MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esseph | 2025-08-21 16:08:44+00:00
I've been back and forth on this for a long time, but I've just decided at this point that I either settle for podman or docker on a single host, or go to Talos / k3s / k8s. There's a lot of tools there, a lot of inertia, and eventually it's likely that I will need to solve the problems that k8s does.

YMMV
by tim333 | 2025-08-21 16:08:45+00:00
It wasn't in cash. It was in equities to a large extent. But they still ask for the source. Even if it's from selling shares they want to know where the shares came from. At least sort of. The whole thing is a box ticking exercise for compliance to cover their own arses.

In fact it's worse than that in some ways as I had an investment advisor who bought and sold stuff and I don't know if I have records of what exactly.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-21 16:08:59+00:00
What you've described is reasonable and a clear takeaway is that AI is a timesaving tool you should learn.

Where i share concern with the parent is the claims that AI is useless which isn't coming from your post at all but i have definitely seen instances of it in the programmer community still to this day. As in the parents concern that some programmers are missing the train is unfortunately completely warranted.
by lordhumphrey | 2025-08-21 16:09:17+00:00
The idea that something like a movie's "good"-ness (or whatever) could be measured accurately, reliably or even usefully, by experts or laypeople, should be absurd on its face to any right-thinking person.

What a movie does or does not do for you will depend on a host of things which couldn't possibly be blamed on the movie itself - there's no objective experience of a movie.

The lighting, what you had for dinner, the comfort of your chair, if the baby starts crying, who you're with in the room, how they're feeling, whether you actually really have time for a movie or should be doing something else, if you're 16 and just had your first break up 3 days before, whether you saw the original movie 30 years ago or totally missed the boat, if you've smoked a few spliffs with your friends in the car in the parking lot of the cinema beforehand, etc etc.

People who think differently are, I think, simply going along with a very peculiar recent trend.

It's a general effect the Internet has had on our aesthetics. We no longer think our experience matters or even really exists, instead we think our take on the thing in its social context amongst all the other people's takes is all that matters and exists.

Liking something means liking it exactly how the average person liked it, and sharing a "take" means describing how we deviated, ever so slightly, from the agreed-upon-reading of the agreed-upon-thing. In reality, if you watch a movie ten times, you've had ten different experiences. If one hundred people watch a movie, there have been one hundred different experiences.

It's a great shame that we've forgotten this fact, and lost ourselves in a culture of "reacting".
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-21 16:09:19+00:00
I'm actually a little shocked that AI hasn't been integrated into games more deeply at this point.

Between whisper and lightweight tuned models, it wouldn't be super hard to have onboard AI models that you can interact with in much more meaningful ways that we have traditionally interacted with NPCs.

When I meet an NPC castle guard, it would be awesome if they had an LLM behind it that was instructed to not allow me to pass unless I mention my Norse heritage or whatever.
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by jeroenhd | 2025-08-21 16:09:53+00:00
Geoblocking China and Singapore solves that problem, it seems, at least the non-residential IPs (though I also see a lot of aggressive bots coming from residential IP space from China).

I wish the old trick of sending CCP-unfriendly content to get the great firewall to kill the connection for you still worked, but in the days of TLS everywhere that doesn't seem to work anymore.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-21 16:10:09+00:00
Looking at that map I see an area of blue (increased water) in the western US that seems most heavily concentrated in Wyoming and Colorado - it’s hard to tell exactly.

If you look at maps of watersheds, it appears that only part of this increased water area exists within the Colorado River watershed, and the increase is more than made up for by decreases elsewhere.

The big beneficiary appears to be the Missouri River watershed. Colorado and Wyoming can (and probably are) play hardball with negotiations regarding the Colorado River Compact because they can build new reservoirs outside the compact that are going to get filled up by increasing rainfall…
by stonemetal12 | 2025-08-21 16:11:04+00:00
>Engineering is just about wielding tools to solve problems. You don't need to use formal methods to do engineering in general.

Way to general to be useful. By that definition the store clerk is an engineer (tool cash register, problem solved my lack of gummy bears), janitors swinging a mops, or automotive techs changing oil.

Engineering is applied science.
by wk_end | 2025-08-21 16:11:09+00:00
I kind of agree, but in the interest of discussion: even if CL isn't necessarily a more functional language in practice, culturally it's got a long history of being more functional. It took something like a decade at least for people to widely recognize to how elegant (in its quirky way) JavaScript could be. Just as a point of comparison (I'm sure the idea goes further back) PAIP - one of the definitive CL books - was first published in 1991 and encourages pure functions and immutability wherever possible.

Devs in the 90s were handed a language that looked like a weird Java and so they programmed it like a weird Java. If they were handed a language that looked like Lisp instead, maybe they would have made their way to SICP that much sooner.
by ur-whale | 2025-08-21 16:11:17+00:00
> I’ve yet to use an LLM that can consistently provide sources that back up what it’s telling me.

Mmmh, that would have been my take as well up to around end of Q1 2025.

Theses days, the flagship LLM's have reduced hallucination by quite a bit, and are also way better at citing sources (you sometimes have to nudge them).

ChatGPT 5 has been very decent on that particular axis.
by Manuel_D | 2025-08-21 16:11:30+00:00
A short global lockdown? China pursued the zero COVID policy for two years. Even highly restrictive measures weren't enough to stem it.

COVID is no longer a novel virus and its deadliness has vastly decreased. Yes it is by any reasonable understanding of the phrase, COVID is "less nasty". At its peak, 20,000 people were dying each week due to COVID in the US. Presently that figure sits around 200.
by jsnell | 2025-08-21 16:11:44+00:00
Yes, but it's not going to be 0.02 USD of PoW per page! That is an absurd number. It'd mean a two-hour proof of work for a server CPU, a ten hour proof of work for a phone.

In reality you can do maybe a 1/10000th of that before the latency hit to real users becomes unacceptable.

And then, the cost is not per page. The cost is per cookie. Even if the cookie is rate-limited, you could easily use it for 1000 downloads.

Those two errors are multiplicative, so your numbers are probably off by about 7 orders of magnitudes. The cost of the PoW is not going to be $2B, but about $200.
by jeppester | 2025-08-21 16:11:50+00:00
Isn't it counterintuitive to use the median for this?

In this thread alone there are many comments multiplying the median to get some sort of totalt, but that's just not how medians work.

If I multiplied my median food spent per day with the number of days per month, I'd get a vastly lower number than what my banking app says.
by more_corn | 2025-08-21 16:12:14+00:00
This is exactly the wrong thing for a 20yr old to do with 100k. (Assuming they have no other assets) When I was 20 I needed a reliable car (having an unreliable car subjected me to periodic unplanned multi thousand dollar shocks), buying books for school (individual stem textbooks cost a couple hundred bucks) Yes I should have started an investment account but given my other finances I should have been putting in modest amounts every month, but frankly when daily life is costing more than you make it doesn’t make sense to earn 8% while incurring debt that costs 15%. I’d say the trick is stability. The uncertainties of young life with no money cause things to cost more than they should.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-21 16:12:25+00:00
Tiger is cool! The other neat thing about the visuals is, if you think about Apple's industrial design in that era, the UI feels a perfect extension of the hardware itself.

And as much as I love Mavericks, I agree, I would absolutely jump to a Linux distro that recreated the experience faithfully. There really isn't anything though, especially when you add in the larger app ecosystem—I like using Aperture a lot more than Digikam, for example.

Edit: Oh, and:

> and by then sidebar item icons had lost their color

But you can bring the color back with the ColorfulSidebar SIMBL plugin!
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-21 16:12:58+00:00
If a company has strong growth in real dollars or inflation is high then a higher P/E is approximately valuation neutral. P/E ratios don't exist in a vacuum and low isn't always better. The price-to-sales ratio is often more indicative of whether something is overvalued than P/E in high-growth cases because earnings are used to finance growth.

P/E ratios tend to be small only if revenue growth in nominal dollars is flat, which tacitly treats the stock more like a bond.
by neilv | 2025-08-21 16:13:13+00:00
Don't the companies in the headlines pay big bucks for people working on "AI"?

Maybe they are paying big bucks for people who are actually very bad at their jobs?

Why would the CEOs tolerate that? Do they think it's a profitable/strategic thing to get away with, rather than a sign of incompetence?

When subtrees of the org chart don't care that they are very bad at their jobs, harmed parties might have to sue to get the company to stop.
by connorpark24 | 2025-08-21 16:13:38+00:00
This is a totally valid concern - we believe that outcomes cannot be treated the same as "usage events". Facilitating trust between a seller and a buyer requires that the buyer can see exactly what they are being billed for. Existing platforms ingest event data, but only display it back to their users' customers in the form of an aggregated summary (ex. 500 API calls), rather than the specific details of each event. We believe that this approach works for granular usage data, but not outcomes. Hope this helps!
by os2warpman | 2025-08-21 16:13:58+00:00
My favorite thing about MacOS is how it has never changed how it changes.

It's like the game Civilization.

Every new version is worse than the last. Every new version is more bloated. Every new version has changes that ruin it.

Every new version is "less snappy". Every new version ruins everything.

Not even with OS X, we're talking back to the System 6 days, almost 40 years ago, it has always been the same.

System 6 uses too much RAM I'm staying with System 5.

System 7 is bloated I'm staying with System 6.

System 8 is a disaster I'm staying with System 9.

System 9 is a buggy mess I'm staying with System 8.

System, err, OS X v10.0 has no apps I'm staying with System 9.

And then oh boy the OS X/macOS versions!

Every generation gets so much worse, buggier, and "less snappy" than the last that surely our computers must be traveling backwards through time by now!

Every Civ game past III, the one I spent the most time playing during college and am most used to and like the most for totally not arbitrary reasons, has just been the worst, amirite?
by lbrito | 2025-08-21 16:14:07+00:00
It's one of those you get what you put in kind of deals.

If you spend a lot of time thinking about what you want, describing the inner workings, edge cases, architecture and library choices, and put that into a thoughtful markdown, then maybe after a couple of iterations you will get half decent code. It certainly makes a difference between that and a short "implement X" prompt.

But it makes one think - at that point (writing a good prompt that is basically a spec), you've basically solved the problem already. So LLM in this case is little more than a glorified electric typewriter. It types faster than you, but you did most of the thinking.
by duxup | 2025-08-21 16:14:09+00:00
A lot of the linkedIn style "we did X with AI and saved Y" stories seem exceptionally vague and maybe entirely made up.

It makes sense that some companies will be foolish enough to believe and to pull the trigger.

Everyone involved in that decision should be the ones fired. It seems entirely avoidable with some basic testing of the chatbot while still employing these people.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-21 16:14:22+00:00
You are exactly right in my case - JavaScript and Python dealing with the AWS CDK and SDK. Where there is plenty of documentation and code samples.

Even when it occasionally gets it wrong, it’s just a matter of telling ChatGPT - “verify your code using the official documentation”.

But honestly, even before LLMs when deciding on which technology, service, or frameworks to use I would always go with the most popular ones because they are the easiest to hire for, easiest to find documentation and answers for and when I myself was looking for a job, easiest to be the perfect match for the most jobs.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-21 16:14:25+00:00
Google demanding I flag yellow cars when asked to flag taxis is the silliest Americanism I've seen. At least the school bus has SCHOOL BUS written all over it and fire hydrants aren't exactly an American exclusive thing.

On some Russian and Asian site I ran into trouble signing up for a forum using translation software because the CAPTCHA requires me to enter characters I couldn't read or reproduce. It doesn't happen as often as the Google thing, but the problem certainly isn't restricted to American sites!
by eulers_secret | 2025-08-21 16:14:30+00:00
If you really think this, `baby` is an apt name! Internet, Smartphones, and social media will all be more impactful than LLMs could possibly be... but hey, if you're like 18 y/o then sure, maybe LLMs is the biggest.

Also disagree with missing the train, these tools are so easy to use a monkey (not even a smart one like an ape, more like a Howler) can effectively use them. Add in that the tooling landscape is changing rapidly; ex: everyone loved Cursor, but now it's fallen behind and everyone loves Claude Code. There's some sense in waiting for this to calm down and become more open. (Why are users so OK with vendor lock-in??? It's bothersome)

The hard parts are running LLMs locally (what quant do I use? K/V quant? Tradeoffs? Llama.cpp or ollama or vllm? What model? How much context can I cram in my vram? What if I do CPU inference? Fine tuning? etc..) and creating/training them.
by tomku | 2025-08-21 16:14:48+00:00
The feature the person you're replying to is talking about is not arrow functions (`=>`), but what are called "threading macros" in other languages. In Clojure[1], the main one is named `->` and used as a way to thread a value through a series of functions that take it as a first argument, using the return value from the first function as the first argument to the second, and so on. It allows you to compose a series of plain functions to transform a value instead of (stateful) method chaining or nesting functions.

JS does not have a straightforward equivalent. The old and deprecated `with` keyword might seem similar but it's only a surface resemblance as it does not perform the return-value threading that makes the above pattern useful, it was meant for methods that mutate object state. There's a TC39 proposal[2] to add a pipe operator that would accomplish a similar thing to threading macros via an infix operator but it's still a draft.

[1]: https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros

[2]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
by Terr_ | 2025-08-21 16:15:14+00:00
I think I was perfectly clear the first time, how can you still not know what the term "majority" means? [0]

Let's try another style:

YOUR OWN LINK SAYS 49.81% OF VOTES. THAT PORTION IS LESS THAN HALF. IT IS A MINORITY, NOT A MAJORITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

[0] https://electowiki.org/wiki/Majority
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-21 16:15:45+00:00
> indexing by bytes instead of UTF-8 code units

When the encoding is UTF-8 (which it is here), the code unit is the byte.

They called the fields byteStart and byteEnd, but a more technically precise (no more or less accurate, but more precise) labels would be utf8CodeUnitStart and utf8CodeUnitEnd.
by benji-york | 2025-08-21 16:15:45+00:00
I don't know of a canonical XP team size, but "small" is the normal recommendation. 8-12 would seem larger than small to me.

Personally, 8 is the largest I would have a team. At that point you should consider breaking it into two teams of 4 (even if those teams periodically recombine from the original set of 8 people).
by bnug | 2025-08-21 16:16:01+00:00
>but no jobs are being replaced

I agree that an LLM is a long way from replacing most any single job held by a human in isolation. However, what I feel is missed in this discussion is that it can significantly reduce the total manpower by making humans more efficient. For instance, the job of a team of 20 can now be done by 15 or maybe even 10 depending on the class of work. I for one believe this will have a significant impact on a large number of jobs.

Not that I'm suggesting anything be "stopped". I find LLM's incredibly useful, and I'm excited about applying them to more and more of the mundane tasks that I'd rather not do in the first place, so I can spend more time solving more interesting problems.
by mothballed | 2025-08-21 16:16:27+00:00
I bought a cheap property (vacant land with no utilities) then built the house literally $20 or $1000 at a time buying blocks/wood/pipes etc as I was building. All the money was legally earned and taxed, but the point is even the title company was sidestepped in this case beyond an amount pretty trivial in comparison to the value of the property and very little of it would have had to of went through the traditional financial system in order to make it possible.
by herval | 2025-08-21 16:17:09+00:00
People have been saying that since the advent of formal education. Turns out standardized education is really hard to pull off and most systems focus on making the average good enough.

It’s also hard to teach people “how to think” while at the same time teaching them practical skills - there’s only so many hours in a day, and most education is setup as a way to get as many people as possible into shape for taking on jobs where “thinking” isn’t really a positive trait, as it’d lead to constant restructuring and questioning of the status quo
by Sesse__ | 2025-08-21 16:17:29+00:00
Another bottle-of-wine riddle I have been interested in recently: Say you have B number of tastings and can use each to taste any mix of wines, and you know that exactly zero, one or two of the wines are bad/poisoned/whatever. How many bottles of wine (N) can you cover in those B tastings?

Optimal solutions are known for B <= 13 only, and some asymptotic bounds are known; the rest is conjecture. It is essentially modifying the “standard” wine riddle to allow two poisoned bottles as a possibility.

(This is OEIS A286874 / A303977; https://oeis.org/A286874 https://oeis.org/A303977)
by dcastonguay | 2025-08-21 16:17:52+00:00
> At the end of it, they were sketching a completely different architecture without my "PMing". Because they finally understood who was actually using our product.

I cannot help but read this whole experience as: “We forced an engineer to take sales calls and we found out that the issue was that our PMs are doing a terrible job communicating between customer and engineering, and our DevOps engineer is more capable/actionable at turning customer needs into working solutions.”
by fyrabanks | 2025-08-21 16:17:57+00:00
I was at a Whole Foods last year and was tired from driving for about 6hrs straight. I scanned one item, set up a paper bag on the right, and then mindlessly bagged every other item in my cart without scanning. I paid probably $3-4 on a $60 purchase.

As soon as I got to the hotel and figured it out, I went back to correct the mistake--but imagine getting harassed or taken to the back for a careless error? I'm sure that happens more often than I hear about.

(PS I am genuinely surprised their weight sensor, that flags an attendant, didn't go off. That thing usually trips if you breathe on it funny.)
by foobarqux | 2025-08-21 16:18:02+00:00
> Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are not the same site and have different audiences.

Yes we are talking about aggregating critic reviews. It's true if you like what the mass audience likes you'll be fine with any kind of crude measure like rotten tomatoes (although you'll still be better off with IMDB scores).

> Even the most popular movies will barely scrap 60 reviewers on Metacritic.

If you are talking about critic reviews there really aren't that many movie critics and you don't need that many. If you are talking about user reviews that isn't what the site is geared for (and not what the users of the site want either, just go to IMDB).

> You're also just wrong. Those movies, especially the last two have high Metacritic scores.

75 is not a high metacritic score, not just in absolute terms, but particularly not relative to the (ridiculous) 97% of rotten tomatoes.

If you only want to watch a few movies a year (and presumably want them to be the "best") Metacritic is the only useful site (with the provisos that someone else posted about political films and modulating for your own personal preferences).