MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-08-30 16:58:32+00:00
I didn't eat sugar for a good 6 months. I'd have the occasional piece of fruit, but if sugar (in any form) was on a label, I wasn't eating it, even trace amounts. After the initial adjustment, I didn't crave it at all. I'd have maybe 1-2 pieces of fruit per week, if that.

It was other people who led to stopping. People kept telling me I was being "too strict" and things like that. In hindsight, they were just projecting, I felt great and didn't feel deprived at all. I some a candy bar or something, and that opened the flood gates for the cravings to come back hard. I haven't been able to flip that switch in my head to go cold turkey to that same degree again.
by revx | 2025-08-30 16:58:50+00:00
I recently read (and enjoyed) Casey Tanner's _Feel it All_, which takes the stance that lack of sex ed is little-t traumatic, and backs up that argument convincingly.

It's a surprisingly positive read, given that thesis. The idea that we should be tought (in an age approptiate way) how our bodies work and how to respect others shouldn't be controversial, and yet, here we are.
by mrits | 2025-08-30 16:58:52+00:00
Even 30 years ago in East Texas we had sex ed in junior high. Abortions were legal and common. Boys had it shoved down their throats not to harass girls. I learned the biology of sex in 4th or 5th grade. While there was a common public message of abstinence the reality is most of the parents had their girls on birth control. At least all my friends were anyways.
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-30 16:59:55+00:00
>Plenty of people isolated and medicated with TV alone. Couch potatoes were a thing.

As with all addiction, the poison is not just in the dosage, but the intensity of the hit. Television was only so powerful. Shows ended, commercials ran, and channels were limited. Of course the rise of having absolutely anything imaginable available at all times in high definition in limitless amounts will make the effect far stronger.
by sonictomb | 2025-08-30 16:59:56+00:00
In micro economics, when a substitute reduces in cost and increases in quality, we see a substitution effect [0] (amusingly, coined by economist Eugen Slutsky), i.e. people switch away from the relatively expensive good and into its lower cost substitute.

The primary substitute for physical sex is DIY with porn. Over the past 30 years porn has become orders of magnitudes cheaper (pre internet, it was ~$9 to see ~5 humans nude a la playboy magazine, and involved a trip to the shops; now it's approximately free and instant). Porn simultaneously increased orders of magnitude in quality and variety.

If you apply the same thinking to any other two substitute products (i.e. one gets 1000x cheaper whilst improving in quality and variety, whilst the original stays approximately the same), we could expect the exact same results, i.e. switching from one to the other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect
by hammock | 2025-08-30 17:00:01+00:00
Western intelligence plus Israel*

And yeah pretty much. I don’t know anything about anything but it feels like there is a hierarchy (norm? At least what they are trying to enforce) of US > Five Eyes > other Western Intel (France, etc) > Pakistan/Russia/Etc > China/North Korea/Iran; and Israel falls somewhere in that mix as a maverick. Of course in practice it doesn’t work out this way.

Reminds me of the recent news that the US will ban Chinese components from undersea cables, globally: https://asia.nikkei.com/content/99550c9ade243fe057e8a2ba6f29...
Show HN: File‑based sub‑agents for Codex CLI (tiny MCP server)
by monsieurleon | 2025-08-30 17:00:03+00:00
I built a tiny MCP server that adds task‑specific sub‑agents to Codex CLI via one tool: delegate. Agents are files (agents/.md|.json) with frontmatter you can review in PRs. DX: list_agents, validate_agents, copy/pasteable setup. Ops: stderr‑only debug and clear trust boundaries; guidance to isolate work with git worktree. Node ≥18; builds to dist/; the server itself makes no runtime network calls.

Under the hood: each call creates a temp workdir, writes AGENTS.md with the agent persona, and runs codex exec --profile <agent-profile> "<task>". For isolation, run in the temp dir (set mirror_repo=true) or point Codex at a worktree; profiles keep state separate.

Repo + docs: https://github.com/leonardsellem/codex-subagents-mcp?utm_sou...

I’d love feedback on safety/ops trade‑offs (e.g., sandbox modes, approvals) and which personas you’d add first (review, debugger, security, perf?).

Non‑goals: not a general‑purpose orchestrator—just a minimal, auditable bridge for Codex CLI.

If it’s useful, issues/PRs and agent recipe contributions are welcome.
by criley2 | 2025-08-30 17:00:19+00:00
As a counterpoint: Using a foreign model means the for-domestic-consumption censorship will not effect you much. Qwen is happy to talk about MAGA, slavery, the Holocaust, or any other "controversial" western topic.

However, American models (just like Chinese models) are heavily censored according to the society. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, are all aggressively censored to meet western expectation.

So in essence, Chinese models should be less censored than western models for western topics.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-30 17:00:59+00:00
Those are overrated VISAs and they're nabbing then procedurally. The US kinda knows who they are and have just been lenient for the most part, now they're telling them to appear and arresting them when they show.

The other commenter is very clearly talking about ICE driving vans into the parking lot of Home Depot and such, then arresting (groups of) brown folk or people who speak Spanish.

Those are very obviously two entirely separate issues. And the latter is undeniably related to skin-color.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-30 17:01:07+00:00
Hmm. Off topic, but I wonder if the reason for your second paragraph isn't your first paragraph. Sex and alcohol both are often escapes, and if you don't have time and energy for one, why would you have time and energy (and money) for the other?

Back on topic: You mention "people who aren't putting in any emotional labor to learning and growing as a person". But, from your first paragraph, who's got time and energy for that?

My own guess at an additional factor: Women's equality has made women who didn't need to depend on a man. As a result, they got a lot choosier about what downsides, flaws, and baggage they were willing to put up with.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-08-30 17:01:36+00:00
Everywhere I've worked, there is software written by those five people, who are now all rich and don't write code anymore, and I still would appreciate the courtesy of an explainer.

The trouble with good docs is that they are work to maintain, like good code. If we decide to change this component in a substantial way soon, which we likely will, I'd have to practically rewrite the docs! Why bother?

Because the docs are part of the code. Write the docs.

I don't expect to win this crusade, but I'll keep writing docs anyway. Then later people will modify the code without modifying the docs, and so the docs will be a lie, but still useful, I think.

It's like asking three people who are not closely familiar with a component, but who have worked with it, "what is this thing, how does it work?" You will get three different answers. It would be nice if one of them were a written description straight from the horse's mouth, even if the component is now more of a camel.
by d4mi3n | 2025-08-30 17:01:48+00:00
Doubt it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the erosion of woman’s rights is contributing. There are places in the US today where you will die by a pregnancy gone wrong because doctors are terrified of losing their licenses and livelihoods if a court rules (after the fact) that the procedure wasn’t necessary.

Where women are forced to carry to term after rape.

Where seeking medical care in another state for either scenario will result in prosecution.

These are real, serious concerns for many woman that will have a cooling effect on their willingness to have intimate relationships.
by jayceedenton | 2025-08-30 17:02:35+00:00
It's not really surprising. Hetero sexual desire has been framed negatively for well over a decade, as at best exploitative and at worst misogynistic and perverted. Men told that if you want sex you're part of society's biggest problem, and women told that if you give in to a man's sordid desires you are being taken advantage of and subjugated. All we ever talk about is the dreaded 'power imbalance'.

We've removed sex from normal life as far as possible. Films can be full of violence but any hint of titillation is verboten now. Any reference to sex in normal walks of life is seen as harassment, chauvinistic or pandering to the male gaze. Our culture is influenced by global social and religious conservatism in the quest to sell media to as many markets as possible. Our own new conservatism (the so-called left wing) is just as bad.

On top of that we have the culmination of a few decades of obsessive education about STDs and sex as a dangerous act that can ruin lives. A far cry from 'The Joy of Sex' as a cultural phenomenon.

We're letting prudes and those with deep psychological issues around sex call the shots. Millennials and Gen Z may be a lost cause, but let's hope that Gen A can rewrite the rules.
by scsh | 2025-08-30 17:02:36+00:00
I hear a lot of encouraging but not requiring. Having something that is required would go a long way imo. If you know you have outstanding work to complete it can be hard to give yourself permission, or feel like you won't be seen as neglecting your responsibilities if you go to something that's only encouraged. That's a struggle I have anyway.

Some sort of customer panel where you ask questions of your users about their business, how they use your software, what it enables them to do and what doesn't it do I imagine would be helpful. You can't take your whole org to you customer(s), but if you have the budget you can bring the customers to you. Also, if you have a good support org, have them work one week in support.
by miohtama | 2025-08-30 17:03:52+00:00
Whether or not there are enough young people does not matter.

The plan was to have fully funded pensions, bootstrapping them after the start. You cannot have infinite growth any case, as eventually we run out of space and resources. It must come to end at some decade.

However funding pensions full was never executed. It was too easy for politicians not to pass taxes, social benefit costs and such to do this, because boomers would have complained decades ago when they were still in the fullest earning potential.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-30 17:04:08+00:00
I would guess that lack of repeatability happens a lot with any self-reporting scheme, but I am sorry that I accidentally picked such a polarizing "people generalization" scheme to use as contrast. Maybe I should have used "introvert versus extrovert" or something

Anyway, their sibling comment told me what I wanted to know, so in that way I'm wasting more of my time contributing to this
by desireco42 | 2025-08-30 17:04:27+00:00
OK since nobody is commenting... my first impression.

Homepage is old fashioned, I loved := Pascal assignment, didn't love {} curly braces... why do we need those.

I went through few code examples and they were very clean, probably would be good to show more on homepage.

I will spend more time learning about your goals and such, which is what would help me understand it better.
by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs | 2025-08-30 17:05:02+00:00
>Cloudflare is a gatekeeper because they’re trying to insert themselves between the owner and the end-user

But they can't insert themselves without the owner directly adding them. So it's the owner that's doing the gatekeeping(regardless if it's Cloudflare or iptables rules)

I think all you AI people blaming Cloudflare are just trying to deflect from the actual problem which is more and more owners don't want AI crawlers going through their content.

If Cloudflare dissapears who are you going to blame next, the iptables developers, maybe Linus Torvalds?
by Ancapistani | 2025-08-30 17:05:14+00:00
I have nothing but good things to say about OpenHands . I’ve been using it daily for months now - some local, some CLI, some cloud-based - and while it’s not quite as polished as Devin, it’s as capable and is growing fast.

All Hands is incredibly friendly and responsive to feedback as well, and that means a lot.
by alwa | 2025-08-30 17:05:15+00:00
Counterpoint, courtesy of The New York Magazine deep in the throes of silly season: https://www.thecut.com/article/ghb-doxypep-sniffies-peak-gay...

To indulge my inner freshman-dorm-philosopher: It feels like every social dynamic is becoming "more of itself" as the engines of standardization and commodification churn. With the social technologies bringing the same phenomena to interpersonal relationships as the forces of capital did to our material relationships: everything is relatively abundant but cheap and interchangeable and disposable; friction is sanded away; stimuli are hyper-optimized for salience; everything's about closing the next sale, and a long-term relationship is an obstacle to that end...

How can the real world compete? Why build when you can rent? Why turn from the endless variety and bright colors and ocean of perfect bodies or whatever, toward something that's "special because it's ours," and frankly, much more boring than in the movies (or The New York Magazine)? Plus, the risk! The vulnerability!

Was it John Mayer who got a bit of hot water over his relationship with pornography [1]?

More than enough is too much, what is essential is invisible to the eye, it is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important, etc. :)

[1] https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-john-mayer/?s...
by crazygringo | 2025-08-30 17:05:23+00:00
Honestly, this is the type of stuff ChatGPT is really good at. Explaining overviews of a field, avoiding math if you want, focusing on concepts and explaining different schools of thought.

As long as you're sticking to the well-established stuff, it tends to be quite factually accurate. I think it's really underrated as a resource for good high-level overviews of fields where those overviews otherwise don't exist at all, are overly technical, or the existing overviews have a lot of author bias.
by rimeice | 2025-08-30 17:05:37+00:00
Honestly, I disagree, my partner just did exactly this. 50+ “cold” applications with a single first round interview. Tracked down where the head of design of one company was going to be at an event, cornered her, chatted for 10mins and was then fast tracked through an interview process and had the job signed 2 weeks later. I know that is a sample of 1, but I’ve spent most of my time as the hirer, going the extra mile to stand out does make a difference even more so in this f’d up AI infected hiring world we’re now in.
by croemer | 2025-08-30 17:06:14+00:00
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209667

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403271
by pstuart | 2025-08-30 17:06:19+00:00
It's clear that evidence doesn't matter with these people, they'll twist and turn, evade and elude to no end.

I find the exact same reaction in anti-vaxxers and people of faith. Try to get a religious person to recognize the folly of their faith -- it only makes them stronger.

I think there's two paths of resistance that might help:

1. Concise messaging 2. Mockery and humor

For #1 the problem is that most messaging about issues of concern require some nuance and context, but making people think pretty much a fool's errand. The Right has mastered the art of simple messaging the carries water for them and in some cases, literally defines the debate.

A prime example of this is anti-abortionists labeling themselves as "Pro-life". Who doesn't love life? And babies? Then there's "entitlements" for public insurance programs. Death taxes for estate taxes. And for our esteemed council in this debate, "Law and Order". And so on...

I don't have any easy or immediate remedy here, but I believe this path needs to be followed to help sway hearts and minds.

And for #2 (poop!), most people are vulnerable to the sting of mockery, certainly evidenced by how Diaper Don himself lashes out when made fun of. We need more of that, and more for the Deplorables who worship him. Yes, there needs to be a parallel track of trying to be nice and inviting, but we are literally at war for the survival of democracy in the United States (the civil war never ended -- the south had their fingers crossed when they surrendered).

Another unfortunate note: this war is also waged by religious fundamentalists (and white nationalists), and while I respect an individual's right to their own worship, we should be vigilant in pointing out that: "Religion is like a penis. It's nice to have one and fine to be proud of. Don't whip it out in public or shove it down someone else's throat"
by guerrilla | 2025-08-30 17:06:38+00:00
Everything else uses more energy for both training and inference. Reducing the energy footprint is our highest priority in this domain. It outweighs the other considerations like it being Chinese, run by a hedge fund, etc. None of that matters if we destroy our ability to live on this planet. DeepSeek is not good enough, but we need to choose it in order to encourage competition on this front specifically. It's more important that companies focus on that than spend time improving other metrics.
by andrewflnr | 2025-08-30 17:07:14+00:00
IANAP, but what I'm seeing here is a lot of very optimistic speculation about how life might survive, with no plausible mechanism. We have no idea what dark energy is, and it may well be impossible to extract energy from. Some of the quotes in the article suggest that life must physically go find additional energy sources, especially if dark energy doesn't work out. Interstellar travel is already prohibitively difficult, and getting to the next galaxy seems simply infeasible. Humanity's descendants are basically limited to the Milky Ways resources. Left to itself, the universe will eventually run out of hydrogen that can be economically fused. It will go dark eventually. The black hole power plants will eventually run out.

Wake me up when dark energy is more than a statistical anomaly, or we have a practical theory for a warp drive.
by hammock | 2025-08-30 17:07:20+00:00
You are being downvoted by anti-backdoor people, which is fine, but you highlight an interesting new facet of the discussion:

How do we build a functioning world where secrets are not required? By this I don’t mean “everyone behaves good and therefore has nothing to hide/fear” but rather, how do we function in a world in which secrets are simply not possible?
by chongli | 2025-08-30 17:07:28+00:00
The decline of community is a very big deal. I think a lot of it has to do with the way we build our living spaces. Modern North American cities are rife with car-centric suburbs, huge driveways, front doors set back a mile from the sidewalk, long commutes to anywhere (not just work, even to get groceries). We're living in these metal-and-glass boxes and we only see other people as obstacles in the way of what we want, rather than fellow human beings.

It seems to me that we've built this horrible, alienating environment not by deliberate choice but through a larger collective and political process none of us could individually control. We've created rules (building codes and zoning laws) that entrench this dystopia in countless small ways which will take a concerted effort to undo.
by maxaw | 2025-08-30 17:07:33+00:00
As others have pointed out, we need more space, and time, to socialise with each other in unstructured ways. This will inevitably lead to more sex (pure human nature). There are many very obvious reasons why this isn’t happening, like working longer hours to cope with cost of living, or high real estate prices that make it financially unsustainable to operate third places.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-30 17:07:38+00:00
I think it's more than just "you aren't adequate". I think it's that the material prosperity isn't feeding our souls, or our hearts, or whatever word you want to use. We're better off, but less connected, and we need personal connection, not just internet connection. We're dying inside, even in the midst of all the stuff. We're poor in a way that material prosperity can't fix.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-30 17:08:25+00:00
I would expect it to reduce fertility because we know when you explain to girls how human reproduction actually works fewer of them are onboard because that sure looks like a traumatic experience. Oh so eventually after the other horrible side effects the parasite gets so large I have to push it out of my body through an orifice which is clearly not adequately sized for this purpose? Strong no.

But the other part sounds fun, so, why wouldn't learning about that encourage you? If you've done a decent sex ed course then a whole lot of fun possibilities are showcased, even if you think some of them are gross the others seem intriguing enough that I'd expect more rather than less will be interested in trying.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-30 17:08:56+00:00
After the drama, I stopped checking the progress on the language. I think at this point I may stick to C3 only and probably contribute, since it may be the only language that aims to solely improve on C. Odin seemed fine, too, but it seems like it is growing out of the promises of "C replacement". Zig definitely outgrew it a long time ago.
by hyperman1 | 2025-08-30 17:09:24+00:00
I've seen this go from bad to worse. A company had a bad project manager they couldn't get rid of, and required a security person by law, so they promoted him. The idea was he would get kicked out of the company the next time a security boo boo happened.

It went a lot worse. The guy had no idea about security and no common sense, and did genius things like forbidding encryption in the name of security (so the network people would be able to do packet inspection for monitoring security). But he created a morass of paperwork, and made it impossible for any project to make any kind of progress without involving security. End user computers slowed to unusable speed as he threw in more and more snake oil security software. As his rules were vague, dumb, self-conflicting and very very time consuming, nobody followed them, so he could always point to someone not following the rules when a security boo boo happened. He grew his department like a mushroom, wasted huge amounts of money, and entrenched himself completely, all based on sweet talk and complete nonsense. I've learned a lot about office politics watching him.
by motorest | 2025-08-30 17:09:45+00:00
> While I tend to agree with your position, it sounds like they built a system in less than 2 weeks that was immediately useful to the organization. That sounds like a win to me, and makes me wonder if there were other ways in hindsight that such a system could evolve.

I don't think this is an adequate interpretation. Quick time to market doesn't mean the half-baked MVP is the end result.

An adequate approach would be to include work on introducing the missing abstraction layer as technical debt to be paid right after launch. You deliver something that works in 2 weeks and then execute the remaining design as follow-up work. This is what technical debt represents, and why the "debt" analogy fits so well. Quick time to market doesn't force anyone to put together half-assed designs.
by pstuart | 2025-08-30 17:09:45+00:00
Race is part of the what's going on -- there's an effort to purify the United States so only God's Chosen White Man (and his family) may live here.

As you are proudly a Fed Soc member, are you also a follower of Jesus? From the makeup of your compatriots in SCOTUS, I'm guessing you're a devout Catholic. Does your faith inform you in your voting?