MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gerdesj | 2025-11-04 00:17:30+00:00
At which point do you draw the line where you abrogate ownership of something?

Music is something you can easily live without if the internet or cloud vanishes on you but my music will still stream from my FLAACs at home that I made from CDs and DVDs years ago. I also have it converted to .mp3 at bit rates that make sense for a phone and ear plugs used by a middle ages bloke with tinnitus! The whole lot fits on a modern phone easily.

I bought records and tapes at first, then CDROMs. I also accidentally bought the same CD/tapes twice or a well meaning prezzie duplicated one I already owned. Also you have "summary" or "collection" efforts etc eg Led Zep "Remasters". I have already paid the music industry a couple of times over.

Now that is my personal collection - some of it is unavailable elsewhere, sometimes without being illegal. I can augment my stuff with pay per play just as you do but the Deep Purple CD rip with a digitally smoothed over scratch part way through "Smoke on the water" is personal because I know what caused that scratch.

You are a few years older than me but we both know the joy of buying a new single, stacking LPs for an extended hands off session, the horror of scratches and a cheap D60 tape turning into a weird concertina. Remember those blocks for removing dust from a record when it was playing and accidentally nudging the needle.

Spotify and co are all a bit ersatz by comparison. I think music is way more than simply the medium, so context is important too. Unlike, say the progression from steam to petrol, which is simply a convenience.
by matkoniecz | 2025-11-04 00:17:54+00:00
> Their life is shit already, that's why they act as they act (...) you just beating up a bully will mean some other kid(s) will get beaten up (or beaten up even more) further down the line

human social life is complex and such overgeneralization are almost never right

in some cases self-defense entirely fixes the problem

> We humans act like storage of both good and bad, it then comes back up in various situations.

that is an utter nonsense, in some cases endless hugging and patting just leaves you exploited

> passing aggression on to others in vain effort to get rid of some of that 'evil' in them

well, sadly sometimes violence is right or least bad solution
by msteffen | 2025-11-04 00:17:59+00:00
I love the author's argument, but this conclusion feels obvious to me—rationalizing emotional decisions is like the oldest human activity there is. Try asking somebody why they're whatever-religion or whatever-political-party that their parents, friends, or partner is/are. I further claim that much of the purpose of managers is to do this for individual contributors: give people a story that scaffolds a decision you hope they'll make: staying at the company and going along with whatever decision has just been announced.

I also don't think it's necessarily bad that people do this. The input to any decision a person makes includes their entire life experience up to that point[1]. How could an executive encode all that in some kind of pat logical explanation, and how could the also-human engineers at the company possibly digest such an explanation, and what could make it more compelling to them than their own life experiences? People need to get through life, though, so they need to make decisions. They can't fully rationalize every single one, but they want to feel at least OK about the decisions they're making, so they tell themselves and each other these incomplete little stories and get on with it. That managers scaffold this process with their own stories is a little manipulative, but how else could people cooperate enough to have companies? The whole process just seems intrinsically human to me.

The most important part of being an executive is understanding all of this and choosing to hire people who will ultimately make good strategic decisions for you. Don't hire a well-known Perl contributor as your CTO unless you like the idea of rewriting your product in Perl. If your company is dying because this has happened, my condolences but at least you're not alone.

Edit: I hadn't read this far when I wrote the comment but the author also literally says, "The moment you hire a Rust developer to evaluate languages, you’ve already chosen Rust." I guess I just disagree that it could work differently. Each of us possesses bounded knowledge and bounded rationality, and "which language is best", is probably too complicated for an individual to figure out, especially when you don't even know what the roadmap will be in a year—you'd have to build the company several times in several languages and compare the results (and the best engineers I've met do write code multiple times, but rarely more than twice IME). Each of us can only really know how we would solve the company's problems. Executives' job is to try and guess, and make decisions that are ideally optimal but at least internally consistent.

[^1] My favorite example of this, actually: even in the highly-rational field of scientific research, scientists have to decide whether a given body of evidence is dispositive of a particular theory, and the standards they apply likewise depend on who they are and what their life experience is. So, as Max Planck put it, science advances one funeral at a time.
by yawaramin | 2025-11-04 00:19:48+00:00
> D*'s authors are pretty adamant that this is an anti-pattern

The Datastar authors are wrong about this. History push is a very important part of the hypermedia-driven application approach. Because URLs are super important. And we want to make sure that the correct URL is shown for the currently-loaded view, and that the view is reproducible given the URL (as much as possible) so that bookmarking and copy-pasting to send URLs just works as expected.

A really nice article came out about this just recently: https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html

I also wrote a bit more about it here: https://dev.to/yawaramin/why-hx-boost-is-actually-the-most-i...
by KoolKat23 | 2025-11-04 00:20:14+00:00
1. What's your definition of consciousness, let's start there. 2. Absolutely, it's a spectrum. Insects have function. 3. "Humans navigate maps built by other humans through language." You said it yourself. They use this exact same data, so why won't they know it if they used it. Humans are their bodies in the physical world.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-04 00:20:35+00:00
What the actual f%%%! I just looked it up. Not that I didn’t believe you. I just never looked into it.

For reference for others…

https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/a...

I’m both under the limit to contribute to a Roth since I am married and my company offers an “after tax 401K” (different than a Roth 401k) and I’m over 50 so I can do catch up contributions.

I’m a long way before I need to worry about backdoor contributions.
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-04 00:20:55+00:00
It's clear that if you use a phone, tablet, desktop, or television, then very soon the vast majority of what you see each day that you've never seen before will actually be 100% generated and not real. There will be generations growing up that will never see a picture, video, display, or transmission of something capturing real life. Every new thing they see will be computationally generated, including all TikTok and YouTube videos. Some day it will be announced that the last human movie star on Earth has died.
by nchmy | 2025-11-04 00:20:56+00:00
That tiny difference is hardly a reason not to use datastar, especially when it brings SO MUCH more useful stuff - all in a smaller package.

Moreover, the fact that Datastar is more generalized is actually better - HTMX has vastly more (non-standards-compliant) attributes that you need to learn.

https://htmx.org/reference/

vs

https://data-star.dev/reference/attributes

> I'm not sure if Datastar has a non-SSE mode to support that but it wouldn't be true for SSE.) To each their own.

My first point was literally saying that it has non-SSE and linked to the docs. You're not even trying to be objective here...

> So why not?

Yes, I have no problem with these things being implemented in v4. In fact, celebrated it in my original post. I brought it all up because you were describing that all as needless complexity in Datastar, but now you're implementing it.

Also, most of Datastar can be trivially disabled/unbundled because its nearly all plugins. That is largely not the case for HTMX.

Thus far, you've simply strongly confirmed my initial hunch that HTMX v4 is unnecessary compared to Datastar.
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-04 00:21:09+00:00
I don't know... I'm your average python dev. I don't think nodejs is necessarily an improvement, but when I got to pick up a bit of elixir, and after struggling a bit with the many collection types and the pattern matching, when it clicked it was really eye-opening. So I don't think this is out of the league of the regular dev. I think if we were talking about Haskell that would probably apply, but elixir is fine. Even metaprogramming is very intuitive in elixir once you get the hang of it. It's just a very well designed language.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-04 00:21:13+00:00
Obfuscation is usually just a lack of accountability, and naive job security through avoiding peer-review.

Practically speaking, if people can't understand you, than why are you even on the team? Some problems can't be solved alone even if you live to a 116 years old.

Also, folks could start dropping code in single instruction obfuscated C for the lols =3

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
by Freeformcareers | 2025-11-04 00:21:38+00:00
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by alsetmusic | 2025-11-04 00:21:50+00:00
But the AI saved you from making a huge mistake! Your child would have hated a fun and childlike app. Next time, make them a no-frills spreadsheet. 5yo is basically the new 25. /s

AI is still pretty stupid and I'm still waiting for society to revalue these companies at something closer to reality (which will undoubtedly crash the market, but it's not like it's my fault they overpromised and lied).

Note, I didn't say it's useless or has no value. Just that it's overall pretty stupid compared to what is promised and invested.
by fragmede | 2025-11-04 00:21:55+00:00
Ah not to worry we can make it a web service and host it on the cloud and of course you wouldn't want to run without a authentication so you'd need that and also a database and what if you want to blink the led securely so you'll need to use a homorphic database which is very computationally expensive so just need a couple of VMs and anyway you should start with https://www.npmjs.com/package/blinking and go from there.
by mr_november | 2025-11-04 00:22:38+00:00
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by icekg | 2025-11-04 00:23:06+00:00
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by dima55 | 2025-11-04 00:23:08+00:00
This is the ROS way: add more layers of crap on it until it sorta kinda works sometimes. If you want "reproducible package management", use Debian. ROS1 is already in stock Debian. Some of ROS2 is as well. If you actually want ros to suck less, please package the reset of ROS2, and push it to Debian.
by dardeaup | 2025-11-04 00:23:51+00:00
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by egypturnash | 2025-11-04 00:24:43+00:00
Somebody needs to introduce this man to Bandcamp. Pretty much all my music buying is through there now, I don't miss the "sometimes iTunes/Music adds two copies of your purchases to the library" bug at all. I do miss Old Itunes though, Music has so many little problems like the fact that hitting command-L to go to the currently playing track's info is broken from a lot of views, and none of my visualizer plugins work any more. RIP Aeon.
by tim333 | 2025-11-04 00:24:44+00:00
>NO WAY you can define "consciousness" ... that it includes all humans but excludes all LLMs

That doesn't seem so hard - how about awareness of thoughts feelings, emotions and what's going on around you? Fairly close to human consciousness, excludes current LLMs.

I don't think it's very relevant to the article though which very sensibly avoids the topic and sticks to thinking.
by j1elo | 2025-11-04 00:25:09+00:00
Work had me using the Windows Terminal for the first time ever after a life of developing on Linux. I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!)

For those not knowing, Windows Terminal uses Ctrl+C to abort the current process (as we'd expect) when nothing is selected, but copies when there is a selection. Similarly, Ctrl+V just pastes. So convenient!
by ares623 | 2025-11-04 00:25:44+00:00
My head canon is that the thing that preemptively pops the bubble is Apple coming out and saying, very publicly, that AI is a dead end, and they are dropping it completely (no more half assed implicit promises).

And not just that, they come out with an iPhone that has _no_ camera as an attempt to really distance themselves from all the negative press tech (software and internet in particular) has at the moment.
by RogYga | 2025-11-04 00:26:32+00:00
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by anonymars | 2025-11-04 00:27:04+00:00
I wonder if it was losing Jim Allchin that did it. He retired after Vista and I'd say he was in charge of Windows during its golden age. 7 was basically Vista SP3, and then things took a different direction.

But, to every coin there are two sides:

"I consider this cross-platform idea a disease within Microsoft. We are determined to put a gun to our head and pull the trigger."
by dietrichepp | 2025-11-04 00:27:28+00:00
Conspicuously absent are some of the analog circuit applications. Here are three of my favorites:

1. Frequency mixer, used for heterodyning, important in radio, so I hear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_mixer

2. Log converter, where the output voltage is proportional to the logarithm of the input voltage. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/374440/log-c...

3. Diode ring, which provides variable gain, used in analog compressors like the Neve 33609 (I have a clone of the 33609, and I’m very fond of it)

Think about this: if you have a nonlinear device like a diode, then the dynamic resistance changes depending on the operating point. If you modulate the operating point, you’re modulating the dynamic resistance.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-04 00:28:09+00:00
I don't know, I think you're conflating content streaming with central compute.

Also, is percentage of screentime the relevant metric? We moved TV consumption to the PC, does that take away from PCs?

Many apps moved to the web but that's basically just streamed code to be run in a local VM. Is that a dumb terminal? It's not exactly local compute independent...
by eightnoteight | 2025-11-04 00:28:53+00:00
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by badosu | 2025-11-04 00:28:56+00:00
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by tombert | 2025-11-04 00:29:16+00:00
Part of it is the fact that I'm using USB storage for my RAID, which is a little finicky. Another part is that I'm using this server as my router as well, which means that when things break I kind of have to fix them immediately, and since my network cards are thunderbolt I have to rely on the finicky Linux thunderbolt support.

For reasons not clear to me, if a system update requires compiling a large thing (e.g. Immich + TritonLLVM), 95% of the time it will break the internal LAN's network interface. I think updating is important (especially for a router), this means that a few times a week I have to babysit the system update to be there to reboot the server manually.
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-04 00:29:29+00:00
I would go so far as to say we are still in the computing dial-up era. We're at the tail end, maybe - we don't write machine code any longe, mostly, and we've abstracted up a few levels but we're still writing code. Eventually computing is something that will be everywhere, like air, and natural language interfaces will be nearly exclusively how people interact with computing machines. I don't think the idea of 'writing software' is something that will stick around, I think we're in a very weird and very brief little epoch where that is a thing.