MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksaj | 2025-11-21 18:40:30+00:00
My very non-technical partner, who is a chef, uses ChatGPT to correct emails and develop menus.

I am quite technical, but one non-technical use is I am writing a radio play with an AI assist (ironically too, since AI and its online portrayal is a major part the story itself). I am not having it write it for me, as some automagically assume happens exclusively with AI, but to ensure flow, plot development, consistency, and ensure ideas don't get started and then forgotten. I have it asking me questions as a student trying to understand the play.

It's also very good at identifying places where an initial idea can make a reappearance and develop.
by jihadjihad | 2025-11-21 18:40:39+00:00
> The three beverages they ordered, two coffees and a soda, amounted to nearly $20

I don't live in CA, but this just seems insane? Even in "captive" locations like airports etc. where prices for stuff are higher than a typical brick-and-mortar location, I don't even understand how two coffees and a soda could approach $20. If they'd DoorDashed it, sure. But those numbers don't make sense.
by dap | 2025-11-21 18:40:49+00:00
At my last job, we only updated dependencies when there was a compelling reason. It was awful.

What would happen from time to time was that an important reason did come up, but the team was now many releases behind. Whoever was unlucky enough to sign up for the project that needed the updated dependency now had to do all those updates of the dependency, including figuring out how they affected a bunch of software that they weren't otherwise going to work on. (e.g., for one code path, I need a bugfix that was shipped three years ago, but pulling that into my component affects many other code paths.) They now had to go figure out what would break, figure out how to test it, etc. Besides being awful for them, it creates bad incentives (don't sign up for those projects; put in hacks to avoid having to do the update), and it's also just plain bad for the business because it means almost any project, however simple it seems, might wind up running into this pit.

I now think of it this way: either you're on the dependency's release train or you jump off. If you're on the train, you may as well stay pretty up to date. It doesn't need to be every release the minute it comes out, but nor should it be "I'll skip months of work and several major releases until something important comes out". So if you decline to update to a particular release, you've got to ask: am I jumping off forever, or am I just deferring work? If you think you're just deferring the decision until you know if there's a release worth updating to, you're really rolling the dice.

(edit: The above experience was in Node.js. Every change in a dynamically typed language introduces a lot of risk. I'm now on a team that uses Rust, where knowing that the program compiles and passes all tests gives us a lot of confidence in the update. So although there's a lot of noise with regular dependency updates, it's not actually that much work.)
by wk_end | 2025-11-21 18:41:40+00:00
> For some people (including me), a sense of phenomenal consciousness feels like the bedrock of existence, the least deniable thing; the sheer redness of red is so mysterious as to seem almost impossible to ground. Other people have the opposite intuition: consciousness doesn’t bother them, red is just a color, obviously matter can do computation, what’s everyone so worked up about? Philosophers naturally interpret this as a philosophical dispute, but I’m increasingly convinced it’s an equivalent of aphantasia, where people’s minds work in very different ways and they can’t even agree on the raw facts to be explained.

Is Scott accusing people who don't grasp the hardness of the hard problem of consciousness of being p-zombies?

(TBH I've occasionally wondered this myself.)
by QuercusMax | 2025-11-21 18:41:57+00:00
I bought some canned corned mutton (from Australia, I think) recently on a whim when I was at a caribbean foods store, and it was incredibly delicious. Not much in the way of gamy flavor (which I don't hate), and more tasty than corned beef. I think this is the recipe I used: https://www.alicaspepperpot.com/guyanese-style-corned-mutton...

That stuff wasn't cheap but I'm gonna make two cans worth next time, since my guests absolutely devoured it.

I live in Oregon where I know we have tons of sheep (you can see them when you're driving on I-5); would be great to get stuff like this with local sheep!
by kakacik | 2025-11-21 18:42:07+00:00
Where I live (Switzerland), cost of going to some proper burger joint vs mcdonalds costs roughly the same, or its very mildly cheaper for mcd. Plus unlike say France they don't serve beer here(canned heineken but at least its still technically beer).

The only reason to go there is their method of handling tons of customers (restaurant experience this ain't thats for sure), their opening hours and often location.

That's it, if you look for quality or pleasantness of experience or actual good food in statement above you don't have to bother. Worst burgers Swiss market can offer, we have different food and tasting standards here.
by echelon_musk | 2025-11-21 18:42:14+00:00
I didn't have wired networking everywhere in the house. So I would torrent the latest episode of a TV show (before it released in my own country) at something like 45 kbps. At 350 MiB it was usually possible to watch the episode the same evening I started the download. Once it was finished I'd have to carry the box upstairs to FTP the episode to the Xbox's HDD and then carry it back down again to connect to the TV.

Later, I would run Azureus inside of a Linux distro on the Xbox to download content directly.

Great times.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-21 18:42:45+00:00
> But given abortions are illegal in Texas, it's simply being used for its nominal purpose.

No, it's not.

The person in question was in Washington state at the time. Abortions are not blanket illegal in Washington. You cannot be prosecuted in Texas for breaking a Texas law for something you did in Washington (though some states are already in the process of trying to close that loophole, and have created the crime of "conspiracy to commit abortion").

It's also quite likely that accessing these Washington Flock records violated Washington law.
by zaphar | 2025-11-21 18:43:10+00:00
Where did you get the $311B number? Because I get a net profit of $59.25B which is only 40k per employee. This assumes that the company doesn't need to keep any profit for future usage which may or may not be case depending on how big their war chest is. Not to say that 40k couldn't be life changing for many of the Amazon employee but the 311B number seems to be pulled out of thin air.
by etchalon | 2025-11-21 18:43:15+00:00
I changed my own internal concept of a boycott.

I used to think, "I'll stop shopping here! They'll change their policies!", and yeah, nope, what happens is the company just leans into the customers that remained. So my "boycott" didn't do anything but deprive me of something I wanted.

However, I decided that, at least for a certain set of things, my desire for the thing can be outweighed by my desire not to contribute to something.

So boycott's aren't about me changing a company's policies, they're about me allocating my resources towards the things I want to see in the world.
by java-man | 2025-11-21 18:43:23+00:00
Every file is protected with AES-256 encryption, the same standard used by governments and financial institutions worldwide. Your work stays private from the moment you upload until your recipient downloads.

This says nothing. How do the keys generated and managed? Do you store the logs? How can I verify that the javascript contains no backdoor or generates no weak keys, or is consistent from visit to visit?
by breckinloggins | 2025-11-21 18:43:50+00:00
> How does the wand know what I'm flicking it at?

Magic! (i.e. not purely part of the thought experiment, unless I'm missing something interesting)

> What if I miss?

Panpsychism better be true :)

> Can I target the wand with itself?

John Malkovich? Is that you?!
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-11-21 18:43:59+00:00
Of my closest friends when I was in high school, the one with the best social skills had been home schooling since I met him when he was 10. However, he did participate in extracurricular activities at the local public school, like a computer club in middle school and then theater in high school. The only area he was really lagging at age 18 was in math, but that reversed a few years later and now he has a STEM PhD and has been teaching at a large state school for the past decade and a half.

I'd say a lot depends on both the quality of the schooling and maybe even more depends on the person's natural inclinations. He wouldn't have had time for all the reading he did as a teenager if he weren't home schooled, but he'd probably still have been in theater and still have been very open and curious life-long learner as an adult.
by alexspring | 2025-11-21 18:44:15+00:00
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We're a small team of 3, who managed to out-bench all browser-as-a-service providers on stealth. This means we pass all antibot checks, passive captchas checks, and actually reach target pages.

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by broof | 2025-11-21 18:44:42+00:00
One example is in high school I had an excellent literature class that also covered a lot of philosophy. It wasn’t until later that I realized that the various philosophies we studied were the philosophies that are often foundational for Marxism, atheism, and general left of center academia. Probably the best class I had in high school but I wish it had also covered things on both sides, or been more transparent that it was in fact biased.
by gusfoo | 2025-11-21 18:45:02+00:00
> And how far out is that?

These guys have a 100% market share https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems at the 'extreme' end and, obviously, everyone else is trying but haven't really shown much promise.

Here's a good background article on the topic: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/12/...
by aerhardt | 2025-11-21 18:45:07+00:00
This looks great. I've thought about vibe-coding a similar app for a while but this might just do - I could save a ton of work.

Others have mentioned in the thread that the lack of account integration might be a problem.

Plaid has been mentioned as a potential service, are there other recommendations?

If I find time I could try to write a plugin over a few weekends.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-21 18:45:16+00:00
Ian Murdock was not forced out of Debian; he resigned in 1996 to focus on school, work, and family. He passed the leadership of the project to Bruce Perens at that time.

Now, since then, the structure has obviously changed... bit it definitely didn't start as a coup d'etat... Debian now has a leadership structures where voting members are defined as well as how leadership positions are voted for. That's far different than a handful of people trying to unseat or take the project away without that infrastructure.

BDFL is perfectly fine as long as original ownership/management has interest in maintaining said position.
by blibble | 2025-11-21 18:46:04+00:00
Article 3 of the Budapest memorandum[1]:

> 3. The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the Republic of Belarus of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.

the US regime is attempting to do this

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_on_Security_Assura...
by bprew | 2025-11-21 18:46:13+00:00
Not the source code, but I am working on a re-implementation of it for Shandalar's 30th anniversary.

You can play a minimal web version at: - https://throwingbones.com/ben/s30/

Source: - https://github.com/benprew/s30 (patches welcome!) Written in Go using ebitengine
by sparrish | 2025-11-21 18:46:16+00:00
I'll gladly stand up my 7 homeschooled kids next to any public school kids.

All tested above grade level on state mandatory testing throughout their schooling.

Two graduated early (some with college credits).

My adult children (4 sons, ages 19-25) have gainful employment, living on their own (2 own their own homes), and standing on their own. One is married (I got a grandkid!), all have friends, communities they're involved in, and are healthy (physically and mentally).

None take prescription meds nor struggle with anxiety or depression.

Poor public school kids... I hope they can find help for the damage they suffered. <grin>
by Brendinooo | 2025-11-21 18:46:32+00:00
I dunno. I think I could spin a narrative where public middle school dynamics (that is, bullied quite a bit) created issues for me that hampered my ability to succeed in social settings.

I don't really think that way in general, but I guess I'd just want to point out that the spectrum isn't "good socialization in public school" to "bad/no socialization in homeschooling".
by abstractbeliefs | 2025-11-21 18:47:57+00:00
I think it's important to understand the early development.

It's true that you can (and always could) use avr-gcc and libc, but the core sale was what makes it not this.

The "locked in"/captured API and IDE were directly extensions of a language and IDE called Processing.

Processing overlaid an art-focussed layer on top of Java, providing a simpler API, and an IDE with just two buttons.

Arduino was based on this - the same IDE format, similar API conventions (just on top of C++), precisely to allow these same artists to move into physical installations and art.

Arduino was not designed initially to be so general, it was tool written by and for this specific group of people, so has opinions and handrails that limit the space to provide the same affordances as Processing specifically.
by eszed | 2025-11-21 18:48:22+00:00
> these expectations are violated regularly?

I don't know what you're thinking of, but mine are.

Practice of any kind (sports, coding, puzzles) works like that.

Most of all: interactions with any other conscious entity. I carry at least intuitive expectations of how my wife / kid / co-workers / dog (if you count that) will respond to my behavior, but... Uh. Often wrong, and have to update my model of them or of myself.

I agree with your second paragraph.
by gtirloni | 2025-11-21 18:48:42+00:00
I don't feel better prepared to teach at home than someone who actually went to college for the various topics covered in high school. How can I know all I need to teach about math, chemistry, english, physics, etc, etc, etc when I already have to learn so much for my own work? I think parents that think they can do a better job are delusional.

Maybe the school _environment_ that a child has access isn't great, right? But I don't think that says anything about teachers.
by f1shy | 2025-11-21 18:49:30+00:00
Also those people may not have time or energy to learn cooking by looking youtube. From an armchair, with good economic position and time and money for hobbies anyone can learn to cook by yt. But man I know some families where both parents (when there are 2!) come completely exhausted after 10 hs of hard work.

We changed the quality of food on our home. The amount of money and time invested was much more than we expected. Everthing from a decent equipped kitchen, with enough room, knives and other tools are needed… I lived once in 15 sq meter flat… I can tell you, is difficult to cook in a kitchenette.
by foobarkey | 2025-11-21 18:49:30+00:00
Saying a word is bad is pretty much the definition of censorship yes. Not the context it is used, not the implications when it is used but uncategorically BAD - it just breaks my somewhat autistic brain on the principle.

PS: I have an african wife and let me tell you she has no beef with the word, she will have more beef with me talking to the cashier in a way that is too friendly
by buran77 | 2025-11-21 18:50:28+00:00
> If you ask PRC shills

GP must have been asking for the non-PRC shill opinion.

> My guess is that it's at least 10 years away,

That doesn't sound at all like a lot. China has a uniquely effective industrial espionage... industry, combined with a very thick geopolitical skin and disregard for international demands. This helps accelerate any process that others have already perfected.

We'll start to see the real deal if/when China eventually catches up to the leaders in every field and the only way to pull ahead is to be entirely self propelled (you can't take advantage of someone else's draft when you're in front of the pack).
by skybrian | 2025-11-21 18:50:42+00:00
It seems like some of the arguments in favor of doing frequent releases apply at least a little bit for dependency updates?

Doing updates on a regular basis (weekly to monthly) seems like a good idea so you don't forget how to do them and the work doesn't pile up. Also, it's easier to debug a problem when there are fewer changes at once.

But they could be rescheduled depending on what else is going on.
by judahmeek | 2025-11-21 18:50:54+00:00
The best explanation I've heard for the falling birth rates of developed countries is that the cause is a massive increase in social expectation on parents.

It used to be that whether your child made it through childhood was up to God due to the massive number of risk factors beyond the parents' control. Those risk factors are much more easily mitigated in developed countries, so now the responsibility rests solely on the parents, and that's why kids can no longer go outside.
Ask HN: Best IDE/compiler agnostic C++ for beginners book
by dustfinger | 2025-11-21 18:50:56+00:00
Are there any C++ books out there for beginners that:

1. Are editor agnostic: I am not interested in a chapter on how to setup some popular IDE. I do things my own way already.

2. compiler/debugger agnostic: I already know what compiler/debugger I want to use and I am happy to have a book that just assumes I can figure that bit out for myself.

3. Starts you coding on Chapter 1

4. Focused on the most important C++ features at a beginner level

5. No graphics, just console or ncurses

6. Teaches beginner level code organization and design principles/patterns through engaging mini-puzzle projects involving fundamental algorithms
by kurthr | 2025-11-21 18:51:03+00:00
The assumption that "the new owners have paid a 5x or more multiple, and the reason they would is if they think they can cut costs and increase prices", is not universal and in many cases quite new. There are many new owners and buyers for which this is not the case. Your local bar, restaurant, hobby shop, gym, bookstore, daycare and others often transfer without the new owner looking to pay a 5x premium and maximize profits. It's only recently that doctors, dentist, veterinarian offices and other high margin social businesses are getting converted to PE.

It's the enshitification of all the existing third places and extraction of social value for profit, because people will tolerate it due to lack of choice and social need.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-21 18:51:17+00:00
Obviously, they caught the bug and didn't deploy it.

The point is that a change to a completely unrelated component caused a latent bug to make the device unusable, ended up delaying a release for weeks and causing them have to pay me a bunch of money to fix it for them.

If they'd been applying upgrades, they would have never even known it existed, and all that trouble would have been avoided.

I mean, I'm sort of working against my own interest here: arguably I should want people to delay upgrades so I can get paid to backport things for them :)
by jerf | 2025-11-21 18:51:34+00:00
This argument has not kept up with the reality of the public school system. The homeschooled cohort my children are associated with have problems associating with public school children of the same age... but the problem doesn't lie on the homeschooler's side, it lies 100% on the publicly-schooled children's side! The public school attendees are noticeably less mature for the same age and less able to deal with anything other than the highly-specific and unrealistic environment of public schools rather than the rest of the world. The homeschoolers have trouble stepping down their social expectations to levels the public school attendees can meet.

We have a few reasons unrelated to socialization [1] to do home schooling but one of the reasons I don't want to send them back is precisely the regression in "socialization" I would expect.

30 years ago, this probably was a decent argument, but the bar of "at least as socialized as a public school attendee" has gone way down in the meantime.

[1]: I guess before anyone asks, one of my children is deaf-blind and while the people in the system did their best and I have not much criticism of the people, the reality is still that I was able to more precisely accommodate that child than the system was able to. This ends up being a pretty big stopper for a return to the public school system for that child.
by Brendinooo | 2025-11-21 18:52:41+00:00
This is why it's useful to look up stats when we have them.

For example, homeschooled students do better on the ACT than public school kids.

https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/Info...

Obviously the schooling venue itself isn't the only factor here, but if you think homeschooling a kid is worth an analogy to fighting grizzlies, might be worth a reframe.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-21 18:52:50+00:00
>aware of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Of course this argument never uses the much more horrifying and abysmal firebombing of Tokyo, because it doesn't come from a place of historical knowledge, but rather trite lies.

Hell, the Allies told Japan (literally) "Surrender or face prompt and utter destruction", while Japan knew they were utterly cooked and already lost the war like a year ago, and they simply ignored it. Japan was not totally ignorant of the concept of a nuclear weapon either, as they had competent physicists and a low effort nuclear weapons program.

If you do not want your city turned to ash, do not START a war of aggression on your neighbors and the damn world because of imperial ambitions, and then do not continue such war long after it was clear you had already lost, including instructing and training your citizens to die en masse for the emperor.

The Japanese were actively trying to erase a billion people. Actions have consequences.

There was no end to Imperial Japan without just staggering death of japanese people. It doesn't matter whether that death came from Chinese soldiers or nuclear fire or Russian waves or American Marines.

If you don't want people to kill you, start by not becoming an absurd cartoon villain.

Imperial Japan was the exact horrific Fascism as the Nazis, and anything less than unconditional surrender was unacceptable.

Internment was fucking awful, and I think it's very telling we never interned German Americans even though we knew Germans DID sabotage US industries during WW1 but I guess Germans are too white for the racist Americans who thought Hitler was a cool guy to get uppity about.