MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-27 04:29:06+00:00
I find that hard to believe. You chose to put emojis into comments returned during script executions? You chose to store python scripts as strings in a TypeScript file rather than as python script files? You're even aware of the fact there are no python files in the project, rather it is strings in typescript files that get interpreted as python files, and you still refer to python files by filename in your comment like you expect it to exist in "your" codebase? You're competent enough to put together a project like this but then choose to use if-else for something solved better with match case? (LLM's do that since it's a recent addition to python and so LLM's avoid using match case, but humans rarely fail to use it)

Your medium article, your *.md and most of your code ALL looks LLM generated, which isn't as much a problem in my books, but lying about it is a huge problem.
by Klonoar | 2025-10-27 04:29:40+00:00
> I started running benchmarks only to realize that I'm significantly faster than Tokio.

In single threaded, sure. To my knowledge you're not faster in multi-threaded contexts.

> Rust developers program in terms of traits, and borrow checker behaviours.

You don't have to do that, though. People have experimented with other approaches besides what you see in e.g tokio.
by esperent | 2025-10-27 04:29:47+00:00
I know it sounds condescending but it's not meant that way: optimizing your diet, sleep, and exercise will have orders of magnitude more benefit than any supplement. Of course, orders of magnitude more effort than just popping a pill, too.

That's the blessing and curse of having a body. It enables you to do all the beautiful and crazy things that come with being a human, but it requires consistent daily maintenance - at least an hour of exercise, 8 hours of sleep, and whatever time it takes you to source, prep, and eat healthy food.

Supplements can supplement but not replace this. My money is on boring supplements being the only ones worth taking. Magnesium (not magnesium oxide, most other forms are good), omega 3 with a good ratio of DHA to EPA, and creatine for enhanced energy (but probably no direct memory effects). Maybe B vitamins.

Get blood work done, see if you're deficient in anything and supplement or adjust diet as needed.

Beyond these basics, everything else is basically snake oil or has such tiny effects you won't notice anything.

And no supplements can do anything to make up for deficiencies in diet, sleep, and exercise, and this becomes more and more true the older you get.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-27 04:30:06+00:00
>There's a lot of immigrants in my state but they're not upsetting me.

You might not think that, but have you ever complained about housing prices? That food at the grocery store costs more than it did a few years ago? The price of consumer goods in general?

Well, you're not buying those things. You're bidding on them. And the more people there are, here, the higher those prices will be bid upwards.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-10-27 04:32:50+00:00
I have 2000s web nostalgia, but I think the modern dot com and onward software SV was, frankly, mostly up to stupid shit. Not something to romanticize

Good things to look forward to are:

- Lean and mathlib revolutionizing math

- Typst replacing latex and maybe some adobe prosuc

- Fuschia/Redox/wasi replacing Unix

- non-professional-programmers finally learning programming en mass

I think the latter is maybe the most profound. Tech may not grow at a break-neck pace, but erasing the programmer vs computer illiterate dichotomy will mean software can way the world in much less Kafkaesque ways.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-10-27 04:34:12+00:00
This isn't quite accurate. If you look at the new IO branch[1] you'll see (for example) most of the std.fs functions are gone, and most of what's left is deprecated. The plan is for all file/network access, mutexes, etc to be accessible only through the Io interface. It'll be a big migration once 0.16 drops.

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/init-std.Io/lib/std/fs.z...

> Do I have to refactor? No, the old API works flawlessly

The old API was deleted though? If you're saying it's possible to copy/paste the old stdlib into your project and maintain the old abstractions forward through the ongoing language changes, sure that's possible, but I don't think many people will want to fork std. I copy/pasted some stuff temporarily to make the 0.15 migration easier, but maintaining it forever would be swimming upstream for no reason.
by etc-hosts | 2025-10-27 04:34:25+00:00
I'm sure this is going to be used by anarcho capitalist types and the media to say Milei's program of cutting public services is noble and great and here's the proof. I feel like I must be taking crazy pills though. If the Argentinian gov needs 40 billion from the US to continue functioning, how does that mean Milei's policies are working? It's like if I decide to use a car to drive 1000 miles, but I only buy enough gas for 500 miles, but a dude at the midpoint in my journey offers to lend me enough money for the next 500 miles of gas if I kick all Chinese people out of my car in return, and then I return and say see due to my amazing thought leadership my car has double the gas mileage now.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-10-27 04:34:26+00:00
In Japan, the popular sentiment on immigration tends to be grouped together with tourists and temporary foreign workers as a single category: foreigners. This is perhaps understandable but unfortunate, because tourists often are very visible and tend to make a bad impression, as most haven't studied the language or learned the numerous behaviour expectations. Bad experiences with tourists creates hostility towards immigrants, who are few and mostly do work hard to integrate and behave well.
by intended | 2025-10-27 04:35:02+00:00
Nothing will backfire.

A Reuters poll on the White House demolitions had a 63% approval for one question and a 40% approval rating for another question - from Republican voters.

As long as there exists a content economy on the right that does’t have to pay their dues to reality, you will not stop a political machine which is based upon fantasy.

The only thing that will cut through the noise is a recession, because that cannot be spun. Even then - that would just be a speed bump; eventually the recession will pass.
by barrell | 2025-10-27 04:35:27+00:00
I’m not sure if that’s a realistic ask. There is ample abuse of LLM generated content, and there are plenty of ESL publishers.

Personally I would recommend including a note that English is not your native language and you had an LLM clean things up. I think people are willing to give quite a bit of grace, if it’s disclosed.

Personally, I’d rather see a response in your native language with a translation, but I’m fairly certain I’m the odd one out in that situation XD
by sbrother | 2025-10-27 04:35:42+00:00
As a happy customer, I picked nanit because it actually worked. We didn’t even use the “smart” features, but “you can turn on the app from anywhere you happen to be and expect the video feed to work” is unfortunately a bar that no competitor I tried could meet. The others were mostly made by non-software companies with outsourced apps that worked maybe 50% of the time.

I wish we could have local-first and e2ee consumer software for this sort of thing, but given the choice of that or actually usable software, I am going to pick the latter.
by qingcharles | 2025-10-27 04:36:25+00:00
I had to just go find the details for the original 386 Unix server [1] I was running ~1995 because I thought it was running just fine on 8MB RAM, running an EFnet IRC node, FTP, MUDs and some early web apps. And... yep, 2 x 4MB SIMMs. Wild times. A single photo from my phone is three times that size.

(I later took that PC home and used it as the test machine for my own hobby OS, which had to run from a 1.44MB floppy because there was no other sane way to transfer the dev images from my desktop)

[1] One of these: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/75...
by Pamar | 2025-10-27 04:38:21+00:00
I think that what erased "programmer vs computer illiterate" dichotomy was BASIC in the 80s.

I've met lots of "digital natives" and they seem to use technology as a black box and click/touch stuff at random until it sorta works but they do not very good at creating at mental model of why something is behaving in a way which is not what was expected and verify their own hypothesis (i.e. "debugging").
by sublinear | 2025-10-27 04:38:51+00:00
It's pearl-clutching because bars typically aren't full of people with their assholes puckered quite so tightly and generally appreciate anything different than staring at the wall or talking to people they've known for years (do you remember?)

> Why go to lengths to extract feedback from bar goers if you don't think it matters?

We say this place isn't becoming reddit but man is this the ultimate moment to say "woosh"!
by drdeca | 2025-10-27 04:39:05+00:00
There is more than one way we could generalize the precedent previously set, imo.

None of the templates included with e.g. Word were for smut.

Word allowed you to type in smut, but it didn’t produce smut that wasn’t written by the user. For previous enterprise software, that wasn’t really a relevant question.

So… I don’t think it is obvious that the “Word lets you type in smut” implies “ChatGPT should produce smut if you ask it for smut.”

I guess precedent might imply “if you write some smut and ask it to fix the grammar, it shouldn’t refuse on the basis of what you wrote being smut”?
by jjmarr | 2025-10-27 04:39:46+00:00
I get your comment, which is that only the worst humans are going to suggest a steak place after you've stated you're vegetarian. And that ChatGPT does so as well.

I'm disagreeing and saying there's far more people in that bucket than you believe.

I know many people at my university that struggle to read more than two sentences at a time. They'll ask me for help on their assignments and get confused if I write a full paragraph explaining a tricky concept.

That person has a context length of two sentences and would, if encountering a word they didn't know like "vegetarian", ignore it and suggest a steak place.

These are all people in Computer Engineering. They attend a median school and picked SWE because writing buggy & boilerplate CRUD apps pays C$60k a year at a big bank.
by hinkley | 2025-10-27 04:40:04+00:00
The sort of clean that a functioning restaurant is, is something many people don't achieve at home.

I wonder sometimes if these arguments in software are less of an issue of lack of care for craft, and more just a fundamental misunderstanding that the sorts of arguments and compromises one makes with a roommate over what state the apartment is allowed to be in are simply not analogs for a professional setting.

I get the very distinct feeling sometimes that my mis en place rules are being received as if I'm whining about whether coasters get put away when not in use, and how long old magazines get left on the couch.

Nearly all of the fastidiousness I can manage in a day I save for work, so I'm very familiar with the other side of this conversation outside of the office.
by varenc | 2025-10-27 04:41:58+00:00
I self host my "baby monitor" with UniFi Protect on UCG-Max and a G6 Instant wireless camera. It's more work to setup, but pretty easy for a techie. It has the "turn on the app anywhere and it works" feature, and with a 2TB SSD I get a month+ of video storage. Because storage is local, it doesn't need to compress the video and I get a super clear 4K image. And I use Homebridge to expose the camera over Apple HomeKit which is a convenient and a more user friendly way to access it. And HomeKit also gives you out-of-home access with a hub. I love my setup, but I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to a non-techie friend, especially if they're sleep deprived from their infant.

But I do miss the lack of any baby-specific features like sleep tracking. It has support for crying detection, but that's it.
by TheDong | 2025-10-27 04:42:01+00:00
I identify with this, though I'm further along the path.

Coding was incredibly fun until working in capitalist companies got involved. It was then still fairy fun, but tinged by some amount of "the company is just trying to make money, it doesn't care that the pricing sucks and it's inefficient, it's more profitable to make mediocre software with more features than really nail and polish any one part"

Adding on AI impacts how fun coding is for me exactly how they say, and that compounds with company's misaligned incentives.

... I do sometimes think maybe I'm just burned out though, and I'm looking for ways to rationalize it, rather than doing the healthy thing and quitting my job to join a cult-like anti-technology commune.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-27 04:42:47+00:00
> most of the std.fs functions are gone, and most of what's left is deprecated.

uhhh.... huh? you and I must be using very different definitions for the word most.

> The old API was deleted though?

To be completely fair, you're correct, the old deprecated writer that was available in 0.15 has been removed https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.15.2/std/#std.Io.Depreca... contrasted with the master branch which doesn't provide this anymore.

edit: lmao, your profile about text is hilarious, I appreciate the laugh!
by photonthug | 2025-10-27 04:43:25+00:00
Outcome would depend on the rest of the test, but I'd say the "human" version of this answer adds zero or negative value to chances of being human, on grounds of strict compliance, sycophancy, and/or omniscience. "No such thing" would probably be a very popular answer. Elaboration would probably take the form of "love it" or "hate it", instead of reaching for a comprehensive answer describing the inside and the outside.

Experimental design comes in here and the one TT paper mentioned in this thread has instructions for people like "persuade the interrogator [you] are human". Answering that a green eggplant is green feels like humans trying to answer questions correctly and quickly, being wary of a trap. We don't know participants background knowledge but anyone that's used ChatGPT would know that ignoring the question and maybe telling an eggplant-related anecdote was a better strategy
by tgma | 2025-10-27 04:44:32+00:00
Yes, it might be very well be true that predominantly Republican population experience economy differently than the average Democrat population. They do different jobs, live in different geographic locations with varying density and urbanization and have different employment rates/seasonality. Inflation is not a single number and depending on what your life looks like may impact you differently.

P.S. nothing about your conclusion is obvious. Everything cited seems to be referring to one specific period (COVID/Biden era inflation) with no historical analysis, in which case the parties in charge had every attempt to portray their loss as "economy was good but perceived by idiots who didn't know better" so I'll take the analyses with a grain of salt from clearly partisan hacks.

Joanne Hsu, UMich: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?... and Politico is parroting the research.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-27 04:44:52+00:00
It also partitions jobs into physical and intellectual aspects alone. Lots of jobs have a huge emotional/relational/empathetic components too. A teacher could get by being purely intellectual, but the really great ones have motivational/inspirational/caring aspects that an AI never could. Even if an AI says the exact same things, it doesn't have the same effect because everyone knows it's just an algorithm.
by analog31 | 2025-10-27 04:45:04+00:00
Oddly enough, within town, they're remarkably tame. Maybe with enough humans around, they learn that we're not a threat, and it's costly to evade a non threat. Likewise the turkeys. My daily bike commute goes past a public golf course, and there's usually a pair of cranes there, sometimes with little ones. They ignore me.
by hekkle | 2025-10-27 04:45:15+00:00
To be fair, even ignoring the Robots.txt is illegal in most western countries. I was a technical witness a while back, for a case about a bot ignoring the robots.txt. I said it was akin to a peeping tom ignoring a "no trespassing" sign, creeping into someones backyard, and looking through their window. Yes, they actually did bypass security controls, and therefore illegally "hacked" the site by ignoring it.
by ben_w | 2025-10-27 04:45:24+00:00
Counterpoint: people were accusing each other of being bots simply for disagreeing with each other even back when Twitter was still called that. "Mr Firstname Bunchanumbers" etc.

(And we've been bemoaning "the lack of common sense these days" for at least as long as I've been an adult, and racists and sexists have been denying the intelligence of the outgroup as far back as writing can show us).
by Light_Hope | 2025-10-27 04:47:19+00:00
While you are correct in stating that an article III court generally is not required, the due process for immigrants, even those not present legally, is more complicated than just "check paperwork for legal status, act immediately". While in some cases expedited removal bypass the normal process, if a deportation is contested, due process still generally entails access to a hearing before an immigration judge (article II judge).
by maegul | 2025-10-27 04:47:56+00:00
Agreed. And I feel it fair to argue that this is the intended interface between proprietary software and its users, categorically.

And more so with AI software/tools, and IMO frighteningly so.

I don’t know where the open models people are up to, but as a response to this I’d wager they’ll end up playing the Linux desktop game all over again.

All of which strikes at one of the essential AI questions for me: do you want humans to understand the world we live in or not?

Doesn’t have to be individually, as groups of people can be good at understanding something beyond an individual. But a productivity gain isn’t on it’s a sufficient response to this question.

Interestingly, it really wasn’t long ago that “understanding the full computing stack” was a topic around here (IIRC).

It’d be interesting to see if some “based” “vinyl player programming” movement evolved in response to AI in which using and developing tech stacks designed to be comprehensively comprehensible is the core motivation. I’d be down.
by mindslight | 2025-10-27 04:48:37+00:00
> That food at the grocery store costs more than it did a few years ago?

> the more people there are, here, the higher those prices will be bid upwards

Who do you think is picking most of that food? And if the wages for those jobs went up to an American living wage, what do you think would happen to the price of food even with a bit lower demand?

I know it's all too easy and comforting to throw out knee-jerk comments cheerleading for government power, but at least try applying some basic analysis to what you write.
by nurettin | 2025-10-27 04:50:43+00:00
I continuously encourage others to do exactly this. It is a great learning opportunity. If they are not aware that they will get DoS'd now they will know. It's not like they will get PTSD from having to wait for OOM killer or losing their vps. You learned it that way, I learned it that wat, why not others? At least this way they will have real experience under their belt, not some online diatribe.
by zkmon | 2025-10-27 04:50:44+00:00
It may not be that hard to see where this is all going. At least with some precision. Think of global arms race, or industrialization. Humans and this planet did not need any of that. Planet did not need it, because when you look at these cities from a flight, they look exactly like wounds that disrupt the continuity of greenery and terrain. Cities and industries don't belong to this planet. And no need to say much about the silly arms race and business-driven tech that humans have.

AI is just one of those arms races that we imposed on ourselves, with desire to dominate others, or to protect ourselves from such domination. It is irreversible, just like the other things. It survives by using the same tactic of a cheap salesman - tell the first buyer that they can dominate the world, and then tell next buyers that they need to protect themselves from the first one.

We transformed our lifestyles to live with those unnecessary, business/politics driven "advancements". The saga continues.

BTW, electronic calculators, when they came up, did a similar thing, erasing the fun out of calculations by hand.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-10-27 04:50:55+00:00
Even the basic stuff like `openFile` is deprecated. I don't know what else to tell you. Zig won't maintain two slightly different versions of the fs functions in parallel. Once something is deprecated, that means it's going away. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/init-std.Io/lib/std/fs/D...
by totetsu | 2025-10-27 04:50:59+00:00
Rather than necessarily hateful (but not excluding that), whats happening here seems like brazen discursive manipulation for gain of political power at expense of a minority of the population. Power in Japanese society is in large part built on calculating and self serving behaviour, without any real integral morals or values.. so politicians are seeing this stuff work overseas, and know they can get away with it too now.
by themafia | 2025-10-27 04:53:35+00:00
It's not "completely false."

> South Korean companies have been mostly relying on short-term visas or a visa waiver program called the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA, to send workers needed to launch manufacturing sites and handle other setup tasks, a practice that had been largely tolerated for years.

It sounds to me like they had relied on a grey area. The most obvious conclusion is that pressure from the top down in ICE caused their agents to "hunt around" and look for "big arrests." When political pressure from South Korea mounted they had to reverse themselves.
by gameman144 | 2025-10-27 04:53:55+00:00
In the world we could assess this completely and with perfect accuracy, you're spot on that that'd be all that we need!

In the current world, though, due process exists because there are sometimes messy and fuzzy details that need evaluation. For instance, the date of an immigration court hearing might be delayed, or an applicant may be granted an extension. An immigrant may have received incorrect information and missed the proper steps through no fault of their own. If immigration enforcement skips due process but is working on even slightly outdated information, we're trashing the rights of people who may be following the process properly.

In the cases where an immigrant is clearly here illegally and there are no extenuating circumstances, deportation is already the thing that the current due-process does.

> Why would someone who has not committed a crime and is not accused of a crime need a court case?

Criminal court is only one type of use-case for the legal system, there are loads of other ones. The phrase "Civil court" refers to scenarios where no one has committed a crime and no one is accused of a crime, and these represent the majority of court cases.
by doug_durham | 2025-10-27 04:54:13+00:00
This seems to romanticize the past. I've been doing this for 40 years and I don't see that much has changed. I would code even if I didn't get paid for it. That said I've always seen writing code as a means to an end. I use GenAI every day to write code, and it brings pure joy when there's boiler plate that I don't need to write so I can focus on the fun stuff. There is zero value in me writing yet another Python argparse routine. I've done it and I've learn everything I'm ever going to learn about it. Let me get on to the stuff that I don't know how to do.