MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brabel | 2025-09-29 15:40:45+00:00
This kind of generalization is so old. Imagine someone told you that "I've noticed that people of race A are noticeably better than people of race B". If you think it's different, just consider that people don't really have much of a choice in either case: there's a lot of Java developers because there's a lot of Java jobs, universities teach it, and it's been around a fairly long time when compared to Rust, at least... i.e. there's a lot of forces pushing people to using Java, and once you learn a language and get a job in such language, there's a lot of inertia that will keep most people on that same language for a long time. Yes, they can eventually choose something else, but only if that's a thing in your region, which may not be the case at all... and in any case, why would you go out of your way to change? Java used to be pretty terrible, but these days, it's a decent language. I can do Rust, but I still would pick Java for most projects given the choice, unless it was something where performance mattered more than the easiness of hiring Java developers and finding Java libs (though I admit Rust is catching up, there's a lot of libs now! However, one missing lib and you may be stuck for months having to port or implement something yourself - while in Java, or C++ for that matter, chances are slim you'll be in that situation).
by Aurornis | 2025-09-29 15:40:48+00:00
In many hobbies, recording footage and reviewing it later is very valuable for improving. Think about football players reviewing game footage as a team to discuss what they did well and what went wrong.

Many hobbies are like this. The majority of footage people record on their GoPros is for themself. It's rare for someone to edit it into a YouTube video. Even more rare for someone to go see it.

The AirSoft example is interesting because players where so much protective gear and face masks that it would be very difficult to recognize anyone's likeness anyway.
by walthamstow | 2025-09-29 15:40:54+00:00
I've been using a Keychron split that has almost exactly the same layout as my MacBook. It's not as flash as the Moonlander or others, it doesn't have tenting or an ortholinear layout, but just by being split it sorted my shoulder/centre-back pain out, and I can switch between that and an Apple keyboard no problem.
by ben_w | 2025-09-29 15:40:56+00:00
> Which LLMs do not. They fake it really well but it’s still an illusion. No understanding is going on, they don’t really know what you mean and don’t know what the right answer is.

A tree falling in a forest with nobody to hear it: if it makes a "sound", you think "sound" is the vibration of air; if it does not, you think "sound" is the qualia.

"Understanding" likewise.

> The ship’s computer on Star Trek could run diagnostics on itself, the ships, strange life forms and even alien pieces of technology.

1. "Execute self-diagnosis script" doesn't require self-reflection or anything else like that, just following a command. I'd be surprised if any of the big AI labs have failed to create some kind of internal LLM-model-diagnosis script, and I'd be surprised if zero of the staff in each of them has considered making the API to that script reachable from a development version of the model under training. No reason for normal people like thou and I to have access to such scripts.

2. Not that the absence says much. If humans could self-diagnose our minds reliably, we wouldn't need therapists. This is basically "computer, send yourself to the therapist and tell me what the therapist said about you".

> When the Star Trek computers behaved inconsistently like that (which was rare, rather than the norm), they would (rightly) be considered to be malfunctioning.

Those computers (and the ships themselves) went wrong on such a regular basis on the shows, that IRL they'd be the butts of more jokes than the Russian navy.
by Avamander | 2025-09-29 15:41:16+00:00
> One can look around the US today to see why this lack of ID may be a good thing.

You have an identity though. You use other things as an ID in the end. Often shoehorned into fulfilling that task and mostly very cumbersome.

That's why it can be stolen, that's why "identity theft" is a multi-billion dollar thing. Thats why you keep your SSNs and I guess also CC#s rather tightly guarded.

> Protestors who take steps to mask their identity are not easily identified, apprehended, and prosecuted, which has led the administration to overreach in their reaction to dissent.

There's nothing about an electronic ID that would make this different from now. It makes no practical difference for oppression. If you don't have an SSN then other things about you are unique enough for identifying you. I'd say that's why it's even vaguely tolerated anyways.

> Inefficiency is an escape hatch.

I rather think it lulls you into a false sense of safety. Inefficiency in existing "numbering systems" can be overcome with resources. You truly do not lack an ID system, a number, computerization nor identity that could protect you.

A lack of one number is not really protection against any of that.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-09-29 15:41:39+00:00
Videogamers have fickle tastes that can change on a whim, and the entire dev stack for game development is becoming more accessible and commoditized, creating massive amounts of competition. Even more so when it comes to squeezing beloved franchises out. Multiple franchises have died under EA (Sim City anyone?), and one of the top franchises EA owns basically has morphed into a "Middle East combat simulator" (Battlefield).

I'm sure the Saudi investors think this might be one way to get influence over the west, or maybe they just like playing FIFA, but I can see this buyout becoming a big stinking turd investment in the long run.
by gf000 | 2025-09-29 15:41:54+00:00
I mean, in the general case is it not impossible to "put the code in the correct lines"?

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding you, but even if the bytecode sequence is reconstructed as the original code that produced it, stuff like whitespace and comments are simply lost with no ways to recover.

(Also, local variable names, certain annotations depending on their retention level, etc)
by spyckie2 | 2025-09-29 15:42:15+00:00
> It is likely also going to be the biggest killer of creativity in my generation.

Such a bold and non obvious statement that the author backs up with memorizing phone numbers as a youth?

Let me fix that:

> It is likely also going to be the biggest GENERATOR of creativity in my generation.

Reason: I am creative and I use it for creative things. And I no longer have to spend my memory holding phone numbers in my head.
by bparsons | 2025-09-29 15:42:21+00:00
EAs customer base has been pretty negative on the state of the product for the last several years. I can't imagine this move will do anything but accelerate the trends driving brand dissatisfaction.

Customers feel like they are being treated like ATM machines, while the tens of billions of revenue are clearly not going into new, exciting creative endeavors. I suppose all of this makes sense when you consider that EA is a 45 year old company.
by erichocean | 2025-09-29 15:42:36+00:00
No, you don't need to "tell it to only give me parameters that are in that page."

Here's the entire prompt:

I need the rsync command to copy local files from `/foo/bar` to `~/baz/qux` on my `user@example.com` server. Exclude macOS cruft like `.DS_Store`, etc. Here's the man page: <paste man page for your rsync that you copied earlier, see above>
by bccdee | 2025-09-29 15:42:39+00:00
> Things like libraries, scripts, and skeletons tend to be far better solutions for those problems.

My feelings exactly.

LLM code generation (at least, the sort where people claim they're being 10X-ed) feels like it competes with frameworks. "An agent built this generic CRUD webapp on its own with only 30 minutes of input from me!"—well, I built an equivalent webapp in 30 minutes with Django. These are off-the-shelf solutions to solved problems. Yes, a framework like Django requires up-front learning, but in the end it leaves you with fewer lines of code to maintain, as opposed to custom-generated LLM code.
by jws | 2025-09-29 15:42:54+00:00
At 45°N latitude, I keep mine nearly vertical year round. I used to adjust them 4 times a year for more optimal production. There are issues beyond angle of incidence. Being nearly vertical keeps the snow off in the winter. In the summer it reduces the cleaning required (it's a sea bird rookery, so that's kind of a lot). Beyond that, the telemetry needs are constant year round so if the panels can cover the needs in the winter, then summer is no problem.

My current strategy for small installations when you have an equator facing wall or fence is slap the panels on it and be done with it.
by motoxpro | 2025-09-29 15:43:19+00:00
As things tend toward commodity (e.g. one item being replaceable with another with not much, or no, difference) the thing that matters most is brand.

So to the contrary, ChatGPT has the ONLY moat so far. 5.8B page visits vs 148m and growing much faster on an absolute basis. https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai
by BinaryIgor | 2025-09-29 15:43:46+00:00
And as an extension, people who can exist in both words - leveraging AI or any other new shiny tool that will come up, and at the same time - constantly pushing themselves mentally in an old-school way regularly, will be unstoppable.

Tools are only as powerful as their operators; and to be a powerful operator, you must face friction, the often the better.
by psadauskas | 2025-09-29 15:44:25+00:00
In the US, around the turn of the last century, it used to be that if you had an idea for a new invention, you could wander into any mid-sized city and have your pick of a dozen different a machine shops that could make you a prototype. It was an incredible time for innovation in this country, and a big part of the boom that led to the US ramping up from zero to the largest producer of war materiel in WW2.

That's how China is now. Any decent city will have machine shops and plastic injection molders and electronics makers, everything you need to get a new idea off the ground. They spent the last few decades stealing every good idea from the West, just like the US stole every good idea from Britain and Europe 120 years ago, and now they're well into the transition of being the innovation hub of the world.
by kakacik | 2025-09-29 15:44:36+00:00
Sure, 2 inches per year, 2 steps ahead 1 step back in a good year. In 2000 years they may approach current levels of personal or religious freedom that average western country has. Till then, its absolutely horrible place if you are in any sort of minority group, or woman, or want that pesky freedom for you or your children.
by Culonavirus | 2025-09-29 15:44:43+00:00
Finally the beginning of the end of EA. The greedy bastards ruined so many franchises and chased so many fads that their absence will be a net positive. I do feel bad for the devs working there... but them having to find new jobs is genuinely the only negative aspect in all of this.

I have very little respect for any company that is only interested in the next couple of financial quarters and in making their shareholders as much money as fast as possible (while all else can go f itself). And that's exactly the kind of company EA was for at least a decade. Good riddance.
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-29 15:44:51+00:00
As an anecdote, I have a couple of elderly family members who did not mellow with age. Instead they became even more toxic and abusive as they approached their 80s. (I have another who was the complete opposite.). The abusive ones hurled curse words as soon as you entered the door; then they "switched" personalities and acted as if nothing happened. I also know of an acquaintance whose son had the similar personality traits even though he's only in his 40s. The son needed a 24 hour a day caregiver because he's mentally challenged. In short there are a whole host of physical and/or mental problems that confound the situation.
by pixl97 | 2025-09-29 15:45:03+00:00
>bump into Enterprise users

What a lot of these HN programmers seem to miss, is it's not about what you or your application provides. It's about what your competition is willing to provide. If you don't have much competition then that's great, but the moment your 100k-10m paying user starts testing the other software your C-levels and sales people are going to have the programmers locked out of the building the moment they say they won't write a feature.
by hedora | 2025-09-29 15:45:07+00:00
You’re probably just reading / listening to the wrong stuff.

Go sit through a dozen escape artist podcast episodes, and find a top metal band in whatever subgenre you’re complaining about.

(Eg: swing/disco -> Diablo Swing Orchestra, classical/electronic -> igorrr, folk -> finntroll/faun, pop->poppy’s “I disagree”, musicals -> amaranthe, rock -> sumo cyco, variety -> babymetal, middle eastern -> bloodywood, etc.)
by alerighi | 2025-09-29 15:45:25+00:00
Of course they want them: if not one could install a modified Signal client from F-Droid and bypass the mass surveillance they want to introduce with Chat Control.

I'm considering that the UK did not take a bad decision of leaving the EU. The EU is demonstrating itself as a more and more corrupt institution that is not democratic (in the sense of doing what the people want it to do) at all.

They are also shooting themself in the foot: the USA impose to us tariffs, we make laws from which benefit 2 big American companies, instead of pushing for developing alternatives to these companies.
by what-the-grump | 2025-09-29 15:45:41+00:00
Sure because you had to distribute sales and place product. You shifted marketing off to the retail location and distributor and you still controlled the price / mark up.

Pizza is already sold, the last mile delivery should have zero impact on its retail. Right now the last mile delivery has a near monopoly on retail of a restaurant. Pretending that toast/grubhub/seamless somehow benefit the customer is pure rubbish.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-29 15:45:55+00:00
Because American police bomb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alioto), riot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolmen%27s_Benevolent_Assoc...), and doxx (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/nyregion/chiara-de-blasio...) when they don't get their way.
by ljm | 2025-09-29 15:45:58+00:00
Peanuts aren't served on a plane just in case someone with a peanut allergy has a bad time as result. Peanuts (and other things people are deathly allergic to) are also not served or used as ingredients in restaurants where there is a risk of cross contamination.

What you've done is bring back the equivalence to a public place so that an absurd argument can be made about banning peanuts wholesale.

As far as any non-public situation goes, it's a simple discussion of consent and it's easy: just ask for it instead of feeling entitled to it.
by kjksf | 2025-09-29 15:46:08+00:00
You're so obviously wrong.

I watched multiple videos from Portland ICE protest, multiple videos of ICE arresting people, all with audio. Half the people at protests are recording.

If you were right all that would be illegal.

The magic word is: "reasonable expectation of privacy".

If you're in public, like in streets, in the mall etc. you don't have reasonable expectation of privacy. You can be recorded, with audio, and it's legal.

The two party consent rules only apply to private conduct e.g. you have a phone conversation. In states with two party consent the other person can't record the conversation without notifying you.

What you describe as "US federal law" sound more like anti-wiretapping law i.e. I can't plant a bug in your house and record your conversations. Which is duh, but not relevant to being recorded while in public.
by dr_zoidberg | 2025-09-29 15:46:11+00:00
In the ~30 years I've used computers, they've become ~1,000,000 times faster. My daily experience with computers doesn't show it. There's someone out there who took the time to measure UI latency and has shown that, no only isn't it faster, it's actually slowed down. And yet, our hardware is 1,000,000 times faster...

Edit: this is the latency project I was thinking about https://danluu.com/input-lag/
by bccdee | 2025-09-29 15:46:13+00:00
> It's entirely possible to have a 100k LOC system be made up of effective a couple hundred 500 line programs that are composed together to great effect.

To me, this sounds like an nightmare—I'm sure anyone who's worked at a shop with way too many microservices would agree. It's trivial to right-click a function call and jump to its definition; much harder to trace through your service mesh and find out what, exactly, is running at `load-balancer.kube.internal:8080/api`.
by leakycap | 2025-09-29 15:47:11+00:00
I recently paid the Apple Store to replace the battery/top case/keyboard on my 8 year old MBP because the M-series I have can't do a few things Intel-based Macs can.

The M-series are awesome and incredibly fast for web browsing & video work, but I agree that Intel Macs will be useful a long time.
by freeopinion | 2025-09-29 15:47:15+00:00
It is neither simple, nor reasonable.

1.10, the number, is equivalent to 1.1. It is less than 1.2. You say you want numbers to sort as numbers, but you want 1.10 to be greater than 1.2.

Do you consider '1/4' to be a number? Should it come before or after '1/3'?

I'm guessing that you don't want to sort one character at a time if you encounter one of [0-9]. Instead, you want to group all consecutive [0-9] as a single sortable number. But aren't characters '.', ',', '/', '-' also part of numbers?

What about numbers like ↋, 五, π, B, ⅔, or -1?
by keyringlight | 2025-09-29 15:47:30+00:00
Regarding ME4 (or is it 5?) the weasel word I keep coming back to is 'potential', it could be great, but whether they can accomplish that is something we can't say on the outside.

It relates to one of my bugbears about how a subsection of gamers have grown to dislike the big productions often for some valid reasons, there's a lot of potential pitfalls in making a game like ME, but a company like EA is the only place that big impressive experience can be done. Right from the earliest previews introducing ME1 they were going into the cinematic style of it and how good it looked, which was an evolution of what they'd done before with Jade Empire/KOTOR (and still seems to be there with parts of DA:Veilguard). While there's (again, potential) competition in the coming years from Exodus by Archetype, and Owlcat's The Expanse: Osiris reborn games, it's hard to see them providing quite what could be done at the largest games companies.
by palata | 2025-09-29 15:47:38+00:00
> I used to try to think ahead, plan ahead and "architect"

Depends on what you do. If you build a network protocol, you'd better architect it carefully before you start building upon it (and maybe others do, too).

The question is: "if I get this wrong, how much impact does it have?". Getting the API of a core service wrong will have a lot of impact, while writing a small mobile app won't affect anything other than itself.

But the thing is, if you think about that before you start iterating on your small app, then you've already taken an architectural decision :-).
by aunty_helen | 2025-09-29 15:47:41+00:00
I had this when I rode with a motorbike group. It was a loose collection of people that rode a specific route on the weekend.

I only went a few times, but it was obvious the people with the cameras were looking for interesting content and drama. I cut an open corner and ended up in the highlight reel as some example of what not to do. Even though everyone there was 50% over the speed limit and riding “dangerously” in the eyes of others, what got put on the video was the interesting stuff. And of course, you never got to see the speedo of the camera man as he went 2-3 times the limit.

Another biker I knew said he didn’t ride with those guys because they’re just out there to bait for content.
Show HN: I made a tool that lets you travel back in time
by stemonteduro | 2025-09-29 15:47:51+00:00
Thanks to NanoBanana and a good amount of prompt work, I built an MVP for a tool that lets you make your photos travel back in time.

Weekends are perfect for building tools that just bring a smile, it doesn’t always have to be about creating the product of a lifetime.
by mikemarsh | 2025-09-29 15:47:53+00:00
As a "believer" myself (we don't typically use that evangelical terminology but it's close enough) I can completely understand that. People should go to Church for Christ, and anything else, even "community" is a nice bonus but is not going to sustain people when pursued for its own sake, as you're experiencing.

Maybe a sport or hobby club or some other thing you're interested in where people have a specific motivation to get together, bonding and forming "community" more naturally?
by baobun | 2025-09-29 15:48:06+00:00
Shooting video for yourself is one thing, sharing it to a third party like Google, MS, or Apple is another. Unfortunately many people have been brainwashed to not consider or even understand the difference.

I'm fine with being recorded as long as you keep it private. Not with that video ending up on your Drive backups or OneDrive etc, let alone YT.
by pdonis | 2025-09-29 15:48:11+00:00
> with auto save systems, you flag/name a version as your canonical save point.

You mean each saved version is stored separately, like a version control system?

A system like that would be fine (in fact I use version control all the time for this kind of thing). But that's often not how auto save is implemented; the auto save just clobbers the last version you saved. That's the kind I don't use.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-09-29 15:48:33+00:00
This section of the article sums it up pretty nicely:

"Humans are creatures of comfort. Just like so many things in this world, we follow the path of least resistance. With access to technology being ubiquitous, and ChatGPT being so widely available, to choose not to use it is very hard. You need to deliberately prioritize your growth and choose to go against the current. You need to deliberately introduce friction to the process."
by firefax | 2025-09-29 15:48:45+00:00
As a libertarian on social issues, I think you should be able to use whatever flavor of linux you want -- but Gentoo seems to be for people who really want to get into the nitty gritty :-)

For me, I prefer Debian. No ad crap like Ubuntu, decent userbase with several popular security distros (Parrot, Kali) based on it, so lots of eyeballs. And fairly usable, especially if you switch over to XFCE so you're not wasting resources on flashy graphics.
by kmeisthax | 2025-09-29 15:48:52+00:00
To be clear, Apple's authoritarian tendencies are directly downstream of Steve Jobs' authoritarian tendencies. Tim Cook's just continuing what was already there in 2014. It was Apple policy to lock down everything with code signing since the iPhone. Hell, I think it started being a company mandate around the 4th or 5th gen iPod.

The one thing Jobs didn't account for[0] was that iOS apps were going to take off and thus owning the signing keys to iOS would be extremely lucrative. Jobs' original iOS development mandate was "webapps only", at least until the jailbreak developers embarrassed him enough to change his mind. Even then, he genuinely thought 30% was going to just barely defray the costs of running the App Store.

The actual difference between Jobs and Cook is that Tim Cook isn't nearly as charismatic. Jobs had the "reality distortion field" - the ability to confidently lie so hard that the engineers believe the lie and actually make it true. It's the sort of authoritarian manifestation that Donald Trump is desperately trying (and failing) to tap into.

[0] In Jobs' defense the last SDK they'd shipped for portable devices was iPod games.