MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmix | 2025-10-01 17:45:50+00:00
It works better in house for sure or with a good agency. There's a whole industry of fancy corporate design agencies that produce Figmas and developer-in-the-loop means going into lots of meetings with the consultancy managers and then waiting a week and a couple grand in hourly for them to produce something that needs to be fixed again.

But ignoring those fixable processes and hiring issues, there is plenty to be said about the new world of isolated islands of UI/UX designers, frontend, backend teams. I blame Javascript/React eating the world more than Figma. React/Vue opened up a whole hyper complex world of UI design and shit rolls downhill from UI->frontend->backend->users (mostly via performance/complexity).
by oehpr | 2025-10-01 17:46:59+00:00
Because for most people, someone reacting with disinterest for the thing they care about is a rare and upsetting event, not their entire life's experience. That's what it means to be "normal", you align better with your peers. Most people don't need what you need. Most people can work with what you can not. You are choosing to be the exception. You chose to be like this, so unchoose it and stop being a problem.

Of course... That's the quiet part. The out loud part is just dismissing everything you say and passing you over for promotion.

The objections you have raised, the things you have said. I really understand what you mean. There's evidence all around that the aspects of our experience isn't alien at all. Why can't others see that? At this point I think that not seeing it is necessary mental infrastructure for some people. It's a bridge over an abyss that for us broke.

I think the solace I get is that this line of work tends to funnel people of our disposition into it. So we find ourselves less alone than we normally would.
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-01 17:47:00+00:00
If you feel like this, you may be on the spectrum (not an insult btw).

Masking for neuro typical people is very easy, even if emotionally draining. My wife is the perfect example - her personality is to be nice to everyone and to connect with people. A lot of times this leads to prolonged conversations with people, which then she complains about, but its basically like saying you are tired after going on a long bike ride - there is some enjoyment in the activity.

Whereas for neuro-spicy people, masking is the equivalent of spilling seeds on the floor and having to pick up each one with tweezers to put them back. Its both exhausting and not enjoyable.
by eesmith | 2025-10-01 17:47:19+00:00
Python original purpose was as a scripting language for Amoeba. Yes, it was strongly influenced by ABC, an introduction programming language which van Rossum helped implement, but that was a different language.

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-was-python-cr...

""I was working in the Amoeba distributed operating system group at CWI. We needed a better way to do system administration than by writing either C programs or Bourne shell scripts, since Amoeba had its own system call interface which wasn't easily accessible from the Bourne shell. My experience with error handling in Amoeba made me acutely aware of the importance of exceptions as a programming language feature.

It occurred to me that a scripting language with a syntax like ABC but with access to the Amoeba system calls would fill the need."""
by internetter | 2025-10-01 17:47:29+00:00
> It became popular because it was easy to learn, and a lot nicer to use than the other big scripting language ... I would routinely find non-engineers and non-programmers using it for their work, as well as writing libraries for their peers. ... many of them learned to program while in grad school.

Sure, and this is my argument. It is easy to start out with, which makes it appealing to academics without a CS background. But is this a good thing? Because then these academics without a CS background write monstrous, poorly optimized scripts compounded by a slow language, then use drastically more compute to run their science, and then at the end publish their paper and the scripts they used are very hard to adapt to further research because very rarely are they structured as modules.

Just because it is easy to write doesn't mean it is the most appropriate for science. It is not commonly acceptable to publish papers without a standardized format and other conventions. Students put in work to learn how to do it properly. The same should be true for code.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-01 17:47:38+00:00
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors is absolutely part of the federal government, and under statute is the same kind of part of the federal government as the FTC is.

The Federal Reserve System is a bit more complicated than the Board of Governors (but is also effectively part of the federal government, but a sui generis, highly corporatist part of the federal government, with direct involvement in an unusual manner by powerful private entities.)
by serial_dev | 2025-10-01 17:47:41+00:00
It’s built to make upper management happy with the facade of productivity, middle management employed, while they squeeze the most out of the workforce and keep up the constant pressure (endless sprints).

It’s not built for the product team (devs, designers, QA).

In some cases, coincidentally, it might be good for some neurodivergent folks, I guess…

…as long as they don’t mind the constant bugging for updates, interruptions, and constant pressure… I’m sure it’s an environment where people with ADHD etc shine.
by r_lee | 2025-10-01 17:47:50+00:00
I don't know but it doesn't impress me one bit? like I'm not trying to hate, but it just seems kind of like the model is given the track and then it tries to just follow it by matching words and then spitting them out, like as if it could talk about making a sandwich over some epic track and it'd sound the same?

like, LLMs are fantastic at generating patterns, so words that match and same with images etc.

But there's not much uniqueness? it's "impressive" like a savantic kind of ability to come up with rap, but it doesn't really product something I'd want to listen to..?

I listened to the metal thing and kind of the same thing?

It's very high fidelity, like the quality of the drums and etc it's quite impressive, but the vocals seem off? it's like a poem being read by TTS then transformed into "metal voice"

and kind of just an averaging of "metal music" kind of like stock photos and into a track, very formulaic

not to mention many metal bands etc they do formulaic stuff especially if they have an identifying kind of hit

But to me this is cool tech, but I wouldn't listen to it

I've listened music for a long time but I don't listen to a wide variety today, however for example with pop it can be very complex or very simple, but average or "almost" will really not make a good song, it can seem simple in hindsight but probably blood sweat and tears went into such songs, or creative energy that might never come back as strong.

just my raw thoughts though. it could be me being biased knowing it's AI, but I don't think so. I think my brain has kind of adapted to a point where I can feel if something is AI because it always seems super "average"/mid?
by jwildeboer | 2025-10-01 17:47:53+00:00
No AI, EU based, so respects the GDPR for all users, regardless of where they live, you can send PRs to make it better, is 100% Free Software, has its own Actions system that is also 100% Free Software, the logo is nice, you can become a member of the Berlin based association and have a direct vote on policy/feature changes.
by graemep | 2025-10-01 17:48:04+00:00
I was going to say this is BS, and that Gaileo's big achievement was not undermined by this argument.

I then found that what I was going to argue was his big achievement was not as original as I had thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pis...

On the other hand he still seems to have made a significant contribution to laws of motion in his writing, but I am not sure.
by EdSchouten | 2025-10-01 17:48:08+00:00
Yeah, that's true. Having some kind of chunking algorithm that's content/file format aware could make it work even better. For example, it makes a lot of sense to chunk source files at function/scope boundaries.

In my case I need to ensure that all producers of data use exactly the same algorithm, as I need to look up build cache results based on Merkle tree hashes. That's why I'm intentionally focusing on having algorithms that are not only easy to implement, but also easy to implement consistently. I think that MaxCDC implementation that I shared strikes a good balance in that regard.
by vkou | 2025-10-01 17:48:16+00:00
> It’s the dems that are refusing to govern in this case.

Congressional republicans are refusing to govern at the macro scale, by failing to enforce the law against the executive.

Congress has the power of the purse, but Trump has decided that he can just do whatever the fuck he wants with it, and violate the Hatch act. Why should the dems not use a filibuster against a congress that colludes with a criminal?

What other tools do they have to enforce the law?
by daxfohl | 2025-10-01 17:48:37+00:00
That seems off in my experience, but maybe it's different in different industries.

Either way, working around sharding and scale seems like a place where a good AI could help provide recommendations and tradeoffs, so it's disappointing that the model doesn't seem to deal with it well. For basic relational schema design, I don't see much benefit of having AI.
by hackyhacky | 2025-10-01 17:49:14+00:00
> not sure what that tells you exactly. Preference for what, monetary policy as opposed to commerce?

SCOTUS does not care about regulatory or labor protections, because the Justices are friends with and receive payments from the billionaire class (Leonard Leo, Charles Koch, Erik Prince) who benefit from weaker protections.

On the other hand, a corrupt Fed could lead to rampant inflation, which would devalue their 401k.

In other words, SCOTUS is motivated by self interest, not rule of law or justice.
by pino999 | 2025-10-01 17:49:17+00:00
Scrum is pretty bad for au-dhd crowd. It misses proper checks on business interference, which makes things even worse. It is constant pushing the worthless points (why not a time unit), kpi is about scoring points or useless improvements which have to happen anyway (merciless refactoring, yeah!). Devs could simply atomize every task and win this stupid game, but then you lose oversight and we get to lie number whatever. Everyone should be responsible, most people ain't generalists. They are specialists often.

Kanban gives more flexibility. Scrum seems to fall apart like that eventually leaving a power vacuum for tasks out bound of scrum. Active products have constant support questions.

Then you have SAFE, which is even worse. Waterfall but then even worse. Coordination seems to be very complex, the diagram is close to unreadable. Looks like a badly designed production street for its purpose.

That is a problem. For who is it created exactly?
by jmclnx | 2025-10-01 17:49:26+00:00
To be fair, it is almost impossible to get data out of SAP. Their "security" is all there to prevent users from doing anything useful. You have no access to the underlying database (like DB/2, oracle), you have to use their GUI or write a custom ABAP program.

But in most cases, the functions you need to call to write data to disk are usually closed off to developers due to "security". If you have access to the database (almost impossible to get), the data for the important tables are spread throughout multiple tables with names that look like names created from /dev/urandom.
by cardanome | 2025-10-01 17:49:50+00:00
> we have chemical imbalances and not nonsense medieval concepts

That is not how the brain works. The whole chemical imbalances thing is a gross over-simplification. Honestly how it is used in pop science is often very analogues to the medieval theory of Humorism.

> When it's often actually a lack of purpose, a lack of enduring value, being a standardized cog in a machine

If you are subjected to an toxic environment it is a very healthy and good reaction to be unhappy about this.

Yes, psychologist mostly focus on the individual. That is their job. They can't fix unemployment, alienation of labor and so on. Those are societal issues that need political solutions.

However, this does not mean ADHD, autism, PTSD and so on are not real issues.

If I lived in a perfect utopia, I would still have ADHD. If ADHD were made up, why do my genetic children also have a 40% chance of having ADHD? Why would that not be true if I adopted someone?

These are real and disabling things that need specific treatment.
by jrowen | 2025-10-01 17:49:57+00:00
I don't really talk about it, I don't go around telling people I'm autistic, whatever it is is minor enough that I'm able to mask easily, if anything I casually reference "my ADD."

I sometimes jokingly refer to "my spectrum," but I think that word is not great either because it implies a linear gradation, when I think it's a higher dimensional space like a personality star chart.
by palmotea | 2025-10-01 17:50:03+00:00
> I wrote an essay critiquing Silicon Valley’s obsession with calling technologies “inevitable.” I argue that inevitability isn’t a fact but a rhetorical move that erases agency and responsibility. What if we treated predictions not as destiny, but as challenges?

This essay?

You are right. And I'd bet Silicon Valley is aping this bit of neoliberal rhetoric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative.

> TINA (as characterized by explicit use of "there is no alternative" and declarations of necessity, inevitability, and irrefutability of certain policies) can be considered a political strategy in both democratic and autocratic regimes. Its rhetoric allows politicians to reduce the scope of available policy choices, limiting the expectations of their electorate and avoiding the blame for bad, but "unescapable" policies.

> TINA allows decisions to appear not as a political choice, but as a matter of adherence to universal truth and common sense. Due to the switch from public deliberations to following the expert opinions, debates are shortened, and therefore input of an individual voter is diminished, so TINA is politically paternalistic.

Tech salesmen want you to think you have no choice but buy what they are selling and that you cannot resist a world where they sell more.
by cryzinger | 2025-10-01 17:50:22+00:00
I don't mind at all! I started on Humira, switched to Remicade, now on Skyrizi. Remicade worked better than Humira for me, but it's a much stronger drug (and I worked my way up to a higher-than-default dose), so I was prone to some weird skin infections that I hadn't had on Humira despite both drugs acting on the same mechanism, and my immune system was weaker overall. Nothing serious, just annoying. And I wasn't actually responding that well to Remicade overall.

But Skyrizi has been way more effective so far and had almost no side effects, knock on wood. I say "almost" because I've had some different, milder skin infections (mostly seborrheic dermatitis) that I can't say for certain were caused/exacerbated by Skyrizi, but either way it's miles better than active Crohn's disease so I'm not complaining!

Obviously it depends on your particular condition and the drug in question, but my take is that unmediated immune dysfunction is worse for you 99% of the time than the side effects of any biologics used to treat it. (That calculus changes if we're talking about non-biologic options like methotrexate or steroids though, lol.) For example, when I was on TNF inhibitors, those come with a black box warning about how you might have a slightly higher risk of developing cancer while taking them... but that risk is still far lower than the inherent cancer risk from unchecked intestinal inflammation. Plus the fact that drug-induced cancer is (1) not a guarantee and (2) something you have a chance of beating, whereas choosing to suffer without effective IBD treatment would doom you to certain suffering and a very high likelihood of permanent bowel damage, etc.

Different drugs just have very different impacts, too. Even though I took Remicade and Skyrizi to treat the same condition, the latter is an older drug with a shotgun-ish approach to immune suppression (even more so than Humira); Skyrizi is much newer and more like a sniper rifle. Newer isn't always better, but monoclonal antibodies in particular have come a long way even in the past decade or so, and I'm optimistic they're only gonna get better and better. I actually just read this the other day, which you might find interesting! https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-make-an-antibody/
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by daneel_w | 2025-10-01 17:50:39+00:00
> "They are so fanatical that many groups are unable to use them."

I had open-sourced stuff there licensed under Creative Commons, which was forcibly removed. They do spell the license requirements out in their terms, I just can't wrap my head around the obstinacy. Calling it unhelpful do-goodery would be flattering. Fanatical is indeed the right word.
by idiotsecant | 2025-10-01 17:50:42+00:00
That's an interesting take. Most humans have a viscerally negative reaction to unmasked autistic behaviours, in the same way they might react to a strange spider. A mix of fear and disgust. You quite literally cannot build a life for yourself without masking unless you're already financially independent. Once you have enough power and F-U money, sure, go for it. In the meantime it's not really a realistic solution.
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-10-01 17:51:05+00:00
mab's get misinterpreted very easily, particularly because they tend to be useful in places where the non-technical (or low stats knowledge) people are the major stakeholders. Reporting on MAB functionality and output inline with other features without overcomplicating interpretation or leading to easy misinterpretation is an often underestimated task. Then allowing iteration on this without breaking any of the careful presentation or decisions made is a challenge for any MoC process.
by w10-1 | 2025-10-01 17:51:30+00:00
I think the concern is deep, deeper than mitigations like going up the abstraction chain from coding to design, or lessons learned from failure.

It's very, very difficult to really realize that one's sacrifice was meaningless or mistaken.

Effort - sacrifice - in particular is for the sake of something else; you burn your precious life/time for the sake of X, and then X doesn't work or turns out to be an illusion. You can console yourself with lessons learned, but it's a bit hollow. And worse, if you wasted someone else's time? Almost unrecoverable.

Then you're not only less useful (stale skills), but also less susceptible to going gung-ho on the new goal X', making you a poor candidate for any employers or investors since being resilient and formidable are necessary for any uncertain endeavor.

The Confucian Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) says "Every day, make it new" was inscribed on the bathtub of the first Shang dynasty emperor: 湯之盤銘曰：「茍日新，日日新，又日新

Traditionally, the solution was a kind of selflessness, where you realize that even if (as with Ecclesiastes) empires you build will fall into dust, you can still help others. But in an age where interactions reduce to endless scrolling and online forums, it's not clear where and how to do that.
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by Retric | 2025-10-01 17:51:54+00:00
I don’t recall the exact number, but well over half that have been in common use were eventually banned.

Edit Prior to this administration: Butter yellow, Green 1, Green 2, Orange 1, Orange 2, Orange B, Red 1, Red 2, Red 4, Red 32, Sudan 1, Violet 1, Yellow 1, Yellow 2, Yellow 3, Yellow 4 + some more in the really early days.

EU had a longer list including Titanium dioxide.
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