MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marktani | 2025-10-03 09:53:02+00:00
For me it feels like talent = \int_{time} love.

Reminds me of the meme where a kid is dropping tears on the math assignment sheet, "when you do homework with your dad". Forcing kids to spend time on something is an effective way to spoil it for them.

Exploring [math] from a place of curiosity, openness, joy - so, love - is to act out of alignment.

This also means that you need to start from within to develop your talent. What are you curious about, what excites you? Doesn't matter if that's math, obscure bird species or screws.

There's a compounding effect here, once you're deep enough in a couple domains you're starting to see their commonalities and less explored nuances at the domain boundaries.
by high_na_euv | 2025-10-03 09:53:38+00:00
I work with compilers

And despite it not being nice, some optimizations rely on type or function names schemas/substrings/etc

It sucks, but thats how it works

It doesnt have to be malicious just sometimes it is safer to deploy optimization only for your libs than risk breaking stuff

Or your frontend is not giving you more data which you can rely on
by s_gourichon | 2025-10-03 09:53:56+00:00
Not sure it really has huge benefits, but I guess something like this should work:

``` #!/bin/sh N=20 msg_len=$(git log -1 --pretty=%B | wc -c) if [ "$msg_len" -lt "$N" ]; then exit 125 fi # Here you would run your actual test and report 0 (good), 1 (bad) as needed exit 0 ```
by mapcars | 2025-10-03 09:53:59+00:00
> Regarding gym beast - it has few effects: - you eat bigger portions - you go to gym more often - you try harder

I mean there is nothing stopping one from doing all that without thinking "I'm a gym beast now". I feel that its more about breaking the mental structure one is used to, eg "I'm not good at the gym", in that case it might help, but I would argue that instead of replacing one with another why not drop it completely and just do what is needed for the goal one has set. If you do the right things the results will always follow.
by oever | 2025-10-03 09:54:11+00:00
For architecture, there is Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). IFC is a standard for describing building. FreeCAD supports this natively. There's a tutorial here: https://yorik.uncreated.net/?blog%2F2025%2F002-nativeifc-tut...

Blender has and extension for IFC called Bonsai. https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/bonsai/
by skydhash | 2025-10-03 09:55:33+00:00
> but also where _communication_ skills separate the good devs from the _great_ devs

I think it has been that way since forever. If you look at all the great projects, it’s rare for the guy at the helm to not be a good communicator. And at corporate job, you soend a good chunk of the year writing stuff to people. Even the code you’re writing, you think abou the next person who’s going to read it.
by jasode | 2025-10-03 09:55:50+00:00
>, but I don't see why AaaS or server-side anything would be required to have non-chronological feed algorithms.

You assume gp's idea of "non-chronological" feed means taking the already-small-subset-downloaed-by-RSS and running a client-side algorithm on it to re-order it. I'm not debating this point because this scenario is trivial and probably not what the gp is talking about.

I'm saying gp's idea of "non-chronological" feed (where he emphasized "curation is not the problem") means he wants the huge list of interesting but unknown content filtered down into a smaller manageable list that's curated by some ranking/weights.

The only technically feasible way to do curation/filtering algorithm on the unexplored vastness out on the internet -- trillions of pages and petabytes of content -- is on servers. That's the reasonable motivation for why gp wants Algorithm-as-a-Service. The issue is that the companies wealthy enough to run expensive datacenters to do that curation ... want to serve ads.
by davedx | 2025-10-03 09:55:58+00:00
> When it’s ready for the attention of your peers then you absolutely ought to dress it up as smartly as possible. It’s at that point that you write a cover letter for your change: what was the situation before, why that was bad, what this patch does instead, and how you proved in practice that it made things better (tests!)

This is an extremely opinionated and time consuming way of working. Maybe in this context it makes sense (nvidia driver kernel somethings), but I don't think it's universally the best way to write code together.
by anovikov | 2025-10-03 09:58:08+00:00
There are plenty of places in EU with no income tax on business income. At least if you are a foreigner. Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, and probably more. Some countries have lump-sum income tax on foreign business income, like Greece (100K EUR per year you keep the rest).

Paperwork in those countries can take years but it only matters if you need entry visas/visas to travel elsewhere, so if you hold a first-world passport, you don't care, you file your paperwork and enjoy the rights of the permit you are applying for, from get go, and it's their problem how long it takes to get done. If you don't have a first world passport then yes, it's a pickle, because foreign embassies or immigration officials won't respect the 'application receipts' instead of a real document.

On the flip side, these countries are democratic and provide a path to citizenship and have a real society to integrate to, not literally 90% expat population who come and go and have both no potential (because no naturalisation) and no incentive, to integrate.
by nonmaskable | 2025-10-03 09:58:10+00:00
As a student, I went through a critical period of tiredness and fatigue (mostly because of late-night studying before exams). After doing some research, I was surprised to see that not only students are facing constant tiredness, but also workers — particularly remote workers.

I really enjoy solving problems (I chose CS for this at the start, though it’s not exactly what I expected). That’s why I want to create a great solution to this issue.

And why am I telling you this? You may already know — but I made a small survey to help me better understand people who are facing tiredness.

Thanks for reading. (btw it takes a maximum of 2 min).
by stuaxo | 2025-10-03 09:59:23+00:00
Yes, its terrible.

I did a similar thing with my dad when he was going through parkinsons.

When I got him a book for seniors it turned out to be really thick, and justifiably so.

Egregious bits of the interface include the parts you can drag from the bottom and the top.

As well as things at the ends of the springboard.

There is so much in there its way too much to explain.

That's before you get to stuff like the difference between ordinary calls and say WhatsApp.
by dangus | 2025-10-03 09:59:47+00:00
Not really? I imagine most Mac users also have their Apple ID logged in for things like iCloud and the Mac App Store, even if they have a lot of manually installed apps.

It’s not really that crazy.

I totally agree that Microsoft shouldn’t explicitly force an account on you as iOS, Android, and macOS don’t do that, but at the same time it’s just not such a crazy idea.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-10-03 10:00:28+00:00
What I have seen it is hard to tell what "serious scrapers" use. They use many things. Some use this, some not. This is what I have learned reading webscraping on reddit. Nobody speaks things like that out loud.

There are many tools, see links below

Personally I think that running selenium can be a bottle neck, as it does not play nice, sometimes processes break, even system sometimes requires restart because of things blocked, can be memory hog, etc. etc. That is my experience.

To be able to scale I think you have to have your own implementation. Serious scrapers complain about people using selenium, or derivatives as noobs, who will come back asking why page X does not work in scraping mechanisms.

https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi

https://github.com/encode/httpx

https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy

https://github.com/apify/crawlee
by scott_w | 2025-10-03 10:00:35+00:00
That's not the case in the UK. You need a utility bill (gas, electric, council tax, bank statement) or an existing bank customer to verify your identity. It's only in the past 5-10 years that electronic statements have been accepted. Meeting customers in person is becoming less common, so I worry for, say, women whose husbands handle all the bills.
by tgv | 2025-10-03 10:01:16+00:00
It's so obvious. Someone born without legs will not be able to run, no matter how much he or she imagines being a runner. When we can't see the thing that obviously explains such a discrepancy, we call it "talent." In many cases, a large part of that is cognitive, and it's not fashionable to think of cognitive abilities as innate, or worse, genetic. Hence the wishful thinking that you're born tabula rasa and can good at anything for which there's no obvious physical hindrance.

It's also not clear that what the "baseline" is for many accomplishments. Perhaps 80% of the population has some musical talent, perhaps 20%. I don't rate the improvisation on his blog highly. Noodling without development, a weak left hand, and questionable rhythm.
by phaser | 2025-10-03 10:01:26+00:00
I think the point of how the city center is totally disconnected from the value of the property is super spot on, for example in my hometown, Santiago de Chile I have seen or it is my impression that although when the city was founded the city center, it had the highest value, and it is where aristocratic families lived today the reality is quite the opposite, the price of the properties has moved even towards the periphery of the city in comunas (boroughs) such as Barnechea and Vitacura and the city center of the city is perceived as a place of low status; On the contrary in the city where I live now, Berlin, the center of the city Mitte is in my perception where the most expensive properties are, so it’s difficult for me, to understand what is the connection between the city center and the value of the properties. In the case of Santiago the neighborhoods that are most appreciated, they are really super far from everything and require a road trip to go to the airport or any other central place, then perhaps I imagine that the value of the land, is very subjective and very based on the culture of the city. Despite the fact that the center of Santiago I find it a beautiful and quite interesting place, it is perceived by being perceived under status in a culture where status is important, that seems to be the most important factor more than any other type of deterministic formula.

Perhaps it could also be argued that because the resources received by neighbourhoods in Chile are based on the affluence of their residents, it follows that the comunas with more resources are, of course, more important and appreciated. This is because the people who live there are considered more valuable, even though I may be less important in other ways.
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 10:01:29+00:00
> A driving license isn’t sufficient for right to work checks because you can have a driving license without being able to work.

I never said that you required a driving license. I said that at driving license was photo-card ID.

You need a passport or birth cert and NI number as a British Citizen for a right to work check. Most employers also want proof of address, so bring a utility bill.

I've been through this process about 3 times in the last 5 years. It isn't difficult or onerous.

> For shits and giggles, I just looked up the checker on the UK Gov website and… if you don’t have a passport or easy access to your birth certificate, you don’t have enough evidence of right to work.

I actually posted the checklist. I am quite aware what is required.

You can literally order replacements for a birth certificate easily. A replacement birth cert can be got for £12.50 and takes 4 days to receive.

https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certifica...

Nothing about this is "excessive".

> Is this possible for most people? Yes. Does it leave groups excluded? Absolutely!

People that can't produce basic documents it excludes.

You were claiming that the right to work checks were "excessive". Producing one or two documents that you should have is not "excessive".
by sltr | 2025-10-03 10:01:35+00:00
I received n*m copies of this email: one for each Stripe account, for each registered email.

Clearly Stripe wants this, but I don't: it clashes with my worldview.

I noticed the email carefully avoids the word "fraud". That's because there are existing mechanisms for dealing with that. So we're talking about legitimate customers here, not fraudsters.

With my customers, the way to win disputes is to lose them.

Every dispute is a chance to not completely incinerate the relationship, preserve my brand, and woo the customer back. I remember which businesses made it difficult to make things right; don't you?

For consumers, just issue the refund. You lose a few bucks. For business and enterprise, why would you toss your work to an AI? You should already have someone's phone number. Call them. Your customer success team should have already been calling them. Don't let Stripe be the venue for customer relationship.

The fact that you got here means you did something wrong, i.e. taking money from a fraudster, marketing something you didn't deliver, or not nurturing the relationship.

Dispute is such a hostile word. A more effective attitude is deference and servanthood.
by captn3m0 | 2025-10-03 10:02:27+00:00
> While the government remains in denial about the deaths highlighted by Right to Food activists, the Minister admits that Santoshi Kumar, 11, died because her family ration card was deleted for not being linked to Aadhaar. Taramani Sahu, a foot soldier of the Right to Food Campaign, says she had raised this issue with the district authorities months before Santoshi died. The administration assured intervention, but that came only after the child’s death.

Jharkhand has the most of these, due to the underlying issues and activism on Right to Food in the region.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/death-by...

I also remember a case where an infant Aadhaar was issued by CSC at the hospital and was celebrated as a win because the doctors refused emergency Heart Surgery without the infant having an Aadhaar.
by roryirvine | 2025-10-03 10:03:00+00:00
Yeah, Cornwall was most famous for its tin, but there was a reasonable amount of copper too - particularly in the Carnon and Tamar valleys.

There were also very productive copper mines around Great Orme in North Wales, which would have only been a couple of days' travel by boat and were frequently visited as part of the same Atlantic Bronze Age trade routes as Cornish tin.
by jcgl | 2025-10-03 10:03:24+00:00
Maybe you're right about what they meant. I'll not debate that.

I will say that, for my purposes, I would definitely like an RSS reader that has more dynamic feed presentation. Maybe something that could watch and learn my preferences, taking into account engagement, time of day, and any number of other factors.

What's more, with primarily text-oriented articles, the total number of articles can be extremely high before overwhelming the server or the client. And a sufficiently smart client needn't be shy about discarding articles that the user is unlikely to want to read.
by scott_w | 2025-10-03 10:03:56+00:00
Most tenancy agreements are just printed off by a landlord, so they're absolutely useless as proof of address.

> if they do include address, you will also need to start by providing a proof of address to the Digital ID system!

Yes, you're correct, however, there are starting points (like what's needed for a passport application). The difference is that, if there's a legal requirement to have one, then the government will provide ways for more people to get it for no cost. Unlike a passport that costs over £100 (+ the photos).
by eviks | 2025-10-03 10:06:45+00:00
Your mistaken point is easy to get, but you don't get the counter argument that the relevant pricing here is that of, for example, VPS, which haven't scaled as much in memory availability as your cited consumer examples, so the constraints are still there.

> will consume compute resources

This is an empty statement, the argument here is about the amount of resources and how it relates to the underlying technology.

And all this "biggest multinational scale" is just as meaningless, no specific resource requirement follows from that (maybe a big part of that $100 is exactly because of "big multi scale")

> News flash, when you query ChatGPT,

News flash, this is not chatGPT. Another news is that different models have very different memory requirements. Also, do you know that those requirements are only due to the models?

So again, your example doesn't help provide any justification.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-10-03 10:07:00+00:00
> ChatGPT has more consumer trust than Google at this point

This is just HackerNews bias.

Everyone that has used ChatGPT (or any other LLM really) has already been burnt by being provided a completely false answer. On the contrary everyone understands that Google never claimed to provide a true answer, just links to potential answers.
by lblume | 2025-10-03 10:07:09+00:00
> Forcing kids to spend time on something is an effective way to spoil it for them.

I generally agree. However most school systems force students to learn basic math, which is generally used for testing whether the student is able to think structurally and follow simple rules. Although I agree intrinsic motivation to be extremely valuable, not doing math with children the way school intends may just lead to worse grades and outcomes.
by scott_w | 2025-10-03 10:08:08+00:00
Your privilege is showing.

> You need a passport for a right to work check. I've been through this process about 3 times in the last 5 years. It isn't difficult or onerous.

A new passport costs over £100 for a paper application. That can be prohibitive for people.

> You can literally order replacements for these easily. A replacement birth cert can be got for £12.50 and takes 4 days to receive.

These are additional costs, it's also an extra £3.50 to find it (taking 15 days), and possibly another £38 to get it quickly.

So yes, these are all costs that add up to exclude people from partaking in society.

And all of this assumes your employer knows what the hell they're doing. Given the fines are painful, it's entirely possible your employer refuses valid documents "just in case" and sticks to the ones they've relied on in the past.
by goku12 | 2025-10-03 10:08:35+00:00
> Yes. There is nothing surprising to me about the current situation.

That would mean that you willfully defended a vulnerability that you could foresee being exploited.

> It is also a target for so many folks to say, "if it was different in this one way, it would be amazing (for me.)"

Apple has been consistent in their messaging. You have to give up your freedom over your devices to ensure security. Not make it hard or explicit to override safety measures. Not make it safe through careful design. But you have to give up your freedom. And there is no limit to the steps they took in this direction.

People had already pointed out that all those measures were for profit squeezing, disguised as security measures. The most important observation though, was that it's a very flawed argument. Security by centralized control is a vulnerability in itself, as evidenced by this incident.

Apple and its supporters fought this argument in a consistent manner too. With shallow dismissals of the concerns, accompanied by the contemptuous implication that the detractors are overreacting. As if the critics should be ashamed for even bringing them up. They never really address the concern directly. You can see this in action in interviews where their top management justify such decisions. I don't see that having changed much.

But, Apple or any other company doesn't deserve to be let off the hook for incidents like this. There is no reason to consider all their decisions as enlightened, especially when corporate profit seeking is involved.
by bko | 2025-10-03 10:08:40+00:00
> In a very short summary - talent is time spent on learning or doing something. Which means that anyone can be talented in any area. That’s it. That’s the secret. Go, and be the next Mozart, Copernicus or Tesla (don’t be Edison, that guy was a dick).

I used to believe this. Like many I was swayed by 10k hours. You hear stories like "Mozart wrote his first symphony at 8" but also hear "he must have easily been approaching thousands of hours by that point!"

The one thing that convinced me otherwise is bodybuilding. Take Jay Cutler, one of the greats. He started lifting at 18 and reported that in his first year of training, he gained approximately 50 pounds of muscle, going from around 180 pounds to about 230 pounds by age 19. He quickly got his squat up to 700lb, an insane feat. This is what he looked like [1]

People don't normally put on anywhere close 50 pounds of muscle in a lifetime, no matter how hard they try.

Ronnie Coleman had similar stories, and started bodybuilding at 24, staying natural the first 6 years. He had to gear up to eventually reach the main stage, but he was a beast regardless. It helps when your mom looks like this [2]

Talent is so obvious when you look at physical tasks. Anyone who spent significant time at the gym knows there are people that roll in every 6 months that are always strong. Or that runner that can roll out of bed untrained and run sub-6 minute miles.

Sure anyone can look good and improve their performance, but some people are just talented. And to reach the pinnacle of performance, you have to be extremely hard working and extremely talented. Now apply that to every other field.

[0] https://generationiron.com/18-year-old-jay-cutler-4-months-i...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bodybuilding/comments/8p9mok/jay_cu...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/GymFailNation/posts/ronnie-coleman-...
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-03 10:08:48+00:00
It's a bit far, but I think countries and societies will be split around this question if or when such a technology comes. You'll definitely find a place to opt out, I would stick/move to a country where immortality is illegal.

Now if my world model is correct, the immortal societies will see a decline akin to the Byzantine empire (which never actually declined, just progressed slower than it's neighbors). As the result they will either succumb and integrate into their mortal counterparts or perhaps continue existing like some sort of native tribal reservations. If I'm wrong, the inverse will happen.

In the end the more effective and stable socioeconomic model wins because it's the only thing that matters in the long run. It may take a while to reach the equilibrium though.
by marktani | 2025-10-03 10:09:04+00:00
I'm thinking that the domain of (competitive) sports is an outlier as such as it's probably the one domain where physical properties like muscle structure, height etc. have the biggest impact on "performance".

But the discussion in the article is not about performing to a high level in order to accomplish a certain outcome (win the match), it's more about exploring one self and honing a certain talent to reach deeper levels of self-expression and self-actualization: OP has a unique way of playing the piano, and they honed it by pouring love and time into it. They would probably not perform super well in some kind of piano contest where you need to play by ear, for example. And that's not the point I got.

Everyone can principally pour love and time into any domain or activity. A 1.50m tall person can explore and hone their basketball talent in order to form a deeper understanding of that part of themselves and share it with the world.