MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw7494949 | 2025-11-11 14:48:50+00:00
I was mauled by a rabbit, not a dog (I love dogs!!!).

But in theory it is impossible to report rabbit attack. Police will refuse to write a protocol, and give you an report! If you insist, they insert weasel words like "non aggressive rabbit was provoked", making any further claims hard to prove.

I would recommend anyone whose neighbors have aggressive rabbits, to install cameras, keep all records several years back.

And report every incident! And also check your report was actually kept, and put on record a few weeks later!

Makes everything much easier in a longer-term, if your family members ends in hospital!!
by Yozololo999 | 2025-11-11 14:49:10+00:00
That is an interesting concept, my company is paying for both ChatGPT and Claude, so I don't really mind paying 12 a month by myself or let the company cover this part to bridge these tools, it will actually help me so that I dont need to upload the docs everytime and update them manually.

I do would worry about the security tho, does it store all of my conversations with all the chatbots I use?
by wavemode | 2025-11-11 14:49:51+00:00
Huh? "(s)", itself, only works in one language! Other languages (and even English, sometimes) don't always pluralize by appending lettters to the end of words, so the parenthesized suffix thing very regularly doesn't even work.

And who exactly is talking about "embedding" business logic in the i18n framework? Every serious framework I've used has supported placeholders, so at the application level you just select between singular and plural form and then the translation framework can handle arranging the words.

e.g. `items.length == 1 ? _t("%d item", items.length) : _t("%d items", items.length)` and then within your translation files you can specify translations that rearrange the phrase, like "<noun> %d" for languages where they are reversed.

(though usually of course, you would use much longer phrases, so that the translation is done in-context.)
by nathan_compton | 2025-11-11 14:49:59+00:00
The pants cost around 500 bucks? I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something.

I usually buy cheap clothes and mend them and ten years for a pair of pants isn't unusual for me. I probably haven't spent $500 dollars on clothes in a year ever in my entire life (except maybe the year I bought a suit for getting married).

I guess I'm just genuinely curious how you found yourself in the position of even contemplating $500 for pants.
by Brendinooo | 2025-11-11 14:50:30+00:00
>But for many people, LLMs replace critical thinking...[and] outsourc[e] planning, research, and generating ideas

Sure, but I guess you could say that any tech advancement outsources these things, right? I don't have to think about what gear to pick when I drive a car to maximize its performance, I don't have to think about "i before e" types of rules when spell check will catch it, I don't have to think about how to maintain a draft horse or think as much about types of dirt or terrain difficulties when I have a tractor.

Or, to add another analogy, for something like a digital photo compared to film photography that you'd develop yourself or portrait painting before that: so much planning and critical thought has been lost.

And then there's another angle: does a project lead not outsource much of this to other people? This invites a "something human is being lost" critique in a social/developmental context, but people don't really lament that the CEO has somehow lost his humanity because he's outsourcing so much of the process to others.

I'm not trying to be clever or do gotchas or anything. I'm genuinely wrestling with this stuff. Because you might be right: dependence on LLMs might be bad. (Though I'd suggest that this critique is blunted if we're able to eventually move to hosting and running this stuff locally.) But I'm already dependent on a ton of tech in ways I probably can't even fully grasp.
by nilirl | 2025-11-11 14:51:21+00:00
I see your point. I'd meant relatively fewer progressive options compared to an absolute and unchanging number of total options.

But that's not what the author's analogy would imply.

Still, I think you're saying the author is deducing the creative process as a kind of gradient descent, whereas my reading was the author was trying to abductively explore an analogy.
by duxup | 2025-11-11 14:51:56+00:00
This reads like one of those ideas that folks come up in a conference room where "oh these people will just volunteer to do it" and ... nobody asked if they want to or if these are the people they even want to do it.

I worked at a company once and we were acquired. They fired everyone but the folks on my floor. One day I get a call supposedly from HR at the new company (I had no idea who it was). They said they forgot to keep some facilities folks on and they asked if I could do some tasks like ... move garbage and open the door for the mail guy. I had to explain that I had to be on the phone / ready to answer my entire shift and so did everyone who wasn't fired ... it took them a while to figure out that nobody was going to move trash for them / the scale of what they were asking. They thought we would just chip in and become janitors or something. I'm sure it seemed a reasonable solution for everyone not doing it.
by echelon | 2025-11-11 14:51:59+00:00
I got nervous watching him put his hand in front of the machine.

You don't want to subject yourself needlessly to ionizing radiation. A little here and there is probably okay at small doses and for valid reasons, but it all adds up over a lifetime.

He didn't mention how much X-ray radiation this puts out in the first half or so of the video. I worry it's more than a medical photograph as it's continuous high sample rate video, but I'm not an expert. Would be curious to know.

Also curious about the shielding and leaking.

Don't damage your DNA if you don't have to. This is a cool, semi-educational video. I don't think I'd take the same risk though.
by kqr | 2025-11-11 14:52:18+00:00
The way I understand it, ZIL at Infocom was a subset of MDL. More specifically, a subset that was easy to compile to the Z-machine. This means that during development, they'd mainly write ZIL code, but they'd do it in MDL, giving them access to the full powers of the Lisp during development. (Since MDL is an early Lisp.)

Sometimes during game development they'd make use of MDL macros that were not available in ZIL, and they'd then have to either macroexpand manually, or hard-code those macros as language features into their ZIL compiler (because ZIL is not quite a Lisp and does not have support for custom macros).

Again, this is the understanding I've pieced together in my head from various sources. I don't have the full picture! Maybe I should try to get in touch with the people who were there to ask them...
by Pooge | 2025-11-11 14:52:46+00:00
Why should he stop caring about the things he spent his whole life building?! You don't stop caring about things you love just because you get old. Maybe you don't care about your business because your goal is to sell your idea to Big Tech and sip cocktails for the rest of your life, but that's not what this is about.

If you think world hunger and global warming can be solved purely with financial means, you live in a damn simple fantasy.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 14:52:57+00:00
> This person has a history of being shitty,

No, he does not. He has been a pillar of the community since the beginning, and well loved by many. He has also been trusted with various forms of moderation authority in the past, and his decisions were respected at the time.

> and they used the CoC to enforce a (temporary!) ban, citing the rules he violated.

Please read https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co..., and then https://tim-one.github.io/psf/crimes.html . Mr. Peters is, if anything, overly self-critical here. He quite frankly did nothing wrong. The supposed "rule violations" include things that no reasonable person could actually object to, as well as complete mischaracterizations of the observable facts. In some places, multiple points appear to refer to the same action. In some places it's unclear what is referred to and there has never been any official explanation. In no case is any evidence provided.

> If the CoC didn't exist, you'd be screaming "he didn't do anything wrong"

I am saying it (your use of the word "screaming" here is demeaning, substance-less rhetoric) because it is in fact the case. Many of the cited "violations" don't actually go against the Code of Conduct (https://policies.python.org/python.org/code-of-conduct/), even if they were true and accurate.

> but obviously, according to the well posted rules, he did

It is not obvious, because it is incorrect.

> and they enforced those rules for the good of the community.

No useful purpose was served by this suspension.

> The reality of the situation is that yall don't want to be excluded from communities for being racist, misogynistic, or creepy.

This accusation is baseless, incorrect, and offensive.
by port11 | 2025-11-11 14:53:02+00:00
I see the same type of comments when it comes to any post on EU tech. What I've found throughout my career is that:

1) Maybe we (EU citizens) are just way less interested in hustle culture compared to other regions. We can keep complaining about regulation and the difficulty of incorporating, but these feel like excuses. Estonia and Portugal come to mind as places where incorporating is practical but not a game-changer. Let's face it: we're just not as interested in launching stuff? We have cushy jobs, with lots of benefits, and launching a business is less required to lead a good life (i.e. we have less inequality ti push against).

2) I've started a company in Belgium of all places. Having worked in Germany for a long time: hey German buddies, it's not the difficulty of starting a business. It's much better over there. Also: deregulating the labor market more would place the majority of us at the mercy of companies a la USA. No, thanks.

3) We're not behind on tech because of the GDPR. Many things in this omnibus are just plain stupid. We should stimulate deeper tech, fundamental research, supporting all the open-source developers we have, and perhaps invest in European structural alternatives. Promote AI? Give me a break.

4) I'm a certified GDPR whatever (2 online courses). It's really not that much of a problem. If you know what data you're collecting and why, your Privacy Policy writes itself. Otherwise you use one of the services that does it for you.

5) Do we have a problem with tech salaries more than a generalised issue with rampant inflation? Because I've never had a single colleague or acquaintance move to the US because of a better salary. Not a single one. On the other hand we're in a parenting group that's full of people that came here to start a family due to the benefits we have. Improving things overall would fight any brain drain more than stimulating tech unicorns.

6) Speaking of which… I'd like to find again the study on the economic tissue of countries. It showed that it's SMEs that employ the most people and pay the bulk of the taxes. Good, decent, boring businesses. We could do less with the nonsensical fantasy of the startup unicorn as a paradigm of entrepreneurship. Okay, I'm sore from having my equity stolen at the last gig, but my point stands. Our parents and grandparents just went to business if they had to. Heck, with the current lack of jobs, many of us will do the same. Let's not pretend that we're missing a startup scene. Berlin was a great place for startups and I can't name a single of the places I've worked that is consequential to anything. Maybe Delivery Hero? But not even that one, they barely made a profit at the time.

Honestly, let's stop whining so much and get yet another sector given the neoliberal deregulation treatment. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but posts complaining about EU regulations at this point feel like karma farming.
by sd9 | 2025-11-11 14:53:17+00:00
More weapons more quickly. This is what I want.

I'm sure they will be used for good.

/s

I'm sure there are good reasons for this, and the approach doesn't seem totally unreasonable, to be fair. I'm just personally woefully unequipped to understand how to deploy weapons humanely and morally, and naively think less weapons is better. Thankfully there are adults in the room making these decisions for me...
by kingandqueenof | 2025-11-11 14:53:27+00:00
Non-binary people and binary trans people have different incentives. In the ideal of most binary trans people they blend in and are indistinguishable from cis people. Going undetected is safest for them. That is not the case for we non-binary. Our various ideals most often would not afford us the "luxury" of blending in that way. Our safety is gained from gathering allies. To do so we must be bold and loud so we are known, and can attract like-minds to our side.
by flatline | 2025-11-11 14:53:44+00:00
Missed opportunity to procure a goat. When I’m doing project management like this, if I ever have a minute to come up for air between getting all the essentials in place, I will absolutely prioritize little things like that for my own amusement and, hopefully, that of the client. I would at least have gone as far as lining up a supplier, getting a quote, and letting the client know we’re locked and loaded with a goat if they really want to pull the trigger.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-11-11 14:53:44+00:00
I dislike this project where we venerate folks who made one major contribution. The scientists in my field that I respect the most are the ones who followed their early work up, both with further strong (additional) scientific contributions, and/or (as they moved out of the active phase of their scientific careers) with good mentoring and policy contributions.

It looks like Watson did some of the latter, then did his best to reverse all of his work:

“I really don’t know what happened to Jim,” said biologist Nancy Hopkins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who in the 1990s led the campaign to get MIT to recognize its discrimination against women faculty. “At a time when almost no men supported women, he insisted I get a Ph.D. and made it possible for me to do so,” she told STAT in 2018. But after 40 years of friendship, Watson turned on her after she blasted the claim by then-Harvard University president Lawrence Summers in 2005 that innate, biological factors kept women from reaching the pinnacle of science. “He demanded I apologize to Summers,” Hopkins said of Watson. (She declined.) “Jim now holds the view that women can’t be great at anything,” and certainly not science. “He has adopted these outrageous positions as a new badge of honor, [embracing] political incorrectness.”
by abraxas | 2025-11-11 14:55:36+00:00
I'm not a linguist so I can't send any articles that explain the origins of this mess. But here are actual examples of usage:

dwa ptaki (two birds)

dwoje ludzi (two persons)

dwie dziewczyny (two girls)

idę z dwiema dziewczynami (I'm walking with two girls)

dałem kwiaty dwom dziewczynom (I gave flowers to two girls)

kanapa dla dwojga (a sofa for two - gender unspecified)

dałem śniadanie dwojgu (I served breakfast for two others)

dwójka to słaba ocena (two is a poor grade)

dwie dwójki to razem czwórka (two twos are four altogether)

dostałem dwójkę z Fizyki (I got a two in physics)

z dwójką przyjaciół poszliśmy do klubu (we went to the club with two friends)

w autobusie dwójce siedział pijany facet (there was a drunk fella on bus number two)

O, dwójko, nie wracaj już do mojego dziennika (Oh, two, don’t come back to my gradebook again)

Of course I don't consciously think about when to use the right conjugation. I just know it by heart and it's second nature but I can only give coherent rules to some of them.
by stephen | 2025-11-11 14:55:44+00:00
I still use my index finger; I've just gotten used to moving my hand ~slightly over from j to the nub.

I would definitely prefer their trackpoint module be "flipped upside down" so the nub was on top, directly next to the H key, so I could move "just the index finger", and not my palm, but it's really not a big deal now that I'm used to it.

They seem to get this feedback a lot, b/c they have an FAQ entry about (nub location), which asserts the current thumb location is due to space/engineering constraints. But, dunno, I kinda wonder if that was for the smaller UHK60? B/c just looking at my UHK80, it really seems like the nub could be by the H if they wanted it to. :-)

So not "perfect perfect" but still really amazing imo, and so glad I switched over -- I'm like 10 years late to split keyboards, custom layers for movement / programming binds, everything the cool kids have been doing forever, but I couldn't give up a trackpoint. But here we are, finally! :-)

(Also fwiw I held off on the UHK80 for about a year b/c they were having firmware issues on initial release, repeated/missed keys, that sort of thing, but its been rock solid for me; literally zero issues.)
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-11 14:55:57+00:00
Highly recommend this site: https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/list-of-ssd-enc...

It's key to get an enclosure with a chipset that will support whatever interface your computer actually provides, otherwise a lot of these enclosures will fall back to USB-3 speeds for compatibility and things will be slow. This site gives a pretty good overview of the chipsets out there and pros/cons of each one.

I've had good experiences with Acasis[1] enclosures - they seem have a lot of aluminum surface area for dissipating heat - but I get the feeling that a lot of these things are very similar in practice since they're just slapping the same chipsets into different boxes.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Enclosure-Aluminum-External-Support-C...
by fxtentacle | 2025-11-11 14:56:00+00:00
I believe the issue is that with Jobs gone, Apple's design team is now apparently unable to continue their job. Instead of developing their own UI paradigm for small screens, they keep copying from Google Pixel both the UI ideas and the screen size. And now that they ran out of useful ideas, they turned everything transparent. Why make the iPhone look more like Apple Vision when people so obviously hate the latter? [1]

My prediction is that the age of AI and LLM assistance will make tiny devices the norm. Like those AI pins. Like Siri inside AirPods. Like Meta's AR glasses. But it seems that Apple is losing the race here. They lost their edge when it comes to developing new user interface paradigms.

EDIT: [1] Bloomberg claims 10-15% return rate, which would be massive: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-02-18/apple-... (for comparison, Galaxus reports 2% as normal for Smartphones and <5% for Meta's Quest)
by simianwords | 2025-11-11 14:56:28+00:00
Also called “fake concern”. There are people who are threatened that AI can undo their status in society. These are the sorts that bring up ridiculous arguments against AI. Which is simultaneously useless to society but also extremely harmful. Simultaneously so costly to run that it is a bubble but also so cheap to run that so many data centers are not needed.

Then there are the pause AI sorts that try to cash in on regulatory politics.
by tylerrecall | 2025-11-11 14:56:45+00:00
This is exactly why I'm building persistent memory for AI coding tools. LLMs hallucinate facts partly because they lose context between sessions. When they "remember" your project structure, past decisions, and error patterns, accuracy improves dramatically. Still not perfect, but context retention helps a lot. Curious what others are seeing - is it mainly hallucination or context loss that causes wrong answers?
by friendzis | 2025-11-11 14:56:54+00:00
> why offering lame chat agents as a service

Because that's the only business model that the management of these model provider companies suspect to have a chance of generating income, at the current state.

> While I partially understand (but not support) the hate against AI due to possible plagiarism

There's no *possible* plagiarism, every AI slop IS result of plagiarism.

> E.g. have a strategy board that identifies possible use cases for your model, then spin off a company that just does agentic coding, music generation.

Having lame chat agents as a service does not preclude them from doing this. The fact that they are only selling the shovels should be somewhat insightful.
by automatic6131 | 2025-11-11 14:56:55+00:00
>And it's anti-engineering to write the code yourself rather than putting your ego aside and taking advantage of AI's huge productivity gains.

Are these huge productivity gains in the room with us now?

LLM-assisted coding makes the easy stuff quick and the hard stuff impossible. But I was spending 80% of my mental energy on the hard stuff anyway, and the easy stuff was down time that's closer to rest than it is to work.
by skydhash | 2025-11-11 14:56:58+00:00
FP language is very hard on novice programmers. You can write thousands of lines of bad javascript/java/python code, but you won’t write ten in FP without the whole thing blowing up.

And then there’s the whole evaluation instead of instructions. With FP, you’re always thinking recursively. With imperative, you can coast on a line by line understanding.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-11 14:57:52+00:00
Embarrassing regurgitation of propaganda. This is basically the military DOGE. Are these systems dysfunctional in some ways, could well-intended sweeping reforms improve them? Sure, maybe, I don't know much about it.

Is that what's happening here? No, this a way to get the existing functions out from under the oversight and constraints of acquisition laws to reduce friction for corruption and war profiteering.

If you fell for DOGE don't fall for this too.
by flanbiscuit | 2025-11-11 14:57:54+00:00
I was also hoping it was a small phone announcement but it not being part of a keynote didn't give me high hopes.

I've been on Android since day 1 but I'm thinking about switching to iPhone. If they ever made foldable (clamshell style, not book style) phone I would buy it immediately. I just want a small phone.

Yes I could get an Android foldable that already exists but I like to stick with Pixels and they don't have one yet and I'm kinda of done with Pixels. They are crap quality.