MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CorrectHorseBat | 2025-11-26 09:39:18+00:00
Nice theory, but my experience is exactly the other way around.

Even after several years of learning Chinese I still had trouble communicating with Chinese people, especially those who had no experience talking to foreigners. When I arrived in China and asked the way to the university I was going to (which was close by and very famous) they just didn't get what I was saying. In the end I had to show them the written word.

I don't speak Japanese, but when I arrived and said the name of the city and they immediately understood where I wanted to go. After my experience with Chinese I was flabbergasted that that went so smooth.

I blame the tones in Chinese (which I admit I'm not very good at)
by rester324 | 2025-11-26 09:40:17+00:00
While the article does not mention it, chances are that the sarcophagus was found during doing the soilwork for modern construction. In which case the construction company is obliged to report that to the ministry in charge and then the excavation can be done with proper care. If there was not a law for that we wouldn't talk about grave robbing but grave destroying instead.
by HelloNurse | 2025-11-26 09:40:34+00:00
> I think most languages that are batteries-included enough to included a regex engine should have a a full-fledged PEG parsing engines

Then there would be more PEG horror stories. In addition, string and indices in regex processing are universal, while a parser is necessarily more framework-like, far more complex and doomed to be mismatched for many applications.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-26 09:40:34+00:00
Sure, all software is terrible if looking at bug frequency history...

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues

Griefers ranting about years old _closed_ tickets on v1.0.5 versions on a blog as some sort of proof of lameness... is a poorly structured argument. Julia includes regression testing features built into even its plotting library output, and thus issues usually stay resolved due to pedantic reproducibility. Also, running sanity-checks in any llvm language code is usually wise.

Best of luck =3
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-26 09:40:46+00:00
> want fancy features like autocomplete or structs and functions

I would argue that given a certain ISA, it's probably easier to write an autocomplete extension for assembly targeting that ISA, rather than autocomplete for C, or goodness forbid, C++.

Likewise for structs, functions, jump targets, etc. One could probably set up snippets corresponding to different sorts of conditional execution—loops, if/else/while, switch, etc.
by Antibabelic | 2025-11-26 09:40:51+00:00
Without a direct comparison to human internals (grounded in neurobiology, rather than intuition), it's hard to say how similar these similarities are, and if they're not simply a result of the transparency illusion (as Sydney Lamb defines it).

However, if you can point us to some specific reading on mechanistic interpretability that you think is relevant here, I would definitely appreciate it.
by poulpy123 | 2025-11-26 09:41:23+00:00
But python is a great language for data science. As the anglos say: the proof is in the pudding, and the fact it is massively used for data science prove it is great at data science.

You will say that not everything that is successful is great, and you will be right, but the success of python came organically, and not because of advertisement, de facto monopoly, politics, money, or first-arrived-advantage.

Although there is one cause that isn't intrinsic to python but from the people who built numpy. The fact there is a single numerical library, extremely easy to use, fast and extensive in the whole ecosystem was very very huge
by EliteGadget | 2025-11-26 09:41:40+00:00
Not sure about elsewhere but ot took me 15 minutes to setup my LTD in the UK and I paid a monthly fee for accountancy which was about £100 and another yearly fee of about £100 for them to do my tax return (as I am lazy and didn't want to do it).

Unless you are getting paid in cash or monero, HMRC will absolutely know if you are getting paid under the table.
Show HN: Preshiplist – A fast way to ship waitlist websites without headaches
by Frederick_22xAI | 2025-11-26 09:42:06+00:00
Hi there!

I’m an experienced startup product designer and marketer who recently got into building small-scale software products as a one-person team. While working on various projects, the part of creating a waitlist website every time I need to validate an idea or gather early users just takes a ton of time and thinking that could be better spent elsewhere.

I spent hours designing landing pages. AI-generated sites required endless prompting and fixing, and full website builders like Framer or Webflow took a lot more time than I expected. Because of that extra effort, I often lost momentum and sometimes missed the window to test concepts quickly.

So I built Preshiplist — a tool that generates simple, clean, mobile-optimized waitlist pages with minimal setup. No builder UI. No templates. You write your description, choose a style, and publish.

The platform includes: - Fully working forms - A built-in database for signups with email validation - AI assistance to help you refine your page copy - A basic email drip system so new signups receive an automatic follow-up - Custom domains, short links, and an Open Graph editor to make sharing easier

All of this works out of the box without needing integrations, prompting, or configuration.

A few technical notes: – Built mainly with Next.js and Supabase for the backend – Deployed on Vercel with Cloudflare in front for stability and security – Email functionality is handled by the always-reliable Resend – AI features use OpenAI models for generating text variations – Custom domains come with automatic SSL via Vercel

If you’re up for it, I’d appreciate feedback on: – Simplicity vs flexibility — is a streamlined flow enough, or would you prefer more customization power? – Features you think would be valuable for makers or founders using waitlist pages – Whether AI-assisted copy is helpful in this context or unnecessary

Thanks for reading!
by soulofmischief | 2025-11-26 09:42:11+00:00
You're referring to Skolem's paradox. It just shows that first-order logic is incomplete.

Ernst Zermelo resolved this by stating that his axioms should be interpreted within second-order logic, and as such it doesn't contradict Cantor's theorem since the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem only applies in first-order logic.
by twixfel | 2025-11-26 09:43:36+00:00
Well, yes, many of them appear to be. Mostly not as rich as the USA, of course, though, but if wealth was all that mattered then Monaco would be the greatest country on hte planet. And I should remind you also that not all countries in Europe have parliamentary systems anyway. France and Russia don't, for example, and there are also parliamentary democracies outside of Europe, like Canada and Australia.
by Tanoc | 2025-11-26 09:44:42+00:00
There are great channels that have had acceptable audience growth without resorting to bucket scraping like that. In fact the channels I see that have the most engagement and the most stable view numbers video to video are the ones specifically avoiding the "gaping maw pointing at a red circle" sort of thumbnails and the "YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT" or "X PHENOMENON - THE RESULTS WILL SHOCK YOU" titles. Knowing how Youtube works it's more of a detriment to have those unstable views because that screws with how well Youtube promotes you in the Recommended and Trending pages, and makes it harder to have high paying deals with sponsors since they don't know if your video's going to do five million views or seven hundred and fifty thousand. The only way you can make that work consistently is if you have a captive audience, but people do get tired of it quickly and will start to reflexively avoid your videos. They'll especially avoid them if someone else tried that clickbait format and annoyed or even offended them.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-26 09:45:25+00:00
> replacements of any kind are cheap

Of a bog-standard 1080p 60 Hz monitor, perhaps.

I have a 4K 144 Hz 27-inch monitor I bought in December 2021, and paid nearly $850 for. These monitors still aren't a commodity good, and still end up being pretty expensive.
by survirtual | 2025-11-26 09:45:36+00:00
I fear our friend we're replying to here may have never had a deep relationship with the opposite sex.

This is unfortunately the reality of countless men, often going their entire lives like this, with bitterness and resentment growing outwardly instead of reflection inwardly.

Hijacking this response now for some advice / thoughts.

So for the lurking straight men: women are simply human beings trapped in a form you desire. The game here is simple. Don't try and control women as objects. Instead, try and control your desire.

I can promise with certainty, if you control your desire, everything you've ever dreamed and more will appear. This is not an easy game to play. But it is the only way to win.

Don't pursue women as romantic interests. Ever. Leave them alone. Instead, connect with them only as friends, and only as they initiate. This is the first step to escape the brainwashing we've all been subjected to.

This means you will be going through a withdrawal. It is difficult. Take a hike. Pour yourself into work. Take on new hobbies. Grow yourself.

Friends will appear. It doesn't matter what sex they are, they are friends, treat them with the same respect and kindness as you would anyone. This is your first test. This could appear in months, it could appear in years, it all depends on you.

We need to start seeing the light in each other, beyond the skin. Every single person, regardless of how you view them, has a universe in them. Help them become their universe. Don't trap them in yours.
by honzaik | 2025-11-26 09:45:41+00:00
this comment feels so eerie as I am currently reading Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," which itself is interesting to read now since its written before the huge AI leap.

Also, it reminded me of the following quote, mentioned in the book, from Langdon Winner

The changes and disruptions that an evolving technology repeatedly caused in modern life were accepted as given or inevitable simply because no one bothered to ask whether there were other possibilities.
by 0xEF | 2025-11-26 09:45:46+00:00
I'm not sure the generalization is accurate. Most of us can remember the 'i before e' rule we were taught as kids, but the English language is a celebrated mess of borrowed words and guidelines masquerading as rules. It is admittedly confusing for native and non-native speakers alike, but if we throw a reliance on spell check into the mix, which does little to help with spelling a person's name, we just create more opportunity for degradation.

That said, it should be a pretty hard rule when writing about a person to, at the very least, check to make sure you spelled their name correctly.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-26 09:46:28+00:00
Not mentioned in the article:

- Many US National Parks are far too popular for their own good. Try some searches like "too many visitors at US National Parks" if you're unfamiliar. Yes, more infrastructure spending could mitigate some parts of this problem.

- It's common for US state and local parks to be cheaper for residents of the state or locality operating the park. You can view that as a carrot offered to the local voters, whose taxes provide most of the parks' funding. Or as a way to beat more money out of visitors who can't vote against those taxes. (And are likely to be higher-maintenance for park staff, because they are unfamiliar with things.)

- In the US, well-funded parks are a popular ideal. The reality is that money is usually short, even in quite well-to-do communities.
by srean | 2025-11-26 09:46:37+00:00
Right.

I chose it as my undergraduate project literally several decades ago.

3D woven ones might be stronger as they might resist laminar separation of circumferential layers more. Going by units, the product of stress and volume has the same units as kinetic energy. So it appears breaking stress and volume might be what limits the stored kinetic energy. This addresses doubt and curiosity raised by one comment (not yours).
by imiric | 2025-11-26 09:46:59+00:00
The concerning aspect of all of this isn't the financial cost of these blunders, and what happened in the past. It is the increasing risk to human lives, and what will happen in the future. The Boeing case was only a sign of what's to come.

Take "AI", for instance. It is being adopted left and right as if it's the solution to all of our problems, and developers, managers, and executives are increasingly relying on it. Companies and governments love it because it can cut costs and potentially make us more productive. Most people are more than happy to offload their work to it, do a cursory check of its output, if at all, and ship it or publish it and claim the work as their own. After all, it can always serve as a scapegoat if things do go wrong, and its manufacturers can brush these off as user errors. Ultimately there is no accountability.

These are all components of a recipe for greater disasters. As these tools are adopted in industries where safety is paramount, in the military, etc., it's only a matter of time for more human lives to be impacted. Especially now when more egomaniacal autocrats are taking power, and surrounding themselves with yes-people. Losing face and admitting failure is not part of their playbook. We're digging ourselves into a hole we might not be able to get out of.
by derrikcurran | 2025-11-26 09:48:03+00:00
> One underappreciated thing about Windows 8 is ... you could press the windows key, immediately start typing, and then press enter to somewhat deterministically pick the top app

I agree this is underappreciated but I believe it started in Vista and has worked pretty much the same way ever since, including in Windows 11. I acknowledge that start menu search in general is more bloated now and thus feels less snappy on slower machines. Still, for me, the specific use case you described has worked great for nearly 20 years even on modest PCs. I wonder why my experience doesn't match yours.

> I also really miss the aero look of windows 7... Eye-candy, sure, but I thought it was pretty, clean and modern looking. I am sad they moved away from it.

Me too! Aero was great. I also miss being able to make the taskbar truly black. It looked really nice coupled with a black wallpaper on an OLED display. Now you have to choose from a preset color palette. The reduced customizability of Windows 11 is frustrating.
by rplnt | 2025-11-26 09:49:56+00:00
> you can just audit the binary with tools”

That statement also said you have to audit binary even if the code is open source. Which isn't entirely true as other comments pointed out - reproducible builds - but the idea doesn't seem like pushing back to me. It was to point out that open source doesn't automatically imply any level of trust when it comes to security/privacy.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-26 09:50:50+00:00
Somehow that never actually applies to the people actually working with children, which are either front-line child protection "agents" (US term) or the people who actually take day-to-day care of children in care.

So let's check an actual social worker job in Denmark, working with these children. Nope. Denmark is the same as everywhere else. No requirements. If I understand this page (I'm using Firefox translate) correctly they state they're flexible if you don't even know the language.

https://midtjob.dk/ad/paedagog-omsorgsmedhjaelper-eller-ande...

So I think it's safe to say: the social workers in Denmark, who actually work with children, doesn't require any education at all, nothing, nada, zero, niente, just like everywhere else, and clearly: some don't even know the language the children speak.

This very, very large difference in what people think they know about the child protection system and what actually happens is extremely common everywhere, including in the Netherlands. Another point where people often have no idea how bad things really are is how locked up these children are in these institutions. One can make comparisons to point out how ridiculous it is: in the Netherlands a high security prisoner additionally punished with isolation on death row (yes, the Netherlands has a death row, just no executions) has significantly more rights than children in state care. (Some) children in care are isolated in a room 23 hours per day and are not allowed any personal effects, and never get to see other children. On death row, in isolation, you are isolated in a bigger room with a shower and a TV, and you're allowed personal effects like books. You also get 1h with other prisoners in the open air. Also, ironically, a prisoner on death row cannot be denied access to an (if necessary free) lawyer (children don't get lawyers, despite having to appear before a judge regularly. Not that those legally required judge appearances aren't often canceled), and also prisoners have the right to an education and whatever that requires (including web meetings with teaching staff, as many as required). The prison literally pays for the books. Some children in state care can and are denied education, and none get their books paid by the institution.
by gnfargbl | 2025-11-26 09:51:04+00:00
Could this be a problem not with AI, but with our understanding of how modern economies work?

The assumption here is that employees are already tuned so be efficient, so if you help them complete tasks more quickly then productivity improves. A slightly cynical alternate hypothesis could be that employees are generally already massively over-provisioned, because an individual leader's organisational power is proportional to the number of people working under them.

If most workers are already spending most of their time doing busy-work to pad the day, then reducing the amount of time spent on actual work won't change the overall output levels.
by IceDane | 2025-11-26 09:51:42+00:00
I've been using emacs for 15 years as my daily editor. One thing that never fails is that when I share the fact that I've switched away, emacs users fall over themselves to tell me I'm wrong.

I assure you that my emacs setup is as optimized as it can be. Native compilation, all that jazz. I've compiled my own. But emacs is ultimately a lost cause unless something drastic changes. The single threaded nature of it means that you need to just live with your editor regularly freezing for a whole second while working in bigger projects using modern tooling. The only way to remedy this is to turn off as many features as possible and accept a worse tooling experience. Shifting the blame for emacs poor internal architecture over on the poor LSPs is silly. Every other editor handles this better than emacs.

For now, I'm using zed and it was really an eye-opener to how fast an editor can be and feel. I replicated a large part of my workflow, basically all the keybindings, and while there are things I miss (projectile and some other things), I can live without them in exchange for not having my editor choke constantly when working on big projects while emacs chugs through json from lsp or something like that.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-26 09:52:11+00:00
That's the ideal, but a lot of these big problems can't start small because the problem they have is already big. A lot of government IT programs are set up to replace existing software and -processes, often combining a lot of legacy software's jobs and the manual labor involved.

If you have something like a tax office or payroll, they need to integrate decades of legislation and rules. It's doable, but you need to understand the problem (which at those scales is almost impossible to fit in one person's head) and more importantly have diligent processes and architecture to slowly build up and deploy the software.

tl;dr it's hard. I have no experience in anything that scale, I've been at the edges of large organizations (e.g. consumer facing front-ends) for most of my career.
by meshin-dev | 2025-11-26 09:52:29+00:00
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Eisenhower matrix.

I fixed my own pain when I had to work with 3 different apps, and my understanding of what I have to do was very fragmented.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-11-26 09:52:42+00:00
Modern .NET is awesome. In a small side hustle project, I develop a REST API Backend in C# on my macOS using VSCode, and deploy it to Linux for the past 3 years without any issues. I use SQLite, EFCore, Minimal APIs and it is a delight compared to the frontend part - which is NextJS/React/MaterialUI with 50+ (dev-)packages in npm.
Underappreciated Books to Learn Object Oriented Design and UML?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-11-26 09:52:52+00:00
Please recommend the books. Craig larman is not my level. Grady booch is decent but I have course slides of that book so not want to purchase it.

GoF is nice once you are over UML. It is on my plan.

I am at a place where I need to learn stuffs like UML. Books on SAD(System Analysis and Design) seems to cover this but I am unsure about which one should I invest into.
by matu3ba | 2025-11-26 09:53:16+00:00
> I mean, we've proven that predicting certain things (even those that require nothing but deduction) require more computational resources regardless of the algorithm used for the prediction.

I do understand proofs as formalized deterministic action for given inputs and processing as the solving of various proofs.

> Formalising a process, i.e. inferring the rules from observation through induction, may also be dependent on available computational resources.

Induction is only one way to construct a process and there are various informal processes (social norms etc). It is true, that the overall process depends on various things like available data points and resources.

> I don't have one except for "an overall quality of the mental processes humans present more than other animals".

How would your formalize the process of self-reflection and believing in completely made-up stories of humans often used as example that distinguishes animals from humans? It is hard to make a clear distinction in language and math, since we mostly do not understand animal language and math or other well observable behavior (based on that).
by jwr | 2025-11-26 09:53:17+00:00
> inflexible subscription system

For example, Braintree can't switch from monthly to annual billing (or the other way around). You have to delete the subscription and recreate it with a different billing period.

I want my customers to be able to switch plans, billing periods, currency, and buy additional items (user slots), all with proration.

> what you would like to see from a 3DSecure implementation

I would like not to see anything, really. I want to forget 3DSecure even exists. Stripe largely gets this right. Braintree required me to do many rather bizarre things, pass additional data, and then rewrite the entire flow once every couple of years or so. With the last rewrite, I was told that in my case (SaaS subscriptions) I would need to drag the customer through 3DSecure TWICE and that there is no other way. So I switched to Stripe, because I value my customers' time.

Also, 3DSecure with braintree would fail every once in a while and I would get customers from various countries telling me they are unable to subscribe. Braintree support, after a week or two, would inquire and either tell me it's the customer's bank (not helpful), or tell me that I have to rewrite my integration to a New Way of Doing Things, which was usually so far off the mark for my use case it wasn't even funny. I just checked my E-mail archives quickly for "Braintree support", over the years I'm up to around ~400 E-mails exchanged.