MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lucideer | 2025-10-06 11:27:01+00:00
ADHD definitely doesn't help but I don't find there's a direct link between ADHD & why I procrastinate. The why is personal to me & unlikely to be the same for everyone but I find these kinds of tools & strategies are a means to ignore the why & "get by" without addressing any fundamental issues.

One example (of which there are many) is that external validation as a motivator is a big cause of procrastination in some people - working on things "for others" hits on a lot of complex issues around personal insecurities & ego. The idea that your work will be seen & judged can be a big factor in pressures & subconscious negative emotions around doing the work. Addressing motivation properly involves addressing those insecurities, rather than just "getting on with it" & using a temporary strategy to get it done.

That's an example, but it doesn't apply to everyone & it's never that simple for anyone.
by rolandog | 2025-10-06 11:27:16+00:00
Just yesterday I was talking with some friends about the disaster that neoliberalism has been.

I see billionaires as "water-balloon" (wealth) hoarders, and I see taxes on the rich as thorns on bushes. If the politicians ever wanted to make "trickle down" work, then we need thornier bushes and to make it impossible for rich people to not go through thorny bushes.

But the whole deregulation craze has made it so that the billionaires don't even need people to help them protect their "water-balloons"...
by jfyi | 2025-10-06 11:27:16+00:00
"This behavior is a function of the core AI technology we use, we are unable to resolve this issue with a standard software patch or update at this time.

For the time being this issue can be mitigated by not asking about seahorse emoji.

We are closing this support ticket as the issue is an inherent limitation of the underlying technology and not a bug in our specific implementation."
by mstaoru | 2025-10-06 11:27:19+00:00
> Big Tech is spending $364B on infrastructure instead of fixing the code

You mean CrowdStrike still crashes? Spotlight still writes 26TB every night? (Which only happened in beta, AFAIK...) Of course, they are fixing the code. Conflating infrastructure spending is not helpful.

The bitter truth is that complex software will always contain some bugs, it's close to impossible to ship a completely mathematically perfect software. It's how we react to bugs and the report/fix/update pipeline that truly matters.
by einarfd | 2025-10-06 11:27:23+00:00
In Norway the plates to owner database is public, and you can either use the free government service or for profit ones. To look them up.

Basically ownership of vehicles is not viewed as private information. So it isn’t covered by privacy legislation. But tracking where the car is, that is covered. That doesn’t stop, speed traps reading car plates, nor parking tracking with cameras. But that info can’t be sold for other purposes.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-06 11:28:21+00:00
It's not, the same thing happened even in the 1980s and 1990s. Think of it like "stolen valour".

Let's say you enjoy Skyrim. All the people are like "Yay Bethesda!". Bethesda gets the warm fuzzies (and lots of money)

Then PERSON X introduces the HORSE ARMOUR mod. All the people are like "Yay PERSON X!". PERSON X gets the warm fuzzies, and this keeps them going. To get the mod, you have to go to PERSON X's page on nexus, read their spiel, download their file, read their README, install it just right, and so on. That's a lot of time the masses are spending with PERSON X because... they changed a piece of Bethesda's game.

Now PERSON Y introduces the PERSON Y's MEGAPACK mod, which combines multiple mods and makes sure they work together. PERSON X's HORSE ARMOUR mod is just a single bulletpoint on the list, along with hundreds of others. They are mere datapoints, what's important is PERSON Y, because PERSON Y made sure all these other modders' stuff worked together, and used their taste and discernment to decide what was worth including or not. All praise now goes to PERSON Y. PERSON Y gets the warm fuzzies while PERSON X gets the cold pricklies. Boo!

Now do you see why PERSON X doesn't like PERSON Y's modlists.... for Bethesda's game?

A side piece about who's "stealing" from who in the 1990s demo and piracy scene, which cracks games and makes painstakingly pixellated copies of famous artworks: https://www.datagubbe.se/scenecop/
by benjiro | 2025-10-06 11:28:31+00:00
Those 3 plants had been running on "deferred maintenance" as the plant shutdown was planned years ago. Keeping the plants open will have resulted in a ton of money to maintain the safety of the plants going forwards.

This was one of the biggest factors in the shutdown. Even if the plants stayed open, multiple reactors needed maintenance (and thus shutdown of those rectors).

Remember, they kept the open even longer then the planned shutdown (what was already extended before).

And the issue with the prices was not nuclear. By the time those plants shutdown, market prices already stabilized to pre-war levels. I remember this clearly as my renewal of my electricity contract came up, and ironically, my electrical price was even 2 cent/kwh lower then my 2021 contract.

The biggest issue for the German industry was not nuclear energie, it was the gas. And not because of power generation but because gas is used in several chemical reactions, with basf moving their production to the US. And thus more costs because supply chain changes. The LNG that we import is more expensive then the ultra cheap Russian gas we got.

And THAT is a issue for the German industry. And even more so with the US pushing to be the sole EU supplier for LNG (aka to replace Russia and use their leverage on the EU).

Anyway, a lot of your opinion is based upon the wrong conclusion.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 11:28:34+00:00
> Ah, yes, true leftist belief that all evil arise from capitalism.

Strawman detected. That's not what the GP wrote.

> The moment socialism arrives there won't be racism or xenophobia.

And that makes two.

> It is as true as the belief that social dynamics can be explained without the notion of class and modes of production.

Ok, I give up.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-10-06 11:28:41+00:00
If today you told me all this about Enron or FTX while they are still an industry darling, I for one wouldn't want to bet against them. For every FTX where cooked books leads to epic failure, there is a Tether where cooked books lead to accidentally unwrapping an unlimited money tap through all sorts of dubious means.
by meindnoch | 2025-10-06 11:29:46+00:00
The demographic that frequents this website consists primarily of high-value individuals - people whose intellectual capital, financial assets, and global optionality set them apart from the general populace. For such individuals, maintaining a valid passport at all times isn't merely a matter of administrative diligence; it's a fundamental component of personal risk management.

Unlike the average layperson, whose life is geographically and economically constrained, the typical HackerNews reader operates in a global context: founders, investors, technologists, and independent thinkers whose livelihoods and safety may depend on their ability to relocate swiftly in response to geopolitical or societal instability. To them, "having an escape plan" isn't paranoia; it’s prudence.

When societal upheaval strikes, the median citizen might be refreshing their social feed for updates, while the high-agency HN reader is already scanning for visa-free entry options and considering which jurisdiction best aligns with their long-term values, tax strategy, and lifestyle design. In such circles, a valid passport (with no water damage) is not just a document - it's a symbol of mobility, sovereignty, and the quiet privilege of always having a Plan B.
by loose-cannon | 2025-10-06 11:32:57+00:00
If you just pick one of those subjects, you'll probably find a textbook just as long as his entire PDF trying to cover 13+ subjects.

Sorry to be negative Nancy over here, but you're going to need more than 54 pages to cover calculus. There is value in organizing the major theorems in the different disciplines. But, to be honest, this doesn't really serve the beginner.
by mk89 | 2025-10-06 11:33:55+00:00
The leader we didn't deserve?

Sorry but Merkel reached almost 50% of energy production with renewables. Germany was already a leader in 2021-2022 with almost 45-50%.

The idea was to grow "sustainably", and in fact it was functioning.

Even the "original" GEG comes from Merkel who was slowly pushing for a change.

Then somehow someone decided they had to restrict and punish and this was our "undeserved" Habeck and friends.

There was no need at all to disrupt the country into what it has become today.

Literally everyone said that. Only the Scholz/Greens government didn't see that.

EDIT: in fact, if we just reverted the commits to pre-2022 we'd be already in a better situation. No new changes. Just start from what was working. And well, keep the new solar panel stuff for balconies. It seems a nice idea (which a lot of countries are doing anyways, so nothing so innovative here).
by ColinWright | 2025-10-06 11:35:11+00:00
You need to be careful about this ... I believe that in France (for example) zero is regarded as both positive and negative. So in France:

Non-negative integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...

Positive integers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...

Similarly, for some countries "Whole Numbers" is equivalent to all the integers, while in other countries it's the set { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... } while in still other countries it's { 1, 2, 3, 4, ... }

There is no approach that uses "natural language" and is universal, and being aware of this is both frustrating and useful. Whether it is important is up to the individual.
by ramon156 | 2025-10-06 11:35:23+00:00
There's some weird opinions coming from mostly DHH. My personal take is that they're blatantly racist, but everyone can have their own

Here's some fun facts:

- DHH enforced a "No Politics at Work" policy.

- DHH wrote a post expressing that he wouldn't want to live in London anymore because it's "no longer full of native Brits", and expressed support for a Tommy Robinson march he called "heartwarming". Tommy Robinson is described as "an anti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists.". The march DHH praised featured speakers calling for ethnic cleansing via "remigration" and banning all non-Christian religions.

- DHH also promoted "demographic replacement" conspiracy theories and used language connecting immigration to crime, particularly regarding "Pakistani rape gangs" and street theft.

- DHH has been publicly critical of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives. This one isn't backed by facts, so take it with a grain of salt.
by tirant | 2025-10-06 11:35:39+00:00
All politicians follow their beliefs. They just become more problematic the more interventionist they are. And Habeck was extremely interventionist. On top of that he used his position of power to go against private citizens under the excuse of free speech. He filed 805 criminal complaints, in some situations just for being called an idiot online.

Nuclear energy pushback in DE was a result of the fear caused by Chernobyl in 1986. Refreshed by the Fukushima incident. The CDU was not brave enough to go against that fear. And Habeck just continued that approach even in difficult moments for the German industry. Nuclear is not cheap, but it’s stable, predictable, does not generate CO2 and if well planned, also provides self-reliance for the country using it.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-06 11:36:03+00:00
The problem isn't that people are cancelling - it's a drop in the bucket - but that investors are getting upset about it:

> The more than 1.7 million cancellations represent less than one percent of all Disney+ subscribers, but the timing is considered problematic. Just a few weeks earlier, Disney had promised its investors an additional 10 million subscriptions by the end of September 2025.

> Some investors are now demanding access to internal documents regarding Kimmel’s suspension to better understand the management’s decision. This puts the company under pressure once again to create transparency and more clearly disclose the development of Disney+ subscribers.
by oblio | 2025-10-06 11:36:39+00:00
The AI Bubble group (which I'm most likely a member of) also believe that the current added value of AI is obscured by anthropomorphization (regular people WANT the AI to be as smart as a human being), insane levels of marketing, FOMO from executive levels/shareholder/capitalists (basically) - all hoping to get rid of the cost of labor.

Outside of coding, the current wave of AI is:

* a slightly more intuitive search but with much "harder" misfires - a huge business on its own but good luck doing that against Google (Google controls its entire LLM stack, top to bottom)

* intuitive audio/image/video editing - but probably a lot more costly than regular editing (due to misfires and general cost of (re-)generation) - and with rudimentary tooling, for now

* a risky way to generate all sorts of other content, aka AI slop

All those current business models are right now probably billion dollar industries, but are they $500 billion/year industries to justify current spending? I think it's extremely unlikely.

I think LLM tech might be generating $500 billion/year worth of revenues across the entire economy, but probably in 2035. Current investors are investing for 2026, not 2035.
by raffael_de | 2025-10-06 11:36:48+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5-cWq1Lr4

https://youtu.be/-XItDbFSYBE

But to be fair ... it's a general problem with Die Grünen.

https://youtu.be/DbzRY9VF2zE?t=724

Reality is just a nuisance.
by cnnlives546 | 2025-10-06 11:37:13+00:00
> I'm doing the same, or at least trying to do it.

This post gives me hope as someone with ADD. I have a MTHFR mutation and cross-dominant eye, with a little autism spectrum, psychosis, OCD tendencies, depression, injury, sleep apnea, and insomnia.

I recommend eggs, spinach, potentially fasting, walking, and maybe some kind of fidget device.

I also recommend giving yourself a little slack.

If you’re like me, we don’t belong. We’re pirates when it comes to what’s expected of us. We don’t fit in. We’re made that way. We go all out until we can’t, and then we don’t until we do again. We’re hard on everything, but we care immensely and at the same time, we can’t feel. We exist to be that agent of randomness that does the unexpected thing that saves everyone that one time in a thousand.
by syntaxing | 2025-10-06 11:37:38+00:00
Fun read, but you probably could have installed mitmproxy with brew, pointed your IntelliJ instance through this proxy (you can either set it in your settings or run it with environment variable HTTP_PORT or HTTPS_PORT). This allows you intercept the request like wireshark and diagnose. You honestly can just intercept the interface request using wireshark but the learning curve is stepper.
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-06 11:37:40+00:00
Since you read this report in full, can you please give me the authors' names? I did read it (partially) and didn't find any name. I am, for sure, a beginner in NIST's reports reading, but I found out that a lot of NIST reports are signed (ie you can know who wrote the report, on behalf of whom if external contractor).
by commandersaki | 2025-10-06 11:37:56+00:00
Again you misinterpret, I said a big reason, not the only one. I'm also not just talking about the Trans rights part, it was also about censorhip and self-censorship. Take DEI for example, when you have a contrarian stance to the status quo (at the time) [1], you're villified and outcast. Then there is cancel culture. 1000 paper cuts and all of that, and you'd see people swaying their vote combined with Trump's rhetoric.

Also I'm not suggesting anyone has to learn anything from Trump's win, just stating the reality of what happened.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
by jstanley | 2025-10-06 11:38:52+00:00
Here's some evidence:

Oracle's share price recently went up 40% on an earnings miss, because apart from the earnings miss they declared $455b in "Remaining Performance Obligations" (which is such an unusual term it caused a spike in Google Trends as people try to work out what it means).

Of the $455b of work they expect to do and get paid for, $300b comes from OpenAI. OpenAI has about $10b in annual revenue, and makes a loss on it.

So OpenAI aren't going to be able to pay their obligations to Oracle unless something extraordinary happens with Project Stargate. Meanwhile Oracle are already raising money to fund their obligations to build the things that they hope OpenAI are going to pay them for.

These companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building AI infrastructure without any good idea of how they're going to recover the cost.
by shubhamjain | 2025-10-06 11:39:05+00:00
> I firmly believe the (economic) AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire.

This is what I don't like. Debating in extremes. How can AI have bad unit economics? They are literally selling compute and code for a handsome markup. This is classic software economics, some of the best unit economics you can get. Look at Midjourney: it pulled in hundreds of millions without raising a single dime.

Companies are unprofitable because they are chasing user growth and subsidising free users. This is not to say there isn't a bubble, but it's a rock-solid business and there to stay. Yes, music will stop one day, and there will be a crash, but I’d bet that most of the big players we see today will still be around after the shakeout. Anecdote: my wife is so dependent on ChatGPT that if the free version ever stopped being good enough, she’d happily pay for premium. And this is coming from someone who usually questions why anyone needs pay for software.
by jibal | 2025-10-06 11:39:53+00:00
Because he naturally assumed that you were attempting to say something relevant to his own claim rather than a complete non sequitur. Maybe in your head you intended to somehow make the point that they're not using the gift as bait but you didn't say anything of the sort so it wasn't your point as written. You also said nothing about humans and moose both being large land animals (and from the Orca's POV it's not likely that it considers humans to be land animals) and that therefore yada yada ... none of this was expressed.

(I see quite a bit of this, where someone is called out and then they say "my point was X" where nothing they had said previously expressed X.)
by jackdecker | 2025-10-06 11:40:29+00:00
I actually made a shortcut on my phone to do this. Maybe I’m missing some complexity here, but my running assumption is that TikTok only forces you to the app when opening a shared link. If you remove the entirety of the query string in the url (match everything before the ?: ^.*?(?=\?)) it opens fine.

If someone sends me a link, I copy it, and click on the icon on my Home Screen - here’s the link to that shortcut (iOS specific):

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6d62250b944d40f292142d1cdcf...
by ben_w | 2025-10-06 11:40:30+00:00
> because it can't learn from this experience as it doesn't have introspection the way humans do.

A frozen version number doesn't; what happens between versions certainly includes learning from user feedback on the responses as well as from the chat transcripts themselves.

Until we know how human introspection works, I'd only say Transformers probably do all their things differently than we do.

> A human who can no longer move their finger wont say "here, I can move my finger: " over and over and never learn he can't move it now, after a few times he will figure out he no longer can do that.

Humans are (like other mammals) a mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb
by slightwinder | 2025-10-06 11:40:48+00:00
> The fearmongers are the Greens who believe that nuclear reactors will generate 3 headed fish.

Nobody believes that, WTF?

> In the meantime, we increased energy production through coal

Partly true, but not really. Coal is also used for other energy-forms than just electricity. Nuclear Plants cannot cover those areas. In the grand scale, it might have been better to first reduce coal-usage and transition to purely electric usage, while phasing out of nuclear slowly and use the save money for building up on renewables.

But that was never an option with all the sabotages from the fossil anyway. Nuclear in Germany was never a real option, it always has been fossil vs electric, with nuclear being a minor source for electricity, weaponized by the fossil lobby against the renewables.
Can we and should we give LLMs a sense of Whimsy?
by watmough | 2025-10-06 11:41:07+00:00
I spent the weekend really nailing down my usage of my claude.ai Max plan such that claude creates systems and documentation in a way strongly aligning with my own tastes and inclinations.

And as a father of one quite autistic child, and likely being somewhat on the spectrum myself, my communication with the children involves a lot of absurd humor.

Has anyone thought really hard about whether we can make LLMs as funny and disturbing as, say, a Victor Lewis-Smith, or similar satirists?
by iamnothere | 2025-10-06 11:41:14+00:00
Because having to keep track of who might have noticed you on the map—then explaining your choices to them—is draining and makes you feel like you can’t make a basic personal choice without justifying it.

Because sometimes people can be unreasonable. (Bad day, drunk, generally difficult personality, etc.) The more people you add to your circle, the more you are likely to run into this.

Because it’s none of their business. You are not owed my time just because I’m nearby. That’s not a healthy boundary to have. Location sharing encourages “boundary creep” that forces you to more frequently justify and reinforce your personal boundaries, adding friction to the relationship.
by serbuvlad | 2025-10-06 11:41:18+00:00
Because if function foo's third flag parameter supports FOO_ENABLE_FEATURE_X starting from 2.31, and a program only occasionally calls foo with this flag, there is no good way to detect this incompatibility on a 2.30 system at link time.

The restriction is only annoying because there is no way to trivially link against an older "minimum requirement" ABI.
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-06 11:41:47+00:00
1) FWIW, asking GPT5 in french gives you the correct answer

"Non — il n’existe pas d’emoji spécifique pour les hippocampes."

“No — there is no specific emoji for seahorses.”

2) Then I asked the question in english, and ... it ended by saying "No — there is no official seahorse emoji in the Unicode standard." and referring to this phenomenon as the "Mandela effect".

3) I asked why it was clear in french, but not in english. It made a 3 minutes CoT and went on for some excuses.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e3acca-8db8-8007-8f95-8ae69ebf07...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-06 11:42:27+00:00
Man I wish I had a hobby like that instead of video games, lol.

(I'm very much into video games that scratch the same itch as software development does, but with games they give more instant gratification and they present you the next objective in a fairly structured fashion, but often without pressure. I've binged Factorio, now I'm back on Rimworld, where my people just do the tasks they are supposed to and only procrastinate when I allow it and / or when they have a mental breakdown from seeing too many dead bodies)
by WindyMiller | 2025-10-06 11:42:44+00:00
> all locations any given individual has been seen

This is perhaps another reason people in the UK might be more chill about ANPR: we're smaller and incrementally less carbrained, so to describe ANPR as tracking "all locations any given individual has been seen" sounds like wild hyperbole.

(Of course all our police forces are frothing at the mouth to roll out facial recognition everywhere they can, so kicking off a bit more about surveillance might not be a bad idea...)