MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrprmiller | 2025-11-10 02:45:09+00:00
Probably too simple, in my estimation. I was originally pulling from the LLM to get individual texts before bible itself was part of it, and when I changed it to using the fully generated APB I probably broke the passage validator.

I'll work immediately on that. Really sorry - but that's the exact thing I needed. Thanks for finding that. I'll try and add a few more credits so you can test more and find more problems.

Also, the Synod "works" but isn't quite ready for primetime... or even an early morning jog.
by elcritch | 2025-11-10 02:45:27+00:00
Seems a naive simplistic philosophy. The UK is larger than South Korea and has a similar population size. Yet South Korea has outcompeted the UK and US in ship building. By most accounts by investing in advanced technology and ship building technologies.

Having population and talented populous is a requirement but not sufficient for achieving big things. It requires leadership as well. Look at Taiwan out competing China in silicon foundaries.
by mroche | 2025-11-10 02:45:40+00:00
> That said, if pressed, I’d recommend AsciiDoc over any Markup flavor for a greenfield project _today_.

Likewise for me as well, and I am a massive Material for MkDocs fan. Markdown is certainly simple to use and gets the job done, but AsciiDoc just provides so much out of the box without hurting my eyes like reStructuredText (used by Sphinx) does. It also helps that's there's effectively one type of AsciiDoc I'm aware of, whereas there's a number of Markdown flavors atop CommonMark to be cognizant of. I will concede, however, it's learning curve is not as simple as MarkDown's...

A powerful framework for working with AsciiDoc for documentation purposes is Antora[0]. The Red Hat ecosystem (Fedora and CentOS projects) uses it for their public facing docs. That being said, it is a beast to understand if starting from scratch rather than contributing to project's existing docs. It designed to be able to consolidate large projects with multiple component repositories and versions per component into a single docs site. Typical balance of more capabilities, more up-front cost of adoption.

The AsciiDoc WG also maintains an Awesome AsciiDoc[1] page of projects within the ecosystem.

[0] https://antora.org/

[1] https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse-wg/asciidoc-wg/asciidoc.o...
by pols45 | 2025-11-10 02:45:45+00:00
> so its hard to be sure

Who is asking you to be sure in the first place? Why do you need this certainty? Farm animals need the comfort and stability of the farm to survive. They "flourish" within the parameters some one else sets.

In the Elephant-Rider model of how the mind works, people are talking to rider And the elephant.

The elephant just needs some feel good stuff, to momentarily focus shift away from all the unpredictability in the universe, it has no control over - in this case it is being fed - well the story teller who is not sure about anything is atleast "diligent".

When you let go of the story, and realize the elephant is not under your control and can never be, the ride is much smoother. And that's the only story, no SEO game needed to promote the Truth. And truth is - you are just along for the ride. Don't act like a farm animal thinking you are healthy based on how many eggs you have been told to lay. You are a chimp. All animal domestication protocols break down sooner or later when dealing with chimps. Cuz the chimp mind has an elephant in it. Taking it for a wild ride.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-10 02:46:29+00:00
The main reason the car industry couldn't hack it is because of quality issues. There was this joke sticker for the back of your Jaguar or Rolls: "The parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture".

I worked a lot on classic Mini's, Metros and Maxi's. The degree to which body work had been patched and bent to match it to the corresponding chassis was quite amazing. Rumor had it the Leyland factory had a guy with a very large hammer standing at the end of the line to 'adjust' the doors if they didn't close properly. I totally believe it. I've seen almost new subframes that were Swiss cheese from rust and/or with very bad welding.

That said, there are few cars that are more fun to drive than a souped up Classic Mini, and even fewer that would be as lethal in an accident.
by strken | 2025-11-10 02:46:50+00:00
I get about 6000 daily steps from my commute[0] plus about 2000 from miscellaneous movement around the house and office. The extra 4000 are pretty easy to fill in with a lunchtime walk and some housework.

I don't think most people are going out and just walking for an hour and a half every day. A couple I know like to go for a walk with their morning coffees, for example. They've added walking into something they'd be doing anyway. Other people own a dog, or take their kid to the park each day, or do some other regular activity which integrates walking.

[0] 3000 each way, which is 2km and takes me about 20 minutes at a moderate-to-fast walking pace.
by orbital-decay | 2025-11-10 02:46:52+00:00
Dams blocking the inflow to Lake Urmia that almost dried up nowadays were built by the Shah, for example. Man-made environmental damage and corruption aren't new by any measure, as well as unstable water levels and shortages in arid zones. See e.g. Aral Sea which fluctuated in the range of dozens of meters over centuries before finally drying up, which was enough to establish and subsequently abandon multiple settlements on the lake bed during the Mongol Empire.
by blm126 | 2025-11-10 02:46:57+00:00
I wouldn't mix OAuth and OIDC up when thinking about this. OAuth is a chaotic ecosystem, but OIDC is fairly well standardized.

OIDC actually does have a discovery mechanism standardized to convert an email address into an authoritative issuer. Then, it has a dynamic registration mechanism standardized so that an application could register to new issuers automatically. Those standards could absolutely be improved, but they already exist.

The problem is that no one that mattered implemented them.

If you want to get anywhere with something like this, you need buy-in from the big email providers(Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple) and the big enterprise single sign on providers(Ping, OneIdentity, and Okta). All of those companies already do OIDC fairly well. If they wanted this feature to exist, it already would.

Instead, it seems like big tech is all-in on passkeys instead of fixing single sign on.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-11-10 02:47:26+00:00
One of the most frustrating things in my lifetime:

Company CEO paid-orders-of-magnitude-more-than-median-employee:

"Not enough local people with XYZ skills!"

Skilled local person: "I'm right here, just pay me properly."

Unskilled local person: "I'm right here, train me and I'll do it even at your low wage."

Local educational institution: "We could run training courses if you want to work with us on that!"

...

CEO: "Guess we'll have to get them from overseas!"
by sasjaws | 2025-11-10 02:48:23+00:00
Personalized audio streams for language learners. Ideal for during driving or while doing chores.

https://listen.longyan.io/

At the intermediate level lots of learners struggle to find suitable content that matches their level and interests, more than a few learners turn to notebookLM podcasts to provide that, but that's a bit of a hassle to set up. So I built a platform that generates and manages infinite and shareable streams around your interests or specific vocabulary. It also provides live interactive transcripts (karaoke / teleprompter style) if you need it.

Core features work but still rough around the edges. Happy to help you out with any issues you encounter, languages to add, feature requests etc...
by domenicd | 2025-11-10 02:48:49+00:00
12k steps is about 2 hours. It helps a lot to have a walking pad (basically a mini-treadmill), and possibly standing desk.

I do 45 minutes of Anki per day on the walking pad, and then if walking around the city hasn't gotten the other 1.25 hours, I can fill the rest with watching TV on the walking pad.
by bitwize | 2025-11-10 02:49:26+00:00
Game companies do this all the time. Namco had a patent on the idea of "a minigame playable during a loading screen". Splatoon on the Wii U had a minigame you could play while waiting, but as it was during the multiplayer matchmaking process, not loading, it avoided the patent.

But there is no IP in the gaming industry more vigorously defended than Tetris. The Tetris Company LLC has:

* trademarks on the name Tetris, the wordmark, and the word "tetrimino" to refer to the pieces, of course

* trade dress rights on otherwise generic elements, such as the shape of the tetromino pieces themselves and the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", when used in video games

* copyright on the concept of "a video game where tetromino pieces fall and you must arrange them to make lines". You'd think that this element would not be copyrightable, but Atari v. Philips, which concerned Pac-Man and clones thereof, established that a video game is copyrightable as a form of audiovisual performance, not just program code, which means that if a game looks and behaves enough like a copyrighted game such as Tetris ("substantial similarity"), it can be infringing. And it's near-impossible to make a falling-tetromino puzzle game without making it look and behave like Tetris. Henk and Alexey have retained some of the best lawyers American capitalism can buy, and they've successfully litigated copyright actions against cloners of Tetris and have had "Tetris clone" material seized at the border on copyright grounds.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-10 02:49:50+00:00
I'm ignorant but aren't oil pipelines much longer? They don't need to traverse mountain ranges but still. Either way i can't imagine such a project would be possible in an emergency time scale without the combined assistance of the US, Israel (desalination experts) and China. i know absolutely nothing about these things, so i don't know if it's even theoretically possible with their help.
by anonym29 | 2025-11-10 02:50:21+00:00
Hanlon's razor, paradoxically, is the perfect cover for surreptitious malice. We've already got a perfectly reasonable razor telling people not to assume malice, after all.

And to be clear, let's not forget that the US government did intentionally and secretly conduct surreptitious biological warfare tests against entire US cities that deliberately inflicted disease upon and killed American citizens. There was an entire formal program that spanned decades - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapo...

Of course, the US government doesn't have any secret programs anymore and never lies to us, so everyone can rest easy knowing nothing like this could ever happen again.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-10 02:50:34+00:00
> how could the UK ever compete with China, or the US, or India, on industry?

How could Switzerland?

How could Japan?

How could the Netherlands?

And so on... The UK is still pretty good at plenty of things, but they lacked a specific USP. I think their biggest issues (from an industry perspective) were not so much scale as quality control and the willingness to improve their processes. Compare a German car from the 1970's or 80's under the hood with a UK made car and the difference could not be larger.
by phatskat | 2025-11-10 02:50:46+00:00
> Siding with him has basically never paid off for anyone.

Which is the wildest part. Even before his first administration became a revolving door, he’s pretty much always tossed people aside. I almost believe there are people in his inner circle that are “safe”, but then he (the president of the United States) did once rape his own wife - the same one he pushed down a flight of stairs
by throw234234234 | 2025-11-10 02:51:09+00:00
That may be true in the US, but isn't that true worldwide in general. In fact in many countries techies are a bit of a underclass. But I get your point.

My comment was more I think that "sneer" is more around the profession's worth. A few years ago people would go "wow, that's cool". Very different now which shows status of a job is determined by perceived job prospects, security, and impact.
by devnullbrain | 2025-11-10 02:51:15+00:00
As a candidate, it can be confusing to read application advice. You'll often see people say that they look for x-y-z when hiring, which conflicts with when you saw someone say they look for a-b-c the week before. How can both be true?

Because both are true, for what they look for. But what's considered standard or desirable differs massively from one market to another - region, industry, role. It even differs at the most granular levels: companies, departments, interviewers. At some point, the difference in what is desired is just differences in culture fit. Applications aren't an exam and you shouldn't expect to 'pass' them all any more than you should expect to 'pass' every date.

If you are a hiring manager, you know what it takes to get hired at one company. That's less than what someone knows if they go out and get two job offers. So, do us a favour, don't muddy the water.
by r0ze-at-hn | 2025-11-10 02:51:42+00:00
I suspect AI company want improved efficiencies and developing a framework that can be applied in determining the minimal-energy, maximal-efficiency architecture for ai models. Calculating the precise limits, like a Cognitive Event Horizon, where a model becomes so complicated it literally costs more energy to run than the knowledge it provides, and the Semantic Horizon, where it simply gets too complex to be accurate, etc. Lots of cool implications such as around a fundamental mathematical maximum learning rate which results in trying to get anywhere close to that that by doing stuff like aggressively filtering of the data.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-10 02:52:11+00:00
Not OP but a couple major changes that didn't exist in most companies 20 years ago that reduced friction from an organizational perspective.

1. Gigabit internet - video call quality is significantly better than it was 10-15 years ago.

2. Zoom/Google Meets - the attention Zoom gave to UX just wasn't matched by any other precursor. Google Meets is a close second.

3. GSuite/O365 - sharing documents across organizations and being able to search for them successfully org wide has gotten much better now due to tools like Glean

4. Slack - most traditional companies didn't adopt Slack until the pandemic. Before that they were primarily leveraging email

There has been a whole decade of evolution in productivity and DevTooling throughout the 2010s, and the COVID WFH period forced most orgs (especially traditional orgs) to adopt a lot of that tooling.

On top of that, a large number of mid-level managers, engineers, PMs, and even VPs are in naturalization limbo, so it's become easy to find people to end up leading offices back in their home country while enforcing the same standards as back in the US. MS did this in Israel back in the 2010s, and most companies began doing something similar across Eastern Europe and India during the early years of COVID because most companies legitimately were worried it would become a Great Recession level event.
by vinhnx | 2025-11-10 02:52:11+00:00
I'm building a coding agent, named VT Code [0]. VT Code is a Rust-based terminal coding agent with semantic code intelligence via Tree-sitter. Supports multiple LLM providers with automatic failover and efficient context management. Support OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Z.AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ollama (local & Cloud). Agent Client Protocol and Model Context Protocol fully support. VT Code supports a rich set of configuration options, with preferences stored in vtcode.toml. Has both Visual Studio Code and Open VSX extensions so that you can install in VS Code or Cursor, Windsurf, Eclipse.

I've been building it for several months now and enjoy the learning process, I also wrote a blog post and learnt a ton about terminal, ANSI processing. The learning has been immense for me, I now have working knowledge of ANSI escape codes, grapheme clusters, terminal emulators, Unicode normalization, VT protocols, PTY sessions, and filesystem operations, all the low-level details I would have never think about until I were implementing them. [1]

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode [0.1] https://deepwiki.com/vinhnx/vtcode [1] https://buymeacoffee.com/vinhnx/vt-code
by rayiner | 2025-11-10 02:52:23+00:00
Iran isn’t a breadbasket exactly, but it has more arable land per person than Germany, Italy, the UK, or Ireland. And vastly more than Japan. It’s relatively temperate now—future warming doesn’t explain its current situation. On top of all that, it has oil! In 1980, just after the revolution, Iran had a PPP GDP per capita above Taiwan, China, and South Korea. And only modestly behind Poland. Today those countries are far ahead. Same for Thailand, Malaysia, and Turkey.

The economic sanctions are a symptom not the cause.
by questionableans | 2025-11-10 02:54:28+00:00
As I mentioned, this is a privileged position, but I see work as an opportunity to do something I and others find meaningful and useful. I’m paid so that I can afford to focus my time on that work without worrying about money. I seek out employers and co-workers with whom my goals are aligned, and we go our separate ways if that ever ceases to be the case.
by mvdtnz | 2025-11-10 02:54:56+00:00
His writing is good but he's speaking with such authority for someone with virtually no experience. Dismissing the explanations from those of us who have been around the block several times because he believes he has some special insight.

I mean he might fill some Gladwellian niche of being confidently wrong on topics he has only a basic understanding of I guess.

It might pay for him to listen for a bit.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-10 02:55:14+00:00
I think this kind of mean reversion is actually worse than imagined. I'm not belittling the UK or anyone else; I just want to say that the governments of these countries haven't prepared any contingency plans for this kind of crisis at all. The lost industrial capacity is almost impossible to recover, and they also have to face the impact of immigration issues. The lower classes in the US, the lower classes in China, and even the global lower classes live more miserably than people in the UK and the EU, but they work longer hours. This isn't a stable state(The UK and the EU also lack priority in military and technological aspects.), so major changes are bound to happen. It's just a matter of time—maybe just a few decades away.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-11-10 02:55:29+00:00
I would never claim that we can reliably detect all AI generated text. There are many ways to write text with LLM assistance that is indistinguishable from human output. Moreover, models themselves are extremely bad at detecting AI-generated text, and it is relatively easy to edit these tells out if you know what to look for (one can try to prompt them out too, though success is more limited there). I am happy to make a much narrower claim, however: each particular set of models, when not heavily prompted to do otherwise, has a "house style" that's pretty easily identifiable by humans in long-form writing samples, and content written with that house style has a very high chance of being generated by AI. When text is written in this house style, it is often a sign that not only were LLMs used in its generation, but the person doing the generation did not bother to do much editing or use a more sophisticated prompt that wouldn't result in such obvious tells, which is why the style is commonly associated with "slop."

I find it interesting that you believe this claim is wildly conspirational, or that you think the difficulty of reliably detecting AI generated text at scale is evidence that humans can't do pretty well at this much more limited task. Do you also find claims that AIs are frequently sycophantic in ways that humans are not, or that they will use phrases like "you're absolutely right!" far more than a human would unless prompted otherwise (which are the exact same type of narrow claim) similarly conspirational? i.e., is your assertion that people would have difficulty differentiating between a real human's response to a prompt and Claude's response to a prompt when there was no specific pre-prompt trying to control the writing style of the response?
by ineedasername | 2025-11-10 02:55:48+00:00
>The industrial nations of the twentieth century were built around the idea that work was the organising principle of life

Hopefully this is what changes. If, for example, AI reduces labor needs by 50%, we ought to gradually move to a 20 hour work week. Consumption patterns would change— the Covid years provide some very limited guidance on how such a dynamic would be shaped by changing the demand for different forms of entertainment and leisure activities.

The main thing though especially in the US with its cultural roots is that western society will need to reevaluate the idea of person worth so tightly coupled to labor and career- and the Puritan Work Ethic.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-10 02:56:05+00:00
It’s only fraud if they sold you or marketed to you on those specs. But at least for things like reflashing your router, short of a few explicit opener vendors (like glinet) and Linksys AFTER releasing the WRTGL version, router manufacturers aren’t usually advertising on how much ram or flash memory space they have, any more than car manufacturers are advertising how much flash memory is in their ECUs. It’s not an intended or marketed purpose, so they’re not going to be changing model numbers just because they made an internal update.
by domenicd | 2025-11-10 02:56:09+00:00
For sure. My friend's program is longevity-focused, not strength focused.

I usually do 2/week strength training + 1/week bouldering, but have dropped to 1/week strength training + 1/week bouldering while I worked to incorporate the 12k steps into my routine. I'm also currently doing a cut so am less motivated to lift. After I hit 10% body fat I plan to start bulking and go back to 2/week + bouldering or maybe even 3/week + bouldering.

Regarding diminishing returns, at least for longevity,

> Training once or twice a week for less than an hour can reduce the chance of death from any cause by 35%. But, if the time is increased to over an hour in a week or more than three sessions, then the longevity benefit disappears to zero compared with people who never put their hands on a weight.

from https://www.unaging.com/exercise/weight-lifting-for-life/ which cites https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7385554/ . Pretty interesting.
by pfych | 2025-11-10 02:56:22+00:00
He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others.[^1][^2]

[^1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/ [^2]: https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/why-it-matters-that-an-obs...
by TZubiri | 2025-11-10 02:56:39+00:00
I thought this initially, the privacy thing looks like a non issue and is confusing. But the advantage is stated in the preceding paragraph. The user doesn't need to leave the signup flow and doesn't need to open their email.

The auth mechanism flows through the cookies, assuming the email provider offers a web browser and the user is signed in this could be seamless, although I'm not certain the cookie could be safely read cross site without risk or without being blocked by the browse

It wouldn't be simple to implement but not impossible, and it sounds like it would cost nothing to the user, it could work behind the scenes. Like as a user you are logged in to gmail or zoho mail in your browser. You sihn up for another service and you didn't get a confirmation email, just a welcome email. No fucks are given, it just works.

Mobile does this with autofilling auth codes sometimes with sms, so there's precedent.

Congrats OP the idea looks feasible. I'm usually the ackshually guy looking for the nitpick, but it looks nice. Will check the technicals later, cause the devil is in the details.