MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 18:15:02+00:00
I found it a bit pretentious and name-dropping more than having a cogent point. AI is not simply going to take jobs where you just have to blabber stochastically. It can execute commands, call tools, write code etc. I think the author got caught up too much in the fact that the "Word" in the Gospel of John seems to align with the fact that LLMs process words. But it's really not a very deep connection.
by maxglute | 2025-10-01 18:15:05+00:00
We mustn't teach peasants how to read or write or else one day we'll live in hellscape of infinte unread inboxes and eternal september... both of which sucks, but much less than a world where masses were illiterate. Ai art/slop is just that for visual communication. Now it's supremely shitty this power is currently being monetized / controlled by a few, the same way communication material like papyrus and paper was jealously guarded/exploited before printing press proliferated, then the mistake that was the internet giving desemination power to every pleb. But there's free models out there and maybe (hopefully) in the not too distant from now the barrier to entry is accessible commodity level hardware and artists just have to eat shit and realize they've contributing to the creative common/canon like those before, i.e. world where monks/literati simply copied and duplicated work in pre copyright era because knowledge/expression, unless jealously guarded, was a collective resource to be built upon.
by bongodongobob | 2025-10-01 18:15:06+00:00
Agreed. In my experience, a lot of this has been the XY problem. C level has a legitimate need or problem, they think they've solved it by asking for technology Z and the people who actually know the systems aren't consulted. When they do push back, it's seen as not following orders, so now we have to shoehorn in some dumb solution that doesn't fit in with the rest of the env. It works, so leadership doesn't understand why it's a problem.
by kxrm | 2025-10-01 18:15:07+00:00
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by shadowgovt | 2025-10-01 18:15:10+00:00
I think this is saying the same thing as the author, with the possible exception that the author is operating under the assumption that curtailing one's career at a particular level is "losing." It isn't for everyone, and it's a perfectly rational decision to top out as a really good individual contributor or senior software engineer.

... but at some point in a corporate setting, the job becomes about people, not just technology, because all businesses end up being about people. Deciding not to address that sends a very heavy signal to anyone with authority to put a person in a position of high authority in a company that they don't want that authority. You can't just-write-really-good-code your way towards being CTO or senior VP of anything; eventually, you'll meet the challenge of "Someone else has another idea to do it, and maybe it's worse than yours or maybe it's equivalently good but optimizes along other axes than yours, and if your answer to them asserting we should all use their solution is 'I don't do politics' then the company will use the solution that was advocated for and better, worse, or indifferent, yours will be interpreted as under-supported and routed around."

> well it's their money.

And, indeed, for those of us who don't do politics, it always will be their money and not ours.
by elisescu | 2025-10-01 18:15:22+00:00
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by stego-tech | 2025-10-01 18:15:30+00:00
This, this, this, but with a few caveats I’ve learned for myself (both government politics and corporate politics):

* Politics in a derogatory sense is simply bad governance. It’s bad ideas leading to bad decisions, often supported by bad data or bad justifications. In government, that “bad” might be a shade of “-ism” (corporatism, fascism, authoritarianism, racism, sexism, etc), while in corporate realms it’s often either straight dicta from the executive team or manipulative malfeasance from bad actors further down the chain

* Good politics and good governance are indistinguishable from one another, by and large.

* If consensus is reached by those acting in the best interests of the organization in the long haul, everyone involved should feel fairly invigorated afterwards. That rush is what gets folks into politics more broadly, and is how movements grow

* Cooperation, historically, breeds more success than mere competition. Bad actors wielding politics as a cudgel generally try to deter others from participating because they desire competition as a means of preventing others from achieving success.

* Politics isn’t necessarily deceitful, as the OP gets into. It’s about building relationships and understanding goals, then acting collaboratively to achieve them.

* “Politics-free zones” only serve to enable the bad actors in a space, who use that label to advance their (often indefensible) ideals and clamp down on dissent.

A lot of us in tech need to do better with politics if we want technology to change the world for the better, instead of merely serve the whims of billionaire griftos or regimes hostile to human rights.
by giantrobot | 2025-10-01 18:15:38+00:00
> Challenging the idea that you need to mask to be successful. If masking is a recipe for burnout, then it actually seems like it's a strategy that will lower your chance for success. How much of the need here is self-imposed?

Masking is not always conscious, in fact it's largely unconscious. So many autistic people will go through their day around neurotypical people and feel burnt out by lunch and have no idea why. They don't necessarily realize they're burning tons of mental effort just talking to people or dealing with stimuli.

Autistic people learn to mask just to get by day to day. It's not like they got issued a "How to be Autistic: Masking for Success" guide book when they were born.
by exmadscientist | 2025-10-01 18:15:57+00:00
> 5. Being visible. If you do great work but nobody knows about it, did it really happen? Share your wins, present at all-hands, write those design docs that everyone will reference later.

And don't forget that when managers or seniors are involved, there's magic alchemy that comes from spreading the credit around. Suppose Bob works under Alice and Bob, mostly solely, accomplishes something significant. If Alice presents and takes credit for it, Alice might receive 1 credit point. If she presents it as Bob's work and never mentions herself, Bob will get the 1 credit point. But Alice will pick up some credit just for presenting (let's guess 0.5 unit), Bob will get the 1 point, and because Alice now manages Bob, whose stature just went up, she'll get an additional (let's guess) 0.25 point. So you've got 1.75 units of credit instead! Never be shy to give credit to others. You will benefit too!

(This is also one of the 11 Laws of Showrunning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867023 among other links )
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by badc0ffee | 2025-10-01 18:16:30+00:00
I worked on some Mac security software. WWDC and that first macOS beta in June dictated whether we were going to spend the summer on features, or on compatibility with the new platform. There were a few crazy years, like file protection in Mojave, system extensions in Catalina, and Apple Silicon and other changes in Big Sur. Not to mention yearly device management changes and UI changes like dark mode, completely reworking the menu bar icon, etc.

The Windows team never faced anything like this. Not only did Windows change slowly and with backward compatibility, but the users didn't upgrade right away, even if they were buying brand new laptops. But in the Mac world, a laptop bought in September/October is going to have the new macOS on it no matter what.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-01 18:17:15+00:00
Thanks for saying this. My sister was autistic, like, back in the 90s autistic, and it’s driving me insane to see this game passed off as some well thought out simulation. The scoring algorithm itself tells the story, literally everything is masking. This can be spun as “enlightening” if you’re looking to be educated, but it’s just not.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-01 18:17:16+00:00
Eh. Being honest with dyes there's a pretty strong distinction between "natural" dyes going through several extraction and purification steps but remaining more or less the same intact molecule found in something alive.

"Synthetic" dyes being the result of a long chain of steps and intermediate molecules which are usually ultimately sourced from things like air, petroleum, and seawater.

Science literacy is bad so people have problems articulating the issue of concern which is "it is fair to have concerns about novel chemicals making their way into the food supply which evolution has not had a chance to address", not that something not found in nature is automatically bad but that such things need to be introduced carefully.

People don't know science though so everything is turning into "if it's not found in nature it is a monster and unclean", which to be honest is fair to a degree for people who don't know being forced to accept things blindly and asked to trust that everything is fine from people who would gladly disregard dangers in exchange for a fraction of a cent in profit margin.

That doesn't mean they're making good decisions just that their fear is justified.
by catlover76 | 2025-10-01 18:17:26+00:00
> 2. Autocomplete for prompts was something we were skeptical of as well, but found it really useful internally to save time completing filenames of open code files, or tabbing to automatically include a recently opened file into the context. Goal here is to save you keystrokes. It doesn't use an LLM to generate the autocomplete.

Oh ok, thanks for clarifying. That indeed seems like would be helpful.

Should still be configurable to turn off though (like any auto-complete, right)
by timmg | 2025-10-01 18:17:26+00:00
Isn't there a sweet spot where solar is too much of your energy mix -- due to its intermittency? I think I read that once you get to like 40%, you need to spend a lot more on storage.

Is the EU also ramping up (battery?) storage? Or are they getting near the max of what they can do with solar? (Or do I have it all wrong :/ )
by Tamaybes | 2025-10-01 18:17:29+00:00
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by nailer | 2025-10-01 18:17:35+00:00
> Claude Code was fine in CLI and has a nearly-identical extension pane now too.

One of us is wrong here. Last I checked, the extension pane was a command line, that doesn't use macOS keybindings, reimplements common controls, uses monospaced text for prose, etc.

I don't mind particularly about the last two but 'cmd A' on my Mac highlight all the text in the Claude Code user interface, rather than the text in the text box, is annoying.
by TheFreim | 2025-10-01 18:17:39+00:00
> People deciding not to eat something because "it has chemicals in it" is a pretty ignorant take.

When people say this they are obviously not referring the the definition of "chemical" that a chemist would use. Pretending otherwise is exactly the "nerd-snark" mentioned above which makes people distrust experts because they clearly aren't intending to use the term "chemical" in a sense that would include substances like water.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-01 18:17:56+00:00
And, indeed, perfection of the craft involves politics: it's not just understanding the technical space, it's about, eventually, understanding why other people see that space differently, what their goals are, how those goals overlap or don't, and how technical choices feed into that social layer.

Back in the day, Chrome was about a sandboxed subprocess architecture that made for a more stable browser. It was also about breaking the back of the Microsoft monopoly and advocating for why people should bother to care (remember the comic strip Google commissioned?). Nowadays, if it weren't about politics at all, Chrome would still be the best choice because it's still technically very good.

But there's more to the problem than simple technical competenece.
by Glyptodon | 2025-10-01 18:17:57+00:00
It's true that different people require different amounts of effort to do and approach it with different tactics, but fundamentally almost nobody streams their inner monologue straight out of their lips, and I think when it does happen is actually much more associated with TBI and inhibition disregulation than ASD. (Which is not to say that it doesn't require a different approach or more effort for those with ASD.)
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by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 18:18:42+00:00
Calcium scores only reflect calcified plaque - not soft plaque. CTTA is what you need for that.

Particularly for people below ~45 with significant plaque buildup, calcium scores are often 0 or very low, because all of the plaque is soft.

This is one of the reasons CACs aren't used much in younger people - that plaque hasn't yet calcified.

Soft plaque is the dangerous stuff, too - most statins actually calcify plaque, but this stabilizes it and prevents it from rupturing and the chunks entering the bloodstream.
by thr0waway001 | 2025-10-01 18:18:53+00:00
It definitely feels like it.

It has lost meaning for me as a normie. It’s the same thing with the word “depressed” .

When I was in school in the ‘90s hardly anyone identified as such. These days, when I talk to my kid, and she tells me that so many people claim to be on the spectrum even though they seem ordinary.

It’s hard to know what it means since it’s so broad.
by skydhash | 2025-10-01 18:19:07+00:00
What you’re asking is the equivalent of “Why can’t I just press a button and have a plane takeoff, fly, and land by itself”. You can have a plane that does that, but only in a limited context. To program the whole decision tree for all cases is not economical (or feasible?).

ffmpeg does all things media conversion. If you don’t want to learn how to use it, you find someone that does (or do the LLM gamble) or try to find a wrapper that have a simpler interface and hope the limited feature set encompasses your use cases.

A cli tool can be extremely versatile. GUI is full of accidental complexities, so unless your selling point is intuitiveness, it’s just extra work.
by siavosh | 2025-10-01 18:19:13+00:00
I often find myself asking the same pair of questions "What are you doing? No, that's this situation's name, what is this really?", and it usually leads to "this is nonesense, it's paying civilizational debt based on a series of decisions that thousands of people made with no clue of where it would lead". Which then is usually followed with "what should you be doing?"...which depending on the day usually ends up being half-jokingly: "I should be living in a small community far from capitalistic excess."
by vidarh | 2025-10-01 18:19:20+00:00
I have aphantasia. I do not normally see things in my inner eye at all, but I still "imagine" things. I can draw things I imagine, even though I can't see them.

But I do see images while dreaming. It's very distinct from imagining things while awake and unable to see them.

And I have had one waking experience where I saw images as clearly as if I was looking at a photograph while awake, in a dark room, with my eyes closed during meditation. It was very different from when I'm dreaming.

This is not a "language thing". Until the experience mentioned above, I had gone ~40 years with no idea seeing things in your minds eye while awake was a thing at all.
by robenkleene | 2025-10-01 18:19:30+00:00
To address your point specifically though, Webflow is (at least from my perspective) the inevitable result of the line of thinking you're pursuing. So I'd be curious what you think of Figma vs. Webflow, and why those two products have their relative market positions.

I.e., "Tool A, used to design for technology B, doesn't output files in technology B format. [...] doesn't make much sense".

E.g., why not just use Webflow then? From my understanding, that's what it does, that's what it's made for.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-01 18:19:43+00:00
Extremely disappointed about the amount of ableism in the comments. Yes, some kids these days pick the autism label when they probably shouldn't, but that does NOT mean you get to shit on actually disabled people

Plenty of autistic people experience actual disability. And masking isn't just "what everyone does at work". Masking is a trauma response. Autistic people in genral have been abused for their 'abnormal' behavior to the point of being so traumatized that masking is not even a choice. They must hide for fear of further abuse and harassment.

Abuse such as "everyone's a little autistic" and "that's not a disability" or "you just want attention"

Making passing judgements on someone's disability that you clearly don't understand makes you a bigoted asshole. Stop it.
by jabroni_salad | 2025-10-01 18:19:49+00:00
I was looking at this paper which seems to have a bunch of citations. Different colors are associated with different flavors in certain countries.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13411-015-0031-3#...

But yes I think the food color is ultimately important to succeeding in the marketplace and we aren't going to be getting rid of food dyes in manufactured food anytime soon.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-01 18:20:39+00:00
Given how slow Python is, isn't it embarrassing that 0.2 + 0.1 > 0.3 ?

I have some test Rust code where I add up about a hundred million 32-bit floating point numbers in the naive way, and it takes maybe a hundred milliseconds, and then I do the same but accumulating in a realistic::Real because hey how much slower is this type than a floating point number, well that's closer to twenty seconds.

But if I ask Python to do this, Python takes about twenty seconds anyway, and yet it's using floating point arithmetic so it gets the sum wrong, whereas realistic::Real doesn't because it's storing the exact values.
by lblack00 | 2025-10-01 18:20:47+00:00
> When I was 14 I would have wanted to "shred at 220bpm" but today I wouldn't get my wallet out for that.

That's fair, essentially why I put "shred" in quotes originally is that shredding guitar isn't necessarily playing fast. You laid out a nice example with Superstition for that.

I don't see why that couldn't be implemented in some way (accenting specific notes and different sustain times).

What would be difficult is quantifying note attack exactly for XYZ's riff sections. I.e., what constitutes a relative baseline pick attack and the target pick attack. If we are using a float and define the "normal" attack as 0.5, then how do we know, for example, the first or fifth note in the iconic Superstition riff is 0.85? Is it empirical?

Either way, that is a lovely insight I will consider. Matching another guitarist's intonation down to a tee can be extremely difficult, but very rewarding.