MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tanoc | 2025-11-22 14:54:07+00:00
That's already happening. Roadsides aren't being cleaned up because the local DOTs aren't being paid enough. That leaves fallen rocks, mud buildup from floods, tree branches, and overgrown bushes very close to the roadway. Grocery stores have empty shelves because they don't get enough stockers. If you go to the meats aisle it's a good chance you'll either find some pork that's started to turn yellow or some beef that's started to turn brown because nobody wants to dig through the freezer. They get told the meat's old, they find the visible one, and the put a price reduced sticker on it. Walk into a hospital and the grating at the entryway will be filled with mud, the baseboards along the walls in the hallways will be scuffed to hell, and the walls will have scrapes taken out of them because the maintenance staff aren't being paid enough to care. Go into a bank and you'll have one teller working both the drive through and the front desk, and they'll take their time getting to you because the drive-through counts towards their statistics since the interaction with the drop off point is tracked. They aren't paid enough to work back and forth in the down time when either is doing something the teller doesn't need to be involved in.

Apathy's just setting in across the board, and it's entirely warranted. One hour of work can't even afford you one hour of reward anymore when it comes to most non-specialized and non-salaried jobs.
by ETH_start | 2025-11-22 14:54:11+00:00
Massive drop in entrepreneurship after the strong-arming of Ma:

https://x.com/EleanorOlcott/status/1834109085450731530?s=20

"In 2018, 51,302 new startups were founded. Last year, that number was down to 1,202."

That's the cost of authoritarian centralization. But it would also be dishonest not to concede the other side of the ledger. A government that eliminates all challenges to its authority also doesn’t depend on coalitions or election cycles, so doesn’t need to bargain with public-sector unions, entrenched lobbies, or party factions to stay in power. That concentration of authority can give Beijing a longer planning horizon than governments that live inside a permanent 18-month election cycle.

That’s the structural trade-off: fewer constraints and more long-term maneuvering room, at the price of suppressing bottom-up initiative, i.e. entrepreneurship.

This is not a value judgment: it’s just the logic of political institutions. Centralized regimes can move quickly, avoid gridlock, and pursue 20- or 30-year industrial policy. But the same mechanisms that let them think long-term also deter the kind of decentralized experimentation that produces new firms and new ideas.
by jtrn | 2025-11-22 14:54:35+00:00
There are two levels to this. The Standard Environmental Fixes This is about finding the right level of stimulation vs. distraction. Many people with ADHD work better with external stimulation, like music. Small habits help, too—like taking photos of tasks to remember them. (e.g., snap a photo of the empty printer paper so you remember to order more when you scroll through your camera roll later).

The Job Fit (The more interesting intervention). Sometimes we need to figure out if the problem is the job, not the person. Some people with ADHD simply cannot tolerate meaningless or monotonous tasks. An active person, for example, probably shouldn't work as a data entry clerk. for instance a 50-year-old builder who becomes a manager because his body is too beat up for hard labor. He is suited for leadership but can't stand the administrative work. Even if he wants the job, the boredom of the paperwork makes him miserable. These are the people who often present as depressed and benefit most from medication, as it gives them the stability to tolerate boring but necessary tasks. So basically spanning everything from small techniques, to existential and professional evaluation of best fit, to medication. Everyone is different.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-22 14:55:04+00:00
Social media might be getting less attractive for that, though. Compare Reddit now to ten years ago, and you can see that even on more serious subreddits, everyone’s comments have become very short, often little more than a single line. If one posts a couple of solid paragraphs as a reply, one looks like an autistic weirdo info-bombing.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-22 14:55:58+00:00
> When asked about the “scope of the problem” of predators in the application, Baszucki came in shoulders first saying, “We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well.”

I mean… how much benefit of the doubt is one expected to give someone who runs a game for kids who sees paedophiles as an ‘opportunity’? Like, this isn’t a criminal trial, it’s a news article. There is no presumption on innocence, and the company’s past is relevant.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-11-22 14:56:21+00:00
My standing statement is: The idea of a pandemic was so well established that Hollywood made multiple bad movies about the idea.

The other key piece that gets magically brushed aside is that there was a pandemic during the Obama administration. Obviously not as severe, but nonetheless a warning.

Yet we were somehow unprepared just a few years later? And those same incompetent entities and experts were the source of our inflation understanding and response to COVID?

I think not. Very little passes the smell test. It didn’t them. It’s even less so - if you look & listen - now.
by maxerickson | 2025-11-22 14:57:22+00:00
It can be that social order is partly maintained by conformance and a bunch of people found out that there aren't consequences for choosing not to conform.

In the local facebook rants group, any time someone posts about someone doing something that is mildly antisocial (a reasonable thing to rant about), there's always several comments saying "So what, who cares".

Like sure, it isn't the end of the world to park like an asshole, but it would suck if everybody did it, so it's better if no one does it. And it's the same for dozens of other minor little things you might encounter in a given week.
by 0_____0 | 2025-11-22 14:57:29+00:00
I think this is under-appreciated. The technology of food has progressed immensely in the last decades! Even recipes from the 90s don't hold up as well, because home cooks have access to more knowledge, techniques, tools, ingredients, foodstuffs. And of course if you look at photos of food and typical dining from the 80s you can sort of spot a difference visually as well.
by echelon | 2025-11-22 14:57:58+00:00
We started putting them in image and video models and now image and video models are insane.

I think the next period of high and rapid growth will be in media (image, video, sound, 3D), not text.

It's much harder to adapt LLMs to solving business use cases with text. Each problem is niche, you have to custom tailor the solution, and the tooling is crude.

The media use cases, by contrast, are low hanging fruit and result in 10,000x speedups and cost reductions almost immediately. The models are pure magic.

I think more companies would be wise to ignore text for now and focus on visual domain problems.

Nano Banana has so much more utility than agents. And there are so many low hanging fruit ways to make lots of money.

Don't sleep on image and video. That's where the growth salient is.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-22 14:58:08+00:00
Maybe because there are many different set theories. The one taught in school is not a correct one but grokable for most students. Then you got the Zermeno Frenkel set theory, and you got the Homotopy Type Theory one which can yield or emulate the same results. So in a sense the opening statement is correct. There is no consensus on a single "this is THE one and true correct set theory"
by swores | 2025-11-22 14:59:00+00:00
I’m not sure why you read their question as being either surprised or disbelieving?

I’ve worked in marketing enough to know that all sorts of less-interesting data gets bought and sold, yet alone financial data, but even if limiting the context to “for marketing purposes” I wouldn’t know, and would be interested in being told, which companies actually are buying that sort of financial information.

And as the user has now explained in a comment further down the thread, they weren’t limiting their curiosity to just marketing profiling so there’s an even wider scope to their question.

But hey, easier to just call them naive than to give them the benefit of the doubt and engage constructively.
by cedws | 2025-11-22 14:59:16+00:00
Stuffing data into JSONB columns always makes me feel uncomfortable. Not necessarily for performance/efficiency reasons. You also loose the strong schema that SQL gives you, you don't get to use constraints. You might as well use Mongo, no?

How can you be sure that the data stuffed into JSONB fits a particular schema, and that future changes are backwards compatible with rows added long ago?
by lawn | 2025-11-22 14:59:41+00:00
> Just buy Hue, maybe Aqara sensors, use zigbee2mqtt with Home Assistant and be happy while observing the shitshow that is this market from a safe distance.

The only worry is if manufacturers stop developing Zigbee products. Ikea for example made cheap and good Zigbee devices but they've said they're moving away from Zigbee.
by lkbm | 2025-11-22 15:00:12+00:00
From the study abstract:

> Early levels of mother–child relationship quality predicted individual differences in general attachment anxiety and avoidance in adulthood, as well as adults’ relationship-specific attachment orientations in each of their close relationships, including with their mothers, fathers, romantic partners, and best friends (median R² = 3% for attachment anxiety and avoidance across relationship domains).[0]

Hmmm...

[0] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-79270-001
by twoodfin | 2025-11-22 15:00:26+00:00
By “laying claim” you mean “holding a legally recognized title to the real estate”?

That’s a property rights regime that applies to everyone. If you want to get rid of it you have to get rid of it for everyone, you can’t say “titles are no longer valid if the land they cover is valuable enough, but otherwise, out in the boonies, still good”.

If nothing else, that’s a Constitutional takings problem.
by kopirgan | 2025-11-22 15:00:38+00:00
Just an update...learning something thanks...installed fwupd and it said something about disabled service.

Ran fwupdmgr (thanks Google) and it lists a whole bunch of hardware on my laptop as "device with no update found", included in that are UEFI device firmware, UEFI dbx, System firmware etc.

I will check further, thanks again. Didn't know about this.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-22 15:00:44+00:00
There are disadvantages. e.g. if you don't want to update a program (maybe the new version breaks your modded setup), too bad. Or if you need Windows still for compatibility, it no longer supports Windows 7, so you have to go hunting for old versions of the client and fiddle with it to prevent updates (if that still even works), at which point you'd might as well just mod it to remove the DRM instead.

Basically, it creates a failure point for setups that should otherwise last and be stable several more decades.
by Pulcinella | 2025-11-22 15:00:52+00:00
SceneKit is actually just straight up deprecated now: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/scenekit/

I imagine it will still be around for a long time because Apple and a lot of large third party apps use it for simple 3D experiences. (E.g. the badges in the Apple Fitness app).

Apple wants devs to move to RealityKit, which does support non-AR 3D, but it is still pretty far from feature parity with SceneKit. Also RealityKit still has too many APIs that are either visionOS only or are available on every platform but visionOS.

Microrant: I absolutely loathe when I am told "move to new thing. Old thing is deprecated/unsupported" and the new thing is incredibly far from feature parity and usually never reaches parity, let alone exceeds it. This is not just an Apple problem.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-22 15:01:20+00:00
Everyone says "those autoregressive transformer LLMs are obviously flawed", and then fails to come up with anything that outperforms them.

I'm not too bullish on architectural gains. There are efficiencies to be had, but far closer to "+5% a year" than "+5000% in a single breakthrough".

You can try to build a novel AI architecture, at a small scale. Just be ready. This field will kick your teeth in. ML doesn't like grand ideas and isn't kind to high aspirations.
by windexh8er | 2025-11-22 15:01:53+00:00
As someone who's run (and continues to run) both ZWave and Zigbee networks for over 10 years I find the direction of Zigbee rather frustrating. They used to be the antithesis of Zwave with it's frustrating "licensing" and now seems to be as though they're towing that line. Most likely because they got in bed with Google, Apple and the garbage that is Matter.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-22 15:01:57+00:00
The constitution already allows for it, via what happens when you don’t pay property tax.

And property rights are very much a political negotiation (just before things get violent). The government takes a piece of everyone’s income with no problem.

And land owners use the most resources of everyone. All the military spend to protect their asset, all the education, police, and judicial expenses to keep an orderly society, all the energy to move resources around the land.

Right now, we take more, proportionally, from income earners (workers) who live in tiny apartments compared to rent seekers who squat on underutilized lots that use up a lot more of society’s resources.
by nis0s | 2025-11-22 15:02:13+00:00
Being critical for the sake of it is performative, and to what end? It’s leaning into life as a stage metaphor to an absurd degree.

Take for example that music and food critics aren’t critical of their subject matter because they hate music or food.

If your critique isn’t highlighting pathways to improvement, or encouraging seeking answers to open ended questions, then you’re just a hater, not a critic.
by postalcoder | 2025-11-22 15:02:19+00:00
This doesn't fully satisfy your question, but it comes straight from bcherny (claude code dev):

> Claude Code doesn't use RAG currently. In our testing we found that agentic search out-performed RAG for the kinds of things people use Code for.

source thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011#43164253
by jtrn | 2025-11-22 15:02:28+00:00
I personally don’t encounter it as much as I did before when I worked at a children’s psychiatric institution. I think this is explained by the relatively generous welfare system in Norway, where it’s relatively easy to just drop out of society. A lot of people actually seem to prefer it, just staying home gaming or whatever. As such, they have very little incentive to seek help, and when they do, it’s usually someone else in their family who sends them to us, not them seeking us out themselves. I encountered a relatively severe case about 25 years ago: myself. I remember going outside, thinking that the real world was boring compared to video games, and wondering why more people didn’t just game instead of going about in the real world where nothing interesting happened. I’m extremely curious to how all of this is going to play out. I thought the behavior I was watching unfold, with nobody being able to stay away from their phone for 30 seconds, would create some sort of society catastrophe, but so far it hasn’t turned out as bad as I thought it would. But there’s still time I guess. Buy 1990 standards. Everybody is addicted to screens today. But by today’s standard, the normality has shifted a lot, and at least society is hanging in there.
by ksec | 2025-11-22 15:02:59+00:00
Just want to say Thank You. May be thank you "again" because I remember I said this previously as well.

Every time I mention Ada on HN it is always the Rust people that claims it is irrelevant, especially when it is them who started only Rust can do X.

The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail or the Riscy Silver Bullet.
by moinism | 2025-11-22 15:03:25+00:00
Amen. Been seeing these agent SDKs coming out left and right for a couple of years and thought it'd be a breeze to build an agent. Now I'm trying to build one for ~3 weeks, and I've tried three different SDKs and a couple of architectures.

Here's what I found:

- Claude Code SDK (now called Agent SDK) is amazing, but I think they are still in the process of decoupling it from the Claude Code, and that's why a few things are weird. e.g, You can define a subagent programmatically, but not skills. Skills have to be placed in the filesystem and then referenced in the plugin. Also, only Anthoripic models are supported :(

- OpenAI's SDK's tight coupling with their platform is a plus point. i.e, you get agents and tool-use traces by default in your dashboard. Which you can later use for evaluation, distillation, or fine-tuning. But: 2. They have agent handoffs (which works in some cases), but not subagents. You can use tools as subagents, though. 1. Not easy to use a third-party model provider. Their docs provide sample codes, but it's not as easy as that.

- Google Agent Kit doesn't provide any Typescript SDK yet. So didn't try.

- Mastra, even though it looks pretty sweet, spins up a server for your agent, which you can then use via REST API. umm.. why?

- SmythOS SDK is the one I'm currently testing because it provides flexibility in terms of choosing the model provider and defining your own architecture (handoffs or subagents, etc.). It has its quirks, but I think it'll work for now.

Question: If you don't mind sharing, what is your current architecture? Agent -> SubAgents -> SubSubAgents? Linear? or a Planner-Executor?

I'll write a detailed post about my learnings from architectures (fingers crossed) soon.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 15:04:08+00:00
Prozac doesn't define me. It's just something I take to address a health condition, like an iron supplement for low iron levels or amoxicillin for strep throat. My kids learned about it because they saw me taking a pill every day and asked what it was. No biggie.

To be clear, Prozac is not a "feel-good" pill, it's a "gradually feel more stable" pill. It makes my lows less debilitatingly low and more manageable -- my lows are now largely logical responses to difficult events, as opposed to randomly happening for no reason at all. The effect is very gradual and subtle: you can't really evaluate it until after several weeks, and then the "evaluation" is a conversation about whether your affect has seemed generally more stable recently. An average person taking Prozac would probably notice no effect at all, good or bad. By contrast, a stimulant like Adderrall will have a noticeable effect on anyone within minutes.

My son never asked for Prozac or for a "feel-good" pill. My kids have heard of addiction before so we've talked about pills that do make you feel good and why they're dangerous, and also "dopamine drips" like brainrot on YouTube.
by AgentMatt | 2025-11-22 15:04:30+00:00
I also believe it to have been easier with ADHD in the distant past. My reasoning is that in a small, but tighter group there will be others who can compensate for the ADHD person's executive function deficiencies. But the ADHD person might bring enough of a benefit by occasionally going down rabbit holes or discovering stuff that's off the beaten track that the group will still tolerate them.
by petre | 2025-11-22 15:04:54+00:00
You still have to manage those and assign them through DHCP every time the device wakes up and turns the radio on. Maybe WiFi 7 will address that with the low power mode? Also, I don't want a 100 sensor mesh network on my LAN. That's why Thread uses a IPv6 6LoWPAN. One should use that if they want to bridge to IP.
by xtiansimon | 2025-11-22 15:05:06+00:00
> “I can’t imagine what it would look like today with a communal kitchen shared by strangers…”

Hope you never have to, but people have a way of working together nevertheless. Each place is its own kingdom, but with similar ethos—mind your own business. Clean up your $#!t. People either get along, or they have problems. Some people stay a long time, and others take their cues from the long-time-people. Others are non-conforming trouble makers and will not be staying.

Yes. I lived in an SRO.

However, the “moral panic” comes from the outside—- rational or irrational judgment of outsiders who pass laws and zoning rules which impose their own moral codes and judgment. Well meaning, corrupt or just plain ignorant, the result is the same. (It’s like people who complain at the election polls about voter IDs. They’re privileged people who _already have_ driver licenses, because they own cars and drive everyday. They simply can’t imagine the difficulty of having, keeping or maintaining valid ID. As a result, they confuse voter enfranchisement with the privilege to drive.)

Add economic development and 100 years, shake and bake. Poof. Today SROs may not be available on the same scale as 100 years ago, but they’re here and there and a sight better than roach infested rooms above a dive bar.
by ghaff | 2025-11-22 15:05:39+00:00
There's certainly a general trend towards shorter. At my last company, I was involved with our content folks (and created a fair bit myself). In the course of my time there, longer (say 3,000 word) whitepapers basically went away and most of the other content such as video almost universally got shorter based on monitoring what content people viewed/read and for how long.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-22 15:06:16+00:00
personally I would make big cuts at the central office and redistribute to the schools

Amen.

That number jumps to 65.4% for kids with college-educated parents, and 81.3% for grad school.

Do you think those kids are learning primarily due to their experience at school, or because their parents teach them? Anecdotally, whenever I've walked past Kumon centers during the weekend they seem busy, and when I was driving the other day I noticed Russian School of Math has added a new location.
by dijit | 2025-11-22 15:06:27+00:00
its pretty common to have the NAT gateway also be a stateful firewall (you’re tracking state, after all) but they’re not the same and you can have one without the other.

Its just uncommon in consumer or prosumer devices.

A similar allegory is perhaps industrial washing machines vs consumer ones or that printer/scanner combos are common (even in offices) but print shops and people who actually need a lot of paper would have dedicated equipment that does either scanning or copying better.

It’s also like a leatherman, they all have some commonality (the need to be gripped) so theres a lot of combination; but a tradie would only use one as a last resort- often preferring a proper screwdriver.
by ianmabie | 2025-11-22 15:07:08+00:00
Uber has over time had to relax a lot of the marketplace management practices that reduce the incidence of experiences like this. Can’t penalize drivers for cancelling / ignoring requests because it starts to erode their argument around drivers being independent contractors. So of course the quality of the product degrades to the point where now it’s going to accelerate the move away from human drivers.
by dcre | 2025-11-22 15:07:12+00:00
One example is that there used to be a whole complex apparatus around getting models to do chain of thought reasoning, e.g., LangChain. Now that is built in as reasoning and they are heavily trained to do it. Same with structured outputs and tool calls — you used to have to do a bunch of stuff to get models to produce valid JSON in the shape you want, now it’s built in and again, they are specifically trained around it. It used to be you would have to go find all relevant context up front and give it to the model. Now agent loops can dynamically figure out what they need and make the tool calls to retrieve it. Etc etc.