MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Isamu | 2025-11-19 13:26:57+00:00
Discussion about this tends to get hung up on the relative harm of a particular food, let’s say a donut. But the article is really about a diet that is dominated by food like donuts.

>Evidence reviewed by 43 of the world’s leading experts suggests that diets high in UPF are linked to overeating, poor nutritional quality and higher exposure to harmful chemicals and additives.

>This category is made up of products that have been industrially manufactured, often using artificial flavours, emulsifiers and colouring. They include soft drinks and packaged snacks, and tend to be extremely palatable and high in calories but low in nutrients.

>They are also designed and marketed to displace fresh food and traditional meals, while maximising corporate profits, Monteiro said.
by saxenaabhi | 2025-11-19 13:27:06+00:00
Most public companies aren't attributing it to AI yet due to fear of backlash, but it's obvious to most of us.

And Startups and SMB's are more open to attributing it to efficiency gains due to AI.

If you aren't seeing it then probably it's because you are in a niche vertical. Which is great for you, but not representative on the whole.
by eesmith | 2025-11-19 13:27:08+00:00
When I started consulting, I read a Nolo Press book about contracts for software developers. That was an excellent resource. I learned concepts that I still use when reviewing contracts.

Nolo (they've since dropped the Press), "produces do-it-yourself legal books and software that allows people to handle simple legal matters such as making wills or writing business partnership contracts" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_(publisher) .

One is "Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home", for $20, available at https://store.nolo.com/products/nolos-essential-guide-to-buy... . or about 1% of the cost of using the AI. ("Homa charges a flat rate of $1,995 for transactions with a selling agent.")

Would Business Insider accept an article titled "I trusted a book instead of agent to buy a home. I saved around $9k in fees."?
by phgn | 2025-11-19 13:27:12+00:00
The interesting part about Cities 2 is that the simulation is much more in-depth: pops have a real job where they commute to (versus taking any available one in the first game), they don't just teleport around, companies have to import&export resources and make profit based on that, etc.

Also the graphics/lighting seems much improved with a more realistic art style.

Both things which you cannot really retrofit into Cities 1.
by jrm4 | 2025-11-19 13:27:13+00:00
You'd have to be around Mastodon to know what that means, but basically there was an effort by some Black folks there to not just create their own server but to also flag and identify racist/toxic servers etc, and anyone who fit that as they saw was put on their thing called "The Bad Space."

Was it well meaning? Yes. Did it end up being childish, overblown and power-trippy? Also yes.

I find that most everyone on Mastodon focuses properly, but too much on "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because of the racism," and not "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because it's boring as hell."
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-19 13:27:19+00:00
They're betting on squeezing more dollars out of the ordinary person's wallet when B2B should have been their main focus. They lay off because of interest rates but gamble like there is still ZIRP.

Their anti-social tendency is the core problem, remember when they were laying off everyone in tech just because it was a trend? here too, they want to reduce head count instead of increase the value of their products and services to generate more revenue. AI has lots of value for sure. Monetizing that without increasing head count would have been sensible. Instead of getting rid of people, they could focus on freeing up the time of existing people so they can do more work and generate value/wealth for the company. Of course, companies like Google are doing exactly what I'm suggesting to the most part (that I know of), but the vast majority on the ai bandwagon are just there to see if they can make more revenue by having less people.

I don't doubt some big companies in this space will fail, but will that trigger a panic/sell-off? And can the US, after cutting off its allies and alienating the whole world recover? What are the social and geopolitical implications of not recovering?
by 0x00cl | 2025-11-19 13:29:03+00:00
My best guess would be that plugins are limited into what they can do within VSCode, and rewriting a whole IDE/Text editor just for AI Agent seems a lot of work.

For example a while back vscode-pets[1] plugin became popular and tried it and noticed that the pet can only live within a window, whether its the explorer section or in its own panel, I thought it'd be more of a desktop pet that could be anywhere within VSCode but apparently there are limitations (https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets/issues/4).

So my guess is that forking VSCode and customizing it that way is much easier to do things that you can't with a plugin while also not having to maintain an IDE/Text editor.

[1] https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-19 13:29:07+00:00
I've always thought that it was interesting the Romans built the Antonine Wall where it is, and declared that to be the end of the empire in Britannia.

There would have been a long march across a sinky, sucky, midgie-infested bog to the south, then a long climb up a hill that's just steep enough to be annoying, and then when you get to the ridge overlooking what's now the Kelvin Valley - where Bar Hill fort is - there's just another even bigger wetter bog with lochs to wade through, hoaching with midgies, and an even bigger set of very steep hills beyond.

Inhabited by angry armed locals.

You know what, lads, if Antonius wants the land to the north of it then Antonius can come and claim it for himself, okay? Who's with me? Build the camp here? Build the camp here, then.

And now, if you brought a Roman soldier 1900 years forwards, I wonder what they'd make of it? Nothing left of the empire, except a few weirdly straight roads a little north of Glasgow, some half-buried ruins that the local high school kids get taken to on field trips during the day and go up to and smoke weed at night, and a few of those local kids have bigger noses than you might otherwise expect.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-19 13:29:56+00:00
This strikes me as a culture issue more than one of language.

A tenet of systems code is that every possible error must be handled explicitly and exhaustively close to the point of occurrence. It doesn’t matter if it is Rust, C, etc. Knowing how to write systems code is unrelated to knowing a systems language. Rust is a systems language but most people coming into Rust have no systems code experience and are “holding it wrong”. It has been a recurring theme I’ve seen with Rust development in a systems context.

C is pretty broken as a language but one of the things going for it is that it has a strong systems code culture surrounding it that remembers e.g. why we do all of this extra error handling work. Rust really needs systems code practice to be more strongly visible in the culture around the language.
by bogrollben | 2025-11-19 13:30:20+00:00
I've recently (last 3 years) begun writing fantasy novels and I'm now working on my sixth. What inspired me wasn't a beautifully written novel but a terrible one. The author had written many works and published them, all of which were trash. I thought, if this shmuck can do it then surely I can too. Turns out it was true. I now make it a habit of occasionally reading terrible writing. It's a great motivator!

I don't have to be the best writer in the world. I just want to be better than THAT guy.
by solfox | 2025-11-19 13:32:10+00:00
When I first saw the starfield post, I had one kid. I was building her all sorts of cool stuff: brio table, custom childrens book, etc. So naturally, I disbelieved the assertion that my second child would get anything less than my first. Alas, the insight is spot on - for all your good intentions, the second child gets shafted. I think it's just one of those things you have to experience to get it.
by jrsdav | 2025-11-19 13:32:25+00:00
The late potter and educator John Neely would often say to his students and others:

> “I don’t put too much stock in creativity. Creativity itself won’t get you very far, you can’t always rely on it. But you can rely on hard work”

Knowing John and the chaotic world of clay perhaps deepens the profundity here, but even on its own it’s advice I freely share with anyone.
by Grimblewald | 2025-11-19 13:33:21+00:00
Neither does windows tbh. You're not getting most early 2000s let alone 90s games working on W11 without a lot of time and effort having gone into getting it to work. E.g. try run original (not gog) vampire masqurade bloodlines, or black and white without the community patches running. Running both in original form is feasible on linux, but straight up not possible on w11 without patches.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-19 13:33:31+00:00
The good news is that we're just living in a perfect natural experiment:

Cloudflare just caused a massive internet outage costing millions of dollars worldwide, in part due to a very sloppy mistake that definitely ought to have been prevented (using Rust's “unwrap” in production ). Let's see how many customers they lose because of that and we'll see how big are their incentives. (If you look at the evolution of their share value, it doesn't look like the incident terrified their shareholders at least…)
by echelon | 2025-11-19 13:33:38+00:00
This anti-tech, anti-AI attitude is the new anti-nuclear. And I am so tired of seeing it every single day.

I am counting dozens of social media comments a day now proclaiming the "AI Bubble Burst" will "save us all". Save us from what, exactly? Do people need a new villain character? Does this one just happen to be something the media can easily caricature and create a mystical scare over?

The sun is going to consume the earth. Life won't last here forever. I'd rather we build cool shit and pull our species (or its descendants) off-world sometime in the next two thousand years. (Given that we don't know the nature of dark matter and energy, that our instruments are quite primitive, and that our civilization is quite new, I'll forego prognostications about the end of the universe.)

Life on earth is a third the age of the universe. We're ancient. By our present understanding, intelligent technological life is shockingly rare in the galaxy. There are at least a few hundred "hard steps" from abiotic soup to us now. (Just a few: if we'd been stuck in the ocean, we wouldn't have scientists able to conduct chemistry in an aqueous environment. If we'd had decomposers during the carboniferous, we wouldn't have vast reserves of easily accessible fuel for industrialization. If we didn't have a Jupiter configuration, Earth would be bombarded with asteroids. If we had a different Jupiter configuration, the dinosaurs might not have gone extinct and we might not have gotten water at all.)

Life here will end. There's nothing to "preserve" apart from our biosphere's species diversity and carrying capacity. We can do that and build data centers.

There are far worse evils to concern yourself with than AI. This is a manufactured distraction.
by thisisit | 2025-11-19 13:34:07+00:00
LLMs are very good at NLP/classification tasks and weak at calculations and numbers. So, I doubt feeding it numerical data is a good idea.

And if you feeding or harnessing as the blog post puts it in a way that where it reasons things like:

> RSI 7-period: 62.5 (neutral-bullish)

Then it is no better than normal automated trading where the program logic is something along the lines if RSI > 80 then exit. And looking at the reasoning trace that is what the model is doing.

> BTC breaking above consolidation zone with strong momentum. RSI at 62.5 shows room to run, MACD positive at 116.5, price well above EMA20. 4H timeframe showing recovery from oversold (RSI 45.4). Targeting retest of $110k-111k zone. Stop below $106,361 protects against false breakout.

My understanding is that technical trading using EMA/timeframes/RSI/MACD etc is big in crypto community. But to automate it you can simply write python code.

I don't know if this is a good use of LLMs. Seems like an overkill. Better use case might have been to see if it can read sentiments from Twitter or something.
by Ciantic | 2025-11-19 13:34:35+00:00
> The Paradox Mods platform will remain the only officially supported mod hub, so deep code mods akin to CS1’s may never return.

I've written a mod to CS2 and CS1 (granted not a big mods but few small ones), Paradox mod store doesn't limit you in depth of the code mods. What you are limited by is churn in the internals of the game engine, as most mods use monkey patching techniques that then break.

What I wished CS2 modding had some official way to monkey patch, so they could somehow try to detect incompatible monkey patching when people have 100s of mods installed. Suppose two mods modify WaterSystem, it would show the user both mods and locations they've attached at. It would help debug things down.

Many gamers blame original game devs for broken game even though it was fault of the mods they've installed. For us who knows programming, that is ridiculous because these mods are monkey patching at so deep level... but that is probably reason many games don't have official modding as it weighs down their reputation.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-19 13:34:43+00:00
This isn't a good thing.

That network of insiders colluding behind the scenes are NOT providing optimal results for the shareholders, or for the market in general. They are instead optimizing their own short term gains at the expense of everyone else.

A bunch of good old boys making handshake deals with their buddies aren't actually choosing the best products and services for the best price, and the companies they helm will eventually suffer for it as the entire market does each time it happens.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-19 13:35:18+00:00
I highly doubt that any human could manually write a pelican SVG in a single shot like LLMs do. With a lot of guessing and checking of coordinate positions in the web browser, maybe they could do it.

I imagine that you could theoretically also guess and check without the web browser by manually rendering the SVG using some graph paper, a compass, a straightedge, and coloured pencils, but that sounds unbelievably tedious and also very error-prone.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-19 13:35:40+00:00
That's the problem with the views expressed by the GP. It's rights for me but not for thee right up until the moment that the knock on the door comes and then suddenly they're wondering why nobody stands up for them.

In general kicking the door shut behind you is bad form but I can understand it, especially if you're financially successful, then you don't want to be associated with all of those really bad and embarrassingly poor people from $COUNTRY that you or your parents emigrated from. But ultimately it is an intellectually dishonest position, those illegal immigrants are no less people for trying to improve their lives and since they are not a drain on the system (healthcare, voting and other rights are closed off to them) their net positive effect is actually a massive economic boost for the country.

But that is not something you'll be able to explain to someone who has set their mind on 'illegal immigrants bad'. It is interesting that this is now the 'conservative viewpoint' when actually it is just racism masquerading as enforcement of the law. If and when that difference manifests in the GPs life it will be too late.
by deinonychus | 2025-11-19 13:35:42+00:00
>The withdrawal symptoms are actually strangely pleasant to me as long as I'm in the right mood and have something interesting to focus on.

i actually find this true, too. i’m dependent on nicotine lozenges and if i’m out and about and for some reason i don’t have my nicotine, i feel pretty locked in and focused on the task at hand (probably so i can hurry up and finish and access some nicotine). i often feel a bit chatty, too. maybe i haven’t tried being off it long enough to feel irritable. but this interesting headspace makes me optimistic that maybe quitting won’t be so bad, and that maybe the nicotine is somehow depressing my arousal and i’d be better without it (all the time).
by griffzhowl | 2025-11-19 13:35:43+00:00
> the energy flow across the crust is ~0.1W/m^2

It's a misleading comparison. This is only the average amount of heat that diffuses through an ordinary patch of surface, and has more or less nothing to do with how a geothermal plant works, since they don't harvest heat by covering a large area of surface with conducting material.

The surface heat flow is low because rock acts as an insulator. If you drill down to where it's hot and draw the heat up you obviously get orders of magnitude larger flows of energy to the surface.
by merobin_hood | 2025-11-19 13:36:15+00:00
If you want to experience the Amiga ecosystem in 2025 without touching hardware, the easiest path is:

WinUAE (Windows) or FS-UAE (Mac/Linux) — great defaults, easy setup

Install Workbench 1.3 or 3.1 plus: Directory Opus, Diskmaster, WHDLoad

Use curated packs like Workbench 3.X ClassicWB so you don’t have to configure everything manually

For games, WHDLoad bundles are a massive quality-of-life improvement over floppy juggling

You’ll get 90% of the “Amiga feel” without hunting vintage hardware.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-19 13:36:34+00:00
Considering how much of modern software is written in JavaScript and python, I have a hard time seeing how lisp overhead would pose much of a problem. Erlang is good enough for telecom equipment for 30 years ago, so that also gives us a data point.

If entertain the idea that the Von Neuman architecture may be a local maxima, then we can do even better; lisp machines had specialized instructions for lisp which allowed it to run at competitive performance to a normal programming language.

The issue doesn't seem to be performance; it seems to still come down to being too eccentric for a lot of use-cases, and difficult to many humans to grasp.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
by conartist6 | 2025-11-19 13:37:00+00:00
Well, you should!

This could also be a guide for how to win elections. But it's a huge undertaking. Learning their mythology and being dispassionately conversant in it is not easy. To completely erase your ego and work only in pursuit of manipulation... Well, it's no surprise to me that it's a job, and that they aren't trying to do it on their own families. It's not clear you should try to do that to your own family.

But to win elections, we do have to reach across to people who are conditioned a certain way, and to do that you'll need to know yourself very well, especially your relationship to the forces that condition you
by jrm4 | 2025-11-19 13:37:10+00:00
Feels like a lot of y'alls feelings are getting in the way of what I was saying here. Slow down and read carefully. You all should try thinking about this in perhaps Venn diagrams or something.

There are Black people on Mastodon, myself included. In my interactions with them, to me, it appears as of the (very tiny) subset of Black folks who are also on Mastodon, I have observed and interacted with them on views and issues about the world.

Presuming, for example, they vote - we would vote similarly. We would support the same causes, we would likely react similarly to things in real life -- and yet...etc see above.

Point being, it's not like I was in with like Black MAGA or some other group who I'd be unlikely to associate.
by cyanydeez | 2025-11-19 13:37:20+00:00
Its a illogical theory, even if practiced in good faith.

Just because the market pays for one activity does not mean ots externalitirs are equally solvedby the matkets valuation.

From basic physics, its akin to saying you can drop a vase and return it to predropped state with equal effort.

Entropy alone prevents EA.
by unconed | 2025-11-19 13:37:46+00:00
The solution to seeing more Bret Victor-ish tooling is for people to rediscover how to build the kind of apps that were commonplace on the desktop but which have become a very rare art in the cloud era.

Direct manipulation of objects in a shared workspace, instant undo/redo, trivial batch editing, easy duplication and backup, ... all things you can't do with your average SaaS and which most developers would revolt for if they'd had to do their own work without them.
by benmmurphy | 2025-11-19 13:38:07+00:00
the gateway endpoints are free (s3 + dynamodb?), but the service endpoints are charged so that could be a reason why people don't use the service endpoints. but there doesn't seem to be a good reason for not using the service gateways. it also seems crazy that AWS charges you to connect to their own services without a public ip. also, i guess this would be less of an issue (in terms of requiring a public ip) if all of AWS services were available over ipv6. because then you would not need NAT gateways to connect to AWS services when you don't have a public ipv4 ip and I assume you are not getting these special traffic charges when connecting to the AWS services with a public ipv6 address.
by fwip | 2025-11-19 13:38:09+00:00
There's a lot of difference between the planet ending in 4 billion years, and widespread famine in the next 100 years.

It's sort of similar to somebody saying "hey, you're bleeding really bad, maybe we should get you to a hospital," and them rejoining with "nobody lives forever." Cool if you think you're action movie star, but stupid in real life.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-19 13:38:39+00:00
Mission accomplished for Simon:

> Truth be told, I’m playing the long game here. All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple AI labs into investing vast resources to cheat at my benchmark until I get one.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-...
by stockresearcher | 2025-11-19 13:38:55+00:00
> Altman taking OpenAI public to get it into the SP500

There are eligibility requirements to meet before a stock can even be considered for inclusion into the SP500, and it’s hard to see how OpenAI, if they ever get into the situation where they need a public bag holder, could pull off another restructuring and then seasoning before the whole world realizes what’s going on.

Be wary. Pay attention. But don’t lose any sleep over it.
by X-Ryl669 | 2025-11-19 13:39:38+00:00
I don't get why you process the whole connector board at once. If I understand correctly, you're connecting individual & identic boards to your board. So each connector on you giant board is actually dealing a bunch of small board right?

In that case, can't you exploit the inherent symmetry in the design here to only route a quarter of your connectors and then mirror/rotate the result for the other one? Or, if you have a X*X matrix, route one size minus the corners and replicate to the other sides?

Also, with such a huge connection board, it smells a NIH issue here. I think you'd better serialize the IO to a bus (whatever) and few lines and perform the connection in software (in a GoWin FPGA for example, both extremely cheap and quite powerful). Just think of the harness you'll need to build to fit the connectors in. The obvious routing bugs, and so on. Any maintenance will be a nightmare, if you need to swap 2 pins on a connector or re-run the routing.