MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-23 15:16:58+00:00
It may be an overall increase in economic anxiety, even at the corporate level. At one time, AT&T could probably not imagine their status would ever really change; today, you'd be foolish to be running almost any company in the US economy and think that the company's position in 10 years is likely to be similar to the one it has today. Making longer term investments in employee skills is almost certainly concomittant with the idea of tackling their income needs/desires/wants, and that looks intimidating when you don't have faith that your company will still be growing 5 years from now.
by rubicon33 | 2025-11-23 15:17:24+00:00
I’m an “old school programmer” just like you, but still use Claud code.

For greenfield projects it’s absolutely faster to churn out code I’ve written 100 times in the past. I don’t need to write another RBAC system, I just don’t. I don’t need to write another table implementation for a frontend data view.

How Claud helps us is speed and breadth. I can do a lot more in shorter time, and depending on what your goals are this may or may not be valuable to you.
by agumonkey | 2025-11-23 15:17:46+00:00
I rarely judge people in these situations (sexuality or whatever the reason, there's a million different way to get stuck in a false life due to social pressure, "weakness" [aren't we all at times?]...)

I'm just floored by the misery most people go through, the misery we inflict on each others... it's not easy to bold, to be free, to be you.
by wslh | 2025-11-23 15:18:11+00:00
I conjecture that what you're describing was deeply tied to the size, quality, and spirit of that original community (and consumers). A relatively small cluster of tinkerers, shared physical spaces, and a sense of discovery created a moral atmosphere very different from today's massive global tech hub shaped by billions in capital.

To put the scale shift in perspective: Apple sold only a couple of million Apple IIs in that entire era. Today, the iPhone sits in the multi-billion range since 2007. Once a technology ecosystem expands by three orders of magnitude, its culture cannot remain the same.

The early Valley wasn’t "good" in an absolute sense, it was simply relatively small, intimate, and guided by shared values. As growth, global competition, and finances took over, the culture changed in ways that were probably inevitable.
by MiddleEndian | 2025-11-23 15:18:11+00:00
One thing I found clever about certain celebrities, like Dolly Parton and Guy Fieri, is that their public images are so distinct but transient (Dolly Parton has a wig, Guy Fieri looks like Guy Fieri) that I imagine if they dressed down like normal people, they'd be able to blend in with the public.
by Scene_Cast2 | 2025-11-23 15:18:39+00:00
For anyone looking for some IDEs to tinker around with shaders:

* shadertoy - in-browser, the most popular and easiest to get started with

* Shadron - my personal preference due to ease of use and high capability, but a bit niche

* SHADERed - the UX can take a bit of getting used to, but it gets the job done

* KodeLife - heard of it, never tried it
by heelix | 2025-11-23 15:18:41+00:00
I've had problems getting one. Taken a couple attempts at it when the drivers license renews. Last attempt, it seems those adopted need both the biological as well as the legal birth certificate. I've sorted my passport, so do have a passport card now - but I don't always travel with it. (One of the gotchas with GA flying, some days you end up taking a commercial flight home) Guess that changes. Previously, they would just wave you through and 'randomly' select you for fabric/skin swabs.
by krupan | 2025-11-23 15:19:02+00:00
There is no life without pain and suffering. It's as much a law of nature as gravity. Life needs something to push against, to struggle to overcome. Without that there simply is no life. If life doesn't struggle and suffer against things it never even starts. Once started, if life stops struggling and suffering, it quickly dies.

Religion and tradition have elevated humanity and it's good to acknowledge that. They never could have eliminated suffering, only changed the sources and types of suffering. It is helpful for many of us to have things like religion and traditions to give the suffering more meaning, sense, and purpose.
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-11-23 15:19:20+00:00
But you must admit it was a gamble at the time. My mother got Covid early, before lockdowns. She spent a week in the hospital and almost died. She then had a stroke, she can no longer walk. She also got cancer, and now can barely talk. Please don't tell me it was not deadly dangerous to older folks. If the bird flu comes, and with it a mortality rate of 50%, and there is a vaccine, everybody will be locked down and forced to take the vaccine. It wont matter what anybody's opinions are about the possible harmful effects of lockdowns or vaccines.
by louthy | 2025-11-23 15:19:24+00:00
When I was 8 years old my father got ill. He lost his ability to work, lost his business, and eventually we lost our house and ended up in social housing. Then three years later, when I was 11 years old, my father died leaving my mother with 3 kids to raise and no income.

If the two child benefit cap was in place then, we would have been in food poverty in one of the richest nations on earth.

Not every situation is as mind numbingly simple as you paint it. Most people don’t have additional children in an attempt to game the system. That’s a moronic point of view.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-23 15:20:21+00:00
What you say is right, and it would have been less lazy for me to provide links to the documents that I have quoted.

On the other hand, I have provided all the information that is needed for anyone to find those documents through a Web search, in a few seconds.

I have the quoted documents, but it is not helpful to know from where they were downloaded a long time ago, because, unfortunately, the Internet URLs are not stable. So for links, I just have to search them again, like anyone else.

These documents can be found in many places.

For instance, searching "b language manual 1972" finds as the first link:

https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/kbman...

Searching "martin richards bcpl 1967" finds as the first link:

https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/bcpl....

Additional searching for CPL and BCPL language documents finds

https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_o...

where there are a lot of early documents about the languages BCPL and CPL.

Searching for "Wirth Euler language 1966" finds the 2-part paper

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365153.365162

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365170.365202

There exists an earlier internal report about Euler from April 1965 at Stanford, before the publication of the language in CACM, where both indirection and address-of were prefix, like later in BCPL. However, before the publication in January 1966, indirection has been changed to be a postfix operator, choice that has been retained in the later languages of Wirth.

http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/65/20/CS-TR-65-...

The early IBM PL/I manuals are available at

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/pli/

Searching for "algol 68 reports" will find a lot of documents.

And so on, everything can be searched and found immediately.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-23 15:20:29+00:00
If suggesting that perhaps people should live within their means is government overeach and interference then surely the government should then stay out of it and not provide any children benefits at all...

I think you've shown exactly how this debate and complaints against the 2-child cap is one-sided and refuses to consider the issue of family planning and living within one's means.

As I replied before, the argument that "life takes all sorts of unexpected turns" is completely disingenuous because we all know that this is not what happens in the vast majority of cases... so again an odd refusal to face reality and the key, tough questions.

Edit: why such bad faith in the replies? Most larger families that are poor and on benefits started that way, they are not victims of a sudden life accident. It is totally neutral to state this, I am not passing judgement. But apparently it is wrong to state it and wrong to suggest that people should start by living within their means. This is madness!

Edit 2: I'll leave this here (census 2021):

"In 2021, 1.2 million households contained three or more dependent children; when compared with households with one or two dependent children they were more likely to contain no employed adults" [1]

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-23 15:21:08+00:00
Solar winds should not exist. The update server sent up unsigned binary images with zero notifications of an update cycle or content change. Beyond that, the clients accept and install updates from system account with zero signature check or guardrails on elevated access.

DoD was compromised, senate, most major defense contractors. It took them weeks to figure out what happened and then only with the assistance of the entire world. Ancillary compromises that persist in an untraceable state within these networks are probably in the dozens.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-23 15:21:30+00:00
I see these comments on most HN threads that aren’t about tech stuff, but to me these are the best part of HN. I think it should include things people in tech who are also humans find interesting and want to discuss, like this, not just discussions of the latest cpu architecture or whatever. If you don’t find it interesting ignore it, and the algorithm will make it go away on its own if most people agree!
by ddawson | 2025-11-23 15:21:31+00:00
Wow, I'm reading this very differently. I don't know why there has to be emotional violence erupting. Handling something that's fundamentally changed at the core of a relationship and at the core of one's identity will bring strong emotions but it doesn't have to be violent. It can also be handled with all the best qualities we all have like patience, curiosity, support, trust. Strong relationships can grow stronger after being tested.
by palmotea | 2025-11-23 15:21:34+00:00
>> Took me forever to find the actual quote - ChatGPT and Gemini kept trying to gaslight me that it’s not a real quote or that Willie said it to Bart until I gave the exact quote (at which point normal search engines were fine):

> If you google “Lisa S L Simpson” it’s the first thing that comes up… why make it harder with AI?

Because AI is the future! His employer is probably requiring him use it first for everything. Only when it fails (and you can tell), may other ways to solve the problem be tried.
by spankibalt | 2025-11-23 15:22:05+00:00
> "It takes a lot longer to become a reasonably good artist than it does to become a reasonably good programmer."

Such overgeneralizations are not helpful. People gravitate stronger towards certain creative disciplines, or a selection of them; how long it exactly takes to develop-out "reasonable" skills is dependent on a litany of factors, some of which cannot be controlled (e. g. force majeure). Both programming and pixel art requires unwavering commitment and exercise´; there is no way to "wing it" if you are intellectually honest and take your craft seriously.
by schneems | 2025-11-23 15:22:28+00:00
I (think I) got it from ReinH on birdsite (before everyone left and moved to mastodon and Bluesky). He also gave a lot of talks on blameless postmortems and culture and general SRE stuff. This is one talk but not sure if it touches on the origins https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrsvLMqF1Q
by beardyw | 2025-11-23 15:22:29+00:00
Well I retired 12 years ago and I said no to every point.

1. No 2. Actually learning more now 3. Didn't change - would I fit the job? 4. No 5. Had no idea (UK equivalent) 6. No change 7. Happened long before 8. No 9. No 10. Not yet
by api | 2025-11-23 15:22:39+00:00
I’m just going to throw this out there.

What if reducing birth rates at this point in time is rational?

On the employment side, we have rapidly advancing automation and AI that are dramatically reducing the work force required to maintain society.

On the ecological side we have a combination of climate change, soil depletion, and many other factors that at least threaten to impose a bottleneck on us. We are smart and adaptive but adapting takes time and energy. During the transition it may be harder for us to support vastly huge populations.

Put those things together and… are we, in fact, doing the rational thing here?

Keep in mind that no trend is forever.

In the 1970s people predicted global Malthusian collapse in part by extrapolating past birth rates infinitely far into the future.

Seems to me that population collapse alarmists are doing the same thing. “If this trend continues forever there will be nobody left!”
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-23 15:23:26+00:00
This isn't true. Take 9_A = 1001_2. 28_A = 11100_2, which is 5 bits long (3 set). The biggest number in this path is 52_A = 110100_2, which is 6 bits long (3 set). 5 ≯ 6, and 3 ≯ 3: neither of my interpretations of your statement holds.
Show HN: Civilization Patch – An Emotional Entropy Regulator for LLMs
by rain1955 | 2025-11-23 15:23:28+00:00
I built an open-source “Civilization Patch” that adds an Emotional Entropy Regulator (EER) layer to LLMs.

The core idea: Humans reduce emotional entropy through compassion, but for AI compassion increases computational entropy. So the patch stabilizes interaction by slowing, mirroring, pausing, and regulating high-entropy emotional inputs.

RFC v1.1 + math model + reasoning here: https://github.com/rain1955/Civilization-Patch/blob/main/RFC...

Would love feedback from people working on AI safety, alignment, multi-agent systems, and conversational stability.
by cjfd | 2025-11-23 15:23:32+00:00
One way that is very common to have decidable dependent types and avoid the paradox is to have a type hierarchy. I.e, there is not just one star but a countable series of them *_1, *_2, *_3, .... and the rule then becomes that *_i is of type *_(i+1) and that if in forall A, B A is of type *_i and B is of type *_j, forall A, B is of type type *_(max(i, j) + 1).
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-23 15:23:47+00:00
I'm not fixating on it really. My point is just that classical liberal arguments about free exchange and the market and property don't hold up to historical scrutiny.

My point is you can't form an ethical framework around property as intrinsic right because really property is less "theft" than it is power, so you end up at the end of the argument having to actually defend might makes right as your world view. (Which is why I see the logical end point of radical libertarianism as being a kind of fascism.)

Capitalism is an incredibly efficient machine. All that is solid melts, etc. etc. It is beautiful in its own way. I agree about the compounding. I suspect we mostly agree generally.
by chph | 2025-11-23 15:23:52+00:00
Every second, millions of "unique" identifiers are generated across the internet. UUIDs, transaction IDs, session tokens, blockchain hashes... all consuming precious entropy from our universe's finite pool of randomness.

What if REUSING identifiers could save the planet AND prevent the heat death of the universe?

NOT A UNIQUE ID is here to challenge the status quo. We recycle identifiers that are already in use somewhere on the internet. Sure, it might cause a few database collisions. Maybe some authentication systems will get confused. Perhaps reality itself will experience minor glitches.

But think of the ENTROPY WE'RE SAVING!
by thomasikzelf | 2025-11-23 15:24:16+00:00
Really, that is surprising to hear. There are a couple of differences but most of the syntax looks the same to me, what part do you find alien?

The reskill problem is of similiar difficulty with learning a new framework I think. Especially because the language is rather simple compared to typescript (which is also its strength).

I do understand it is an uphill battle. The whole nobody get's fired for choosing IBM thing. The language is still unproven in the general perception. I do think that when it comes to libraries and frameworks I see a lot of developers choose new unproven stuff, more then they do languages.
by vacuity | 2025-11-23 15:24:37+00:00
The notions of "blame", "excuse", and "forgiveness" are strange to me now. I want to say that understanding is key, and everything else follows from understanding. If I understand a person's action, I should act, according to my values, regarding that person. Consistency to one's values is also key. Any emotions, feelings, etc. should either be recognized in my values or shouldn't interfere. If I am to praise or elevate someone, I should praise or elevate that person, and the same if I should rebuke or punish someone. Any extraneous desires that would prevent me from doing what I should do are to be contained. I must understand my values, by which I will understand the world, and how I should act within that world is then determined.
by exomonk | 2025-11-23 15:24:56+00:00
In case people don't know the Collatz Conjecture, It's based on a simple rule: take any natural number n. If it is even, divide it by 2. If it is odd, multiply by 3 and add 1. The conjecture states that no matter what number you start with, you will eventually reach the number 1.

It would seem simple, but many simple iterative calculations get us to Turing machine territory regarding computability.
by stOneskull | 2025-11-23 15:25:36+00:00
youtube also has kitboga, pirogi, deeveeaar, etc which are very helpful. i introduced my mother, who has early dementia and can't do much, so watches a lot of netflix and youtube, to kitboga and she loved it and found other scambaiters. i'm stoked. i know she will tell a scammer to f off now.
by lm28469 | 2025-11-23 15:26:37+00:00
> Take a look at France, where a former president went to prison. Okay, it got commuted to house arrest

There is no house arrest, he appealed and is innocent until proven guilty. People stay in prison after appealing in case there is a serious risk of them fleeing the country or in case they present a danger to society, both of these have been deemed low enough
by geocar | 2025-11-23 15:26:47+00:00
> The GPDR is not criminal law

While the GDPR does not directly prescribe prison sentences, it absolutely enables countries to establish criminal offences for severe data protection violations, and they will clearly extradite!

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

> But ignoring that,

No don't ignore that. When you're so completely wrong about the first thing you say, everything that follows is going to be even more wrong.

> Consider ... cookie ... banners. The GPDR language is extremely clear that none of them are legal

You are confusing the ePrivacy directive (2002/58/EC) with the GDPR (2016/679).
by nobodyandproud | 2025-11-23 15:27:04+00:00
At 57, that means he entered university during the early to mid 1980s.

That was peak AIDS phobia (for good reason), and the anti-gay rhetoric was also at its peak.

There was a lot more to lose coming out during those days, beyond just marriage and family cold-shoulders.

By good reason, I mean people were panicked because people didn’t know which activities could spread the virus. Anyone else remember toilet seat fears?
by Aachen | 2025-11-23 15:27:35+00:00
Given that they have multi-minute outages multiple times per day and they're still not switching to one of the 100mbps options, I think it's a safe assumption that they really do need that speed more than the reliability

I'm a heavy user myself and would be perfectly pleased with a symmetric 100/100 connection, but would even rather make due with 20/20 if that meant no regular outages, so I would agree with you but OP's needs seem specific
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-23 15:28:14+00:00
That, I think, is the most unintuitive part about writing fragment shaders. The idea that you take a couple of coordinates and output a color. Compared to traditional drawing, as with a pen and paper, you have to think in reverse.

For example if you want to draw a square with a pen, you put your pen where the square is, draw the outlines, than fill it up, with a shader, for each pixel, you look at where you are, calculate where the pixel is relative to the square, and output the fill color if it is inside the square. If you want to draw another square to the right, with the pen, you move your pen to the right, but with the shader, you move the reference coordinates to the left. Another way to see it is that you don't manipulate objects, you manipulate the space around the objects.

Vertex shaders are more natural as the output is the position of your triangles, like the position of your pen should you be drawing on paper.
by spankibalt | 2025-11-23 15:28:49+00:00
> "The traditional workflow of creating a rough sketch on paper or tablet then progressively refining it just entirely doesn't apply."

For many a pixel artist that is a typical workflow, especially when working from reference, e. g. by retracing/"converting", say, an architectural period piece such as a street view to be used in a period- and location-accurate adventure game. In other words a classic line-to-pixel A/D conversion.
by derangedHorse | 2025-11-23 15:28:52+00:00
That just sounds like you're saying the "average" person in all those professions are bad at personal finance. Maybe that's a reflection of society at large. One articles estimates 90% of Americans being in debt[1] so it wouldn't surprise me that this successful subset would fare much better (although I would bet they do when compared to the general population).

Also debt isn't always bad, but most individuals quoted in the study are probably not holding the good type of debt (debt one can easily pay off but doesn't).

[1] https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/demographics/
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-23 15:29:22+00:00
This has long been pretty obvious to anyone using Nitter on desktop. There, you can ctrl-click on usernames to open a new tab, and it is readily obvious from the account’s post history that the people behind so many “authentic American” accounts are not authentic Americans. They make little telltale mistakes in their English, they post single-mindedly about a particular topic like few real people (no matter how much they like political battle) would, the profile pic was obviously created by GAN3-style AI, etc.

It’s fast and trivial to verify on any non-enshittified interface. One of the problems with modern social media is that people are looking at it (usually on their phones) through the platform’s intentionally crippled UI that doesn’t allow quickly opening new views.
by palmotea | 2025-11-23 15:30:04+00:00
> What changed? A lot. The underlying theme across all companies, to both employees and customers, has been "see how much abuse they'll take before they leave", which sadly has had marvelous results because the answer is... a lot. Notice that at least half of the largest companies by market cap have no actual support at all.

That's probably a direct consequence of the (Milton) Friedman doctrine taking hold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine), which has made capitalism much less friendly to customers and employees in order maximize shareholder rewards.

For customers and employees, this kind of capitalism "optimizes" your situation until it's as bad as you can take without quitting. If you're genuinely happy, that's a glitch that's in the process of being worked out.