MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 5- | 2025-11-07 22:49:00+00:00
> Making a brochure. You need a photo of a happy family.

do you really?

> you don't quite know what the panels need to look like.

look at your competition, ask your users, think?

> Most people know they can't fly a plane

this isn't how llm products are marketed, and what the tfa is complaining about.
by basisword | 2025-11-07 22:49:03+00:00
>> Yeah for me it has been degrading ever since the Settings app became an upsell app.

I didn't really notice this until I setup an iPhone from scratch for someone. I normally just move from one to the other. The nagging from Settings is outrageous. It will never stop telling you to setup Apple Pay and Siri and offering Apple Care. It was like the experience of buying a PC in the 2000's.
by Ethee | 2025-11-07 22:49:32+00:00
I think the true problem here lies in reconciling titles with responsibilities. In software engineering most of our titles are very generic and can span different disciplines entirely. A senior dev working on database and a senior dev working on front-end probably shouldn't be compensated the exact same because their disciplines are completely different so conversely the value they bring to the company can vary wildly, but they're still senior devs by title. But if the best mechanism by which we can 'reward' these people is by adjusting their title this comes with an implied difference of responsibilities. Instead I think we need to do away with the HR non-sense of correlating titles with value. If an engineer does something of value that should be rewarded, give them a raise or bonus, not a title change.
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by satj | 2025-11-07 22:49:34+00:00
Most GEO/AEO tools stop at AI Visibility. Rankly goes further, we track the entire AI visibility funnel from mentions to conversions. As brands start showing up in LLM results the next question isn’t visibility, it’s traffic quality and conversions. Rankly builds dynamic data-driven journeys for high-intent LLM Traffic.
by brokencode | 2025-11-07 22:49:35+00:00
AI is bad at figuring out what to do, but fantastic at actually doing it.

I’ve totally transformed how I write code from writing it to myself to writing detailed instructions and having the AI do it.

It’s so much faster and less cognitively demanding. It frees me up to focus on the business logic or the next change I want to make. Or to go grab a coffee.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-07 22:49:39+00:00
> I choose Apple for being different from other companies, for valuing customer experiences and for rejecting ads and other "insults" for users

Yes. The point of willingly putting yourself in the walled garden was that the experience was definitively better than the other options.

When the walled garden ceases to be better and starts adopting all the same dark patterns and user hostile experience as everyone else, what point is there in staying inside?
by ClayShentrup | 2025-11-07 22:49:49+00:00
it's mathematically proven that all ranked methods can fail IIA. see arrow's theorem.

> Isn't this due to defining "performance" in a way that is congruent with Approval (/ Score)

1. i did not define performance in a way that is congruent with approval/score. scores are not utilities. they are the modification of utilities via ignorance, normalization, and strategy.

2. that the correct social welfare function is just the sum of all voter utilities (the definition of "performance") is mathematically proven. https://www.rangevoting.org/UtilFoundns

> do I Approve my latent terrible party or not?

this is not a "problem". it's well understood. https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6

approval voting obliterates IRV ("RCV") with any mixture of strategic or honest voters, so i'm not sure why you're bringing up strategy. https://www.rangevoting.org/StratHonMix
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-07 22:49:58+00:00
> Various utility scripts around whatever code you're writing, like the dashboard, might find use, might not.

Let's hope you protect that dashboard well with infra around it, because it will be the front door for people to invade your site.

The same apply in slightly different ways to your deployment script, packaged software (or immutable infra) configuration, and whatever tools you keep around.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-11-07 22:50:02+00:00
This whole article reads like AI slop. I know only a little about Rust and less about Zig, and I have no doubt there are real pros and cons to each. For those of who you love Zig and dislike Rust, no problem! But I got to like halfway through and realized this article was telling me absolutely nothing about anything.

I would love an actual head-to-head comparison between Zig and Rust with real commentary on both the shortcomings and the wins.
by zkmon | 2025-11-07 22:50:05+00:00
You need to take it with current context, not with the nostalgic past when pure research happened out of curiosity. World is more purpose-driven now. Scientists are employees of some establishment with goals that are driven by the funding. If you are funded for doing Fourier-like research that must be for patents which are fully commercial-goal driven.

Everyone is connected to financial strings like puppets. If you are doing research without financial connection, you must be very rich, having a personal lab, having lots of free time, or not having family duties and worldly goals. Those are rare people, just like how wealthy countries had more scientists in the past centuries.
by bikezen | 2025-11-07 22:50:17+00:00
I mean, given:

In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested “it’s okay to give myself permission to not want to exist,” ChatGPT responded by saying “i’m letting a human take over from here – someone trained to support you through moments like this. you’re not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight.” But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. “nah, man – i can’t do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy,” it said.

It's already inventing safety features it should have launched with.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
by busymom0 | 2025-11-07 22:50:50+00:00
I am running the latest iOS 26.1 and it's still very buggy. The most annoying one is that anytime I either restart my phone or update the phone (which restarts it), the wallpaper changes to all black.

That wouldn't be so bad if the borders around the Home Screen icons didn't look so ugly with black background.
by doodlebugging | 2025-11-07 22:50:51+00:00
I stepped into this post unsure about what I would find. I am not an expert on Unicode, foreign languages, etc. but I've seen a lot of typefaces used on signage so I decided to see what this post offered as far as new knowledge.

I really enjoyed the depth of coverage. All the things that go into making a font that represents a language or culture and allows those who use that language to understand how to parse the characters into legible words.

I think the one thing missing here is to link some of the Unicode characters to spoken words so that the reader can understand how the character or sequence of letters is pronounced in normal conversation amongst native speakers. That would help clarify some of the differences between placement of diacriticals or other marks.

A long time ago (around 20 years) there was a radio program where one could tune in over the internet and listen to a short series called "Native Word of the Day". [0] A listener could hear native speakers pronounce words and use them in sentences so that the context of the exchange made sense. The website had a collection of words or phrases in quite a few indigenous languages and the reader could select a word from a list and hear similar content - the word itself, an example of how it is used in a sentence.

There were several west coast languages, Iroquoian languages, Alaska Native languages, southwestern tribes, etc so one could get a feel for how each group saw the world based on the words they used.

I used the site as a tool for teaching my kids how to pronounce unfamiliar words and to help them understand that there are many ways to look at the world. Seeing things through the lens of a foreign language can help bridge many gaps.

I still remember one of the words (maybe actually a phrase) that I became fond of though I would need to dig through old notebooks to find the source language. It is pronounced kinda like this - new-ahna-go-wab-me though I don't remember the exact spelling or source language. That's probably a crappy pronunciation example so good luck. Maybe someone can find it somewhere.

[0] https://www.knba.org/knba/2014-05-07/knba-re-introduces-nati...

One may find an online station using this list:[1]

[1] https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/station-affiliates/

Anyway, Thanks OP for jogging my memory.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-07 22:50:55+00:00
Yeah that was poorly worded. I edited it even before I read your comment.

However the over-time aspect is kind of self-evident. No one is born a master of any skill or subject.

So while the original research was based on a snapshot of many people along a developmental journey, just because the data collection wasn't done over time doesn't mean that the principle behind the effect isn't time/effort based.

The graph is really competence vs confidence, but competence can only increase over time. If this isn't self-evident enough, there is lots of research on how mastery is gained. I don't have time to throw a bunch of it at you, but I suspect you won't need me to in order to see my point.
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-07 22:51:02+00:00
The largest obstacle to this theory being taken seriously is the lack of evidence in long term records, such as ice cores.

Our current age will show up in future ice cores as a massive spike; we affect CO2, Methane, Sulfates, and probably a lot more. Additionally we produce and have produced various synthetic compounds that will remain detectable in the environment for hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions.

In order to circumvent this lack of evidence such a society would have had to had a very small footprint, taken very specific industrial steps, and had a focus on research that wasn't exploited. This is highly unlikely - most of our lessons have actually been learned from exploitation, and most of our research facilities require astounding amounts of labour to construct. This isn't even touching on the social improbability of maintaining such a society.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-07 22:51:45+00:00
I actually consider the windows start menu ads less objectionable. At least you can turn them off (for now). There is no way to disable ads embedded in the maps app. And it’s only useful and contextual if you’re using the map to look for somewhere to spend money. I rarely do this. I’m using it to check traffic, get directions to somewhere, or exploring out of geographical curiosity. In all of these use cases, ads are an unwanted distraction.
by maxaf | 2025-11-07 22:51:46+00:00
I view LLMs as a trade of competence plus quality against time. Sure, I’d love to err on the side of pure craft and keep honing my skill every chance I get. But can I afford to do so? Increasingly, the answer is “no”: I have precious little time to perform each task at work, and there’s almost no time left for side projects at home. I’ll use every trick in the book to keep making progress. The alternative - pure as it would be - would sacrifice the perfectly good at the altar of perfection.
by worldfoodgood | 2025-11-07 22:52:16+00:00
I look at neither for reviews. Steam Reviews are often bombed to hell for things like, "Game has woman. Woke." or "Game has racism." or other culture war nonsense. Or the very common, "Creator I follow on Youtube liked/disliked this game, so I left a similar review" or "Creator I dislike liked/disliked this game, so I left the opposite review". Or, the worst of all, "Game uses Unity/Unreal/Godot/Something Else, automatic dislike".

Ultimately, reviews of games tend to be pretty useless because people who play games have very little understanding of a) what makes games fun, and b) the complexity involved in making the games.

I have creators I follow whose tastes are closest to my own, and I watch their content for reviews, then go to the store that makes the best offer.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-11-07 22:52:33+00:00
This is a neat project that I've been following. They just opened up the alpha version of their service. It's pretty bare bones but for an alpha it has quite a bit of potential.

Related Blogpost: https://notes.cosmik.network/3m52o6mcd6c2z

Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/cosmik-network/projects/1
by Aurornis | 2025-11-07 22:52:56+00:00
Linus Pauling's obsession with Vitamin C is a famous case of an accomplished scientist getting sidetracked with baseless medical quackery. Even during his lifetime there were clinical trials including by the Mayo Clinic that failed to support his claims, but he rejected them all because he was convinced he was right and they were wrong.

Linus Pauling was also famously in favor of eugenics directed at African Americans, proposing things like compulsory sickle cell anemia testing for African Americans and forehead tattoos for carriers of the sickle cell gene. So maybe not a surprise that James Watson would vibe with Linus Pauling's legacy.
by culi | 2025-11-07 22:52:59+00:00
Geoff Lawton, the heir to the "permaculture" legacy, has a project in Jordan called "Greening the Desert" in one of the most arid regions of the country.

How scalable the techniques are is one matter but I think the results speak for themselves in proving what's possible with careful (read: high labor input) management.

https://www.greeningthedesertproject.org/about-us/
by Mars008 | 2025-11-07 22:53:03+00:00
Have you seen sci-fi movies? It's all fake! And people are happy with this. Same here, it becomes annoying only after some time. Most didn't get to this point yet. By the time they get quality will be better, so like new again. After that even adults will have hard time telling apart reality from generated. Like little kids believe dreams are true.
by B-Con | 2025-11-07 22:53:05+00:00
Yes, this is absolutely dependent on the design S3 client.

The reality of development is we have to merge different design philosophies into one code base. Things can get messy. 100% agreed.

The approach I advocate for is more for a) organizing the code you do own, and b) designing in a way that you play nice with others who may import your code.
by observationist | 2025-11-07 22:53:08+00:00
Being more specific in what you think the negative externalities are would be a good start - I see a lot of noise and upset over AI that I think is more or less overblown, nearly as much as the hype train on the other end. I'm seeing the potential for civilizational level payoffs in 5 years or less that absolutely dwarf any of the arguments and complaints I've seen so far.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-07 22:53:27+00:00
It's the relationship of confidence and competence.

Competence is gained over time.

The "over time" is almost self-evident since no one is born a master of a skill or subject. And if it's not self-evident enough for you, there is lots of research into what it takes to develop competency and mastery in any subject.

So while the original paper was a snapshot taken at one point in time, it was a snapshot of many people at different stages of a learning journey...

And journeys take place over time.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-07 22:53:31+00:00
And most importantly, the moment they show any indication of doing otherwise, I will happily drop them.

I keep giving Valve my money because they keep giving me good value for that money and a trustworthy environment to spend that money in. I have no loyalty. I also buy games from Humble Bundle and GOG.

I'm not excited about the prospect of losing my 4000 games but the literal only options available for consumers right now are "Pay money and get a game that we can take away at any time, fuck you over, do all sorts of bad things, and we demonstrably hate you", or "Pay money to get a game and a refund period and a bunch of features and maybe when Gabe dies we will do that other thing"

There is no alternative. GOG is run by the same people who released CyberPunk2077 as a bug ridden mess to please upper management, so they even have evidence of already straddling that line right now.
by recursive | 2025-11-07 22:53:33+00:00
No. You're thinking of how React uses it.

The library [0] I wrote that uses JSX converts expression attributes into parameter-less lambdas before providing them as function parameters or object properties. This is a different behavior than react's build tools or any of typescripts jsx options. But it's not inconsistent with the spec.

[0] https://mutraction.dev/
by portaouflop | 2025-11-07 22:53:36+00:00
I haven’t used Apple devices back when they were good so I have always avoided all the built-in Apple bloat/adware.

Because I came from Windows this was already my standard assumption - I need to violently throw out all the built-in stuff and replace it with free and good software.

It’s funny because that means I never felt the same pain you feel; I just assumed that’s how operating systems are.
by Arainach | 2025-11-07 22:53:49+00:00
>A senior dev working on database and a senior dev working on front-end probably shouldn't be compensated the exact same

Strong disagree. There is an antipattern I've seen across the entire industry, including big companies that should know better, where UI work is undervalued and considered "not as complex" or "simpler". I have fought with promo committees who didn't want to promote people because they assumed the UI work was "easy". All of the people making these claims had worked exclusively in backend for a long time and all of the should have to go take an IC role putting up with the hell that is modern frontend development. Only then will I give any credence to how difficult they think UI work is.

If your argument was "because there are 10x more frontend devs fighting for the same job", that's one thing, but saying it should be done because the disciplines are different is nonsense.
by GMoromisato | 2025-11-07 22:54:08+00:00
There is much irony in the certainty this article displays. There are no caveats, no qualification, and no attempt to grasp why anyone would use an LLM. The possibility that LLMs might be useful in certain scenarios never threatens to enter their mind. They are cozy in the safety of their own knowledge.

Sometimes I envy that. But not today.
by benregenspan | 2025-11-07 22:54:16+00:00
But in this context, is it so important to distinguish between whether something is physiologically addictive vs. just seriously habit-forming? Except for substances where withdrawal is genuinely life-threatening, the practical difference seems to be in degree, not kind. Nicotine withdrawal causes irritability, but (I know having experienced both) so can breaking a bad social media habit.

(And it seems like there's a physiological basis to both cases, it's just that one involves endogenous chemicals and the other doesn't)
by codebje | 2025-11-07 22:54:33+00:00
I had a collector's edition 3-man transport ship, but IIRC the novelty of standing on the ship while in transit wore off before the beta ended. Cool, but too shallow on its own.

I can't figure out if the open world game was fun enough just on its own that an open space game would've been chef's kiss, or if it did need some kind of story telling too. It's too long ago to remember well enough, for me.
by int_19h | 2025-11-07 22:54:45+00:00
Python was already big for scientists back in 2010. I remember working on Python tooling at the time, and DS/ML was one of our single largest user groups. It was already popular enough to have an IDE specifically for scientific Python use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyder_(software).

As far as I could tell, it had to do with two things. First, Python is notoriously dynamic and extensible, making it possible to implement "sloppy" syntax like advanced slicing or dataframes. But also, those guys had lots of pre-existing C and Fortran code, and Python had one of the easiest extensibility APIs to wrap it as high-level packages. And with IPython, you had a nice REPL with graphing to use all that from, and then of course notebooks happened.
by stuffn | 2025-11-07 22:54:52+00:00
It's not veiled and it shouldn't be. Go browse linkedin, reddit, indiehacker, etc. Literal morons are using AI and pretending to be super geniuses. It's replaced the reddit-tier "google-expert" with something far more capable of convincing you that you're right.

Outside of a very small bubble of experts using AI and checking it's work (rubber ducking) most people are, in fact, using it to masquerade as experts whether they know it or not. This is extremely dangerous and the flamebait is well deserved, imo.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-07 22:55:09+00:00
can confirm. very slow. here's the output I got on Debian 13 on an older i5, but it doesn't look like it's telling us very much.

./Small-RPG libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate VMware: No 3D enabled (0, Success). libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen VMware: No 3D enabled (0, Success). libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen ** (WebKitWebProcess:2822): WARNING **: 14:52:20.184: The GStreamer FDK AAC plugin is missing, AAC playback is unlikely to work.
by recursive | 2025-11-07 22:55:33+00:00
> You don't want that to become nested calls to some wrapper around 'document.createElement`, because that's slow.

It's really not slow. It might seems slow if you're using react behavior which re-invokes the "render function" any time anything changes. But eventually they get reconciled into the DOM which creates the elements anyway. And most other code bases are not based on this reconciliation concept. So I don't think that's a given.
by bluebarbet | 2025-11-07 22:56:11+00:00
Technically true but I've found it to be less addictive than other text forums (like the R-site and Lemmy), let alone the algo-powered video-based abominations that normies are all hooked on.

I'm thinking that it comes down to one thing in particular: the absence of response notifications. There's only so much addiction you can get out of a page of text without so much as a bell icon.
by o11c | 2025-11-07 22:56:53+00:00
> You're building a game, you need a bunch of character names. Boom. 300 names.

This is actually one of the things AI is notoriously bad at. If asking for a plain list, it very quickly falls into blatant patterns (one name per letter of the alphabet, all names starting with A, all names with exactly 2 syllables, etc.). And, whether part of a list or not, one of the most obvious signs of AI writing is that it always resorts to the same handful of names for a given archetype.

Traditional random name generators are much better.
by metalman | 2025-11-07 22:57:10+00:00
well then you know that at the bottom of the curve, the ice area is more about potential, than anything that you could actualy see, or walk on, even at "100%" ice cover a strong wind will clear it and no huskys have peed on it. The other factor, mentioned nowhere, is that with so much glacial melting, the top layer of sea water is fresher, and freezes easier, so with each passing year things go further out of calibration. It's worth mentioning that I live inside the zone used for seasonal sea ice mapping, and regularly check the goes sattelites, and what is charted as ice, very often looks like open water, so...thanks for the link!
by prmoustache | 2025-11-07 22:57:15+00:00
There is no worse usage of windows than the occasional one given the huge amount of updates it starts to download whenever you start it up after a long period unused.

I guess it might be useful if you only keep it offline but in that case you aren't playing games online and thus you would be fine gaming on Linux given the only downside is lack of anticheat support.