MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-28 07:06:42+00:00
This is not really accurate. I have lived in Athens. There were some years where burned dumpsters were not a rare sight (after the big riots of 2008), but it is really, really uncommon, especially considering the size of Athens.

And I have never heard anything (or were able to find something on google) about an island full of trash. Islands are simply too valuable for that, and you'd also need to bring the trash there by boat.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-28 07:06:56+00:00
Blume was the CEO of Porsche and VW up until weeks ago, when he gave up the title of Porsche CEO. VW is extremely invested into making regional cars, something which Blume heavily emphasized.

This is not about management not knowing, it is about the realities of Porsche as a company. Going back to ICE, just to habe Cars American consumers may want more, is not an option.
by 334f905d22bc19 | 2025-10-28 07:09:05+00:00
Since Rust is not directly hardware, here is a nice tutorial on some simple OS basics: https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en/

There was also some Rust specific OS tutorial somewhere that was written nicely, but I can't find it right now.

Also if you want to get real hardware, there is the neorv32 that has nice documentation: https://stnolting.github.io/neorv32/ https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32

It's a risc-v core written in VHDL
by kakacik | 2025-10-28 07:09:18+00:00
You write a new car, you write home repairs. I've never bought a new car, despite it being always an affordable option - they are simply too expensive, literally throwing money into fire. If you are a home owner, it means you are at least moderately wealthy, probably more.

If you ended up as a prisoner in some sort of golden cage, your own choices brought you there. Probably too late for you but a cautionary tale for others - dont go down that path unless you grok what it really means, its a decision for rest of life.

Also I never said don't work. Just dont be a prisoner of your company, with your rationale you already gave up the fight for yourself and ended up as a modern slave to... ability to afford health care treatment?

Maybe start some good sports, eat healthy and sleep well and healthcare costs will most probably not be your major concern till retirement.
by palmotea | 2025-10-28 07:09:22+00:00
> I personally don’t think I care if a blog post is AI generated or not. The only thing that matters to me is the content.

An LLM generated blog post is by definition derivative and bland.

> I use ChatGPT to learn about a variety of different things, so if someone came up with an interesting set of prompts and follow ups and shared a summary of the research ChatGPT did, it could be meaningful content to me.

Then say so, up front.

But that's not what people do. They're lazy or lack ideas but want "content" (usually for some kind of self-promotional reason). So you get to read that.
by telesilla | 2025-10-28 07:09:39+00:00
I left the Brothers to the last, after loving Dostoyevsky especially as a young person - his shorter books really speaks to the youth sense of rebellion while questioning that - and eventually I tried the Brothers several times, the last being this year on a very long car trip as an audio book. I just couldn't.. It's obtuse and the storytelling gets in the way. I stopped listening and succumbed instead to reading various reviews and summaries to get the gist of it. So thanks for your comment, and everyone else's here - I now understand a bit better the parts I skipped.

Is there a good film or TV production available?
by tantony | 2025-10-28 07:09:55+00:00
I was able to get pretty far using Clojure and this package instead of Scheme: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils

I was able to make "CloJupyter" notebooks with the examples from the book. You can see some of my notes here (only goes till Chapter 2): https://www.thomasantony.com/projects/sicm-workbook/
by copypaper | 2025-10-28 07:10:24+00:00
Yea exactly. The LLMs are tuned to natural language. I don't think anything will beat good ol' templating (a.k.a. plain text). In Go I do something like this:

// mytemplate.tmpl Description="The following data is for the users in our application." Format="id,name,role" length=2 Data: {{range .}} {{.ID}}, {{.Name}}, {{.Role}} {{end}}

This way you're able to change the formatting to something the LLM understands for each struct. The LLM might understand some structs better as JSON, others as YAML, and others in an arbitrary format. Templating gives you the most flexibility to choose which one will work best.
by 7moritz7 | 2025-10-28 07:10:42+00:00
> if people try to engage it in such conversations the bot should immediately back out because it isn't qualified to have these conversations

For a lot of people, especially in poorer regions, LLMs are a mental health lifeline. When someone is severely depressed they can lay in bed the whole day without doing anything. There is no impulse, as if you tried starting a car and nothing happens at all, so you can forget about taking it to the mechanic in the first place by yourself. Even in developed countries you can wait for a therapist appointment for months, and that assumes you navigated a dozen therapists that are often not organized in a centralized manner. You will get people killed like this, undoubtedly.

LLMs are far beyond the point of leading people into suicidal actions, on the other hand. At the very least they are useful to bridge the gap between suicidal thoughts appearing and actually getting to see a therapist
by eru | 2025-10-28 07:10:42+00:00
> HIPAA anybody?

Maybe. Going on a tangent: in theory GMail has access to lots of similar information---just by having approximately everyone's emails. Does HIPAA apply to them? If not, why not?

> If you give people something that seems to be a listening ear they will unburden themselves on that ear regardless of the implementation details of the ear.

Cf. Eliza, or the Rogerian therapy it (crudely) mimics.
by rekabis | 2025-10-28 07:11:12+00:00
> Even just basic automation/scaffolding of spreadsheets would be a big productivity boost for many employees.

When most of it is wild hallucinations? Not really.

For many employees leveraging Excel for manipulating important data, it could cripple careers.

For spreadsheets that influence financial decisions or touch PPI/PII, it could lead to regulatory disasters and even bankruptcies.

Purge hallucinations from LLMs, _then_ let it touch the important shite. Doing it in the reverse order is just begging for a FAFO apocalypse.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-28 07:12:25+00:00
> we shut down the project realizing that we were in no way qualified to handle human interaction at that level

Ah, when people had a spine and some sense of ethics, before everything dissolved in a late stage capitalism all is for profit ethos. Even yourself is a "brand" to be monetised, even your body is to be sold.

We deserve our upcoming demise.
by brucehoult | 2025-10-28 07:12:53+00:00
There is more than one dev board.

The Microchip "Icicle" came out in late 2020 with the largest FPGA in the range, made using pre-production chips. It was several years more before you could buy the chips themselves. Digikey says it's no longer manufactured and they're just running down stocks.

The BeagleV "Fire" is much cheaper ($150) and uses one of the smallest FPGA parts in the range.

GOWIN also has RISC-V FPGA SoCs (Arora V GW5AST series)
by motorest | 2025-10-28 07:12:56+00:00
> By your definition then every little part of “Amazon” is technically a separate “company” including every geo.

No. My definition is Amazon's actual organization chart as a holding. AWS is an independent first-level branch of direct reports of Andy Jassy, who was AWS's CEO before replacing Bezos. A similar branch is Worldwide Consumer, which groups what you think Amazon actually is, which means the online store, prime, books, devices, etc.
by kelnos | 2025-10-28 07:13:08+00:00
> This is how DEI should work, and probably does in some, or maybe many, cases.

It's hard to take these sorts of complaints seriously unless you can quantify in what percentage of cases we get the bad kind of DEI you describe.

Sure, if 90% of DEI is discriminatory hiring practices, then sure, that's a problem. But if it's 10% instead, then we should certainly call it out, but we should accept that, in any kind of initiative, there's going to be some bad behavior.

(Instead, of course, the right turns it into a culture war topic.)
by TomasBM | 2025-10-28 07:15:24+00:00
I see what you did there.

I think we'll still need ways to detect copy-pasted zero-shot content that's generated by LLMs, for the same reasons that teachers needed ways to detect plagiarism. Kids, students, and interns [1] "cheat" for various different reasons [2], and we want to be able to detect lazy infractions early enough so that we can correct their behavior.

This leads to three outcomes:

1. Those that never really meant to cheat will learn how to do things properly.

2. Those that cheated out of laziness will begrudgingly need to weigh their options, at which point doing things properly may be less effort.

3. Those that meant to cheat will have to invest (much) more effort, and run the risk of being kicked-out if they're rediscovered.

[1] But also employees, employers, government officials, etc.

[2] There could be some relatively benign reasons. For example, they could: not know how to quote/reference others properly; think it's OK because "everyone does it" or they don't care about subjects that involve writing; do it "just this once" out of procrastination; and similar.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-28 07:16:07+00:00
I feel like the introduction of React Compiler was a pretty big change, too?

The article seems to make the bloat self-evident by comparing the load times of identical apps and finding React magnitudes slower.

To be fair, I haven't written in React for a few years now. I reached for Svelte with the last two apps I built after using React professionally for 4 years. I was expecting there to be a learning curve and there just... wasn't? It was staggering how little I had to think about. Even something as small as not having to write in JSX (however normalized I was to writing in it) really felt meaningful once I took a step back and saw the forest for the trees.

I dunno. I just remember being on the interview circuit and asking engineers to tell me about useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, and memo and how they're used, how something like console.log would fair in relation to them, when to include/exclude arguments from memoization arrays, etc.. and it was pretty easy to trip a lot of people up. I think the introduction of the compiler is an attempt to mitigate a lot of those pains, but newer frameworks designed with those headaches in mind from the start rather than mitigating much later and you can feel it.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-28 07:16:08+00:00
> It should be simple enough to use the odometer.

The odometer lets the owner know whether the car needs maintenance.

Also, it determines the resale value of the car, and in this context modifying a car's odometer is a crime.

If you start fining people for having certain odometer readings, you're doing a lot of damage to the idea that modifying the reading should be a crime.

In general, the more purposes you want something to serve, the less effective it's going to be at each of those purposes.
by kakacik | 2025-10-28 07:16:19+00:00
Not happening anytime soon. Those product management types are more expensive than devs in most places, you would be literally a) increasing cost per hour worked; and b) stiffling the use of (pricey) management skills of such manager to do lower pay job.

I have no doubt some broken places end up in similar mode but en masse it doesnt make any financial sense.

Also when SHTF and you can't avoid going into deep debug with strong management pressure and oversight, it will become glaringly obvious which approach can maintain things running. And SHTF always happens, its only a function of time.
by max002 | 2025-10-28 07:16:43+00:00
Member it (southpark) :) one could learn some assembler by taking down those limitations and cd checks. Who would thought that it will be useful in reverse engineering malwqre in future? Hah...

Dont get me wrong, at that time very little ppl in my country had ccs to actually buy any software even if, they wouldnt give it to kids :)
by grebc | 2025-10-28 07:17:26+00:00
I think it’s a fair point to say it was considered as a serious threat to certain countries(US/Russia/UK/China etc). And militaries certainly did prepare for it. But other than Switzerland with all their bunkers - which society in all facets prepared for it, really?

WW2 with it’s restrictions & rationing, and almost all civilian economy/effort being redirected to the military is I think what a lot of people are wanting in my honest opinion.
by tsoukase | 2025-10-28 07:17:30+00:00
For the most part of Europe and USA the day is either "quite" long (summer) or quite short (winter) due to the curve of the duration. Having light for long summer evenings and dark for long winter mornings is bad for many reasons, one of witch is seasonal depression, with which the Scandinavians suffer and fight. I was for the abolishment of DST until COVID cancelled it in Europe but now I am thinking it again and probably I am against.
by saghm | 2025-10-28 07:17:58+00:00
So much of the discussion that happens around DST always end up coming across to me like they're based on people's subjective experiences that they seem to assume apply universally (or close enough to it to structure society around, with the assumption that only a small fraction of people don't experience things similarly). I don't think things are nearly so simple, and while having issues strong enough to be diagnosed with a condition like the ones I mentioned above is probably not super common, it seems pretty plausible to me that there's a lot more of a spectrum than just "people whose circadian rhythm perfectly matches the sun" and "outliers whose circadian rhythms are designed misaligned with the first group". It just doesn't seem obvious to me that the issue couldn't be that some people have different enough experiences in terms of their circadian rhythms that their optimal clock scheme might be an hour earlier or later than someone else, or that one person might be greatly affected by the total length of the sunlight in the day and another might be completely indifferent to it.

There are a number of disorders[1][2][3][4] that relate to circadian rhythm, and I don't think it's that much of a stretch to imagine that even outside the bounds of a diagnosable condition people's experiences might be a spectrum rather than a binary of "majority of people who would all have the optimal experience with the exact same scheme for how clock time should work" and "small fraction of outliers who wouldn't agree with the obvious best solution that everyone else would". It's absolutely wild to me how many people feel so strongly about the "correct" way to handle this that when examined basically boil down to "well, this is what would make me happy". I don't doubt that people probably are correct about what would work better for them, but I also don't think it's that crazy to think that it might not be that uncommon for two arbitrary people to have optimal clock schemes that differ by an hour or more, or that whether or not their optimal clock scheme might vary direct by the time of year, especially given that the length of sunlight in a day isn't at all uniform at different latitudes.

I don't pretend to know for sure whether DST is right or not, or what the correct hours to pick in the absence of it would be, but I can't help but be skeptical of an argument that it "needs to die and solves no problems" and that a certain time is the "correct" one because "I want <something>". It's totally valid to want and even argue for something, but that's not at all the same as anything else being automatically incorrect when your way of getting it is literally to enforce how time works for millions of people. Phrasing it like that just doesn't make it sound like your arguments are going to be very convincing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm_sleep_disorde...
by bad_username | 2025-10-28 07:19:34+00:00
I am surprised by this example, for the same reason.

Generally, performance is a top cause of abstraction leaks and the emergence of less-than-beautiful code. On an infinitely powerful machine it would be easy and advisable to program using neat abstracrions, using purely "the language of" the business. Our machines are not infinitely powerful, and that is especially evident when larger data sets are involved. That's where, to achieve useful performance, you have to increasingly speak "the language of" the machine. This is inevitable, and the big part of the programmer's skill is to be able to speak both "languages", to know when to speak which one, and produce readable code regardless.

Database programming is a prime example. There's a reason, for example, why ORMs are very messy and constitute such excellent footguns: they try to gap this bridge, but inevitably fail in important ways. And having and ORM in the example would, most likely, violate the "functional core" principle from the article.

So it looks like the author accidentally presented a very good counterexample to their own idea. I like the idea though, and I would love to know how to resolve the issue.
by urxvtcd | 2025-10-28 07:19:48+00:00
I have written a small system in Elixir adhering to FCIS. Not used to the approach, I was pretty slow and sometimes it felt like jumping through hoops set by myself, lol, but I loved it, the code was very clean, testable, and refactorable. Highly recommend it as an exercise, it was surprising just how much state and IO can be pushed out.
by motorest | 2025-10-28 07:20:06+00:00
> They might be bitter but evangelize Amazon products are their most marketable skills.

I think you are talking out of ignorance and spite. Most of the services used by Amazon employees are internal services that may or may not be on par with the state of the art. Apparently a big chunk of Amazon doesn't even use AWS at all, and instead use proto-cloud computer services that are a throwback from the 90s take on cloud computing.
by throwawaykf10 | 2025-10-28 07:20:20+00:00
At least in the US, it seems to be the lower-educated, rabidly anti-DEI faction that seems to be dragging everyone else down with them.

> DEI has given the unintelligent a platform on which they can attack the intelligent. The effects of diversity quotas on code quality are horrifying.

Very, very curious on what basis these claims are being made. Empirical studies would be ideal, but even some anecdotes would be illuminating at this point.
by xbmcuser | 2025-10-28 07:20:32+00:00
In my opinion the biggest use case for spread sheet with LLM is to ask them to build python scripts to do what ever manipulations you want to do with the data. Once people learn to do this workplace productivity would increase greatly I have been using LLM for years now to write python scripts that automate different repeatable tasks. Want a pdf of this data to be overlayed on this file create a python script with an LLM. Want the data exported out of this to be formated and tallied create a script for that.
by Zanfa | 2025-10-28 07:21:21+00:00
> Twitter works just as well as it did before Musk took it over.

Not true. The main reason I stopped clicking Twitter links in the first place was the abysmal chance of the tweet loading and not just displaying a generic "Failed to load. Try again?" after the takeover. I mean it occasionally happened before as well, but it became the default behavior.

It lasted long enough that by the time (over a year) they'd finally fixed it, the platform had deteriorated to a right-wing cesspool anyway.
by Lio | 2025-10-28 07:21:29+00:00
I have a Brompton and no bike lock for this reason. When I’m on my Brompton it goes where I go.

Actually I do have a “cafe lock”. Its purpose is just to slow someone down enough for me to catch them on foot. I’ve once successfully used the strap on my helmet for the same purpose in Barcelona too.

The illusion of security is really all you have.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-28 07:22:44+00:00
You can see this very visibly in things like the Marines combat fitness tests. [1] In any case where strength is directly involved the requirement for a minimum score for men tends to be near the standards for a max score for women. In that particular test the ammo can lift range is 62-106 for men versus 30-66 for women.

Obviously men are stronger than women and so different standards are reasonable, yet this is also the exact same reason (well, one amongst many) that militaries traditionally did not permit women to participate in direct combat operation. A unit is only as strong as its weakest link.

The US military is now moving towards gender-neutral standards, but that will take one of two forms. If standards are maintained then it will be an implicit ban on women from the most physically intensive roles, or it will be lowered standards for everybody.

[1] - https://www.military.com/military-fitness/marine-corps-fitne...
by qwertox | 2025-10-28 07:23:15+00:00
That article just kept getting better and better.

Also:

> “Sucks to see how many people take everything they see online for face value,” one Proven employee wrote. “Sounds like a bunch of liberals lol.”

So when a great product is not a great product, it turns out to be great alone for the fact of being built by republicans.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-10-28 07:23:43+00:00
> Go to parties.... One of the 5 biggest party days is this Friday, and with it being on a Friday it will be more intense.

You mean Halloween?

> Go to parties and have fun and meet people.

You mean standing with a glass of champagne in hand, smiling, and talking for the sake of talking? I don't understand how this is fun. I tried doing that, albeit without champagne, and that had not yielded anything other than an increased connections count on LinkedIn.
by jtrn | 2025-10-28 07:24:09+00:00
In our small firm, we did a review of the usual suspects when deciding which of the big players would be the right horse to bet on for the future when planing to rewrite our core application.

We ended up with Vue vs. Svelte and landed on Vue/Nuxt since we agreed they have the most intuitive syntax for us, and it seemed like the one with the best trajectory, technologically speaking.

That was one year ago. It's not moving as fast as I would hope, but I still think Vue/Nuxt is a better choice than React at least. This article seems to support this somewhat.

Also, I did a review (with the help of all the big LLMs), and they seem to agree that Vue has the syntax and patterns that are best suited for agentic coding assistance.

The wins with regards to "First Contentful Paint" and "size" is not the most important. We just trust the Vue community more. React seems like a recipe for a bloated bureaucratic mess. Svelte still looks like a strong contender, but we liked the core team of Vue a lot, and most of us just enjoy Vue/Nuxt syntax/patterns better.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-28 07:24:19+00:00
> Studies show that now 2. is worse than 1

This is a coherent claim, but it can't be summarized as "men face more discrimination than women do". Neither (1) nor (2) is an amount of discrimination.

It could be the case, for example, that there are twenty times as many jobs in male-dominated industries as in female-dominated industries, and that men and women apply to these in perfect proportion to their availability.

(Your more specific claim, women do not face any negative discrimination in male-dominated industries, will mean that the amount of negative discrimination faced by women is lower than that faced by men regardless, but this isn't a necessary part of the way you've constructed the question.)