MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giantg2 | 2025-11-13 17:33:19+00:00
"I think it is far outweighed by the harm it does"

But do you think the people in the less populous states feel the same? If we do remove the senate or make it population based, do you think people in those areas will feel represented if they're steamrolled by the urban areas? The point of democracy is to have some say (or the illusion of it) in how the government acts. If you're never sided with but have a large number of like minded people, how do you think they will respond based on what history shows us?
by crowcroft | 2025-11-13 17:33:20+00:00
Here's my incredibly cynical take.

First they moved away from this in 4o because it led to more sycophancy, AI psychosis and ultimately deaths by suicide[1].

Then growth slowed[2], and so now they rush this out the door even though it's likely not 'healthy' for users.

Just like social media these platforms have a growth dial which is directly linked to a mental health dial because addiction is good for business. Yes, people should take personal responsibility for this kind of thing, but in cases where these tools become addicting, and they are not well understood this seems to be a tragedy of the commons.

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/07/chatgpt-l...

2 – https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-peaked-...
by immibis | 2025-11-13 17:33:23+00:00
When I grew up, my dad always yelled at me every day before school about how climate change is my fault because of my white male privilege and I need to chow down ze bugs or I'm a racist.

That didn't happen. I just made that up. Was that also your first instinct upon reading it - that I made it up?

But I see men saying things like this happened to them, and that is my first instinct: it didn't happen and they made it up.

Am I supposed to stop doing that? Am I supposed to believe them?

Listening to real problems is good - are you saying I should listen to obvious trolls as well? That is what "bad faith" means - it's a euphemism for "obviously trolling".

Perhaps you even think I'm lying when I say I see people saying things like this online - but if that's the case, that means you're part of the same problem you cite, since you're not listening what I'm saying. Can you propose a solution to all this?
by array_key_first | 2025-11-13 17:33:23+00:00
Kind of related, but a lot of designers only understand a react point of view these days. Which is why you will see react, specifically, turn up in the most random fucking places.

Every place I've worked which did not use react had steady pushback from UI/UX to move to react. It took active resistance to not use react, even though it didn't make any sense to use.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-11-13 17:33:32+00:00
I spend a lot of time thinking about this.

Stock market? As you write - what will happen when the next generation of consumers and workers won't be born? On the other hand it is clear that market is anything but rational, and maybe it doesn't really need people in the same way internet doesn't need real people. Maybe the future is bots trading with each other, pumping up the bubble.

Bonds? The same problem, lack of next generations.

Real estate? Land? Maybe if you already have something in very good location, though even then I am a bit skeptical.

Then one needs to remember that money is just a number. It doesn't matter how much digits you have, but what can you get with them - real resources and services. So maybe the question is wrong from the very beginning.

I sometimes believe that ironically the best insurance in childless world are your own children. Unless, of course, we will face a scenario where old people, constituting majority of the population, will squeeze those few remaining young hard to get their pensions and healthcare. Yes, the same people that today preach about how it is good to not have children etc. will be first to put a boot on them in the future. For this reason I expect growing tensions between those people with children and childless ones.

This is why I constantly find most such discussions on demography pointless, as participants rarely understand how everything in our society depends on the assumption that no longer holds - that there will be more people, and that young will be more numerous than old.

In the end probably best things to safeguard you in the upcoming crisis will be the same as always - local community, family (including children), friends and your own skills. People living in more agrarian societies, or just in the countryside, generally have better situation in that regard.
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 17:33:59+00:00
There are not many reasons for signing without a strategy for key discovery and verification so others can verify your signatures are really yours and not that of an imposter.

SSH Authenticaton subkeys are widely shared publicly on every git host I am aware of. If you use a separate key for signing than you use for authentication, then you throw away the only established SSH key discovery method.

Now you solved the overloaded key problem, while making key discovery worse.

Everyone seems to be trying to re-solve problems with ssh keys that PGP actually solved reasonably well.
by jes5199 | 2025-11-13 17:34:26+00:00
for now yes absolutely. but I’m already hearing rumblings that some people are having luck letting multiple agents edit the same directory simultaneously instead of putting changes through PR merge hell. It just needs coordinations tools, see https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail as one (possibly insane) prototype

for example it’s not out of the question that we could end up with tooling that does truly continuous testing and integration, automatically finding known-good deployments among a continuously edited multiplayer codebase

we’d have to spend a lot more energy on specifications and acceptance testing, rather than review, but I think that’s inevitable - code review can’t keep up with how fast code gets written now
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-13 17:34:28+00:00
I would love to see collab servers take the same path as LSPs in being standarized and integrated across various editors and IDEs. I would love to work more closely with my VSCode peers, for example. Of course some features may be outside the standard and only supported with likewise editors, e.g. voice chat perhaps, but having shared cursors and a text chat would be a good start.
by bgilroy26 | 2025-11-13 17:34:42+00:00
Society is kinetic and disparate because of social media

We're all on top of one another, and different cross tabs feel different ways about the same thing. So there is room for empathy and antipathy to coexist

If you read the New York Times and The Atlantic there is lots of empathy for the male loneliness crisis

I am in between the age of you and your son it seems. As a man who has not missed any of the "misandry", I think the overly online conservative young men are an embarrassment and I hope they grow out of it
by wrsh07 | 2025-11-13 17:34:44+00:00
Sure, but this is a false dichotomy. If I get an unsourced answer from ChatGPT, my response will be "eh you can't trust this, but ChatGPT thinks x"

And then you can use that to quickly look - does that player have championships mentioned on their wiki?

It's important to flag that there are some categories that are easy (facts that haven't changed for ten years on Wikipedia) for llms, but inference only llms (no tools) are extremely limited and you should always treat them as a person saying "I seem to recall x"

Is the ux/marketing deeply flawed? Yes of course, I also wish an inference-only response appropriately stated its uncertainty (like a human would - eg without googling my guess is x). But among technical folks it feels disingenuous to say "models still can't answer this obscure question" as a reason why they're stupid or useless.
by mothballed | 2025-11-13 17:34:57+00:00
Yes, in the sense that now it will be illegal to ship cannabis seeds interstate. Under current law, which doesn't expire for a year, cannabis seeds can be shipped legally interstate across the US as they don't exceed the THC content. Doesn't matter if it's a hemp seed or marijuana seed as both are hemp under the old definition in seed form as long as they're under 0.3% THC.

The passed legislation outlaws any seeds that can produce a plant that doesn't satisfy the new definition of hemp. It completely destroys the white market seed industry, on which the legal weed industry partially operates.

Also, prices will go up and quality will go down in the 'legal' weed market, as previously the hemp industry was a check on prices because you could get better product for cheaper than going to a dispensary and with nice lab tested COAs to see what you were getting.
by torginus | 2025-11-13 17:35:23+00:00
And weirdly enough, most of the sanctions have been softened, or rolled back - there's been little effort on the US side to build up domestic production capability outside of semiconductors - a process that began well under the Biden admin.

Another curious thing is despite how the US has been acting in this manner, their stock market still continues to outperform everybody else's

Turns out even if you have as much power as the US president with their executive orders, if you start making stupid or insufficiently well-prepared policy decisions, you have to roll them back or your country will crash into the ground.

Kind of makes me think that supposedly autocratic leaders of powerful countries have much less power than we thought - once they make a couple stupid decisions, their countries start going down the drain.
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-13 17:35:29+00:00
That party graph is unholy. I live my life to reverse it and I really think one of the only meanings of life is just to party and have fun. I want the rest of my life to be filled with parties, both hosting them and attending them. If you can’t tell, I love parties. Discovering that later in life was really a lightbulb moment. Humans were meant for parties. That’s what we were doing around the fire every night with our friends and family and it is just gone now. The horrible mental health and depression you see is from that. We haven’t evolved to not need that and I hope we never do.
by chrisco255 | 2025-11-13 17:35:58+00:00
Cybertrucks already come with a 48V 400W auxiliary power connection under the applique strip on the right side of the roof, so there was no need to make a hole in the roof.

There just isn't a lot of options other than adhesive for installing a light bar considering the windshield consumes all of the forward facing real estate (as the roof slopes back from the apex).
by Aurornis | 2025-11-13 17:36:18+00:00
SubEthaEdit was a very inspiring software project for me. The fact that a small team could, in a few months, produce an amazing app that solved real problems and gained notoriety was amazing.

As time goes on it feels like much of the low hanging fruit opportunities in software is disappearing faster and faster. I'm also a fan of Zed and everything they're doing, but it's notable that shipping next-gen editor software takes a lot more developer effort now than it did in the 2000s.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-13 17:37:18+00:00
> The point of democracy is to have some say (or the illusion of it) in how the government acts.

People from small states will have a say. They will oftentimes be crucial votes. The point of democracy is not that some people get 10x voting power than others. The point of democracy is not that you are entitled to the swinging vote or disproportionate voting power.

I am from a place smaller than Wyoming that never got representation in congress in the first place. I understand how it feels to be unrepresented. Suggesting that every US citizen ought to have an equal voice is completely different from disenfranchisement and I'm not sure why you are trying to muddy the waters here.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-13 17:37:21+00:00
It depends on your use case, and RDBMS isn't the best option for all needs. Mongo's approach is pretty useable. That said, there are alternatives, you can get very similar characteristics, though a more painful devex out of say CockroachDB with (key:string, value: JSONB) tables.

The only thing I really don't care for is managing Mongo... as a developer, using it is pretty joyous assuming you can get into the query mindset of how to use it.

Also, if you're considering Mongo, you might also want to consider looking at Cassandra/ScyllaDB or CockroachDB as alternatives that might be a better fit for your needs that are IMO, easier to administer.
by danudey | 2025-11-13 17:37:28+00:00
The goal isn't about guaranteeing that all states have X number of votes; the house and the senate vote separately on things. For a bill to pass the house and the senate requires:

1. A majority vote by the house whose members are allocated by population and therefore (ostensibly) represent the general population

2. A majority vote by the senate whose members are allocated by state and therefore (ostensibly) represent the will or needs of the states themselves.

As an example of why that distinction is relevant, consider Rhode Island. With a population of 1.1 million people, 100 reserved seats plus one seat per 500k would give Rhode Island 4 votes. Meanwhile, California's population of 38.9 million would give it 70 votes. That prohibits effectively representing Rhode Island as a state in any meaningful way.

As it is now, vote-by-population could allow a small number of states with the majority of population to out-vote the entire rest of the country, passing a law that states that all healthcare should be made free and the states have to pay for it themselves. Large states with strong economies and large tax bases might be in favor of that, but smaller and less populous states with weaker economies would go bankrupt.

Thus comes the senate, where a majority of states can decide that the law is inappropriate or against their interests and vote against it.

The distinction I think that most people from outside of the US probably don't fully understand is that, unlike in a lot of countries, each state is its own economy, government, politics, etc. rather than one sort of unified government that covers the whole country. Many of them see the federal government as not much more than a necessary evil to help the independent-but-united states coordinate themselves and prosper together. I remember someone once saying that it used to be "The United States are..." and not "The United States is..." and that kind of gives you an idea of the separation.

The best comparison might be the EU, where you could imagine the large, rich countries with large populations wanting to pass a vote that the smaller, poorer countries might chafe against. Imagine an EU resolution that said that all countries must spend at least 70 billion euro on defense; fine for large countries like Germany which already do, but absurd for a smaller country like Malta. The senate exists to prohibit that sort of unfairness in the US federal government.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-13 17:37:37+00:00
> That's why I said that the currently popular definition of "computer" has ontological problems.

Indeed. To elaborate a bit more on this...

Whether a definition is good or bad is at least partly determined by its purpose. Good as what kind of definition?

If the purpose is theoretical, then the common notion of "computer" suffers from epistemic inadequacy. (I'm not sure the common notion rises above mere association and family resemblance to the rank of "definition".)

If the purpose is practical, then under prevailing conditions, what people mean by "computer" in common speech is usually adequate: "this particular form factor of machine used for this extrinsic purpose". Most people would call desktop PCs "computers", but they wouldn't call their mobile phones computers, even though ontologically and even operationally, there is no essential difference. From the perspective of immediate utility as given, there is a difference.

I don't see the relevance of "social construction" here, though. Sure, people could agree on a definition of computer, and that definition may be theoretically correct or merely practically useful or perhaps neither, but this sounds like a distraction.

> I'm not sure that your definition helps capture what people mean by "computer" or helps us approach a more ontologically coherent definition either.

In common speech? No. But the common meaning is not scientific (in the broad sense of that term, which includes ontology) and inadequate for ontological definition, because it isn't a theoretical term. So while common speech can be a good starting point for analysis, it is often inadequate for theoretical purposes. Common meanings must be examined, clarified, and refined. Technical terminology exists for a reason.

> If, by words like "computing" and "computation", you mean things like "what computers do", it's almost entirely circular

I don't see how. Computation is something human beings do and have been doing forever. It preexists machines. All machines do is mechanize the formalizable part of the process, but the computer is never party to the semantic meaning of the observing human being. It merely stands in a relation of correspondence with human formalism, the same way five beads on an abacus or the squiggle "5" on a piece of people denote the number 5. The same is true of representations that denote something other than numbers (a denotation that is, btw, entirely conventional).

Machines do not possess intrinsic purpose. The parts are accidentally arranged in a manner that merely gives the ensemble certain affordances that can be parlayed into furthering various desired human ends. This may be difficult for many today to see, because science has - for practical purposes or for philosophical reasons - projected a mechanistic conceptual framework onto reality that recasts things like organisms in mechanistic terms. But while this can be practically useful, theoretically, this mechanistic mangling of reality has severe ontological problems.
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-13 17:37:40+00:00
Here is where I've settled on for Zed. I initially thought it might be a Sublime replacement for one-off files, but it seems it's geared towards projects. It's not as powerful as Jetbrains (RustRover, PyCharm etc), but is much faster. So here's how I'm using Zed:

- On my Tablet, which is too slow for Jetbrains IDEs to run smoothly - On certain projects I have which choke Jetbrains IDEs. (Due to macro use maybe?)

I think its' a much nicer experience than VsCode, which I admittedly haven't figured out to run in a project-oriented way.

I'm also trying their GPUI library, but am in the early stages, so can't really comment on how it compares to EGUI.
by jes5199 | 2025-11-13 17:37:42+00:00
I love it when I have a tool that’s “done” but the software I work on in my career is never, ever done. It’s almost like there’s two different things we call “software”. there are tools like, idk, “curl” where you can use and old version and be happy. and there are interactive organizations in the world, like, eg, Hacker News, which mutates as the community’s needs change
by ndiddy | 2025-11-13 17:37:59+00:00
> The ridiculous song and dance of "File is dangerous, delete it?"->No->Settings->Security->Open Anyway->"File is dangerous, delete it?"->No is getting ridiculously old after literally doing it a hundred times at this point. And soon enough Apple will inevitably come up with some additional hurdle like, idk, closing Settings three times in a row while reading a fingerprint during an odd numbered minute.

> So in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected or accept my own computer that I paid for will deliberately waste my time constantly.

Remember when Apple made fun of Microsoft for doing exactly this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwoluNRSSc
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 17:38:07+00:00
I think the space is wide open and depends what you consider enshittified.

For example:

Hate Google AI overviews? Delete them.

Tired of the slop on YouTube Shorts? Block shorts altogether.

Tired of going to a recipe site to find a simple recipe and getting hit with 1000+ trackers, more ads that you can imagine, and having to scroll 75% down the page to actually see the ingredients + recipe? Filter out the junk.

The potential is only limited by your creativity (and our models, but they're hopefully getting better everyday!)
by dmitrygr | 2025-11-13 17:38:22+00:00
Not recognizing that the same mistake made 17,000 times “by accident” over a few years is likely not accidental is also not a great strategy for getting mistakes fixed

Every one of those required an I-9 check. This means somebody changed the procedure to not require a federally mandated check. Not a small oopsie by one person - a deliberate action from top.
by Retric | 2025-11-13 17:38:29+00:00
The benchmark for good management is higher than “often delivers.”

I have no issue calling Musk a wildly successful businessman as he has made several great investments including getting companies off the ground, however his track record for actually running things is questionable. Was ‘taking Tesla over from its founders’ a good idea or not is different than ‘was investing in Tesla’ a good idea. Financially it definitely allowed him to extract more money from the company so it’s a good business decision, but as far as actually running things I don’t know.

The Roadster v2 is a no show and the Cybertruck is a failure, the 3 on the other hand is successful but part of the initial pitch for the company. The minimally innovative model Y is arguably his biggest success as a manager. Even the charging network Telsa’s biggest strategic advantage has become deprioritized. Boring, X, and Tesla Solar have clearly been mismanaged. Neuralink is a long way from delivering anything viable as a company.

The parts of SpaceX he’s seemingly ignoring are doing way better than the bits under his focus. Starlink is doing well and he definitely had a hand on that so that’s something significant.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-13 17:38:29+00:00
Still the issue remains.

No, it doesn't.

The issue isn't the Times, since you've admitted that you have a way to avoid them, and other people have suggested solutions.

The actual issue is that you enjoy being angry and expressing that anger in front of strangers on the internet, as if that somehow validates your anger, or makes you feel good, or gives you some other kind of reward for grinding your personal axe.

This is destructive behavior. I recommend introspection. Failing that, seek professional help.
by immibis | 2025-11-13 17:38:54+00:00
I've not seen anyone express this sentiment, beyond a few internet trolls, either. I've only seen a certain kind of men claiming that it's always expressed towards them. It appears to be mostly imagined in their heads, though I'm open to seeing the evidence that every time you walk down the street you are heckled for not using your male privilege to solve climate change.
by Snowfield9571 | 2025-11-13 17:38:59+00:00
I think this article makes one assumption that isn't correct. "This means that even though Valve will be selling this hardware at a loss..." From the reviews I have read, Valve is not planning on doing this. They are not doing an Xbox type of deal where games are overpriced and console is cheap. If I am not mistaken, I got this information from the LTT review where they talked with Valve about this directly.