MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-09-04 14:41:38+00:00
I expect the latter. Social media isn't social in any meaningful sense. It is more like an interactive diary or interactive television. Any human involvement behind the scenes is merely an implementation detail — and with the way AI is going, an implementation detail that may not even remain for much longer. Social media may reduce overall social interaction, but only in the same way that reading books reduced social interaction. There is only so much time in the day; but that doesn't make all uses of time equivalent.
by hellojobbyoai | 2025-09-04 14:41:46+00:00
Jobbyo is an AI-powered job search platform built to simplify and modernize the job-hunting process. Instead of endless manual applications, it automates and personalizes the entire journey:

Smart Matching: Connects users with job opportunities tailored to their skills, experience, and goals.

Automation: Autofills and even applies to roles on behalf of users, cutting down repetitive tasks.

Insights & Organization: Provides company culture, salary, and reviews while tracking progress in one dashboard.

Outreach Tools: Helps job seekers send personalized messages and follow-ups to stand out.

The result is a faster, less stressful, and more effective way for people to land jobs—shifting focus from tedious applications to preparing for interviews.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-09-04 14:41:52+00:00
*Hand-drawn 2D animation. There's tons of 2D animation out there right now, and I hate it all from "A little bit" to "It's unbearable to look at".

Animation rigging, squeezing and bouncing every part of the character to convince the viewer it's alive, but all it's doing is calling computer routines to wobble each part, instead of actually animating the damn character. Everything is shortcuts now.

Recently, I started re-watching Dexter's lab. It's great. No CGI at all, no computer-assisted calarts. Trying to watch anything modern from the same creator, everything is just unbearable to look at. Everything looks like disjointed parts, and screams low-effort. All the flash animators of the 2000s grew up, and they're now running things. And everything just looks like wobbly flash.

There's some shows that did this modern animation style well though. But not many.

So I come to the same conclusion, repetitive low-effort stuff repels people.
by koliber | 2025-09-04 14:42:41+00:00
> If you ACTUALLY wanted to go to that concert, you would have looked up the tour dates for the band six months ago

I am lazy, am not a super-fan and don't follow any bands, but if someone who I kind of enjoy is playing in town, I appreciate hearing about it.

> There are probably hundreds of tools for "easily finding a time for a meeting" that you can buy online

Here's the rub: there was a time where I was not aware of the fact that this class of tools existed! I learned about it through an ad.

The assumption that I see repeatedly is that we think that we know what we want. If we really strongly desire something, that might be more true. However, there are times where we are not even aware that we *can* want something. I did not know I can want a meeting scheduling assistant because I did not know that such software even existed. I did not know that I *can* want to attend a concert because I did not know the band was playing in town. Advertising enabled me to want something.

It's humbling to realize how much I don't know. I appreciate all the ways that the world let's me know about things, even if it comes from a marketing department.
by troupo | 2025-09-04 14:44:49+00:00
Web Components have been in development for 14 years. If you think this is the first discussion of web components, you clearly haven't been paying attention.

All there is to say was said years ago. Today it should be enough to know that, for example, "form associated custom elements cannot be a submit button" issue was opened 6 years ago, in 2019: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/814

In 2022 web component group report mentions it in passing: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html#concerns-10

That issue is still open.

Or that web components breaking ARIA was known at least 2019: https://x.com/sarahmei/status/1198069119897047041 and this will not be fixed for another 4-5 years at least.

Imagine if any web framework had issues like that.

That doesn't even begin to cover things like "now every useful spec has to be acutely aware of Shadow DOM shenanigans" which delayed any number of specs like scoped CSS etc
by abvdasker | 2025-09-04 14:44:59+00:00
> I never owned a car, so should I advocate to stop all fundings for streets?

Streets are generally paid for by taxes, which are categorically different than corporate profits. In theory taxes are under democratic control. If you don't want to pay for streets you don't use, you can vote for a politician who passes that law. You have no control over the governance of a private corporation, but it can still pass its costs on to you via externalities (in the absence of regulations preventing it from doing so).

> Now, if I don't consume drinks of the Coca Cola Company, what if my cleaning lady enjoys those in her break?

What are you even talking about? What is the externality here? The wages you presumably pay your cleaning lady are hers to do with as she wishes.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-04 14:45:07+00:00
> I also find when I have a real disagreement with someone, it's a lot easier when you're face-to-face. For instance, I have friends who are religious, in a real way, ie they actually think there's a god who created the earth and wants us to live a certain way. Being there in person keeps me from ridiculing them like I might on an internet forum, but it also keeps them from condemning me to hell.

My life experience differs: I, for example, am likely more disagreeable in real life than on the internet. :-)

In internet forums, all answers are "delayed" (since you have to put them into a coherent text). Thus you rather have to think through your arguments, and thus react less on impulse (the impulse is typically already over when you have finalized your post). On the other hand, in real life, things that you strongly disagree with might trigger a very spontaneous emotional reaction.

Also, in internet forums, you want to "win internet points". Thus, you only tangentially write your arguments for the counterpart (who you will likely not convince), but more importantly to convince the many people who read your post. So your arguments are better well-thought and well-researched.

In real life, there is often no additional audience to appreciate and be convinced by "your great arguments" ;-) so it's an "all-or-nothing" to bring the truth to this ignorant being. Since the counterpart has such as "stupid" opinion, rational arguments are likely not the best way for this (because if the counterpart was capable of rational thinking, they would immediately see how "stupid" their opinion is ;-) ), so you better "hammer" your arguments into the counterpart. :-)
by safety1st | 2025-09-04 14:45:18+00:00
You are just throwing ad hominems around, distorting facts in order to attack me, and contributing nothing that other people would want to read at this point. The fact of the matter is that the Google case is relevant to this forum and random political baiting is not. I hope it is actioned and your slop is dealt with as it detracts from the quality of this community.
by jdlyga | 2025-09-04 14:45:21+00:00
Arc Browser is an excellent "what could have been" story. The UI came together amazingly fast, there was excellent posts every week with updates from the project lead, and it felt fresh and exciting. It would be an amazing open source project, but there just not a good way to monetize it. There's no other browser, including newer projects like Zen, with a better ui. I would strongly encourage Atlassian to open source Arc.
by superkuh | 2025-09-04 14:45:32+00:00
It was such a delight to see someone finally getting the dopaminergic function right and not confusing dopamergic populations activity with perceptions of pleasure, but instead pointing to the modern understandings: they predict future pleasure. Glutamate (in the shell of the nucleus accumbens) is the real "pleasure" chemical (among all it's various other uses).
by LinXitoW | 2025-09-04 14:45:40+00:00
It's 300MB of RAM when it's not doing much, it's the lowest possible value.

When so many little tools that you normally keep running in the background, it starts adding up. Not to mention that not everyone has that much RAM. Until recently, Apple still shipped Macbooks with 8GB RAM.

I've also started having issues with my Windows partition filling up with these applications. Again, no one application is a problem, it's the trend that's the problem.

No single raindrop is responsible for the flood.
by bluGill | 2025-09-04 14:46:02+00:00
Politicians do what they think voters want them to do. Thus talk to your neighbors about this and point out that they could have good transit service (if you live in the US you might be the only neighborhood in your state, but you can point to other countries). Write letters to your politicians. Attend community meetings. Make sure you build bridges with conservatives - there are many conservatives pro transit messages but nobody knows them. Be careful about bridges with liberals who don't care about transit except as a way to do something else they want (since this results in bad transit which gives those who are against transit another "it can't work here" project to point to).

None of the above is easy.
by aardvarkr | 2025-09-04 14:46:03+00:00
I had it done in late 2022. The doctor does close to zero work and it’s all in the laser. I called almost every lasik specialist in the city to figure out what laser they use and what their price is and then narrowed that list further with in person consultations. Don’t go for the absolute cheapest but there’s zero reason to pay quadruple.

At the time it was about $1k per eye and of course vision insurance sucks and won’t make a difference for lasik. My company even had a lasik benefit ($1k/eye) but the offices that worked through insurance cost $2.5k/eye.

If I recall correctly there’s three major laser brands and they’re on the fifth generation lasers. The buzzword at that time was waveform technology.

Overall it has been AMAZING and everyone should do it. Literally can’t express how wonderful it is to no longer need contracts or glasses. It’s probably paid for itself already as well but the quality of life improvements are worth it even if there was no break even point.
by jraph | 2025-09-04 14:46:06+00:00
Ah, yet it's easy!

The day of Wednes. Wednes, old spelling of wedness, the state of being wed.

(So my comment is not totally useless, I'll link to the actual etymology for the ones who are now curious - my sibling comment already alluded to it)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wednesday#Etymology
by freehorse | 2025-09-04 14:46:20+00:00
I had similar issues with local models, ended up actually requesting the backticks because it was easier this way, and parsed the output accordingly. I cached a prompt with explicit examples how to structure data, and reused this over and over. I have found that without examples in the prompts some llms are very unreliable, but with caching some example prompts this becomes a non-issue.
by quectophoton | 2025-09-04 14:46:45+00:00
With family and friends you can just be yourself[1] though. If they watch the recording after 5 or 10 years, they will probably look at it affectionately, at most with some light teasing.

They're not going to, for example, start harassing you online just because at some point during your presentation you said the word "blacklist" (or other words that are nowadays are considered worse than they were back then).

So I'd say part of the reason of why it's easy with family/friends but stressful with strangers, is subconscious fear of this kind of judgement where you don't know how this large amount of people will react, and fear that something you say or something you do will cause a response way more negative than you expect. Sure, you can imagine some possible negative responses, but because you don't know them personally, you don't know what's their "upper bound" for a negative response (how far they will go).

And once you start talking the nerves go away because, once you start, running away suddenly becomes a worse choice (easier to get a negative response) compared to finishing the talk.

That would be my guess.

[1]: Some might cross lines, but those should be the exception, and you probably wouldn't be relaxed with them anyway.
by bityard | 2025-09-04 14:47:01+00:00
You are deliberately confusing ads with things that already have better names, such as notices or listings. They feel different because they ARE different.

Advertising is wildly successful because it's literally everywhere and we are conditioned from birth that the whole concept of "strangers using psychological tricks so you give them your money" is just a normal fact of everyday life. Most people are NOT conditioned to be on-guard against ads, and that is the whole problem. It's not until you make the choice to actively avoid ads where possible and give up ad-laden media consumption altogether for a while that you notice how bad (and bad for you) advertising is.

If you haven't tried switching to a low-advertising diet, you are probably missing out on the ability to focus on what really matters in life.
by Balgair | 2025-09-04 14:47:23+00:00
My SO was a TA in college, so I can echo this.

You'd get a stack of 120 blue books to grade in a week's time a few times a quarter.

The grading was entirely just checking if the student used a set of key words and had a certain length. This was a near universal method across the University for blue book exams.

Honestly, an LLM would be a better grader than most stressed out grad students.

Everyone has been phoning it in for a few centuries now
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-04 14:47:32+00:00
Pretty much all of them are like this and it's actually a terrible article. For those thinking about how can the likelihood of them being a girl can change consider this;

>A family has two children. You're told that at least one of them is a girl. What's the probability both are girls?

"The question writer took all sets of two child families and ruled out the bb case. Then they asked the exact question above" This is 1/3 chance - select gg from [gg,bg,gb]'

vs

"The question writer came across a girl from a two child family, then they asked the exact question above". This is 1/2 chance - select gg from [gg, gg, bg, gb] with gg listed twice since there's two ways to select a girl from that set; ie. coming across a girl is twice as likely to occur from the gg case than it is either gb or bg.

I think that's the clearest wording to get the message across. Either way it's the exact same question but it reasonably has a completely different answer. There's no way to resolve this ambiguity with the question as written. Pretty much all questions here are like this.

Amusingly the Monty Hall problem in it's original form was written to avoid this ambiguity. There's a comment thread above on this. But you know what the author of the article linked here did? They reworded it and added ambiguity similar to the above. The Monty Hall problem needs to specifically state "the host opens a door that he knows does not contain the prize" or it's unanswerable. The author of the article removed this statement without awareness of its importance!

This sounds mean but honestly I really really think this article was written by someone with no education or knowledge on statistics. As in they broke perfectly reasonable questions and added ambiguity to the point they are not answerable as written in an article trying to demonstrate how easy stats is.
by kube-system | 2025-09-04 14:47:36+00:00
From an engineering perspective, most browsers are "pretty much just Chrome(ium)", but that's not what I'm talking about here. The delivery mechanism isn't really relevant from a product perspective. It is a different product with a different price and different features.

Also, my point was just just say that there's a market for something like this. Chrome Enterprise is not even really that competitive of a product in the space.

For the most part, default Chrome and Firefox are designed primarily for B2C use cases.
by dleary | 2025-09-04 14:47:38+00:00
I had PRK done at Stanford in 2007 or 2008.

Now it's nearly 20 years later, and I just turned 48.

My vision has deteriorated from "old age" enough now that I might have considered getting the procedure done again. Touch-ups are/were free at the Stanford clinic.

My vision has not deteriorated in the past 5 years or so, I am farsighted enough now that it is more comfortable to hold fine print things at arms length to read. And things far away are a bit blurry again.

But, I now think that getting eye surgery now to fix your vision is a bad move if glasses can correct it.

It's really just a strategy decision in the 'game of life'.

"Pretty soon", we are going to have wearable AR goggles that actually work.

When that threshold is crossed, "everyone" is going to have AR glasses, just like "everyone" has a smart phone right now.

Since you're going to be wearing glasses in a few years anyway, why risk the surgery?
by petralithic | 2025-09-04 14:48:11+00:00
What was the Browser Company even doing? First they had a successful consumer product with Arc as a Chrome clone, then they decided to shut it down for...a whole new browser called Dia that essentially acted as a browser extension that so many vibe coded clones were made of?

What was even the point of all this roundabout engineering and the time and manpower to do so? What a waste. This seems more like an acquihire than actually about IP.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-04 14:48:51+00:00
The best way to make the grid fair is to remove fixed rate accounting altogether. The reality is that all power must be delivered instantaneously. Any meaningful arbitrage (i.e., adding actual value to grid services) must occur within milliseconds. The ability to purchase contracts on power that hasn't been generated yet is what is driving all the volatility and exploitation.

There is a reason that Griddy (variable rate wholesaler for consumers) had to be killed in Texas. The popular narrative is that they "fucked" their customers over in 2021. The reality is that anyone who had been using their variable rate system for more than 12 months (and made any attempt whatsoever to respond to demand signals) had easily compensated for the $9/kWH crunch that lasted merely ~72 hours. Most of their other customers who I talked to had no problem with the situation. There was a deliberate PR campaign (likely by the other retail electricity providers in the market) to make it seem like an unbelievably impossible situation for a normal person to cope with. Now it's illegal to have wholesale rates for consumers in Texas. We've gone two steps in the wrong direction.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-04 14:48:52+00:00
> Most people use capitalism to describe a system where people trade goods and services with as little interference from government as possible.

“Capitalism” is a term coined for the dominant system of the industrialized West in the mid-19th Century and is defined by the specific orientation of property rights in that system around the private and marketable ownership of the non-financial means of production (the “capital” in “capitalism”), and the way in which the system was fundamentally structured around—and institutions within it, including government, invariably served the interests of—the owners of that capital, who formed its ruling class, displacing the landed hereditary aristocracy of the preceding systems.

While the dominant politico-economic systems of the developed world have evolved somewhat since then, with modern mixed economies having structures in place mitigate some of the adverse impacts the original system for which thr label “capitalism” was created for has on the vast majority of the population that is not major capital owners, it retains the basic property structure and resulting class heirarchy of the original “capitalism”, and neither it nor the original tended tof eatite annabsence of regulation of commerce.

> I think calling it "crony capitalism" to make it clear that it's the undue influence of capital on government specifically causing the problem here lends more clarity to the discussion.

The commanding and undue influence of capital on all of society, government and otherwise, is literally the feature for which critics of the then-dominant system coined the term “capitalism” to refer to that system. It doesn’t need an extra qualifier for that.
by thelastgallon | 2025-09-04 14:49:12+00:00
Also, crypto helps!

Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-rio...

Two of the biggest bitcoin mining companies in the world are battling it out in a Texas town of 5,600 people: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/31/bitcoin-mining-giants-bitdee...

Cryptocurrency Mining in Texas: https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-texas Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37516498
by andrewmonostate | 2025-09-04 14:50:05+00:00
Thanks for bringing this up! Good catch on the similarities! Yes, both use entropy/uncertainty to allocate compute intelligently.

From what I understand, Entropix is an entropy-aware decoder - it monitors token entropy during generation and dynamically adjusts sampling or spawns parallel CoT branches at high-uncertainty points. It's a decoding-time intervention.

My approach doesn't touch decoding at all. I:

1. Generate normally (standard sampling)

2. Capture logprobs + top-k alternatives

3. Check if perplexity/entropy/confidence triggers exceed thresholds

4. If yes, do ONE refinement pass with an "uncertainty report" showing the model exactly which tokens were uncertain + their alternatives + context

The key difference: Entropix steers the ship while sailing; my loop reviews the voyage log and decides whether to make one correction pass. No branching, no custom samplers, deterministic cost (0 or 1 extra pass).

They're actually complementary - you could use Entropix entropy-aware sampling for initial generation and still apply a refinement loop afterward. Same underlying signal (entropy), different control points! The result of combining both should be outstanding! I will test it soon.
by piva00 | 2025-09-04 14:50:46+00:00
> Here's what it sounds like to an idiot off the street like me

Idiots on the streets are usually one of the main weaknesses of democracy.

The idiots under a democratic society should be seen as what they are: a threat which the only way to counteract is through education, including civics. The problem with our current modern democracies is we haven't found a way to treat the threat as what it is, and focus on solving the core issue: idiocy.

We try, education of societies in general is better than any point before in history but still lacking a lot, ergo your comment.
by tim333 | 2025-09-04 14:50:47+00:00
Part of the job downturn may be due to AI, not in the obvious way of LLMs doing peoples jobs but due to the money allocation:

>Companies will spend $375 billion globally in 2025 on A.I. infrastructure, the investment bank UBS estimates. (nyt)

which means they have less money to hire and train recruits.