked list of choices. If there are no space limitations, students are assigned to their highest ranked choice.

and also:

> Due to space limitations, not all students will be assigned to one of their choices. Those students will be assigned to a school with available seats closest to the student’s home.

So it seems like proximity does play a role?
by haswell | 2025-08-02 22:25:29+00:00
My point more broadly is that it doesn’t make sense to frame this as merely a matter of efficiency, nor was my claim that one can just ignore efficiency.

Humans need a variety of things to live happy lives. Strong social connection is as important as food in the long run when considering the overall health and survival of the species.

Clearly not everyone has the same access to resources and there’s a spectrum of experiences available as a result. I think this lack of resources at the bottom is an existential risk.

But what I find interesting is that people with resources are just as lonely as people without in many cases. Almost everyone in my extended circles laments the decline of social connection in their lives, and many of these people certainly have the resources.

I think we’ve gotten lulled into a stupor by the social media / internet content drug, and it takes just enough of the edge off of our need for social connection they we don’t properly feed it anymore. In the short term, we kinda survive living “meh” lives. What worries me is the long term impact on social cohesion.
by simoncion | 2025-08-02 22:25:42+00:00
> Not sure if this is what you were describing, but my dhcpd server is a separate machine to the router.

That was not what I was describing. I was figuring that your DHCPv6 client (that talks to your ISP) and your DHCPd would be on the same machine, but maybe that's okay. How does your dhcpd server get its address? A DHCPv6 request to the router? If so, the following report might (might!) be useful to you:

So, while I DID find out about dhcp-eval(5), it doesn't look to me like ISC DHCPd will do what you want. I didn't see any parameters documented in the dhcpd.conf manual that looked like they were prefix-independent.

Probably your best bet is to template your dhcpd.conf and known_hosts files, then use your network manager's [0] "on address change" hooks to fill in the currently-assigned prefix, write out new files, and bounce dhcpcd.

[0] NB: NOT (neccessarily) NetworkManager (that nasty, wretched thing), but maybe like dhcpcd's run hooks.
by everforward | 2025-08-02 22:26:08+00:00
> If it’s for security then most of the actual security provided by NAT routing is actually just the routers firewall itself. So a good ipv6 firewall provides the same level of security.

Nitpicky, but I think this is not true. NAT's security is based on the router not knowing where to route the traffic and dropping it, where the firewall intentionally drops the traffic.

Agreed that it's functionally equivalent, though.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-02 22:26:24+00:00
You'll need to take this up with the entire field of philosophy, because in literature informal fallacies are absolutely an existing and distinct class of fallacies, with the slippery slope argument being cited among them: https://iep.utm.edu/fallacy/#H2

It's not just a Wikipedia thing or me wordsmithing it into existence. As far as I'm concerned though, arguments the premises of which are not reasonable to think they apply / are complete, or are not meaningfully possible to evaluate, are decidedly fallacious - even if they're logically sound.
by awesome_dude | 2025-08-02 22:27:58+00:00
No, not at all.

In both all you need is the ability to communicate to the machine in a way that the machine can convert your ideas into actions.

The restricted language of a compiler is a handicap, not evidence of a skill - we've been saying forever that "Natural Language" compilers would be a game changer, and that's all that an AI really is

Edit: It appears that this discussion is going to end up with a definition of "coding"

Is it coding if you tell the computer to perform some action, or is it coding if you tell it how to do that in some highly optimised way (for varying definitions of optimised, eg. Memory efficient, CPU efficient, Dev time efficient... etc)
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-02 22:28:23+00:00
> Not sure why you’re being downvoted

If you're not sure why someone is being downvoted, there's a good chance there is a misunderstanding somewhere, and a good way for you to understand is to wait for people to comment, and then read those comments.

Alternatively (and in a more general sense), if you want to take a more active role in your learning, a good way to learn is to ask questions, and then read the answers.