MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by integralid | 2025-08-16 13:32:03+00:00
I'm thinking how it would work. What should I talk about - programming frameworks and techniques I don't care about anymore? Rock bands I don't listen to? Shared friends I don't know now? Current school/uni things? Magic the gathering cards? Anime? Rock climbing? I don't know about anything I have in common with my old friends. But maybe, just maybe, it we catch up we can talk about kids or best back pain medicine. Or rock climbing, because that's one of the few things I still do.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-16 13:32:08+00:00
Absolutely.

The untold truth about teaching is that it’s equal parts social worker as educator.

Not just with bad behaviour, but with diagnosing child with needs, identifying domestic abuse, and so on.

It’s heart breaking some of the shit they need to do and which any normal person wouldn’t even consider as part of the job.

My wife has had to handle more than one incident with serious child sexual abuse. This isn’t something teachers expect to do when they apply for their jobs.
by gruez | 2025-08-16 13:32:15+00:00
>I guess some people managed to make money in the very early days, but it's been a long time since it's made any sense as a profit-maker. Right now, 200TB earns you just under 26 USD/month. Who are these people that can afford 200TB of storage but need money so bad that $26/month is exciting?

Mining profits always trends towards zero. To make actual money (or any at all), you need massive economies of scale, lean operations, and advantages compared to your competitor (eg. cheap source of HDDs or electricity).
by simion314 | 2025-08-16 13:32:44+00:00
I love KDE, I am using it for 2 decades, I can't see the margins or font issues this other people see and I spend my time at the PC looking at the browser, Kate, Intellij and the deskotp panel and maybe a bit at the file manager Dolphin.

Why i love KDE is because I can customize it to work as I want not as it wants me to work, I do not bend my fingers to use what soem dude with GIANT ego wants me to use as key shortcuts, I remap them to fit my preferences, and I have a fucking tray icon where I can see if I have unread messages and guess what you can remove the Tray if you are that kind of fascist that hates it because the GIANT ego dude said that tray icons are not cool.
by StevenWaterman | 2025-08-16 13:32:48+00:00
> It would be weird if stimulants only had an effect of ADHD patients

One example of this actually happening is the concept of a "stimulant nap" in people with ADHD, where stimulants actually make them sleepier. Also manifesting as "I tried coke once, it didn't do anything, I just felt sleepy"

Terrible source but it's a pretty common thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/hkkyjl/you_know_your_...
by diggan | 2025-08-16 13:33:13+00:00
> it seems like kids just end up being punished for having bad parents

Yeah, hard to make the right call, depends on the age and maturity of the kid I guess. I myself is a product of "bad parents", and it was reflected in my own behavior up until I was 15-16 years old, when I started realizing what I was doing really had an impact on my fellow humans, so at one point I started consciously working on myself to not be like that anymore.

So a 6 year old will most definitely just be a product of how the parents act, but once you get older you need to also take responsibility for how you yourself are as a person. What exact age that is seems to differ by country.
by selfhoster11 | 2025-08-16 13:33:45+00:00
Anthropomorphising an algorithm that is trained on trillions of words of anthropogenic tokens, whether they are natural "wild" tokens or synthetically prepared datasets that aim to stretch, improve and amplify what's present in the "wild tokens"?

If a model has a neuron (or neuron cluster) for the concept of Paris or the Golden Gate bridge, then it's not inconceivable it might form one for suffering, or at least for a plausible facsimile of distress. And if that conditions output or computations downstream of the neuron, then it's just mathematical instead of chemical signalling, no?
by haswell | 2025-08-16 13:34:16+00:00
Your dictionary is either not exhaustive, or it’s out of date. The word is not limited to the notions of “stealing” or “appropriation”, nor has it been for decades.

Just one example, but current dictionaries cover the business use of the word (among many others), e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/poach

> You are being very disingenuous to say that the word is not intrinsically linked to ownership or property.

Are you claiming that other definitions of “poach” do not exist? If you are, you are misinformed. If you are not, you are misunderstanding the word “intrinsic”.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-16 13:34:40+00:00
And if you're older, creatine supplementation along with regular resistance training and well-balance diet may offset muscle mass loss that happens as we age (age-related sarcopenia).

There are also cognitive benefits:

- memory enhancement

- processing speed and attention

The brain is extremely energy demanding and creatine:

- increases cellular energy reserves (ATP)

- improves neurotransmitter function (e.g. increasing synthesis of neurotransmitters like acetylcholine)

- reduces oxidative stress damage to brain cells

- enhances synaptic efficiency and plasticity crucial for learning
by StevenWaterman | 2025-08-16 13:35:44+00:00
You see this in ADHD groups where someone will start stimulant medication for the first time and say "This is incredible. I can't believe this is what everyone else feels like all the time"

And the crowd emerges to reinforce that, no, you're euphoric, this isn't normal, after about a week it'll go away and you'll just feel normal but more productive and have better executive function.

And that's on a starter dose, the parent commenter probably took 2-3x that
by 0x6c6f6c | 2025-08-16 13:36:00+00:00
I read that "read-only" as essentially a "lockfile".

Which, this is exactly how pinning dependencies works. However if you are mutating your dependencies frequently and want the reference to them to change at the same time, this is the big pain with submodules- gotta do both yourselves. Not to mention there are now logistical problems to answer as this cannot happen atomically in all scenarios, let alone automatically.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-16 13:36:03+00:00
> want so much to like Prusa ... but the Bambu printer at my local makerspace costs half as much and is better in every way than the MK3S+ sitting in my basement. I'm fully aware that this is the result of shrewdness on the part of the Chinese, plus incompetence in the West, and it's so frustrating.

Then maybe don’t phrase it like this. And also acknowledge that it’s a nonsense comparison. People that don’t know Prusa model numbers will just assume the OP is talking about comparable products.

“I really want to like Macs, but the new Lenovo I got for work is better and costs half as much as the 5 year old Mac I have in my basement. Why is the west so incompetent?”
by klabb3 | 2025-08-16 13:36:04+00:00
> I myself sometimes press Ctrl+C twice

Yes but this would continue working since the clipboard button doesn’t change the selection. You’d just do multiple copy ops. It only changes to paste when nothing is selected.

> so no replace then?

Not in one keypress. You’d first press delete and then (since now nothing is selected), you press clipboard button to paste.

It’s the same number of button presses as Ctrl+V but without modifier keys.

> Maybe use the right middle modifier for the paste?

The modifiers are the main problem imo, because it’s both undiscoverable and evidently difficult for novice users.
by al_borland | 2025-08-16 13:36:38+00:00
I tried this, not with comma.ai, but had a VW with lane keeping, adaptive cruise, etc. The first time I did a 6 hour drive with it, it felt like magic. I was essentially on one road the whole time, there was very little traffic, and I didn’t touch the pedals, or really even steer much for 95% of the drive. Just at the start and end when off the expressway.

However, as I made that drive more, it got worse. Traffic was usually heavier, and things didn’t go as well with a lot of traffic. Some of it was how it acted, and some of it were trust issues with it. When traffic picked up or other cars did things around me, I’d switch back to manual control. After a while, I was using manual control the whole time… and then eventually just took the train, because I couldn’t tolerate driving myself anymore.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-16 13:36:44+00:00
I am not a designer, just a dev with a bit of a visual inclination, but I think what makes KDE’s typography feel “off” is missing steps in visual hierarchy due to how the different sizes relate to each other in screen (e.g. header vs body text), as well as font weights being a bit too homogenous. So its differentiation is too great in one way and not enough in another, which feels awkward. The font sizes being modifiable isn’t the issue.
by zza371creek245 | 2025-08-16 13:36:54+00:00
AI which is mostly based on LLM are based on the old Neural networks of the past. Having worked on the early ones they have all of the same issues that they had over 20 years ago.

Neural Networks have the long tail risk problem. In that they are good at returning the top 20% of answers to you. But they are pretty poor at returning the less common 80% answers.

I have seen the different tools return the wrong code, code with security issues or code that was open source that is not legal to use in your project without open sourcing it.

The big tech companies are selling it as AGI and this massive replacement tool to get more money. But really it is just gaining a few percentage points of productivity.

Most modern development tools can do the same. Like if you are able to build a app with some low code method. I have not seen a AI build app that i could not build in a low code system in the same amount of time.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-16 13:37:27+00:00
"...this is a legal requirement isn't as clear-cut as you make it to be."

The legal legal requirement can be questioned but heaven help the modern CEO that doesn't abide by the shareholders-first ethos. Before the 1980s (before Thatcher, Reagan, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek et al era) companies had an understanding that they had a responsibility to both shareholders and the community that they operated in.

That latter notion is long since dead.
by Zak | 2025-08-16 13:37:39+00:00
Ensuring stoichiometry is kind of a big deal.

When the engine is cold, the mixture needs to be rich or it won't start. Engines with carburetors use a choke for that - a valve that blocks some airflow so there's more vacuum, causing the engine to suck in extra fuel. Electronic fuel injection can be much more precise about this, minimizing the amount and duration of enrichment.

Changes in air pressure and temperature change the ideal air/fuel ratio. Driving over a mountain will make an engine without the ability to react to run at a suboptimal air/fuel ratio.

Catalytic converters require that the ratio be kept very close to optimal to operate effectively. A small deviation for an extended period of time will result in a large increase in emissions and may even permanently damage the catalyst.
by mk89 | 2025-08-16 13:37:59+00:00
This is a very specific case, to be honest, and I am happy you can enjoy your motorbike like the model with more HPs, etc.

The thing is - for mass production, it has become cheaper for a manufacturer to produce 1 engine type and block it with software rather then 2,3...N types and to allow people to choose.

The subscription model in my opinion makes sense, because you can also decide to unlock the feature entirely and it stays. If not, you can try and decide. It sounds reasonable to me - they didn't sell you 4 wheels and a steering wheel with "entry level" model that can be upgraded to "all in the entry model + car seats, radio" etc. We're talking about some very specific upgrades that make the car cost less by default and yet still good.

Who the hell needs 230HPs on a daily basis? So shrink that, make the entry model more reasonable, and let them upgrade if they want to.
by apexalpha | 2025-08-16 13:38:07+00:00
As a European, I kind of agree.

In the Netherlands we try to compete globally but as long as we’re rich enough people focus more on free time.

As our income grew the past decades the Dutch have cut back on working hours in stead of just hoarding more money.

The average Dutch person now works 400 hours per year less than the average American.

More than 50% of us now work a 4 day workweek and this will probably be made official before 2035 if I had to guess.

People just dont care enough to become even richer.

And though I am considered a workaholic by family and friends I too enjoy my 16 weeks paid time off this year with my newborn. :)
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-16 13:38:09+00:00
Of course the FOMO for pointless features

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is not limited to "pointless features".

The motor for the windshield wipers on some VW models cost $600 plus installation which is likely to be at least as much as the part itself.

So just buy an aftermarket part and install it yourself? Sorry, no can do. The wiper motor is computer controlled using a proprietary protocol protected by DMCA.

Maintenance is not just a "pointless feature".
by jostylr | 2025-08-16 13:38:12+00:00
One thing to keep in mind is not so much that AI would replace the work of video creators for general video consumption, but rather it could create personalized videos or music or whatever. I experimented with creating a bunch of AI music [1] that was tailored to my interests and tastes, and I enjoy listening to them. Would others? I doubt it, but so what? As the tools get better and easier, we can create our own art to reflect our lives. There will still be great human art that will rise to the top, but the vast inundation of slop to the general public may disappear. Imagine the fun of collaboratively designing whole worlds and stories with people, such as with tabletop role-playing, but far more immersive and not having to have a separate category of creators or waiting on companies to release products.

1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbB9v1PTH3Y86BSEhEQjv...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-16 13:38:24+00:00
So, you are not the type that buys new cars. Nothing wrong with that of course. I don't own a car at all. And I don't see the logic of spending non trivial amounts of my income on a new one. But why should VW concern themselves with what you or I want considering that we are apparently not in the market anyway? Especially not for a high performance/high status type car. Because, no offense, your choice of car marks you as "definitely does not care about that sort of thing". And good for you.

I might at some point buy a second hand one. And VW has a lot of pretty decent EVs in the market that are trickling down to the second hand market at increasingly more attractive prices. Probably not my dream second hand car (I think they are kind of ugly) but they aren't horrible vehicles. I don't think I'll ever want to hand over cash to the oil industry voluntarily. I have driven rental petrol and diesel cars in the past. But it just feels a bit stupid to fill up a car for 50+ euros. A few years worth of money saved on not buying fuel easily adds up to a pretty nice budget for a modest second hand EV these days.
by jt2190 | 2025-08-16 13:38:28+00:00
I question these imagined barriers:

> Should I package this up properly? Probably not: it's a proof of concept that solves my specific problem. Plus, PureGym would probably just hire me to shut it down, and I'm not ready for that level of corporate responsibility.

Don’t take a job if they offer one to you then?

> SaaS Dreams: Package this properly, get sued immediately, become a cautionary tale at product management conferences.

I genuinely don’t think that this is how it would go down, unless you’re marketing it as an official product. As a consumer I’m allowed to buy things that I find useful, and if this was packaged as a third-party convenience for personal use I don’t see the issue.

I suppose that if the company even noticed (very unlikely) they could get pissy but then I’d expect a c&d to arrive not some multi-million dollar lawsuit. Caving in at this point is an option.

Honestly I think getting past app review and into the App Store would be the hard part.
by nyonyo | 2025-08-16 13:38:55+00:00
>The content has a bigger right margin than the left margin.

That's the thing that always made me feel KDE is ugly. It was never about the themes, the colors (as in palette choice), or the icons. It's that. Everything feels chaotically misaligned in ways I don't see in other software. The fonts don't look nice. Text never has the "right" alignment, or spacing between lines. Elements don't have enough different classes of color attributes (look at a screenshot of Dolphin and how the toolbar and sidebar have the same exact shade of background color and no transition between the two UI elements, not even a separator bar ala _________. Thunar doesn't do this, Gnome Files doesn't do this, Windows Explorer doesn't do this) You can't "fix it" just by installing an alternative theme.

It may be a "people willing to volunteer for KDE" problem but it's not a general open source volunteer problem. The average GTK program these days is almost perfect in that regard. Gnome has a very polished look and so do most apps written by its users/developers.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-16 13:40:24+00:00
The really offensive part of this kind of thing is that you already paid for it. Like if you wanted to buy a regular car and you could get the engine with turbo then those are two different cars. The latter costing more because it has more/better stuff in it. This is all fine and good.

In this case, all the cars have turbo and you pay to have it turned on or not. The cost of the turbo is in the cost of the normal car because the company would not sell it at a loss. You already paid for it, but aren't allow to use it. So you are driving around with this perfectly good and usable turbo that you paid for and can't use unless you paid some extra extortion money. This is abusive, wasteful, and should be illegal in my opinion. You should only be charged extra if it is in fact extra. Not something that is already there and withheld.
by Bender | 2025-08-16 13:41:01+00:00
That's the point though; zero-tolerance means that the cause doesn't matter.

Your definition of zero tolerance does not align with mine. Mine is that there is the instigators are removed from the picture without question or debate and everyone else continues on with their education in a safer space. When a school also punishes those defending themselves they and their board members must be sued.

Allowing violent instigators is one of the many ways we end up with mass shooters. That and bad diets, off label prescription drugs.

I might even push for creating curriculum for teaching how to deal with violent and/or unstable people both online and in person and grade people on how well they defend themselves online and in person.
by drdirk | 2025-08-16 13:42:01+00:00
When I first took creatine from an Amazon dealer I had gut problems. I later bought a "micronized" creatine (similar to https://bulevip.com/es/3418-optimum-nutrition-creatina-powde...) and did not experience any gut problems. Taking the same product now for 3 years. Inbetween I used some other variant from time to time and have the theory that some vendors sell a not clean product that interferes with your gut.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-16 13:42:19+00:00
The problem is that it doesn’t matter if you are one of the 300 that are most qualified, your resume may not even viewed or your application may not be seen. LinkedIn shows you both for Easy Apply.

In my niche, I was objectively one of the most qualified in the industry. But I heard crickets last year and the year before when randomly submitting my application to ATS’s.

Don’t cry for me. That was my “Plan C”. Plan A of using my network landed me two full time offers and one contract and my plan B of personal outreach to companies looking for my specific skillset led to two interviews and one offer all in less than a month.

Last year, I just answered one recruiter’s outreach and had an interview and offer that was a perfect fit within two weeks.
by doitLP | 2025-08-16 13:42:25+00:00
I worked at a place with just such a system. Half the application code was baked into sprocs, no version control and hidden knock on effects everywhere.

There was _one guy_ who maintained it and understood how it worked. He was very smart but central to the company’s operations. So having messy stuff makes it brittle/hard to change in more ways than one and
by bratwurst3000 | 2025-08-16 13:42:51+00:00
thats where i have to disagree. if I give anyone 5mg dexteoamphetamin they would be less hyperactive and more focused on one thing. If you do too much it doesnt matter if you are regular brain or not. 80mg of dextroamphetamin would make everyone look like a speed freak.

If it would make people hyperactive it wouldnt be used for learning and sitting there 16h hyperfocused.

IMHO

edit: to explain better. imagine a adhd brain having dopamin swings between -1 and +1. While there are those swings people cant execute their plans and cant focus on one goal. when you give them adderal or similar they get a powerboost to blasting +2 dopamin lvl and can keep that for hours.

so if you give a regular human beeing the same amount of adderall it will blast its brain on +2lvl dopamin also.

so adhd people and regular people behave the samw on adderall.

the thing with adhd it is not a lack of dopamin but an iregular flow of dopamin that is the problem. The solution is to hypercharge the brain with dopamin to get constant lvl.
by j45 | 2025-08-16 13:42:52+00:00
Poorly made videos are poorly made videos.

Whether poor videos made by a human directly, or poorly made by a human using AI.

The use of software like AI to create videos with sloppy quality and reaults reflects on their skill.

Currently the use of AI leans towards sloppy because of the lower digital literacy of content creators with AI, and once they get into it, realizing how much goes into videos.
by mikert89 | 2025-08-16 13:43:56+00:00
I'm a strong believer in the "no free lunch principle"

Through a lifetime of experiences with different substances, the body always adjusts to whatever you're taking. Taking a stimulant? the brain will down regulate dopamine receptors. Putting lotion on your face? The skin will produce less oils.

There is always a downside

Rather than excess in one area, we should strive for perfect balance.
by morjom | 2025-08-16 13:44:05+00:00
"Proton's CEO Andy Yen confirmed that the proposed changes to the Swiss surveillance law made the company opt for Germany instead to host Lumo's servers. Proton has also confirmed it's also developing facilities in Norway.

While the company did not specify that Germany would become the new home of the majority of its infrastructure, Proton confirmed to TechRadar that investing in Europe doesn't equate to leaving Switzerland."
by dsego | 2025-08-16 13:44:12+00:00
> The content has a bigger right margin than the left margin.

I might be wrong, but I think in this case it has the same coded margin, but ends up as a different visual margin because the usb stick image is probably square shaped png or svg with a transparent area, and this makes it look like it's not aligned. So, it might be case where you need the dev to have an eye for it and intentionally manipulate the paddings to get visually satisfying spacing. Usually developers just set the same value in code and think it's good enough.