MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-28 06:27:26+00:00
I miss when trolling just meant rage baiting, but yes almost certainly we're all being deceived by OP, if that carries an ulterior motive or stems from a simple lack of moral values is up for debtate but at this point it isnt worth the sustained energy.

This project being upvoted as much as it is reflects more on the community than it does OP at the end of the day.
by zeroq | 2025-10-28 06:27:53+00:00
Just few days ago I spoke with sec guy who was telling me how frustrating it is to validate AI code.

The problem is marketing.

Cycling industry is akin to audiophiles and will swear on their lives that $15,000 bicycle is the pinnacle of human engineering. This year's bike will go 11% faster than the previous model. But if you read last 10 years of marketing materials and do math it should basically ride itself.

There's so much money in AI right now that you can't really expect anyone to say "well, we had hopes, but it doesn't really work the way we expected". Instead you have pitch after pitch, masses parroting CEOs, and everyone wants to get a seat on the hype train.

It's easy to dispel audiophiles or carbon enthusiasts but it's not so easy with AI, because no one really knows how it works. OpenAI released a paper in which they stated, sorry for paraphrasing, "we did this, we did that, and we don't know why results were different".
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-28 06:28:51+00:00
I love this book so much. If anyone here attempts to read I’ll only say this much - the second quarter of the book (25% to 50%) can be a bit of a slog, but after that it becomes hard to put down. The sense of urgency in the story won’t allow you to.

This book is also notable for me in that I fundamentally disagree with one of the author’s main idea - that humans need religion as a source of morality. At least, that’s how I interpreted Ivan’s fate - he went mad trying to make sense of the world without God, purely through a rational lens. This disagreement with the author doesn’t matter to me though, because the book is a work of art. That much was clear to me, even as I was turning the pages for the first time. The vitality and detail of each of the characters, especially Dmitri - only a great artist could do that.

I also wonder how Dostoevsky would have felt, if he had written his book 150 years later. While our world was far from perfect, it is far from the universal misery of Tsarist Russia, where serfs starved to death. I feel like you can’t make sense of life in those circumstances with religion explaining why there’s so much pain in the world, so I understand where he was coming from. But would he still have felt the same even if life was substantially better for most people?

Lastly, if anyone can explain to me - why do they call Agrafena Alexandrovna Grushenka? Is this a standard nickname for Agrafena, like Alyosha is for Alexei? I feel like everyone in the novel just took the name for granted, like it was normal to call someone a little pear.
by svat | 2025-10-28 06:30:43+00:00
Another good blog post that is IMO in the same vein: https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2022-03-10-mechanism-vs-policy (“Improve your code by separating mechanism from policy”). This blends harmoniously with “functional core, imperative shell”—the "mechanism" code is the "functional core", and the "policy" code is the "imperative shell"—and also a little bit with John Ousterhout's idea in A Philosophy of Software Design of "deep modules" (in this context, don't put policy stuff, i.e. arbitrary decisions, inside the module).
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-10-28 06:30:52+00:00
No worries on your code not being open source!

I'm always interested in old graphics drivers, that's because they apparently lived in "two worlds" -- the world of "framebuffer is on the GPU and the GPU can perform the required graphics function being requested by the driver" and the second world of "framebuffer is of necessity in main RAM, the GPU doesn't support the required graphics function being requested(!) -- so let's use the CPU and the CPU's RAM and software on the PC side of the equation (as opposed to hardware on the GPU) to emulate in software the required hardware graphics function being requested (in your driver's case, this would be using the Windows DIBENG / Windows code -- for that functionality).

That dichotomy, from an OS/graphics driver/engineering standpoint -- is fascinating...

These days of course, we have shared (CPU/GPU) memory and GPU's where all graphics drawing operations are implemented on the GPU side -- so there's little need to set up an additional unshared frame buffer in PC memory, draw on it with software ran by the CPU, then copy it to the graphics card to update the old graphic's card's then unshared frame buffer -- as was apparently necessary in very old PC's with very old graphics cards...

But from an (old) OS/graphics driver/engineering standpoint -- it's fascinating!

Ya gotta love the old stuff! :-)
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-28 06:30:59+00:00
The Black Duck scanner in particular I've found is really easy to misconfigure to siphon up all sorts of crazy shit. Did some coworker write a one-off support script that uses an ancient container in some random repository? Oops now you've got to answer to why you've got a dozen Debian or Alpine vulns in a product that ships on bare metal RHEL. If your build process is not 100% lunar lander clean, which in the era of ship trash as fast as possible, it's not going to be, you inevitably end up with an absolute deluge of things flagged that you have no idea where they came from or how to explain to some suit that no we're not shipping Debian Jessie in 2025, calm down.
by KingMob | 2025-10-28 06:32:48+00:00
I don't see it, and like the other commenters, it seems like the design space is just constrained enough that the projects would have to have some similarities.

Regardless, if you think you're being copied, just copy right back. I suggest imitating the DX.

As someone who tried devenv (and nix-darwin for a while), before eventually returning to homebrew and mise, I really wanted to like it, but the nix complexity kept leaking out.

Mise does maybe 80% of what I did with devenv, but at only 1% of the hassle.
by klipt | 2025-10-28 06:34:11+00:00
You might expect both

1. discrimination against women in male dominated industries and

2. discrimination against men in female dominated industries.

Studies show that now 2. is worse than 1:

https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-28 06:35:44+00:00
Reddit is a really good example of this because it used to be a feed of what you selected yourself. But they couldn’t juice the metrics that way, so they started pushing algorithmic suggestions. And boy, do those get me riled up. It works like a charm, because I spend more time on these threads, defending what seems like common sense.

But at the end I don’t feel a sense of joy like I used to with the old Reddit. Now it feels like a disgusting cesspool that keeps drawing me back with its toxicity.

Edit: this is a skill issue. It’s possible to disable algorithmic suggestions in settings. I’ve done that just now.
by beAbU | 2025-10-28 06:36:25+00:00
Most of the world don't construct their homes out of flammable materials, so the risk of the entire place going up in flames is quite low. In some places your home is uninsurable if you dont have burglar bars on all windows.

Regarding dogs: some organophosphate mixed into minced meat and lobbed through your fence/gate/open window is an instant and quiet way to get rid of a dog - personal experience taught me this lesson.
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-28 06:37:04+00:00
Honestly after witnessing "principal" software engineers defend storing API keys plaintext in a database in the year of our Lord 2025, and ask how that someone possibly exploit that if they can't access that column directly through an application, my cynicism is strong enough that I can believe that even a majority of "developers" don't even know what a threat model is.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-28 06:38:14+00:00
> Once everyone is using the proprietary seeds, the price magically goes up and the farmers have less money than they had before, but the biotech company now gets a cut of every grain of wheat which has to increase year on year (growth!). This isn't the only negative outcome you could imagine.

How does that make any sense? They can always switch back to the non-GMO crops. Short of original seed somehow disappearing.. it seems the farmer can make the decision to switch back at any time. The GMO company has no mote to coerce people to keep using their product. They only use it as long as it provides higher profits.

You'd have to get very create to imagine scenarios where this breaks down. Like the local climate changes and the original seed is no longer viable, and they have a ton of agricultural equipment for this one particular crop type.

This also has the premise that the farmers are somehow stupid and don't realize seed prices can change year to year
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-28 06:39:48+00:00
People who read the article don’t need to worry about this happening. As the article explains, it’s a fee per mile, not a flat fee that kicks in at the 10000th mile.

If you could afford the first 9800 miles, you can afford the other 300 miles to get to grandma’s for Christmas.

> this makes no sense

Indeed.
by appsoftware | 2025-10-28 06:40:40+00:00
I've been using Svelte's custom elements (web components) to make components that slot into pages on an existing .net / alpine.js site. It's been a great dev experience and results in really portable components. Each component is it's own bundle (achieved via separate vite configs - you can also organise to bundle groups of components work together). Each of the tools in the tools section is a svelte custom element https://www.appsoftware.com/tools/utilities/calculators
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-28 06:40:46+00:00
I’m also not resetting the manual clocks around my home and vehicle every damned month.

I genuinely dont care if we pickstandard time” or “savings time” … i just want my year-round circadian rhythm to not get fucked up twice a year - it takes me so long to get used to the new one and then it gets rug pulled again.
by Arainach | 2025-10-28 06:43:15+00:00
The amount of damage you do to the roads is exactly proportional to how many miles you drive on the roads. Where the roads are doesn't matter.

What you're describing is a billing detail - how do ensure the right chunk of those fees goes to the owners of those roads? And that leads to the conundrum I posed - without tracking your location at all times there's no way to prove what number of miles were in one municipality versus another.
by weatherlite | 2025-10-28 06:43:17+00:00
Sure but your therapist is also monetizing your pain for his own gain. Either A.I therapy works (e.g can provide good mental relief) or it doesn't. I tend to think it's gonna be amazing at those things talking from experience (very rough week with my mom's health deterioriating fast, did a couple of sessions with Gemini that felt like I'm talking to a therapist). Perhaps it won't work well for hard issues like real mental disorders but guess what human therapists are very often also not great at treating people with serious issue.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-10-28 06:44:21+00:00
Some people are far more likely to clear it so quickly they don't test positive: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jun/immune-response-study-ex...

Judging by how badly I got COVID (twice) and how I tend to get every single cold my daughters bring back home, I'm pretty sure that gene is running in reverse for me.
by Someone | 2025-10-28 06:44:58+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator: “The MBTI is widely regarded as "totally meaningless" by the scientific community. According to University of Pennsylvania professor Adam Grant, "There is no evidence behind it. The traits measured by the test have almost no predictive power when it comes to how happy you'll be in a given situation, how well you'll perform at your job, or how satisfied you'll be in your marriage."”
by courseofaction | 2025-10-28 06:45:04+00:00
There's been a lot of noise about China increasing their influence in the pacific, but now that I follow it up it's more limited than I thought.

China has approximately 250 times the shipbuilding capacity of the US. This infrastructure is integrated with military production. US-allied shipbuilding capacity in Japan and South Korea is within striking range of mainland China. I do not think it is reasonable to think that the US can win a sustained naval war against China, and how else would the US defend Taiwan?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/china-dominates-shipbuilding-i...
by klipt | 2025-10-28 06:46:20+00:00
> Your mother/grandmother wasn't allowed to open her own bank account until 1974.

And your father/grandfather was enslaved by the government to fight in the Vietnam war until 1975.

> What's the theory of harm here? If we continue educating women they may gain too much social mobility?

Blatant hypocrisy, you think 60% of college students being women is good, but consider it horrible sexism that at one time 60% of college students were men.

You don't want equality, you just want everything to be female dominated.
by vasco | 2025-10-28 06:46:55+00:00
The man knows he can be happy but he thinks his happiness depends on the outside rather than the inside.

If you have demons they will be there on the farm as well. How you see life is much more important to happiness than which job you have.

Many farmers struggle with alcoholism, beat their wives and hate their life. And many farmers are happy and at peace. Same with the programmers.
by hitekker | 2025-10-28 06:47:36+00:00
YC's Jessica Livingston and the founder of TripleByte observed the similar racial and sex quotas from the inside: https://x.com/jesslivingston/status/1884652626467303560

IBM's CEO infamously championed DEI-as-quota which led to wave of lawsuits that IBM was forced to settle.

The memory holing on this topic is concerning.
by Arainach | 2025-10-28 06:47:36+00:00
> Also, what about people who live in rural areas and do school runs or work further.

Frankly, it's overdue for them to pay their fair share and for the rest of the world to stop subsidizing them.

We've been subsidizing cars and rural lifestyles for so long that people feel entitled to them, but it certainly doesn't have to be that way.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-10-28 06:48:08+00:00
That’s an extreme example where it’s clear to the vast majority of people asking the question that they probably do not have the means to make one. I think it’s more likely that real world actions come out of the question ‘how do I approach my neighbour about their barking dogs’ at a far higher rate. Suicide is somewhere between the two, but probably closer to the latter than the former.
Ask HN: Could we create a license to make AI companies pay for your content?
by lilerjee | 2025-10-28 06:48:19+00:00
The majority of traffic for many websites comes from AI or data companies. These companies use your data for free without your permission, process it, and then sell it to you or others. This is robbery and theft.

Technical measures cannot fundamentally solve the problem; they can only mitigate it, and consume significant resources, and waste time and energy.

Legal, commercial, and ethical means can truly resolve the problem, just as open source software licenses address theft and piracy.

I think the better solution is as follows:

Create a license that prohibits or makes AI companies pay to use your content.

1. Include your license link in your `robots.txt` file, or create another file called `license.txt` in the server's root directory.

2. Include your data use policy in this file. You can prohibit data use or specify the conditions for use, such as payment, price, and duration.

3. If you require AI companies to pay for data use, publish your payment link on a page of your website.

4. If an AI company fails to pay or violates your `license.txt`, you can take legal action against them.

5. If you don't want to, don't have the time, or if litigation is ineffective, you can publicly denounce the company and damage its reputation. Don't underestimate the power of moral condemnation and business reputational damage.

6. It's easy to check if an AI company is using your content. If you confirm that, just take actions against them.

What do you think of this solution, or do you have a better one?
by johngossman | 2025-10-28 06:48:56+00:00
On the other hand, a lot more books are published now. There are a lot of books, especially in the genre of experimental literature, that are stranger and more difficult than this. I'd classify Infinite Jest or any of the Irving Welsh books as more ghoulish and harder to read, and those are almost mainstream compared to some things.

Popularity is another matter, but then literary fiction has never been popular, almost by definition, compared to genres: romance, mystery, etc.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-28 06:49:05+00:00
HIPAA anybody?

(1) they probably shouldn't even have that data

(2) they shouldn't have it lying around in a way that it an be attributed to particular individuals

(3) imagine that it leaks to the wrong party, it would make the hack of that Finnish institution look like child's play

(4) if people try to engage it in such conversations the bot should immediately back out because it isn't qualified to have these conversations

(5) I'm surprised it is that little; they claim such high numbers for their users that this seems low.

In the late 90's when ICQ was pretty big we experimented with a bot that you could connect to that was fed in the background by a human. It didn't take a day before someone started talking about suicide to it and we shut down the project realizing that we were in no way qualified to handle human interaction at that level. It definitely wasn't as slick or useful as ChatGPT but it did well enough and responded naturally (more naturally than ChatGPT) because there was a person behind it that could drive 100's of parallel conversations.

If you give people something that seems to be a listening ear they will unburden themselves on that ear regardless of the implementation details of the ear.
by bouke | 2025-10-28 06:49:39+00:00
~No it sadly doesn’t, so the double meaning will be lost in translation. If the lock depicted a pussy it would’ve worked though.~

After going over https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seksuele_volkstaal_en_eufemism... it seems that “bever” is apparently also used as euphemism. As is “floppy drive” TIL!
by janalsncm | 2025-10-28 06:49:54+00:00
The title of this article is misleading. The proposal is to charge by distance, since electric cars mean gas taxes don’t work anymore. That is the problem they are looking to solve.

It would be helpful if those who are opposed to this solution propose their own which addresses this specific problem.

I can think of a couple others, neither of which are great:

1. All freeways become toll roads. 2. Increase the gas tax even more, basically explicitly subsidizing electric vehicles.
by safety1st | 2025-10-28 06:50:10+00:00
Oh, but humans are actually not the source of all profit! This is where phenomena like click fraud become interesting.

Some estimates for 2025: around 20-30% of all ad clicks were bots. Around $200B in ad spend annually lost to click fraud.

So this is where it gets really interesting right, the platforms are filled with bots, maybe a quarter? of the monetizable action occurring on them IS NOT HUMAN but lots of it gets paid for anyway.

It's turtles all the way down. One little hunk of software, serving up bits to another little hunk of software, constitutes perhaps a quarter of what they call "social" media.

We humans aren't the minority player in all this yet, the bots are still only 25%, but how much do you want to bet that those proportions will flip in our lifetimes?

The future of that whole big swathe of the Internet is probably that it will be 75% some weird shell game between algorithms, and 25% people who have completely lost their minds by participating in it and believing it's real.

I have no idea what this all means for the fate of economics and society but I do know that in my day to day life I'm a lot happier if I just steer clear of these weird little paperclip maximizing robots. To reference the original article, getting too involved with them literally makes you go crazy and think more often about suicide.