MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spagbol | 2025-08-06 13:48:13+00:00
I'm pro e-bike for reasons other people have mentioned:

-It's a big win for the elderly and out of shape who otherwise would not be getting that exercise and fresh air at all. I have a friend who's Aunt has a heart problem and apperently otherwise wouldn't be unable to bike without an e-bike.

-It brings many new people into the orbit of biking that otherwise wouldn't. The more bikers the more demand for good bike infrastructure, and the fewer cars on the road, and the more attractive biking becomes as a means of transport in a virtuous cycle. This could be huge.

Though I do worry about a few things:

-I think with its battery an e-bike is significantly more of an issue when people do stupid things like throw bikes in rivers/lakes/ponds. Even if this weren't common in places it still needs a good end of life for recycling.

-I do think maybe some people will be so used to an e-bike smoothing out the ride that they will never go to a full bike, but this may be a relatively low number (e.g. many people choose to bike over driving because they want to exercise)

-Many people on e-bikes in my area are a bit of a menace. Because it takes no effort to use, people fly around at max speed (well above the limit posted on our bike paths) and e-bikes are heavy; if someone gets hit it might seriously injure them. I think it may end up giving them a bad reputation if they aren't managed well.

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by MontyCarloHall | 2025-08-06 13:48:30+00:00
The only definitively non-renewable resource is time. Time is often spent like a currency, whose monetary instrument is some tangible proxy of how much time elapsed. Verbosity was an excellent proxy, at least prior to the advent of generative AI. As you said, the reason Bob needs to write 4 paragraphs to get a new PC is to prove that he spent the requisite time for that computer, and is thus serious about the request. It’s the same reason management consultants and investment bankers spend 80+ hours a week working on enormous slide decks that only ever get skimmed by their clients: it proves to the clients that the firm spent time on them, and is thus serious about the case/deal. It’s also the same reason a concise thank-you note “thanks for the invite! we had a blast!” or a concise condolence note “very sorry for your loss” get a lot less well-received than a couple verbose paragraphs on how great the event was or how much the deceased will be missed, even if all that extra verbiage confers absolutely nothing beyond the core sentiment. (The very best notes, of course, use their extra words to convey something personally meaningful beyond “thanks” or “sorry.”)

Gen-AI completely negates meaningless verbosity as a proxy of time spent. It will be interesting to see what emerges as a new proxy, since time-as-currency is extremely engrained into the fabric of human social interactions.
by danielbln | 2025-08-06 13:48:39+00:00
No, I love it. Finally an end to the endless yak shaving. Yes, I love a good flow state where I can actually get shit done, but being stuck on one only semi-relevant issue that prevents me from moving on, that sucks. And with AI assisted coding, that's no longer the case.

I love building things, trying things, finding the best result that checks all the boxes, conventions, quality, etc. Not having to hand set the code is a pure net positive for me. I can discuss architecture, interfaces, data flow, data models and so on, I can let it quickly onboard me, tell me where we left of. It's great.

If everything feels fragmented after completing a feature, then you haven't driven the agent properly. You really want to yell at it from multiple angles until the output fits a narrow hole that you specify.
by potato-peeler | 2025-08-06 13:48:48+00:00
It seems to use c99, I would like to know from folks who have read this book, for learning newer features in C, what do you recommend?

Also, does this book also teach some of the pitfalls of stdlib like gets or scanf?

Basically I always read in HN/lobsters/other forums that modern C is just as safe as newer languages but I don’t see much book or tutorials teaching modern concepts or even industry standards like Misra?
by vessenes | 2025-08-06 13:48:49+00:00
Yessss. I feel this. On the productivity side I banned Reddit and gave myself 15 min of HN a day, that helped with not getting waylaid.

On the pleasure side, I can get close to the same feeling with a design and review cycle going while Claude checks in, but its not as fun. Using an inline code assistant for the “interesting” parts while Claude does all the boring scaffolding.

I think of it like any industrialization process - being a cabinet maker was meditative - overseeing ikea flatpak cnc is not.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-06 13:48:59+00:00
Thanks, I'm not particularly upset. I was just curious to understand your point of view better.

The reason I'm not super upset is that I believe these things will settle at a reasonable state that societies expect. Especially large corporations will conform to societal expectations.

If you're very worried about deepfakes of actual people, I think you should be more concerned about those models that are NOT the product of a large company, but rather the ones that any random person can run on their computer.
by Joker_vD | 2025-08-06 13:49:05+00:00
Okay, this question probably should be asked from a throwaway, but I'll bite: do you consider imagining some person, without the consent of that person, engaging in a sexual act, to be immoral? Putting this imagination of yours onto a paper, in the form of words or drawing?

Or is the problem here is the fact that such imagining was "commissioned" to a third party (I believe I have seen this opinion somewhere long time ago)?
by hintklb | 2025-08-06 13:49:18+00:00
Again, the back of the napkin math you do doesn't work. Educate yourself and search online or on this thread. A ton of people agree with me and the math once you dig deep.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

We don't need to agree. You seem happy to think you came ahead financially, good for you.
by throwanem | 2025-08-06 13:49:27+00:00
If you're going to rip off one of Dan Carlin's show titles this way, be so courteous as to provide the reference. It's pretty good, as so is a lot of his stuff, him hailing from back when podcasts were still delivered synchronously via terrestrial broadcast.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-...
by sgarland | 2025-08-06 13:49:30+00:00
Largely, yes. Another department built a Python script that mostly was a driver for Selenium, because while they weren’t allowed direct access to some DB, nothing stopped them from automating a script to click various buttons in the shitty IE6 web app and scrape the results. I also recall they found that while passwords for said web app needed to be changed every N days, there was no lookback, so they had the script rotate between two passwords.

In my case, another not-insignificant factor was that multiple people on the team were quite good at abusing Excel and VBA, but only two others knew any other programming languages. One of them was an engineer (not SWE, engineer as in fab tool engineer - I think he was an EE) who occasionally wrote stuff in C for fun, and the other was also an engineer, but one who had convinced management that we should create an in-house SWE team. Great idea, and we weren’t the first to do so; unfortunately our manager was abruptly replaced, and his successor saw no value in the proposition.
by moses-palmer | 2025-08-06 13:49:36+00:00
How curious! So am I, and that is the project that I am the closest to regretting open sourcing.

I made the mistake of also implementing keyboard and mouse monitoring---you know, so I could write automated tests for the input parts!---and over the years it has turned into an endless source of feature requests, bug reports and also general questions about the Python programming language and its ecosystem.

Input events truly are horrible to provide a platform independent abstraction over, but in the end seeing people use it, make YouTube tutorials and discuss it on Stack Overflow make it worth the time spent.
by superkuh | 2025-08-06 13:50:26+00:00
Yep. Python stopped being Python a decade ago. Now there are just innumberable Pythons. Perl... on the otherhand, you can still run any perl script from any time on any system perl interpreter and it works! Granted, perl is unpopular and not getting constant new features re: hardcore math/computation libs.

Anyway, I think I'll stick with Festival 1.96 for TTS. It's super fast even on my core2duo and I have exactly zero chance of getting this Python 3'ish script to run on any machine with an OS older than a handful of years.
by tboyd47 | 2025-08-06 13:50:35+00:00
I've been on dating apps for the past 3 months (ladies of HN, you heard right), including the "marriage apps" within the Muslim community (it's the same basic product). I suspect being Muslim, white, over 35, and not a doctor filters out about 99.99% of women who I might be compatible with. I have chosen not to describe my ideal partner at all for this reason. I'm already pre-filtered to an extreme. Limping along as it is with an eye-patch and two bum legs, why handicap myself even more?
by bayindirh | 2025-08-06 13:50:44+00:00
> They were always really expensive, heavy and had low energy density (both by weight and by volume).

Sorry, I misread your comment. I thought you were talking about LiFePo4 production ending in 2023, not NiFe.

I know that NiFe batteries are not suitable (or possible to be precise) to be miniaturized. :)

I still wish market does research on longevity as much as charge speed and capacity, but it seems companies are happy to have batteries with shorter and shorter life spans to keep up with their version of the razor and blades model.

Also, this is why regulation is necessary in some areas.
by qualeed | 2025-08-06 13:50:51+00:00
>what about drawing a picture of your mum getting bukkaked?

It's really weird that you chose to make your point this way instead of the hundreds of other ways you could have phrased it.

I mean, it's obvious you're just trolling, so I'm not surprised. But I hope one day you think back on some of the things you typed out and cringe at how fucking weird it is.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 13:51:00+00:00
I thought it was understood that's what they do these days.

People can probably appreciate that lot of the kilos are more figurative than ever, but there's still enough hard copies made to fill big trucks though.

I'm not in academics professionally myself, how universal would you estimate it is among their journals these days to require a statistical study between an adequate number of different labs before final publication?
by klik99 | 2025-08-06 13:51:05+00:00
Does anybody remember when Elon Musk said he created Neuralink because he was scared of AI and thought brain interfaces was the only way to mitigate that? (Amazing article on brain interfaces here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html)

He’s always been a bit crazy but there was a time when he seemed genuinely thoughtful and concerned about the future. Now he’s constantly trying to bait people and intentionally create division for the sake of PR. Maybe he’s bought into accelerationism, but whatever it is is a far cry from his “we should tread carefully” approach
by evtothedev | 2025-08-06 13:51:23+00:00
Very, very much agree with this. The nuggets of wait time are just long enough to get distracted, but not long enough to accomplish anything worthwhile.

My best "hack" for this has been to use Freedom[1] to create a blocklist of all my go-to time sucks (including, sadly, HN). This at least stops me from getting pulled in too deeply.

[1] http://freedom.to/
by phkahler | 2025-08-06 13:51:53+00:00
>> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates.

That just occurred to me the other day. Our unfettered business focused economy is self destructing at a meta level. We're at the point where peoples attention and even emotion are for sale. We've all heard about dopamine hits as rewards for using apps or keeping people in a game. The problem is hoarding these aspects of life for company profits is taking them away from people who need those to reproduce. You need time, emotion, attention, and yes the physiological response to sex in order to reproduce. Meanwhile the cost of raising children is going up when it probably should be going down (for profit healthcare, for profit education, etc..) so even from a rational PoV it makes less sense to have kids.

There are certainly other things at play, but business as usual is destroying the population - it's own customer base.
by Henchman21 | 2025-08-06 13:51:53+00:00
Ah yes, blame the users for the algorithm. Makes sense. Blame the overweight for the food they have access to! Blame the kids for failing schools!

Not everything is a personal moral failure when society is literally out to get each and every one of us. Many of us have been damaged by the ‘net, it’s purveyors of crap, intentionally for their gain.

Don’t just turn and point fingers at the endusers. They sure as fuck didn’t design the algorithms.
by wonderwonder | 2025-08-06 13:51:56+00:00
I agree, I'm 46. I dropped from 240lbs in January to 209lbs in June. I have maintained that weight. Recently went to a beach resort for a vacation and the number of random people that commented on my build was embarrassing. From bar tenders making a point of serving me first and asking me how much I benched to the literal wives of other men saying "Hi Vin Diesel" (3 times) in front of their husbands and my wife. I have a shaved head and tan so its going to always be Vin Diesel or the Rock. My wife even commented that people keep staring at me.

I literally realized how amazing life must be for a hot girl.

Must have been because of how disgusting I look...

I think you may be making things up to make yourself feel better friend.
by throwaway6041 | 2025-08-06 13:52:03+00:00
Alternative A can have the opposite effect. Unhappy people tend to eat more.

Perhaps it is a "motivator" for people to stop gaining weight by controlling their diet before they are too obese, but once you are obese I think it has mostly negative effects.

Losing significant weight is incredibly hard, and gets harder the more you want to lose. If you have lost 20kg (with great benefits to health) and are still made fun of because you are still above average weight it will have a negative effect and the weight will quickly be gained back
by VeejayRampay | 2025-08-06 13:52:06+00:00
that line of "someone says something I don't agree with so I will insinuate they didn't read the article" is tired, seriously

an excerpt from the article you pretend I didn't read (which I did)

But let’s be honest: even throttle-only riding is more active than sitting on a couch

the article is literally saying that

it's also saying things about mental well-being, the sense of community, which I can get behind of course, but there's some sense of course to the bottom in our expectations
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-06 13:52:31+00:00
The older I get the more concise I find myself (which is not to say I'm actually concise, as my comment history will demonstrate), but LLM's have really driven home just how much noise day to day communication involves. So much filler text.

It still surprises me when I see non-technical enthusiasts get excited about LLMs drafting almost useless copy or email or whatever. So much garbage text no one reads but has to be written for some reason. Its weird.
by mathieuh | 2025-08-06 13:52:34+00:00
I guess I'm just not asking it big enough things. I'm asking it things on the level of an individual function or component. To be honest I really haven't had much success at all with IDE integrations and giving it access to the whole codebase. I get far better results by asking very focused questions, which means I'm only waiting a few seconds for a response.

This is Claude Sonnet 4
by Shank | 2025-08-06 13:52:50+00:00
Just because you can provision Felica cards outside of Japan doesn't mean that you can actually use them. It's not really global support if you can add Suica in the US and then not use it. More likely is that Felica Networks agreed with this logic and Apple is only paying the license fee for JP devices, or has some side deal about not delineating between regions. If Apple didn't support Felica, it would just move more users in Japan onto physical cards or Android.
by drtgh | 2025-08-06 13:53:33+00:00
I read it does exists trading platforms were if you earn money they lose it because they launched the order internally between their affiliates, and not to the external trading networks (or whatever they are called). This if they even really launch the orders...

We can not see the traders' internal code so anything can happen. I think they look like money-collecting machines. Take care guys.

Edit: Wow, that downvote sounds very interesting, as the first that I pointed is widely known, the so called "Market Makers".
by anonnon | 2025-08-06 13:53:34+00:00
> but it is common for crates to be released under MIT

Something that isn't brought up enough in the "rewrite everything in Rust" discussions is that the API guidelines explicitly recommend MIT/Apache to "maximize compatibility" (i.e., corporate friendliness, or developer and user exploitation): https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/necessities.html#...

Your project has been around for a while, but it's crazy to me that anyone still open sources anything under MIT (or similar) in the era of LLMs. Are they that confident in their job security? Are they already independently wealthy? Frankly, even a proper copyleft license is likely to just be ignored, or the code laundered through an LLM-assisted rewrite, by these companies. I prefer to just keep anything I can't sell all to myself rather than release it, at this point.
by alganet | 2025-08-06 13:53:35+00:00
Why am I on the side that thinks Reddit has become a mess?

Gamification strategies, like medals and paid goodies, polluted its points system.

That whole fiasco trying to come up with NFT avatar pictures, it was an especulation shot in the dark about uniqueness identification that went nowhere.

To me, it looks like a dead platform floating in the water. When it moves, it's because the ocean moves, not because it's alive.

Instead of focusing on what its perceived advantage is (humans talking and a supposedly good karma system), it keeps going for these cheap shots.
by rscho | 2025-08-06 13:53:53+00:00
Ibuprofen ? That's really not something I'd have expected to end up in someone's 'healthy stuff' list. Ibuprofen increases the risk of cardiac event and is a common precipiting factor in renal failure. Most antibiotics also do not do only good things. The list is too long to write here. Side effects profiles change with research and marketing developments, but thinking these drugs are only beneficial is a bit over the top.

Edit: I forgot. Ibuprofen also causes (non trivial) stomach bleeding and increases blood pressure. And many other things too.
by username332211 | 2025-08-06 13:53:55+00:00
I'm pretty sure you are completely correct on the last part. Nobody in Republican management wanted a second Trump term. If the candidate wasn't Trump, Republicans would have had a guaranteed victory. Imagine that infamous debate, but with some 50-year-old youngster facing Joe Biden.

It's the White House that wanted Trump to be candidate. They played Republican primary voters like a fiddle by launching a barrage of transparently political prosecutions just as Republican primaries were starting.

And then they still lost the general election.
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-06 13:53:57+00:00
Would you let someone beat you to death? Would you let them beat your children to death? If you shot them or stabbed them or hit them in the back of the head with a shovel, would you say it was ‘necessity’ and ‘justified’ or would that be a symptom of the 'same thinking'? War is terrible, but it is pretty naive to lament Hiroshima as if it existed in isolation, and not in the context of an aggressive imperialist Japan epitomized in the rape of Nanking. While these things need to be explored and looked at, we also need to recognize that death camps and genocide were happening every day the Nazis and Japanese empire were still fighting.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 13:54:16+00:00
> (even ilegally modified E-Bikes usually fall far short of modified "snorfiets" speeds).

Class 1 e-bikes are limited to 32 km/h here, but simple mods push them well above 50 km/h.

Many of these bikes are designed to be hacked, with unlocked power output significantly higher than the locked output. It’s a selling point and a key part of reviews.
by KPGv2 | 2025-08-06 13:54:33+00:00
> Take something like the food pyramid, and put vegetables on the bottom, put fat/dairy/coconut and protein/meat/eggs/soy/mycelium in the next level up, put fruit in the next level up, and put starches and sugars on top

You might be happy to know we replaced the food pyramid years over a decade ago. With MyPlate, a visual representation of what your plate ought to look like when it's healthy. Half fruits and vegetables (mostly veggies), a little over 25% grains, a little under 25% protein (protein and fruits are depicted as the same). Dairy is the smallest of all, as a small cup off to the side.

Totally disagree with your idea that starches (grains + potatoes, I assume was your thinking) as the smallest thing. You say "eat real food, mostly plants" and then exclude fruits and grains. You keep complicating your own rule without explaining the complication.

> demonizing saturated fat

are you a cattle rancher? There is oodles of research that saturated fat is bad for you. Full stop.

Here are some literature reviews:

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34649831/ (they actually have received funding from the beef industry and yet still agree that it looks like a diet high in SFA is linked to atherosclerotic heart disease)

On the other hand, you have bad faith actors like the ones who wrote this:

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36477384/ where they argue the anti-SFA crowd is a conspiracy-theory laden, unscientific group. If you read their (laughable) conflict of interest statement, they never once actually say anything about themselves, instead just bragging about how they're producing "revelations [that have] never before seen the light"

I actually am too lazy to pull up more. But keto people love to talk about how it's all a conspiracy. I'm glad it works for you. It obviously doesn't work for humans at large.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-06 13:54:42+00:00
We didn't need a license, by virtue of the displacement of the stock engine being small (IIRC the limit was 125cc? Or maybe even less). They also had to have pedals, so small motorcycles or vespa-style scooters did require a license. Or at least a registration.

The mopeds would barely go 30mph as sold. That was hackable though if you were so inclined and had a set of wrenches.