MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hearsathought | 2025-08-11 15:51:36+00:00
> we now build a lot more and a lot better roads than we did when moving dirt had to be done with human / animal labor.

Sure, with far less human labor. That's my point.

> That road system directly and indirectly created millions of jobs.

Yes. That's my point. It created millions of service/intellectual jobs. Or are you saying the highway system created more jobs for those who own shovels?

If people moved from physical to intellectual labor in the past century. What will people move into if intellectual work is mostly done by AI. Assuming that the AI the evangelicals promise comes to fruition.
by Donacgreece | 2025-08-11 15:51:39+00:00
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by threetonesun | 2025-08-11 15:51:40+00:00
It’s not the same argument at all. Accessibility is important. What I’m saying is if you want it to be fast offload the UI to a native app, don’t even bother me with a web page. If it’s critical serve it in plain text or simple HTML. Either of those are both fast and accessible.

The idea that most websites should broadly work for people even on a 2G signal is absurd. Some should. However I’m not going to try to configure a BMW and email dealers from the middle of the woods, and I’m sure they know their target audience is not either.
by ralferoo | 2025-08-11 15:52:02+00:00
I prefer A4, but yeah. I adopted something roughly based on Bullet Journal about 6 or 7 years ago and now on my 4th book.

There's something about manually writing and copying over TODOs to the next month that makes you really question if you still need to do it, and if you do, gives you a reminder that you still haven't done it.

I use a few basic markers copied from standard bullet journal, which work well as a dot can be promoted to all the others. A dash "-" for informational stuff, a centre dot "·" for a task, which turns into a slash "/" for partially done or a cross "X" for done, ">" if I carry it forward to the next month and "<" if I copy it into the future log (I have pages at the front for about 4 years of future events, 3 months per page). I also have a leftmost column for the date when something needs to be done or for meetings/events.

Surprisingly, even when doing a whole page of notes on something, it's not excessive to leave an inch margin, and sometimes you want to star a key point or attach an action point market.

I've got really used to this way of journaling, and appreciate the ability to do different things, like calendar views - such as 36 week views with one page for weekends and the other for mid week - which are great for planning holidays, weekends and significant events.

I never really got into the monthly reflection aspect, but I do like doing that around end of year and other inflection points through the year.
by Mars008 | 2025-08-11 15:52:15+00:00
Not sure there is on formula. Because there are two different cases:

1) performance constrained. like NVidia Spark with 128GB or AGX with 64GB.

2) memory constrained. like consumers' GPUs.

In first case MoE is clear win. They fit and run faster. In second case dense models will produce better results. And if performance in token/sec is acceptable then they are better choice.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-11 15:52:21+00:00
No it’s not a mistake. Search social media and you’ll find lots of reports like these. CPS will create absurd and unrealistic rules like the ones you name, specifically because they know no parent will meet those standards and it lets them get involved. If they bring police, the police will simply back up their rules even though they know it’s absurd. The type of people who work in CPS are often unhinged types already, and they do this to justify their existence on the taxpayer’s dime.

Just remember you don’t need to talk to them or let them into your home. Anything you say or they see is evidence they can use against you. Force them to go get a court order or warrant.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-11 15:52:26+00:00
The responses in this thread captures the absurdity of the AI hype so well that it's satirical, even. Putting all blame of AI deficiency on "bad prompting," denial of concrete evidence, and the refusal to provide one either is a recurring pattern in these discussions. The repeated angry name-calling towards experienced developers who failed to uphold your beliefs is the cherry on top.
by doug_durham | 2025-08-11 15:52:36+00:00
Exactly this. I realized that full featured tools like OmniPlan made increased my anxiety because it is too easy the build up to do items that you would never do. Having a simple note pad forces me to delete unnecessary cruft every week since I have to manually copy it. Also the notes approach gives me one place to look for and summarize all of my activities.
by morkalork | 2025-08-11 15:52:37+00:00
I keep thinking of that investment disclaimer whenever people cite the - 100 year old - example of mechanization of agriculture: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results"

Anyways, if I put my cynnical hat on after looking at this: https://blog.waldrn.com/p/american-boys-have-become-less-sup...

The next generation of children is already being conditioned for women leaving the workplace and society reverting to a pre-WW2 social structure. That's a solution. Jobs are lost forever, women are out of the workforce and the number of workers is halved. We all live in a trad-conservative paradise.
by conductr | 2025-08-11 15:53:05+00:00
That’s kind of the problem, you don’t need to learn much at all/anything to do this right now. Because the bosses of the world aren’t enforcing any standards in terms of craftsmanship or quality of work. They pretty much just show up to see how much of a mess has been made and how quickly they can patch it up in order to ask for final payment or whatever is needed for completion
by bluGill | 2025-08-11 15:53:20+00:00
I ride such a bike, and I would no longer call it cheap - the range/speed is limited enough that I feel compelled to have a car anyway that just sits. I still have to pay taxes and insurance on that car, plus the yearly oil change (at least it is paid for). What with replacing the bike tires, chain, and cassette a lot more often than I expected I end up spending as much on bike maintenance and I would on gas and the other costs of the car are paid either way. If I could get rid of the car it would be cheaper, but otherwise no.

don't get me wrong - I encourage everyone to ride a bike where they can. However it is for health reasons not saving money.
by CoopaTroopa | 2025-08-11 15:53:23+00:00
George Vaccaro was a Verizon customer who, in early December 2006, had a customer service phone call where Verizon had a legendary "math fail" as it would have been dubbed at that time. This is a viral tale from the early/modern internet age of the oughts. In the calls, the Verizon employees repeatedly fail to acknowledge the distinction between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents because they think "0.002 cents" is $0.002; in other words they think $0.002 is 0.002 cents simply because the 002 comes after the decimal point.
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-08-11 15:53:24+00:00
Had a similar experience. I grew up in a rural area and broadband penetration was late. Later when I bought a house I was lied to by comcast about availability and ended up dialup again. (My fault for believing them tbh) Most of the tricks I used to make the most out of a dialup connection (disable images, disable flash player, load multiple pages so they could be browsed offline) didn't make a difference anymore. In the case of loading multiple pages, lazy loading meant this didn't really work. It was a much more brutal experience than the first go around.

The worst part was how little actual content actually makes up the bloat. Sure video was right out, but I was often struggling to load pages that were mostly text.

The only other option at the time was Hugesnet. After doing the math I determined the data caps were so low dialup was actually cheaper at MBs/month and had less latency issues. Realistically the next best available step up wasn't Hughesnet it was shotgunned 56K.
by tptacek | 2025-08-11 15:53:27+00:00
People have been using LLMs to generate these kinds of prompts for years, long before the dam broke loose with agent/tool-calling 9 months ago. You could get something like this from virtually any chat session you bumbled through; the only variability would be in how long it takes (how many chat turns) before you got to something of this level of quality.

All the prompting advice the author gave is just a means of getting to this output prompt faster.
by bombcar | 2025-08-11 15:53:32+00:00
You have to decide if you think that (in general) they're "good with some bad apples" or "the whole thing is rotten to the core".

If it's the first, on first contact you assume they're generally good-willed, and play the part of the concerned parent, and find something obvious and physical that can be added and verified (a fence, say, or a lock, or alarm, depending on what occurred). Try to sus out how the report occurred.

If it's the second, move. Move out of their district or out of their state. You're already fucked, so your best option is to run.
by rsaarelm | 2025-08-11 15:53:35+00:00
> Mostly true actually. If this was not so, the world would look like a daycare without supervision. Just a bunch of primal feelings and violence.

The inner self isn't just an id, it's your goals, interests, values and ways of thinking too. And the social fitness script is that you should only have acceptable goals and interests and acceptable ways of talking about them. Talking about wanting to buy a nice house and a sports car, good. Talking about wanting to beat the speedrun record for Mario 64 and how you've figured out a CPU glitch to use for it, keep it to yourself. "Let's agree to disagree", good, "let's sketch a causal model graph of this and plug in our guesses for priors to see where we get different intuitions", no.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-11 15:54:14+00:00
Sorry this is false. There are tons of reports of CPS investigating normal parenting practices or imposing invasive reporting plans and things like that. CPS in most jurisdictions is in fact overflowing with time and money, and is staffed with low intelligence nosy incompetent types that couldn’t get a better job. Search your social media of choice and you’ll find so many absurd examples.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-11 15:54:32+00:00
The part where CPS told this person that they have to be in the room supervising each of their kids at all times even in their own bedrooms is delightfully kafkaesque. It sounds an awful lot like permission to arrest any parent or guardian at any time for alleged failure to supervise because sending your kids to bed in separate bedrooms or going to bed yourself is now legally neglect.
by skydhash | 2025-08-11 15:54:48+00:00
The premise is a basic understanding of matrices and stats. Then go through a course on machine learning (supervized, unsupervised, deep and reinforcement learning). That’s for the theory. Easy if you know your math and python.

The practical side is endless tweaking of the data and the models. And keeping yourself informed about new models and techniques (throug scientific papers)
by superkuh | 2025-08-11 15:54:50+00:00
It could be the 20+ years of using linux where it was standard for it to only have files there deleted on boot. Temp in this case means it's temporary for that boot. Recent redefinitions are surprising unless you've only come to linux recently or from unix 40 years ago.

I am going to assume you are used to tens of days wipings of /tmp. Imagine suddenly it was decided that the wiping needed to happen every tens of seconds for security reasons and to minimize ram usage. Do you think this would impact your workflows that used /tmp? This is 100% analogous to the current situation. Yes, tmp is ephemeral, but on what timescale?
by bestest | 2025-08-11 15:55:38+00:00
This is terrible and not worthy of HN front.

Terrible from the front-end side of implementation: - performs worse than your average arbitrary-amount-of-rows-that-won't-fit-on-the-screen library (it should perform the same no matter if its 1k, 1m or 1mm rows) - is seemingly buggy - is pointless on its own, because THIS demo is a client-side demo, and no one loads that much data on the client-side.

Revisit this when this demo is performant AND data is loaded from the backend.

Ignoring that, every front-end JS developer should explore these kinds of libs and also try to implement them themselves, because they're basically front-end 101.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-08-11 15:55:49+00:00
Open Source is one of the most humanistic, progress driving cultures people have ever come up with.

I mean I am fucking shocked that people don't get this, our whole fucking modern world, all the parts that make stuff work, every last bit of it is built on top of or dependent on OSS.

There isn't a single lab, company, person or country that doesn't use and benefit from open source. Whether they know it or not.

It is what has supported widespread fractal improvement starting at the individual level. It's the greatest grassroots story movement ever and it's still driven by grassroot adoption.

It's like programatic peer review writ large with no gate keeping journals and its changed humanity forever, if we ever deflect that asteroid headed towards earth or if we make it to the stars, or if we figure out how to avoid the heat death, it's because open source got us there.
by antx | 2025-08-11 15:56:03+00:00
Also with the rapid advances of vision language models, I would be surprised if we don't see image-to-text-to-voice system that works with real-time video in a not-so-far future! Like a reverse "Genie" where instead of providing a prompt and it generates a world, you provide a streaming video and it spouts relevant information when changes happen, or on demand, for instance...
by andai | 2025-08-11 15:56:04+00:00
Yeah. It's the "foot in the door technique." The same is being done with Chat Control.

It's very difficult to oppose a law ostensibly designed to fight CSAM. But once the law passes, it'll be easily expanded to other things like scanning messages to prevent terrorism.

See also:

> Concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology, says Prevent

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/06/concern-over...
by c0balt | 2025-08-11 15:56:20+00:00
To be fair, an e-bike/e-scooter that adheres to regulations in some european countries already effectively are regulated in the same manner. They are usually treated like mopeds in germany (speed limits, a car drivers license for some e-bikes that can go faster than 25 km/h).

It is still a bit messy as e-scooters appear to easily lend themselves to reckless driving (multiple people on one scooter, lack of control compared to bicycle, lack of natural limit on the ability to always go full throttle). E-Bikes are a bit better but they ime tend to be driven by less experienced/capable riders (a lot of seniors/tourists seem to use them).
by amelius | 2025-08-11 15:56:32+00:00
> You’re suggesting that every time I build a set of shelves, I’m stealing from the shelving manufacturer because I deprived them of the opportunity to sell me THEIR shelves.

No, because you did not use any of their intellectual property in doing so.

You are conveniently ignoring the fact that A is taking something for which B did actual work.
by soco | 2025-08-11 15:57:07+00:00
There's a similar institution in Switzerland - the KESB - and it has its own horror stories. It's a matter of canton and of persons involved, but you get from their activity the whole range: from perfect and ideal support (which is of course the very reason KESB exists) to mafia-style trafficking (kids are systematically placed away by the same persons, to cash in government payments). Such an institution needs both professional and judiciary supervision in order to not depend on one individual's ethics - and KESB has neither.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 15:57:08+00:00
I'd trim the columns down to a few and show the user a filter with the displaying columns turned on and let them know that they can toggle more on.

The column text length too should be trimmed to a uniform max-length except when clicked on. You could make it pup out on the page with CSS.

A better color scheme too won't hurt.

Had the same idea when I saw https://github.com/rowyio/rowy.

Stumbled on an idea while reading a HN entry a few days back and now I will merge them into a niche product idea.

└── Dey well
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-11 15:57:25+00:00
> Kids should just be able to walk to stores without getting hit by cars.

The problem specifically for stores is, small classic mom'n'pop stores cannot compete with big retailers like Walmart, Costco and whatnot - they simply cannot get even close to the scale of purchase that the big ones do, and so people prefer to use cars to get to a big retailer because it is more economical.
by 1gn15 | 2025-08-11 15:58:14+00:00
Why isn't anyone talking about the HackerNews Comment Ranker plugin? [1] That's amazing. I had this idea too -- to rank HN comments by their relevance to the actual article, and filter out comments that obviously didn't read it.

Repo: https://github.com/sixhobbits/hn-comment-ranker

I need to modify this to work with local models, though. But this does illustrate the article's point -- we both had an idea, but only one person actually went ahead and did it, because they're more familiar with agentic coding than me.

[1] Oh. I think I understand why. /lh
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-11 15:58:23+00:00
I do this. I love good old fashioned pen and paper.

I've tried, many many times to use digital for both Todos and note taking and nothing ever stuck. Even tried using an iPad with GoodNotes & the Apple Pencil. Pen and paper is the only thing that has ever worked for me still. Plus I enjoy the physical sensation of writing things down physically, with a really nice pen and a high quality notebook.

So I always keep a notebook open on my desk, I intermix Todos and notes on sort of a "daily page" format, and I also carry a little field notes flip pad notebook with me everywhere I go. On the go it's also, oddly enough, less friction to write in my field notes book than it is to take out my phone, unlock it, and suffer through the horrible experience of typing anything out on a virtual keyboard.

OCR is readily available everywhere now so digitizing your handwritten notes, if you have to, is trivial.
by nerevarthelame | 2025-08-11 15:58:51+00:00
The full interview this comes from is off the rails. Gawdat says we'll have AGI by 2026 at the absolute latest, and that we will have artificial super intelligence in the immediate future. He guarantees that after destroying jobs, within 15 years we will be in a "utopia" controlled by AI. It's an absurd level of confidence for an extremely bold prediction.

In his last interview from this series in 2023, Gawdat said that LLMs are "alive in every possible way," have a "very deep consciousness," are "definitely aware," and "feel emotions."

His current endeavors involve an unlaunched combination LLM relationship coach and dating site (matchmaking humans with humans, not with LLMs, as far as I can tell).
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by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-08-11 15:59:08+00:00
I'm sure if you count incidents vs 2015, 2025 has more. But it also has more scale in every aspect. More features, more users, etc. Over the years of using GitHub I've only been blocked from doing dev activities a handful of times because of GitHub outages. None of them are very memorable.

I appreciate the enhancements to the code viewer, like jumping between symbols.