MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hinkley | 2025-10-08 20:00:53+00:00
The operation GP is thinking of is a full scan, and that will always take n(n^(1/3)) lower bound time. Though if done right all of that latency will be occupied with computation and allow people to delude themselves into thinking it doesn’t matter.

But when something is constrained two or three ways, it drastically reduces the incentive to prioritize tackling any one of the problems with anything but small incremental improvements.
by codyb | 2025-10-08 20:00:54+00:00
The gains seem to be leveling to me but I'm not using them as much as others.

Still seems like people are saying the same things when the first Claude came out.

I can get it do stuff if I'm very specific, stand over it's shoulder, know exactly what I want, break it down into small chunks.

The thing for me is... at that point, writing the code's the least time consuming part of the process half the time.

I think for things like translating some code in JS with JSDocs to TypeScript I may give this a go. But for regular development work I'll probably skip it.

That being said... no one lets me code anymore. It's just confluence docs with Figma architecture diagrams these days. I'd probably just introduce SQL injection vulnerabilities if they let me near an editor these days
by lupusreal | 2025-10-08 20:01:12+00:00
The janny smacked you but I thought you raised a valid point. The "moral high ground" is and has always been subjective. Do the ends justify the means? Depends on the ideology. Is a soldier surrendering a dishonorable act, or should he be treated with professional dignity? During WW2 the Japanese thought that surrender was dishonorable and treated POWs very poorly. They also deliberately shot at combat medics, they didn't have any sort of taboo against that. Nor did Europeans, until most of the way through the 19th century, think much about leaving wounded soldiers to lay dying in the field, or even casually murdering the wounded as they lay helpless after the battle was already decided (these sort of behaviors lead to the creation of the Red Cross.) In all of these cases it wasn't because those people were fundamentally evil. They were acting according to the norms and expectations of their culture. When two sides with radically different norms encounter each other in conflict, both can feel as though the other is depraved. But that's not necessarily an accurate reflection of the mental state of the other guys. American soldiers in the Pacific thought that the Japanese were savage animals, but with cooler hindsight we know that the Japanese had and still have a strong sense of honor. The catch is that it is, or at least then was, a very different sort of honor that held people to different expectations than Americans were accustomed to.
by softfalcon | 2025-10-08 20:01:45+00:00
I wish it was possible to see macOS running well on Linux, but there are a lot of loopholes to jump through to make that happen.

1. Apple makes running their software on non-Mac hardware illegal

2. For all the hate Windows gets, virtualizing it to run all over the place is normal and expected by industry at large… the same is only becoming recently true for macOS

3. There is a strong financial interest at Apple to get in the way of this as much as possible

4. Apple is trying to reinvent Docker so people stop using Docker on their Mac’s with their native “Apple Containers” implementation

Due to this… I foresee it taking a while for this to become common for mac apps + Linux
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-08 20:01:51+00:00
I've done that, with an old Volkswagen. It wouldn't start, but I was able to use the starter to move it maybe 30 feet uphill in order to reach a position where I could coast-start it for a couple blocks. Got it running.

But I came really close to getting in trouble with a 1948 Chevy pickup. I backed it into my grandfather's garage, and then found out that it was a bit too far forward to be able to close the door. So I turned the ignition on, put it in reverse, and touched the starter.

Unfortunately, the engine caught with that brief touch of the starter, leaving me frantically stabbing for the clutch before I pushed through the back of the garage...

Fortunately, it idled very slowly, and I had (of course) given it no gas.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-08 20:01:53+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony

> Due to their mistrust of others, Spartans discouraged the creation of records about their internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans.

A good example, but perhaps not the point you wanted to make.
by kirurik | 2025-10-08 20:02:01+00:00
I did the neovim tutorial which I accessed via :Tutor, I see now that vimtutor has some divergences, I will do that tutorial also, to improve my muscle memory and knowledge.

Thanks for your other tips as well. I'll try and approach it that way, just doing it little by little, I don't always need VSCode and for simple edits its already way better than nano, although tbf I didn't take the time to learn all of nanos functionality.

It probably is best to take it slow and not cut corners. Play some vimgolf and take it slow, try to get the base stuff like regex search and replace down. Learning regex well can be applied to other things as well, so it is worth it to practice it in the context of vim.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-08 20:02:29+00:00
I think that reaction stems more from the comment outright seeking to create a hostile atmosphere about it, not from being clear on preferences in itself.

It's the same thing with customers who make a big scene about a missing fries or something. 99% of the time it's not a problem and nobody cares - here's your fries, have a nice day. 1% of the time the person cares less about the fries and more about being hostile about it on principle/for fun/for respect/because they are in a bad mood/whatever, and those are the ones that suck to deal with when you're there but not in charge.
by munk-a | 2025-10-08 20:02:57+00:00
In the modern corporate world that leadership has entirely insulated itself from customer feedback - if it was plausible to voice your opinion through more appropriate channels I'd advocate for that but many companies have purposefully shut those channels down.

What is the better option to pass along that message than modestly increasing retraining costs for that position?

I treat service workers with respect, personally, but I am struggling to see what other venues of communication are still available.
by nadis | 2025-10-08 20:03:30+00:00
> Most women spend a considerable amount of time and effort to appear younger and most men do not.

What are you grounding this claim in? Research? You own observations? It seems like you're adding to the original claims in the article but I'm not sure where you're getting your data or if this is just your opinion.

Anecdotally, I feel like there are quite a few male ceos who are loud and proud about their attempts to appear younger and beat aging (e.g. Bryan Johnson and all his followers, Andrew Huberman and folks following his protocols). I don't see the same for women (unless you're including folks like a Kylie Jenner etc. who are celebrities who got famous in part because of their looks / makeup taste etc.).
by miloignis | 2025-10-08 20:03:50+00:00
Very cool - played around with it, and it seems quite featured, and my test podcast worked!

I really appreciate the local-first, self-contained but very portable architecture, with an optional server connection to handle CORS and index and whatnot; that's a really solid approach.

Hopefully this isn't too annoying, but I saw you open-sourced what looks like the backend, do you have any plans/interest to open-source the front end as well, for people who might want to self-host?
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by ok123456 | 2025-10-08 20:04:43+00:00
China is a country with a population of 1.4 billion people. Where is their Stasi to enforce this surveillance state?

Many people use VPNs and use overseas services. The primary purpose of the "Great Firewall" appears to be erecting a technological barrier to entry, protecting the culture of average people who don't require that sort of access for business.
by alickz | 2025-10-08 20:05:03+00:00
>But happy to be corrected - is someone using these agents in their paid / professional / enterprise / team job?

Yes, and I find them quite useful

I don't see myself going back to the "Google + StackOverflow" approach I had used for 10 years prior (well, I can always fall back to it if necessary, but so far I haven't needed to)

My experience matches OP: my years of experience in manual coding complements the agent approach remarkably well
by walkabout | 2025-10-08 20:05:18+00:00
They also punish you by charging wildly higher prices without the app. You have to use the app just to get prices around what they "should" be, compared with the pre-app era and adjusting for the broader inflation rate.

Like clearly they're OK with forcing a choice between "use the app" and "never eat McDonalds again", because that's effectively what they're doing, and they have to know it.
by thmsths | 2025-10-08 20:05:21+00:00
Your last point reminds me of that joke about Hollywood: a bunch of Japanese executives are touring a studio they just purchased. The manager is trying to describe the business model to them: "You have to understand we make 10 movies a year but only 1 of them will make money." When they hear that the executives get agitated and huddle together. Eventually one of them turns toward the manager and says "Please only make that 1 profitable movie".
by nis0s | 2025-10-08 20:05:58+00:00
The internet has been utilized efficiently by many, but it’s essentially the new printing machine, salon, public square, college lounge, and speakeasy all rolled into one. All the old places where propaganda or ideology spread found its place, it’s all here in memes, blogs, TikToks, or whatever instead.

But the rise in populist thinking is also a feint, in many ways. The end goal of populist ideology, as always, is centralization of power whenever the populist ruling party reaches critical mass in authority. This has been true regardless of the political leanings of a populist movement, either left or right.

For democracies to remain stable for elections and transitions of power, I think the future of the internet will be something like China’s great fire wall.
by asdff | 2025-10-08 20:06:04+00:00
Synology's days are numbered imo. Their userbase exists at a careful precipice of people who are technically inclined to understand the importance of a NAS vs cloud hosting solutions, but not so technically inclined to build their own NAS. This can't be a very deep market. You can only really have marketing chase the less inclined of these who are still on cloud services and hoping to educate them that the cloud services are really bad afterall, despite the conveniences of the walled garden you have to educate to the point where they leave that garden. Educating a less technically inclined populace towards technical merits is one of the most difficult tasks in marketing. You also can't really market to the people who are building their own NAS because they will just see the spec sheet for what it is, and see synology hardware stack is nothing special and is in fact quite marked up and not very performant to begin with.

And while this doomed business is existing, something new emerges from the far east to further challenge it. Chinese N100 nas boards. Chinese nas cases. N100 mini pcs already built with spare 3.5" SATA hookups. More and more videos and posts of people building their own nas and showing how they did it.

Really, what is synology's value proposition? It relies on a bit of knowledge but a careful amount of ignorance too.
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by krschacht | 2025-10-08 20:06:13+00:00
Since you are convinced you’re using the tools to their full potential, the quality problem you experience is 100% the tools fault. This means there is no possible change in your own behavior that would yield better results. This is one of those beliefs that is self fulfilling.

I’ve found it much more useful in life to always assume I’m not doing something to its full potential.
by 0_gravitas | 2025-10-08 20:06:25+00:00
> The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.

The quick turnaround time on that is rather poetic- glad the UK was able to help keep everyone safe with that age-verification business.
by opello | 2025-10-08 20:06:57+00:00
> You misunderstood that comment.

You are absolutely right, I misread that entirely. Thanks. I also misattributed the original comment and the follow-up to the same author.

The problem with pursuing "identity" is that these rules don't anchor the identity of pieces so far as I can tell. If the players agree that for expediency the inverted rook is a queen, the move notation would call it a queen, it would in fact be a queen for the purposes of that game. The only way anyone could tell which token was used in place of a normative queen shaped piece would be if there were video or photographs of the actual board at that phase of the game. And it doesn't affect those other people. In a formal setting it seems like an arbiter or judge or proctor or whomever should also be informed for accurate record keeping.

The fruit analogy raises the stakes to fraud while the use in a game, unless a player tried to cheat, is inconsequential to those players.
by d--b | 2025-10-08 20:07:09+00:00
Well Newton made a huge contribution for sure, but to be able to state his theory he clearly had to use a bunch of math, not all of which came from reknowned mathematicians.

And Einstein didn’t pull out special relativity out of his brain alone. There were years of intense debate about the ether and things I totally forgot by now.

And take something like MOND, there has been tons of small contribution to try to prove / disprove / tweak the theory. If it ever comes out as something that holds, it’d be from a lot of people doing the grind.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-08 20:08:01+00:00
Walk us through how you think RealPage is going afoul of "antitrust laws". I'll presume you're talking about price fixing, which is a subset of antitrust laws but separate from them (i.e. you don't need to fall afoul of antitrust to be convicted of price fixing.)

If I use statistical models to tell a landlord "hey I think you can raise your rents from $100 / mo to $115 / mo" how is this price fixing? A landlord can follow RealPage's advice and then lose business because people aren't willing to pay that price to rent housing. Is it price fixing to set higher rents? We don't have a "right to low rent" that's somehow inherent in housing prices that RealPage is breaking by pushing higher rents.

The thing about price fixing is, it's a matter of prisoner's dilemma. If any one firm in a price fixing regime defects, e.g. they lower prices below the fixed price, they "win" the market. If a bunch of landlords collude to offer rents at $115 / mo, the first landlord to offer similar properties at $100 / mo will immediately win over all prospective tenants. To prove that RealPage is performing price fixing, you'd need to prove that a substantial portion of landlords are using RealPage as a pretext to setting prices concurrently. I find this really hard to believe due to the sheer number of independent landlords available. If anything the housing market is probably more sensitive to price changes because of how constrained the supply is in the US.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-08 20:08:07+00:00
> Regarding "Alien Message", I don't find that story particularly convincing. I think it's muddled and contrived.

Well, yes. it's from Eliezer Yudkowsky. The kind of people who who generally find him persuasive, will do so. Those who don't find him convincing or even find him somewhat of a crank, like the other self-proclaimed "rationalists", will do do. "muddled" is correct, he lacks rigour in everything, but certainly brings the word count.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-08 20:08:12+00:00
This is incorrect. FreeRDP has supported Wayland since a long time via their `wlfreerdp` client - which is now deprecated, Wayland support is now available via their `sdl3-freerdp` client. The SDL client was alpha quality a couple of years ago, but as of the last couple of recent releases, it's been pretty decent. I'm unsure though if its reached full feature parity yet with the X11 client.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-08 20:08:30+00:00
> To date, string theory has yet to produce a single prediction that was verified by experiment.

What a funny example to pick. See, "string theory" gets a lot of attention in the media, and nowhere else

In actual physics, string theory is a niche of a niche of a niche. It is not a common topic of papers or conferences and does not receive almost anything in funding. What little effort it gets it gets because paper and pencils for some theoretical physics is vastly cheaper than a particle accelerator or space observatory.

Physicists don't really use or do anything with string theory.

This is a great example of what is a serious problem in science.

The public reads pop-sci and thinks they have a good understanding of science. But they verifiably do not. The journalists and writers who create this content are not scientists, do not understand science, and do not have a good view into what is "meaningful" or "big" in science.

Remember cold fusion? It was never considered valid in the field of physics because they did a terrible excuse for "science", went on a stupid press tour, and at no point even attempted to disambiguate the supposed results they claimed. The media however told you this was something huge, something that would change the world.

It never even happened.

Science IS about small advances. Despite all the utter BS pushed by every "Lab builds revolutionary new battery" article, Lithium ion batteries HAVE doubled in capacity over a decade or two. It wasn't a paradigm shift, or some genius coming out of the woodwork, it was boring, dedicated effort from tens of thousands of average scientists, dutifully trying out hundreds and hundreds of processes to map out the problem space for someone else to make a good decision with.

Science isn't "Eureka". Science is "oh, hmm, that's odd...." on reams of data that you weren't expecting to be meaningful.

Science is not "I am a genius so I figured out how inheritance works", science is "I am an average guy and laboriously applied a standardized method to a lot of plants and documented the findings".

Currently it is Nobel Prize week. Consider how many of the hundreds of winners whose name you've never even heard of.

Consider how many scientific papers were published just today. How many of them have you read?
by rirze | 2025-10-08 20:08:32+00:00
I personally dislike the definitions here-- traits and genetic changes are, by default, unattributed to external pressures. They don't "arise" from the environment, rather the environment selects for traits through survival/reproduction, if applicable.

That means, if a trait is unaffected by the environment, then there's no attribution of why it developed; this is the default state.

I feel often in biology, there's a mindset of figuring out why features developed and that's great for pushing the field but it runs into a limit. Not every trait developed from a environmental pressure.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-10-08 20:08:53+00:00
> My millionth of a second is different than yours, and everyone else’s.

No it isn't.

> I want the transaction to happen as quickly as possible. So does everyone else.

Your monitor refresh is about 16,000 times slower so you aren't going to know.

The only reason you need something faster is because you think you have to compete with other people trading on microseconds.

If matches happened at 1 second intervals you wouldn't have to worry about it at all.