MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-12 14:54:45+00:00
I think there must be a genetic predisposition to burn out as I have noticed many people that should be burning out but do not. My burnout was clearly genetic (hEDS) as is the burnout of everyone I personally know. Looking at the stats of people hospitalized with Covid there appears to be a subset of people who will die before experiencing a level of stress that could induce burnout or even trigger post viral fatigue. My rough estimate is that 50% of the population cannot burn out. It appears to only become chronic burnout in 20% of those that do (10% of general pop) and half of those appear to have ADHD and or generalized joint hyper mobility (GJH) which suggests a strong genetic component to the duration and severity.

That said AI founders are not the general population and there are a few strong selection criteria biases that I think likely favors those who are likely to burn out.
by darkwater | 2025-09-12 14:55:17+00:00
Well, maybe it actually didn't work out so well because in a society where information can travel so fast, we have more and more people thinking hoaxes are real because they've been trained to do it... I'm not saying there is a conspiracy behind this, just that maybe we are ignoring the bad outcomes and mark them as "bah, it's normal, we always behaved like this"
by lanfeust6 | 2025-09-12 14:55:24+00:00
Further to the truism that constraining and micromanaging kids have driven up smartphone use: adults do this to themselves too, particularly parents. Watching kids can be fun, but then again, it can be incredibly boring most of the time. You're not going to constantly ask banal questions; kids will often be creative on their own. But as a parent, you're compelled to hover. And hover. And do nothing.

Probably having more of a "village" to help (grandparents especially) would relieve pressure. Also, multiple kids will engage with each other more instead of looking to parents for all social stimulation as only-children.
by jfengel | 2025-09-12 14:55:59+00:00
"Sorry?" Does the inflation come as a surprise? We just took a bunch of steps guaranteed to raise consumer prices. Of course we have inflation -- and not the kind caused by monetary policy.

I do not understand why we're considering rate cuts at a time when the stock market is setting records. There is plenty of money seeking investments. Your new business venture can't go directly to the stock market, but publicly-traded banks and companies can invest fund you. They don't need cheap money from the Fed to do it.

The Fed should be trying to cool off the economy, not put more cash into it and driving up consumer prices further. It's meant to be the last line of defense against bust cycles, not a goad to boom cycles.
by asa400 | 2025-09-12 14:56:07+00:00
I played around with this for a while and couldn't actually derive any useful information from it.

As someone who doesn't know posthog, this was basically impossible to navigate. The UI and theme is cool, the widgets are fun and well styled, but I couldn't actually figure out what I was supposed to be doing, what I was supposed to be reading, what meaning I was supposed to take away about a company (I'm guessing) that makes products (again - guessing).
by DoorOpen | 2025-09-12 14:56:08+00:00
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by rocqua | 2025-09-12 14:56:30+00:00
You forgot a few things on that list that people would like freedom for:

advocating for (or against) trans rights, protesting against the deportation of migrants, advocate against gun-control, and donating to (anti) palestinian causes

Are just a few things that people would like the freedom to do.

The point being, financial privacy is an important part of having a functioning democracy. But at the same time, financial control and limits are also an important part of a functioning democracy, for e.g. the 'freedoms' you mention. In the end, neither perfect privacy, not perfect surveilance are what we need. The best solution will be somewhere in the middle, with nuance.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-12 14:56:49+00:00
And there is in most parliamentary law, but usually restricted to sessions. Additionally, there's usually a proscription against passing negative laws (i.e. "we will not do X"), meaning that when something passes it becomes law and needs a supermajority to repeal, but when it fails, all it needs is a majority to be passed (in the next session.)

The problem is that parliamentary law and democratic processes have ossified for the last 175 years, while "positive" bills have been passed to push more power to the executive, but can't be removed without supermajorities (that are now impossible because the executive has more power over elections and the schedule.) The last person to think seriously about parliamentary law was Thomas Jefferson, and he was really just encoding, organizing into a coherent system, and debugging Commons practice.

If you think that the US has pushed too much power into the Executive, you should look at recent history (since the 80s-90s) in Britain. The opposition has no power at all, and even backbenchers in government have no power at all. They've been reduced to hoping that the right marble gets pulled from a bowl that allows them to hopefully read a bill out loud that might get on tv that might get an article written about it that goes viral, that might put pressure on the government to do something about it.

The EU doesn't even have that level of democracy.
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-12 14:56:51+00:00
I think often of that Will Smith slap. I still to this day do not have a condemning moral judgment yet as without hesitation we cannot condone such behavior.

It was more than a slap, it was a battlefront of the American psyche.

Here is Chris Rock on one side. I have to tell you my respect for him grew through the roof for his dude handling of the situation (every one else but him whimpered like injured children.) I have to say I never liked him or his style before, and have seen his smirks and honest to truth have thought “I wonder how far he will go until one day someone will smack that smile off his face.” I only let out this internal thought with the assertion that I do not believe provocation of pride is enough (though taunting to me is consensual violence.)

In the other side is

WILL SMITH

Legend, defeats aliens or vampire zombies who come to fcuk with us, is the personification of dude heroism and will walk up on, before a million burning watching eyes. And take condescension of his woman right out of a man.

Damn.

We’re a culture of hot heads and those who trigger others by our exhibitions.

That’s America. A part of that anyway.

Boo on you Mr. Will Smith that can’t be how we end it, though the split reaction speaks of the super consciousness among us feeding back into our super psyche of selves.
by tolerance | 2025-09-12 14:57:27+00:00
People oscillate between rational and irrational motives. I reckon that motivation springs from either depending on the circumstance and the temperament of the individual. Such is the peculiar and special nature of man.

I think we go out of our way to rationalize decisions that emanate beyond reason because the truth is a lot more stark, and usually we only try to rationalize irrational choices when they backfire and we face criticism for them.

Allahu A’alam.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-12 14:57:42+00:00
> I wonder if there is a more efficient way to determine that shortest representation rather than running printf/scanf in a loop?

Yes, just `printf("%f", ...);` will get you that.

The actual algorithms to do the float->string conversion are quite complicated. Here is a recent pretty good one: https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu

I think there's been an even more recent one that is even more efficient than Ryu but I don't remember the name.
by 7402 | 2025-09-12 14:57:50+00:00
It's annoying that the title and summary alone tell me nothing, without additional information about 1) how sensitive are these tests, and 2) what concentration is medically significant.

The missing sentence could be, "That's because modern detection methods are now so amazingly accurate that they can detect insignificant quantities of chemicals."

Or it could be, "Therefore, if you drink beer you will be poisoned and die a horrible death."

Or maybe it's just, "Start worrying, and we'll figure out if it means anything later."
by HankStallone | 2025-09-12 14:58:23+00:00
What the reaction to the Kirk assassination showed us was that it's not just a few radicals who make the party look bad. That's a fairy tale we've been telling ourselves to avoid facing the depth of the problem. It was a broad-based celebration of murder, from TV commentators to school teachers, thousands of people posting their approval that a husband and father of two small children was killed because they didn't like his speech. Not wackos hiding in a basement somewhere, but regular people with jobs and homes who might have tweeted their glee from the stands while watching their kid's soccer game.

It was shocking, even for someone who already had a low opinion of them, so it must have been even more so for moderate normies who like to think there are just some bad apples on both sides.
by PleasureBot | 2025-09-12 14:59:12+00:00
Probably very similar unfortunately. The current state of US politics is that any policy further than center or maybe slightly left of center has a snowball's chance in hell of making it through Congress. The best case scenarios is probably what Biden accomplished: temporarily pausing the slide into far-right authoritarianism. Maybe he's able to pass some extremely watered down version of health care reform or tax reform but that seems unlikely. Certainly nothing like true progressive platform he ran on is possible in the US right now.
by colechristensen | 2025-09-12 14:59:34+00:00
We all have a lot of subconscious biases that end up a lot like this but rarely or never voiced. "I'm not the kind of person that goes dancing" "I drink a soda with every meal" "these are the only kinds of clothes that I wear" and you have a built up set of things you do and don't do and without reflection.

Then you can think about it and feel silly "why did I never do this before" or "why do I always do this". It's a good exercise to go looking for your unconscious biases and assumptions about yourself – eliminating these identifying behaviors can really be a benefit.
by the_af | 2025-09-12 14:59:38+00:00
I'm not familiar with NewPipe, I'll take a look!

Unfortunately yt-dlp is a no-go for me, I don't plan so far ahead and I mostly watch YouTube from my phone, usually when cooking dinner, doing the dishes, etc. That's why simply paying for YouTube Premium is (for me, and for now) the path of least friction. Paying off the thugs so they leave me alone :(
by patates | 2025-09-12 14:59:39+00:00
I use repomix to pack a full repository as an xml file and it works wonders. System prompt is very simple:

please don't add any comments in the code unless explicitly asked to, including the ones that state what you changed. do not modify/remove any existing comments as long as they are valid. also output the full files that are changed (not the untouched ones), and no placeholders like "no change here" etc. do not output the xml parts in the output.xml file. focus on the individual files. before and after outputting code, write which file it would be and the path (not as a comment in the code but instead, before and after outputting code).

Attached is a 400k token xml file, being the output of:

https://pastebin.com/raw/SH6JHteg

Main prompt is a general description of the feature needed and PDF exports from figma.

All done for free in aistudio and I consistently get better results than the people using claude code.
by pmarreck | 2025-09-12 14:59:41+00:00
I lost my beloved Mac Plus, the computer that made me become a programmer, because of COVID.

Shortly before COVID hit, I fired it up to see if it still worked, and within like a minute, a certain capacitor (that is a common and well-known failure point) fried, and it was dead. I brought it to a computer repair store to fix, and then COVID and its lockdowns hit.

When I returned months later to see what was up after my phone calls weren't returned, turns out the whole place had shut down and I to this day have no idea where my Mac Plus went. :/
by timr | 2025-09-12 14:59:48+00:00
They buried the lede:

> "What's missing in health care is: It's not a traditional free market. You don't have those competitive forces"

Blaming insurers and drug companies is fashionable -- and employers is a new twist, I suppose -- but it feels like a desperate search for a facile answer. Nobody wants to hear the hard truth, which is that if you had to pay for it, you'd suddenly become a lot more picky about the health care you purchase.

You don't see the prices, so you don't care, and you can't shop around. I'm not saying there aren't a ton of other negative incentives in the system, but the big one is that most people (in the US, anyway) view doctors as a magical priesthood that is worth any cost, to the point that most people don't even know what the cost is.
by peterldowns | 2025-09-12 15:00:37+00:00
That's close, but not what I meant — that's specific to this package, and is the interface for processing log records produced by a slog.Logger. What I mean is that there should be a single interface for Logging that is implemented by slog.Logger, uber/zap.Logger, etc. that library authors can use without needing to reinvent the wheel every time.

For an example from one of my own libraries, see

https://github.com/peterldowns/pgmigrate/blob/d3ecf8e4e8af87...
by OzanEnginsal | 2025-09-12 15:00:44+00:00
You've actually hit on the exact reason I built this. I share your skepticism completely – the vast majority of trading "signals" are just noise, most traders can't outperform buy-and-hold, and the space is full of unverified claims.

My goal with Hikaro isn't to add to that noise, but to provide a statistical filter against it. The whole point of the tool is to move beyond subjective analysis and ask a more rigorous question: "Could this signal's historical performance be explained by random luck?"

It's a tough problem, for sure, but I believe that applying more statistical discipline to the process is a valuable first step. I really appreciate you sharing your perspective.
by standardly | 2025-09-12 15:01:22+00:00
I love how so many HN users make up their own "syntax" in comments

"[/or HN]" !

Jesus, lol.. Reminds me of when folks /emphasize/ words like /this/ in their comments. Anyways, I'm just joshin' ya. Personal blogs /would/ make for a superior internet as opposed to Facebook/X.
by user34283 | 2025-09-12 15:01:28+00:00
> How long before its seperated from it original aim and just turned into a gambling token

Always has been.

I mean it was useful for online gaming related transactions, like 15 years ago.

Ever since it has become a more obvious scam with every passing year.

Today you can barely post about it on most major platforms without immediately spawning multiple spam comments trying to part you from your money.

Real value crypto adds to the economy: ~0.

Once this scam inevitable comes crashing down, it will probably take the stock market with it. And all for nothing but the enrichment of early crypto adopters.
by orwin | 2025-09-12 15:01:33+00:00
That's probably the plan anyway. The plan is to defang the courts, and especially the ECHR, since the beginning. The AfD explicitely said it was their plan, the National front in France didn't, but would be very happy if it didn't had any power, and a lot of media close to the neolib/conservative/nationalist are more than happy to shit on the ECHR (Pericles project is only from one of those).

Each time the courts disqualify a parliamentary law or executive decision, it has to spend political power. If the decisions or laws it stop are all from the same side, that side can start chipping the courts power away. The reason for the legislative part to exist is to avoid a dictatorship of the majority (basically X is arrested for something, Y is not even though he did the same thing, because Y is from the majority group). Having the ECHR censoring the law would have been sold by a lot of media as "the ECHR is supporting pedophiles" and "those non-elected judges wants to keep abusing children", and hopefully after a dozen years of similar attemps, the court would be either defanged or totally partisan.
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-12 15:01:41+00:00
Healthcare is not a free market. People don't comparison shop, and couldn't even if they wanted to. Price lists are secret because providers have two prices, one for cash and one for insurance. People with health problems have stress enough dealing with insurance companies and providers, filling out endless paperwork, to deal with it even if the info was available. People in hospitals and emergency rooms CANNOT shop for alternatives since they are a captive audience.

When the social norm hardens around "don't charge what it's worth, charge what you can get" this is the result. I once asked a hospital billing agent how they could justify a $10k ER bill for 4 hours of waiting and 1 hour treatment, and they responded, "How much is your life worth?"

One place that gets it right is Germany: an inexpensive public option that gets you competent medical care almost anywhere. Bring your card, no deductibles, no paperwork, no complex calculation and a minimum of paperwork (which is a rarity in Germany). This is how it should be here.
by Carrok | 2025-09-12 15:02:14+00:00
I have been interested in trying emacs for a long time (I recently found an old emacs config file of mine from 2003) but I haven't actually used it until the last few months when I gave Spacemacs another shot. Coming from vim, and having some pretty great defaults out of the box, I wouldn't suggest anyone try anything else at this point.

That said, I'm still trying to wrap my head around how org-mode can work with my existing Obsidian vault. So far it's working pretty well, but I still feel like I'm missing some things to make it really all click together.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-12 15:02:23+00:00
> so you can't quantify what happens in west bank. something happens but it's not clear ?can you quantify expansion and land seizure ? over timeline.

Can you? This commentary in your comment is verging on sealioning. Please read the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

> Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate", and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".
by nh23423fefe | 2025-09-12 15:02:24+00:00
> Blame insurers, drug companies — and your employer

> That's because employers will be paying a lot more

> Drug companies, pharmacy benefit managers, hospitals and others have collectively driven up the costs of accessing medical care

> more people are going to the doctor or other providers. But that surge in demand has also led to a surge in prices.

> Last year, the average U.S. employer spent more than $19,000 per employee to provide family coverage while the employee kicked in $6,000,

Why should health care ever get cheaper? Americans treat our bodies like garbage bins for sugar and fat. Old people spend 100ks just to die in a hospital 3 months later. The narrative is always that some rich dude did it to you though?
by rocqua | 2025-09-12 15:02:32+00:00
On- and off- ramps suck. And there isn't much speculative value. So it misses the main 'use case' of crypto.

Its by far the best crypto-currency for making payments. But people care very little about making payments with crypto, and exchanging between Fiat and Monero is very difficult, so its not an easy payment system either.
by epolanski | 2025-09-12 15:02:38+00:00
> Poland voted for the wrong government... EU suspended funds until they voted for the right government at the next election.

I am polish, please *do not spread falsehood*.

EU funds suspension came because of Polish non-compliance with several EU laws.

Most notably the previous government had created a "new" government-controlled chamber of judgement that gave de facto the executive branch control over the judicial one.

Judges in Poland could be suspended and punished if politicians didn't like their rulings. Not only that, judges could be suspended, fined and even jailed over any public comment.

This created a situation where essentially judges where promoted, punished or cherry picked according to how aligned they were to the ruling party.

This was a blatant violation of Polish constitution as well as the treaties Poland itself signed when joining the EU.
by peterldowns | 2025-09-12 15:03:35+00:00
1) Right, but this is complicated and annoying. Imagine a world where you could just pass your existing logger in, because my library references an interface like `stdlib/logging.GenericLoggerInterface` and slog, zap, zerolog, etc. all implement that! Would be nice!

2) TIL about `T.Output`, thank you, that's great to know about. Still annoying and would be nice if the slog package showed an example of logging from tests with correct callsites. Golang gets so many things right about testing, so the fact that logging in tests is difficult really stands out and bothers me.
by mcntsh | 2025-09-12 15:03:57+00:00
In Germany, access to health care is becoming a major problem. I have two young kids and I’ve experienced on multiple occasions not being able to get appointments with specialists for them. Sometimes you offer to “self pay” - basically paying full cost with no insurance - and sometimes it works, other times it doesn’t.

Germany has a major doctor shortage and it can’t just attract foreign doctors like Anglo countries due to language requirements. This issue will continue to get worse as the population ages.
by ActorNightly | 2025-09-12 15:04:19+00:00
That has been disproven. He ran again in primaries during 2020 and did horribly there. The progressives are just not popular, and they don't really do much to work with the rest of the Democrats. Unlike Republicans, where the party forerunner basically gets unilateral support from everyone Republican including those he personally insulted or harmed.
by echelon | 2025-09-12 15:04:28+00:00
I work in media. I edit images frequently. These models are incredibly useful.

Your arguments sound to me as if you're saying the cotton gin is a bad idea because 90% of that cotton wouldn't have been picked.

Lay people have been starved from being able to visually articulate themselves. We're entering into a world where everyone will have spatial articulation. That's a good thing.

Don't be the latin clergy arguing the populace shouldn't be able to read or have books.