MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tigerlily | 2025-08-04 13:24:35+00:00
Reading TFA felt exhilarating. Like taking drugs on a thrill ride. No seriously. It's hard for me to explain, but as I read, I felt the device I was holding had turned into solid gold in my hand.

The scariest part for me:

> Cueing was appealing because they didn't know what else to do.

A whole pedagogy in the grip of learned helplessness, as if they all caught some insane mind virus, to the point they were virtually inoculated from the knowledge their methods could be considered harmful.

Think about it. When you multiply out the disadvantage to kids of a poor start in reading, the compound interest comes back as poor performance in other areas such as writing, maths, science, reasoning skills, technology use. Think it through and you realize it screws everything.

The real sci-fi question is, could it scale to bereave a whole society of its very cohesion?
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-08-04 13:24:40+00:00
The three known interstellar object to pass through the solar system were 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov and now 3I/ATLAS.

Did he give Borisov this treatment? It seems not, so then the answer is "no, only about two thirds of them".
by simion314 | 2025-08-04 13:24:49+00:00
>it'd probably be net improvement vs the current status quo.

That is small/quick/shallow thinking, first you need PHP/C++ content so new developers can learn how to maintain existing code , the Rust God is unable to instantly convert any code to Rust.

Secondly, maybe you hate PHP but then they will come after Python because it's stupid white space syntax shit, or after Linux and KDE because are C and C++ , then Java and C# because are not cool enough.

If the Rust extremists would spend their time and money on writing code and not post comments, blogs, podcasts etc there might be some non toy OS, browser, desktop environment, editor etc , but as with this other religion they are all big mouths and telling others what they should do since that is easy and the makes feel better about their work as trying to get new souls for their God to .
by cess11 | 2025-08-04 13:24:51+00:00
They're proudly complicit in genocide and war crimes.

https://www.palantir.com/assets/xrfr7uokpv1b/3MuEeA8MLbLDAyx...

Basically they're selling BI-solutions for tyranny, usually by convincing government officials that it's a good idea to aggregate data sets that are separate for good reasons and then they'll achieve greater power over their subjects. That's the idea in the NHS project, that's what they're doing in the US and so on.
by szszrk | 2025-08-04 13:25:09+00:00
My kid drooled in front of Peppa (until she decides she doesn't like it after all). The engagement was at the level of YouTube Kids movies from "creators" - which means kid is unresponsive, clearly doesn't process what's going on, wants more of it like, an addict.

I had to cut off YouTube kids aggressively and my kid still wanted those idiotic movies even after a few months.

Peppa had similar effect, but my kid resigned on it's own. They show is just dumb. Teaches nothing. Unless you value things like feeding ducks with bread and cake is good, destroying countryside camping spot with heavy equipment and concrete is fine just because you dropped keys in a hole etc..

Peppa games are also really bad - not clear when you can actually engage, what can be done, instructions are unclear or wrong, plus the is no goal at all.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-04 13:25:12+00:00
Except somehow it's the opposite? The Big Beautiful Bill is one of the most regressive bills in decades - the vast majority of the benefits went to the richest while the biggest cuts went to the poorest. The MAGA base is definitely not on the richer end of that spectrum. I.e. they didn't really even get anything for their undying loyalty besides "owning the libs" I guess.
by je42 | 2025-08-04 13:25:26+00:00
Steam added recently a rule 15th what you should not publish:

15. Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

See discussion here for example: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/6019100814124...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-04 13:25:31+00:00
> You're completely discounting quality of execution, which in this case is everything. It's the whole ballgame.

Yes, the iPhone excelled on so many levels, from the hardware level sleek design, screen (game changer really - high resolution color, with multi-point touch support), camera, but also all of the individual functionalities. This wasn't an incremental advance or a case of adding one or two new capabilities to what a Palm could do - this was next-level across the board.

The design of iOS, including the gesture/touch based UI, and level of performance was also key, and it took Android a LONG time to catch up. Microsoft made a misguided attempt with Windows Phone, and others like Nokia and Palm were just left in the dust. We did get Qt from Nokia as a side effect, which was a plus!
by XorNot | 2025-08-04 13:25:36+00:00
What conventional military capabilities? The Houthi's aren't sinking military ships, they're sinking unarmed, unarmored freighters in a stretch of water so narrow you could use a towed artillery gun to bullseye a freighter moving through it.

The problem they're facing is they can't reduce that capability to zero without starting a half-dozen other wars to deal with a logistical supply chain.
by prng2021 | 2025-08-04 13:25:46+00:00
I’d like to hear from others, but my assumption has been that they’re the ones that 1) have staff with the required clearance to work on DoD projects and 2) the required security and compliance certifications in their product. On the latter, it’s not easy to provide a product that is DoD IL5 certified, so that is a differentiator for them.
by agent_turtle | 2025-08-04 13:26:00+00:00
I'll throw some anecdotal data down. I'm a military brat who grew up on bases around the country and in Germany. My dad was a gambling addict. It was not uncommon for us to spend all day at the bowling alley on base, which was where the slot machines were.

At the time, I didn't know better and just played arcade games all day. Eventually, I started to put together just how much money my dad must have put into those slot machines. Thousands, maybe most of his salary. It certainly explained why we generally had no furniture in our house compared to my friends.

So am I against slot machines on base? No. I have no doubt that if they weren't readily available in a safe/controlled environment, my dad would have still found a way to gamble. If anything, it was a forcing mechanism for him not to go overboard given the limitations of what was offered on site.

I do however wish there were programs that existed to provide offramps for people with addiction, similar to supervised injection sites for drug users. Seems to me that this could be easily funded with the proceeds.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-04 13:26:08+00:00
"'Fizzbuzz'-style"

It's important to avoid well-known questions where the candidate can present a memorized answer. When the candidate has memorized the answer in advance, it's not a conversation, it's a presentation.

Likewise, I'm not looking for the candidate to show off. To be very specific, I'm trying to gauge two things:

1: The candidate's ability to problem solve around a set of immutable constraints.

2: The candidate's ability to listen.

The above pretty much go hand-in-hand: Someone might be able memorize "all 12 permutations" of Fizzbuzz; but can they comprehend the constraints in a discussion and intelligently discuss tradeoffs?

A different way to say it: It might take me 2 minutes to explain a problem. If the candidate only listens to the first 10 seconds, it shows, and demonstrates that they will be difficult, if not impossible, to work with.

(There's usually very predictable mistakes that I've anticipated. For example, one question I used in the past I would explicitly say, "do not worry about multithreading," and some candidates would still including locking.)
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by Ray20 | 2025-08-04 13:27:15+00:00
> nor do I recognize that recognition to be widely established at all.

> absolutely the first time I've ever heard someone describe the persecution of homosexuals as an authoritarian behavior

Google defines "authoritarian" even more broadly than I do:

> favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

So I would say that that recognition is established extremely wide.
by imtringued | 2025-08-04 13:27:19+00:00
What the author of this blog is doing is essentially server side react, but without the VDOM diffing. If there was DOM based diffing, then the only things that would change are a bunch of class attributes that affect which step becomes visible.

To avoid the cost of updating the entire page, htmx only fetches a parent element and all of its children, but this runs into the problem that you must choose the common parent element for all the elements you want to update.

So the author reaches the conclusion that htmx is not meant to be used for SPA style apps. It's meant to add a little bit of interactivity to otherwise static HTML.
by RandomBacon | 2025-08-04 13:27:55+00:00
Paywall, but the bit I did read seems to suggest that she thought she was going to get financial aid from the government, and the government changed their mind.

There might be some kind of immunity for the government in this case, but if it was a private institution that promised the tuition money, then she would most likely have a valid case against them if she met all of the conditions to receive the promised money.

It's called promisory estoppel:

> If someone took action based on a promise and suffered a loss due to that reliance, they might have a legal claim under the doctrine of promissory estoppel. This allows a person to enforce a promise even without a formal contract, provided certain conditions are met, such as reasonable reliance and resulting harm.

- quote is from AI
by TriangleEdge | 2025-08-04 13:28:08+00:00
Ex FDE here. Part of Palantir's pitch for Foundry back in the day is connecting disparate databases from agencies that don't collaborate well. They're also really good at getting demos up and running in a few days. The tech was good back when I was employed.

They get hate because support war efforts / police / intelligence.

They do 5 year contracts with the govt then bump the prices once they're sticky, like a J curve, hence the valuation.
by jpcompartir | 2025-08-04 13:28:14+00:00
Most reasoned take is directly from the paper itself:

"We strongly emphasize that this paper is largely a pedagogical exercise, with interesting discoveries and strange serendipities, worthy of a record in the scientific literature. By far the most likely outcome will be that 3I/ATLAS is a completely natural interstellar object, probably a comet, and the authors await the astronomical data to support this likely origin."
by jmpman | 2025-08-04 13:29:02+00:00
I disagree, but when I see low quality software engineers coming in on H1B, I know there are US citizens who could have done that job. I see Customer Support Managers, Solutions Architects, Software Managers, all with H1B. Any of those jobs could be performed by a US citizen. What the US needs are the higher tier engineers. The ones which are in short supply in the US.
by adabyron | 2025-08-04 13:29:38+00:00
> So can someone educate me on the angle? What’s the goal here?

Gain influence, increase his marketing & exposure, creating new opportunities for himself. Good chance he also believes what he is preaching. All these things can be true at the same time.

He gives away a lot of the info in the book for free, so you can consider the book as just a method of marketing his ideas.
by newAccount2025 | 2025-08-04 13:29:47+00:00
> Meetings are for low-latency collaboration, not information transfer.

Ok, but without a doc, collaboration in a meeting can become inefficient in many ways. Folks can talk past each other, bouncing between unclear options and losing clarity on what they are even debating. Only one person can talk at a time, so folks are sitting and waiting for their turn, etc.; Strong personalities can dominate and filibuster.

Writing even a bad doc ahead of time can help to make the meeting’s purpose clear. The author can guide the discussion by laying out and labeling big options and decision points.

While reading the doc, everyone can comment in parallel, so you aren’t serializing the conversation for small things or letting some verbose person waste the time.

Reading during the meeting helps folks manage time outside the meeting. It means: you don’t have to prepare for meeting you don’t own. It avoids “random people” assigning you work beyond what they are asking you for in your calendar. For busy managers this is a huge benefit.
by snarf21 | 2025-08-04 13:29:54+00:00
There is part of this that is about a lack of financial education in our country. The interesting thing is that if you give a lot of disposal income to young people without a lot of life responsibilities, they will spend it like water. I know lots and lots of soldiers who come back from being deployed and promptly spend all their bonuses on a new truck, a new motorcycle and a new boat. 6 months later, that money is all gone and all of a sudden they can barely afford the payments and start selling things off at a huge loss.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-04 13:30:35+00:00
> US has a significant missile advantage

Doubt.

> an adversary with a 11 aircraft carriers

Didn't a couple of them literally tuck tail and run from the Houthis? Besides, three of them are scheduled for maintenance between 2027 and 2030.

> the largest submarine fleet in the world

Those subs are at a severe disadvantage in the very shallow waters of the South China Sea, which are riddled with all manner of sensors.

> serious power-projection problem

Irrelevant. Wouldn't we be fighting them over there?
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-04 13:30:36+00:00
> even WFH doesn't really solve this

I'm convinced that it could help, but at least here in France this is half-assed, and many companies are even looking to end it altogether. I would definitely move to a smaller town if I didn't have to come in to the city a set number of days a week. But there's no way I'll endure a multiple-hour commute, so I'll just keep bidding on the limited amount of housing and take up space in the metro, just so I can sit on a worse chair to take my video calls.

Of course you won't just up and leave your city apartment if you're not sure how long you'll be able to WFH.

Now I don't think it will actually fully solve all our housing woes, but even if it helped a bit it would still be better.
by morkalork | 2025-08-04 13:31:02+00:00
You mean like this?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/19/onlyfans-to-...

Ultimately the ban was undone in exchange for onlyfans limiting the type of content available on the platform. So effectively, payment processors dictate which type of sexual activities, performed by consenting adults, are OK to depict and sell. Why? Why do they have that power?
by techpineapple | 2025-08-04 13:31:07+00:00
So I don’t buy this, and I’m trying to figure out why, while it’s technically true, for all the “democratization” of everything, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. I think the problem is, when you “democratize” a thing you devalue it, so now, for instance, the labor of a software engineer may lessen in value, but capital can still exploit it at a lower price.

I’m curious if something similar happened with guns, I imagine it’s yea, maybe every individual can have a gun, but big institutions can manage bigger weapons in ways individuals fundamentally can’t.
by legobmw99 | 2025-08-04 13:31:23+00:00
Not sure if you've watched the (entertaining but long) lecture by Casey Muratori linked at the start of this article, but I think this is sort of his point. ECS are powerful not just because of how modern computers schedule and execute code, but they also force you to break the traditional OOP encapsulation ideas, allowing more systems to 'reach across' systems.

He has a interesting discussion about how this 'omniscience' is viewed as a bad thing by many, but it is also incredibly powerful for business logic, especially with heavy user interaction like games.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-08-04 13:31:36+00:00
> Do they have some extensive network with gov. officials, in the same way top management consulting firms operate?

Don't known about any other government officials, but Austrians ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz has strong ties with his Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Dream[0].

[0]: https://www.politico.eu/article/austria-former-chancellor-se...
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-08-04 13:31:42+00:00
As the parent of two mid-20's adults (one thriving, the other not so much) I actually downloaded the paper and read it out of curiosity (shocking, I know.)

They asked people how many days last month they had "bad mental health days" ("Q1".) The measure of Despair in the graphs is constructed as: "by setting the Q1 variable to one when an individual gave the answer 30 and zero otherwise." So if you had a continuous month of "bad mental health days" you are in despair. The fraction of those months is y-axis in the graphs (typically around 0-10%)

This is all US data BTW.

Anyway, the abstract and title oversimplify the data in my opinion. Across the board (even up to 60+ years of age) the surveyed report overall 2x more "despair" than in the 1990's. Yes, it is worse amongst under 40 workers, as shown in Figure 4. Despair used to be pretty flat by age for workers, now it it highest for young workers, with linear-ish decrease until about 60 where the value hasn't really changed over time.

But the graph in Figure 8 shows that "despair" hasn't really moved much for any age group of college educated workers since the 1990's. And their mention of the change in the "hump" shaped in the abstract doesn't account for the fact that in absolute terms, unsurprisingly, the unemployed have a lot more despair overall than workers.

So the "young workers" in the title are those without a college education in the US - that's probably a very different demographic than the average HN participant...
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-04 13:32:01+00:00
I believe the point is "separate, as in not the same as the mother". It's not the mother - it has different DNA. This is the problem with the whole "a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body" response: It's not her body. Or at least, it's not all her body. Part of it is a different individual. And so her right to do what she wants with her own body is inextricably intertwined with another individual that she does not have that same right over.

But, in the sense that you took it: We currently can save children born prematurely at 22 weeks. Normally such a child would live within and attached to the mother for another 18 weeks, but if we need to, such a child can live outside but attached to a bunch of machines.

So, at least separable, even if not usually separate.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-08-04 13:32:10+00:00
I don't know how that helps. PayPal and stripe are the payment processors, no? Visa and MasterCard are the payment network. Steam can build their own Stripe probably, but are they going to make their own credit card network too? Probably not. They can maybe try taking money directly from your bank though, like Wise. But if you've ever tried it, that looks like such a shit show. Every bank and every country does it a little differently, has its own limits and fees, and the authentication is really ghetto.
by tossandthrow | 2025-08-04 13:33:18+00:00
> If people are allowed to choose their own paths

At a macro scale this idea is futile, as people make decisions in a context.

Yes,people should have full agency - also to do things that does not make financial sense.

But if we want something as a society, it needs to make financial sense.

And yes this has consequences, that is why we have a market, so we can service each other under these consequences.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-04 13:33:21+00:00
>If someone tells you they've commited [insert abhorrent act here]

Since when is talking to an AI an "abhorrent act"?

Don't you feel you're doing a disservice to victims of actual abhorrent acts?

Btw, you're already talking to an AI when you're applying to jobs online, it's called an ATS.
by grafmax | 2025-08-04 13:33:25+00:00
I mean, he’s not wrong. Libertarianism is freedom - for the rich. And concentrated wealth is antithetical to democracy because it’s concentrated power. He’s just taking libertarianism to its logical extreme by repudiating democracy.

Is it any wonder that he has helped fund our decline into authoritarianism? We now have concentration camps, abrogation of the constitution, judicial capture, and the military turned increasingly against American citizens.
by sofixa | 2025-08-04 13:33:37+00:00
> Regarding the rest, the EU is mining competition with the obsession of regulating everything.

Like with DMA/DSA that force gatekeepers to open up? SEPA that mandates free immediate bank transfers? Caps on credit/debit card transaction fees? The million infrastructure projects? Ensuring that AI can't be used to make life or death decisions if it's decision making can't be explained (which the AI act boils down to)? Ensuring there is competition on e.g. railway operations?

It's such a common refrain that EU is just stifling competition with "regulating everything", but quite oftne EU regulations are actually forcing competition where none was possible before.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-04 13:33:43+00:00
It's all more or less the same between Plasma/Gnome/XFCE. On X11 all window managers had to employ roughly similar heuristics-based tactics. That does however mean there might be behavior differences based on the specific WM's implementation.

The token-based activation protocol for Wayland is a shared development that has been adopted across different toolkits, and I imagine will probably also result in more consistent default behavior across environments, although of course in theory a given compositor could decide or be configured to whatever flavor of stealing prevention is wanted.

I can't comment much on macOS/Windows technically, except that my standard user experience on Windows installs is that at least once per week, some OEM background thing decides to update something that for some reason requires running a cmd.exe terminal window that reliably steals focus from whatever I'm doing. This kind of thing hasn't really been an issue on Linux DEs for decades.