MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-10-01 20:15:29+00:00
Jesus! Frodo sounds like a bastard.

> Frodo's aggression was not limited to colobus monkeys and other chimpanzees. In May 2002, he killed a 14-month-old human child that the niece of a member of the research team had carried into his territory.[61] As a result, the Tanzanian National Parks Department considered killing Frodo.[61] In 1988, he attacked visiting Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson, leaving him bruised and scratched.[61] Frodo had a history of attacking the researchers observing him; Goodall was attacked by Frodo on multiple occasions and, in 1989, the ape beat her head so violently her neck was nearly broken.[61]
by mothballed | 2025-10-01 20:15:46+00:00
All the shitty covenants they put in much/most of even the shittiest of wasteland around me still exist though.

There was one piece of absolute shithole land I looked at because I was in the process of building a house.

Some dead guy decided to encumber it by requiring me to build a gigantic house if I wanted live there. Reversing it would require something as onerous roughly as getting all people in a 10 mile radius to stand on one foot while reciting the entire bible from memory. Technically possible so it holds up in court as not being a perpetual covenant, but for all intent in purposes was.

You would not believe how much land boomers basically ruined forever when they mindlessly engaged in some wack covenants back around the 80s.
by kragen | 2025-10-01 20:16:00+00:00
Except for the digital communication, inductance mostly helps you here, not hurts. You don't want submicrosecond rise times on your power rails.

I haven't seen modern SoCs with tightly integrated PMICs like you're describing, but they could certainly exist. But if they're not using an off-the-shelf chip, why don't they just integrate their power management functions into the SoC? Not enough balls?
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-01 20:16:01+00:00
Unemployment was 5% going into Trumps administration, which is basically fricional levels - US recovered quite well after Covid.

The "both sides" stance is almost worse than just being a conservative at this point. Dems routinely have to fix Republican fuckups, and are judged negatively on the things they don't fix - meanwhile Republicans are judged positively on the things they manage not to fuck up.

For example, the BBB has set Medicaid to expire in 2028. Anyone wanna take a $10k bet that if we have fair elections and Dems somehow win, they are going to get blamed for not fixing that?
by ChocolateGod | 2025-10-01 20:16:04+00:00
I have aspergers (not sure the term is even used anymore) and eye contact is very uncomfortable, but I try to do it (or fake, it as I have to wear glasses and can take them off) because in day to day life not having eye contact when having a conversation is seen as rude and the last thing I want is for everyone that I have a one time conversation with to think I'm rude.
by scoofy | 2025-10-01 20:16:05+00:00
My background is in philosophy and formal logic. The idea that python isn’t the #1 language used is insane to me.

Yea, I’m sure there is a lot of technical reasons to use other languages, but with python, you can just read it. I remember buying “learn python the hard way” about 15 year ago, and just looking through the book thinking… wait, I can already read this.

Natural language parallels are huge.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-01 20:16:06+00:00
{txid:"7abde7838e8db8ba98bf8b74be77a9e787be7b8bfb7b893", gas: 0.00015, query: "A", domain: "blabla.com", actual-dns-that-will-resolve-the-query: "8.8.8.8"}
by sitharus | 2025-10-01 20:16:08+00:00
yep, that's the most important thing about his operation of Boeing.

Both the 707 and 747 were "bet the company" projects, in particular the 747 pushed Boeing to the brink of bankruptcy. However both were major successes because they took a gamble on the future of the aviation industry.

In these days of "fiduciary responsibility" it's difficult to imagine any public company taking that kind of risk. Risk is what should make returns.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-01 20:16:15+00:00
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the... - Look at the 60 and older groupings. Those are boomers and older generations. The youngest boomers are about 60, so 15 years average remaining for them but potentially 20-30 more years of boomers as a significant percentage of the population.
by apercu | 2025-10-01 20:16:19+00:00
Man, I started building websites and doing CGI coding in 1994 and 1995, which makes me a very early web developer and I don't remember this time at all.

In fact, I stopped coding as a job when it became expected that I would do back end database & business logic stuff AND fiddle with front-end code to make it work/look the same in 3 very different browsers, and update the code each time (I'm looking at you Microsoft) a browser vendor would do something stoopid.
by seanw444 | 2025-10-01 20:16:24+00:00
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I have a very broad set of interests and technology experience that I've acquired over the years of experimenting. This allows me to get up to speed with new systems fairly quick. I'm interested in systems programming and more data-focused/backend type roles, though I do have some personal experience with UIs and frontend.

If you're looking for someone self-motivated and passionate about the field, I'd love it if you shot me an email.
by Spivak | 2025-10-01 20:16:25+00:00
1. Small programs that do a single thing and are easy to comprehend.

2. Those programs integrate with one another to achieve more complex tasks.

3. Text streams are the universal interface and state is represented as text files on disk.

Sounds like the UNIX philosophy is a great match for LLMs that use text streams as their interface. It's just so normalized that we don't even "see" it anymore. The fact that all your tools work on files, are trivially callable by other programs with a single text-based interface of exec(), and output text makes them usable and consumable by an LLM with nothing else needed. This didn't have to be how we built software.
by tolciho | 2025-10-01 20:16:34+00:00
Manifestations of the inevitable are older than what sillyvalley is cooking with (or coked up on), even older than the Manifest Destiny. Some pin it to the Renaissance, as opposed to the "dark ages" prior. Tagging the prior age dark (dark... that must be bad, right? We don't want to be on the bad team, right?) of course is a rhetorical move.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-10-01 20:16:58+00:00
Yeah this is a thing that gets me. Everyone has to mask because otherwise there'd be a more conflict over shit that doesn't matter then there likely already is during meetings and stuff.

Some of the messaging too is just... off-putting/patronizing. "Brave the grocery store"? I know social situations can be tough on people but it's not you're being asked to kill the chicken and process it or grow the veggies. Is resiliency so low that it's a battle to go pick up necessities?

Maybe I was blessed to grow up in a poor, not exactly stable household at least for a while.
by naasking | 2025-10-01 20:16:59+00:00
> When tech leaders say "AGI is inevitable," they're not describing reality; they're shaping it by discouraging attempts to coordinate.

No, they're describing reality. As I posted in another comment, progress in technology drops capital requirements for innovation. Even if there's global coordination to stop AGI development right now, progress in tech means that in 30 years someone in their basement could do what OpenAI is doing right now but with commodity hardware. Preventing this would require an oppressive regime controlling basic information technology and knowledge to an extent that isn't palatable to anyone.
by horizion2025 | 2025-10-01 20:17:32+00:00
What's up with the Galileo hate? Even if he couldn't derive the area of a cycloid, doesn't give justification to condemn a whole scientific career (Galileo is the most overrated figure in the history of science?!). Shouldn't Galileo be measured what he did solve rather than what he didn't... failing one problem is hardly proof of general incompetence. Besides, he's not really known as a mathematician but more for his works in physics, and he certainly isn't considered one of the great mathematicians of his time.

Just a few things we owe Galileo in physics:

* The principle of relativity. You might think that was Einstein, but the first theory of relativity was by Galileo in his 1632 "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" (before Newton was even born!). Galileo introduced this idea with a brilliant thought experiment: He asked the reader to imagine being in a windowless cabin on a smoothly sailing ship. He argued that no experiment you could perform inside the cabin (dropping a ball, watching flies, etc.) could tell you whether the ship was at rest or moving at a constant velocity. All the laws of mechanics would behave identically. This is the cornerstone of classical mechanics. In the context of special relativity, Einstein "merely" added 'the speed of light is c' to the list of laws of nature that hold in all inertial frames. But the general way of viewing laws of nature relative as being invariant to motion was Galileo's (the principle of inertia), and essentially the starting point for Newtonian mechanics. It doesn't seem like the work of someone only able to fiddle around with scales.

* The Law of Falling Bodies: The discovery that the distance an object falls is proportional to the square of the time. The first truly modern mathematical law of physics.

* Detailed telescopic observations: Moons of Jupiter, Phases of Venus, Mountains on the Moon & Sunspots, etc.
by boxerab | 2025-10-01 20:18:16+00:00
“We cannot hide away from human population growth, because it underlies so many of the other problems. All these things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if the world was the size of the population that there was 500 years ago.”

-- Goodall at 2002 WEF panel discussion on Amazon rainforest

The population 500 years ago was around 500 million. The only way we return to this level is de-industrialization.

Paul Ehrlich wrote "The Population Bomb" almost 60 years ago - all of his predictions turned out to be dead wrong.
by jasode | 2025-10-01 20:18:32+00:00
>Using your IC example: they became cheap because of massive government investment in the space program and military procurement, not natural law.

There is an underlying natural law to IC's being cheap without any government involvement because printing out circuits with chemicals and light like a photocopier is inherently cheaper than the alternatives of vacuum tubes or discrete components mounted on a board. (For non-trivial circuits where the count/complexity of components exceed the capital cost of lithography etc equipment.)

The privately funded researchers of Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor already knew integrated circuits would be more cost-effective before the inventions were finally solved. Eliminating the rising labor costs of wiring up old-style discrete components was the motivation to invent integrated circuits.

Therefore, it's not realistic to ponder an alternate history where a government bureaucrat in charge of military spending would have ignored the intrinsic physical properties of ICs and kept choosing vacuum tubes for 1970s F-15 and F-16 fighter jets because he believed "ICs are not inevitable because I have agency to make them not inevitable". Every other rational military on the globe would have chosen ICs which would make American equipment uncompetitive.

What government military contracts did was take intrinsically cheaper technology and fund more iterations to help make it even cheaper.
by rizzom5000 | 2025-10-01 20:19:00+00:00
This is just one example that was made public due to the federal case, but there is no doubt that this kind of activity is quite common in corporate America at all levels. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...

A solid understanding of behavioral psychology may make it obvious, but like you mention, one could also just open a newspaper.
by majke | 2025-10-01 20:19:34+00:00
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by dpark | 2025-10-01 20:19:41+00:00
> But is this some mild autism?

Everyone seems to self-diagnose as slightly autistic these days. “I’ve noticed that I have personal quirks. Must be autism. Couldn’t be that everyone has their own personal stuff to deal with.”

I think this is maybe related to imposter syndrome. “There are people who can easily do this thing that I struggle with. Maybe I’m not qualified./Maybe I’m autistic.”. This thought process assumes others aren’t struggling and also tends to look to those who excel rather than the average so it’s biased anyway.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-01 20:19:56+00:00
Almost anything can be a slur in some context.

Back in the '90s, people would say "oh he's 'special'" as a slur.

That being said, in a world like we live in today, pretty much anything you say or do will offend someone for some obscure reason that you just can't reasonably anticipate.

It's in these contexts that I think the most appropriate response is "get a life."
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-01 20:20:00+00:00
I'm not sure why you think that. From what I can see, the undergraduate college experience of today is basically the same as it was in the 1980s. And since then we've had the entire rise of the internet, mobile tech, social media, and all the rest of it. Kids still live in dorms and sit in lecture halls and listen to professors lecture. Why do you think it's going to be much different 15-20 years from now?

Sure there is a lot that can be done online, but that hasn't really impacted the fundamental experience of "going to college" for most young adults who decide to do that.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-01 20:20:06+00:00
We just cut a $20 billion check to Argentina. So that they could then undercut our soybean sales even further.

Edit: Guess I should add, now that China will not buy our soybeans, we are propping up a different country’s agricultural market, and are quite likely to soon cut a check to farmers who are struggling because of administration decisions.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:20:18+00:00
>It was Republicans who spent years promoting that unofficial nickname of "Obamacare" as an insult!

Thank you. It was picked up by many of the public as a popular term for a popular president. But I don't think I've ever heard any Democrat in policy call it Obamacare. Closest we get is maybe "Healthcare reform under Obama".

The original purpose of the term was always to stroke the flames of people who people who hated Obama. So that they associate Obama with "giving handouts".
by boogieknite | 2025-10-01 20:20:30+00:00
good plan training your kids to be adaptable

youre also right that todays world doesnt work

i think weve already moved too slowly in the US to prepare the societal changes were facing and culture is not adapting, but clinging harder to old expectations. i hope US culture shifts, even if its long overdue, but i dont think it will before many more dramatic economic events
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-01 20:20:50+00:00
> The person you described likely has a deficit in empathy

Sorry, but I have to correct this because it's a common misunderstanding. It's actually a name collision.

People on the autism spectrum struggle with theory of mind, which is also called "cognitive empathy." We can have difficulty understanding the mental states and emotions of others.

On they other hand, we're often higher than average on what's called "emotional empathy" or "affective empathy." Many autistic people get very distressed when others are unhappy or are suffering. For example, autistic folks are over-represented in the animal rights movements and other movements to reduce suffering.

Somebody who lacks empathy in the everyday use of the word is someone who does not care if others are suffering. That is not a symptom of autism, and never has been going back to the start of research on the topic.
by n0um3n4 | 2025-10-01 20:21:42+00:00
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by altairprime | 2025-10-01 20:21:47+00:00
260k/yr at an effective tax rate of about 50%, so actual spendable/saveable money is only $130k in free cash; people wildly overestimate their spending / saving risk decisions based on pre-tax gross salary versus what they actually receive and can use, and at 11k/mo it’s easy to fall into the trap of spending it every month because it’ll be there next month too. The Bay Area is especially egregious about using up that post-tax amount but I stand by my advice to save 10x annual income before playing margin investor with interest rates.
by efitz | 2025-10-01 20:21:57+00:00
> ..except they aren't. The world is gradually slipping towards nosql databases and stepping away from normalized data stores

The 2010s called and want their database paradigm back.

NoSQL is definitely not the zeitgeist today. Graph DBs, KV stores, document DBs, and OLTP DBs are what is popular today- I would say that the two shifts I see in the 2020s is the rise of cache-as-database (eg redis) and an “all of the above” mentality rather than one-size-fits-all.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-01 20:22:11+00:00
>Sometimes you want one, sometimes, the other.

This is the part that the top commenter missed. Instead they decided that one format is "nice" and the other, by implication, isn't. I find PDFs a lot easier to keep organized en masse, I like that I can use them on any of my devices and it's easy for me to use them when I'm doing in-depth reading such as an ebook. Doubly so because my ereader also does text to speech and syncs across devices so I can read on my tablet while I'm on the exercise bike and then switch to listening to the same book on my phone with minimal seams and without losing my place. It is, in a word, nice.
by top256 | 2025-10-01 20:22:25+00:00
"They're describing reality" - No, they're making predictions about the future. If AGI requires 30 years of compute improvements as you say, then it's not reality, it's a forecast contingent on those 30 years of development continuing unimpeded.

As for "oppressive regime", we already do this for nuclear and biotech, and most people find it quite palatable! Nuclear materials are tightly controlled globally. Cloning humans is illegal almost everywhere. We've had the knowledge for both for decades, yet basement nukes and basement human clones aren't happening.

I'm not saying we should make it illegal, I'm just saying there are more gray areas than what's generally accounted for.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-01 20:22:36+00:00
I understand where you're coming from, and I would even agree with the denotation of every sentence in your first paragraph, but I think you're missing a lot.

Being "culturally dominant" is not a good thing for autistic people: it's not autistic voices that dominate, but mostly eugenics groups, with the occasional well-meaning (but usually uninformed) activist group trying to oppose the narrative. If you're familiar with the kind of "anti-racist" corporate training that's mostly just white guilt with a few racial stereotypes thrown in, then you know how far "well-meaning" can take you.

While we can draw many analogies to autistic masking, autistic masking is qualitatively different to the examples you've listed. We have other words for the other things (e.g. "talking white" is a special-case of "situational code-switching", and "staying closeted" is a special-case of something that I don't know a name for). You're skirting (and, I think, crossing) the line between analogy and appropriation in your first paragraph. (See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440873, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441925)

I'm not really sure what you mean by your "actually does the opposite" remark in the second paragraph, unless you're automatically treating this interactive description of autism made with care, by someone with personal experience of being autistic, as the kind of rubbish that's made by "well-meaning" ignorants for low-quality corporate training.

People with other flavours of neurodivergence have produced similar "simulators" (a kind of RPG, really). You might be familiar with Spoon Theory, originally devised to describe the psychological burden of living with lupus? That simulator is a TTRPG. I suspect that this simulator was made by someone who'd be classified as neurodivergent in respects not classified as autism.
by pmontra | 2025-10-01 20:22:40+00:00
Maybe you can automatically forward mails from that domain to Gmail and find a way to label them.

At worst you can write a mail client to do that by logging in, listing mails, mailing them to you and keeping track of what it already sent (sqlite?) They are very well known protocols with plenty of implementations, so probably a LLM can write the code with not much guidance.
by RestartKernel | 2025-10-01 20:22:42+00:00
I understand that marketing your tool for AI/agents is good business nowadays, but using the browser sandbox through WebAssembly seems way over-engineered compared to even a Docker container.

That being said, this would be good as a Coder alternative for basically instant on-boarding if the UX allows for it. Not to mention the great use this would get in a classroom environment, especially when all you've got are Chromebooks.

Impressive tech anyhow. Hopefully you'll find some business model that would justify open-sourcing this someday (other than a last show of goodwill after bankruptcy, as is how I unfortunately often learn about interesting projects).