MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-02 16:53:28+00:00
Discord would be unpleasant for something like this with so many participants. It's a similar reason to skipping out on Hangouts, Zoom, etc. It forces synchronization, if you're not online during the discussion you're effectively barred from it. It can be very hard to catch up and very hard to respond to any particular thread of discussion. Discord is also, by design, essentially single-threaded. You can reply to specific comments but it's still presented in an interleaved format which makes tracking difficult when multiple threads of discussion are occurring at once.

If the discussion is light, it's a non-issue, but with 300-800 (per eatonphil's comment) it's likely that it will not be light.
by rendx | 2025-08-02 16:53:35+00:00
> If you request an IBAN transfer, it's never instant.

"In 2024, EU adopted Instant Payment Regulation, aiming to accelerate instant payments in Europe. For EU member states operating in euro it partially took affect in January 2025, for non-euro member states it will partially take affect in January 2027. This regulation includes requirements to send and receive transfers within 10 seconds, as well as to implement the Verification of Payee service."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment
by mrangle | 2025-08-02 16:53:53+00:00
Whatever the culture and resources of the parents, the buck stops at home.

Gaining the ability to read begins from birth, and by the time that kids are school age they should be clamoring for books if the parents did their job.

After time-worn basic reading instruction in first grade, it's a matter of parents enforcing reading-time at home for school mandated reading. Then providing access to the reading material that the child desires for their free reading. Whatever it is. Book-bound comic strips are an early popular grade-level choice, and are fantastic. If a child is behind, then go simpler. Everything else is a band-aid or less practical if not detrimental in comparison. Some kids need services if they have deficits, but that doesn't imply that the standard practice is flawed. All top readers came out of this type of early progression. So have most middling readers, often just separated by the amount of time they've chosen to put in. Or were compelled to put in.
by bluesounddirect | 2025-08-02 16:54:16+00:00
As the husband of an Orton-Gillingham trained tutor , teachers and the industry supporting teachers , not OG ; are very much in the business of making money not making kids read . The entire economy around "services" like OT , Speech , etc is all about how to monetize it, not how do we do the most good for the children.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-02 16:54:30+00:00
That it is usual doesn't mean it's false.

Everyone I talked to, knowledgeable in machine learning and/or deep learning, who had no reason to pretend of course, agreed an LLM is a stochastic machines. That it is couples with very good other NLP techniques doesn't change that.

It is why even the best models today miss the shot by a large margin, then hit a decent match. Again back to the creative issue. If it was done before, a good input and a well trained model on good data will output good data likely to match with the best (matching) answer ever produced. Some NLP to make it sound unique is not equal to creativity.
by echoangle | 2025-08-02 16:54:33+00:00
Fun demo but the model that's used seems to be pretty stupid:

> What's the best way to get to space?

>> Unfortunately, it's not currently possible for humans to travel to space in the same way that astronauts do. While there have been several manned missions to space, such as those to the International Space Station, the technology and resources required to make interstellar travel feasible are still in the early stages of development.

>> Currently, the fastest spacecraft is the Apollo missions, which took around 77 hours to reach the Moon. From there, they traveled to other planets, but the distances between them are so great that even at high speeds, it would take many years to reach them.

>> As for traveling to space itself, there are no commercial or private companies that offer space travel services, and the cost of such a journey is estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars per person.

>> However, there are some concepts and technologies being explored that might one day make space travel more accessible and affordable. For example, private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are working on developing reusable rockets that could potentially take people to space more quickly and reliably.

>> But for now, let's just say that space travel is still in the future, and we'll have to wait a bit longer for humans to venture into the cosmos!
by Xeoncross | 2025-08-02 16:54:36+00:00
Perhaps my last sarcastic line was a bit obtuse. Technology is certainly making it easier to enact control and with a tighter feedback loop.

Rabbit trail, it's interesting how the modern western evil is now branded as "fascist control" as opposed to the other forms common throughout history. I wonder if it's related to calling everyone "toxic". It seems culture is moving towards more vague definitions of evil/wrong instead of pin-pointing the actual faults. Perhaps this is an important part of "newspeak" that we're suffering from.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 16:54:38+00:00
I find it interesting that the article is about exercise and the title picture is yoga. In fact near the top

> To a best approximation, aerobic fitness and weight-training seem to increase our metabolism, improve mitochondrial function, fortify our immune system, reduce inflammation, improve tissue-specific adaptations, and protect against disease.

Yoga is neither aerobic fitness nor weight training

note: I do yoga probably about twice a month (should do more) so I'm not dissing yoga. I'm only noting that the picture of yoga seems to have nothing to do with the article.
by JadoJodo | 2025-08-02 16:54:58+00:00
> It is about the crushing stress of surviving in this economic climate that is leaving people absolutely no energy to go and socialize.

The past 2-years have been some of the most difficult of my life (for a number of non-work reasons). After work, family, and household tasks, I have often been left with little energy in the evenings (and no real desire to socialize). And yet, as a part of a church men's group I attend weekly, I have had the opportunity to engage with others going through similar things. How do I know that they are going through similar things? Because it's come out when as I've consistently engaged with the same group of people.

It's very easy when you're tired and stressed to “turtle” and internalize everything; I've done it more times than I can count. And yet this is the time when I most need others. These guys are not in my friends group, and yet the struggles (and successes) that are shared are sometimes more than I hear from close friends. The result of hearing others' struggles is the realization that a) I am not the only one going through hard stuff, and b) focusing on others' struggles makes dealing with my own easier.

“Socializing” with others may cost money, but connecting with them doesn't have to: I spend $0/week meeting the guys in my group for an hour or two. In reflecting on my own attitudes towards socializing in the past, I've come to realize that it can be very self-focused: How can _I_ feel better? How can _I_ have fun? What can _I_ get out of going out?

I am, by no means, the arbiter of selflessness (not even close, ha!), but I have learned that connecting with others' with their good in mind has had the incredible effect of giving me energy where there was very little before.

Just my $0.02.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-02 16:56:19+00:00
I wrote a longer response but deleted it as it was just a personal anecdote. Suffice it to say I'll never buy LTC insurance or participate in any elder care such as "assisted living" or "nursing care." It's all (IMO) engineered to drain old people of their assets before they die. Providing care is nowhere on the list of motivations of anyone involved.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-02 16:57:00+00:00
Thanks, you've just clearly illustrated the unresolved (and seemingly unresolvable) dichotomy between cyclists and four-wheel vehicle drivers.

It's unresolvable because of political ideology, like the chasm between right-wing conservatives and liberals, views seem almost genetic and immutable (it's been so ever since bicycles took to the roads—even in the days of horse drawn vehicles).

"I'm not aware of any country where that is true, unless you're being pedantic"

Pedantic? Rubbish, unless cyclists are licensed by way of a thorough examination of the road rules, etc. then there's no way to know if a cyclist knows the rules or not. Going on the many violations I see cyclists commit every day it's clear many do not. Licensing cyclists would bring them into line with other road users, for starters, they'd also be vulnerable to losing their licenses for violations.

Fact is, as a motor vehicle driver I do not feel safe on the roads with unpredictable unlicensed cyclists about. If you do not believe cyclists are an undisciplined and unpredictable lot that worry the shit out of many licenced drivers because of the way they ride and regularly violate traffic rules (like jumping red lights at intersections) then you live in fantasyland.

For every violation I witness car drivers make I reckon I see about a dozen from cyclists. By your views you'd have to condone this alacrity or they'd be contradiction with each other. Alternatively, it's cognitive dissonance so you've not noticed the fact.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-02 16:57:27+00:00
> The author Daniel Lieberman has put it well: Exercise is healthy and rewarding even though it’s something we never evolved to do.

We have ostensibly spent much of our evolutionary budget on the ability to run ~indefinitely no matter what. Compared to virtually any other animal, we can vastly outperform them in the most arduous environments. Our bodies are mechanically optimized for running at every level. We have connective tissue that stores and releases energy. Our bodies can reject on the order of 1kW+ of heat steady-state through the magic of evaporative cooling.
by bobson381 | 2025-08-02 16:57:51+00:00
I actually used to work at a place that had regular power outages because it was remote and ran on hydropower. We had a bunch of old think pads with the think light at the time that were standard staff issue, and they were awesome for working on any technology or system stuff when power was out but wireless was on with the UPSs. Such a cool feature and I do wish they still had it. Along with the locking lids, the 430 and 530s were tanklike.
by convolvatron | 2025-08-02 16:57:55+00:00
I'm kind of with you on the coding-style warning flags. it does really bother me that some opinionated person has decided that the way I use parenthesis needs to be punished.

but I totally disagree with your second point. running code often has real problems with race conditions, error handling, unwanted memory reuse, out of bounds pointers, etc. if a new version of the compiler can prove these things for me - that's invaluable.
by arevno | 2025-08-02 16:58:06+00:00
> 1. Monorepos can save time

Yes they can save you some time, but at the cost of Claude's time and lots of tokens making tool calls attempting to find what it needs to find. Aider is much nicer, from the standpoint that you can add the files you need it to know about, and send it off to do its thing.

I still don't understand why Claude is more popular than Aider, which is by nearly every measure a better tool, and can use whatever LLM is more appropriate for the task at hand.
by h2zizzle | 2025-08-02 16:58:12+00:00
>If you're young, are you going to take responsibility for them voting for fascists?

Yes, I'm pretty regularly debating my conservative peers and trying to think of ways to convince them that they f*cked up and need to vote better.

>What about people in the same age group in other countries?

Yes, I accept that much of where my international peers find themselves and the nature of the choices they have to make were defined by US policy, including during the period that I've been able to vote.

It's not our fault that Boomers were selfish and Gen-X were pathologically apathetic. Unfortunately, we have to take responsibility there, too, partly by reminding you of how much you screwed up, until you resolve to do better with the time you have left (or to at least get out of the way).
by Teever | 2025-08-02 16:58:21+00:00
Fines should absolutely be proportional to the income of the entity being fined.

Not only should they be proportional but they should have an exponentially increasing rate for reoffense of the same or similar crime with a cooling off period for the escalation of a year or two.

Fines should never be a 'cost of doing business's for anyone. They should sting and dissuade offenders from reoffending.
by sharkweek | 2025-08-02 16:58:42+00:00
I can directly tie my mood to how much exercise I’ve had in a given week. It’s also easy, given how busy life feels, to let the proverbial frog boil in water when it comes to this.

My partner often comments when I’ve been a little grumpier than usual by saying, “you should go on a bike ride.”

It really works wonders on the soul (and the more physical heart and lungs) getting out for a spin in the fresh air.
by Applejinx | 2025-08-02 16:58:54+00:00
Is this the one that goes 'Oh no, I accidentally your whole codebase, I suck, I accept my punishment and you should never trust me again' or is that a different one?

I seem to remember the 'oh no I suck' one comes out of Microsoft's programmer world? It seems like that must be a tough environment for coders if such feelings run so close to the surface that the LLMs default to it.
by botingw_job | 2025-08-02 16:59:31+00:00
I'm building this project to accelerate AI agent development, and I wanted to share a solution to a problem that's been costing me a lot of time. The core issue is that when I use a general AI assistant to write code for a rapidly evolving library like LangGraph, its knowledge is often outdated. It suggests code based on its training data or old blog posts, which might be for v0.1 of a library when I'm using v0.2. This leads to a frustrating cycle of running code, hitting an error because an API changed, and then spending hours debugging the AI's "correct" but outdated answer.

My solution is to ground the AI assistant in the executable truth of the official, version-controlled documentation. That's why I created the LangGraph-Dev-Navigator.

Here's how it works:

A Local Source of Truth: The project uses a git submodule to clone the official langgraph repository locally. This means the documentation the AI uses is the exact same one that corresponds to the code on my machine. If I need to work with langgraph==0.0.56, I just check out that tag in the submodule, and the AI's entire knowledge base is instantly aligned.

RAG on Verified Docs: The assistant is equipped with tools (perform_rag_query, search_code_examples) that only perform Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on this local, version-aligned documentation. It doesn't poll the open internet or rely on its static internal knowledge. This ensures the context for code generation is always current and correct for my environment (future goal is combines the advantages of rich Google results and precise official docs).

While the framework also has an experimental feature for validating code against a Knowledge Graph (check_ai_script_hallucinations), the primary focus right now is on this principle of grounding the AI in trusted, version-synced knowledge.

The goal is to create a blueprint for building reliable AI assistants for any fast-moving project. By ensuring the AI's knowledge comes from the right source, we can dramatically reduce debugging time and accelerate the development of complex agents.

The project is open-source, and I would love to get your feedback, especially from anyone else who has struggled with keeping AI assistants in sync with library updates.

The repo is here: https://github.com/botingw/langgraph-dev-navigator
by tomalaci | 2025-08-02 16:59:37+00:00
Steroids. You will be growing muscle while sitting on a couch, even better than someone that naturally trains. However, you very likely will develop asymetries or other weird complications because you didnt properly work out.

My point is that, even though we might find even more ways to improve/modify our bodies, they will come with slew of risks that are just not worth it if you can achieve it naturally.

On another note, I feel like there is severe muscle inflation in media which would distort how fit a person should be. You really do not need to kill yourself in the gym or hop on a some reddit-approved juices to get very fit. Just gotta experiment and find a comfortable full body workout that you can do consistently, like you brush your teeth every day.
by modeless | 2025-08-02 16:59:44+00:00
I think AI will probably be capable of solving loneliness in an actually beneficial way: by encouraging us to seek socialization with other humans and by helping us improve ourselves to be better companions. Finally reversing the modern trend toward isolation.

Unfortunately the business incentives are probably a lot stronger to build the kind of thing that would replace human companionship instead of encouraging it. But I think it would be possible to design a system that would improve and connect people. It would be an interesting design challenge for sure.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-02 17:00:06+00:00
It is definitely a thing here in Louisiana. Drinking in public or while driving is a proud tradition.

Take a trip to New Orleans for the extreme end of it, but we have drive-through Daiquiri shops all over and at least half of the people I grew up with have at least one DUI and I've never thought twice about being outside with a drink in my hand, as rarely as I do drink (I do refuse to drink and drive and am constantly lecturing others about it out here)
by xandrius | 2025-08-02 17:00:19+00:00
I am pretty sure in most countries riding a bike on a normal street requires absolutely no license, verification or anything. Even a 5 year old could and would be able to ride there (if their parents permitted or for whatever reason).

So this means that bike riders do not need to know exactly what all signs mean, what are the rules of giving way (or receiving it), etc.

So, that point is absolutely valid.

I have a friend who doesn't have a car licence and cannot distinguish many signs (for instance the circular one with red border and full white inside) or when to expect to have the priority.

Not supporting the rest of the comment, just that specific statement which is a valid one.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 17:00:48+00:00
This doesn't match my experience. In fact one thing I noticed living in Japan is how much more willing people are to spend money to meet up. Lots of events costs 3000-7000 yen. Clubs and bar have a cover charge. People will organize parties where they rent a bar and tell their friends it's 4000 yen each (about $27 currently but was closer to $40) in the past. They'll even have house parties and tell everyone to pitch in 1000-2000 yen. In the states, my experience is even a $5 and people will complain.

The point being it's culture not economics. In fact Japanese generally make less money. IT salaries are in the $50k range. Minimum wage is $7.5 Yet they still go out.
by Loughla | 2025-08-02 17:00:52+00:00
Because it's any amount of government spending for one. And for two (this one is more of my opinion than the last one) the US has a problem where we, as a culture, view poor people as somehow morally or ethically broken, which is what causes them to be poor. Therefore, we shouldn't spend money that could positively impact them, regardless of its overall benefit. I got mine, so anyone can, but as the cultural zeitgeist.
by Izkata | 2025-08-02 17:01:14+00:00
> However, at this point, the Soft Dome design has won out with a rather large, flat top that's filled with dots for texture and an easy grip.

I've only ever used the original eraser head and the current soft dome, and remember the original being nice because it was tall enough to tilt my finger slightly and push, while the current one is annoying to use because they're too short to do that and my fingers get almost no grip on them and slip around.
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-02 17:01:18+00:00
> I chose them in particular to demonstrate that even when we have the choice, we can easily opt not to take it.

I see now. But I still think it's a side effect of what society currently celebrates which is consumerism.

> but that culture is not violently enforced top-down by a handful of people twirling mustaches

That's assuming it's the only way to force a population into a specific behaviour, by force. It's actually the least effective method in my opinion. There is also the digital panopticon.

Blame and victim is just a way to give structure to the world. It's not essential. Not even in violence, in the Roman republic it was very well accepted to put women and children to the sword when pillaging a city.

And sure, all changes start in the private sphere, even if it's a more general movement in society. If people stop buying stuff, there is someone consciously or not choosing not to buy that specific thing.

I just think that it's the same with clothing. If you leave for the people to choose not to buy clothing made by slaving children that's just not going to happen if they cost a fraction of clothing made otherwise. It's also not a matter of prohibition because that goes against people's individual freedom to choose. You just have to give society enough time so that it gravitates towards willing to choose differently, meanwhile advocating for the change you want to see in your immediate community.
by zackmorris | 2025-08-02 17:01:23+00:00
Because injustice is corruption.

So every area of our lives that feels like it doesn't work like it used to - cost of living, healthcare, education, antitrust enforcement, journalism, accountability at the highest levels - represents a segment of the economy which has been corrupted.

Through this lens, socioeconomic policies start to make sense. For example, if your goal is to skim a fraction of the income from everyone in an economy and redirect those funds to specific goals/organizations/individuals, you could put tariffs on common goods and pass the funds collected on to companies granted large government contracts. Then the largest companies like GM and Ford see their profits reduced or even show a loss, while Grok and Palantir have all the money they need for mass surveillance.

Explanations for regulatory capture aren't normally this reductive, but wealth inequality has reached such monumental proportions that the simplest answer tends to be the right one when the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-02 17:01:31+00:00
That is the old way. You bought some application and it came with upgrades until next major version release or similar. Then when that release came out you could decide to pay again or just keep using the old (now unsupported) version you already paid for.

That solved all the issues with paying for maintenance, but sadly someone must have figured out a mandatory subscription was a better way to make more money.