MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulddraper | 2025-10-02 03:47:17+00:00
> Just for example, the lack of explicit variable defs

This is an extraordinarly common feature among scripting languages. In fact, JS is really the odd duck out.

Shell, Ruby, Lua, Perl, R, AWK, etc

> I rename the variable but forget to change it where it is updated.

Type checkers will catch this. (And IDEs will help.)

You don't have to use type checking of course, though it sounds like you like to.

> It drives me crazy how everything just... blocks.

There are comparatively few languages that primarily rely on cooperative multi-threading.

> All the string formatting syntaxes is crazy.

f"Hi my name is {name}"

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FWIW, you just don't like most scripting languages.

Which is fine, but it goes far beyond Python.

Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Tcl
by cptskippy | 2025-10-02 03:47:50+00:00
Not the Op but I have PM 2.5 sensors in my house. There is one next to the stove, another in the main bedroom above the kitchen, another in the office above the main bedroom, and another in the garage.

Here's two samples. One was last night when I cooked pancakes, grits, sausages, and hash browns on a gas stove. The fan came on at 6:35:37.

The other is cooking one fried egg in the morning for breakfast.

https://imgur.com/a/zwBU6wA
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 03:49:02+00:00
That seems useless to me because people can indeed lie (this admin knows that all too well). Or change their mind when on the heat of the battlefield.

And of course, it's peak paranoia. You can't be performing a hostile, illegal siezure of power and call anyone who wants to follow the law an insurrectionist. The Consistution defines that for us.
by aePiots | 2025-10-02 03:49:27+00:00
aéPiot: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Semantic Web Infrastructure Platform Executive Summary

aéPiot represents a paradigm shift in how we conceptualize digital infrastructure for the semantic web. This comprehensive analysis, based on direct exploration of the platform's 15 major sections and deep architectural examination, reveals aéPiot not as a simple search aggregator or SEO tool, but as a sophisticated, distributed infrastructure platform designed to democratize digital entrepreneurship while remaining immune to the spam abuse that plagues similar systems.

Through transparency-by-design, distributed accountability mechanisms, and a privacy-first philosophy, aéPiot has created what can best be described as "the Linux of the semantic web" — open infrastructure that empowers thousands of independent businesses while remaining invisible to end users, much like AWS powers Netflix without Netflix users knowing they're using Amazon's infrastructure.

Key Findings:

Rating: 9.5/10 - Exceptional platform with minor UX limitations Market Opportunity: 500+ million underserved users globally Primary Innovation: Spam immunity through transparency architecture Success Probability: 85% over 5-10 year timeframe Competitive Moat: Values-based positioning competitors cannot replicate

Table of Contents

Platform Overview The 15 Core Sections Explored Technical Architecture The Spam Immunity Mechanism Business Model & Ecosystem Competitive Landscape Strategic Positioning Use Cases & Target Audiences Future Projections Critical Success Factors Conclusion: Why aéPiot Matters Comprehensive Disclaimer
by dang | 2025-10-02 03:51:30+00:00
Related:

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384223 - Feb 2022 (58 comments)

What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24162499 - Aug 2020 (22 comments)

What to know about encodings and character sets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788253 - June 2015 (30 comments)

What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771987 - Nov 2012 (5 comments)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 03:51:35+00:00
Chaos can be avoided if we start talks to facilitate this "AI age". But are we talking seriously about UBI? Nope (we can't even fund healthcare). What about training? Training in-job has been on the decline for decades, no one's helping with transitions. Are people's lives at least getting better? The sentiment in surveys say no thus far.

As usual it seems like there's only one box left when a new technology tries to strongarm its way into society. The invention of the personal computer avoided a lot of chaos by doing all of the above.
by jonnycomputer | 2025-10-02 03:51:38+00:00
Okay, but isn't this just what all people do? Everyone has a lifetime of normal behavior expectations reinforced to a point where they are truly internalized that there's something wrong with not doing the "normal" thing.

That's called enculturation.

I find a lot very confusing about the idea of masking. Everyone masks, even people who are more neurotypical than autists. Getting along with social life means not showing every emotion, it means being uncomfortable, doing things that you personally dislike or find uncomfortable, feigning more comfort in social situations than you actually feel, regulating your behavior to fit in, etc. And then going home to detox and restore your energy with private time.

I'm not saying that masking is autism is not a thing. But most of what I hear described is just ... normal life for most people ... except perhaps to the degree it is felt or needed.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 03:54:03+00:00
Yes. We compensate disrupted industries and make long term plans to adjust around the technologies. The advent of the PC exposed it early to kids, it advertised its usefulness to the public, and it offered digital trainings to adjust to a new workflow. In the worst case, we help any redundant roles get a new job in the indystry or offer other benefits like early pensions.

As we see here, this tech is only taking and not giving much back.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-02 03:54:14+00:00
Agreed.

> the designer and management has already fallen in love with what appears to be a final product.

This is probably the crux of the issue. It's the same process as asking a famous illustrator to draw a cool house, and then ask some random architect to make it a reality. I'm always amazed at people doing so, that's not the type of house I'd like to live in.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-02 03:57:47+00:00
> I like China Meiville

You write like David Foster Wallace, and I mean that as a compliment.

Have you read The City & the City? BBC Two also did a miniseries version, which I thought would be unfilmable and even unwatchable, but somehow it works, likely due to China Miéville himself serving as a consultant on the production.

For those who aren’t familiar with the work, I advise you to avoid spoilers, which are present in the reference links below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_City_(TV_se...
by intalentive | 2025-10-02 03:57:58+00:00
Agentic search with a handful of basic tools (drawn from BM25, semantic search, tags, SQL, knowledge graph, and a handful of custom retrieval functions) blows the lid off RAG in my experience. The downside is it takes longer. A single “investigation” can easily use 20-30 different function calls. RAG is like a static one-shot version of this and while the results are inferior the process is also a lot faster.
by csomar | 2025-10-02 03:58:06+00:00
Trumpism is clearly spreading… The reason China solar is booming is because of structural incentives. Solar is “dirt cheap” compared to oil/gas. That’s why Africa is importing records of it and breaking that record every next year. It’s not because it’s eco-friendly (people in Africa or Pakistan don’t know what that means), it’s because it’s more affordable.

In Tunisia, the pay-off time for a solar installation is around 4-5 years (granted we still have net-metering, so free storage). You are either ignorant or too poor to not install solar.
by drdeca | 2025-10-02 03:58:24+00:00
No, that’s not what I said. Thinking you can determine a-priori that something that is logically self-consistent, cannot exist, if there is no reason that such a thing being physically instantiated would imply a logical contradiction, is the thing I think is presumptive.

Merely believing that such a thing (a halting oracle) doesn’t exist, isn’t something I meant to call presumptive, only believing that you can know a-priori (with certainty) that such things cannot exist.

I don’t claim that you are obligated to agree with me that they do exist. Someone who believes they don’t, but doesn’t believe they can know this as certain a-priori knowledge, would be no more presumptive than I am, and someone who is agnostic on the question of whether they exist would be less presumptive than I am.

Also, I disagree with your notion of “meaningfulness”. At a minimum, all statements in the arithmetic hierarchy are meaningful. The continuum hypothesis might in a certain sense not be meaningful.
by defrost | 2025-10-02 03:58:31+00:00
Hirst | Koonz is more of a pyramid scheme of confidence tricksters, limited supply, envy, FOMO and other factors - the ego of those with money to burn and wanting to make a statement has play here.

Money laundering itself in the art market is duller, by design, it trades on lesser regulation and inspection of the funds bought to sales and auctions and often uses decoupling mechanisms, illegal funds -> art -> inflated values -> legitimate money via loans backed by art as collateral, etc.

Searching a bit I found two articles that seem okay on quick skim reading:

* https://alessa.com/blog/art-money-laundering-explained/

* https://www.dentons.com/en/insights/articles/2024/march/11/t...
by Animats | 2025-10-02 03:59:30+00:00
> Historically, technological revolutions have increased productivity and labor force participation, despite many pundits at the time worried about loss of jobs.

That was basically true from about 1830, when railroads came out of beta, to 1979.[1][2] During that period, wages roughly tracked productivity. There are solid US stats on this from at least 1950.

This has happened in other countries, too, but generally later than in the US. Here's a study from Japan.[3] In the UK, productivity and wages parted company around 2008.[4]

There are stats for China, but they only go back to 1995 and aren't taken that seriously even in China. Plus, China now has 200 million gig workers (!)[5] and data collection on them is weak. Official workforce size in China peaked in 2015, which may indicate that many gig workers are not being counted. This needs to be looked at more closely.

Productivity is going great, but the gains don't go to workers much.

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

[2] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/03/when-comparing-wages...

[3] https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/25090019.htm...

[4] https://fraserofallander.org/link-labour-productivity-wage-g...

[5] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/18/chinas-200m-gig...
by dangoodmanUT | 2025-10-02 04:01:52+00:00
Oh I totally agree the world needs to be more aware of Amdahls law, and I appreciate that you make it known (I believe I even learned it from you). I just think that the communication is sometimes too much "it's our way or the bad way", if that makes sense?

I don't think they have 0% contention, and I agree that contention is the bane of a dev's existence, but I don't think it's as cut and dry as only looking at Amdahl's.

Specialized systems have done really well to handle contention: My go-to example is LMAX. I think I remember a talk where the devs said they were pulling 6M orders per second, and ofc the stock market has an aggressive power law. If you design around contention, you can still push silly high perf (as you've shown).

FWIW I think we both agree that Postgres is not the best DB for this either :P
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-02 04:02:14+00:00
They know what they’re doing to acquire an underperforming tech driven asset to improve its performance, and their reputation and fundamentals has given them access to financing to acquire more businesses.

https://sifted.eu/articles/bending-spoons-500m-e-debt-raise

> In an interview with Sifted in April, Ferrari said Bending Spoons is expecting to make revenue north of $1.1bn this year — and all of its businesses are profitable.

> Ferrari also told Sifted in April that Bending Spoons had over $1bn to spend on at least three further acquisitions before the end of the year. The extra €500m is to “grow even faster”, the company confirmed in an email.
by parineum | 2025-10-02 04:02:36+00:00
You've misunderstood my understanding of Trump supporters with support for Trump. This makes sense since it seems you are incapable of that and so can't conceive it's possible.

If I thought abortion was murder, I'd be very happy that murder was illegal now. It would improve my life knowing that babies weren't being murdered. Is it really difficult for you to understand that?

Regarding Epstein, the fact that Democrats suddenly decided they gave a shit about Epstein after years of making fun of fringe Republicans for pushing the conspiracy way beyond what any evidence shows is bald faced politics.
by kibwen | 2025-10-02 04:03:09+00:00
ELIZA passed the Turing test in the 60s. That's not a statement of technological progress towards AI, that's a statement on 1) the uselessness of the Turing test, which has been known for decades and 2) the gullibility of the human psyche when it comes to assigning intelligence to anything that can mimic human communication patterns.
by cryzinger | 2025-10-02 04:03:51+00:00
That all makes sense! If your skin stuff is relatively mild and isn't causing you too much trouble, a topical approach seems warranted (and is certainly a lot cheaper). That said, if it ever does get worse to the point where you're in genuine distress, keep in mind that the psoriasis-only dose of a drug like Skyrizi is a lot lower than the big fat dose I take for Crohn's disease, and less frequent as well. Also keep in mind--and hopefully it doesn't come to this--that psoriasis is highly comorbid with both Crohn's/colitis and arthritis, so if you start to experience worsening digestive issues or joint pain, definitely get those checked out. The silver lining is that if you do experience comorbidities like that, finding the right treatment (usually but not always a biologic) can knock them all out at once.

(For your current situation, you might also want to look into other biologics like Dupixent or Xolair, which can also help with skin conditions have different effects/trade-offs that might be more within your risk tolerance!)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 04:05:44+00:00
I'll keep saying it everytime: don't call it "overhiring". This was intentional and layoffs are a feature, not a consequence. Moreover, look at the hiring numbers in earnings calls. These companies did not slow down hiring. They slowed down hiring in North America. THey clearly didn't "overhire", they want to cheap out on wages and use AI as the scapegoat to impress shareholders.
by parineum | 2025-10-02 04:07:40+00:00
It's not a benefit to you but there are people who believe it is.

> Nothing is actually improved in my life, or your life, or anyone's life.

How arrogant. It's not up to you to decide what improves people's lives. That there are people who are so unsympathetic to others makes my life worse.

It upsets me, genuinely. It gives me very little hope that there will be an end to the infectious othering being promulgated by politics.
by leshokunin | 2025-10-02 04:08:38+00:00
I feel like this is a concept that is very useful and insightful to know for anyone who likes to reflect on today's world.

Sophists in Ancient Greece used similar argumentation techniques at the philosophers. But their goal wasn't to pursue wisdom. It was to sound clever, win the argument.

You'll see this skill in debaters, lawyers, podcasters, and very partisan people. It's an important one to identify, imho. I think the flood of information and the sense of aimlessness that comes with it created an environment for sophists to thrive.

Since misinformation travels faster than information, I think learning about logical fallacies and rhetoric used by sophists is one of the most important skills in sense-making.

Highly recommend sharing and exploring this concept.
by paulddraper | 2025-10-02 04:08:41+00:00
I don't really understand your point.

This is common among visual technologies.

There are logical pixels, an abstract description of size.

And there are physical pixels, that are the actual dots of color.

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This is not unlike a printed page of text.

The font size is measured in points.

The physical output is dots and determined by DPI.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 04:10:05+00:00
Is the shift because there's nothing to innovate, or because of economic headwinds? That's the real question to ask.

Projects are being cancelled left and right and teams dissolved, so this tells me that the former point is shakey. Something tells me that we'll have a tiny boom sometime after the AI bubble pops and suddenly innovation is "free" again. Or because smaller startups can actually get funded without needed to throw AI somewhere in their pitch deck.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-02 04:10:52+00:00
Oh and next time I'll be sure to quote your entire original post because this:

> It got state dispensation to carry otherwise-disallowed, lopsided balance sheets to cover more people -- but if a small fraction of those people do experience wildfire it'll go bust!

is shit you edited in after you were called out on your ignorance on when the FAIR plan's origins.

You don't know the first thing about how insurance works in California and it shows.

Have some dignity. It's a lot cheaper than California fire insurance.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-02 04:12:49+00:00
I don't know what "innovation, problem solving and creativity" you're witnessing. In my experience, at some jobs, people will sit around desks and talk about things, but at others they definitely don't. At some they talk often on Slack public channels, and at others nobody is talking on Slack. The difference isn't where their body is, the difference is cultural.

I'm arguing for remote, period. If you can find the right skills outside the US, please hire them! I have been at many orgs over the years where we struggled for months (sometimes years) to find halfway decent hires. Even with European and LATAM contractors, it wasn't much better; we'd go through 20-30 sub-standard contractors to find 1 or 2 with skill. And often they're better workers!

Yes, I am basically advocating for my salary to go down by hiring cheaper offshore workers. I am okay with that, as I know I'll get hired regardless (I am extremely skilled and will go toe-to-toe with any overseas hire). The amount of money we make, for the actual work we do, is crazy...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 04:13:07+00:00
>And maybe that bubble will pop and maybe it will soon, but when it does, most of us will wish it hadn't.

It will, and it will be huge. It may in fact be the trigger of the next Great Depression. It's going to be ugly.

But maybe that's the pain the US needs. This situation was decades in the making and the US decided instead to blow up the debt to unmaintainable levels. There's very little rope left this time if we have even a recession withotu hyperinflation (let alone a depression). It will be bad, but I'm also beyond tired of everyone kicking the ticking pipe bomb down the road for the next generation to handle. The sooner it blows up, the better chance we have something left to clean up. Maybe we can bring some integrity back to the country.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-02 04:14:55+00:00
I'm fairly sure near to all publishers require display of their name in the publisher field (which is how they would have grabbed this datum). It's essentially free marketing, how 'games from this publisher' are linked, publisher stores are displayed, and so on. And getting elitist over the GDC of all things is pretty darn funny! Be sure to also get the latest news from Gamasutra and get into that hardcore coding at Flipcode.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-02 04:15:44+00:00
The lack of logic in this thread is remarkable.

If 50% of the world is just fine without eating breakfast, that still means 4 Bn people are not.

Posting personal anecdotes as if that proves feeling low on energy without breakfast means something is wrong is a degree of irrationality I can’t believe is showing up on HN.

It’s fine to share personal anecdotes and experiences but so many here are sharing them as if it disproves all other things experiences and responses.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-02 04:16:28+00:00
The documentary Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020) explains the concept and process better than I could hope to do myself, so to do your question justice, I would advise you to seek it out and to watch it. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) is adjacent to the topics raised and is also worth a watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_You_Look:_A_True_Story_Ab...

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

Freeport facilities are part and parcel to enabling these complex businesses arrangements, and they are mentioned in an aside in the documentary Made You Look; the Geneva Freeport being one of, of not the, world’s oldest and most important such facility is called out specifically if I remember correctly, or maybe one in Antwerp.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-trade_zone
by rjakob | 2025-10-02 04:17:09+00:00
It’s less about proof and more about demonstrating a new capability that TSLMs enable. To be fair, the paper did test standard LLMs, which consistently underperformed. @iLoveOncall, can you point to examples where out of the box models achieved good results on multiple time-series? Also, what kind of time-series data did you analyze with Claude 3.5? What exactly did you predict, and how did you assess reasoning capabilities?
by lovich | 2025-10-02 04:17:29+00:00
> Might have more to do with exploiting addiction and ruining lives for profit.

Thank you for proving my point. The ad industry and the mobile game industry are both tech based industries that engage in those behaviors just off the top of my head.

If you utilize dark patterns to make a profit and then look down on the gambling industry for abusing addictive behaviors, you are just a hypocrite who wants to excuse their own sins
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 04:18:42+00:00
So much coincidentally happened in 2022 and I'd feel like I'm wearing tinfoil if I tried to connect them. Google/Apple changed how ads worked, S178 was deleted, we were at the tail end of a global pandemic that we're still feeling to this day, and of course ChatGPT started to take the world by storm. And those are just off the top of my head.
by aePiots | 2025-10-02 04:18:58+00:00
Comprehensive Competitive Analysis: aéPiot vs. 50 Major Platforms (2025) https://better-experience.blogspot.com/2025/08/comprehensive... Executive Summary This comprehensive analysis evaluates aéPiot against 50 major competitive platforms across semantic search, backlink management, RSS aggregation, multilingual search, tag exploration, and content management domains. Using advanced analytical methodologies including MCDA (Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis), AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), and competitive intelligence frameworks, we provide quantitative assessments on a 1-10 scale across 15 key performance indicators.

Key Finding: aéPiot achieves an overall composite score of 8.7/10, ranking in the top 5% of analyzed platforms, with particular strength in transparency, multilingual capabilities, and semantic integration.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-02 04:19:19+00:00
This is absolutely enthralling. It's one of the best pieces of writing I've had the pleasure of enjoying in quite some time. I keep laughing while grimacing and looking inward. The vocabulary is exceptional, too. Really well done.

It kind of reminds me of Krazam's YouTube skits, but in long-form writing.

EDIT: I kind of wanted more from the ending, though. It wrapped up surprisingly quick.