MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2025-10-24 07:30:13+00:00
> > a big chunk of it was just torn down

> You think they're too dumb to understand the difference between "tearing down" and "renovating"?

Are you? You think the East Wing is being "renovated"?

Renovation is renewal, repair, restoring function and safety.

What's happening instead? Knocking the safe and functional East Wing flat (walls, roof, both floors, 30+ internal rooms) and replacing it with a completely new structure with new foundations and a different purpose... and with a new footprint larger than the entire White House of 2024!

Nowhere even remotely close to the same thing. Might as well brag that you "repaired" your sedan by selling it and buying a new truck.
by hereonout2 | 2025-10-24 07:31:09+00:00
I've found this memory across chats quite useful on a practical level too, but it also has added to the feeling of developing an ongoing personal relationship with the LLM.

Not only does the model (chat gpt) know about my job, tech interests etc and tie chats together using that info.

But also I have noticed the "tone" of the conversation seems to mimick my own style some what - in a slightly OTT way. For example Chat GPT wil now often call me "mate" or reply often with terms like "Yes mate!".

This is not far off how my own close friends might talk to me, it definitely feels like it's adapted to my own conversational style.
by friedtofu | 2025-10-24 07:31:28+00:00
This is what turned me off of Global Offensive, and CS2 I guess but it doesnt look like much(if anything) has changed between GO and CS2 compared to the changes made from 1.6 -> Source -> GO.

Looking back to ~2012/2013 and its seeming to be clear now that the introduction of weapon crates, the steam marketplace, and all of the other MTX in all of their(proprietary) competitve games may have been a good indication that these would be the last games Valve would develop in-house.

To be fair though and just to give a counter-example, the "clout chasers" with the $1000 knife skins is essentially the same as the bragging rights of a 4/5/6 digit steamID during 1.6 and CS:Source. Although flexing SteamID length was something I only really saw in the competitive scene and of course had a much smaller(unofficial) market.

Oh well, RIP Steam games, long live Steam software(their platform/Proton, etc) and hardware...minus the steam controller.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-24 07:31:28+00:00
I like the concept (because I was proposing such a couple of years back) and the software implementation seems good. But holy shit that thing is ugly. They could(should) have worked with a cheap camera maker like Lomokino to make a bare-bones rangefinder or twin lens reflex. This is one of the worst designs I have ever seen. Sorry.
by skeptrune | 2025-10-24 07:31:30+00:00
I like the spirit of this, but not the implementation. It feels very performative to create a ZK proof to show that a photo is real. And not really in the spirit of capturing magic moments on film.

I think that a disposable camera, or even something fancier, like a Mamiya C330, are better and more gratifying bets for the money.
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-24 07:31:43+00:00
I have an entry level Sony Alpha that I picked up for a vacation earlier this year. With the portrait lens on there it definitely registers as “camera” far more than a phone. Between that factor and the hassle of having to manually go through and upload the photos afterward, I only take it on special occasions — trips, hikes, etc. It’s not worth all that hassle for trying to get day to day stuff.
by motorest | 2025-10-24 07:32:22+00:00
> He’s still disappointed because very few programmers are ever introduced to the history of computer science in the way that artists study the history of art or philosophers the history of philosophy.

Software development/programming is a field where the importance of planning and design lies somewhere between ignored and outright despised. The role of software architect is both ridiculed and vilified, whereas the role of the brave solo developer is elevated to the status of hero.

What you get from that cultural mix is a community that values ad-hoc solutions made up on the spot by inexperienced programmers who managed to get something up and running, and at the same time is hostile towards those who take the time to learn from history and evaluate tradeoffs.

See for example the cliche of clueless developers attacking even the most basic aspects of software architecture such as the existence of design patterns.

with that sort of community, how does anyone expect to build respect for prior work.
by cornholio | 2025-10-24 07:33:15+00:00
They don't care about the resell value since they don't earn a commission on those sales.

The point is that, for as long as items can be transferred in game, they are always convertible to cash in the real world. Inserting artificial friction inside the game to increase scarcity, such as limiting convertibility of items, will drive those trades away from the game economy and into the third party ecosystem where the dollar rules supreme as the super-convertible means of exchange. So you have an induced scarcity that in effect drives third party profits.

By increasing in-game convertibility, the trades are directed to other in game assets that are a just a proxy for loot boxes, i.e money in Valve's accounts. So prices crashing in the third party market signal that players have a cheaper and more direct route to acquire them - give the money to Valve - which also generates the supply of new rare items as those loot boxes are opened.

It's a smart economic move.

Buy that doesn't mean the prices will stay low, since they can always control the overall scarcity, or add new, rarer and more exclusive items. The total amount of money they extract from "kids" is ultimately linked to their ability and willingness to pay.
by patates | 2025-10-24 07:33:48+00:00
> I was seeking the external gratification of getting likes just like everyone else.

“You will be happy to look okay. You will be happy to turn heads. You will be happy with smoother skin. You will be happy with a flat stomach. You will be happy with a six-pack. You will be happy with an eight-pack. You will be happy when every photo of yourself gets 10,000 likes on Instagram. You will be happy when you have transcended earthly woes. You will be happy when you are at one with the universe. You will be happy when you are the universe. You will be happy when you are a god. You will be happy when you are the god to rule all gods. You will be happy when you are Zeus. In the clouds above Mount Olympus, commanding the sky. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.”

― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet , Shortened version of the many-paragraphs-long quote found on: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10913632-you-will-be-happy-...
by dlukdsza | 2025-10-24 07:33:52+00:00
Harsh but fair. You're right that LinkedIn is already full of performative BS.

My hypothesis: devs like you (and me - 500 connections, zero posts) avoid LinkedIn because we don't want to sound like those people. But recruiters/employers DO check it.

DevCue isn't trying to make you a "thought leader." It's trying to solve "I need a baseline presence without becoming a LinkedIn bro."

But if the premise is fundamentally flawed (personal branding = narcissism), I should kill this. Honest Q: Do you think ANY tool could make LinkedIn presence non-cringe for devs, or is it unsolvable?
by fsloth | 2025-10-24 07:33:59+00:00
"People "at large" absolutely don't care about AI slop"

I think this is true. In general I think enough population of the market actually does not care about quality as long as it exceeds a certain limited threshold.

There's always been market for sub-par product. That's one of the features of the market I think. You can always find what is the cheapest, lowest quality offering you can sell at a profit.
by eddealmeida | 2025-10-24 07:34:20+00:00
I've been thinking about how recommendation engines are essentially eliminating the Hegelian dialectic from intellectual development. We're building systems that optimize for engagement at the expense of cognitive growth.

The most concerning part is how this affects knowledge evolution: when algorithms remove opposing viewpoints to maximize retention, they're fundamentally breaking the thesis-antithesis-synthesis process that drives human progress.

Some patterns I've observed:

Platforms systematically deprioritize content that creates cognitive dissonance

The removal of features like YouTube's video responses wasn't accidental—it was profitable

We're seeing the first potential generation that might be less intellectually capable than its predecessors

I explored this through the lens of Skinner's reinforcement theory, Rogers' therapeutic ideals, and Hegel's dialectics in a longer piece: [https://blog.thecodejedi.online/2025/10/the-algorithmic-cage...

Curious if other developers have noticed this tension between engagement metrics and intellectual diversity in their work.
by figassis | 2025-10-24 07:34:39+00:00
The grid fails catastrophically. It happened this year in Portugal, spain and nearby countries? Still, think of the grid as more like DNS. It is immense, but the concept is simple and well understood. You can quickly identify where the fault is (even if not the actual root cause), and can also quickly address it (even if bringing it back up in sync takes time and is not trivial). Current cloud infra is different in that each implementation is unique, services are unique, knowledge is not universal. There are no books about AWS's infra fundamentals or how to manage AWS's cloud.
by tgma | 2025-10-24 07:35:07+00:00
> I’ve been waiting to see my countrymen vote in their own best interests for my entire life

This is an extremely arrogant statement to think a single individual can know the best interests of an entire country and to know they were wrong in identifying their own. To quantify this, perhaps one close proxy is to see how many people really regretted their vote after the fact, which in the context of US does not appear to be that many (even those unsatisfied with the outcome post hoc would not necessarily have voted for the opponent if given a time machine.)

Perhaps it is not trivial to have visibility into the intricacies of other people's lives and their priorities. Even harder to generalize it to tens of millions of people in a country.
by boje | 2025-10-24 07:36:09+00:00
I'm not sure if I understand correctly about "thinking in concrete English sentences or words" as other comments have mentioned, so here's a description of what happens to me:

I can visualize things in my mind, and it's almost as if I was playing a video or rotating 3D models in Blender, but they happen as if they were at a 70-80% brightness level. I can verbalize my thoughts or words I am reading from some text as if someone were speaking into my head, but that's not how I "comprehend" them, especially if they have more than a negligible amount of complexity. They have to be converted into a set of visualizations, however vague or abstract, somewhat resembling what GenAI does. This has a noticeable delay and I almost always lose track of, say, what a lecturer is saying in real time. Because of this, I almost always prefer having text or a prerecorded video being available.

I can "render" text in my head too, as if they were being written down in a word processor or like a screenshot of a blogpost, but it's still an image.

I find difficulty trying to manipulate any symbols in my head. Mental math or algebra with more than a miniscule amount of rigor is hard for me to do and I always require pen and paper as a support. Trying to do this requires me to "graphically" move symbols around a written equation, and because of my usual scatterbrained-ness, the context quickly breaks down and evaporates. I have to maintain that context with paper. I find it easier, however, to visualize an algorithm or similar things in my head as a video-animation "playback".

Here's an example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_rotation_animat... - This is exactly what occurs in my brain when I think of tree rotations (extended to larger tree heights), and was the only, singular useful thing for me in the entire wikipedia article on tree rotations.

As an aside, the imagery that video GenAI generates, with spontaneous, random pop-ins of objects is eerily similar to what happens in my dreams and in my mental imagery. Second, I'm not particularly fond of reading books, literature or poetry, but I do find myself semi-regularly reading long blogposts or texts if they interest me, and watching long-form videos or podcasts.
by penguin_booze | 2025-10-24 07:36:22+00:00
CSCI 0001: Functional programming and type theory (taught in English [0])

For decades, the academia mafia, through impenetrable jargon and intimidating equations, have successfully prevented the masses from adopting this beautiful paradigm of computation. That changes now. Join us to learn why monads really are monoids in the category of endofunctors (oh my! sorry about that).

[0] Insert your favourite natural language
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-24 07:36:53+00:00
Most countries, including Japan, India, Canada, and nearly the entire EU, have completely stopped shipping packages to US consumers. This is not because of the tariffs themselves, but because the US apparently has no system in place for actually handling the tariffs on goods that previously qualified for the de minimis exemption. Two months and counting with no information on when shipping might resume.
by fsloth | 2025-10-24 07:37:44+00:00
"Finding a way to correct for this is a really big deal."

But aren't you now feeding back to the system? Why would there need to be a financial reward and incentive for everything?

I do realize "contributing free value" is perceived by some as free value a third party can capture and financially profit from" which might the reason for thinking of how to then cycle some of that value back?
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-24 07:39:13+00:00
> I find it hard to believe that similar errors

When you pay your father a cook and a bodyguard this way, this isn't really appropriate to call that “an error”.

> the French establishment simply like more than her

Bayrou (who was prime minister a month ago) is also charged with similar things.

And Le Pen is pretty liked by the French establishment actually …
by Tepix | 2025-10-24 07:39:19+00:00
Remember, Nikon's image authentication was hacked back in 2011 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2011/04/nikon-image-authenticatio...

The ACLU is sceptical regarding the whole concept: https://www.aclu-or.org/en/news/attempts-technological-solut...

The root causes podcast discusses this topic in its episode 336: https://www.sectigo.com/resource-library/root-causes-336-dig...

I strongly believe this should be an open source project.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-24 07:40:06+00:00
> The whole point of mounting solar panels should be to maximize area that is facing the sun.

This is still conventional wisdom, yes. It assumes that you need to maximise utilisation of solar panels, and act as if they are rare and expensive. But they are now neither rare nor expensive any more.

Also, as the other comment pointed out, if you "maximize area that is facing the sun", you get most generation at mid-day. Adding in some generation that is most active in early and late day balances that out, as most power is used then.

And you can just throw more panels at the problem. It's not a constraint any more.
by boje | 2025-10-24 07:41:22+00:00
Another aside - I do end up spending a lot of time working on the presentation of a thing like trying to polish things like user interfaces, vector or raster graphics, typesetting, CSS and other visual-ish stuff. It's something I've tried to suppress to actually get functional aspects of a work done. Admittedly, this is the more fun part of a work for me.
by woodpanel | 2025-10-24 07:42:44+00:00
> the liability of a roof install with leaks and servicing

Also expect a dove colony to enjoy the new comfort. All your neighbors will thank you for their homes turning into guano rocks, a sight once reserved to adventurous travelers.

Their nests, which will quickly accumulate under your roof's panels, offer not one but two existential threats for your home: They can catch fire when too dry, but also act as a water barrier, pushing the water into your roof.
by tschwimmer | 2025-10-24 07:42:50+00:00
I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some information was readily available. For example, there was an inbound ground stop for KSEA for hours, but it was never announced to passengers. We were very lucky the crew was fresh, and there was no discussion of when they would time out. I happened to find out that the crew had lots of time left so I decided to stay but at least a dozen people gave up and left.

Air travel sucks. I wasted 8 hours today and I won’t even get a lousy T shirt. I’m sure next time I can take my business to a different airline who will also be happy to not do any better.
by ulbu | 2025-10-24 07:44:02+00:00
philosophy, i find, is one of the forms where the shapeless thinking described in the article does a lot of the work for me. especially the phase of internalization. you take a sentence you don’t quite get, and then spend a bunch of time just meditating about it, rejecting the temptations to think elsewhere. and then, in time, it just clicks into making all sorts of sense.

it’s definitely not “purely linguistic” – one form of it is about letting the idea engage you to shape your inner vision.
by atoav | 2025-10-24 07:44:16+00:00
My expectation would be that every bug in a Rust replacement is going to receive the brightest spotlight that can be found.

If the rest of coreutils is bug free cast the first stone.

I do not think reimplementing stuff in Rust is a bad thing. Why? Because reimplementing stuff is a very good way to througly check the original. It is always good to have as many eyeballs om the code as possible.
by MrJohz | 2025-10-24 07:44:36+00:00
The problem with higher-order functions is that you can't guarantee that your static analysis is correct, and you end up with functions that look like functions but don't behave like functions.

It's similar to the problem that `require` had in browsers, and the reason that the `import` syntax was chosen instead. In NodeJS. `require` is just a normal function, so I can do anything with it that I could do with a normal function, like reassigning it or wrapping it or overwriting it or whatever. But in browsers (and in bundlers), all imports need to be statically known before executing the program, so we need to search for all calls to `require` statically. This doesn't work in JavaScript - there are just too many ways to dynamically call a function with arguments that are unknown at runtime or in such a way that the calling code is obscured.

That's why the `import` syntax was introduced as an alternative to `require` that had rules that made it statically analysable.

You'd end up with a similar situation here. You want to know statically which functions are being decorated, but JavaScript is a deeply dynamic language. So either you end up having a magic macro-like function that can only be called in certain places and gets transpiled out of the code so it doesn't appear at runtime, or you have a real function but you recognise that you won't be able to statically find all uses of that function and will need to set down certain rules about what uses can do with that function.

Either way, you're going to be doing some magic metaprogramming that the developer needs to be aware of. The benefit of the "use X" syntax is that it looks more magical, and therefore better indicates to the reader that magic is happening in this place. Although I agree that it's not my personal preference.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-24 07:44:55+00:00
Sorry, this is not true. All financial institutions are required to have AML controls, which cost a lot of money.

These controls are mostly performative, but Binance wildly flouted them. This pardon means that basically no crypto company needs to worry about AML now, which is bad for the world.

The reason that nobody gets convicted for this is because they have somewhat adequate controls, whereas Binance basically welcomed money launderers with open hands.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-24 07:45:16+00:00
This is a tradeoff, in which the original case might have been the less dangerous one.

Autonomous fleets have a major potential flaw too, in form of a malicious hacker gaining control over multiple vehicles at once and wreaking havoc.

Imagine if every model XY suddenly got a malicious OTA update and started actively chasing pedestrians.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-24 07:45:46+00:00
So, summing this all up:

(1) abnercoimbre (a) read through the document, (b) extracted the part of it that affected passengers are most likely to be interested in, and (c) helpfully provided a summary of that part;

(2) jabiko (a) didn't bother reading the document, (b) assumed abnercoimbre was lying about what it said, and (c) accused abnercoimbre of "spreading misinformation";

(3) The underlying problem here is that abnercoimbre's behavior was bad, whereas jabiko provided a reasonable response to seeing an entirely truthful summary that consisted only of a direct, unaltered quote from the primary source.

That's an interesting perspective. I might lean another way.
by jeswin | 2025-10-24 07:46:14+00:00
I disagree. If CM5 had the ability to sleep at tiny fractions of a watt, there are really practical and usable cameras you can pull off today, even when it's not the most efficient. For all the downsides, it would more than make up in the ease-of-development department.

I believe if RPi6 adds sleep, you'd see a flurry of portable gadgets built on the platform.
by mgh95 | 2025-10-24 07:46:40+00:00
> if they refunded every penny we put into (with interest) it’d go well. these should be called entitlements as much you going to grocery story to buy food for your family is an entitlement

Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the government will collect tax revenues necessary to even keep up with some of these mandatory programs, such as social security. The reality is there is a very serious chance many people do not receive the fully stated benefit value.
by N19PEDL2 | 2025-10-24 07:46:46+00:00
We should consider using Mars as a lifeline to preserve life in case we end up destroying Earth.

However, we should also consider the need to avoid contaminating other worlds unless absolutely necessary.

One solution for both of these problems could be to launch some probes carrying a selection of extremophile bacteria and place them into Martian orbit. These probes would be capable of landing autonomously and releasing the bacteria onto the surface, but they don't do it as long as they receive a specific command from Earth at least once a year or so.
by bondarchuk | 2025-10-24 07:47:05+00:00
It cannot be grounded in reality precisely because it's a monopoly. The whole point of laws against monopolies is to let the market figure out the fair rate, or to define the "fair" rate as the one that emerges in a competitive market. So by definition of what the whole case is about it is impossible to give a fair rate in this case. If you don't want to be subjected to guesswork, stop being a monopoly and let the market figure it out.
by pabs3 | 2025-10-24 07:47:39+00:00
The Software Freedom Conservancy disagrees, and they are the main enforcers of the GPL these days, especially for Linux.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t... https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...