MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onion2k | 2025-11-11 17:03:23+00:00
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 don't think Steve Jobs went shopping for pants. Nor do many of the people who buy this sort of garment. They either have an assistant who buys things for them, whose goal is to keep them happy and not blow a predetermined budget, or they go to a store and sit in a nice suite where a personal shopper suggests things to them. In either scenario the price of individual items probably don't even get a mention.
by creer | 2025-11-11 17:03:58+00:00
Isn't there simply a human tendency to try and find a magic formula in what is simply survivor bias?

As creative projects (software, painting...) we finish or satisfactorily achieve relatively few items. And except for the most repetitive of us, these achievements are pretty different. Wide space, chaos, few satisfactory products by comparison. That doesn't bode well for "magic recipe". All the way to "rules of thumb" that we take fun in violating.

So there are two issues in there: We have more taste than skill and so many of our attempts will disappoint us no matter what. And we will obsess on trying to find a magic formula - when it's rather likely that there isn't one. The "space" is large and chaotic and we might want to reassure ourselves instead that serendipity has something to do with it.

Is there then place for rules of thumb? Whatever let's us get to work in the morning, I guess. For me, I do like the recognition of past track record: with a bit of age hindsight, I know I can do it - no need to dispair. That is useful and reassuring. If I just try some more - in ever varying manners, it will happen.

One place for "rules of thumbs" is in them being tropes. We can get some impact on the viewer by violating them. There is a trope of learning the rules so you can violate them. For example a Rule of Thirds - can be fertile grounds for getting at the viewer. The rule doesn't do much for us, and we have no problem violating it, but our less savvy viewers might remember it and get one more whiff of meaning from the violation. And if we are less concerned with our own satisfaction and more interested in sales, we might pay attention to "what's popular these days" and produce some of that. Not all artists are dead set on personal achievement at the cost of sales. A slightly different look at such rules.
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 17:04:25+00:00
oof, we spent over 2 hours debating what the title should be.. Zillow for local businesses, A zillow for main street, a Main street marketplace, a Local business zillow... we ended up going to "market of local businesses" because we though "zillow for local businesses" could be misinterpreted as a tool that we offer to local businesses exclusively, rather than a market..
by array_key_first | 2025-11-11 17:04:33+00:00
Fallacy: not relevant.

Ideologically, they were republicans. In name only, they were Democrats.

This is not some 'haha gotcha!' type thing. Real argument with real human brains don't work that way. You can be technically right but if it's on some semantic bullshit nobody cares about, then you're wrong.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-11 17:04:37+00:00
Yeah, how dare we use non-attacking language to describe objectively accurate states and conditions.

It's a small step from there to the people who chided -me- because I said I was no longer willing to discuss in good faith with people who argued about "post birth abortions" (that they knew to be a lie) or adrenachrome farming from babies in pizza parlor basements. That it was my fault for these views propagating for not being willing to "understand" their perspective.

Their perspectives are a lie They know they're a lie. They just don't. fucking. care.

And then they whine about people being "dismissive" of them.
by fsflover | 2025-11-11 17:05:05+00:00
An alternative to Tails is Whonix [0], which consists of two (virtual) machines: the first provides the Tor connection, while the second runs the Tor Browser. Works out of the box on Qubes OS by the way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261

[1] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-11 17:05:08+00:00
I exclusively use private browsing, but I know that doesn't do much in preventing tracking, so it's nice to see this finally starting to roll out.

The fact that I have to go to great lengths to browse anonymously - and companies desperately try to circumvent my genuine decision to opt out of their tracking - tells me everything I need to know about those companies. Words like sleezy, shady, and predatory come to mind.

I would love to see this taken one step further and have states/countries prevent companies from tracking me altogether if I reject their cookies, but I fear it's more likely those companies will lobby to prevent Firefox from protecting us.
by snark_sr | 2025-11-11 17:05:18+00:00
We’re working on an AI-first interview platform for developers: Valuate.dev

The usual approach to coding tasks doesn’t work anymore - companies are looking for AI engineers, yet it’s still unclear how to assess AI proficiency.

Our goal is to design challenges that combine prompting + coding, allowing us to score both how well a candidate prompts and how good the resulting code is. The aim is to bring measurement to AI prompting skills - how well-aligned prompts are and how candidates handle LLM-generated code.

At the same time, we want to keep a strong human balance in the process: hiring is a two-way street, and screening shouldn’t be fully offloaded to AI. We’re human-first.

Several tasks are already live - you can try them here: https://valuate.dev
by whstl | 2025-11-11 17:05:41+00:00
Apart from people who just weren’t good, what I found in a few decades is that most people will pay attention to details if given the incentive and time.

What companies seem to want is developers who do everything perfectly despite having someone yelling at them to move fast. Also: the person yelling also doesn’t care about the details until someone else points it out to them.
by wdrw | 2025-11-11 17:05:48+00:00
This gives a pretty good explanation, although there is a slight difference from the translation in the original post: https://chatgpt.com/share/69136c44-94b0-8000-a564-ce55f92a14... Use it together with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner%27s_sign_list
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-11 17:05:49+00:00
Yes, they were. They are republicans now. You arguing in bad faith here, because you very well know the democrats back then are the republicans now. The party of democrats back then is not the party of the democrats now. the democratic party represented the same people republicans represent today. You're trying to make an falsely link the democratic party today with the party in the 60's, you know that link is incorrect, but since it helps you make a point, you're making it anyways. I call this: intellectual fraud.
by booleanbetrayal | 2025-11-11 17:06:04+00:00
Yes, yes ... It's the same as it ever was, only so much more so!

Beyond just critiquing the disparity here, I feel like the psychology that treats capital in such a frivolous way, shifting it about already privileged pockets of society, rather than apply it to any sort of material good is rather abhorrent. That's just my take.
by r0me1 | 2025-11-11 17:06:10+00:00
risk vs reward. I've had a few psychedelic experiences, and in my case, they either didn't lead to any significant changes or ended up having positive outcomes. But what I've also learned is that my gut flora has a huge impact on how my brain works. Diet plays a major role in how I feel and think. So while I might still try psychedelics occasionally, I'll avoid certain foods because of the concerns you mentioned.
by mikeyouse | 2025-11-11 17:06:23+00:00
Just absolute nonsense retconning. Purdue (OxyContin) was the primary company responsible for the epidemic, J&J to a much lesser extent, and then a bunch of PMBs and providers looked the other way. Purdue has nothing to do with vaccines. J&J licensed a covid vaccine from Janssen but otherwise none of those companies have anything to do with vaccines at all.

People have lower trust in doctors, hospitals and pharma companies because people they do trust (Trump, RFK and the parade of misfits now running US health policy) lie to them to get them to distrust doctors and pharma companies. It’s not some complicated bank shot.
by isaacremuant | 2025-11-11 17:06:55+00:00
It's a common Tactic to pretend children are some sort of tabula rasa full of innocent wisdom that can be use to prove points.

It's ridiculous, usually fake and hide the biases of those who nurtured them to believe whatever they believe, even if it's by pure imitation.

So you're absolutely right to call BS.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-11 17:07:14+00:00
Most of those are just phonetic approximations using convenient characters. I'm not sure I'd say the names have any semantic content. The names for China, Korea, and Japan are the names the ancient Chinese gave them. China is the "middle" or "center" country because it's the country of the people who named it. Japan is the origin of the sun because it's to the East of China. And of course the Han are what Koreans called themselves. Nothing accidental about any of those names.
by mangodrunk | 2025-11-11 17:07:18+00:00
If your argument can’t hold up to scrutiny, then I think you may not know the position well enough or you need to adjust it. We can explain and show evidence why driving drunk is dangerous. We can show that vaccines are safe and effective. I don’t like wasting time with bad faith people, but to assume anyone who disagrees is wrong and not worthy of discussion is bad.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-11 17:07:27+00:00
> though some things still look off for people (they look too-flawless)

I think _maybe_ there's an uncanny valley problem (and it may vary person to person). I found Stable Diffusion 1.5's output quite _bad_, say, but not as, I dunno, objectionable and wrong-looking as current models.

Video has always been a complete mess, remains a complete mess, I don't see any real path towards it not being a complete mess. It is, in fairness, a _much_ harder problem.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-11 17:07:45+00:00
> if you refuse to recognize that many of the same companies producing these vaccines also played a major role in fueling the current opioid crisis which is coincidentally disproportionately impacting these very communities

Moderna has no opioid division.

And while Mennonites have a multinational drug problem [1][2], I see no evidence they were “disproportionately” impacted by opioids.

This sounds like post hoc rationalisation, not causation. These folks were never going to get vaccinated.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-28-me-18060...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.2937000
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 17:08:19+00:00
Blazers and sport coats.

They’re purses you can wear that also tend to make you look better.

They’re friggin’ great, and even the largest smart phones easily fit their hip pockets.

No more keys poking you through jeans pockets. No more sitting on your wallet. Even room for a smallish paperback book.

We never should have moved away from them. They’re a utility garment.
by WJW | 2025-11-11 17:08:36+00:00
In addition to the accidental things already listed under 3, there is also the additional points that:

- Other people exist and they also have a lot of agency, the exercise of which sometimes directly interferes with your life. Not to mention how much capacity bigger entities like countries have to mess with your life it they wanted to.

- In opposition to point 1: while humans do have tremendous agency, they also have very little agency when seen against how big the universe really is. There are more stars in the sky than people on Earth, by a considerable margin. Nobody can do anything at all to influence them. Hell, we can't even manipulate the orbit of our own planet in any meaningful way. I think many of the magical thinking paradigms are ways to cope with that as well.
by Hayim_Gabay | 2025-11-11 17:08:46+00:00
Great question!

GitHub is already fully integrated (you can connect repos and trigger scans directly). GitLab and Bitbucket are next on the roadmap, along with CI/CD pipeline support so teams can run scans automatically after each commit or deployment.

The goal is to make it as seamless as possible — no manual setup or config files, just connect and scan.

Really appreciate the feedback, it helps prioritize what to ship next!
by aziis98 | 2025-11-11 17:08:58+00:00
This is a small TailwindCSS alternative based on a css template literal. I was inspired by styled-components and EmotionCSS, which however do not work well with ViteJS and specifically Preact.

I wanted something more optimized than other CSS-in-JS alternatives that generate CSS at runtime, so I created a ViteJS plugin. It extracts all style snippets, replaces them with classes like css-a1b2c3, and injects all the corresponding styles into a CSS file in place of an @extracted-css directive.

This provides a better experience than Tailwind, as you can use all CSS language features without learning new conventions while maintaining a per-component styling approach. This turns out to be more inspectable in the browser's dev-tools, as snippets are extracted as-is and are not fragmented across thousands of small classes.

There is also a preact options hook that adds a custom classList attribute, which maps to clsx for easy class composition (similarly to VueJS, Svelte, etc.).

P.S. I know other frameworks exist, but I have really been enjoying using Preact for frontend development recently.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-11 17:09:27+00:00
> it's because of copyright concerns?

Nominatively, yes. But I think I would describe it as risk tolerance. I'm going to be one of those bad cosplayers and assert that the two rulings mentioned even if they were precedent setting, don't actually apply to the risks themselves. Could you win a case is much less important than if you could survive the court costs. There's no doubt some value in LLM based code generation to many individuals. But does it's value outweigh the risks to a community?

> and we will probably need to have very harsh punishments for people who try to skirt the requirements.

I would need to spend hours of time to articulate exactly how uncomfortable this would make me if I was working along side you. So please forgive this abbreviated abstract. One of the worst things you can do to a community, is put it on rails towards an adversarial relationship. There's going to be a lot of administrative overhead to enabling this, it will be incredibly difficult to get the fairness correct the first time, and I assume (possibly without cause?) it's unlikely to feel fair to everyone if you ever need to enforce it. Is that effort and attention and time best spent there?

I believe that no matter what you decide, blanket acceptance, vs blanket denial, vs some middle ground, you're going to have to spend some of the reputation of the project on making the new rule.

If you ban it, you will turn away some contributions or new contributors, and a small subset of committers may see their velocity decrease. This counts for some value loss (some positive and some negative) But also accounts for decreased time costs... or rather it enables you to spend more time on people and their work instead.

If you allow it, you adopt a large set of new poorly understood risks, and administrative overhead, and time you could have spent working with other people... It will also, turn away contributors.

I'm not going to pretend like there was a chance in hell anyone should believe that I was likely to contribute to runc. It's possible in some hypothetical, but extremely unlikely in the current reality. And, if I cared enough about the diff I wanted to submit upstream, I still would open a PR... but, I saw an AGENTS.md in a different repo that I was considering using, was disappointed and decided not to use that repo. Seeing runc embrace AI code generation would without a doubt, cause me to look for an alternative, I assume a reasonable alt probably doesn't exist, and I would resign myself to the disappointment of using runc. I agree with your argument that it's commercial grade copyright laundering, but that's not my core ethical objection to its use.

> In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. So the only real suggestion that I have is make sure you remember to optimize for how you want to spend your time. Calculate not just the expected value of the code within the repo, but the expected value of the people working on the repo.
by robertlagrant | 2025-11-11 17:09:30+00:00
> I see the mistakes being made and know what it will cost (because I've been there and done that many times), I do my best to explain that and recommend alternatives, but more often than not it still happens anyway.

I'm mid-40s (I can't believe it) and I made a slightly different move a few years ago into more senior leadership, where I get more say in how things are done. This is precisely for this reason: I felt the larger problems to solve were in how to protect the team both from unnecessary external influences and from (potentially) overly-loud but not sensible people suggesting architectures that would be a lot of time and not a lot of value. I then moved to another company and retained a similar level of seniority.

I have different challenges now in having more influence (one sees the problems elsewhere that would be fixed if one were in charge of that as well, but one can become blind to issues within one's purview) but I quite like it overall.

The alternative probably is freelancing. Find a niche and occupy it, without charging the earth, and you'll probably do well emotionally and in providing for your family.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-11 17:09:31+00:00
I don't think HP would be making something like this.

The original calculators, from the discrete HP9100A onwards, pushed tech to its limits.

The HP65 (1975) was a jaw-dropping masterpiece. When most calculators were four function, and scientific calculators were still exotic, a pocket-sized programmable calculator with a magnetic card reader was beyond the imagination of most engineers, never mind most users.

This is more of a nostalgic tribute act. It's nice it exists. But it's looking backwards, not forwards.
by SR2Z | 2025-11-11 17:09:37+00:00
There is no such thing as higher wages without a corresponding increase in price or decrease in profits. Amazon could handle a delivery drivers' union - but on the other end you have groups like the ILWU who are single handedly responsible for the US coming last in any measure of port efficiency in the developed world.

Then, when the ILWU strikes, they get to hold the entire economy for ransom and extract concessions for a job that all of America would benefit from automating.

How is that not a net negative?
by tensor | 2025-11-11 17:09:39+00:00
The covid vaccine was not given to young adults nor children until much later iterations of the vaccine were available, and were specifically reduced in potency for that age group.

If you recall, the initial strains of covid for the elderly had a side effect that could occur with shockingly high probability. That side effect was "dead." The very first vaccines were rushed and given to the elderly to prevent this. There was no "misinformation." The media reported information as it came in.

Understanding of the virus and the vaccines did changes fairly quickly during that time, so I get that it could be confusing for people, but there was no secret effort to mislead anyone, and overall the covid vaccine was one of the biggest successes in our lifetime.

mRNA vaccines open up huge possibilities for a range of illnesses, including cancer. The covid vaccine was developed in record time, and was overall pretty damn effective at preventing the side effect of "dead."
by itsoktocry | 2025-11-11 17:09:51+00:00
>Nobody lied about vaccines.

Sure they did. Go back and listen to what the media and politicians were saying about the vaccines when they were first released: you won't get COVID, you won't spread COVID. We ended up at "you'll still get COVID and spread COVID, but your symptoms will be lessened".

I'm not anti-vaccine by any means, but the story around COVID vaccines changed...a lot.
by rekabis | 2025-11-11 17:09:56+00:00
Which still doesn’t make much sense because there are already some walkers which are designed to lock into most types of shopping carts. So you just bring the cart back to the stall, detach the walker from the cart, and use your walker to get back to your vehicle.

And your description also doesn’t explain how those who walked all the way over to the carts in the first place were unable to bring the carts back. Carts don’t magically appear beside vehicles. How are people who can make it to a cart be suddenly unable to bring by it back to that same spot? And with many stores, carts are picked up at the store front and returned much closer to the cars than the store front.

And finally, this doesn’t explain how so many carts are failed to be returned. Is 25+% of our population disabled?

I feel for anyone who is in pain and cannot walk far. But methinks you are making excuses for arseholes and selfish twats that vastly outnumber those who have genuine excuses.
by creer | 2025-11-11 17:10:04+00:00
Technical aspects to the trade are a different issue, I feel. "Wood moves, design for it" is a technical aspect of woodworking which comes up frequently. You learn about the medium (same for 3D printing, welding, electronics), and make use of that knowledge. The medium is far from the ideal stuff you might have thought - the more knowledgeable worker makes use of that awareness. It's not a question of guiding your effort through chaos but understanding that physics is NOT all chaos. "Wood moves" is not this big mystery - it's just the reality of the medium.

This comes up a lot in investing and economics also. The difference between the naive view and a bit more awareness of how the world works is not some kind of deep conspiracy and "magic recipe" to be discovered. It's just how the world is.
by Xss3 | 2025-11-11 17:10:12+00:00
If documenting the why rather than the how you often end up tying high level concepts together.

E.g. If you describe how the user service exists you wont necessarily capture where it is used.

If you document why the user service exists you will often mention who or what needs it to exist, the thing that gives it a purpose. Do this throughout and everything ends up tied together at a higher level.
by Fischgericht | 2025-11-11 17:10:12+00:00
I don't know in which part of this planet you are living in, but: 14 years ago you might have lived a free society where your ideas and thoughts could not cause you to get arrested, deported or killed.

Yeah, back then Apples iCloud might have been the best suggestion.

If you are trying to extrapolate from the past - which is a good thing in general - do not go back ONLY 14 years from now, but try a bigger time span, too.

I was born in Germany. When I extrapolate from the past on ANYTHING, I at least always start in the year 1933.

No, not a good idea if you expect that within your lifespan some entity might be able to be forced to tell a regime where you are hiding right now.

Taking control of your own data is shitloads of work, I and understand people do not have time it, and have other priorities.

I am just making my point here on how to better extrapolate and project from the past towards the future.