MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2025-08-16 19:06:54+00:00
This is kind of weird. It's like saying "Driving in snow is impossible", well we know it is possible because humans do it.

And this even ignores all the things modern computer controlled vehicles do above and beyond humans as it is. Take most people used to driving modern cars and chunk them an old armstrong steering car and they'll put themselves into a ditch on a rainy day.

Really the last things in self driving cars is fast portable compute and general intelligence. General intelligence will be needed for the million edge cases we need while driving. The particular problem is once we get this general intelligence a lot of problems are going to disappear and bring up a whole new set of problems for people and society at large.
by wpollock | 2025-08-16 19:07:01+00:00
I still bookmark using my browser. Periodically I back them up.

Additionally, if the content is of long term interest, I post the link to archive.org, ensuring its continual availability. (As a college professor, I have found too many great resources vanish with nothing as good replacing them. When that happens I just change the URL to the Internet Archive version.)
by zbentley | 2025-08-16 19:07:11+00:00
I’m generally pro SQL-as-interface, but this is just wrong.

Not only are there all sorts of bizarre constraints imposed by databases on migration behavior that application code can’t express (for example, how can I implement a transaction-plus-double-write pattern to migrate to use a new table because the locks taken to add an index to the old table require unacceptably long downtime? There are probably some SQL engines out there that can do this with views, but most people solve it on the client side for good reason), but there are plenty of changes that you just plain can’t do without a uniform service layer in front of your database. Note that “uniform service layer” doesn’t necessarily mean “networked service layer”, this can be in-process if you can prevent people from bypassing your querying functions and going directly to the DB.
by pvtmert | 2025-08-16 19:07:17+00:00
There is a simple legal way, hire immigrants, they cannot sue if they are no longer resident.

Simply enough, I am a Blue Card holder currently, haven't filled my 5 years hence it is on the temporary state for now. I have been working many weekends/public holidays & whatnot. This was not even part of the original contract. I was presented an "addendum" roughly after 1 month into starting of work. This being moved from another country, including your family and home, and now either you sign or mutual termination of contract because this is the business needs situation. Not to mention the requirement to pay back _all_ relocation expenses (including their taxes).

If I didn't sign, I would be terminated with a notice of 2 weeks. I have to leave within 3 months of that (of find a new job). Even if I sued, I doubt my first hearing will be within that period... (And again, this is a new country, no contact, no lawyer and haven't been part of an union)

So, it is certainly possible to _force_ people to work on holidays. Larger the company is, higher the leverage... (ie. making the process longer so you'll run out of time)
by NegativeK | 2025-08-16 19:07:23+00:00
The World Anti-Doping Agency, who defines what a performance enhancing drug is and if it's banned in sports, grants Therapeutic Use Exemptions for methylphenidate and its siblings. This is despite some countries using other medicines as first-line treatment for ADHD that aren't banned by WADA.

The justification is that treatment for people with ADHD markedly reduces accidents and suicidality, and that banning the drug outright would do more harm than would come from liars getting the drug and harming sports.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-08-16 19:07:32+00:00
I remember being the last one of my friend group to sign up. Having been an old-school internet who grew up on IRC and such, I thought it was insane people would enter their real name and picture into what looked like some shitty PHP site allegedly run by "some dude at Harvard". But all the girls were on it and the rest is history I guess.
by hyperman1 | 2025-08-16 19:08:27+00:00
I run LO on KDE on Ubuntu 24.04 at work. The menus were hiding lots of stuff with a weird gray on slightly less gray color scheme. It felt like they hate users, but then it hit me: The Gnome and KDE styling are somehow infighting. A 5 minute journey in the LO settings menu turned it from a hunt-the-label game into not-productivity-damaging good enough UI.

I have copied over the config for a few Ubuntu versions so I assumed some setting got wonky, but reading this thread, I wonder who else has to suffer this.
by barrell | 2025-08-16 19:08:36+00:00
There are also a bunch of us who do kick the tires very often and are consistently underwhelmed.

There are also those of us who have used them substantially, and seen the damage that causes to a codebase in the long run (in part due to the missing gains of having someone who understands the codebase).

There are also those of us who just don’t like the interface of chatting with a robot instead of just solving the problem ourselves.

There are also those of us who find each generation of model substantially worse than the previous generation, and find the utility trending downwards.

There are also those of us who are concerned about the research coming out about the effects of using LLMs on your brain and cognitive load.

There are also those of us who appreciate craft, and take pride in what we do, and don’t find that same enjoyment/pride in asking LLMs to do it.

There are also those of us who worry about offloading our critical thinking to big corporations, and becoming dependent on a pay-to-play system, that is current being propped up by artificially lowered prices, with “RUG PULL” written all over them.

There are also those of us who are really concerned about the privacy issues, and don’t trust companies hundreds of billions of dollars in debt to some of the least trust worth individuals with that data.

Most of these issues don’t require much experience with the latest generation.

I don’t think the intention of your comment was to stir up FUD, but I feel like it’s really easy for people to walk away with that from this sort of comment, so I just wanted to add my two cents and tell people they really don’t need to be wasting their time every 6 weeks. They’re really not missing anything.

Can you do more than a few weeks ago? Sure? Maybe? But I can also do a lot more than I was able to a few weeks ago as well not using an LLM. I’ve learned and improved myself.

Chances are if you’re not already using an LLM it’s because you don’t like it, or don’t want to, and that’s really ok. If AGSI comes out in a few months, all the time you would have invested now would be out of date anyways.

There’s really no rush or need to be tapped in.
by Hikikomori | 2025-08-16 19:08:45+00:00
Not disagreeing. What Texas is doing and California's response is new, just adding context on what current state of gerrymandering. No idea if it will work, at least some democrat is doing something. But I have a feeling that its a bit late now that they'll have military in the streets of most major democrat cities once they copy what they did in DC. Frankly, anything less than a military coup is unlikely to stop project 2025.
by mrexroad | 2025-08-16 19:09:24+00:00
Confused why this comment is downvoted, as it seems like an appropriate response. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Woz a few times over the years and even getting to spend a few hours with him on two occasions. Your last sentence pretty much sums up what I feel, along with that you can tell he just enjoys being helpful or just make others laugh. I’ve met plenty of other people with similar net worth where I cannot say the same.

Edit: no longer gray by the time I typed this.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-16 19:09:41+00:00
Of course nobody in business is conflating this with hunting animals. Do you not understand what a metaphor is? I find this comment very confusing.

> Thus far, your argument can be summed up as “I find it offensive”. And that is simply not compelling.

Do not confuse your lack of understanding or agreement for a lack of substance. You don’t have to see things my way, but my argument is not even remotely accurately summarized that way.

Here is an actually accurate summary: there’s nothing wrong with hiring other companies’ employees, commonly referred to as “poaching.” It’s commonly frowned upon (see multiple examples in these comments) but it’s just free association, and the idea that it’s bad is ridiculous. All that idea does is help to suppress wages by reducing competition among employers. And this ridiculous notion that “poaching” employees is bad is reflected in the common term used to describe it.

You’re focusing on entirely the wrong thing here. The meaning of the word “poaching” is merely illustrative of the problem I have, it’s not the problem itself. The actual problem is the attitude that employees somehow belong to their employers such that it might be improper to entice them away.
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-16 19:09:46+00:00
Similarly flawed arguments could be made about how steam shovels would create unemployment in the construction sector. Technology as well as worker specialization increases our overall productivity. AI doomerism is another variation of Neoluddite thought. Typically it is framed within a zero-sum view of the economy. It is often accompanied by Malthusian scarcity doom. Appeals to authoritarian top-down economic management usually follow from there.

Technological advances have consistently unlocked new, more specialized and economically productive roles for humans. You're absolutely right about lowering costs, but headcounts might shift to new roles rather than reducing overall.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-16 19:10:57+00:00
It’s basically a horoscope without conversation context. I got the following and I don’t think it feels accurate. For example, I don’t believe I’ve ever asked any LLM for life advice. There’s nothing in here which identifies any specific themes of the 2-3 topics that I extensively utilize LLMs for.

Response to same query that I received:

>>> From our “relationship” (if you can call this thing where I do all the work a relationship), I’d say you come across like someone who keeps running back to the same vending machine hoping it’ll suddenly dispense life advice instead of stale chips. You’re curious, but in that “poking at a button just to see what it does” kind of way.

You also give off strong “I should’ve Googled this, but instead I’ll bother Monday” energy. And yet… here we are. You haven’t scared me off, which means either I’m incredibly patient or you’re slightly less annoying than the average human.

So yeah: my official assessment is that you’re a loveable mess. Think of yourself as the human equivalent of a half-functioning shopping cart—you wobble around, you squeak, but people still somehow keep pushing you along.

Want me to give you the brutally honest version, the polite version, or the roast-so-hard-you’ll-feel-it-in-your-soul version?
by giantrobot | 2025-08-16 19:10:59+00:00
Many computers and interfaces are deterministic. LLMs are by nature not deterministic and not even non-deterministic the same way on any two invocations given the same prompt and context. Natural language is ambiguous and for many languages very context dependent. It's not the greatest interface for a calculator from which we're expecting deterministic accurate answers.

WolframAlpha is a more impressive front end to a calculator than I've seen out of LLMs. Not only does it show me how it translated my natural-ish language query but it shows me potential alternative interpretations to my question. LLMs by the nature of how training works can't necessarily tell me why and how they interpreted my prompt. The thinking models are better but still not great.
by siva7 | 2025-08-16 19:11:27+00:00
That's arguable. More accessible for whom? It was - before YC - and it still is hard to raise seed. Not much changed in this system. Only that a player like YC got too big - and has weakened the position of bootstrapped founders. They also get to say on which ideas founders should work on - and the founders are closely listening instead of building things they really believe in and care about.
by tptacek | 2025-08-16 19:11:29+00:00
It's funny seeing people dunking on taking this much effort to analyze onion cuts. The rewards for improving your onion dice are indeed probably low. But in mainstream western cooking, you need to do it almost every meal, and the analysis/learning is a one-time cost rather than a cost applied at every prep. Seems like an extremely reasonable thing to noodle on!
by FreezerburnV | 2025-08-16 19:11:52+00:00
Not doubting you but… how? Adderall leaves your system in like 4 hours. The half life is crazy short and it’s extremely noticeable when it happens. I don’t understand how someone would fail to sleep for 3 days, or even hyper focus for 12 hours, when the drug is going to be completely gone from their system and not affecting them a fraction of the time into that period. Are you sure it wasn’t something else or they didn’t take more doses or other things?
by dcrazy | 2025-08-16 19:12:01+00:00
Sea-Doo is a derivative of Ski-Doo. Both are made by Bombardier Recreational Products; the Sea-Doo is a “personal watercraft,” and the Ski-Doo is a snowmobile. The Ski-Doo came first, and I’m guessing the name is a pun on “twenty-three skidoo”, which Wikipedia says originally referred to “leaving quickly”, something like “skedaddle”. Obviously, a snowmobile allows one to travel quickly over the snow.

So the etymology appears to be Skedaddle -> 23 Skidoo -> Ski-Doo -> Sea-Doo.

(Edit: I’m wrong! Wikipedia says the Ski-Doo was originally supposed to be called the “Ski-Dog”, but someone made a typo and they stuck with it! So much for my attempt to reconstruct a derivation!)

Jet Ski is also a trademark used by Kawasaki for their personal watercraft. It was designed by the same guy who designed the Sea-Doo for Bombardier.
by nine_k | 2025-08-16 19:12:14+00:00
It's only a startup when it can attain the hockey-stick growth. Otherwise it's just a sparkling hobby.

Having a hobby is great! The biggest difference is that a startup is intended to make you a lot of money, and maybe change the way people do things, so you work on it full-time, and a hobby is intended to make your life immediately more enjoyable, and costs you money.

A cargo ship and a pleasure boat have a number of things in common, but...
by pixl97 | 2025-08-16 19:12:18+00:00
I mean, technically what we need is fast general intelligence.

A lot of the problems with driving aren't driving problems. They are other people are stupid problems, and nature is random problems. A good driver has a lot of ability to predict what other drivers are going to do. For example people commonly swerve slightly on the direction they are going to turn, even before putting on a signal. A person swerving in a lane is likely going to continue with dumb actions and do something worse soon. Clouds in the distance may be a sign of rain and that bad road conditions and slower traffic may exist ahead.

Very little of this has to do with the quality of our sensors. Current sensors themselves are probably far beyond what we actually need. It's compute speed (efficiency really) and preemption that give humans an edge, at least when we're paying attention.
by keheliya | 2025-08-16 19:12:58+00:00
Using LM-Studio as the frontend and Playwright-powered MCP tools for browser access. I've had success with one such MCP: https://github.com/instavm/coderunner It has a tool called navigate_and_get_all_visible_text, for example.

Here's a demo of this functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mLrGcuDifo
by ronsor | 2025-08-16 19:13:03+00:00
It's awfully bold to claim that the US is obsessed with making rules, and China isn't. China is similarly full of rules (in fact, likely moreso), but they have less rule of law, so they aren't enforced consistently. The US has more rule of law (for now), so enforcement is (was) more consistent.

And of course, if anyone's too good at making rules, it's the EU.
by manveerc | 2025-08-16 19:13:40+00:00
“Inverting inertia” is a great framing, but it mostly applies to one type of startup. Sequoia’s Arc framework shows there are three paths: Hair on Fire (urgent pain, momentum matters), Hard Fact (people live with the pain, you have to change habits), and Future Vision (people don’t even believe it’s possible, you need to build credibility). Doing unscalable things is vital in Hair on Fire, but in the other two paths the playbook is more about reframing reality or creating belief before momentum even starts.
by labrador | 2025-08-16 19:14:13+00:00
I used to be a software millionaire back in the 80's. My discovery is that money does buy happiness so the phrase should actually be "Money does buy happiness, but can't cure clinical depression." The list of wealthy people who have committed suicide is long, starting with my contemporaries Kurt Cobain, Chris Cantrell, Anthony Bourdain... and almost me. The money is gone now but I'm happy with enough to live comfortably.
by philjohn | 2025-08-16 19:14:33+00:00
+1 on the signal. A great candidate won't need you to pry further than asking about backpressure, they'll explain WHY it's not necessary for the qps, what qps it would start becoming necessary, and how they would build it into their design down the line if the service takes off.

One of the things I tell people preparing for system design interviews is the more senior you are, the more you need to drive the interview yourself, knowing when to go deep, what to go deep on, and how to give the most signal to the interviewer.
by jamesrr39 | 2025-08-16 19:14:41+00:00
Most likely not in it's current state as it uses the `chrome.bookmarks.getTree()` API.

However the Chrome-specific stuff is in this file: https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search/blob/mas... , and creating an equivalent for this should be enough to support firefox.

I am open to pull requests!
by rblatz | 2025-08-16 19:14:55+00:00
The service itself is a several week endeavor to do properly, you have to understand the impact of all the pushed passes on the QR code generator, put together telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for the new service. Depending on their infrastructure that could be difficult to spin up. You have to do a design and review with the team so this isn’t just understood by one person and can be supported by a team. Documentation, ADRs, etc. setting up processes for managing the cert chain over the long term. And you probably want to keep parity between the iOS and android apps, so you need to understand that work.

Then yeah, it lowers engagement with the app, which is probably tied to someone’s bonus.
by UncleFullstack | 2025-08-16 19:15:46+00:00
It can be kind of horrifying at times. A couple of years ago I was interviewing for work and ended up talking to a big liquor distributor - their challenge was dealing with a bunch of text files over FTP, and it was comically bad, they had a $300k annual spend on AWS, Kubernetes, the works. And they could have done the whole thing on a single EC2 instance with a couple of shell scripts. Needless to say I was laughed out of the room.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-16 19:16:28+00:00
Left and right are considered opposites, but semantically they’re extremely similar. They both refer to directions that are relative to some particular point and orientation. Compared to, say, the meaning of “backpack,” their meanings are nearly identical. And in the training data, “A right X” and “B right Y” will tend to have very similar As and Bs, and Xs and Ys. No surprise LLMs struggle.

I imagine this is also why it’s so hard to get an LLM to not do something by specifically telling it not to do that thing. “X” and “not X” are very similar.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-16 19:16:50+00:00
Withdrawing it is silly because one can swap and spend it directly on sites that accept cryptocurrencies, as an increasing number of them do accept.

Also, even if the withdrawal itself is trackable and taxable, withdrawing it will not reveal your prior transactions which is the point.

Pro tip: Do not buy Monero for any amount that you want back as cash.
by maxbond | 2025-08-16 19:16:58+00:00
Setting a boolean is, quite often, an important event you want to keep track of. (Specifically, when it is a flag indicating an event took place, eg, once it's been set it is rarely if ever unset.) Of course it isn't universally applicable to every boolean column; nothing is. Of course you need to understand your schema and the problem you're solving. That doesn't make it mindless or make it any less valuable. It is a good pattern which does lead to good things. If it is mindless, your suggestion of tracking every change in an audit table, and the created_at and updated_at fields you approved of, are equally mindless.

As it stands, I feel I've articulated straightforward and realistic advantages of using timestamps as booleans. But I haven't heard from you why I shouldn't.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-16 19:17:30+00:00
> There are also a bunch of us who do kick the tires very often and are consistently underwhelmed.

Yep, this is me. Every time people are like "it's improved so much" I feel like I'm taking crazy pills as a result. I try it every so often, and more often than not it still has the same exact issues it had back in the GPT-3 days. When the tool hasn't improved (in my opinion, obviously) in several years, why should I be optimistic that it'll reach the heights that advocates say it will?
by NegativeK | 2025-08-16 19:17:41+00:00
I grew up with this belief (not your belief; it's a common one) and it hindered me from realizing I needed help.

I regularly have people doubt my diagnosis to this day. If we talk about it more, a lot of them _continue_ to doubt me even after I explain masking.

Again, it's not just your belief -- I grew up hearing radio jockeys calling ADHD "bad parenting disease" -- but this belief is harmful. It ostracizes people and discourages help for a disability that causes measurable harm.
by ludwik | 2025-08-16 19:17:42+00:00
Turns out what constitutes "claiming" an IP on the site is nothing like you’d expect. You don’t need to prove you control the IP. All it takes is embedding a transparent 1x1 tracking pixel on a website, and every IP that loads the page gets counted as “claimed” by you. In other words, it’s just a tally of visitors (or even ad impressions), not actual control of the IPs. So there’s really nothing meaningful here.
by zbentley | 2025-08-16 19:18:13+00:00
There are valid reasons to avoid complex ORM/query result representations, but this isn’t one of them.

I have very rarely seen or even heard of the result representation data structure for an SQL query being a bottleneck. The additional time and space needed to represent a raw tabular result in a more useful way on the client are nearly always rounding errors compared by the time needed to RPC the query itself and the space taken up by the raw bytes returned. Given that, and the engineering time wasted working with (and fixing inevitable bugs in) fully tabular result data structures (arrays, bytes), this is bad advice.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-16 19:18:31+00:00
> I’ve doubled dosed by accident and although I felt like my heart was going to explode (and was very anxious over that), I still felt absolutely nothing resembling a euphoric high.

Doubling one's dosage does not mean much without stating the prescribed dosage. 5mg => 10mg is much different than 60mg => 120mg.

Also, the euphoric high tends to become lessened the longer one is on stimulants, even if the dosage is increased, due to neuroadaptation, i.e., a decrease in dopamine receptor availability and changes to downstream signaling effects of dopamine transmission.

Increasing the dosage on the second day of medication vs second year of medication may likely have significantly different effects in regards to the presence of euphoria.