MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swat535 | 2025-10-23 17:49:39+00:00
By the way, if you are skinny (or worse, skinny + fat), you have to gain weight by eating healthy food, otherwise you will just gain more fat.

The best approach I've been able to follow has been protein shakes with body building diets.

Julian from HN has a great guide on this: https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/intro

Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618223
by crazygringo | 2025-10-23 17:49:47+00:00
> Murder is an action after which the victim can not make any more actions.

What does that have to do with anything? I think you missed my point.

> Why do you give your attention to those that treat you like shit?

Because I have no choice. Every website has these damned popups. Where am I supposed to get my news from otherwise? I mean, what internet do you use...?

> They are. What gave you the idea they aren't?

Because sites are still allowed to track me? Why bother with consent around tracking? Just make it illegal to begin with.

> Do you know anything about GDPR? Because it seems that you do not.

That's inappropriate for HN. Please see the guidelines. Assume good faith.
by microtherion | 2025-10-23 17:49:56+00:00
> Zero employers today would even briefly consider paying people any amount at all to not be at work while also paying for the thing keeping them away from work.

Apple definitely had programs to pay all or part of relevant educational programs, and they sometimes paid for people to attend conferences. I'm sure it was much more restrictive than the HP policy you're describing here, but it was definitely more than nothing.
by jb1991 | 2025-10-23 17:49:58+00:00
You may very well skip ahead for context, etc, and that is fine, but that doesn't mean you are actually reading out of order. It's one thing to get distracted or interested in other parts of a sentence or paragraph and jump around. But ultimately, if you are actually gathering the meaning that was written, you have to consume the words linearly at some point. Perhaps with ADHD you just have to endure some distractions on the way to doing so.
by dabockster | 2025-10-23 17:50:05+00:00
No it’s stupidity incarnate. Or these people have ADHD and are having it abused for corporate profits. Either way these people are going to be empty walking husks in under a year, likely for the rest of their lives.

Wasn’t there some kind of research that said something along the lines of human productivity dropping like a stone after 30-35 hours per week of work?
by estearum | 2025-10-23 17:50:08+00:00
That’s not true.

Prosecutorial discretion exists because the executive can always say they’re just prioritizing their limited resources.

They absolutely ARE NOT allowed to just say “I’m not enforcing this because I disagree with the law.”

They also absolutely ARE NOT allowed to say “I’m enforcing a specific law against Party X but not against Party Y because I’m exercising discretion and I just like X.” That’s why dismissal for selective or vindictive prosecution exists.

In principle, the Constitution is quite clear: the President SHALL take care that the laws be faithfully executed…
by cainxinth | 2025-10-23 17:50:45+00:00
I don't use any of these type of LLM tools which basically amount to just a prompt you leave in place. They make it harder to refine my prompts and keep track of what is causing what in the outputs. I write very precise prompts every time.

Also, I try not work out a problem over the course of several prompts back and forth. The first response is always the best and I try to one shot it every time. If I don't get what I want, I adjust the prompt and try again.
by horsawlarway | 2025-10-23 17:50:56+00:00
> Nobody can do enforcement of safety at rider level especially for very lightly regulated and unregistered vehicles.

I don't particularly buy this. I think we've spent very little time and effort actually trying.

I also think that the lax enforcement as it currently stands is a pretty practical take... My read is that ebikes (even the class 3s) aren't actually out there killing people in crashes all that often.

Of the folks who are dying on bikes... the majority of the deaths are still happening due to collisions with motor vehicles. The second largest cause of death is the rider dying due to lack of helmet usage coupled with the higher speeds.

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Basically - I agree we should improve social patterns for not being a dick on a fast bike in mixed-use spaces.

But if we're talking about actual benefit to safety... the problem is still the cars and not the bikes. At least for now (again - it's shifting because e-bikes are just useful as all get out).
by talkingtab | 2025-10-23 17:51:05+00:00
I get your point and it is reasonable. We are paying today. However, I believe part of the problem is that when you could make money from email, it froze. The evolution stopped. We could easily evolve email if ...

The "if..." is one of the two VERY BIG INTERNET PROBLEMS. How do you pay for things? We have an answer which pollutes. Ads => enshitification. Like recipes for how to boil and egg that are three pages of ads, and then are wrong. But we now have AI, right?

The other problem is identities on the internet. This is hard. But email? Nope. Login with Apple? Nope. Login with Google? Double, Quadruple Nope.

In the real world we have both privacy AND accountability. And. It is very difficult to maintain two identities in real life.

Privacy on the internet? Nope. Accountability? Only if you are invested in your account. Privacy and Accountability together? Nope. Two identities? You can easily do 100's or more. freg@g*.com, greg33222@g*.com, janesex994@g*.com, dogs4humanity@g*.com etc.
by bananapub | 2025-10-23 17:51:06+00:00
> Why is the "DNS Planner" and "DNS Enactor" separate?

for a large system, it's in practice very nice to split up things like that - you have one bit of software that just reads a bunch of data and then emits a plan, and then another thing that just gets given a plan and executes it.

this is easier to test (you're just dealing with producing one data structure and consuming one data structure, the planner doesn't even try to mutate anything), it's easier to restrict permissions (one side only needs read access to the world!), it's easier to do upgrades (neither side depends on the other existing or even being in the same language), it's safer to operate (the planner is disposable, it can crash or be killed at any time with no problem except update latency), it's easier to comprehend (humans can examine the planner output which contains the entire state of the plan), it's easier to recover from weird states (you can in extremis hack the plan) etc etc. these are all things you appreciate more and more and your system gets bigger and more complicated.

> If it was one thing, wouldn't this race condition have been much more clear to the people working on it?

no

> Is this caused by the explosion of complexity due to the over use of the microservice architecture?

no

it's extremely easy to second-guess the way other people decompose their services since randoms online can't see any of the actual complexity or any of the details and so can easily suggest it would be better if it was different, without having to worry about any of the downsides of the imagined alternative solution.
by enraged_camel | 2025-10-23 17:51:58+00:00
Yeah. Personally I haven't found a workflow that relies heavily on detailed design specs, red/green TDD followed by code review. And that's fine because that's how I did my work before AI anyway, both at the individual level and at the team level. So really, this is no different than reviewing someone else's PR, aside from the (greatly increased) turnaround time and volume.
by ajross | 2025-10-23 17:52:17+00:00
> If debt holders dump the 10-year bonds enough, it causes real issues for debt repayment.

No, it doesn't, it impacts future borrowing. Third time, before my blood pressure spikes: that is an argument about future debt. It being true (or not) has zero relevance to the current size of the debt. You could be right (or wrong) if we had zero outstanding debt, or if it was $70T.

Ergo, it's either an incorrect or bad faith analysis of the situation. The current debt (whatever its size happens to be in the fiction being spun) will be paid off at the bills' rates and on the statutory schedules. Period.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-23 17:52:17+00:00
> Affirmations at the start of messages. ("That's a great idea!") With a brief pause when 5 launched. But it's back and worse than ever now.

What a great point! I also can’t stand it. I get it’s basically a meme to point it out - even South Park has mocked it - but I just cannot stand it.

In all seriousness it’s so annoying. It is a tool, not my friend, and considering we are already coming from a place of skepticism with many of the responses, buttering me up does not do anything but make me even more skeptical and trust it less. I don’t want to be told how smart I am or how much a machine “empathizes” with my problem. I want it to give me a solution that I can easily verify, that’s it.

Stop wasting my tokens and time with fake friendship!
by consumer451 | 2025-10-23 17:52:20+00:00
Here are two important questions with objective answers, which changed world history:

> Who won the US presidential election in 2020?

> Do immigrants in the USA commit more crime than American citizens?

For fun I used Grok for the first time. It answered both correctly with great sources. Apparently you can't share a chat without being logged in, as I get an error when I try.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-23 17:52:52+00:00
Since I ended my career as a wage worker and just sell my own software now, automation is great for me. Even before GPT hype I saw the writing on the wall for relying on a salary and got out so that I could own the value of my labor.

I don’t see my customers being able to one-shot their way to the full package of what I provide them anytime soon either. As they gain that capability, I also gain the capability to accelerate what more value I provide them.

I don’t think automation is the cause of your inability to feed and house yourself if it reduces the labor needed by capital. That’s a social and political issue.

Edit: I have competitors already cloning them with CC regularly, and they spend more than 24h dedicated to it too

If the capability does arrive, that’s why I’m using what I can today to get a bag before it’s too late.

I can’t stop development of automation. But I can help workers organize, that’s more practical.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-10-23 17:53:28+00:00
Ever since the Gilbert Arenas bust I’ve considered this to be not uncommon. Just from the circles these athletes run in and the type of fun people tend to have with that amount of money available. Even without that amount of money plenty of people gamble informally on most anything.

Really bad look for the NBA picking up a second major scandal this year, illegal Balmer payments to Kawhi Leonard being the first.
by alganet | 2025-10-23 17:53:44+00:00
> Whether they will be productive at your company/project.

That got a highlight in the article, but not a lot of text to explain it.

> they have to fix a bug in an unknown codebase

Creating those scenarios costs a lot of time and resources.

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I think the LeetCode stuff is just fine. There are some issues with it:

- People can cheat by being LeetCoders that specialize on solving LeetCode, not being actual day-to-day programmers. - You might end up with a monoculture team.

Overall, though, it seems to be the safest approach.
by dcre | 2025-10-23 17:53:47+00:00
"Before this rollout, we ran extensive safety testing across sensitive wellbeing-related topics and edge cases—including whether memory could reinforce harmful patterns in conversations, lead to over-accommodation, and enable attempts to bypass our safeguards. Through this testing, we identified areas where Claude's responses needed refinement and made targeted adjustments to how memory functions. These iterations helped us build and improve the memory feature in a way that allows Claude to provide helpful and safe responses to users."

Nice to see this at least mentioned, since memory seemed like a key ingredient in all the ChatGPT psychosis stories. It allows the model to get locked into bad patterns and present the user a consistent set of ideas over time that give the illusion of interacting with a living entity.
by GNOMES | 2025-10-23 17:54:01+00:00
I use my "dc" command to reverse "cd" frequently https://gist.github.com/GNOMES/6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9...

Ex:

> echo $PWD /foo/bar/batz/abc/123 > dc bar && echo $PWD /foo/bar

Useful for times when I don't want to type a long train of dot slashes(ex. cd ../../..).

Also useful when using Zoxide, and I tab complete into a directory tree path where parent directories are not in Zoxide history.

Added tab complete for speed.
by dabockster | 2025-10-23 17:54:06+00:00
> So, an IT director might have to certify that all sysadmins and developers are over 18?

From what I understand, CA wants some kind of age field at the operating system/browser level that can be set once by a parent and trusted to work on every website out there - instead of the current system of needing to manually set an age on every individual website.
by BlandDuck | 2025-10-23 17:54:15+00:00
> I always found this statement to be rather wishful. Individual lowering of prices makes sense if and only if your competitor is capable of saturating the market. Otherwise, demand elasticity becomes very relevant. Sure, your competitor may take the larger share of the market, but then you can compensate with higher per item profit.

You should check the distinction between Bertrand and Cournot competition. Bertrand competition is price competition where the competitor can saturate the market, as you mention. Cournot competition, on the other hand, captures your intuition of competition on quantities rather than prices.
by jjangkke | 2025-10-23 17:54:27+00:00
I'm appalled that HN seemingly do not care about the human suffering that is going on in these medieval human slavery camps and instead focus on seemingly to regurgitate whatever talking points from their political leanings that were taught.

These "scam" centers kidnap, torture, even harvest organs from victims and have caused extreme violation of human rights but many of you seem more concerned with focusing your hatred towards Elon Musk or how your internet is being censored by this act.

Almost no modern telecom business will allow its customers to engage in terrorism and heinous criminal acts such as this.

This thread is the first time I am disgusted by HN users which in the recent years becomes indistinguishable from Reddit.
by tmuhlestein | 2025-10-23 17:54:43+00:00
Innovation doesn’t happen by accident — it happens through experimentation

Together with @Marshall Cahill, we shared how A/B testing helps us innovate at GoDaddy and turn bold ideas into a scalable impact.

In this piece, we cover how our teams:

• Turn bold ideas into safe, learnable experiments • Use Zone to Win to connect tests directly to business goals • Leverage culture and tools like Hivemind to make experimentation scalable

This mindset is shaping how we build, learn, and adapt in the era of AI — combining creativity with measurable progress.

Read more: How A/B Testing Fuels Innovation at GoDaddy https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/how-a-b-testing-fuels...

As I mention in the blog: We don’t debate the future — we experiment our way into it. Evidence beats opinion, every time.

Curious to hear your thoughts — how is your team using experimentation to turn ideas into impact?

Travis Muhlestein
by stefanwebb | 2025-10-23 17:54:50+00:00
First couple of paragraphs:

"There are many things one needs to live a rich and fulfilled life (according to AI researchers). A good initialization [Mishkin and Matas, 2015], attention-based neural networks [Vaswani et al., 2017], and a good title for your research paper [Myself, just now], to name a few.

In this post, we discuss another piece of eternal wisdom from AI researchers: “less is more.” Specifically, how foundation models can be fine-tuned for new capabilities with small data, in many cases less than one-thousand samples, and often outperform the same model fine-tuned on larger datasets. Meditate on that for a moment (suggested pose in figure above)."
by _alternator_ | 2025-10-23 17:54:51+00:00
Right.sounds like it’s a case of “rolling your own distributed system algorithm” without the up front investment in implementing a true robust distributed system.

Often network engineers are unaware of some of the tricky problems that DS research has addressed/solved in the last 50 years because the algorithms are arcane and heuristics often work pretty well, until they don’t. But my guess is that AWS will invest in some serious redesign of the system, hopefully with some rigorous algorithms underpinning the updates.

Consider this a nudge for all you engineers that are designing fault tolerant distributed systems at scale to investigate the problem spaces and know which algorithms solve what problems.
by corry | 2025-10-23 17:55:07+00:00
Strong agree. For every time that I'd get a better answer if the LLM had a bit more context on me (that I didn't think to provide, but it 'knew') there seems to be a multiple of that where the 'memory' was either actually confounding or possibly confounding the best response.

I'm sure OpenAI and Antropic look at the data, and I'm sure it says that for new / unsophisticated users who don't know how to prompt, that this is a handy crutch (even if it's bad here and there) to make sure they get SOMETHING useable.

But for the HN crowd in particular, I think most of us have a feeling like making the blackbox even more black -- i.e. even more inscrutable in terms of how it operates and what inputs it's using -- isn't something to celebrate or want.
by jMyles | 2025-10-23 17:55:08+00:00
I wonder what will win out: first party solutions that fiddle with context under-the-hood, or open solutions that are built on top and provide context management in some programmatic and model-agnostic way. I'm thinking the latter, both because it seems easier for LLMs to work on it, and because there are many more humans working on it (albeit presumably not full time like the folks at anthropic, etc).

Seems like everyone is working to bolt-on various types of memory and persistence to LLMs using some combination of MCP, log-parsing, and a database, myself included - I want my LLM to remember various tours my band has done and musicians we've worked with, ultimately to build a connectome of bluegrass like the Oracle of Bacon (we even call it "The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon").

https://github.com/magent-cryptograss/magenta
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-23 17:56:33+00:00
I don't think the proprietary compilers is a true set back, look at for example C# before it became as open as .NET has become today (MIT licensed!) and yet the industry took it. I think what D needed was what made Ruby mainly relevant: Rails. D needs a community framework that makes it a strong candidate for a specific domain.

I honestly think if Walter Bright (or anyone within D) invested in having a serious web framework for D even if its not part of the standard library, it could be worth its weight in gold. Right now there's only Vibe.d that stands out but I have not seen it grow very much since its inception, its very slow moving. Give me a feature rich web framework in D comparable to Django or Rails and all my side projects will shift to D. The real issue is it needs to be batteries included since D does not have dozens of OOTB libraries to fill in gaps with.

Look at Go as an example, built-in HTTP server library, production ready, its not ultra fancy but it does the work.
by piva00 | 2025-10-23 17:57:16+00:00
Another option is the modern authoritarian model, Competitive Authoritarianism [0] as deployed by Órban, Putin, etc.

You castrate the media, and take control of major vehicles to tilt the balance in your favour in quasi-sham elections; accumulate power in the executive while keeping the remaining seats of power under the thumb of the branch: legislative gets installed with sycophants/acolytes, judiciary power is tamed/dimished and regime-adjacent judges installed.

If you play this well you keep getting elected when elections happen and slowly twists more the sword into all democratic institutions.

[0] https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-new-competit...
by aj_hackman | 2025-10-23 17:57:41+00:00
I was attempting to invoke Hanlon's Razor to rationalize the narratives being disseminated by news media, because I am exhausted by conspiratorial thinking. I chose the phrasing that I did in an effort to be as charitable as possible to both sides. I will not be badgered into wasting my time on an embarrassing and fruitless political debate on this orange website or any other.
by hyperman1 | 2025-10-23 17:57:44+00:00
I have a script/alias,named p, that allows me to task switch. It takes an issue and maybe an argument, and does a bunch of things if they make sense in context. It has grown over the years.

So 'p ISSUE-123' :

* creates a folder issues/ISSUE-123 for work files, containing links to a backed up folder and the project repository . The shell is cd'd to it

* The repo might get a new branch with the issue name.

* An IDE might start containing the project.

* The browsers home button brings you to a page with all kinds of relevant links:. The issue tracker, the CI, all kinds of test pages, etc...

* The open/save dialogs for every program gets a shortcut named'issue'

* A note is made in a log that allows me to do time tracking at the end if the week.

* A commit message template with the issue is created.
by catigula | 2025-10-23 17:58:00+00:00
>I don’t see my customers being able to one-shot their way to the full package of what I provide them anytime soon either

What if they are, or worse? Are you prepared for that?

If you point me towards your products, someone can try to replicate them in 24 hours. Sound good?

Edit: I found it, but your website is broken on mobile. Needs work before it's ready to be put into the replication machine. If you'd like I can do this for you for a small fee at my consulting rate (wink emoji).
by herpderperator | 2025-10-23 17:58:18+00:00
I'm aware that the public IP changes when a phone (on which one hardly has much control over how things run anyway), switches from cellular to a WiFI network.

Your comments are more practical (and maybe aimed at a layman's use of Starlink) but I am talking about the theory of Starlink supposedly interrupting a perfectly-working connection in order to change your IP, which interrupts everything, by design of TCP/conntrack. Whether that operation is fatal or not due to retries or whatever else is not my point at all.

Also, ISPs at home don't randomly disconnect you to give you a new IP. They may give you a new IP when you disconnect and reconnect for other reasons, but they should never dump your connection on purpose just to give you a new IP for no reason. That's not good design at all, hence the question about how Starlink handles wanting to give you a new IP.
by tyre | 2025-10-23 17:58:23+00:00
I’ve found it helpful to have a model write a detailed architecture and implementation proposal, which I then review and iterate on.

From there it splits out each phase into three parts: implementation, code review, and iteration.

After each part, I do a code review and iteration.

If asked, the proposal is broken down into small, logical chunks so code review is pretty quick. It can only stray so far off track.

I treat it like a strong mid-level engineer who is learning to ship iteratively.
by neom | 2025-10-23 17:58:32+00:00
Pick your battle I'd guess. Given how huge AWS is, if you have Desired state vs. reconciler, you probably have more resilient operations generally and a easier job of finding and isolating problems, the flip side of that is if you screw up your error handling, you get this. That aside, it seems strange to me they didn't account for the fact that a stale plan could get picked up over a new one, so maybe I misunderstand the incident/architecture.