MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tommit | 2025-11-27 12:25:39+00:00
tbh if I start worrying about poop particles in my day to day, I fear I'm one step closer to becoming a germaphobe. plus I feel if that's something that truly worries you, you'd start taking showers after each poop because clearly you will bring some poop particles with you when you leave anyway.

maybe this thread will end up being some kind of revelation, but I very much agree with the person you replied to. If I'm alone, I'm not bothered and the door may as well stay open
by frank_nitti | 2025-11-27 12:26:40+00:00
Hmm well I certainly inferred the same from their comment: it casts “big tech” as the victim of the government, because the latter forced as “overpriced and shitty solution”

It’s possible they’re not a capitalist and just extremely sympathetic to Apple and/or Google specifically, but that seems more of a stretch than what that commenter (to whom you’re replying) has inferred IMO
by Lerc | 2025-11-27 12:27:33+00:00
User interface changes are very difficult to do correctly. Or perhaps it might be better to say arduous. The principle you should follow, is no-regressions. Everything that users currently do, should be possible on the new system.

The reason this is hard is because you have to find out how the system is used. The mistake comes from believing the previous system does what it was designed to do, no-more, no-less. To users, the implementation is the design.

If a feature was provided that was not in spec by a developer exercising common sense. reproducing the spec might lose the feature. If the implementation architecture facilitated modes of operation that were not explicit goals, users will use those abilities.

Believing your description of the currently used system accurately represents how it is used causes this. You didn't get what you paid for, you got what was delivered.

I'm not even certain it is possible to fully discover every used aspect of a user interface, but the worst failures come from not even trying to find out, assuming that they know already. I suspect properly finding out what your current system actually does should consume the vast majority of your budget.

If you have an imaginary model of what the system does you will never be able to make a replacement, but people will still assume that their on-paper description is accurate. On paper the new system is clearly better.
by ColinWright | 2025-11-27 12:27:37+00:00
Too late for anyone to see this comment, and it's just a trivial bugbear of mine, but the article has this:

> "... meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours—a full light-day—to reach it."

They don't mean "a full light-day" ... they mean "a full day". They're talking about the time it will take, and "light-day" is the distance it's travelling.

A trivial type error that a compiler would barf on, that people will gloss over and not notice, but which niggles at me.

Sorry ... I now return you to your regular programming.
by joelreymont | 2025-11-27 12:28:52+00:00
This is an excerpt from the session where AI is writing my Lisp compiler. What do you call this? I call this doing what a competent developer does!

39/40 tests pass. The native reader works for integers, hexadecimal, lists, strings and quote forms. The one failure is symbol comparison (known limitation).

Based on the context summary and the user's note about cleanup, I should: 1. Continue Phase 3.5 self-compilation 2. Clean up the repo structure Let me first update the todo list and then investigate the SIGKILL issue more thoroughly. The issue is that combining reader source with file I/O code causes the executable to be killed. Let me check if buffer-to-string with reader works: Let me test specifically reader + file I/O combined (which is what the self-hosting test needs):
by saubeidl | 2025-11-27 12:28:52+00:00
The Commission is literally our elected government's representatives.

It's not some outside power. It's people our governments send there. And it's exactly the same amount of democratic as a ministership is.

> Yes, so foolish to ask people their opinion.

The average voter doesn't know everything about everything. That's the whole point of representative democracy, to elect a representative to deal with the intricacies of governance. That's how most democratic countries in the world are structured.
by 542458 | 2025-11-27 12:29:39+00:00
You don't need to split into multiple files to make large documents manageable, multiple pages works just fine (pages you're not using aren't loaded). But even still, I have absolutely massive pages with ~100 screens on them that work just fine on this base-tier M2 MBA.

Honestly given the complexity of the screens involved I feel Figma's performance is pretty reasonable. (Now, library publish and update - that's still unreasonably slow IMO)
by flave | 2025-11-27 12:30:28+00:00
I’m not gonna delete it as it’s just going to make comments like yours confusing for people, but that was poor phrasing from me.

It gave the impression that this specific journalist knows nothing, which is unfair.

I was trying to be funny (always risky online) and intended to be speaking humorously about science journalism in generally. In hindsight, my phrasing doesn’t do that, and actually doesn’t communicate what I was saying very well.

I stand by my criticism of science journalism in general and my request that the article is just posted. But my wording was very rough, ultimately didn’t make the point I intended and yes might frustrate some people. If someone is extremely upset or hurt by my comment then, I think, at some stage that isn’t my fault and the Internet might not be right for that person.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-27 12:31:54+00:00
Deflation is about all prices going down. Just a few decreasing is normal.

Anyway, WTF, economics communication has a huge problem. I've seen the article's explanation repeated in plenty of places, it's completely wrong and borderline nonsense.

The reason deflation is bad is not because it makes people postpone buying things. It's because some prices, like salaries or rent just refuse to go down. That causes rationing of those things.
by b112 | 2025-11-27 12:32:05+00:00
Everything like this has been worked out, handled, discussed, passed into laws, challenged by courts, all of it.

Typically, the size of the entity has some bearing on things. There are hundreds of pieces of legislation, which only affect companies (for example), with 50+ employees. Whatever complaint you have, or edge case you mention, it can be handled.

We are obviously discussing Disney here. So when people discuss Disney, and large-corp distribution, suddenly running in and applying the logic to a single person, is what is ridiculous.
by gexla | 2025-11-27 12:32:30+00:00
> Why would you be unwilling to merge AI code at all?

Because structurally it's a flag for being highly likely to waste extremely scare time. It's sort of like avoiding bad neighborhoods,not because everyone is bad, but because there is enough bad there that it's not worth bothering with.

What sticks out for me in these cases is that the AI sticks out like a sore thumb. Go ahead and use AI, it's as if the low effort nature of AI sets users on a course of using low effort throughout the cycle of whatever it is they are trying to accomplish as an end game.

The AI shouldn't look like AI. The proposed contributions shouldn't stand out from the norm. This include the entire process, not just the provided code. It's just a bad aesthetic and for most people it screams "low effort."
by adev_ | 2025-11-27 12:33:16+00:00
> or is he indeed faking it ?

On a domain side to nerdery: video games. There is zero doubt he is faking it entirely.

The streams he publishes on game like PoE or Elden Ring, have been long commented on online boards

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1hwe0id/elo...

And honestly, I can understand it entirely.

He has a public image of "geek/need hero" that is honestly inspiring. And that benefits him a lot because it bring people to trust his decisions. He has all the interest of the world to maintain this image.
by execution | 2025-11-27 12:33:40+00:00
Indeed, I always compare it with what I get if I ran it via cloud services and the electricity cost pales in comparison.

My NAS is around 100W (6-year old parts: i3 9100 and C246M) which comes to $25/£18 per month (electricity is expensive), but I can justify it as I use many services on the machine and it has been super reliable (running 24/7 for nearly 6 years).

I will try to see if I can build a more performant/efficient NAS from a mix of spare parts and new parts this coming month (still only Zen 3: 5950X and X570), but it is more of a fun project than a replacement.
by mrjay42 | 2025-11-27 12:33:49+00:00
This article is based on this https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4451-1.html which is NOT a peer reviewed study but a "research report", which doesn't mean it's wrong or false or fake, but it means that you have to read it with extreme precautions.

Nothing in there has been double-checked by reviewers :/
by scarmig | 2025-11-27 12:33:49+00:00
It's at least a little bit amusing that, five or ten years ago, if you opposed big corporate tech allying with government to impose undemocratic political programs, then you were a fascist, while all good thinkers supported that partnership. Only to have that valence switch on a dime when the context changed.

If the Left (and the Right, for that matter) want to make durable political change, they really need coherent theory beyond who's the Bad Guy of the moment.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-11-27 12:34:11+00:00
What I'm hearing about CA and NY is 10hr work days if you're lucky, 2/3 jobs to make ends meet if you're not, and absurd rents.

It is true that it is probably better in the US if you're privileged, but then again it's good everywhere if you're privileged. The difference is in the quality of life of the average person.
by oblio | 2025-11-27 12:34:22+00:00
I'll reply to myself since apparently people downvote and move on:

They're useful for allowing agents to work in parallel. I imagine some people give them access to git and tools and sandbox the agents, then let a bunch of them work in separate git worktrees pointed at the same branch, then they come back and investigate/compare and contrast what the agents have done, to accelerate their work.

I think there is value in that but it also feels like a lot of very draining work and I imagine long term you're no longer in control of the code base. Which, I mean, great if you're working on a huge code base since you already don't control that...
by heavyset_go | 2025-11-27 12:34:30+00:00
> This is a position that seems to be as unenforceable as AI can't be trained on code whose copyright owners have not given consent.

This depends on what courts find, at least one non-precedent setting case found model training on basically everyone's IP without permission to be fair use. If it's fair use, consent isn't needed, licenses don't matter and the only way to prevent training on your content is to withhold it and gate it behind contracts that forfeit your clients' rights to fair use.

But that is beside the point, even if what you claim was the case, my point is that AI output isn't property. It's not property whether its training corpus was full of licensed or unlicensed content. This is what the US Copyright Office determined.

If you include AI output in your product, that part of it isn't yours. It isn't anybody's, so anyone can copy it and anyone can do whatever they want with it, including the AI/cloud providers you allowed your code to get slurped up to as context to LLMs.

You want to own your IP, you don't want to say "we own 30% of the product we wrote, but 70% of it is non-property that anyone can copy/use/sell with no strings attached, even open source licenses". This matters if you're building a business or open source project. If you include AI code in your open source project, that part of the project isn't covered by your license. LLMs can't sign CLAs and they can't produce intellectual property that can be licensed or owned. The more of your project that is developed by AI, the more it is not yours, and the more of it cannot be covered by your open source license of choice.
by konart | 2025-11-27 12:34:57+00:00
Yes, but I think that questions like

1. How come people are able to accumulate so much capital?

2. How come people are able to use the capital to influence life of other people in all ways possible to their liking?

are more interesting and worth asking.

Yes code and capital are both "tools". But you can't just write some code and install cameras at every corner. You need some political influence to do so. And capital buys you this influence.
by sgerenser | 2025-11-27 12:35:28+00:00
The worst thing I’ve found with positive reviews is ones that are obviously fake/incentivized. I looked up reviews recently for a hotel that I used to stay at a lot for work, and had gone way downhill with many issues (broken ACs, mold, leaking ceilings, etc.). I was curious if they ever fixed their problems. I was at first surprised that they had a fairly positive overall review rating. But looking deeper, the many negative reviews were just crowded out by obviously fake reviews. Dead giveaways: every single one named multiple people by name. “Dave at the front desk was just so friendly and welcoming! Barbara the housecleaner did a fantastic job cleaning. And Steve the bartender just made my day! I love this hotel! 5 stars!” (Almost) nobody reviewing a hotel for real does that.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-27 12:35:55+00:00
So the McDonald's app knows I'm... at McDonald's when I use it? And that I'm using the app to order?

That doesn't seem like I'm giving up much information. Considering I'm placing the order at that McDonald's anyways, and they know the addresses of their franchisees.

Like I said, the same information is already revealed when I use a credit card.

I'm not granting it permission to track my location when I'm not using the app, obviously.
by havblue | 2025-11-27 12:36:01+00:00
It seems like the target hotel customer for fancy hotels is an Instagram model or a Kardashian. I get having a sliding door to the bathroom or translucent walls on the shower is annoying but the status symbols in hotels are not designed for your average hacker News poster. They're trying to make a small room in an older building look like a bigger room to justify the price.
by lapcat | 2025-11-27 12:36:40+00:00
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The person who submitted the link already explained the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068363
by lelanthran | 2025-11-27 12:36:52+00:00
> One of my most crank opinions is that superhero stuff is (a) for kids,

You must not have seen The Boys (Prime Video) :-)

>

> ... there should be more movies that mixed-gender adult audiences would like. Maybe find a way of doing an action-romcom that men will like.

Maybe has the same problem that changing super-hero movies has - you make less money.

The movie Killers with k-Something-Heigl, that guy from The Butterfly Effect and Tom Selleck was a rom-com that I enjoyed, but AFAIK it wasn't as popular with females as standard rom-coms, and wasn't as popular with males as action movies.

> Characters that have human level ability and must find human level solutions.

That's not why people see movies, though; I might find that entertaining, and you might find that entertaining, but it's a pretty hard sell if if doesn't make enough money.
by Maxious | 2025-11-27 12:37:28+00:00
No, the entire ROBUST program including supercomputers and what not is actually $866m https://www.itnews.com.au/news/boms-seven-year-technology-tr...

> the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/bureau-of-meteorology...

> “Additional features, security testing and preparedness for website launch cost $12.6 million. This includes the build, test and deployment of feature releases, and performance and load testing to ensure the website can accommodate peak volumes of traffic we see during severe weather.”

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/premium-prices-for-a-downg...

Part of the challenge is how obsficated the public records are - rather than being called "website" the contracts are disclosed as "Channels Platform"

Deloitte, $4m for design https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/cde4ad08-e9d1-4526-a407-5... Accenture, $79m for build https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/f506481d-0bbd-4776-a3f1-5...
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-27 12:38:25+00:00
I think it would be more effective if the site was analyzing existing reviews - and encouraging people to leave scathing reviews where a hotel decides that bathroom doors are optional.

A standalone web site isn't going to make it into the hotel's metrics, "the most driver of sub-9/10 ratings is the lack of bathroom doors" will make them find a way to reinstall them pronto.
by aikinai | 2025-11-27 12:38:31+00:00
It's extremely unlikely a journalist this haphazard is going to differentiate between a visa waiver and a temporary visa. Obviously some came on other visa if they could work, but it doesn't matter anyway; any non-immigrant visa you enter with will include the requirement that you have no intent to immigrate.

The only options are to be lucky enough to have decided to get married and immigrate after you were already in the US, or to do the application from overseas.
by graemefawcett | 2025-11-27 12:39:12+00:00
Apologies, errant drop of water on an already cracked screen caused an early posting.

The live markdown provides a substrate that causes the tests to run when the user guide or reference document is read. We use these reference documents in place of specs in our development, they're the same information in different form (input vs output in the whole affair when treated typically) so why not just use them that way? And marrying the unit test to them provides instant verification.

During the development process, any agent (or human) accessing the spec will also receive the current state of development free (relatively... the tests need to run) of charge.

Afterwards, the tests remain, ideally green, but as an indicator anytime anyone (agentic or human) needs a refresher on whatever that feature might have been. Tucked away down at the bottom of the page somewhere, the tests stay active so that we have an on going drift/regression detector embedded in the document that describes its function. When the entire platform is based on Turing complete markdown, it helps to keep things flowing in the right direction.

There's a larger write up (and the odd shitpost) here https://www.graemefawcett.ca/blog/little-things/ if you're interested
by anthk | 2025-11-27 12:39:48+00:00
I've seen ZMachine games under a pen and also under a PostScript file. PS, unlike Doom fanboys claiming otherwise with PDF files embedding JS (and I daily play FreeDoom with daily build WADs).

ZMachine games are the 2nd most ported game in existence. The first one must be Tetris. Which has been interpreted under the ZMachine itself.

A Z3 game can run platforms which Doom can just dream:

- A PostScript virtual machine

- An FPGA implementation

- Kaypro/Altair with CP/M 2.2

- MSX 1/2

- Amiga/Atari/Mac68k

- ZX Spectrum 128

- Amstrap CPC

- TRS I-IV

- C64

- Apple II (maybe Apple 1 with a 16k RAM expansion)

- GB/C

- PDA's/Palms

- Maybe the NES with an on-screen keyboard

- Ditto with the Master System

- PS1 and PS2, N64 with an OSK again.

- Windows/Linux/Mac/Android/Whatever

- Damn Minix 2.0 under a homebrew CPU with TTL's

- Ebooks

- Maybe a shader

- Subleq+Eforth + a VM written in Eforth. At OFC glacial speeds but with Muxleq it might run fast enough even under my shitty n270 netbook:

https://github.com/howerj/muxleq

The Perl muxleq implementation already ran muc h faster than subleq, it was a literal two-line patch. Literal, as-is. A dumb IF clause.

so the C one can be fast enough maybe to run Z3 games with a bit of patience.

Output?

- screens

- speakers

- printers

- Braille outputs

- Morse (yes you can hook any TTY output to morse audio with ease unde Unix)

Sorry, Doom can't compete.
by etiamz | 2025-11-27 12:40:14+00:00
Note that, in the interaction net literature, it is pretty common to introduce graphical notation without corresponding textual counterparts. See the works of Lafont, Lamping, Asperti, Guerrini, and many others [1]. (However, the textual calculus can be absolutely crucial for formal proof.)

The absence of proofs and benchmarks undermines the paper for me as well. I find it absolutely critical to demonstrate how the approach works in comparison with already established software, such as BOHM [2].

Parallel beta reduction not being elementarily recursive is not a thing to address, nor a thing one can address. Lamping's abstract algorithm already performs the minimal amount of work to reduce a term -- one cannot improve it further.

From my understanding, the paper aims to optimize the bookkeeping overhead present in earlier implementations of optimal reduction. However, as I said, the absence of formal/empirical evidence of correctness and extensive benchmarks makes the contributions of the paper debatable.

[1] https://github.com/etiamz/interaction-net-resources

[2] https://github.com/asperti/BOHM1.1
by sfn42 | 2025-11-27 12:40:30+00:00
If there is a limit then it isn't unlimited. That's what the word unlimited means.

Either it is unlimited or it is not. If you call something unlimited then there should not be a limit. You cant abuse it, it's unlimited. There is no limit, so you can never go beyond the limit which means you can never abuse it.

That's what unlimited means. If you mean something else then use a different word.
by konart | 2025-11-27 12:41:15+00:00
>And how did they get those capital, for instance the CEO of Meta?

This is the right question.

I'll quote myself here:

1. How come people are able to accumulate so much capital?

2. How come people are able to use the capital to influence life of other people in all ways possible to their liking?

Yes code and capital are both "tools". But you can't just right some code and install cameras at every corner. You need some political influence to do so. And capital buys you this influence.

And to get this capital you should have laws that allow you to do so (tax rates, evasion etc).

Same goes for political influence.
by codingdave | 2025-11-27 12:41:16+00:00
Management Consulting has been a thing for decades. so has more generic consulting. The whole current trend for "fractional" C-level roles is just a new marketing spin on the same old "consulting".

You always need a leader who sets the vision. Beyond that top-level board or exec, sure, you can outsource everything else. There are pros and cons to it. If I were you, I'd go research the history, successes, and failures of various consulting models before you try to start something new. Because it absolutely can work, but if you don't find the giant shoulders to stand on, you are ignoring decades of lessons learned and will sound like someone who doesn't know their own industry.