MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-16 15:18:20+00:00
> I’ve seen friends with stimulant and can say with full confidence they are not reacting to them the way I am.

That means very little. Do you think all people react the same way to all medications? If someone takes an SSRI and it doesn't work, then does that mean they do not have depression, anxiety, or whatever the medication is indicated for? Do opioids only work for people with chronic pain?

As someone with ADHD, it's extremely common for people with ADHD to think they are some sort of rare subspecies of humans where everything different in their life is due to ADHD. In all aspects of life, people with ADHD are far closer to normal than they might want to believe. It's why people even doubt the existence of ADHD at times. I've yet to see anyone seriously doubt the existence of Schizophrenia, for example.
by Yokohiii | 2025-08-16 15:18:36+00:00
I have to respond here as I seemingly the depth limit is reached.

As you've mentioned graphql you probably comparing ORM in that sense to an traditional custom API with backed by raw sql. In a fair comparison both version would do the exactly same, require the same essential tests. Assuming more variations for the raw sql version is just assuming it does more or somehow does it badly in terms of architecture. Which is not a fair comparison.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-16 15:19:34+00:00
Expert systems are plenty useful. For example, content moderation: an expert system can interpret and handle the common cases, leaving only the tricky cases for humans to deal with. (It takes a bit of thought to come up with the rules, but after the dozenth handling of the same issue, you've probably got a decent understanding of what it is that is the same – perhaps good enough to teach to the computer.)

Expert systems let you "do things that don't scale", at scale, without any loss of accuracy, and that is simply magical. They don't have initiative, and can't make their own decisions, but is it ever useful for a computer to make decisions? They cannot be held accountable, so I think we shouldn't be letting them, even before considering questions of competence.
by megaloblasto | 2025-08-16 15:19:43+00:00
I'm pointing out that Hacker news has a lot of members that get very upset if you suggest using Linux when they complain about Windows. I think meta commentary about the platform is valid, especially since the platform is just posts and comments.

That meta commentary was part of the substance of my comment. And it relates to the article.

To be more specific, I feel strongly against people who defend Microsoft, and their massively immoral actions like their military ties, and invasion of privacy.

I think these people defend Microsoft largely because they are used to it, therefore have a bias towards it, and because they feel attacked when linux users point out that they are supporting an evil megacorporation.

It's sort of like how members of one religion often feel attacked by the mere existence of people who follow other religions, or no religion at all.

I think that people with sufficient technical capability shouldn't support microsoft, and should use open source software.
by m4nu3l | 2025-08-16 15:19:54+00:00
>We are not there, yet, but if AI could replace a sizable amount of workers, the economic system will be put to a very hard test. Moreover, companies could be less willing to pay for services that their internal AIs can handle or build from scratch. Nor is it possible to imagine a system where a few mega companies are the only providers of intelligence: either AI will be eventually a commodity, or the governments would do something, in such an odd economic setup (a setup where a single industry completely dominates all the others).

I think the scenario where companies that own AI systems don't get benefits from employing people, so people are poor and can't afford anything, is paradoxical, and as such, it can't happen.

Let's assume the worst case: Some small percentage of people own AIs, and the others have no ownership at all of AI systems.

Now, given that human work has no value to those owning AIs, those humans not owning AIs won't have anything to trade in exchange for AI services. Trade between these two groups would eventually stop.

You'll have some sort of two-tier economy where the people owning AIs will self-produce (or trade between them) goods and services. However, nothing prevents the group of people without AIs from producing and trading goods and services between them without the use of AIs. The second group wouldn't be poorer than it is today; just the ones with AI systems will be much richer.

This worst-case scenario is also unlikely to happen or last long (the second group will eventually develop its own AIs or already have access to some AIs, like open models).

If models got exponentially better with time, then that could be a problem, because at some point, someone would control the smartest model (by a large factor) and could use it with malicious intent or maybe lose control of it.

But it seems to me that what I thought time ago would happen has actually started happening. In the long term, models won't improve exponentially with time, but sublinearly (due to physical constraints). In which case, the relative difference between them would reduce over time.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-08-16 15:20:00+00:00
> What was the point of doing this prior to selling a subscription to unlock it?

There are/were legitimate considerations for this too--I've had a few GTIs that ended up 'tuned.'

Typical failures on tuned cars, past a certain power, level were clutches (both in MT and DSG models) and probably other ancillary components.

I'm sure there's also lifespan calculations for components at the stock power levels too. Probably a shorter lifespan/the projected failure rates only account for the stock output etc etc.
by tmerc | 2025-08-16 15:20:05+00:00
That's different. Look up the gentleman's agreement for why, but every Japanese car from that era had 276hp on paper. The supra had close to 320 as sold. The skyline had a marked boost controller hose that you could remove part of and turn up boost for more power. None of this was to sell a higher power variant using the same parts but software locked. It was all to secretly continue the horsepower war while publicly sticking to the agreed limits.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-08-16 15:20:10+00:00
Fundamentally I don’t care about cars. I want reliable transport available 24/7, ideally for a given price per mile.

The costs of a true per-mile option which I can guarentee is available at 3am is not available where I live (taxis don’t fill this niche), so until then it’s

Capital (for the car amortised over say 3 years - I buy second hand and don’t worry about deprecation)

Time based price (insurance, tax, some maintenence)

Mile price (petrol, some maintenence)

Location price (top road, parking)

This encourages me to use the car more once I have it though, there should be a better way to smooth occasional use (which all travel is - 95% of the time my car sits idle even if I drive an hour a day)
by FredPret | 2025-08-16 15:20:12+00:00
Adobe stock has been heading up and down but there can be many reasons for that.

Revenue and profit has gone absolutely nuts since subscriptions started and is clearly the way forward for them.

This model makes a lot of sense for software but none for hardware.

Adobe customers are indeed pissed off but they should fix that with lower prices and better terms, not going back to the old model that had them losing money.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-16 15:20:28+00:00
There’s definitely no shortage of armchair critics, but particularly when it comes to design, some amount of the criticism comes from having tried to engage with open projects to help improve them only to be snubbed, downplayed, ignored, etc. Of course this is a complex issue since these kinds of interactions vary wildly between projects and individuals in those projects, but you can see how that might bring frustration.

Incidentally I think this has also been what’s inspired many of the numerous forks and new projects within the Linux desktop space: people who initially intended to contribute to existing projects find themselves unable to effect substantial or sufficient change, become frustrated, and go start their own thing.
Ask HN: Just tried voice ChatGPT- why so many inflections between words?
by treyfitty | 2025-08-16 15:21:35+00:00
I just tried ChatGPT voice and noticed that it inflects many words and especially the last word of a sentence. For Example? this is an example of the inflection? that I noticed in chatGPTs voice?

I asked ChatGPT why it does this so often. I also told ChatGPT to update its memory to eliminate the inflection, but it persists and refuses to stop. Is this a cultural thing or is this what millennials and GenZ believe to be normal? I inquired ChatGPT about this, and the response merely affirmed my hypothesis that it is a regional and cultural thing, especially amongst younger speakers

It’s interesting because I haven’t noticed how often this inflection happens in real life until I Noticed the “natural” tone of ChatGPT, and I immediately realized that I hate that speech pattern.
by Swizec | 2025-08-16 15:21:41+00:00
> The interview is your chance to show you know the topics and when to apply them, not the time to argue that the startup shouldn’t care about such matters.

A good way to answer these, I think, is some version of ”We probably won’t run into these issues at the scale we’re talking about, but when we run into A, B, C problems, we can try X, Y, Z solutions.”

This shows that you’re making a conscious tradeoff and know when the more complex solutions apply. Extra points if you can explain specifically how you’ll put measures in place to know when A, B, C happened and how you would engineer the system such that adding X, Y, Z is easy.

Also it looks amazing if you’re aware that vertical scaling can buy you a lot of time for comparably little money these days. Servers get up to 128 CPUs with 64TB of RAM on one machine :)
by dralley | 2025-08-16 15:21:45+00:00
>Before that the Pentagon halved its funding for the F-35 program.[2]

This is so misleading. They cut this year's orders of the F-35 in half. That's not even close to the same thing as cutting funding for the program in half. Part of that funding was even reallocated towards streamlining the supply chains and improving maintainence practices.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-16 15:21:53+00:00
> In short, just making your own payment processor is hilariously difficult and far beyond the means of Valve let alone Itch. Depending on what the speaker means by "Payment Processor", they may be suggesting making your own bank, or somehow convincing a bank to let Itch shove payments through them; who will eventually do the exact same thing as what happened here. There's no winning play there.

PCI-DSS compliance wasn't even mentioned and it is easily able to overwhelm organizations like Valve and Itch on its own. The hardest part of payment processing is the network. Connecting the acquirers to the issuers in such a way that everyone is happy with the arrangement. Just like the hardest part of the power grid is the transmission infrastructure. The endpoints are far more trivial to replace. If you want to use the existing network, you have to play by all of the rules. The only real way out of this system is to use a completely different kind of currency.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-16 15:22:03+00:00
> The basic effect is an increase in Norepinephrine interactions but the effect that has on people with ADHD is obviously very different.

I've heard it described as a difference in magnitude. If a person with ADHD has an arbitrary "focus" score of 5/10, and a normal person has a focus score of 8/10. If a stimulant brings them both up to a score of 9/10, then the effects may appear more noticeable in the ADHD person because a 4 point jump is typically far more apparent than a 1 point jump.
by 0points | 2025-08-16 15:23:24+00:00
> I'm sure if there was a way to track how many time you make and undo mistakes in copy-pasting the wrong thing from the wrong buffer, your assumptions would be seriously challenged.

> Oh, and the fact that selection buffer gets overwritten if you switch between apps with active selections.

What can I tell you...

Use a clipboard manager.

The end.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-08-16 15:23:34+00:00
> Number of times they've asked me to make them one: 23 > Number of times I've had to explain copyright law: 23

It's not clear to me why sharing an app that puts the qr code in Apple wallet would violate copyright law. This wouldn't require redistributing the app or any of its copyrighted contents. Maybe "unauthorized" use of the API is against TOS, but that's not illegal.
by trentnix | 2025-08-16 15:23:46+00:00
There were some odds and ends around partition management that made me hesitate. ChatGPT helped me distill what I wanted to do into a plan that made sense to me.

In terms of issues, getting certain mounts to persist took some time. I had jump back into Windows and change some settings to get Windows to give up control.

I tried to install a few packages, like Emulation Station, that presented some headaches but I worked through it.

I tried installing SpaceDrive and it was a slog that eventually went nowhere. It took a lot of effort to get it compiled and running and then it didn't really work, so I gave up. It's alpha software, but given the press (and investment) it's received I expected a smoother experience.

Installing MakeMKV took a small bit of gymnastics to install, but once it was installed it worked great. Setting up backups on Mint didn’t behave as I expected at first, but I figured it out.

I didn’t really have any issues, per se, with Mint. It was a breeze. I’m sure the forums are great, but GPT hit enough that it wasn't too terrible when it missed. And it has a lot less latency than searching a forum or posting and waiting for responses.
by mmcromp | 2025-08-16 15:24:34+00:00
Because I'm from working class, rust belt and ive seen the reality the state of America blue collar, not just the "the guy who installed my TV said he owns his own business and makes almost as much as me working in software" fantasy.

I've also had a front row seat to "just learn JavaScript" go from great career advice to joke in the span of time it'd take you to finish a trade apprenticeship.
by slt2021 | 2025-08-16 15:24:45+00:00
US companies (big tech and others) use Ireland[1], Netherlands[2], and other tax havens[3] for that

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Black_Hole
by ido | 2025-08-16 15:25:48+00:00
Jimmy tend to have opinions about the games he covers and doesn’t pretend to present some ideal objective review (he had much “hotter” takes about other games in past articles). Take it for what it is and enjoy the ride, I’ve been reading his articles for years - he is an exceptionally prolific writer and the whole site is a treat if you’re interested in computer game history.
by kaishiro | 2025-08-16 15:26:51+00:00
That's not actually the only issue, unfortunately. Steam did in fact accept Bitcoin for a while, but it was dropped in 2017, with Newell stating:

> “We had problems when we started accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment option. 50% of those transactions were fraudulent, which is a mind-boggling number. These were customers we didn’t want to have.” [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steam-co-founder-reveals-why-...
by nerptastic | 2025-08-16 15:28:37+00:00
Speculating here, but I don't believe that the government would have the time or organization to do this. Widespread political unrest caused by job losses would be the first step. Almost as soon as there is some type of AI that can replace mass amounts of workers, people will be out on the streets - most people don't have 1-2 months of living expenses saved up. At that point, the government would realize that SHTF - but it's too late, people would be protesting / rioting in droves - doesn't matter how many drones you can produce, or whether or not you can psychologically manipulate people when all they want is... food.

I could be entirely wrong, but it feels like if AI were to get THAT good, the government would be affected just as much as the working class. We'd more likely see total societal collapse rather than the government maintaining power and manipulating / suppressing the people.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-16 15:28:53+00:00
Identifying candidates who repeat buzzwords without understanding tradeoffs is easy. It’s part of the questioning process to understand the tradeoffs.

The problem with the comment above is that it’s not discussing tradeoffs at all. It’s just jumping to conclusions and dodging any discussion of tradeoffs.

If you answer questions like that, it’s impossible to tell if the candidate is being wise or if they’re simply BSing their way around the topic and pretending to be smart about it, because both types of candidates sound the same.

It’s easy to avoid this problem by answering questions as asked and mentioning tradeoffs. Trying to dismiss questions never works in your favor.
by cyphar | 2025-08-16 15:30:22+00:00
It's not terribly common, but more critically it means I can work even when the source forge is down. (And for corporate stuff it means I can work on stuff without connecting to the VPN.)

Also, designing around distribution meant that merges have to be fast and work well -- this is a problem that most centralised systems struggle with because it's not a key part of the workflow. Branching and merging are indispensable tools in version control and I'm shocked how long CVS and SVN survived despite having completely broken systems for one or both. Being able to do both (and do stuff like blames over the entire history) without needing to communicate with a server is something that changes the way you work.

My actual hot take (as a kernel developer) is that email patches are good, actually. I really wish more people were aware of how incredibly powerful they are -- I have yet to see a source forge that can get close to the resiliency and flexibility of email (though SourceHut gets very close). git-send-email has its quirks, but b4 honestly makes it incredibly easy.

(There's also the owning your own data benefits that I think often go overlooked -- reflog and local clones mean that you cannot practically lose data even if the server goes away or you get blocked. I suspect Russian or Iranian developers losing access to their full repo history because of US sanctions wouldn't share your views on centralised services.)
by deandwa1 | 2025-08-16 15:30:29+00:00
IQrate is Singapore’s first mortgage fintech platform, dedicated to improving the mortgage loan experience through smart technology. We are a team of mortgage specialists who recognize the problem, and are committed to transforming challenges faced by users in the mortgage space, and turning it into an opportunity.

We all face issues of varying degrees when we purchase our own homes: the mortgage loan application process is often tedious, confusing, and requires several hours of research. We thought: If only this could all be automated. Buying a property is one of the biggest investments in anyone’s life. When purchasing a property, we would have to consider a mortgage loan.

We want to empower users to be at the heart of the mortgage journey. To help homeowners take control of the mortgage loan process, and save time and effort, with an all-in-one mortgage app at their fingertips.
by mcswell | 2025-08-16 15:30:32+00:00
This semantic variability in the relation between the two nouns of a compound is pretty common in compound nouns: "Y made of X", like "tomato paste", "Y used (somehow) for X" (like "toothpaste", "paintbrush", "electrical outlet"--here an adjective, but still a lexicalized phrase), "Y in X" ("treehouse"), "Y for X" ("doghouse"), "Y containing X" ("paint can"), not to mention metaphorical uses, with some etymological relation between X and Y ("moon shot", "crapshoot", "greenhouse"), and so on. Not to mention multi-word compounds, like "greenhouse gas"--but I'm sure you've seen lots of those in Germany :).
by Herring | 2025-08-16 15:30:40+00:00
> Are economic moats anti-competitive, or just good business?

> A "natural monopoly" is "often the first supplier in a market" [0] How is being the first, thus more time to grow a market, anti-competitive in itself?

These are great questions, and you should ask your favorite frontier LLM. It's systems-level thinking, the ability to see the bigger picture, which takes a while to develop and a lot of reading.

You're thinking: Great! I'm making the right decisions and winning and making money hand over fist. That's good business.

I'm thinking: If your moat is super effective (shady or not doesn't matter), it limits competition (anti-competitive) => therefore eventually higher prices, lower quality, reduced innovation, potential for abuse, because there's less pressure to improve and more shareholder pressure for enshittification.

If you identify with the monopoly you can't see that bigger picture. A healthy market has tons of options for customers to choose from and be served by. Again, talk to the frontier LLMs, they're pretty good at this level. Also fact check them, eg read or watch videos about antitrust enforcement under FDR, that was a crazy bit of drama.
by mnky9800n | 2025-08-16 15:30:54+00:00
Yes I definitely have heard from others that they don’t agree with the cheap creatine but like the expensive stuff isn’t that expensive. Like I think I pay like 30€ for a couple months worth. I think people really undervalue what a good strength training and cardio routine does for you. It really helps control anxiety, keep me sleeping well, and helps me focus at work, as well as have a hang out spot with other people who come regularly. And it’s like 4-5 hours a week tops. Highly recommended.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-08-16 15:31:02+00:00
What I meant to say is that you were deliberately speaking cryptically and with a tone of confident superiority. I wasn't trying to imply you were stupid (w.r.t. "Ad Hominem").

Seems clear to me neither of us odd going to change the others mind though at this point. Take care.

edit edit to cindy: =======================••• fun trick. random password generate your new password. don't look at it. clear your clipboard. you'll no longer be able to log in and no one else will have to deal with you. ass hole ========================== (for real though someone ban that account)
by uyzstvqs | 2025-08-16 15:31:04+00:00
Yeah, I think I'm just going to buy some old Lada from some local Russian or Ukrainian guy. I know that they're not the most reliable cars, but at least anyone can make aftermarket parts for them — and they're easy to repair as well.

I might buy an EV someday if someone makes one which: Does not connect to the internet, is user-serviceable, it's possible to create aftermarket parts for without reverse engineering firmware, uses Na-ion batteries, is not ridiculously overpriced, is preferably made in Europe/North America/Japan, and is not extremely ugly like 9/10 cars released in 2025 (VW ID Buzz... eww). I'm not getting anywhere close to this DRM-ridden driving IoT-device crap. Clippy says no.
by _acco | 2025-08-16 15:31:10+00:00
Clickbait title.

First, this is narrowly about federal income tax. SpaceX presumably pays plenty of other taxes.

Second, using the projected profits in the article, SpaceX will have exhausted its NOL pool by the end of this year, and so will pay billions in federal income tax next year.

But more important: the whole point of these tax cuts and programs is to let businesses use losses today so they can create value — and tax revenue — tomorrow. Of course, if you take a snapshot after part 1 but before part 2, it will always look like “X gets Y from government and gives nothing back”.