MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Rendello | 2025-10-02 02:12:47+00:00
I used Zig in the past (after my "why don't we just write everything simply in C" phase). I don't think I used comptime too much, but I understood why it would be useful.

Now I write Rust and absolutely love it, except for the damn macro edge cases, like not being able to use a known-at-compile-time string for format!() unless it's a literal (I even tried to fake it with more macros, no dice). I think Zig's Andrew Kelley mentioned this exact scenario, if I recall correctly.

It's funny because I do write a lot of code that generates code, but I avoid macros if I can.
by cool_dude85 | 2025-10-02 02:13:10+00:00
>Instead, the focus is on using technology to facilitate individualized learning. It is true that teachers are 'replaced', but by humans whose job it is to keep the students focused and motivated, rather than to convey information.

I have good news for you. Tell your kids to get into a few fights, or get caught smoking weed in school too many times. They will be sent to an "alternative school" as punishment that uses this same insight - let the kids sit in front of a computer all day "learning" while a teacher nags them to quit falling asleep. In fact, they can do it for around 6 hours a day, three times better than this charter.
by anon7725 | 2025-10-02 02:14:11+00:00
The Luddite analogy is apt, however its sense is opposite to the way that it’s usually presented.

The Luddites were skilled artisans in the textile industry. They often worked from home, owning spinning and weaving equipment and acting as what we’d call independent contractors today.

The mechanization of the textile industry resulted in work that required less skill and had to be performed in a dangerous factory for suppressed wages that were determined by a cartel of factory owners rather than a robust market of small makers.

Sitting here 200 years on from the Industrial Revolution it seems to be an obvious good. But it sure did not sound like an appealing thing to live through if you weren’t one of the few owners of the means of production.
by kelipso | 2025-10-02 02:15:17+00:00
It’s not. The one who controls the null hypothesis rules the world.. Should a new dye be banned until it is proven safe, or should a new dye be banned only when it has been proven unsafe?

The answer to the above question is not a scientific one. It has to do with how we want to operate as a society, it’s a political or social issue.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-10-02 02:16:10+00:00
I don't know, but it'll take ages to restore cold resilience. Took about 5 years for me.

I think covid might be damaging RNA, or the mitochondrium, or somehow stops the cell from being able to gather energy. Maybe it has something to do with the increased production of lipids and hyaluronic acid which has been described in some reports. Maybe it damages the thyroid. IDK. I hope to find out one day.
by duped | 2025-10-02 02:16:19+00:00
I would disagree, because people don't really care about memory safety for security reasons as much as I think gets talked about.

The most important safety mechanism in Rust is the borrow checker. It solves so many real problems that people willingly put up with the steep learning curve because that's easier than debugging data races and use after free.

Bounds checking is nice but it's not interesting or compelling enough to talk about as some ungodly super power of safety and security.
by gazby | 2025-10-02 02:16:36+00:00
> I suppose the heyday is over, it's time to migrate to something else. Oh, I won't be able to POP push gmail to my new email address, nice. > > There is an opportunity for someone to make a low-friction service which does server-side forwarding via IMAP with decent anti-spam. If done right, you could soak up a significant chunk of the Internet email biz.
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-02 02:17:15+00:00
Thank you for your response.

I'm prone to weird skin infections already, so no telling what would happen to me lol. Then again, my AI condition is some psoriatic variant. However, I technically classify in the mild category -- body surface < 2%. Topicals don't really work well for me considering my variant kind of look like mild chicken pox. I'm in a weird camp because treatments seem to have very little effect, yet I am not truly severe enough to warrant biologics. My doctor essentially gave me an offer, and her words were near verbatim, "You can keep using topicals and whatnot and never be completely clear, or take Skyrizi, be 100% clear, and stop wasting your time."

I chose the first option as dumb as it may be. Worrying might be my main personality trait at this point in life, and something about the biologics do not sit right with me. I am less worried about the cancers and more about the increased risk of infections. I suppose one detail I left out prior was that my entire condition was triggered after an infection 10 years ago. Plus, with all the ever growing research surrounding Long COVID, how Shingles vaccines seem to correlate with a reduction in dementia, etc. I am not certain infections are something that should just be casually dismissed as a benefit that is worth the risk. Though, I believe this only for my situation. You have to understand that my condition causes me zero functional impairments nor does it prevent me from doing anything I want to do in life. I imagine a vast majority of people on biologics could not say that same (without biologics).

That article was fascinating! Thank you for sharing it.
by ChanningAllen | 2025-10-02 02:17:44+00:00
> Do you think the people described thought about how to increase their practice surface area? No, they were simply /interested/.

In fact, many of them did think about it. Many of them designed, tested, experimented, and tweaked their approaches to their crafts endlessly throughout their lives.

It can be comforting (because it lets us off the hook) to think that masters of their craft all follow the "just do it" ethos while simply "accepting themselves as they are," but usually the opposite is true. At least at the margin.
by andreareina | 2025-10-02 02:17:56+00:00
I'm a mid-packer in the triathlons I participate in, so pretty fit. I definitely notice the energy difference between having eaten breakfast or not, in the everyday (non-training) context. It's not a hunger thing (I'd miss breakfast most days if I didn't literally schedule it) and I can do my strength training and short intervals to the same performance fasted as fed. But I am aware of it.
by metadat | 2025-10-02 02:17:57+00:00
Why can't it be added to this post?

The resistance to a seemingly obvious correction seems a little shady. Expecting people to dig around a site to find out your position of financial interest is not reasonable.

Such behavior is disappointing, especially from a top HN account holder.

It's too bad, because otherwise there are some interesting ideas, but TFA is lacking in good faith.
by btilly | 2025-10-02 02:18:04+00:00
I've had a lot of chances to explain. I've posted a lot of explanations. For example see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435534 for an explanation that I posted 11 hours ago. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-constructive/ for a link that I gave. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434701 for someone with a different point of view, attempting to explain the same key point.

That point being that what we mean by "exists" is fundamentally a philosophical question. And our conclusions about what mathematical things exist will depend on how we answer that question. And very specifically, there are well-studied mathematical philosophies in which uncountable sets do not have larger cardinalities than countable ones.

If none of those explanations wind up being clear for you, then I'm going to need feedback from you to have a chance to explain this to you. Because you haven't told me enough for me to make any reasonable guess what the sticking point is between you and understanding. And without that, I have no chance of guessing what would clarify this for you.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-02 02:18:30+00:00
The UK has a standard list of sites that need to be flagged "over 18 only in the uk", that's the list of sites that will need to be added to a list which ISPs can block by default.

Putting the onus on the ISPs operating in the UK rather than the sites operating globally is much easier to implement than trying to enforce your laws on foreign companies.

That's if you want the outcome to block a certain list of sites by default.

As you say in reality we already have that. The question thus is what's the real point of the move, because it's not to stop 15 year olds jacking off.
by phs318u | 2025-10-02 02:18:45+00:00
"Uh. F*k no." - Kelvin Meeks

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7379198...

For those not willing to read Kelvin's comments in full (on LinkedIn), here are the links he uses to come to his succinct conclusion. A conclusion with which I wholeheartedly concur.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/18/grok-says-its-skeptical-ab...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.htm...

https://people.com/elon-musk-grok-ai-described-raping-x-user...

https://www.eweek.com/news/ai-chatbot-citation-problem/

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/14/business/grok-ai-chatbot-...

https://casmi.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2024/misinforma...
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-02 02:19:24+00:00
the median individual income for someone with a bachelor's degree in San Francisco

Do you believe that teachers working at SFUSD schools are comparable to the median person with a bachelor's degree in San Francisco?

you need to add benefits such as healthcare and employer matches to retirement contributions

Why would you not include those in the comparison? For most private employers, these amounts are single digits or zero. But for SFUSD, being able to retire and still be paid 90% of your salary indefinitely is a major part of the total compensation story.

If you compare base salary only, you're not comparing like with like. You get closer to comparing like with like if you compare SFUSD total comp with private sector current comp (base salary and bonus).
by lmm | 2025-10-02 02:19:46+00:00
For the overwhelming majority of day-to-day, line-of-business software, the nerds are a commodity and the project succeeds or fails on how good or bad the business folks are. They should get the blame for the failures but also the credit for the successes.

For the stuff that is genuinely pushing the technical envelope, it's possible for the nerds to make the difference. In those cases you do see the projects fail for technical reasons like "the code couldn't scale to the required number of users" or "the technical functionality never worked reliably", and those kind of failures are the nerds' fault. But that's the minority of failures IME.
by digdugdirk | 2025-10-02 02:20:51+00:00
Forgive me for not understanding the difference between columnar storage and otherwise, but why is this so cool? Is the big win that you can send around custom little vector embedding databases with a built in sandbox?

I get the "step change/foundational building block" vibe from the paper - and the project name itself implies more than a little "je ne sais quoi" - but unfortunately I only understand a few sentences per page. The pictures are pretty though, and the colour choices are tasteful yet bold. Two thumbs up from the easily swayed.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-10-02 02:21:52+00:00
I had a friend tell me about how ChatGPT makes his work so much faster. When I asked about it he told me that he works tech support and after the problem is resolved customers often ask for a root cause analysis. He uses ChatGPT to generate a fake but plausible looking analysis and this seems to satisfy the customers, letting him get tickets done faster and play games in the freed time.
by Silhouette | 2025-10-02 02:24:37+00:00
Apple for hardware. Maybe a few orgs even try PCs running Linux as we've seen in some governments looking to save $$$.

Google or countless smaller but established services for all the online stuff. The days when all businesses used Windows and Office for everything and the competitors were half-baked also-rans are long gone.

There is no lack of IT companies that will take your money if you're willing to move out of the Microsoft bubble. This is a momentum problem not a lack of competition problem.
by gligierko | 2025-10-02 02:24:56+00:00
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by dailyfin | 2025-10-02 02:25:11+00:00
I found the “masking” meter the most interesting—and contentious—design choice. It seems to bundle two different phenomena: the active effort of conforming (costly even alone, via internalized norms) and the risk of social detection. That may explain why self-care choices can still deplete masking in private, which confused many.

Two ideas that might deepen the simulation without adding complexity:

- Make the intent explicit by labeling masking as “conformity effort” (with a short tooltip), and split “detection risk” into a separate, slower-moving gauge that mostly changes in social contexts.

- Offer a couple of selectable “profiles” (e.g., sensory sensitivity high/low, ADHD comorbid/not) so players see how the same day plays out differently.

As you open-source it, a “debug view” showing the per-choice deltas and rationale would also help neurotypical players connect the dots. Would you consider parameterizing those profiles so the community can contribute balanced variants?
by geuis | 2025-10-02 02:25:36+00:00
Tailwind is a hot bloat of a mess. Adds tons of crap to html elements. It's mostly popular among frontend folks who haven't taken the time to actually learn css.

I still remember the star selector pattern to prevent IE6 from reading malformed css. So me old.

But having grown up in my early career during the transition from embedding styles into html to sites like css zen garden, I am extremely critical of modern "frameworks".

I still see so much bloat in poor performing pages and often when I dig deeper it's tailwind in addition to other inefficiencies adding repeated cruft that doesn't help with site rendering.

A proper 20 year old understanding of css class style inheritance isn't hard, and it negates 80-90% of the complexity of maintaining complex web apps (react components mainly).

CSS grids are cute and useful, but for a hell of a lot of web interfaces a simple float and clear:left still works wonders.
by ChanningAllen | 2025-10-02 02:25:42+00:00
Author here. I've spent a decade drinking my own "snake oil" (the advice in this essay), and I've only now committed it to writing so that others can apply it or ignore it as they wish.

I haven't burned out. Instead, I find my work fulfilling, endlessly novel, and valuable to others.

Does this do anything to change your mental model?
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 02:26:04+00:00
And really it's a whole bunch of things we've never had before at the same time.

Factories can scale to the point that a single factory for a lot of products can meet the needs of all of humanity. Add in economies of scale and the number of actual work on the actual product jobs decreases for any one product over time.

Information technology can scale to the point that any one company can manage vast oceans of data about processes and conditions in the business exercising large amounts of control over economies.

Shipping and transport are fast, cheap, and ubiquitous. That huge factory from above can make anything then ship it anywhere cheaper than you can make it right next door.

Robots and further AI automation can insure the investor class gets even wealthier by not having to pay things like the 16 hours a day you don't work in health insurance. More so there is never a labor shortage by pesky striking workers asking for more pay or better conditions.

All the above setup conditions for the consolidation of control of almost everything by a very small number of entities.
by Balgair | 2025-10-02 02:27:19+00:00
Bret Devereaux is going through the 'peasant experience' right now here:

https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an...

It's not done yet, and I am eagerly awaiting the end results. That said, from what I can tell from his writings, jcrammer is mostly correct. The peasant life - the modal life - was just awful hard work for many decades. It was not nice and it was not better than the factories most of the time. Yes there were bad factories, a lot of them, but they lasted a brief time. The Factory Act in Britian was in 1833, only a few decades after the factories were even a thing.

Aside: We really need better education in labor laws overall.
by Nursie | 2025-10-02 02:27:32+00:00
I remember heading out of Perth to the South about 15 years ago and at some point passing a field with various UFOs and other pieces of scrap art arranged along the roadside. I should probably figure out welding at some point!

We're on the edges of Perth metro and would be quite happy being the weird dino house.

There's already (though I haven't seen it for a few months) a Pajero around here that has a Jurassic Park style wrap on it, that drives by once in a while.
by geuis | 2025-10-02 02:29:56+00:00
Agreed. I always used px versus anything else. It made for the easiest conversions from designer to interface. Was predictable and consistent for almost all users.

It has never translated well to custom font settings from a user browser, but it turns out those are exceptionally rare vs people who just ctl/cmd +/- on the keyboard or pinch and zoom on the phone.
by gremlinunderway | 2025-10-02 02:29:57+00:00
Calling this an issue of resiliency is completely missing the point about autism. I recommend you do some more reading because it has nothing to do with resiliency. People on the spectrum can have incredible resiliency in certain activities that neurotypical people couldn't (for example, hyper focus on a very complex cognitive task or dedicate hours of "boring" repetitive practice in a physical activity).

I think lots of people on the spectrum would gladly grow vegetables or kill chickens over having to go to the grocery store. Tolerance levels on activities placing you in highly social situations with overwhelming stimuli can be significantly lower for people on the spectrum.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 02:30:31+00:00
>But yeah, once AI is capable enough to do all tasks humans do in employment,

Also at this point the current ideas of competition go wonky.

In theory most companies in the same industry should homogenize at a maxima which leads to rapid consolidation. Lots of individual people think they'll be able to compete because they 'also have robots', but this seems unlikely to me except in the case of some boutique products. Those companies with the most data and the cheapest energy costs will win out.
by fakedang | 2025-10-02 02:31:44+00:00
So many wrong points here. The coal to liquid (CTL) process looks good on paper up until it isn't. Like you mentioned, it requires a lot of energy, energy which most countries cannot afford to divert. There's no point in using nuclear or renewables for CTL when SABIC can simply undercut you on price by 10x or more.

> There are estimates that liquid fuel produced from coal can compete with oil when oil cost is 80-100 USD/barrel.

Oil is currently at 61-65 USD per barrel, with OPEC ensuring it stays that way because even they know it's only going to fall from there. Even the 61-65 USD price point leaves a bad taste in their mouths.

> In fact with renewables and storage leading to cheaper electricity, the price competitiveness of coal-based liquid fuels will only get better.

No, with renewables and storage offering cheap electricity, oil also gets cheaper!

In fact, I'd argue that CTL is something only countries with extremely abundant domestic reserves of coal can do - China, South Africa and Australia. In fact, nearly every planned CTL plant has been delayed or scrapped in the US as infeasible.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-02 02:31:54+00:00
Don’t underestimate Zig’s comptime or modern C++’s constexpr. You can use these to prove things about the program at compile-time far beyond the type system. In recent versions of C++, the scope of code that is compile-time verifiable is quite large, nothing like when it was first introduced 15 years ago.

This has limited (but not zero) applicability to memory safety but it has a lot of applicability to many other classes of defect against which Rust offers no special protection. Features like this are why modern C++ is still the language of choice for new software in high-assurance environments at DoD when performance matters. (When performance doesn’t matter it seems to be Java and C#.) These systems often have little or no legacy C++ code as a dependency, so that isn’t a factor.

I have less experience with Zig but this is an area where Rust can’t replicate the safety features of modern C++. With the introduction of compile-time reflection in C++26, this gap will increase. People who aren’t deep in it seriously underestimate what can be verified at compile-time in recent versions of C++ without the use of ugly arcana (which used to be required).
by dailyfin | 2025-10-02 02:32:11+00:00
The post does a good job selling the “why” (hot-row contention + strict serializability) but it’d help the community to see a clearer “when.” A practical rubric would be: if X% of writes touch Y “house accounts” with RTT Z, OLTP throughput on MVCC/row-lock engines caps at ~N TPS; TB sustains ~M TPS—showing the apples-to-apples path from workload shape to DB choice. Framed that way, TB becomes a “consensus-backed integer ALU” you pair with a string DB, not a replacement for OLTP in general.

Two gaps I keep hearing in this thread that could unblock adoption:

1. Reference architectures: serverless (Workers/Lambda) patterns, auth/VPN/stunnel/WireGuard blueprints, and examples for “OLGP control plane + TB data plane.”

2. Scaling roadmap: the single-core, single-leader design is philosophically clean—what’s the long-term story when a shard/ledger outgrows a core or a region’s latency budget?

Also +1 to publishing contentious, real-world case studies (e.g., “fee siphon to a hot account at 80–90% contention”) with end-to-end SLOs and failure drills. That would defuse the “100–1,000 TPS” debate and make the tradeoffs legible next to Postgres, FDB, and Redis.
by dckimGUY | 2025-10-02 02:32:55+00:00
Thank you for this reply. Yes it's not giving a lot of instructions off the top but, there are the keyboard bindings given on the 'F1' key. I think that helps.

I need to work on finishing up some more of the menu on the side.

What you are describing is most likely the splash screen. I tried drawing another one, but, it wasn't as bright and colourful. So, I thought: "Hey, I'll just keep the first one I did."