MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by charles_f | 2025-08-12 07:55:20+00:00
I use a simple process based on Jira. I added a custom workflow that easily allows me to create tickets with all the mandatory fields I want, such as business priority, criticality and risks.

Then I plan my todos semi-yearly using epics and backlogs. I spent a whole lot of time carefully deciding what I'll do day by day in 4 months, so that I can use it as a baseline I can ignore and re-adjust it day by day.

Every week I review all my todos and assign them point. I usually involve my partner so we can have a healthy discussion on how many points a todo is worth, and whether we should switch to tshirt sizing instead. I usually plan between 1.5 and 2x the amount of todo I'm actually capable of doing, because I like stretch goals. Then I spend the week working on the todos. I built an automation that sends me messages to ask why such and such todos are not moving fast enough. I also built automation to spice things up a little and ask me to get a privacy review on some of the items, or to start the process on those todos again because I forgot a step or something.

I start every day with a 1/2h to 1h meeting where I explain what I didn't do the day before, and what I won't do today either because I'm blocked for some reason. I used to do it with my dog but nowadays I use copilot chat because its reassuring tone gives me the impression that it matters.

At the end of the week I put back the todos I didn't do in the backlog. At the end of the week I build a status report that I then present to my partner. She's usually asleep when I do that but she insists that I go on and give that weekly status, that she usually closes with "bottom line, you underachieved again". Helps keeping me humble.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-08-12 07:55:38+00:00
I heard a joke about a nerd who dies and finds himself in a very hot underground cavern. The devil is there, and says "Welcome to Hell! This over here is the lake of molten lava where you'll spend the rest of eternity". The nerd says "well actually, since it's underground it's called magma rather than lava". The devil replies, "um, you do understand why you're here, don't you?".

I try to remember that when I'm tempted to point out mistakes that are fine to overlook.
by ykonstant | 2025-08-12 07:56:19+00:00
Cybercafes are already a big thing in SK, but why is the above comment downvoted? I, for one, miss net cafes very much. They used to be big in Greece, and I made many many dear friendships in small, cozy net cafes.

I can recount hilarious and even heartwarming stories; turns out that having a cafe (i.e. leisure space) with computers used by people in close proximity makes for dynamics and interactions that you cannot recreate with remote connections.
by npteljes | 2025-08-12 07:57:38+00:00
>"first of all, you need to not be yourself"

Yes, that seems part of it, as long as all you know is "yourself without social skills". With social skills, and leaving some of that "yourself" behind, you will discover that don't just change, or reduce yourself, in a social setting, but become more yourself as a whole. The very definition of "yourself" changes, broadens because of this added experience.
by ctidd | 2025-08-12 07:57:38+00:00
CSP is a defense in depth mechanism which can be (among other capabilities) used to preempt the capability of inline scripts. This mitigates rendering bypasses, in the event that unsafe rendering occurs. For example, imagine you have an insecure markdown renderer, where a user can manage to escape some HTML and inject it into the DOM in a comment thread of some sort. If they can do so, then they can embed JS inside that HTML and get XSS on other users. Adding a rule to disallow all inline scripts mitigates this, assuming the first layer of defense fails.
by novia | 2025-08-12 07:58:46+00:00
It was. I was there. The National Guard was delayed until like 6 pm but they were definitely there locking down the ENTIRE city. They stayed for days afterwards. It even says so in the link you provided.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/politics/us-capitol-riot-hear...

https://archive.is/ZfKzG
by ZeWaren | 2025-08-12 07:59:07+00:00
My requirements were: - ability to sync the TODO lists between devices (web and android). - ability to have sub-items, so that I can organise my complex lists into magnificent trees of tasks. I sometimes have 5 levels of details on some travel checklists. - ability to handle periodic tasks, and ability to create a task and hide it until a specific date (topics for my future self) - ability to be self-hosted.

I'm now using Vikunja, and Tasks.org for the Android side. That setup has worked for me wonderfully for a couple years now. Vikunja has a ton of features I don't use, and that's fine. They don't get in the way.
by Myrmornis | 2025-08-12 08:00:05+00:00
For some subjects, it's appropriate to host multiple versions of articles written natively in different languages.

But for other subjects, for example science and mathematics, it does a huge disservice to non-English readers: it means that their Wikipedia is second-rate, or worse.

Wikipedia should, in science, mathematics, and other subjects that do not have cultural inflection, use machine translation so that all articles in all languages are translations of the same underlying semantic content.

It would still be written by humans. But ML / LLMs would be involved in the editing pipeline so that people lacking a common language can edit the same text.

This is the biggest mistake Wikipedia's made IMO: it privileges English readers since the English content is highest quality in most areas that are not culturally specific, and I do not think that it's an organization that wants to privilege English readers.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-08-12 08:00:15+00:00
I use Obsidian on my phone, and I use syncthing to sync it, and then I just edit it with vscode on my computer.

I have Obsidian set up to create a new week file every week, and then I add things to do there, I also move things from previous weeks if I still feel they are relevant.

Works like a charm.
by vczf | 2025-08-12 08:01:45+00:00
5mg may be an order of magnitude more than needed.

I started my father [0] on ≈200ug and he was more animated and looked at photos around the house much more. Bumped him up to ≈500ug [1] the last two days, and he’s shown a nearly unbelievable improvement in lucidity and recognition.

He’s still nonverbal but babbling a lot more, and in a non-agitated way. He’ll make eye contact with us more and wiggle his eyebrows. He has not been running away from me during morning yogurt and other meals we sometimes have standing up. More responsive to music, photos, eye contact.

He actually kissed my mom today and then got teary-eyed. He hasn’t done anything like that in at least a year.

Tonight when he was tired, he wasn't unstoppably wandering. He was tired but still “there” and lucid. I was able to calmly walk him to his bedroom.

Lithium orotate might be the magic bullet. Lithium deficiency could very well be the cause of age-related neurodegeneration. It’s too early in my personal case study to draw firm conclusions, but this is looking absolutely incredible from my perspective as a caregiver. Subjectively, he seems no longer “lost” in the darkness.

If he is still stable and/or improving in a month, I will be making as much noise about this treatment as I can online and in meatspace. [2]

[0] Early onset posterior cortical atrophy and corticobasal degeneration. It presents initially as visual disturbances, hallucinations, and coordination problems rather than memory loss. Sometimes memory and speech can persist until the end.

[1] I opened up some 5mg Nutricost capsules, weighed the contents, and calculated how much of the mixture is needed for a given amount of active ingredient. Then I measure out each dose on a calibrated milligram scale. This is definitely out of reach for many people, so ideally companies can just add a small dose to multivitamins and call it a day. I’ve been taking the same dose I give my dad, and have not noticed much of anything.

[2] There are some ethical considerations in halting the disease process for those with late stage dementia. It would be inhumane to “cure” advanced AD if one has no hope of a life worth living, given one’s current capabilities and options. (For example, bed-bound in nursing homes with severe memory loss.) I’m very optimistic about lithium orotate, but I doubt it can do more than halt the neurodegeneration—which would mean rapidly hitting a low ceiling for cognitive improvements after beginning the therapy. That also means a practically life-long caregiving requirement. I didn’t want to be a caregiver for my father for the next 30+ years, but frankly I did not expect such a dramatic and immediate improvement in his condition. I expected nothing at all to happen.
by Pooge | 2025-08-12 08:03:14+00:00
I think I have the same problem. I'm ever dehydrated now, but if I am I can tell something is wrong because my head starts to feel fuzzy (don't even know if it's the right word).

I used to get really bad migraines and a neurologist gave me a prescription. The only time I used it I felt like absolute shit. Never took another one.

Now I always have my 700ml flask with me.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-12 08:03:25+00:00
It's, if anything, more important for normal people: I think there's a very important moral difference between something that actively harms another person and not paying for something that benefits you. The latter, for example, should be much more acceptable for someone who lacks the means to pay to do. It's also much more important, (i.e. we should spend more resources), to prevent theft. Preventing piracy and your other examples is only important to the extent that it keeps the endeavor viable, or at least the effort in the prevention is worth the increase in payments. Coalescing this all into one thing is behind a lot of what I consider to be very harmful rhetoric and politics.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-12 08:03:38+00:00
Well, you're right it isn't realistic, that's why everything is a SaaS nowadays. That's what the second order effects of this kind of expectation generates.

>Other than as confirmation of payment

This is the wrong way around, imo. Confirmation of payment is like the #1 problem a business has to solve. If the business can't reliably turn a profit by running their software on your machine, then they will run it on their own machines, no matter how much it degrades the user experience. The end result is a hollowed out market for anything local and not offered totally for free, which sadly and ironically excludes a great deal of valuable software.
by cik | 2025-08-12 08:03:42+00:00
My personal security tolerance means that I have multiple levels of firewalls and blockers: network, dns, device, and browser. It's also why I find myself scanning my DNS traffic (pihole), and running OpenSnitch.

Whether malicious or not, to me isn't the point. The point is that I, as an individual deserve the illusion of control over my data and communication. I have neither the time, nor inclination to read all release notes. Furthermore, as someone who has spent enough time writing code - I recognize that humans make mistakes and don't always update them with salient details. All the automation in the world, and AI (yes, I've tried AI for release notes) just doesn't help.
by simplulo | 2025-08-12 08:04:30+00:00
I'm the author of the posted article, and I am currently reading Brian Sanderson's latest Stormlight novel and suffering from character/name overload (doesn't help that I read the previous book years ago).

I also spent many years in Russia, where I noticed that they have few names (just a dozen or so common ones for each sex) but a gazillion variations, depending on context (e.g. family, friends, work). My theory is that under Stalin, you didn't want to stick out, and a boring name like Natalya Ivanovna was less likely to be noticed and remembered. Your trusted friends could have some unique nickname for you, like Natulya. But I never read War & Peace--it sounds like the naming practice predates Stalin. My Russian daughter is currently reading the book, so I'll have to discuss it with her.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-12 08:05:44+00:00
This is literally the strategy of hamas, attack Israel, hide in airconditioned electrified tunnels under hospitals and schools, leave civilian population on the surface suffer when IDF tries to get to hamas and make sure it is publicized.

It's a wonderful 4d chess move unless of course you if you actually cared about Palestinians. Apparently there is a religious justification for it too. Their bandit state makes good use of it and the world laps it up
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-12 08:06:21+00:00
> Apple in particular is inexcusable

This isn't me defending apple, but, let me play out a little scenario:

"hey siri, book me tickets to see tonight's game"

"sure thing, champ"

<<time passes>>

"I have booked the tickets, they are now in your apple wallet"

<<opens up wallet, sees that there is 1x £350 ticket to see "the game", a interactive lesson in pickup artistry>>

You buy apple because "it works" (yes, most of that is hype, but the vertical integration is actually good, not great for devs/tinkerers though.) AI just adds in a 10-30% chance of breaking what seems to be a simple workflow.

You don't notice with chatGPT, because you expect it to be the dipshit in your pocket. You don't expect apple to be shit. (although if you've tried to ask for a specific track whilst driving, you know how shit that is. )
by kruffalon | 2025-08-12 08:06:22+00:00
I'm probably misunderstanding the article or you, but as I understand it you are talking about different things.

The article talks about the proportions between water and sodium, while you are talking about just filling up the tank with both.

I too drink water with sodium (and a few other salts) to relieve oncoming migraines but this has to be something else than the article is talking about.
by mattmanser | 2025-08-12 08:06:34+00:00
Because without HTTPS it's trivial to MITM that clipboard content if they're always sending it via http.

People in your coffee shop on the same WiFi could read it.

I get some people don't realize that's how TCP/IP works and the firesheep stuff all happened 15 years ago. But a bit worrying to see a frequent HN contributor challenging that.

That's why we now push for Https everywhere.
by piva00 | 2025-08-12 08:07:32+00:00
You go to absolute loaded language to talk about concepts that should be discussed in a more leveled language. You consider thievery just wealth redistribution but don't consider thievery the products of the exploitation of labour, for example.

Why is it thievery to redistribute wealth from elites who are exploiting societal developments (education, skills training, etc.) so they pay their share back into the society which enabled them to become rich in the first place? Why is it ok that they can exploit a whole society's work for their own personal gain while gaming the system to not pay back to the thing that gave all foundations so they could play their game?

You talk about redistribution in a black-and-white way, no nuance, you go to the extremes such as:

> You can promote artificial redistribution all you want, but I will want to stop it however I can. If a global redistribution system would be implemented, then all your wealth would go to Africa and Russia, and you will be left with nothing.

Which is a strawman, I did not touch on this point whatsoever, I did not talk about "global redistribution", you are the one bringing this up, in an utopic sense, yes, we could talk about it but I'm trying to discuss in realistic terms what could be improvements in enclosed societies (aka: national states) to improve the system.

That's where we fundamentally disagree, you cannot talk in nuanced terms, it's either "communism!" or "you will be poor and give your money to all the poor in the world" instead of a level-headed discussion on the flaws of our current systems, how we could search for solutions to it.

And even worse, you talk about "artifical redistribution" as if the current form is the "natural" one, what is natural about a few people who found ways to exploit the system for personal gain instead of the natural way of living collectively since we all depend on each other for societies to function since time immemorial?

Your view is very conservative, it's unimaginative, it just states that what it currently is is what's natural and supposed to be. Challenge a bit more your thoughts, you are just repeating the same trope over and over...
by kazinator | 2025-08-12 08:07:52+00:00
> conclusions gathered from toy models and implying this generalises to production LLMs is useless

You are just trotting out the tired argument that model size magically fixes the issues, rather than just improves the mirage, and so nothing can be known about models with M parameters by studying models with N < M parameters.

Given enough parameters, a miraculous threshold is reached whereby LLMs switch from interpolating to extrapolating.

Sure!
by JimDabell | 2025-08-12 08:08:01+00:00
> Unless you’re suggesting it’s AI-generated?

It’s this. The current crop of LLMs have latched onto a small number of mannerisms that they constantly overuse, along with a weird TEDx voice and belief that everything is game-changing. It wasn’t so bad until recently, but it’s gotten so much worse lately – the overuse of these things would practically be a verbal tic if a human used them so often.

It’s incredibly tiring to read, especially as it uses so many words to say so little. Take this for instance:

> it’s a fundamental shift in how your software thinks.

This is pure, unmitigated horseshit. We’re talking about date representation not a major paradigm shift. But LLMs spit out this crap all the time. It’s not saying anything, it’s just putting one word in front of another.

The human who publishes this should be reviewing it to catch it when it goes off the rails like this, but it seems like it was published with no human oversight at all, or at least none that is able to catch it talking nonsense.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-12 08:08:20+00:00
I worked for a 100-year-old Japanese optical equipment manufacturer. It had a lot of institutional memory (detractors like to call it “tribal memory.” I guess, because it makes it sound more primitive).

Lots of “wise old men,” lots of rituals, and “we just do things this way” practices. Long apprenticeships, tons of training, and a metric shitton of paper trails.

But I could always get an explanation for why something was the way it was. Not many Chesterton’s Fences, and some damn interesting stories.

It could be maddening, especially for a software engineering manager (Yours Truly), but they got outstanding results. In fact, they suffered some real damage, when they tried to leave a lot of that behind, and have since returned to “the old ways.”
by blitzar | 2025-08-12 08:09:01+00:00
The teachings from the games of gambling, probability etc is a valuable life skill that far too few people have.

I reccomend:

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts Hardcover – 6 Feb. 2018 by Annie Duke

Or listen to any of the podcasts she did when promoting the book - Peter Attia or Masters of Business are the two I presonally consumed at that time.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-12 08:09:20+00:00
> Capabilities that evolved over millennia

Means nothing. Now they are urgent.

> consciousness

I meant "conscious" as the wake opposed to deliriousness, as the ability "to be sure about what you have in front of you with the degree of accomplished clarity and substantially unproblematic boundaries of definition",

not as that quality that intrigues (and obsesses) less pragmatic intellectuals in directions e.g. at the "Closer to Truth" channel.

When I ask somebody, it has to be sure to a high degree. When implementing a mind, the property of "lucid conscious check" is fundamental.

> tools for that

The "consciously check, then store and learn" is structural in the proper human mental process - a high level functioning, not just a module; i.e. "it's what we do".

Which means, the basic LLM architecture is missing important features that we need if we want to implement a developed interlocutor. And we need and want that.
by boredhedgehog | 2025-08-12 08:09:20+00:00
> Then when it fails to apply the "reasoning", that's evidence the artificial expertise we humans perceived or inferred is actually some kind of illusion.

That doesn't follow, if the weakness of the model manifests on a different level we wouldn't call rational in a human.

For example, a human might have dyslexia, a disorder on the perceptive level. A dyslexic can understand and explain his own limitation, but that doesn't help him overcome it.
by noelwelsh | 2025-08-12 08:09:20+00:00
I agree that access is a problem now, but I think it is one that hardware improvements will solve very quickly. We are a few generations of Strix Halo type hardware away from effortlessly running very good LLMs locally. (It's already possible, but the hardware is about $2000 and the LLMs you can run are good but not very good.) AFAIK AMD have not released the roadmap for Medusa Halo, but the rumours [1] are increased CPU and GPU performance, and increased bandwidth. Another iteration or two of this will make Strix Halo hardware more affordable, and the top-of-the-line models will be beasts for local LLMs.

[1]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Powerful-Zen-6-Medusa-Halo-iGP...
by withinboredom | 2025-08-12 08:09:41+00:00
Depending on whether your OS uses a , or a . for decimal numbers changes how excel will parse a CSV file. Americans use a . for decimal numbers, so it will parse it as a CSV. Other countries use a , for decimal numbers, so it will parse it as a SSV (semi-colon separated) and everything will be in a single column.

To make matters worse, randomly, employees will have their OS using US or GB locales so that if you distribute a CSV, it will work for some employees, but not for others.
by rich_sasha | 2025-08-12 08:09:53+00:00
The article clearly aims to be inflammatory, but I'd restate: dates and times are not the same. Ditto for time intervals etc. But lots of libraries skim over this, leading to terrible bugs.

Python date time library, for example, essentially has dates as low precision timestamps. If you subtract a second from a time at midnight, you get what you expect. But subtract it from a date and you are where you started.

You can't add 24hrs to a midnight timestamp to increment date by 1 because DST.

Etc etc.
by childintime | 2025-08-12 08:09:54+00:00
I am on a real "unlimited" 128kbps plan on my phone. I use Firefox and ublock, so a lot of bloat is avoided. The bank app with its simple screens loads with much difficulty. Of course, it's a bank. Most sites load, just give it time. I give up on graphics mostly. YouTube works admirably well. But I agree it is a tad too slow for today. I regularly spend over 1GB a day as I play YouTube with the screen off.