MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alansammarone | 2025-08-17 14:55:17+00:00
No. People do need to know about your product. What appears to be a (_very_ sad and at the same time telling about the human condition) fact is that business people ("decision makers") apparently can't spot blatant, extremely low quality and low effort, marketing-driven snake-oil, laughingly ignore it, and do a 5 minutes google search to find something better by themselves, perhaps with the apparently tremendous effort of having to click a Github link (which provides actual proof, or at least a test, of actual skill), and from there click on the heavily, kind of honest marketing driven website (i.e. it has images) that would allow them to verify the quality of the product.
by breakyerself | 2025-08-17 14:55:17+00:00
I completely agree we need to tax the rich and build public housing, but we do also need to allow for greater density in metropolitan areas. We have to build more housing and if we aren't increasing density then we're creating sprawl.

Sprawl chews up more and more farmland and forest, lengthens commutes, increases congestion. There's enough subdivisions and single family neighborhoods already.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-17 14:55:48+00:00
Bird migrations aren't that easy to observe with 1822 tech either. It's not like they could stick a GPS recorder on a bird, or mark a bird and follow it in a car. You can make local observations (many birds fly overhead, heading South-East) but with how difficult travel was it's not trivial to piece that together to the conclusion that birds travel from Europe all the way to Africa
by csa | 2025-08-17 14:56:09+00:00
> IQ of 200 (or higher) do not exist according to the original definitions of this metric

Just to expand in this point…

Most IQ tests for adults lose a lot of precision over 130 (2sd), and they are extremely imprecise over 145 (3sd) — almost to the point that a scores over 145 should simply be labeled 145+.

When I did a deep dive into the IQ test literature 20 years ago, the most reliable correlated predictors for 145+ were standardized tests like the GRE. That said, standardized tests like these have high specificity and (relatively) low sensitivity — that is, very few false positives and many false negatives.
by immibis | 2025-08-17 14:56:19+00:00
Chargebacks are for unauthorized transactions and broken contracts, not anything you regret. Attempting to chargeback an authorized transaction where you received the goods or services is a felony.

Also a chargeback is what the bank does to the merchant. From your perspective as the end user, you don't do a chargeback. What you do is you complain to your bank and they decide how to proceed from there.
by jimmis | 2025-08-17 14:56:27+00:00
As a designer/dev working on AI for customer service tools, who has to constantly reminding stakeholders that LLMs aren't creative, aren't good at steering conversations, etc. I wish there was more focus on integrating AI into tools in ways that make work faster, rather than trying to do-it-all. There's still so much low-hanging fruit out there.

Other than the obvious (IDEs), wish there were more tools like Fusion360's ai auto-constraints. Saves so much time on something that is mostly tedious and uncreative. I could see similar integrations for Blender (honestly the most interesting part of what op posted is changing the materials... could save a lot of time spent connecting noodles).
by bigyabai | 2025-08-17 14:56:31+00:00
Offshoring is Cook's specialty. If he was any good at onshoring then Apple wouldn't be in this position to begin with.

It's too late to play hardball, anyways; Europe has already started enforcing their legislation and America's own DOJ has already prosecuted an antitrust case against Apple. There's no more room to give Apple impunity because everyone admit that they've abused their benefit of the doubt.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-17 14:56:43+00:00
I'm not sure how to describe this phenomenon where one person says $CLASS has $DEFICIENCY and they are respected and understood. Then someone else uses the same phrasing to reframe the statement to mean the same thing from a different perspective and that idea is rejected without explanation as to why.

Allistic people do fail to empathize with autistic people everyday. To suggest otherwise only ignorantly refutes my lived experience. Only gaslighting will convince autistic folk that they should disregard that. (And that happens everyday, sadly.)
by linker3000 | 2025-08-17 14:57:02+00:00
Well, I still own the ancestor - a BBC B.

As a schoolboy I was one of a handful who were in the computer club. We had a CBM (PET) 3016, a few Acorn System Ones and a UK101 that was built by our physics teacher.

One day this big grey prototyping keyboard case turned up. There was a microcassette unit fitted for loading and saving programs, and the whole thing was connected to a colour TV via an umbilical cord that looked like a vacuum cleaner hose.

We were given task sheets with projects to complete on this unit, and we could control the TV from the keyboard, read Teletext pages AND download programs.

It was a fun piece of kit that stayed with us for a couple of months.

In hindsight, I realised that the unit was a pre-production BBC Micro and we'd been part of a pre-launch test programme thanks to that same physics teacher.
by hungryhobbit | 2025-08-17 14:57:19+00:00
Bun is still a toddler: it's not ready for primetime.

Simple example: you know how at the command line you can type "npm run", and then type a character or two, hit tab, and the appropriate script from your `package.json` will autocomplete? And if you keep going (eg. "npm run knex") you can do the same thing to autocomplete arguments?

Bun still hasn't figured out how to do that (https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/6037), even though they can all but copy NPM's (already written) completions. I really liked using bun when I played around with it (and it ran my codebase perfectly, without issue) ... but if they can't handle something as simple as Bash completions, they're clearly not ready for the big leagues.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-17 14:58:56+00:00
What do you mean? Is this one of those sovereign citizen type of arguments?

The government provides a range of services that are deemed to be broadly beneficial to society. Your refusal of that service doesn't change the fact that the service is being provided.

If you don't like the services you can get involved in politics or you can leave, both are valid options, while claiming that you're being enslaved and robbed is not.
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by sethaurus | 2025-08-17 14:59:32+00:00
> Can you give a definition of what autism means then?

Wikipedia's definition is fine; it's describing the real diagnostic criteria, not a stereotype. The crucial thing is that to a third party, those traits won't always be obvious.

One of the axes upon which autistic people vary is their ability to mask those traits. The stereotype is a person with obvious symptoms who cannot (or at least does not) mask them socially. Presentations of autism frequently include some aspect of masking and some ability to "pass" as non-autistic, but with substantial cost and effort to the individual.

> It's my impression that people now use the term autism is for pretty much any sort of neurodiversity (and even for traits within neuronormal, e.g. likes math).

That may be so, but there are also plenty of people with actual diagnoses (and many others who meet the criteria) who don't fit the traditional image of an autistic person.

That's why I object to the claim that the term "autistic" has "lost all meaning." What's been lost is the ability to tell at a glance who is autistic, because the diagnostic manual now applies the criteria consistently regardless of whether their impact is immediately obvious to a stranger.

My personal experience, after getting diagnosed in my late 30s, has been observing the significant effort I spent masking — trying to pass as non-autistic — and choosing to use that energy differently. In that sense, I've probably become a little bit more obviously-autistic than before, but in a way which makes my life easier and more comfortable.
by colejohnson66 | 2025-08-17 15:00:19+00:00
Yes. Writing a language in your free time means juggling work on the side. Or you can be at Google and get paid to write Go for your job, and get free marketing from it. Even Rust had the backing of Mozilla. Until your "pet" language reaches critical mass that you can sustain yourself and quit your day job, you're fighting the giants.
by cloudkleyer | 2025-08-17 15:00:20+00:00
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by elcritch | 2025-08-17 15:01:55+00:00
The notion that we need to all program in the top 10 popular programming languages seems dead with the advent of LLMs.

I program a lot in Nim including professionally and strongly prefer it over Rust or even Zig.

Primarily because I just really enjoy programming in Nim and getting things done I wouldn’t have otherwise or be capable of doing.

For example recently I needed to automate a GUI app. I tried the Python libraries but found they kinda sucked. Despite pulling in opencv they were slow at finding buttons in a screenshot. Then the one I tried also broke on hidpi displays.

Instead I got Claude to write me up a Nim library to find images in a screenshot. Then had Claude add SIMD to it.

It’s far faster than the python libraries, supports hidpi, and is far easier to install and use. I still use a small Python app as a server to take the screenshots but it’s a nice balance.

> I guess a lot of languages are kind of fungible. If you want a fast, cross platform, GC-based OOP language, the truth is, there are many choices.

It’s true, in many cases they are fungible. Though much less so for languages which compile to native code. LLMs do lower the barrier to switching.

Nim isn’t really a GC’ed OOP language though it supports some bits of that.

It’s really a systems language that can also run anywhere from an embedded device to a web server and as a JavaScript app.

The new default memory management is based on reference counting with or without a cycle collector. So it’s great for latency sensitive settings.
by specialist | 2025-08-17 15:01:55+00:00
We also have usury, private credit rating services, transaction reordering, payday loans, charging the unbanked to cash their paychecks, required minimum balances, dark patterns, zombie subscriptions, and probably a dozen more grifts.

Our economy is now financialization of everything, rent seeking, wealth transfer instead of wealth creation, ad nauseum.

I'm nostalgic for when we could create wealth by making and doing, and punished people for stealing. (Perhaps it was never true, I've always been delusional.)
by mandeepj | 2025-08-17 15:01:55+00:00
> - the smaller 5B model supports up to 720p24 video and runs on 24 GB of VRAM, e.g. an RTX 4090, a consumer graphics card

Seems like you can run it 2 Gpus each having 12 GB VRAM. At least, a breakdown on their GitHub page implied so.
by kouru225 | 2025-08-17 15:02:03+00:00
“Useful” as in: a framework that gets the result you want. And yet the framework they’re describing has a serious and obvious flaw, and so it won’t reliably get the result they want.

If we believe in intention, then how can we ever understand all the examples of people that had good intentions but still ended up acting immorally? We can argue they’re lying or that their intentions weren’t pure enough for our taste, but there absolutely will be cases that don’t fall into those two categories. Also, even with all our philosophy, psychology, and experience, we have no idea what their internal world was like. We might as well just be reading tea leaves.

The whole function of treating ethics this way is to provide reassurance to everyone that they don’t need to worry about screwing everything up… but it’s just reassurance. You need reassurance because your anxiety is valid. There’s no philosophical framework or purity of heart that can save you from making a bad decision that does more bad than good. You just have to do the best you can.
by alansammarone | 2025-08-17 15:03:20+00:00
Same reply as I wrote above:

No. People do need to know about your product. What appears to be a (_very_ sad and at the same time telling about the human condition) fact is that business people ("decision makers") apparently can't spot blatant, extremely low quality and low effort, marketing-driven snake-oil, laughingly ignore it, and do a 5 minutes google search to find something better by themselves, perhaps with the apparently tremendous effort of having to click a Github link (which provides actual proof, or at least a test, of actual skill), and from there click on the heavily, kind of honest marketing driven website (i.e. it has images) that would allow them to verify the quality of the product.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-17 15:04:09+00:00
On the other hand, as both an artist and machine learning practitioner, I think most artists are only seeing the surface layer here and have little insight on its derivative, the algorithms and state of research which are advancing the state of the art on a weekly basis. It'll never be obvious that we're at the critical moment because critical phase changes happen all at once, suddenly, out of nowhere.

There is an insane amount of low-hanging fruit right now, and potentially decades or centuries of very important math to be worked out around optimal learning strategies, but it's clear that we do have a very strong likelihood of our ways of life being fundamentally altered by these technologies.

I mean already, artists are suddenly having to grip with all sorts of new and forgotten questions around artistic identity and integrity, what qualifies as art, who qualifies as an artist... Generative technology has already made artists begin to question and radically redefine the nature of art, and if it's good enough to do that, I think it's already worth serious consideration. These technologies, even in current form, were considered science fiction or literal magic up until very recently.
by throwanem | 2025-08-17 15:04:09+00:00
"Written only in TypeScript" might put it better. If your module ships TypeScript source and a JS build as it should, then this will never affect it. Otherwise, to support stripping arbitrary modules would immediately compromise the design goal of light weight, due to the torrent of ill-founded and -formed bug reports incorrectly raised on Node that would follow. ("Don't make the maintainers' lives too miserable to continue the work" being also of course an implicit goal.)
by robwwilliams | 2025-08-17 15:04:20+00:00
Human IQ has been going up at a very fast rate for the last 100 years. Kids tested by the Army being enlisted for WW1 who had a mean score of 100(by definition) in 1917 now would have a mean score of lss than 80. Tons of interesting work on why IQ is shooting up, but it definitely is NOT genetics.

This is known as the Flynn effect. Here is the wikipedia entry in case you want more details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Video games like Civilization and Myst etc, probably add 5 to 10 IQ points to kids. My 9 year old knew all about Greek triremes. Me: What the heck is a trireme?

Most if what people call “genetic effects” are actually “genetic-by-environment” interaction effects. Chane the environment and you change the APPARENT heritability. Good example is the genetics of substance use disorders which range from 30 to 60%—-but IF AND ONLY IF there are drugs around to which you are exposed in YOUR environment.?

Same applies to good and bad schools.
by lazide | 2025-08-17 15:04:25+00:00
It’s called the ‘paradoxical calming effect’. Here is a nature article on it [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07029-2].

Here is more detailed data [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45708101_Role_of_Ab...].

It doesn’t happen to everyone with ADHD, but the majority.

The effect itself was prominent/notable as early as WW1, as the drugs were widely used by all parties to help fight fatigue and drowsiness. However, a small percentage of the population would end up with the opposite effect - ending up tired, even sleepy, and often calmer instead of more alert.

It took awhile however, before wider implications of sub-population differences in drug effects like this were studied or applied.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-17 15:04:27+00:00
And once again, you aren’t focused on dealing with the facts on the ground as they exist. You can blame low information voters or anything else. But you don’t win elections by turning a blind eye to reality.

Conservatives love the fact that Democrats won’t fight dirty and are letting states like Florida and Texas run roughshod over them and still think they are in the 60s where MLK told people if they let the police beat them long enough and march “peacefully” it will change hearts and minds. What did BLM change? What did “going high while they go low” change?

But the DNC is focused on having equal representation of males and females and making sure the right pronouns are on a committee
by hungryhobbit | 2025-08-17 15:04:40+00:00
Next is where it's at these days in my opinion. You get a full-featured client-side React framework (the only one that supports modern React SSG), and then on top of it you get a better-organized approach to doing everything you can do with Express.

And do mean everything: I run an entire Postrgraphile server through Next (and you can easily do the sme with Supabase or a similar tool)!
by tyleo | 2025-08-17 15:04:46+00:00
I find all this hyperbolic. Apple is dying because they are the third most valuable company in the world rather than the first? That’s a hard sell for me.

I’m sure they could have done some things better but they are hardly a dying husk at this point. Many argued the same for Microsoft as Ballmer laid the foundation for Azure and Enterprise that propelled them back to the top nearly a decade later.
by jdhwosnhw | 2025-08-17 15:05:15+00:00
> How much of a chance do you think we have of meaningfully changing a government, if they can guess with 80% degree accuracy how everyone voted, based on their chats and social networks

This doesnt really detract from your overall point, but you may be underestimating how easy it already is for the government to tell how you will vote, without use of networking information. Just knowing someone’s educational level and zip code is enough to guess their voting preferences to a high degree of accuracy (the latter component being the reason why gerrymandering is so effective).
by cryptonector | 2025-08-17 15:06:32+00:00
Yes, and thus circuit breakers. By sizing offered capacity to some factor of actual capacity you can limit the effects of too much demand to causing backpressure naturally (rejecting requests) instead of timeouts and retries. This then allows you some level of access -- such as to your health and diagnostics end-points, because CPU usage doesn't become so high that you can't even run those.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-17 15:06:37+00:00
Some times HN comments are a time machine that reveal people stuck in the past who hate anything modern.

A couple weeks back someone was arguing that websites these days are too slow. So slow that it took them minutes of waiting time to order something online. Then they revealed that they were using a computer that was nearly two decades old and didn’t even have enough RAM to meet the requirements of a modern OS and browser. “But it should work!” was their refrain.
by la64710 | 2025-08-17 15:06:51+00:00
H1-b s are small compared to the offshoring of jobs. Have you seen the office sizes of every big and medium technology company in India and other countries? They employ thousands of programmers there. There is a much greater number of jobs that you don’t even see that’s get done from overseas. This invisible layer is much bigger than the annual 65k h1b jobs.
by treeform | 2025-08-17 15:07:04+00:00
I feel like Nim made me fall in love with programming again.

Nim fixes many of the issues I had with Python. First, I can now make games with Nim because it’s super fast and easily interfaces with all of the high performance OS and graphics APIs. Second, typos no longer crash in production because the compiler checks everything. If it complies it runs. Finally, refactors are easy, because the compiler practically guides you through them. The cross compiling story is great you can compile to JS on the front end. You can use pytorch and numpy from Nim. You can write CUDA kernels in Nim. It can do everything.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enj...
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-08-17 15:07:44+00:00
Looking into this, I found this 2023 paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03668

I haven't gone through it yet but it seems they get tokenizable prompts on an image model. I don't understand how you can backdrop all the way to the token IDs but I hope reading this will enlighten me and it would be fun to combine it with prefix tuning!
by hungryhobbit | 2025-08-17 15:08:30+00:00
ECMAScript community is actually dipping their toes in the water of adding typing to the spec, and it's at Stage 1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations.

Now of course, this would only add type syntax to the language, not true processing: there's nothing in the spec about actually handling them. Still, it's a step in that direction, so I wouldn't say "very unlikely to ever happen" ... "still a long ways off (if ever)" would be more accurate.
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-17 15:08:44+00:00
And that I can see being an interesting survey. It becomes more about “what’s kinds of problem solving tools do you enjoy using?”

I could easily answer that. I love solving the kinds of problems that call for strong static typing and careful specifications and unit testing. I also love the opportunity to “whip up a script” in what feels like a hacker speedrun.

I absolutely adore teaching newcomers intro to programming. Holy crap the glimmer in their eyes when they grok what this opens them up to… I skip past all the “computer science” and jump into making a small game and sharing it with friends via web. Or even just Autohotkey to show them how they can become a hacker of their own computer habits.