MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trollbridge | 2025-11-22 11:58:09+00:00
I stopped caring about my favourite sports teams approximately 10 years ago, and now that I have kids, I probably won't ever take them to a pro game, and they'll probably grow up barely knowing what they are. They're completely cannibalised any kind of future for themselves, because I'm not the only person I know who's done this.

My friend who were big time fans of a certain Southern California team also completely abandoned an interest in sports when the team moved to LA. I asked one buddy what he did with his season tickets. "Burned 'em." He also used to put $1,000 every year on the team winning the Super Bowl. My other buddy threw all his fan stuff like a jersey in the rubbish.
by eviks | 2025-11-22 11:58:31+00:00
> They will not take responsibility for their actions, and they will not compensate you for the damage they caused. They will just offer you a small amount of money and hope that you will forget about it.

Paying for a wrongful action is taking reponsibility and compensating. But also "for the damage they caused" - what's the damage if the info is already out there?

> The basic problem is that they do not care about us.

True, of course, but the basic problem is different - "apology" costs more due to the way the legal system is set up, "nothing more". Otherwise you'd get your empty apologies left and right, though strang that you value that more than compensation. Empty words cost even less than $30 (unless, of course, there is a system to make them legally potentially cost more)
by aragilar | 2025-11-22 11:58:44+00:00
And astronomy tends to throw up technology that becomes widely used (WiFi being the obvious example) or becomes of "interest" to governments. I expect that AMR code will be used/ported to nuclear simulations if it proves to be useful. Do I expect it to be used in a CRUD app? Obviously not, but use by most software shops isn't a measure of importance.
by ArcHound | 2025-11-22 12:00:08+00:00
The issue is, that your personal info is valuable to only you. It also doesn't reflect character worth or personal worth.

That's how people gave their privacy away to apps - they've realized this is the best deal they can get for it. Conversely, when the court tries to estimate what is the financial impact of such a leak, there's not much to base it off.

I've just finished The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and it's ridiculous how Google et Al were able to profit from these scraps we gave them. So maybe the value could be higher?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-22 12:00:12+00:00
There's a separate Veblen positioning, and Apple own it.

Same with personal matchmakers for high net worth individuals. They charge tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

They're not necessarily any better at match making. But the users are paying a lot of money to reassure themselves of their superior status. And to filter out some of the more obvious riffraff.

In fact, a huge driver of practical pricing is narcissism. You're either selling it as a service ("luxury branding") or using it as lever to cynically extract money from those you consider inferiors. (Most corporates.)

Or both.

"More for less" and enshittification are both driven by narcissistic greed and devaluation of customers.

Some businesses start out like this. Some start out with good intentions. But generally once you get past a certain size many businesses become a competitive sociopath farm, with more and more sociopathy the higher you go.

Most internal and external interactions becomes an expression of dysfunctional values where the object of the exercise is to assert superior status and power and to deny quality service.
by wonger_ | 2025-11-22 12:00:15+00:00
Not quite, but I think there's a lot of overlap between ADHD and autism, and that the labels are becoming increasingly blurry.

The final paragraph touched on it:

> It is, I think, too early to say with any confidence that autism and ADHD (or KCS) share a common root in monotropism, but the overlapping traits of the people receiving each label clearly demand some kind of explanation, and preliminary results do suggest that each is strongly correlated with monotropism – especially in combination.

Also, a definition of monotropism from their homepage (not my writing):

> I believe that the best way to understand autistic minds is in terms of a thinking style which tends to concentrate resources in a few interests and concerns at any time, rather than distributing them widely. This style of processing, monotropism, explains many features of autistic experience that may initially seem puzzling, and shows how they are connected.
by Xss3 | 2025-11-22 12:00:34+00:00
Em dashes are still appropriate for articles, journals, scientific papers, and other academic or professional writing.

In social media comments they came across as pompous even before LLMs and werent particularly appropriate for casual comments.

Though to be fair some people enjoy coming across as pompous and embrace the 'better than the peasants and their lowly minus sign use' attitude. Makes them feel special or as if their writing is markedly better than those without fancy punctuation. (It isnt).

Also yes, im describing two writers i know that are adamant about the em dash being 'a sign of an intellectual wtiter'...they are insufferable pricks.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 12:03:35+00:00
A huge chunk of that is national parks and deserts. It's not all inhabited. Only about 25% is classified as urban with the overwhelming majority of that being concentrated in Los Angeles and it's surrounding cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles#Urban_area...

This isn't a size measuring contest. I think Europeans forget how _young_ America is. That's the only unique part of this country. Give us a few thousand years and we'll be on par.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-11-22 12:04:12+00:00
Back up here:

>"I care (though not for something whose creators are long since dead and whom you can't support any more)."

>"I think it's immoral"

King Herod makes the Kill Babies Act and now you consider it immoral not to kill babies?

You justified copyright by suggesting it was about supporting creators. So you at least consider the moral justification to end at the creators death?

It just really interests me how copyright terms which were grown purely to support corporations so they wouldn't have to be creative (read that as would but need to employ people, or pay people for creativity) can have people figuratively clutching pearls.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-22 12:05:01+00:00
>Is there anything that annoys you about your current workplace? Not just compensation, but really anything at all.

Yes, of course, I'm human! But the things that mostly annoy me are the other 20 employees, not "the system".

And the little things that bother me, if it were too bad I would try and fix it or move on. I don't see how a Union helps, I suppose you assume that we all have the same annoyances and we band together.

The problem is we are all smart enough to realize how good we have it actually, and nobody wants to rock that boat.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-11-22 12:06:49+00:00
>"To assess the interpretability of our models, we isolate the small sparse circuits that our models use to perform each task using a novel pruning method. Since interpretable models should be easy to untangle, individual behaviors should be implemented by compact standalone circuits.

Sparse circuits are defined as a set of nodes connected by edges."

...which could also be considered/viewed as Graphs...

(Then from earlier in the paper):

>"We train models to have more understandable circuits by constraining most of their weights to be zeros, so that each neuron only has a few connections. To recover fine-grained circuits underlying each of several hand-crafted tasks, we prune the models to isolate the part responsible for the task. These circuits often contain neurons and residual channels that correspond to natural concepts, with a small number of straightforwardly interpretable connections between them.

And (jumping around a bit more in the paper):

>"A major difficulty for interpreting transformers is that the activations and weights are not directly comprehensible; for example, neurons activate in unpredictable patterns that don’t correspond to human-understandable concepts. One hypothesized cause is superposition (Elhage et al., 2022b), the idea that dense models are an approximation to the computations of a much larger untangled sparse network."

A very interesting paper -- and a very interesting postulated potential relationship with superposition! (which also could be related to data compression... and if so, in turn, by relationship, potentially entropy as well...)

Anyway, great paper!
by fweimer | 2025-11-22 12:07:05+00:00
It's more surprising to me that software isn't portable enough that you can develop locally on x86-64. And then have a proper pipeline that produces the official binaries.

Outside the embedded space, cross-compilation really is a fool's errand: either your software is not portable (which means it's not future-proof), or you are targeting an architecture that is not commercially viable.
by bragh | 2025-11-22 12:07:52+00:00
It wasn't a few months, it was a few years of back-and-forth political and corporate shenanigans with a new narrative every few months that the $CURRENT_THING crowd happily ran along with.

January 2020: there is nothing to afraid of, the new disease is mostly harmless and affects only the elderly and immunocompromised. Closing down borders is xenophobic. March 2020: do not go outside unless critically necessary and if you violate the rules, we will severely punish you May 2020: it's fine to have large public gatherings for BLM protests.

February 2020: masks do nothing and actually are harmful unless you are trained to use a mask, do not buy any masks. April 2020: wear a mask if you go outside, or you kill everybody else. Your own fault that you don't have a mask.

Summer of 2020: look, it's actually so great that we are all working remotely now, the nature is healing, all the emissions are so much reduced, this is the new future! Summer of 2023: everybody back to the office, real estate is suffering. People who joined during COVID time? Your contract is now altered, pray we do not alter it any further.

The promises around vaccines, printing money and "loans for struggling businesses" are even more stories of their own. Beats me why after a few years of these kind of shenanigans people would generally get tired of other people.
by mold_aid | 2025-11-22 12:08:03+00:00
No seemed pretty easy to read to me.

>It's not trying to portray facts

So what? It's a story about an interview.

The story quotes directly from the interview. I watched the interview, and the characterization is accurate. Here's a passage:

Newton: (interjecting) You don’t think you have a problem with predators on the platform.

Baszucki: I think we’re doing an incredible job at innovating relative to the number of people on our platform and the hours, in really leaning into the future of how this is going to work.

>it's clearly trying to make the reader interpret the situation in an anti-roblox light

Yes, I would imagine the thing described as a "pedophile hellscape" should look pretty bad to the average reader. But just so I'm getting this right: the thing you're maddest about is the bad PR for Roblox?
Warp Terminal Doing a Pricing Shock for Canadian Users – 10× Increase on Credits
by osmosismartini | 2025-11-22 12:08:11+00:00
I used to pay $220 USD for 50,000 credits. That was entirely reasonable for my usage.

Today I noticed something different: I was charged $33 USD for 1,041 credits. For context, I can burn through the 1,500-credit / $20 package in a single day, so these numbers matter.

Breaking it down: • 50,000 ÷ 1,041 ≈ 48.03 • 48 × $33 USD = $1,584 USD • Converted, that’s roughly $2,060 CAD

So the same volume that was previously $220 USD is now effectively 10× the cost.

I’m not sure what assumptions or models justify this tier for Canadian individual users, but this is the kind of pricing that pushes non-enterprise customers away. I’d maybe tolerate $300 for 50k credits, but a 10× jump is simply not viable.

At this point I’ll be waiting for a competitor. Curious if other Canadian users are seeing the same multiplier or if this is an early-stage rollout glitch.
by cpfohl | 2025-11-22 12:08:23+00:00
Class actions like this are opt in; by accepting the settlement you accepted the terms and lost your right to sue for a different (more appropriate to you) value.

Planet money did a a great segment on how these work and why America is set up this way. I learned a lot about it. You should definitely take a listen[1]. If you aren’t on Apple then search “What to do when you’re in a class action?” And find the podcast (not the summary article).

1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...
by zamadatix | 2025-11-22 12:08:34+00:00
The firewall provides the stateful one way door, the router moves packets between the set of subnets it can see, and NAT makes it so things on the public internet think the conversations from one private address+port combo are actually coming from another public address.

The last part isn't adding the security, and you can absolutely NAT without preventing the "outside" subnets from being allowed to route to the "inside" subnet, it's just that NAT is almost always done on the box providing the stateful firewall too so people tend to think of the 3 functions as combined in concept as well.
by znpy | 2025-11-22 12:09:08+00:00
> What's different about this qualcomm laptop that makes it inappropriate?

Everything else around the cpu. apple systems are entirely co-designed (cpu to work with the rest of the components and everything together to work with mac os).

While i'd love to see macbook-level quality on other brands (looking at you, lenovo) tight hardware+software co-design (and co-development) yields much better results.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-22 12:09:26+00:00
> the brain itself could become a battlefield

That echoes me of one of my favorite games, and I think the intro is funny enough to be worth sharing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpVWggFz_D4

____

For those who dislike video:

> "The human mind: Six hundred miles of synaptic fiber, five and a half ounces of cranial fluid, fifteen hundred grams of complex neural matter... A three pound pile of dreams."

> "...But I'll tell you what it really is. It is the ultimate battlefield--and, the ultimate weapon. The wars of this modern age--The Psychic Age-- are all fought somewhere between these damp, ... curvaceous undulations."

-- Coach Oleander, Paychonauts
by OakNinja | 2025-11-22 12:09:36+00:00
It’s interesting how you end up being a part of the current trends whether you know it or not.

I actually set up a blog on the 15th. No real content yet but I’ve almost written a first real post. Seeing this made me chuckle - I thought _I_ had an original thought around missing blogs but I’m obviously just a part of the hive mind. I truly hope this trend is here to stay.

I also want to share this video on the topic ”The reason no one has hobbies anymore”, it was shared by a podcast I was listening to the other day and I think it’s well worth watching. https://youtu.be/IUhGoNTF3FI
by mg | 2025-11-22 12:10:55+00:00
Fullcontrol looks interesting, thanks!

I just started 3D printing a few weeks ago. I already realized that I need to write my own CAD software. None of the existing ones are the way I want to design objects. That will probably take a few months. Then I will probably want to control the prints down to the gcode level and look into the situation then.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-22 12:12:50+00:00
> Without OpenGL being maintained, we are missing a critical “middle” drawing API.

OpenGL still works. You can set up an old-school glBegin()-glEnd() pipeline in as few as 10 lines of code, set up a camera and vertex transform, link in GLUT for some windowing, and you have the basic triangle/strip of triangles.

OpenGL is a fantastic way to introduce people to basic graphics programming. The really annoying part is textures, which can be gently abstracted over. However, at some point the abstractions will start to be either insufficient in terms of descriptive power, or inefficient, or leaky, and that's when advanced courses can go into Vulkan, CPU and then GPU-accelerated ray tracing, and more.
by ajuc | 2025-11-22 12:12:50+00:00
The way to prevent addiction is to help people before they get addicted (and/or become homeless).

What caused the opioid crisis? Doctors prescribing opioids for no good reason. Why wasn't it happening in EU? Because in EU doctors are paid and controlled by the taxpayers not by the industry. And because in EU doctors have free public education so they aren't 100 000 dollars in debt when they graduate.

Ok but opioids is one way people get addicted/homeless. Another is that they get sick and don't have coverage. Again - in a sane country they get public healthcare so they don't have to default and lose everything - so they have no reason to get addicted.

How about mental sickness? Early childhood is very important. Most EU countries have 6 months or more of mandatory paid maternity leave. On top of 20+ days of paid vacations yearly and unlimited paid health leave. Mandated by the state for all employees. If you don't take them - your company gets fined. HR people force you to take the days off.

Do you see how that would prevent a lot of mental illness/addiction/homelessness?

You can go through most problems in the US, and ultimately they are caused by the insane labour laws, healthcare, or education system.

And the funniest part is - you make all these sacrifices by not having a civilized welfare state, and you still end up paying more for healthcare (yes, including the taxes) and living shorter than people in the EU. You get addictions, homelessness, crime, shorter life spans, AND you pay more :)
by constantcrying | 2025-11-22 12:14:00+00:00
Maybe my perspective on Universities is quite different, but I don't understand the complaints of the author.

This is a public University, they likely outsource some of their IT and somewhere a data breach happened. This data breach apparently affected all employees and students/former students. The faceless "they" the author is blaming in all likelihood was effected more drastically than him.

The 30 dollars is not a payment for the data. It is a compensation for the damages, something which the author admits are likely zero, as previous data breaches already impacted him more drastically.

What should the university have done? 30 dollars seem reasonable for the damage caused.
by autoexec | 2025-11-22 12:14:46+00:00
> It is my opinion that, as with anything that can be copied infinitely for free, his (and my) personal information is worth $0.

This would include all software, every movie, song, book, photograph, and TV show available anywhere. I'm glad that the rest of society has decided to place the value of those types of things a little higher than you do.

The multi-billion dollar a year industry of buying and selling our most personal data only exists because that data isn't worthless. It's extremely valuable, even yours, and the fact that others are using it will end up costing you again and again throughout your life, often monetarily.
by nickjj | 2025-11-22 12:15:11+00:00
I'm not sure about this.

I've released a new post every week for 10 years straight.

My traffic in the last 2 years is worse than the first 2 years. At the blog's peak I was getting around 180k unique visitors a month for years.

I was able to build a whole business around selling tech courses and doing contract work for the last 10 years but now traffic is so little that this is no longer feasible (not even close).

Just looking at the numbers, it's very likely related to Google not sending as much traffic as they used to because they either inline my content on their search engine results or AI results are used now instead of people visiting individual sites.

I still do it because I enjoy the process and my main motivator was never money but at the same time you need to be able to sustain yourself too. It's a bummer to be honest.

On that note, a ton of great non-money related opportunities came my way due to posts I've written in the past so I won't be stopping. I hope these continue.
by standardUser | 2025-11-22 12:15:40+00:00
It kind of makes sense. We don't go out into the world thinking "ok, time to meet more my moms!". We can't treat anyone else like our mom, and vice versa. The mother-child relationship is probably the most important and influential for most people, but it's a complete anomaly. Friends are not an anomaly, their pretty typical, and since Mom and Dad are not friends, a young child has learned very little firsthand about friendship until it happens. Then they have some experiences with those friends and those experiences become better predictors of future attachment style than the dynamic with the mother. This makes sense because in the realm of friends, these are their formative experiences. Mom may have had an impact (and does according to the study), but the bigger influence on how you deal with future friends is in how you experienced your formative friends.
by epolanski | 2025-11-22 12:15:53+00:00
I don't understand arguments like "nobody can agree on what set theory is". This is not how mathematics work.

In mathematics labels are _not_ important, definitions are.

One simple example that everybody can relate to: do natural numbers include 0 or not? Who cares? Some definitions include it, some do not. There's even a convention of using N for N with 0, and N+ for excluding it, but even the convention is just a convention, not a definition. You could call them "funky numbers, the set of whole positive numbers including 0", and you're fine. Funky, natural, those are just names, labels, as long as you define them, it doesn't matter.

Same applies to set theory, there's many, many set theories, and they differ between properties, and this has never caused problems, because in mathematical discussion or literature...you provide or point to a definition. So you'll never discuss about "set theory" without providing one or pointing to one.

This is very, very different from how normal people waste their time.

E.g. arguing whether AI "thinks" or not, but never defining what thinking means, thus you can't even conclude whether you think or not, because it's never been defined.
by autoexec | 2025-11-22 12:17:48+00:00
> What should the university have done?

They should have not collected any more data than they needed, deleted the data they had the instant it wasn't absolutely required, and securely stored all data they truly had to retain. It really isn't that hard to do those things, it's just harder (and more expensive) than not giving a shit, but universities (and just about everyone else hoovering up your private data) just don't give a shit about you and they know they'll get away with it when their negligence/incompetence results in a breach.

The fact that in this instance the breach may have also impacted some of the same people who decided to be so massively irresponsible doesn't change anything.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-22 12:18:24+00:00
Wait, so is that "beta" of Half Life 2 VR a thing I can play? If it is, how did I not know about this, and if not... why not?

I'd also love to play Portal, actually. They say it makes you sick, but to my knowledge I'm immune from VR motion sickness, so worth a try...
by xbmcuser | 2025-11-22 12:18:27+00:00
I mentioned this previously in a thread about node sizes and got down voted for it, but I stand by my opinion: the rest of the world ie normal people need China to become competitive in chip manufacturing.

Without that competition, everyday consumers are going to get priced out of the market by major corporations. We have reached a point in CPU technology where newer tech is no longer automatically cheaper and faster to make; therefore, we need more competition to keep prices down.