MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by queenkjuul | 2025-08-02 17:20:56+00:00
Based on my usage of Claude Code, i would not trust it with anything so major.

My problem with it is that it produces _good looking_ code that, at a glance, looks 'correct', and occasionally even works. But then i look at it closely, and it's actually bad code, or has written unnecessary additional code that isn't doing anything, or has broken some other section of the app, etc.

So if you don't know enough C# to tell whether the C# it's spitting out is good or not, you're going to have a bad time
by TheJoeMan | 2025-08-02 17:21:08+00:00
I don’t know if Tim Cook has actually tried Siri day-to-day like most typical users who get frustrated. Half the time I ask siri to convert units of measure, it pulls up a web search? We’re not asking for siri to have LLM abilities to compose sonnets. Interestingly, does anyone remember when siri would use WolframAlpha for answers? Perhaps that’s the company Apple should buy not OpenAI.
by Amorymeltzer | 2025-08-02 17:21:11+00:00
I've always loved the recent[1] summary from `perlre`:

>o - pretend to optimize your code, but actually introduce bugs

1: I still think of it as a relatively new change, but it's from 2013: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7cf040c1f649790a4040aec...>
by tonydav | 2025-08-02 17:21:12+00:00
I can't have a laptop without the trackpoint. But why can't my fulloption P16 gen2 have a working suspend sleep S3?

It's a furnace in my backpack.

Also why lose the RJ45?

Sadly there is no better laptop.. - ecc - trackpoint +3buttons, could be without touchpad - camera shutter privacy - smartcard reader - 2 nvme (<3 zfs mirror) - big battery

<3 NixOS
by refulgentis | 2025-08-02 17:21:35+00:00
It's linking llama.cpp and using Metal, so I presume GPU/CPU only.

I'm more than a bit overwhelmed with what I've gotten on my plate and have completely missed the boat on ex. understanding what MLX is, really curious for a thought dump if you have some opinionated experience/thoughts here. (ex. never crossed my mind until now that you might get better results on the NPU than GPU)
by doytch | 2025-08-02 17:21:46+00:00
This is a gross simplification on both accounts.

US Army veterans do have a higher rate of arthritis but their days are quite different from the "run 3-5 days a week" that most people think of when talking about recreational runners.

And the pacemaker comment stood out so I did a bit of digging and found a study [1] you might be referring to. Again, the effects were strong only in the heavy-duty-exercisers/pro/semi-pro cross-country skiier group. Additionally, this didn't offset the gains to cardiovascular or mortality risk - that group was still "healthier."

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39101218/
by pmarreck | 2025-08-02 17:21:51+00:00
oooh. wow. yeah, I am the target market lol. I'm looking now! Just signed up for the waitlist.

Not sure if related, but I had kind of a miserable childhood (authoritarian parents, difficulty in fitting in due to being an insecure runty nerd, being a late bloomer due to late-onset hormones caused women to not be interested until much later, etc.) and I used to cry, I'd say, a lot, and then one day I suddenly stopped (not sure why, but just kind of got fed up with doing it?), and I basically haven't had a good cry since. Not through relationship breakups, not through my mom passing away, not through pet losses. I'd tear up a little, maybe while listening to a song that touched me, that's it. I reckon I haven't had a good, long, sincere cry in almost 40 fucking years.

My parents are German and pretty stoic, not sure if related. When my dad's parents and brother and sister died, I didn't see him cry. The ONLY time I saw him cry (which was jarring, as a kid) is when his beloved sailboat washed up on the rocks during a hurricane. He did kind of wail when he was walking the dog that got away from him and which then got immediately run over, but...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-02 17:22:14+00:00
But growth is also going to slow due to demographics, and this is unavoidable. Are we going to prioritize caring for humans? Or line goes up? Because line goes up is going to hit the demographic wall eventually.

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-dep...

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/spring/summer-2018/demogra...

https://www.cato.org/commentary/clear-eyed-look-our-demograp...

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf
by wpm | 2025-08-02 17:22:25+00:00
The Framework keyboard is precisely why I haven’t bought one. The mixed height arrow key thing sucked on the touchbar MacBook Pros, they suck on FWs too. The second the 13 gets a normal inverted T, I buy one.

In the meantime, I’m waiting on a display converter board to show up from China so I can install a modernish 1440p display in my T420.
by begueradj | 2025-08-02 17:23:05+00:00
> Compared to virtually any other animal, we can vastly outperform them in the most arduous environments. Our bodies are mechanically optimized for running at every level.

I'm not sure from where you got this because any documentary/book/article and simply real life experiences related to this subject states the opposite (take a common animal such as a dog as an example)
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 17:23:10+00:00
Your comment makes me sad, its clear you've fallen into the "blind left" rabbit hole. You take a comment like "catch you when you say something they don't like" means and assume they are "far right". On a spectrum of 1 to 10 where 1 is right and 10 is left. You can be at 6-7 and the people are 8-9-10 will shout your head off. This is a well documented issue in this day and age. Plenty of left thought leaders complaining about the ultra left.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 17:23:11+00:00
> In the old days, not-socialize people tend to be forced to socialize anyway; but techonology enables them to not-socialize 99% of time now. Likewise, socialize people needed to put in more effort to socialize in the old days, but now it's easier than ever.

This is my favorite point from the whole thread.

It has never been easier for someone to stay home, get a remote job, and even order grocery delivery to their door if they want.

A couple of my friends started going down that path unintentionally. Once you have a well paying remote job and your city makes it easy to get groceries and food delivered, combined with the infinite availability of entertainment on Netflix or from games, social skills and relationships can start to atrophy rapidly.

It’s even worse for people who never had much of a social life. When there are so many paths forward to continue avoiding a social life, it takes a lot of effort to break free and change your routines.
by mpascale00 | 2025-08-02 17:23:24+00:00
I disagree. You can read a book or listen to a record, watch a dvd, unlimited times, having fairly paid upfront a price for the item. A computer is general purpose and lets you check your email every day, hell even lets you create new value in the form of new software, without the manufacturer receiving a royalty.

The idea of capturing reward post-receipt is feudalistic.
by jcynix | 2025-08-02 17:23:59+00:00
>Like someone already said: what if you get an injury going to hard at it?

There's no need to go hard, even steady walking for 20 minutes a day is healthy. And recent studies show that you don't need to jog or run, walking is almost as efficient and less stressful for your joints.

One of the best ways to exercise as long as you aren't a brain in a jar is to use an indoor rowing machine. Rowing will engage about 80% of your muscles.
by afthonos | 2025-08-02 17:24:04+00:00
I can’t be sure, but my impression is that army drills (1) push uniformly (rather than let you improve at your own pace) and (2) often involve carrying your kit, which is 20-40lbs. Neither of these is similar to the kind of running GP describes, namely unburdened, at a comfortable speed, over ~arbitrary distances.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-02 17:24:04+00:00
> You don’t need to pay anything more than what it takes to get you to someone else or a common meeting spot like a walk through the park.

You also need somone to go take that walk with you and the social skills to organize it

Yes, it is possible to hangout without spending money. That said, the kind of activities it tends to be easier to get people to agree to go do also tend to cost money. As those activities cost more and more, that decreases the amount of socialization that happens. Sure, some of that shifts to lower cost activities and perhaps that shift increases over time as culture changes. That doesn't mean that rising prices don't explain some of the measured decrease in social activity.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-02 17:24:10+00:00
Once I lived in a desert commune that was like this. Frown on boozing (or over boozing) otherwise everyone was as wildlander as one can imagine.

Location for this was everything. Live like a well stocked savage in a pristine removed wonder of the world.

Community was around for so long there were prepper’s stocks spanning decades.

Btw, MREs do die. And they’re nothing worth living on.
by rectang | 2025-08-02 17:24:12+00:00
It's not like "spewing maga talking points" is the only way to show fealty — accepting Republican framing of issues suffices, such as "the national debt is a problem so the only option is to cut entitlements". The joke goes that "NPR stands for Nice Polite Republicans".

I look forward to at least some of public radio going full pinko commie since Republican as a group have spent so much time demonizing them. With the government funding gone, there's no point in trying to stay in Republican good graces when public radio's listeners and donors are elsewhere.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-02 17:24:56+00:00
A general takeaway from this is that there were a number of innovations that made sense at the time, but as the landscape changed, they lost their utility. The butterfly keyboard wasn't needed once screens got larger. The switch to widescreen mean the 7th row of keys competed with the trackpad for real estate. The lid latch was no longer needed as screens got lighter. Top-of-screen keyboard lighting got replaced by backlighting.

Don't get married to once-smart ideas that no longer make sense.

Also surprised there was no mention of docking HDD heads when the in-device accelerometer (I think this even predates the Wii and iPhone) detects a drop or the keyboard that had drain holes that bypass the much more expensive motherboard, protecting it from spills.

And I'm glad there was no mention of the adaptive keyboard (touchscreen F keys) that Apple also tried and failed at making a thing.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-02 17:24:58+00:00
GLP-1 is a rare opportunity for our overweight nation to "get back on the treadmill" in both a literal and figurative way.

If you have been sedentary for a long time and are overweight, you obviously have too much weight for your muscular strength and connective tissues, which have concurrently atrophied with inactivity, in addition to reduced neuro-biomechanic maps in your brain since you haven't used the circuitry.

This all adds up to a high initial injury risk in starting exercise even if you have the mentally focus.

But GLP-1, if it is the miracle it purports, should be able to drop overweight people, even if it is temporarily, to the point where you can being exercise much more safely, and/or with more intensity and duration to get more benefits sooner.

On a macro level a universal health care system that is cheap and effective is really a generation or two away with heavily incentivized exercise, and not without precedent, if I am to understand what Iceland did.

We will live longer, live far better, feel better, look better, be happier, more connected, less anxious, more adventurous, smarter, more productive. These aren't 1-2% improvements at macro levels. 10% improvements, which in pharma land are considered exceptionally effective drugs, and a minimum, and 30-50% miracle drug levels of outcomes are on the table.

But our medical establishment is either drugs or surgery. The extent of insurance company inducements are "silver sneakers".

The perverse accounting involved in extreme obesity may demand a national level program of "Biggest Loser" (although, not to that insanity) for financial inducements to get people to lose weight, because the loss of "caring" for the obese (FORTY PERCENT of Americans are obese and it keeps getting worse each decade).
by abetusk | 2025-08-02 17:25:24+00:00
Neatocal [0]:

Fiscal calendar (start_month=6): https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?start_month=6

Academic calendar(start_month=7): https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?start_month=7

Other presets: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...

Full list of parameters: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#param...

[0] https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal
by sparkie | 2025-08-02 17:26:37+00:00
It depends on the FP rounding mode. If rounding mode is FE_TOWARDZERO/FE_UPWARD/FE_TONEAREST then the case you gave is the only one I'm aware of. If rounding mode is FE_DOWNWARD (towards negative infinity) then other calculations that result in a zero will give a -0.0.

Here's an example of -1.0f + 1.0f resulting in -0.0: https://godbolt.org/z/5qvqsdh9P
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-02 17:26:53+00:00
Hot fucking take - but if these 100 (or whatever small number is being thrown around these days) elite researchers disappeared overnight, the world would go on and little of it would be noticed. New people in the field would catch up, and things would be up to speed quick enough.

It is not a question of exquisitely rare intellect, but rather the opportunity and funding/resources to prosper.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-08-02 17:27:31+00:00
For software, you can often inject the "bad" data only during test time or in dev mode. E.g. a lot of Maps don't guarantee interaction order but in practice it's insertion order or alphabetical. I always feel a bit of sheudenfrued when someone gets bit by this and I get to tell them told you! It's in the spec! But anyway you can randomize the order at a performance loss during testing to prevent people depending on it. We do this, and for i18n strings too (which can of course change if something is retranslated or the format is modified)
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-02 17:27:46+00:00
I imagine there are 3 different types of locale:

* Drinking in public is legal

* Drinking in public is illegal (strictly enforced)

* Drinking in public is illegal (give cops discretion to arrest intoxicated troublemakers who are hollering, pestering people, or otherwise engaging in mild antisocial behavior)
by bredren | 2025-08-02 17:28:25+00:00
I agree here. GP should take time to learn the thing and use AI to assist in learning not direct implementation.

If there is going to be room for junior folks in SWE, it will probably be afforded to those who understand some language’s behaviors at a fairly decent level.

I’d presume they will also be far better at system design, TDD and architecture than yesterday’s juniors, (because they will have to be to drive AI better than other hopeful candidates).

But there will be plenty of what will be grey beards around that expect syntactical competence and fwiw, if you can’t read your own code, even slowly, you fail at the most crucial aspect of AI accelerated development—-validation.
by jocaal | 2025-08-02 17:28:32+00:00
L comment. If every person on the planet subscribed to the $200pm product, OpenAI's revenue would be 16.8 trillion dollars (used 7bn people x $2400pa). Would be hilarious for a company making that type of revenue to be only worth 300bn.

Let's look at it from another perspective. It's not uncommon for tech companies to be valued at around a PE ratio of 30. This would mean a company worth 300bn should make about 10bn in profit each year. Chatgpt's usage is as ubiquitous as products that make 100's of billions in profit such as google search and instagram, does the valuation really seem that insane? OpenAI just needs to open the ad flood gates and suddenly no one is laughing anymore.
by laurencerowe | 2025-08-02 17:28:38+00:00
What would be the limitation that prevents you from mountain biking? It seems to have a similar sized bed to a Tacoma?

I’m unsure why people think they need such big vehicles for outdoors sports. We drove thousands of miles around Europe with 4 kayaks on the roof of a Ford Fiesta. Or you can easily fit three mountain bikes on a rear bike rack.
by kwan11 | 2025-08-02 17:28:53+00:00
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by spencerflem | 2025-08-02 17:29:17+00:00
No offense, but if they're having so much trouble maintaining connections with the people around them that they believe that they have no more need for other humans altogether, something has gone wrong.

The far right was from looking at their comment history and a little bit of reading between the lines. Maybe my read is wrong, but if you don't at least see the parent comment as a cry for help I don't know what to tell you.

Its well documented that online people will scream their heads off because there's no relationship worth maintaining, everything is temporary, but IRL a much wider range is tolerated.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-02 17:29:20+00:00
I can only suggest you ask your AI friends about the benefits of socialising and its importance to human development, they can explain it to you in a way that might not make you defensive. Yes, accepting things you have no control over is a sign of maturity. Hiding in your room talking to your phone won't make the scary people outside disappear, you're going to have to deal with them someday.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-02 17:29:23+00:00
> There was a giant scare that this Chinese company was going to destroy ThinkPad

It's been long enough to say that Lenovo really did right by the Thinkpad name. I recently switched from an X1 Carbon to a Macbook Pro because of Windows issues, and I miss the Thinkpad is built and feels. The case isn't as sharp, I prefer the trackpoint, plastic is weirdly more durable because it can flex, and all the parts are replaceable.
by abetusk | 2025-08-02 17:29:36+00:00
No drag ability but you can put different color data into a data JSON file that gets used when rendering for Neatocal [0] (fork/extension of Neatnik's calendar).

Example: https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?data=example/sched.json

[0] https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal
by bad_username | 2025-08-02 17:29:55+00:00
> That I was born in the capital of the world’s richest country is one of the greatest strokes of luck in my life—a pure accident of timing and gametes. There is no way to pay back this good fortune, and wallowing in guilt over it would do nothing, either.

Why in the world does the author have to feel so bad about beibg lucky in some way? How does luck deserve the feeling of guilt? This has to be as unhealthy as exercise is healthy.

Grateful, yes, appreciative, absolutely, motivated to do good, of course. Having to pay "back" (to whom?), feeling guilty? Absurd and corrosive
by sixdimensional | 2025-08-02 17:30:03+00:00
It wasn't an ad. I used to work for the parent company of PWS years ago, and their weather model was really awesome.

I thought the TAMDAR tech reference might be if interest to those following and reading comments here.

I'm not associated with them anymore and I'm not sure how much of their model still exists after the assets were sold to flyht, but I hope it does because we need good weather models!

Fair enough being vigilant, but not an ad.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-02 17:30:13+00:00
How can you end up with code you don't understand, if you review anything it writes? I wouldn't let it deviate from the architecture I want to have for the project. I had problems with junior devs in the past, too eager to change a project, and I couldn't really tell them to stop (need to work on my communication skills). No such problem with Claude Code.
by Den_VR | 2025-08-02 17:30:20+00:00
For sure. As others mentioned some locals have gone so far as to make drinking in public illegal.

Now in your example, suppose you’re a lonely stranger. Do you just nudge in on a circle with your beer and “Hi I’m Shawa” ?

Your answer may be yes, but in other cultures that’s going to get the police called, or maybe end in a stabbing. Which is why society is in the state it’s in
by galangalalgol | 2025-08-02 17:30:38+00:00
Yeah 16/8 isn't even an effort because I like my breakfast late. But I'm double fast twitch so my chosen form of cardio is weights. I keep it above 90% max for about 90min three times weekly, but I need the off days for recovery. Happy where I am, numbers are good, wife likes how I look, good enough for me. I put on both fat and muscle easy so being 5% above max healthy weight while eating right amd lifting probably isn't that far out of whack.
by alexharri | 2025-08-02 17:30:42+00:00
As a native Icelandic speaker, I have an intuition for how to decline names -- I don't really think about it consciously. I'd assume that for most people it's just pattern matching.

Native speakers very frequently decline names in ways that are not technically perfect but sound correct enough. For example, my name (Alex) should not be declined, but people frequently use the declension pattern (Alex, Alex, Alexi, Alexar).

There's some parallel to be drawn with how the compressed trie applies patterns that it's learned to names. That's at least how I thought about it when designing the library.
by jcrawfordor | 2025-08-02 17:31:29+00:00
A tremendous portion of the truck market are people who live in urban to suburban areas and need to move things. For that audience, the ability to fit a 4x8' plywood sheet easily puts this ahead of a surprising number of conventional trucks on utility. The 2k lbs payload on the 2WD drive model is more than a Tacoma and some configurations of the F150, for example, popular models that also don't fit a 4x8 sheet without strapping it down over the cab or another awkward technique. It also lists a towing cap of 6,600 which is competitive with many production pickups.

There's a divide in needs between off-roading and moving things around, and this seems oriented in the moving things around direction. I can easily see it working for a landscaper in a suburban environment, for example, where the driving miles per day are really not that high and 6,600 is plenty for a typical landscaper's trailer.

From everything I've seen, true off-roading applications are a pretty small portion of the overall truck market, and one that many popular trucks right now are also poorly optimized for (popular 2WD configurations, middling clearances, etc).
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-02 17:33:06+00:00
>from 43.5 percent to 48.7 percent, representing an increase of over 5 percentage points.

Honestly not that big of a change.

Insofar as people online talk about a big shift towards loneliness, I suspect that Aurornis is correct that self-selection has a lot to do with it.

I wonder if that small change in the average is masking a larger change in the variance. Perhaps we have more hypersocial people and more hyposocial people.
by dfee | 2025-08-02 17:33:59+00:00
I also used to throw my mountain bike on the back of my sports car! It was, in retrospect, ridiculous.

I’ve also seen a motorcyclist having a bike mounted on a hitch!

Optimization for tiny isn’t a factor in the big outdoors. Indeed, I see more people in Sprinter vans than Teslas by mountain biking hot spots. So it’s not about “could you”, it’s about comfort and practicality of anything / everything else you may want to do beyond just lugging a bike to a trail. Such as: the optionality to go truly off road - in the vehicle not on the bike.