MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-08-08 13:30:54+00:00
> medical, the government, or dare I say, military decisions

Which of these are you making?

> Because I am capable of engaging in deliberate thought about awful things does not make me awful too

Are you sure? Being able to entertain ideas you don't agree with is necessary, but there is a sting in the tail. There was an old warning about that, something about how it looks back. I don't believe people nearly often enough understand what was meant. I don't believe you do.

> I have no idea why you think that Scott Alexander is somehow the boogieman in the current ethico-political landscape, go look at Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin's never been anything but a jackoff wannabe who dresses up in big bro's old rocker drag to indulge his humiliation kink on stage, and reliably struggles to achieve even that much.

I'm more interested in people capable of being taken seriously, and "Alexander's" whole schtick is making the implausible, nonsensical, and unconscionable go down easy. Eugenics is one example. I don't hold against him that he's justified it once long ago; anyone in their 20s or early 30s is likely to say dumb shit occasionally. It's just that I see no compelling evidence he has in the interim developed an understanding of what was wrong with his prior thinking, only learned in the manner of an incompletely socialized child what makes people angry to hear talked about. Unfortunately, he is no child; like anyone his actions have consequences in the world, all the more in his case for his outsized profile and persuasive qualities. That makes him a somewhat dangerous person in his own right, and as anyone else's 'useful idiot' potentially a good bit more so. As such he merits interest, which as a public figure he also recruits. And, of course, it is always interesting to observe who lately seems to be recruiting him, which appears pretty simple to do.

What a shame. As an author of fiction the man has a genuine gift, I think, yet he will always in the end be "better known for other work."
by emushack | 2025-08-08 13:31:05+00:00
Yeah that's right! If you simply say that this syncs to all my devices, it papers over, or abstracts if you will, the complexity of: secure enclaves/TPMs, symmetric sync keys wrapping asymmetrically encrypted passkeys, resident keys that support backup, keys that do NOT support backup, how biometrics are used, etc. etc.

With a password, I can write it down on a piece of paper and put it in my safe.

One of these systems is not like the other.
by Sanzig | 2025-08-08 13:31:51+00:00
The other thing is the vast majority of UF6 in the fuel cycle is low-enriched (reactor grade), so it's not useful for building a nuclear weapon. Access to high-enriched uranium is very tightly controlled.

You can of course disperse radiological materials, but that's a dirty bomb, not a nuclear weapon. Nasty, but orders of magnitude less destructive potential than a real fission or thermonuclear device.
by maltalex | 2025-08-08 13:32:07+00:00
It doesn’t scale as well across a large org.

We have hundreds of repos, thousands of projects. It is hard to ensure consistency at scale with a local .editorconfig in every repo.

Also, with a nuget I can do a lot more than what editorconfig allows. Our package includes custom analyzers, custom spell check dictionaries, and multiple analysis packages (i.e not just the Microsoft provided analyzers). We support different levels of analysis for different projects based on project type (with automatic type detection). Not to mention that coding practices evolve with time, tastes, and new language features. And those changes also need to be consistently applied.

With a package, all we need to do to apply all of the above consistently across the whole company is to bump a single version.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 13:32:37+00:00
See, what they really need to do is release the politically-desired results in press releases while sending the real information using steganographic concealment in the page's logo. We must construct a Truman Show around Dear Leader for our own survival. /s

Previous users of this data will seek alternative, less precise signals elsewhere and likely use conservative, pessimistic guesstimates that will tend to be risk-adverse and not encourage expansion or investment.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-08 13:33:11+00:00
Because so far Microsoft has not implemented such feature.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8...

> Note that emulation only supports user mode code and does not support drivers; any kernel mode components must be compiled as Arm64.

Yes, Prism isn't as good as Rosetta.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-08 13:34:13+00:00
I used to recommend editorconfig and better tools for .NET nearly ten years ago. I never seem to get hired anywhere that appreciates better tooling and sane processes. All to the impediment of everyones productivity no less.

Just kind of giving up at this point. They are perfectly fine with waiting an extra day for every developer to finish simple tasks that better tooling could have helped with and I am not even talking about AI. Better database tools, better code refactoring that catches bugs before they happen. Lots of simple things.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-08 13:34:39+00:00
I can vouche for .editorconfig. I set it up at my current job (although not to the degree in this article.)

The big problem we had was an old codebase, with a very inconsistent style, that had a lot of code written by junior developers and non-developers.

This resulted in a situation where, every time I had to work in an area of the code I hadn't seen before, the style was so different I had to refactor it just to understand it.

.editorconfig (with dotnet-format) fixed this.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-08-08 13:34:40+00:00
It's getting pretty bad, I wonder where the floor is. A growing number of people are using credit to purchase groceries — buy now pay later schemes are also resulting in people putting ubereats on credit

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/buy-now-pay-late... (https://archive.is/Cmzis)
by _heimdall | 2025-08-08 13:34:43+00:00
> Coding and algorithmic advance does not require real world experimentation.

That's nothing close to AGI though. An AI of some kind may be able to design and test new algorithms because those algorithms live entirely in the digital world, but that skill isn't generalized to anything outside of the digital space.

Research is entirely theoretical until it can be tested in the real world. For an AGI to do that it doesn't just need a certain level of intelligence, it needs a model of the world and a way to test potential solutions to problems in the real world.

Claims that AGI will "solve" energy, cancer, global warming, etc all run into this problem. An AI may invent a long list of possible interventions but those interventions are only as good as the AI's model of the world we live in. Those interventions still need to be tested by us in the real world, the AI is really just guessing at what might work and has no idea what may be missing or wrong in its model of the physical world.
by xnorswap | 2025-08-08 13:34:48+00:00
I couldn't disagree more.

How do you expect junior programmers to become senior ones without help? Having automated guard-rails saves a large amount of your senior devs time by avoiding them having to pick such things up in code review, and you'll find the junior programmers absorb the rules in time and learn.

Several of the examples are nitpicking naming, this is exactly what should be automated. It's not like even experienced people won't accidentally use camelCase instead of PascalCase sometimes, or maybe accidentally snake_case something especially if they're having to mix C# back-end with JS frontend with different naming conventions.

Picking it up immediately in the IDE is a massive time-save for everyone.

The "There is an Async alternative" is a great roslyn rule. Depending on the API, some of those async overloads might not even have existed in the past, e.g. JSON serialisation, so having something to prompt "Hey, there's a better way to do this!" is actually magical.

Unused local variables are less likely, but they still happen, especially if a branch later has been removed. Having it become a compiler error helps force the dev to clean up as they go.
by noitpmeder | 2025-08-08 13:36:24+00:00
Exactly. Instead of battling with their own internal departments when they show lack-luster numbers in good faith, they can just blame the "agendas" of the non-blessed private sector companies who show the same data.

Even better, they can exult the virtues of select private sector companies who show "good" "approved" data.

What? No, no conflict of interest that members of the President's immediate family happens to hold board seats in those "approved" companies.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-08 13:36:33+00:00
Hmm? For me it's still the best model for general use. That I've tried at least. Gemma and phi I didn't like so much. Qwen is chinese and I've had bad experiences with those (reverting to Chinese when they get confused).

Not for knowledge, but I combine it with searches of course. None of the small models are good at knowledge.
by MonkeyClub | 2025-08-08 13:36:42+00:00
Yep, there is a clear and constant convergence towards Lispity in most languages. Lambdas are everywhere, for example, and macros start appearing more and more.

What still isn't there is the concept of image-based development, but this seems to be intentional, while environments and containers tend to replicate some of that functionality.

Though I think Lisp's approach still remains a unique way towards "programming as theory development", or "programming as teaching (the computer)" because of the particular power of its treatment of the REPL as a long-running, uninterrupted environment.
by maelito | 2025-08-08 13:36:52+00:00
> Many OSM apps will also be reluctant to adopt a closed source solution that might be closed of any moment.

Bluesky is not closed-source, it's mostly open. It's a hard mastodon-circle myth. Aside from being open-source, it's a protocol.

What I'm doing with Bluesky should be easy to reproduce with Mastodon, opening to 10 M accounts more.

People won't create an account to review. Not even a OSM account. We need to build on what's available, and ATProto is spot-on for this usage.
by jayseb | 2025-08-08 13:37:34+00:00
codex login does not seem to work with ChatGPT Plus.

Getting this error:

Error response Error code: 500

Message: Token exchange failed: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006)>.

Error code explanation: 500 - Server got itself in trouble.

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1243

I am and many other similar users would love to move from Claude Code to Codex, but this is preventing us from doing it.
by antifa | 2025-08-08 13:38:02+00:00
There is definitely a type of famine going on in the US right now, 40 million are struggling with food insecurity. There is also a crises of healthy food being unaffordable, so people are essentially eating 2x their daily calories while getting 0.5x their daily nutrients. Then there are multiple political decisions that have already been made this year that will result in various forms of crop loss (migrants scared to show up at work) and disease outbreak (RFKJr's raw milk). The results of which are likely to impact food prices. The people who are hit hardest by this will already have been hit the hardest by greedflation in rent.
by solumunus | 2025-08-08 13:38:06+00:00
And yet it seems to be the prevailing opinion even among very smart people. The “singularity” it’s just presumed. I’m highly skeptical to say the least. Look how much energy it’s taking to engineer these models which are still nowhere near AGI. When we get to AGI it won’t be immediately super intelligent and perhaps it never will be. Diminishing returns surely apply to anything that is energy based?
by noitpmeder | 2025-08-08 13:39:05+00:00
Maybe the best move at this point is to move toward the BLS releasing all the raw data, but do not publish conclusions of their own? Then at least you have a central "unbiased" (if that's ever an actual state) agency responsible for collection, and leave it up to the more polarized outlets/statisticians/... to produce their own interpretations.

E.g. similar to Census data -- central data collection managed by govt, generalized anonymous data released for interpretation by anyone.
by dentemple | 2025-08-08 13:39:11+00:00
Yeah, I agree with the OP here. After all this time, being able to change the chat colors at this point has some real We-reached-the-bottom-of-the-backlog energy, and they're just now implementing the ideas that weren't considered important enough before by the PMs to consider.

It hardly feels like a next generation release.

As a related anecdote (not saying that this is industry standard, just pointing out my own experience), the startup I work for launched their app four years ago, and, for all four of those years, we've had "Implement a Dark Mode design" sitting at the bottom of our own backlog. Higher priority feature requests are always pre-empting it.
by j1elo | 2025-08-08 13:40:21+00:00
> windows just lets apps grab whatever window they want [...] and everything Just Works

Not really, as proven by the amount of searches with "Windows 11 disable focus stealing" (and ensuing frustration after seeing that it's not a simple toggle somewhere in the Settings) that I've done over time, and confirmed with so many coworkers over the years that we'd like to disable it.

Windows in particular and computers in general, work as they do, and people just adapt to it and sigh in frustration, assuming that things must be that way and there's nothing that can be done to change it. It's difficult to measure "Just Works" if there are no satisfaction surveys for each feature (also would be impractical). Focus stealing in particular is so ingrained in people's minds that I doubt many are even aware that it could work differently.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-08 13:40:37+00:00
I don't use hosted AI much. But one of the reasons I like AI is that I can ask it something like "Hmm I don't like how this sounds, can you formulate it another way, more colloquial?" and it'll take that into account. Or what I often get is that it translates "you" to singular when I need plural and vice versa. In most languages that differs but not in English.
by DaSingularity | 2025-08-08 13:40:49+00:00
You would be surprised at how many prompts in Cursor are required just to adjust a layout and get padding/margins to spec even while providing it the figma link and using a figma MCP, as well as well developed prompts and images/files for context. Still can't figure out why there is 20px padding in a container with no set height.
by ev_dev3 | 2025-08-08 13:41:27+00:00
Great question! What differentiates Trayce from other HTTP clients are:

- An ebpf-based network monitor which allows instant monitoring of HTTP(S), GRPC, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Most of those apps can only monitor HTTP using a proxy. Trayce does not use a proxy, it reads the traffic from the kernel layer.

- UI is based on Flutter, not Electron or any other browser-based framework.

- Local git-friendly HTTP request storage
by idebasispaul | 2025-08-08 13:41:50+00:00
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by catzkorn | 2025-08-08 13:42:08+00:00
Hi!

I've been trying to write 'the next post' for the last 5 years - it's often something I think about that I've just left these posts in the ether with no conclusion. It wasn't a conscious decision not to continue, but I started interviewing then got hired at an early stage start up (Tailscale), and everything turned into a blur. When I went back to the draft I had going, it felt overwhelming to try condense the pace at which my skills and career was evolving and I'd close it pretty quickly. Surprisingly to me, it's been more than just how I write code thats evolved - I've discovered a lot about how I operate within a tech company and that I'm also extremely user focused.

I'm not sure how my blog was found and posted here (but thank you for reading!), but last night I did open that draft and started working on it again. A complete coincidence, but it was the first time it felt like I'm in the right space to continue working on it and distilling the past 4.5 years of employment, the initial job search, etc. As someone mentioned, I left my previous role recently, but I'm starting the next adventure on Monday. Now seems like a good time to finish that post!

Charlotte
by hypeatei | 2025-08-08 13:42:42+00:00
I understand why articles like this are written and why we have these conversations but it all feels like we're sane washing this administration. Any other administration (especially a Democrat) firing the head of BLS due to unsavory numbers would be a scandal on its own. Yet, we're seven months into this one with multiple corruption scandals flooding the zone. It just seems crazy that we're here justifying basic concepts of government/public service and not outright calling this out for what it is.
by Merovius | 2025-08-08 13:42:51+00:00
> You could, of course, sell or wind down your company, which would solve all problems outlined here. But this is not an option for most entrepreneurs.

Yes, it is literally an option, you dunce. There is no law requiring you to keep ownership of a business. You might not like that option very well, but it is an option, which is infinitely better than the denizens of the GDR got.

Man, this post got my blood boiling with its callous stupidity.
by bko | 2025-08-08 13:42:54+00:00
I mean, they already don't. Investors aren't stupid. Half of financial analysis is converting financial metrics from GAAP to other more meaningful structures that allow for proper forecasting and comparison. They spend billions on alternative data, trying to get an edge. They take nothing at face value.

I think the government stuff is a bit of a farce. They have an incentive like any other institution. For instance, inflation metrics are tied to trillions of dollars in terms of retirement benefits or other programs that are indexed to inflation. They have a gigantic incentive to play with the numbers. And I'm 100% convinced that they do. Does anyone believe food prices went up only 28% since pre-covid? Did something go from costing $4 to $5? No, most things close to doubled. But they're able to play with the numbers changing the basket (beef getting more expensive, we'll just swap that out with Tofu!).
by robaato | 2025-08-08 13:43:03+00:00
There's the entertaining bit in the film The Imitation Game (the breaking of Enigma code by Alan Turing) where they realised that a weakness was the daily weather report always containing the words "weatherreport" and "heil bloody hitler" (with obvious addition!) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAsSNjedZWI or longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkETN-xENAM

Also a more proper explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8
by grafmax | 2025-08-08 13:43:38+00:00
> The govt gets caught between regulations, is slower, wasteful & pays higher wages to workers. Chicago [1] is contemporary proof that Govt. can't build housing.

This is overstated. Government can effective build public housing, many governments have succeeded in doing so. That article lists several issues with government housing in Chicago such as unstable funding and administrative overhead. The choice is between YIMBY policy regulatory changes to nudge housing supply or policy changes to improve public housing. And improving, expanding, and financing public housing is the structural solution to the problem not a bandaid. For example, market can never house the homeless because they don’t have money to pay for a house, even in a completely efficient market where housing is sold at cost. YIMBY effects are at best small, slow, and don’t significantly benefit the populations who need housing most.
by Joeboy | 2025-08-08 13:44:42+00:00
This is relevant to my interests[0]

Based on the website I was quite skeptical. It looks too much like an "indiehacker", minimum-almost-viable-product, fake-it-till-you-make-it, trolling-for-email-addresses kind of website.

But after a quick search on twitter, it seems like people are actually using it and reporting good results. Maybe I'll take a proper look at it at some point.

I'd still like to know more about pricing, how it deals with cloudflare challenges, non-semantic markup and other awkwardnesses.

[0] https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers
by dtagames | 2025-08-08 13:44:58+00:00
It's not the model you're unhappy with; it's the new router function, which attempts to choose the model (using another LLM and RAG).

Those decisions are steered by costs, so it will choose the cheapest (worst) model unless compelled to do otherwise.

Cursor quietly added this type of routing months ago, referring to it only as "automatic" model selection. At the same time, they moved that product to price tiers much more inline with these announced for GPT5.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-08 13:45:17+00:00
Yes me too since a couple months :( So annoying. It doesn't of course happen on Windows.

It started with OneNote web a couple years ago. Every day that gave a popup "Your session needs to be refreshed) and it would reload all over again. Microsoft don't bother to make a OneNote desktop app for my platform and the web version is really terrible anyway (you can only search in one tab, not a whole notebook). So I moved to self-hosted Obsidian which I'm really happy with. Now I can basically see myself typing in a note from another client.

But replacing Microsoft for email is another topic.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-08 13:45:37+00:00
Stuff like that is dead now btw (yes, it makes me sad too). Kids have iPhones; the idea is great but can just be an app. Which tbf makes more sense because you get the benefit of imu & everything else for that behaviour.

Remember those little LCD cube block toys with the stick dudes that lived in 'em, then when you plug 'em together they interact? Those were the days.
by altcognito | 2025-08-08 13:45:37+00:00
The whole paragraph explains it:

> Private companies are in the business of making a profit, and to do that they need to attract customers. Some customers are more profitable than others. As a result, a company’s data will tend to reflect the needs of its clients — it won’t capture the economy as whole.

Honestly, it is a very, very good paragraph. There is a slavish devotion to the idea that markets are efficient and that is the most desirable outcome in all situations. If you are in the business of being a government and running a country for all of your citizens, you need all the data, not just select aspects of it, and not just those that tell a particular story.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-08-08 13:46:06+00:00
You're still arguing from the point of view of someone who doesn't want to do it or isn't interested in doing it. Your GP said you 'get' homelabs but it's increasingly clear you do not - and that's ok. People run homelabs because they enjoy learning and tinkering. If they don't enjoy it, or they can't risk having the odd problem, they have other options they can explore. It's not really any more complicated than that. Believe it or not, people are capable of evaluating the tradeoffs and making a sensible decision about what to host themselves.