MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarecrowbob | 2025-09-18 19:48:27+00:00
There are plenty of smart people who don't know the facts about a thing but who still chime in with their uninformed opinion.

Unfortunately for us all, a lot of folks who are actually fairly smart have some pretty heinous and poorly informed ideas about the world. One of the reasons why I find this form so interesting to observe is that just because someone can do okay understanding linear algebra or analyzing static systems or configuring load balancers doesn't mean that they have one bit of understanding or useful intuition about morals, ethics, history, or politics.

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Ironically, I think I generally agree with you that there is no organization, but I believe that person to whom you are responding doesn't know what they are talking about.
by stopachka | 2025-09-18 19:48:33+00:00
Oh, interesting! I just took a look.

I updated the system prompt a bit, here's a version of your app that's working with it:

https://brave-elm-7m6ar8.manyminiapps.com/

(The chat: https://www.manyminiapps.com/?c=1a5d3481-d2e2-414c-a7c3-4d0c...)

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For the curious, the issue was that the LLM originally decided to write the query:

```

const { data } = db.useQuery({ worlds: { $: { order: { createdAt: 'desc' } }, snapshots: { $: { order: { timestamp: 'desc' }, limit: 1 } } } });

```

But we don't support limits on subqueries yet.

We had a specific note in the system prompt warning the LLM to avoid this. Interestingly, _removing_ the warning fixed the issue. I guess it's kind of like telling someone to not think of a red elephant.
by jfengel | 2025-09-18 19:48:53+00:00
Interesting. Not me.

Intellectually dishonest argumentation cannot avoid ending in falsehood. By design it grows to consume all available time.

A walled garden, if constructed in good faith, has at least the potential to find truth.

I suspect that we're really both just contrasting best-case and worst-case scenarios for our preferred positions. What ends up actually happening is a mix of both.
by mrj | 2025-09-18 19:48:53+00:00
We just evaluated zulip as well and the mobile app was extremely bare bones. Also, I liked the UX of the web but others felt it was way too technical to give to our staff (some of whom will really struggle with any kind of change).

I haven’t really decided yet though. Has anybody had a success with Zulip with nontechnical? I’m looking at mattermost now but it just seems to be a different point on the enshittification arc.
by n0ma5d | 2025-09-18 19:48:54+00:00
how do you make money? (or plan to make money). if you don't plan to make money, you should open source it. so that people can learn, make sure you don't collect data and tinker(which is very important for an extension like these) with the software. these 3 things are very important for a better world. so you can consider open sourcing it even if you consider making money out of it. anyway, tell me how do you plan to make money out of this.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-18 19:48:59+00:00
> intentionally engineered "lack of time"

This is so true.

And it is making the industry eating itself.

The purpose of the software is not profit, but usability. Profit for the organization/owner is a tool to achive that, in some instances (it is very valuable, but not essential).

The primary self-serving focus of bigger and quicker profit leads to serious erosion of trust in technology, making the life of those building a livelihood on top of it shaky at best.
by akomtu | 2025-09-18 19:49:07+00:00
Nearly half of their users use ad blockers. The AI spyware, on the other hand, bypasses ad blockers and can answer questions like "what was the user up to on Sep 18?" These short summaries will be carefully kept in database, and in a few years Google will have a nearly perfect cognitive model of all their users. The value of such data is hard to measure. Every big advertiser or a tyrant would sell their soul to understand how to manipulate their populace better. You can't have this with today's ad networks.
by gnramires | 2025-09-18 19:49:09+00:00
If you have a very high enough refresh rate display, then yes: just flash alternatingly black-over-white and white-over-black text (i.e. invert it). We perceive essentially a low-pass filtered visual input (with limitations like neural firing rate), eventually it should appear as just uniform gray. Maybe adding some confusing elements might make it feasible at lower refresh rates.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-18 19:49:16+00:00
The article says Mac Studio M3 Ultra owners can’t update to macOS Tahoe. So while the lower-end Studio uses M4, the $4k-$10k M3 Ultra Version with all that great RAM for inference still runs M3 Ultra. It’s slower than the iPad Pro released 10 months earlier in single core performance and, for now, according to this article isn’t compatible with macOS Tahoe.
by floxy | 2025-09-18 19:49:28+00:00
>When I tell people this, one of the most common response is "Oh, don't worry. I'm a little bit deaf too."

I think that is just people being people, and that's the first "acceptable" thing that pops into their mind when they hear that. They are just trying to relate to you. They are socially conditioned to not say things like, "that's too bad", or "I'm sorry", etc.. They were probably prepping to say something about the latest weather trends or something equally banal, and now you've hit them with something out of left field that they've never encountered before. How would you like people to respond? I am a migraine sufferer, and get the same types of responses, like "oh, I get headaches too", and "my sister in-law cured her migraines with mint oil!". I mean, most of the things that most people say are rather dopey.
by codingdave | 2025-09-18 19:50:11+00:00
Writing a crawler to hit all possible links and interactions is not the tricky part. Actually understanding the expected behavior, which is not always what the code says it should be, is the tricky part. Without someone actually creating specific assertions and acceptance criteria, this seems like a flawed concept, as it might catch some bone-headed "Oh, clicking here breaks it" mistakes, but those are not the bugs that most teams fight.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-18 19:50:14+00:00
Why is tldraw getting more and more centralized/requiring a special license...

I like tldraw as a software but I used to see tldraw having multiple pages in the same canvas and that had helped me tremendously in the past which It seems is now a sign up feature...

I hope excalidraw can catch up too. The more options and the more truly foss options, the better...
by Animats | 2025-09-18 19:51:03+00:00
See the general subject of "elite overproduction".

It's not clear at all where "AI" is going. Once AIs get reliable enough to be put in charge of things, rather than being merely advisory, we will have a very different society. Everybody here has probably read the late Marshall Brain's "Manna", which outlines how that might play out.

(I'm reading Pikkety's new "Capital and Ideology". Not far enough in to comment yet.)
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-18 19:51:03+00:00
Poor vendor software support is also expected, because it's too early into development of the RISC-V architecture for software to have universal support on different hardware variations.

What that leaves is a need for good documentation, but Orange Pi does have that: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiwiki/index.php/Orange_Pi_RV2

If you're not working on RISC-V-specific development, than it isn't a product for you, but with step-by-step guides for building uboot and the linux kernel, as well as running various LLMs on the TPU, it is very well supported for the current RISC-V audience.
by eth0up | 2025-09-18 19:51:05+00:00
Man, I lean right. Always will even if I fall off a cliff. But the main reason I do is the Republic and Constitution. Free speech is sacred, and I think Jimmy is a wanker. But I'll be damned if I silence the guy, or don't defend his right to be a wanker. So yeah, this is going to dark places.
by dualogy | 2025-09-18 19:51:28+00:00
I used i3 for a few years before switching to KDE 1 or 2 years ago. For me choosing a full Desktop Environment over just-a-window-manager is about getting all the basics already co-installed with it: a default file explorer, default calculator, default terminal other than xterm, especially a default network-manager GUI, a sys-tray already populated with volume / screen / power / bluetooth / mounted-devices / clipboard / clock & date, a launcher, a system-wide config GUI ... without a DE, every single one of these is a manual install (plus researching the best choices and verifying & comparing their quality live) and/or numerous configuration files in diverse places, googling their syntax / incantations ... since all this stuff is "side-show stuff" (ie not my code editor, browser, email client, office suite), I nowadays appreciate batteries-included when setting up a new machine, reducing overall time-to-code-editing. But the endless custom-tweaking back then was good fun back in its own right. =)
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 19:53:18+00:00
There have been a string of earthquakes around the Pacific I feel like. There was the other recent one and the same area but also rumblings at Mount Rainier and rumors of underwater volcanic activity off the US. Is this pattern something that has been seen historically (as a sign of something bigger) or is this just random noise?

EDIT: some links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kamchatka_earthquake

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/what-caused-swarm-earthqua...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mile-deep-underwater-volcano-off-w...
by cogman10 | 2025-09-18 19:54:12+00:00
> without large areas of true wilderness

Depends on your definition of large. You'd probably be shocked at just how much wilderness is in the UK.

Don't get me wrong, just about every farmable piece of land is growing food. However, you might be shocked at the presence of forests and camping grounds still to this day.

Either way, the right to roam in the UK is something I wish we had in the US. There are more than a few lakes, for example, that can no longer be accessed because they've been encircled by private land owners turning the lakes effectively private. Cutting off access to waterways and forests to turn them into playgrounds for the rich is gross.

Well, as I was walking, I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing" But on the other side it didn't say nothing That side was made for you and me!
by dwoldrich | 2025-09-18 19:54:53+00:00
I am an npm user. My reaction to these software supply chain attacks is to stop taking updates unless absolutely necessary for vulnerability mitigation or to selectively take performance or feature upgrades on a package-by-package basis. Obviously, that approach still opens me up to attacks based on when I choose to take updates that coincides with a malicious package release, but I feel like an extreme reluctance to upgrade will mostly keep me safe.

To achieve my goal, would this approach work:

- Pin all of my package.json versions (no prefacing versions with ~ or ^)

- Routine installation of packages both on my local and on CI servers will be done using `npm ci`

- `npm install <package_name> --save-exact/--save-dev` would be used only at the time of adding a package to package.json, followed by an `npm ci`

- Rely on tooling like GitHub Dependabot and CodeQL to inform the team when a dependency should be updated for security reasons and then manually update only the dependency with the desired version using `npm install lodash@4.17.21 --save-exact`, for example

EDIT: Thinking about this more, we would have to forbid deleting the package-lock.json and regenerating it with `npm install` and forbid the use of `npm update` so that package-lock.json would stay stable.
by Rickasaurus | 2025-09-18 19:55:23+00:00
Seems like very cool tech.

I think the adoption hurdle will be hard unless you have a free plan that can be used for small things indefinitely. Having a hard cap on events would make me pass on this for fun side projects, which is where I would pivot later from to work projects. Just throwing that out there. This is why my last work project was supabase, I was using their free tier for some fun personal stuff.

If you have another vector for adoption that's fine too.
by paulcole | 2025-09-18 19:55:24+00:00
> The free 90 day version is worthless IMO

I strongly disagree. The company I work at (sub-50 people) has never paid for Slack over our entire history (founded in 2009).

It's chat and it works fine. That's all it needs to be for us. We don't need to switch to IRC or one of the other countless chat apps.

We're never going to need to be indignant that Slack is suddenly asking us for more money and then rush to migrate. When they shut down the free tier, we'll take our ephemeral chat somewhere else.
by gizmo686 | 2025-09-18 19:55:27+00:00
Even there, "open up this wall" is not a unit of work. You need to:

* Evaluate what, if any, structural implications removing the wall has * Tear down the existing wall * Redo any plumbing, ductwork, wiring, etc that was hiding in the wall * Remediate structural concerns from removing the wall. * Redo the flooring * Repair and repaint any damage done to remaining drywall

If this is part of a larger renovation, you will likely schedule work so the above tasks happen at the same time as other similar tasks.

E.g. A meaningful unit of work might be "electrical roughing", which would include both moving wires that were previously in the wall, and running a new circuit to the garage for a car charger. No user story covers those to tasks, but the nature of renovating a house means that it makes sense to do them together.
by uncircle | 2025-09-18 19:55:30+00:00
Don't use the vouch mechanism, it's a trap. I've had it disabled on my other account because I vouched "flame-bait" and thus I was revoked of the privileges, as dang explained to me via email, and I quote: "we took vouching privileges away from your account because you vouched for too many comments that were unsubstantive and/or flamebait and/or otherwise broke the site guidelines"

The Hacker News stance of "users can flag posts, it's none of our doing" I bet is a complete fabrication, and it's conveniently used by the moderators to hide hot-button topics. Not saying that's necessarily bad, but I feel the moderation team could be a little more honest with their "censorship" process, instead of trying to convince us it's all an organic, user-driven process.

You can vouch these posts at your own risk; just make sure you toe the party line, or you'll have the privilege revoked.
by a3w | 2025-09-18 19:55:47+00:00
North is not up. That would make left west. When standing in front of a building, with map in hand, and asking people to go start going to the street in the south, then left, I mean left, which is east.

In school, everyone learns that north is not up, and south is not down. Only us dumb grown-ups use that. ALL. THE. TIME. ALL. OF. THEM.
by SJMG | 2025-09-18 19:56:02+00:00
> the head of languages telling me that a good teacher can teach any subject.

Tell me this wasn't foreign languages? :face_palm:

Okay, I was totally with you until this,

> but I think we've got everything we can out of the subject-agnostic approach to improvement, and we need to start engaging with the detail of what's being taught to further improve

I think if you walk into the bottom 80% of classrooms you would not see, interleaving, spaced repetition, recall-over-reread, or topic shuffling to avoid interference.

There's a load of understanding we've gained in pedagogy and human learning that has not affected how we structure formal education yet.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-09-18 19:56:08+00:00
> This is scarily obvious when I’ve worked with college students and early 20s juniors lately: A subset of them speak of everything human nature in medical and therapy speak. Common human experiences like being sad about something or having a tough day are immediately amplified into full-blown medical terms like “I’m having a depressive episode today” (which is gone by tomorrow). Being a little nervous about something is “I’m having a panic attack”. Remembering an unpleasant disagreement at work “gives me PTSD”. When they’re procrastinating a task that is fun “my ADHD is flaring up today”.

Somewhat unrelated, but I complain about the same thing in software parlance. Our work gets divided up into "sprints". A SPRINT is traditionally something you do a handful of times in your life, like when you're fleeing for your life, pursued by a bear. And then when you're a safe distance away and the adrenaline wears off, you collapse from exhaustion and rest. The idea that your employer would use that term to describe how they envision their employees structuring every day of the rest of their lives is either painfully tone-deaf, or even worse, is a brutally honest view of how they regard employee burnout.
by godelski | 2025-09-18 19:56:42+00:00
It was a rhetorical question. I actually would really encourage you to read about post truth politics if you haven't because it ties into what you're discussing.

I am including the major news organizations and I specifically think they're a major contributor to post truth. It can't happen without them. Being caught in lies enables post truth because the point of this strategy is to make it difficult to determine what truth is. To overload the populous. The strategy really comes out of Russia where they specifically would report lies such as Putin killing dissidents, only for those people to turn up alive. You encourage conspiracies. The most recent example I can think of is how Trump going offline for a few days lit the world with conspiracy theories about him dying. Fucking major news networks bought into that too! It's insane to operate like that. But that's the point. That you have to question everything. I guess to put it one way, you need to always be in system 2 thinking. But you can't always be operating at that level and when doing for long periods of time you'll end up with an anxiety disorder.

I don't know if all major news networks are doing this intentionally or if it's a steady state solution optimization for engagement, but the result would be the same.

I'm saying this because look at my main comments. I'm trying to encourage finding the truth of the matter rather than react (which is what the OP was (rightfully) criticizing WaPo for).
by picardo | 2025-09-18 19:57:00+00:00
I'm excited by this multi-media approach. I've been avid self-learner for years, and I've often found the textbook format too dry, and forbidding, but ever since I started using NotebookLM, I'm diving into textbooks more and more. There is genuine value in creating a new format that meets learners where they are at.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-18 19:57:30+00:00
> Look at how much JS it takes to implement a material-ui textfield that automatically grows and shrinks.

I would do that with CSS.

> Building a date picker is a pain in the ass. Making sure those things follow all the arcane aria standards to be accessible is difficult.

If you want to display a visual calendar then yes, mostly. However, if instead you make date picking relative to now then it becomes very simple. It’s just adding or subtracting numbers from Date.now(). You can even produce date spans super easily.

I understand where you are going. When everything starts from a visual UI perspective the code is just an implementation detail except that it’s dense. If instead you start at from the implementation perspective of how it really works at the lowest level then everything just appears step by step. Nobody starts building beautiful skyscrapers from the visual exterior first. No, they lay the foundation, a boring slab of concrete around some grounding poles.
by incomplete | 2025-09-18 19:57:32+00:00
> Am I reading this right, possibly a $100k fine and up to 20 years in prison for a biological man posting a picture of themself dressing in clothing considered "female"?

yep, i believe you are. i wonder how they'll deal with men wearing scottish kilts? or women wearing pants?

this is insane and i can't see how this would even come close to passing in to law...
by a3w | 2025-09-18 19:58:41+00:00
For clarity, you cannot call north up:

North is not up. That would make left west. When standing in front of a building, with map in hand, and asking people to go start going to the street in the south, then left, I mean left in direction of travel, which is east.

Not left in direction of map conventions, which for people who cannot read a compass is probably west.
by xp84 | 2025-09-18 19:58:58+00:00
Sorry, I'm happy for you, and I do play Minecraft on an iGPU. I just meant that about 80% of the PCs sold seem to be for "business use" or Chromebooks, and the people writing those POs aren't making their selections with gaming in mind.

(And also, I'm pretending Macs don't exist for this statement. They aren't even PCs anymore anyway, just giant iPhones, from a silicon perspective.)
by joshvm | 2025-09-18 19:59:05+00:00
I'm sure computer science has improved in high school over the last (gulp) 20 years, but when I did variations of IT and programming lessons before university, it was bad. This was peak "you must Microsoft Office"-era. I've been involved in outreach for almost as long at this point. A lot of kids ask sensible questions like 'when do I ever need to use trig in real life?', because the examples in lessons and exams are so divorced from reality that it feels pointless.

I do think there is pedagogical value in showing where these concepts can be used practically and the advantage of LLMs is that you can transform the examples to what you're actually interested in. For example the Red Blob Games series on A* pathfinding are really good at showing how Dijkstra and graph traversal algorithms work, for a use-case (video games) that is appealing to a lot of nerdy people.
by BetterGeiger | 2025-09-18 19:59:16+00:00
I gave a more detailed comment already, but price/performance is not a simple two axis thing. No consumer grade gamma spec device measures high dose rate which is needed for emergency use. Depending on the intended use case something lower cost than radiacode might make sense. For example the radiacode 110 ($400) has the same volume and type of scintillator, with very high sensitivity, as the better geiger S2L ($200), so both are good for handheld search for radioactive objects, but S2L has something like 30x higher maximum dose rate range which makes it more capable in emergencies, whereas the 110 has Bluetooth, mapping, and gamma spec... Which are very fun for hobbyist but have little true "practical" real world value. Different interests and different budgets would point people in different directions.
by sky2224 | 2025-09-18 19:59:21+00:00
Yeah, as a student, I have to agree.

The issue with learning things isn't that it hasn't been tailored to be interesting or relatable to me, it's just that it's a lot of content and it's hard. The solution is figuring out how to set up a type of spoon feed algorithm that checks that I'm understanding little bite size pieces along the way in addition to giving layman's terms for things that don't necessitate the formal description (e.g., deciphering math language).

ChatGPT Study mode has actually been quite good at this when you prompt it correctly and are studying a subject that it's well trained on.
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-09-18 19:59:34+00:00
I'm not a teacher, but I think a simple change to "objects in motion stay in motion" could help with teaching it. Instead, tell students that any change in motion always has a cause, then ask them for the cause in different scenarios. Why does the ball stop rolling across the room? Why does the rocket launch into space? Why does the falling feather stop as it hits the ground? Then, ask what happens if there is no cause for change. Now you are left with the original law. That object will stay in motion.