MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perching_aix | 2025-08-02 21:51:34+00:00
I don't claim to have the perfect definition for authoritarian behavior, but I would say that intending to consolidate authority is pretty key to it. Which making drivers' life miserable isn't really connected to, or at least I really don't see it.

Otherwise, the typical government is a central authority made up of people, carrying out lawmaking, adjudication, and enforcement activities [0], and so basically all of them could be characterized this way, with sufficient bad faith. So I'm not sure that's a very meaningful claim.

It definitely could be a misuse of power regardless though, but there's no evidence that I see in your comment that would suggest it was the officials in question misusing their powers rather than aligning with community sentiment or interests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
by rudimentary_phy | 2025-08-02 21:51:40+00:00
I feel this way about most teaching research, but it's likely a sign that I'm starting to get old. Many instructors at my local university have shifted to the "flipped classroom" approach, and the students just don't feel as confident at the conclusion of a class (this is my highly subjective take). I feel like we have too many methods that try to sneak around the hard parts, or the parts that people might initially find boring, as well as eliminated much of the independent struggle to learn. Educators are more likely to choose this path because it avoids having to deal with the pain of that initial start (it's probably often done unconsciously). Of course, happier students also signals to our brains that we are more successful at the same time. A vicious cycle.

For me: I've found that constantly moving towards more difficult things that you aren't quite prepared for is the most effective route. The foundational work I require to accomplish the task is the first thing that gets solidified for me, even if, in my opinion, I'm awful at it when I start. This is one of my criticisms of the modern educational institution and their focus on grades: it discourages this sort of exploration, since it will negatively impact your future (especially if you are the only one doing it). I've always thought that if you are getting an A+ on everything you do, you're wasting most of your time.

/{End of Rant}
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-02 21:52:37+00:00
That has very little to do with 8 versus 16 bytes.

Edit: And not only can you make your own addresses short, if I look up some IPv6 addresses meant to be said/remembered (public DNS IPs), none of them make you type more than 8 bytes (and that one repeats a cluster to make it easier) and some make you type as little as 4 bytes.
by everforward | 2025-08-02 21:52:46+00:00
> 4. If the agent + tools flows get too wily, break it down into smaller domains by spawning sub agents with focused prompts and (less?) tools.

I think where this ultimately goes is a "coordinator" sort of model where the top-level agent primarily decides what needs to happen next and which agent is most equipped to handle that task. This could potentially happen in a recursive fashion (e.g. an agent for each product the company makes, that agent can dispatch to a "frontend" agent or a "backend" agent, etc).

That allows the agents that actually "do things" to maintain a limited context and set of tools, and the managing agents only have to maintain context on what their sub-agents can do.
by waaaaaaaaahhhh | 2025-08-02 21:53:14+00:00
O.k., misled information access...now let me do this for you...

My kinese television-set says: "People are digitally often misled by disinformation."

Have you ever "searchengined" a look for a "lesbian sunset"? The search-engine i used had more than 29,000 search-hits for "lesbian sunset", and i clicked on nearly all of them...but there was none "lesbian sunset" no one, no a single one, none. It showed (for example)...

lesbian sunset

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Lesbian Sunset - Check out our selection of lesbian sunsets to find the most amazing unique or custom-made handmade lesbian sunsets from our stores.

Lesbian sunset: what's going on?

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Lesbians on the Beach: Stock video

...and they dance! Sunset as a stage of belonging.

High-quality lesbian sunset-themed items from all over the world. Get out the cylinder and monocle, now it's time

Sunset for Sale

Reel with a feminist touch and sunset golf course.

Lesbian sunset for adults Colorful ... Lively, inspired by the sunset, expressing identity in style.

Manifesto of the „Lesbian Sunset“

Sunset in red and purple - not just beautiful.

Lesbian sunset in Munich and after-party

A different scene...

I mean, that's a myth.

There is no lesbian sunset for me!

But typed in a search line... over 29,000 hits for "lesbian sunset" (counts)

They don't exist!

You don't even remotely know, even one

not even a single lesbian sunset...

At this point you may ask: "What he/she/it/div was thinking about?" (using an 'AI' to translate and for some 'chars' i forgot the asci-code for - too often...)

A battle-painting is probably the most accurate, i was thinking about 12 x 4 meters, where you've been able to zoom in, if you are at a computerscreen...

I even looked for fresco painters, nothing...!

Not a single lesbian sunset... not one...

(feeling rude about...)

That is what i call a Myth...

...talked too dumb, free! (explanation: How to set a one topic record for been too relevant OT but still related hahaha?)^^
by xienze | 2025-08-02 21:54:38+00:00
I think you’re missing the point. Modern societies with things like welfare, free healthcare, the concept of “retirement”, etc. require a growing population in order to function. But if the natives aren’t reproducing, either the natives have to accept a lower standard of living (ha ha) or you need to import warm bodies to keep the game going. We’re assured, of course, that importing anyone and everyone has absolutely no negative effects, but, well, we’ll see.
by getnormality | 2025-08-02 21:54:50+00:00
It has been a terrible deal. These policies have been a disaster for the industry. They're very expensive and they've raised premiums to cover rising costs, which causes people to drop the policy unless they're sure they'll need it. And then those people often require care for many years, generating massive losses.

Insurance is wonderful when it works, but the conditions for it to work can be quite fragile.
by signal11 | 2025-08-02 21:56:38+00:00
Yes, mshtml was insanely powerful. As an undergrad I was surprised how easy it was to build capable UIs with powerful visual effects[1] using mshtml and JS. Even for C++ Windows apps.

It took a long time for this to become a cross-platform reality, but it did inspire me to ignore distractions like XAML and focus on the web.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-02 21:57:02+00:00
> But they could. And that the reason why "the average price of a new full-size pickup truck is around $64,000"

Car Repos Hit Levels Unseen Since 2008 Financial Crisis - https://www.pymnts.com/transportation/2025/car-repos-hit-lev... - March 27th, 2025

Late Car Payments Hit Highest Rate in More Than 30 Years - https://www.pymnts.com/loans/2025/late-car-payments-hit-high... - March 6th, 2025

St Louis Fed FRED: Average Amount Financed for New Car Loans at Finance Companies - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTCTLVENANM

I’ll see if I have access to the Cox Automotive pickup truck specific repo stats as soon as I’m not mobile. Based on the auto loan delinquency and repo rates, the evidence is fairly robust that people cannot afford these price levels. They get off the lot with the vehicle, certainly, that’s super easy due to easy credit, but then the clock starts ticking on when the car gets repo’d.

(~100M Americans are sub 700 FICO subprime, 33-40% of consumers depending on credit reporting agency providing the data)
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-02 21:57:16+00:00
> I'd love to hear what you think "really fixing it" is, please share.

I'm not that poster, but there's a really easy fix: Just model the system after Hong Kong's.

There's a tax-funded public system available to every citizen, so that everybody gets treatment. In practice, this is mostly utilized by the poor, and for emergencies like broken bones. You can see specialists via the public system, but there can be a wait of weeks to months. This is all effectively free. You'll never see a bill, or the bill will be extremely small. (e.g., $100 for four days of inpatient care.)

There's a private system for those willing to pay. This is unrestrained capitalism with little regulation and no parasitic middlemen. Want to see a specialist right now -- like later this afternoon, or first thing tomorrow morning? Sure. It'll usually be $200 or $300 out of pocket. No insurance necessarily involved. Diagnostics are also super fast -- same day or next day, usually. If you want an elective surgery, or if you want a superior tier of care (like a nicer hospital room, better food, more flexibility re scheduling,) you can pay for it privately... And usually without getting insurance companies involved.

There is effectively no "prescription" system. With very few exceptions for narcotics and certain stimulants, if you need a drug of any kind, you can buy it OTC. This includes steroids, weird nootropics, viagra (lol at needing a prescription for this), and all kinds of stuff. This vastly reduces the burden on the system.

Hong Kong's system is superior in every respect, and it's especially better at treating you like an adult. The American system is simultaneously complex and infantilizing.
by godelski | 2025-08-02 21:57:41+00:00
> There is a group of wealthy individuals who have bought in to the idea that the singularity is months away.

My question is "how many months need to pass until they realize it isn't months away?"

What, it used to be 2025? Then 2027? Now 2030? I know these are not all the same people but there are trends of to keep pushing it back. I guess Elon has been saying full self-driving is a year away since 2016 so maybe this belief can sustain itself for quite some time.

So my second question is: does the expectation of achievements being so close lengthen the time to make such achievements?

I don't think it is insane to think it could. If you think it is really close you'd underestimate the size of certain problems. Claim people are making mountains out of molehills. So you put efforts elsewhere, only to find that those things weren't molehills after all.

Predictions are hard and I think a lot of people confuse critiques with lack of motivation. Some people do find flaws and use them as excuses to claim everything is fruitless. But I think most people that find flaws are doing so in an effort to actually push things forward. I mean isn't that the job of any engineer or scientist? You can't solve problems if you can't identify problems. Triaging and prioritizing problems is a whole other mess, but it is harder to do when you're working at the edge of known knowledge. Little details are often not so little.
by simoncion | 2025-08-02 21:57:44+00:00
To be clear, what you have is a router that's asking your ISP for a DHCPv6-PD prefix, assigning slices of that to one or more interfaces on that router, and what you want is for your dhcpd on that router to assign prefix-oblivious addresses to specific hosts on your LAN?

In other words, you want things to work like this?

ISP-provided-PD-prefix 2001::/64 + Host address ::22 = Assigned address 2001::22 ISP-provided-PD-prefix 2001:1:/64 + Host address ::22 = Assigned address 2001:1::22

If so, I'll poke around the docs to see if this is possible. I'm running both dhcpcd and ISC dhcpd on my LAN and have a hobbyist's experience with them.

But -honestly- what I've done is just relied on SLAAC to handle the globally-routable addresses, and advertised a ULA prefix for stable addresses. These go into my local DNS, but you could just as easily use that for DHCPd.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-02 21:57:45+00:00
I’ve watched a few good talks by people that have coded this kind of thing at the maximum level of scale and complexity, such as Amazon’s checkout system.

The endgame of this problem always turns into some sort of “log of events” with loosely coupled subscribers.

A single state machine suffers from a combinatorial explosion of states as it has to handle every corner case, combinations of every scenario, etc…

What if a single shopping basket contains both a digital good and a physically shipped one? What if some items are shipped separately and/or delayed? Etc…

Instead the business rules are encoded into smaller state machines that listen to events on the log and pay attention only to relevant events. This avoids much of the complexity and allows the OOP types to remain relatively clean and stable over time.

Now the “digital goods” shipping handler can simply listen to events where “delivery=authorized” and “type=digital”, allowing it to ignore how the payment was authorised (or just store credit!) and ignore anything with physical shipping constraints.

It then writes an event that marks that line item in the shopping cart as “delivered”, allowing partial cancellations later, etc…
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-02 21:57:47+00:00
> in SF, there’s a policy that prevents kids from attending elementary school in their own neighborhoods. Instead, they’re assigned to schools on the opposite side of town. In places that are practically inaccessible without a car. And there are no school buses.

Could you explain this policy a little more, or provide some references? I see SFUSD does some sort of matchmaking algorithm for enrollment, so what happens if you select the five (or however many) closest elementary schools? I can imagine a couple reasons why they would institute such a policy, but I’m having trouble finding documentation.
by benswerd | 2025-08-02 21:58:03+00:00
> Maintain an LLM-friendly list of errors that LLMs commonly make when using your thing. For example, in Next.js the `headers` function, as of recently, returns a Promise (it used to return headers directly), and therefore you now have to `await` it, and it's extremely common for LLMs to not include an `await`, which prevents your app from working, and you have to waste time fixing this. It would be really good if Next.js provided an LLM-friendly list of common errors like this one, and there are many others.

My team is actually working on a total revamp of our errors for AI driven debugging. Will write a blog post when its landed more thoroughly, but the current thing we're working on is:

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.

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.

We're not sure exactly how this system will/should look and atm we're working on #1 of these 3.

I'm bearing on the concept of an llm-errors-full.txt for these, as I worry it would create the same effect as a `cat-facts.txt` in practice — by being hyper aware of all the errors it would fixate on them and write code in ways to solve errors it never had. I think it would work much better as an MCP, or a list of codes that it debugs when they come up.

> I think this is definitely relevant at early stages, and for as long as LLMs don't have your APIs in their own knowledge (you can look for "knowledge cut-off" date in model descriptions). I would go as far as saying that this is very important because if you don't have this, and LLMs don't have your APIs in their own knowledge, it will be a pain to use your library/SDK/whatever when coding with LLMs.

I've been thinking a lot about the future of SDKs recently and I'm not sure where they go now. Notably, if AI thrives in consistency, then a lot of object models that my favorite SDKs do don't make sense anymore. Rather a more standardized interface for everything makes more sense because the AI could understand it better.

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.

Thoughts?
by cyberax | 2025-08-02 21:58:09+00:00
Second-order effects. Bikes are nothing but misery generators. They are the absolute WORST commute mode, so people (on average) choose literally anything else when they have that option. We have plenty of proof for that. There are cities with great bike _and_ car infrastructure, and the percentage of bike commutes is about the same as everywhere else.

So the only thing that bike lanes do is sabotage cars and other ground transit.

As a double whammy, bikes are inconvenient (or illegal) to take onto the most rapid and ground transit. And bikeshares are not reliable enough for daily commutes.

All these factors motivate people to move closer to the downtowns, because it becomes inconvenient to live afar. This in turn increases the price of real estate near downtowns, resulting in real estate developers building denser housing. This in turn results in higher rents, smaller units, more crime, etc.

Yes, I have researched this, and I have numbers to back up my words.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-02 21:58:23+00:00
Depends on how you use it. You can "ground" it by asking what authors have explored this or ask for book recommendations, then read the wiki page of the author, read some texts by them etc. You can explore the history as well, like what was happening at that time, who were important contemporaries or influences, people who thought the opposite etc. I've found interesting books (that are somewhat niche but fairly well known in the field, non-fringe) this way.
by achierius | 2025-08-02 21:58:32+00:00
Did I say they were? I just said that dogs cannot be, even if they want to be. This is just one of many things that kids can help with, and for the vast majority of parents in the world, do help with.

This applies to everything else I said too. Your kids are not obliged to spend their time talking with you, but you can hope that they will -- the same cannot be said for a dog.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-08-02 21:59:01+00:00
Society just feels hollowed out, puppeteered, constantly acting against itself and the interest of the people, nice faces, nice gestures, nasty acts and in the end just happy, friendly enemies with enemies on top.

I know, the e-destructions are there to make a society of 8billion "happy" as can be without ravaging the planet, but the life this creates is absolute misery. I rather prefer death or war to that.
by Saline9515 | 2025-08-02 21:59:18+00:00
This is not exactly true. First, many (most?) cyclists do not respect basic road safety rules, such as signaling when you turn, or respecting red lights. Let's not talk about safety behavior, such wearing a helmet or repressing the urge to listen music while riding a bike (I know, crazy, right?).

In France, each dataset shows consistently that accidents are very often caused by cyclists. 35% of the deadly accidents involving another road user were caused by cyclists, and if you consider serious accidents, in 2/3rd of the cases, no cars were involved.

Many deadly accidents are also caused by...a stroke (22% of the deaths), especially for older cyclists. This contradicts your point, as 1/3rd of the "solo deaths" are not caused by strokes. Indeed, 35% of the cyclists dying on the road do not involve another road user.

Hence, when you consider the total amount of cyclists killed on the road, less than half are in accidents where the car is responsible. In the case of suicide-by-redlight, is the car really to blame honestly? [0]

Hence, when accounting for minutes spend on the road, bikes are by far the most dangerous (excluding motorbikes, which at this point is a public program for organ donation).[1]

[0] https://www.cerema.fr/system/files/documents/2024/05/3._2024...

[1] https://www.quechoisir.org/actualite-velo-infographie-plus-d...
by marifjeren | 2025-08-02 21:59:51+00:00
> In both cases the underlying identity model is actually based on DNS, IP, and internet domains - whoever controls those for your email/JWKS controls

Hmm I wonder if you are thinking that the JSON webkeys of the user need to be hosted publicly. I don't think they technically do. It's a common convention to do so (especially at some well-known URL).

But the user actually could instead send their public key on each and every JWT-bearing request they send, and as long as that public key is both (1) pre-registered with the API owner and tied to some identity the API recognizes as some authorized user and (2) can successfully be used to validate the signature, it should work just fine.
by NoLinkToMe | 2025-08-02 21:59:54+00:00
Fully agreed. Although to add, I literally never met someone with a truck, and in fact never owned a car myself either, but rented a car and also ranted a van plenty of times during a move, even with a driver.

Same reason I don't own an airplane, I just rent one with a driver if I go on holiday trips.

Big caveat: I've always lived in a (capital) city of my country and I have no kids yet.

But by and large I think renting for the 3 day a year use-case makes more sense than owning 365 days of the year, even if you have no friends to rely on.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-02 22:01:37+00:00
This is not actually such a big change for me. I've been doing mostly architecture for several years now. Thinking about the big picture, how things fit together, and how to make complex things simple is what I care about. I've been jokingly calling what I do "programming without coding" even before the current AIs existed. It's just that now I have a extra tool I can use for writing the code.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-02 22:02:18+00:00
That map seems like the thing not to do. They have one section of the city where nearly the whole thing is blue and another section where nearly the whole thing is red, whereas what you would presumably want is to make every other road the alternate speed so that cars can prefer the faster roads and pedestrians can prefer the slower roads, thereby not just lowering speeds near pedestrians but also separating most of the cars from them whatsoever, and meanwhile allowing the cars to travel at higher speeds on the roads where most of the pedestrians aren't.
by godelski | 2025-08-02 22:02:27+00:00
> given what even a resource-constrained DeepSeek did to them.

I think a lot of people have a grave misunderstanding of DeepSeek. The conversation is usually framed comparing to OpenAI. But this would be like comparing how much it cost to make the first iPhone (the literal first working one, not how much each Gen 1 iPhone cost to make) with the cost to make any smartphone a few years later. It's a lot easier and cheaper to make something when you have an example in hand. Just like it is a lot easier to learn Calculus than it is to invent calculus.

Which that framing weirdly undermines DeepSeek's own accomplishments. They did do some impressive stuff. But that's much more technical and less exciting of a story (at least to the average person. It definitely is exciting to other AI researchers).