MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2025-11-25 07:39:14+00:00
> tell that to a world that had devices put infront of them at a young age where dating is tindr.

Their ignorance has no bearing on this discussion.

> There are ways to scratch certain itches that insulate one from the negative effects that typically come from the traditional IRL ways of doing so. For people already scarred by mental health issues (possibly in part due to "growing up" using apps) the immediate digital itch scratch is a lot easier, with more predictable outcomes then the arduous IRL path.

It's pretty obvious that kind of twisted thinking is how someone arrives at "an AI girlfriend sounds like a good idea."

But it doesn't back up the the claim that "AI girlfriends/boyfriends are healthier than online dating." Rather it points to a situation where they're the unhealthy manifestation of an unhealthy cause ("people already scarred by mental health issues (possibly in part due to "growing up" using apps)").
by Terr_ | 2025-11-25 07:40:19+00:00
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11374696/

> language models are more likely to suggest that speakers of [African American English] be assigned less-prestigious jobs, be convicted of crimes and be sentenced to death.

This one is just so extra insidious to me, because it can happen even when a well-meaning human has already "sanitized" overt references to race/ethnicity, because the model is just that good at learning (bad but real) signals in the source data.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-25 07:41:57+00:00
Debian doesn't advertise itself as 100% open source, either.

Main and Contrib has to obey DFSG guidelines, and there's an optional non-free repository which you can enable if you prefer.

Firmware is a gnarly can of worms though, and while I prefer 100% free firmware myself, companies are not brave enough to open that part of their ecosystem, yet, if ever.
by cubefox | 2025-11-25 07:42:16+00:00
I really hated the depressing grey GUI of Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me. It looks like working in a dull grey concrete office with a grey PC and grey monitor while wearing a grey tie. I get that Windows XP and 8 look too colorful for many people (I like them), but Vista & Co, with their glass design, managed to avoid colors while still not making everything a drab grey.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-25 07:42:26+00:00
I was thinking it might be nice to add some insulation around some the pi's enclosure, to reduce its cooling significantly. A little bit to tamp down any potential rapid fluctuations in the room's temperature (if someone opens a window, steps out of the bath, whatever). But more so that it could save a watt or two of power, by having the time-burner cores working much less.

You're right that this is a over-controller oscillator. The goal generally with ovens is to keep heat! (To an extent of course.)
by silisili | 2025-11-25 07:43:20+00:00
Go is a weird one, because it's super easy to learn -if- you're familiar with say, C. If you're not, it still appears to be super easy to learn, but has enough pitfalls to make your day bad. I feel like much of the article falls into the latter camp.

I recently worked with a 'senior' Go engineer. I asked him why he never used pointer receivers, and after explaining what that meant, he said he didn't really understand when to use asterisks or not. But hey, immutability by default is something I guess.
by dotancohen | 2025-11-25 07:44:03+00:00
If we were on a planet with significantly lower gravity, walking would be much more difficult. Notably, on flat ground we absolutely must have an upward component to our application of force with the surface - this is clearly seen in videos taken on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions. This baby on a hypothetical lower gravity world would find standing easier, yes, but not mobility. At least not once he's taken his first few trail steps.
by dancehari | 2025-11-25 07:44:28+00:00
I remember those nights spent prototyping nanotech in Rice University labs as a non-PhD student, feeling both the thrill and frustration of research. The biggest challenges were funding and the assumption that PhD thesis holders had priority access to costly equipment like TEM and SEM. I wished for a system that valued creating real products as much as publishing papers.

Success should be judged by solving industry challenges, not just by publications. This shift would make academia feel more like startups—focused on innovation and meaningful impact instead of bureaucratic hurdles.
by nolok | 2025-11-25 07:44:30+00:00
It's always funny to me, the more you go into the depth of windows settings, the older the UI that start to show up.

Which makes sense, between the "if we change it we break it in some subtle way" and "we don't expose that in UI anymore so the new panel doesn't have it".

My understanding is that windows want to move to a "you can't configure much of anything, unless you use group policy and then you set everything through that" so they don't update the settings and don't include them in the new screens for 90% of the things, but then they have this huge moat of non active directory users who need to go into the settings and my god are they bad.
by lukan | 2025-11-25 07:44:39+00:00
The frustrating part is, with all the hype it is hard to see, what are really the working ways right now. I refused to go your way to live on the edge and just occasionally used ChatGPT for specific tasks, but I do like the idea to get AI assistants for the old codebases and gave the modern ways a shot just now again, but it still seems messy and I never know if I am simply not doing it right, or if there simply is no right way and sometimes things work and sometimes they don't. I guess I wait some more time, before also invest in building tools, that will be obsolete in some weeks or months.
by weatherlite | 2025-11-25 07:44:45+00:00
> So when should we start to be worried, as developers ?

I've been worrying ever since chatgpt 3 came out, it was shit at everything but it was amazing as well. And in the last 3 years the progress was incredible. I don't know if you "should" worry, worrying for the sake of it isn't helping much, but yes we should all be mentally prepared to the possibility we won't be able to make a living doing this X years from now. Could be 5, could be 10 , could be less than 5 even.
by bilekas | 2025-11-25 07:44:57+00:00
> It did matter to Mr. Turley and the product team. The rate of people returning to the chatbot daily or weekly had become an important measuring stick by April 2025

And there it is. As soon as one person greedy enough is involved, then people and their information will always be monetized. What we could have learnt without tuning the AI to promote further user engagement.

Now it's already polluted with an agenda to keep the user hooked.
by squarefoot | 2025-11-25 07:45:08+00:00
Given how easy is to put and keep hidden malware into devices, governments should demand openness in that field as well. By "putting malware" I don't mean script kiddies in their moms basement but malware/spyware planted by design, which is extremely easy to do if you're the manufacturer, extremely easy to demand/force if you're the government above that manufacturer, and extremely hard to detect if you're a different user in a different country under a government that didn't demand full openness. I know it's impossible as business rules go, but ideally it shouldn't be.
by userbinator | 2025-11-25 07:45:52+00:00
I think you're talking about two different things; "adaptives" are usually stored in EEPROM or the MCU's NOR flash, which is basically better-than-SLC levels of reliability, especially as they're written once and treated as ROM after that.

OptiNAND is a "SSHD" and thus has the same concerns with retention as an SSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive
by shaftway | 2025-11-25 07:47:14+00:00
It's much more than a 5% decline. I started keeping track of Harley dealers around 2019. When I started tracking, the website listed 1859 locations around the world. Of those, 58 looked like merch stores (no bike sales, no services), so let's call it 1801. The last time I updated my stats was 18 months ago, and the number was 1409. I just looked today and it's 1237. So that's a reduction of just over 31%.

I haven't plugged today's number into my analysis, but the 2024 numbers showed some countries hit much more disproportionately than others. All of the stores in Russia have been closed (for mostly obvious reasons). Almost all of the stores in Central America and the Caribbean have also closed (for not-obvious reasons). In the US I'd say the number looks somewhere between 5 and 10%, but again, that doesn't take into account the last 18 months.
by reverius42 | 2025-11-25 07:47:19+00:00
Thinking that a text completion algorithm is your friend, or can be your friend, indicates some detachment from reality (or some truly extraordinary capability of the algorithm?). People don't have that reaction with other algorithms.

Maybe what we're really debating here isn't whether it's psychosis on the part of the human, it's whether there is something "there" on the part of the computer.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-11-25 07:47:34+00:00
> Of course, you can simply replace employees or employers. You can also avoid other people you don't like. But if you want to maintain an ongoing relationship with someone, for example, a partnership, then you can't just re-prompt that person.

You can fire an employee who challenges you, or you can reprompt an LLM persona that doesn't. Or you can choose not too. Claiming that power - even if unused - makes everyone a sycophant by default, is a very odd use of the term (to me, at least). I don't think I've ever heard anyone use the word in such a way before.

But maybe it makes sense to you; that's fine. Like I said previously, quibbling over personal definitions of "sycophant" isn't interesting and doesn't change the underlying point:

"...it's possible to prompt an LLM in a way that it will at times strongly and fiercely argue against what you're saying. Even in an emergent manner, where such a disagreement will surprise the user. I don't think "sycophancy" is an accurate description of this, but even if you do, it's clearly different from the behavior that the previous poster was talking about (the overly deferential default responses)."

So feel free to ignore the word "sycophant" if it bothers you that much. We were talking about a particular behavior that LLM's tend to exhibit by default, and ways to change that behavior.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-11-25 07:48:37+00:00
Ding ding ding. What a surprise that a system designed not for human flourishing but pure profit would actually deliver massive profit with no regard for human flourishing.

Humanity will have to adopt new human-focused modes of living and organizing society, or else. And climate change is coming along to make sure the owning class can't ignore this fact any longer.
by gethly | 2025-11-25 07:48:41+00:00
Every language has an arsenal of footguns. Go is no different. I would say that overall it is not too bad, comparatively.

From all the listed cases, only the first one is easy to get caught by, even as an experienced developer. There, the IDE and syntax highlighting is of tremendous help and for general prevention. The rest is just understanding the language and having some practice.
by delaminator | 2025-11-25 07:49:06+00:00
The app version is iPhone only, you don’t get Code in the Android app, you have to use a web browser.

I use it every day. I’ll write the spec in conversation with the chatbot, refining ideas, saying “is it possible to …?” Get it to create detailed planning and spec documents (and a summary document about the documents). Upload them to Github and then tell Code to make the project.

I have never written any Rust, am not an evangelist, but Code says it finds the error messages super helpful so I get it to one shot projects in that.

I do all this in the evenings while watching TV with my gf.

It amuses me we have people even this thread claiming what it already does is something it can’t do - write working code that does what is supposed to.

I get to spend my time thinking of what to create instead of the minutiae of “ok, I just need 100 more methods, keep going”. And I’ve been coding since the 1980 so don’t think I’m just here for the vibes.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-11-25 07:49:33+00:00
You hinted to it but at what point are you basically giving individual oral exams to the entire class for every assignment? There are surveys where 80% of high school students self report using AI on assignments.

I guess we could go back to giving exams soviet Russia style where you get a couple of questions that you have to answer orally in front of the whole class and that’s your grade. Not fun…
by wafflemaker | 2025-11-25 07:49:36+00:00
Wow! Some years ago I was thinking about reasons for why people on ADHD/autism spectrum are different.

First heard somewhere (don't remember where or exact idea) that neurons initially form groups and these groups then perform functions. This led to an idea that if someone's brain sacrificed some "copy other primate" groups for "pattern recognition" groups, you would get a unit with higher IQ for non social use, without changing the brain to be more effective in general. This would come at a cost to social/copying skills. This idea doesn't explain "systems thinking" tendency or "not seeing forest for the trees" tendency in autist spectrum folks.

On another occasion, it occurred to me that regular brain run / loop consists of a short reality check and longer flow state. If there are too many reality checks, you get anxiety and can't work effectively. OTOH, too little realty checks and you get stuck on non important things. At the same time, impairing this "check to flow" balance in a safe (non anxiety provoking) environment would result in an individual that could perform the kind of deeper work with results not achievable by not modified individuals.

Have watched 50+ h of psychology lectures, but don't have any formal knowledge on these things so please take it with a grain of salt.

Edit: myself I'm formally on ADHD, and in personal opinion also on Autism spectrum. Just learned to "act normal" very well by the time I got into diagnosis.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-25 07:50:06+00:00
So hundreds of millions of dollars to be saved then, and that's just for the periodic upgrades, which are an up-front cost and therefore cost you even more in terms of time value of money.

Then as long as the system is in place you need to pay ongoing costs to repair and maintain the equipment, enforcement against anyone who skips the fare, payment network fees, customer service for anyone with payment issues or damaged cards, connectivity service for anything that needs to be networked, etc.

And the overhead percentage depends on the fares. If it was ~10% when the fare was $5, what is it when the fare is $0.50? Well:

> If fare revenue is now only about $20 million per year, does it even cover the cost of fare collection? The current ticketing system rollout was expected to cost $371m, but ended up at $434m – which appears to cover operations for 17 years from 2018… so $25.5m per year. [0]

[0] https://danielbowen.com/2025/07/11/brisbane-pt-patronage-gro...

And then what is it when that number hasn't included the time value of money or accounting for any of the operating costs?
by cess11 | 2025-11-25 07:50:42+00:00
One difference between "AI chatbots" in this context and common flight simulator games is that someone else is listening in and has the actual control over the simulation. You're not alone in the same way that you are when pining over a character in a television series or books, or crashing a virtual jumbo jet into a skyscraper in MICROS~1 Flight Simulator.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-25 07:50:44+00:00
The filesystem doesn't have access to the right existing ECC data to be able to add a few bytes to do the job. It would need to store a whole extra copy.

There are potentially ways a filesystem could use heirarchical ECC to just store a small percentage extra, but it would be far from theoretically optimal and rely on the fact just a few logical blocks of the drive become unreadable, and those logical blocks aren't correlated in write time (which I imagine isn't true for most ssd firmware).
by macypan | 2025-11-25 07:51:03+00:00
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by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-25 07:51:43+00:00
> Now if Valve actually made studios care about Linux, then yes, SteamOS would be interesting.

But that's exactly is what is happening - albeit at a small scale - but it's happening nonetheless. I recall Marvel Rivals for instance name-dropping Bazzite in their changelogs not too long ago[1], which was a first. I can't recall any major game mentioning a small distro, ever. Another big name is Baldur's Gate 3 - not only did they explicitly add support for Proton initially, they even released a native Linux version[2]. There's a bunch of other examples as well, but you get the drift.

We can only expect to see more such examples with the release of the Steam Machine. These are exciting times for any Linux gamer, and also Windows gamers looking to part ways with Microsoft.

[1] https://www.marvelrivals.com/gameupdate/20250212/41548_12113...

[2] https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?Number=958866
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-11-25 07:52:19+00:00
You can still do this for boot code if the error isn't significant enough to make all of the boot fail. The "fixing it by plugging it in somewhere else" could then also be simple enough to the point of being fully automated.

ZFS has "copies=2", but iirc there are no filesystems with support for single disk erasure codes, which is a huge shame because these can be several orders of magnitude more robust compared to a simple copy for the same space.
by vbezhenar | 2025-11-25 07:52:24+00:00
How newborn brain works is absolutely fascinating for me. I just don't understand how is it possible.

Human DNA contains 1.5 GB information.

Human body, including brain, gets built using this information only. So our "preconfigured" neural networks are also built using this information only.

And apparently it's enough to encode complex behaviour. That's not just visible things. Brain processes a humongous amount of information, it basically supports living processes for entire body, processing miriads of sensors, adjusting all kinds of knobs for body to function properly.

I just don't understand how is it possible just from a purely bit size approach. For me, it's a mystery.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-25 07:52:25+00:00
The real answer is: no one actually cares.

Very few people have the technical understanding required to make such a choice. And of those, fewer people still would actually pick SLC over QLC.

At the same time: a lot of people would, if facing a choice between a $50 1TB SSD and a $40 1TB SSD, pick the latter. So there's a big incentive to optimize on cost, and not a lot of incentive to optimize on anything else.

This "SLC only" mode exists in the firmware for the sake of a few very specific customers with very specific needs - the few B2B customers that are actually willing to pay that fee. And they don't get the $50 1TB SSD with a settings bit flipped - they pay a lot more, and with that, they get better QC, a better grade of NAND flash chips, extended thermal envelopes, performance guarantees, etc.

Most drives out there just use this "SLC" mode for caches, "hot spot" data and internal needs.
by discreteevent | 2025-11-25 07:52:42+00:00
"The notion of an interface is what truly characterizes objects - not classes, not inheritance, not mutable state. Read William Cook's classic essay for a deep discussion on this."

- Gilad Bracha

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-prospect-of-executi...

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf
by shaftway | 2025-11-25 07:53:08+00:00
I just sold my Harley (literally this morning). And you're totally right about the vibe. I had a 2017 Roadster (a much more upright bike than the cruisers you think of when you think of Harleys) and any time someone asked, I'd explain "I ride a Harley, but I'm not a 'Harley guy'". I would never roll around with other Harley riders.

I think the most telling thing was that when I priced my bike out, average mileage for that bike at that age was ~6500 miles. Which made my 52,000 miles a liability.
by leoedin | 2025-11-25 07:53:13+00:00
Paste and adhesive are spat out by KiCad as part of the manufacturing outputs. It works pretty much the same way other EDA packages like altium do - the extra layers are part of the part footprint. If you don’t design your own footprints it’s basically no extra work to generate those.

You almost certainly could do it - obviously with some time investment. Getting multi layer PCBs made is surprisingly affordable now.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-25 07:53:16+00:00
It does, but it also maps to the human world: Tokens/Time cost money. If either is well spent, then you save money. Thus, paying an expert ends up costing less than hiring a novice, who might cost less per hour, but takes more hours to complete the task, if they can do it at all.

It's both kinda neat and irritating, how many parallels there are between this AI paradigm and what we do.
by rjh29 | 2025-11-25 07:54:13+00:00
I have a T14s and recently bought an iPad Air and was blown away by how good the speakers and display are. (I understand the iPad Pro is even better) Speaker and display is just not a priority for thinkpad it seems. Noise cancelling headphones solve the problem for me.

OTOH with Linux you can get an OLED display and amazing speakers right now if you want!
by bayindirh | 2025-11-25 07:55:27+00:00
> Pretending they don't exist doesn't make them go away.

It's generally assumed that people who defend their favorite programming language are oblivious to the problems the language has or choose to ignore these problems to cope with the language.

There's another possibility: Knowing the footguns and how to avoid them well. This is generally prevalent in (Go/C/C++) vs. Rust discussions. I for one know the footguns, I know how bad it can be, and I know how to avoid them.

Liking a programming language as is, operating within its safe-envelope and pushing this envelope with intent and care is not a bad thing. It's akin to saying that using a katana is bad because you can cut yourself.

We know, we accept, we like the operating envelope of the languages we use. These are tools, and no tool is perfect. Using a tool knowing its modus operandi is not "pretending the problems don't exist".
by jaggs | 2025-11-25 07:56:04+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtePicx_kFY

"There's something still not quite right with the current technology. I think the phrase that's becoming popular is 'jagged intelligence'. The fact that you can ask an LLM something and they can solve literally a PhD level problem, and then in the next sentence they can say something so clearly, obviously wrong that it's jarring. And I think this is probably a reflection of something fundamentally wrong with the current architectures as amazing as they are."

Llion Jones, co-inventor of transformers architecture