MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hamasho | 2025-11-09 22:47:53+00:00
I fear sharing code for a different reason. I'm a perfectionist with tendency toward procrastination and anxiety, and sometimes I overestimate my abilities. So when I submit a PR, I want to make sure the code is clean, well organized, and covers all corner cases and hidden feature details. This works well most of the time. I put effort to think about design, structure, and implementation more than coworkers. And after a decade of experience I can code quickly for tedious tasks.

But sometimes, when implementing non-trivial features, I struggle to come up with good implementation. This prevents submitting working code early. And when I feel I'm delayed, my anxiety kicks in, and I have this urge to implement cleaner code and more features than expected even though all of my coworkers just want working code. And I feel more pressure, more urge to implement well, more anxiety, but it makes me procrastinate (I'm working from home so I can just lie down on the bed when I'm depressed). Sometimes I manage to implement, sometimes I give up and the feature is not implemented or assigned to a coworker. But in few cases I end up with severe depression, stop functioning, and finally quit the job.

I can handle this better than before after making same mistakes again and again, but still happens sometimes.
by jamal-kumar | 2025-11-09 22:48:16+00:00
Yeah Bresseloff is the man. Def check his work out, Ralph Abrams passed away recently (RIP) but he definitely had some words to say about all this stuff too, used to talk a lot with Mckenna and the unfortunate crank Sheldrake in trialogues which are fun reading if you got a mind open to that kind of thing

https://bressloff.github.io/index.html

Some other links - not only how the cortex got its stripes but how the leopard got its spots. You see alot of this math in psychedelic visuals now (Reaction-diffusion networks etc)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5056826/

https://plus.maths.org/content/how-leopard-got-its-spots
by abound | 2025-11-09 22:48:39+00:00
I'm building a small rural ISP and web hosting service, as a way to learn about low-level networking stuff. I've got an ASN + IP space, and am working out the details with a colo, local fiber provider, and some upstreams. Right now I'm configuring the hardware itself (server, router, switch, etc) and learning all the bits and bobs (Proxmox, BGP, OPNsense, IXPs, etc)
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-09 22:48:42+00:00
I think another way to say this is that some people see laws as one layer in a stack of principles of varying degrees of generality, and believe that it makes sense to oppose a policy at more specific layer if it conflicts with a more basic principle at a deeper layer. Others see laws as just arbitrary dictates: you follow the law or you don't, and that's it, the law doesn't represent or instantiate any principles or ideals, it just is what it is.

I'm not sure the distinction here maps cleanly onto a left/right political axis though. People on the right also think that stuff like refusing to serve gay people or (at least in the past) standing in a schoolhouse door to block racial integration constitutes a form of legitimate resistance or protest against unjust laws. And there are certainly those on the right who believe that certain acts are okay (or more okay) when done by certain people (e.g., the homeless, oppressed racial/ethnic groups).

It does seem to just come down to different views of what principles are in that stack and what the priority ranking is. An obvious case is that many on the right would give certain tenets a central, foundational status on religious grounds, whereas it's increasingly the case on the left that religion isn't considered a legitimate basis for public policy. And in fact, the divide is even deeper, since many on the left consider that secular perspective itself central and foundational --- one side thinks certain things should be illegal because religion says so, while the other side considers it wrong for the law to even take account of what religion says.

In light of this what I find frustrating is that so many of those on the left (especially those holding political office) are unwilling to turn against those institutions themselves on the same grounds, namely that the institutions are subverting and impeding more basic ideals of freedom and justice. Democratic politicians shouldn't be arguing about this or that Supreme Court decision or what this or that Senator did or didn't do; they should be arguing that the Supreme Court and the US Senate are undemocratic institutions and should be swept away entirely, along with a good bit of other governmental cruft, in the furtherance of the root goals of democracy and equality.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-09 22:48:46+00:00
One-based is not better for iterating backwards.

Zero-based indexing is naturally coupled with using only half-open ranges.

When using zero-based indexing and half-open ranges, accessing an array forwards, backwards or circularly is equally easy.

In this case you can also do like in the language Icon, where non-negative indices access the array forwards, while negative indices access the array backwards (i.e. -1 is the index of the last element of the array, while 0 is the index of the first element).

In languages lacking the Icon feature, you just have to explicitly add the length of the array to the negative index.

There is absolutely no reason to distinguish offsets and indices. The less distinct kinds of things you need to keep in mind, the less chances for errors from using the wrong thing. Therefore one should not add extra kinds of things in a programming language, unless there is a real need for them.

There are things that are missing from most languages and which are needed, e.g. separate types for signed integers, unsigned integers, modular numbers, bit strings and binary polynomials (instead of using ambiguous unsigned integers for all the 4 latter types, which prevents the detection of dangerous errors, e.g. unsigned overflow), but distinguishing offsets from indices is not a useful thing.

Distinguishing offsets and indices would be useful only if the set of operations applicable to them would be different. However this is not true, because the main reason for using indices is to be able to apply arithmetic operations to them. Otherwise, you would not use numbers for indexing, but names, i.e. you would not use arrays, but structures (or hash tables, when the names used for access are not known at compile time).
by blazingbanana | 2025-11-09 22:48:48+00:00
Very cool, will be using this.

Would suggest that you filter out any radio stations where the URL isn't working if possible.

For example I filtered down to "United Kingdom" and then "bass" - 3 of the 6 worked and would rather see ones that are active.

Also if possible to apply the country filter within the search bar, took me a second to realise I had to open the filter for country, select that, then go back to my search.

When clearing my search of "Bass" in the example above, it reset the search to default (didn't have my country filter) even though the filter was still applied when opening the filter section.

Super easy interface to use though, really well done.
by deepakrb | 2025-11-09 22:48:59+00:00
I’m working on https://regularly.co/ - A website made for inquisitive minds to get their daily puzzle fix. Still very much a WIP (mainly working on tuning the difficulty of puzzles to make it enjoyable for most). That being said I really do enjoy the unique combination of puzzles when I do them each day. I’m looking for feedback so if you do take a look please do let me know your thoughts!
by tialaramex | 2025-11-09 22:50:01+00:00
Gaslighting is their whole thing. Lying about absolutely everything means gradually ordinary people have no idea that facts are true or even what could distinguish a fact from an opinion.

This only stops working when it bumps into Mother Nature's laws rather than man's laws, so that's what you have to focus on with these people. It's brutal but it's entirely impartial, they can tell Fox News that black is white and up is down, but Ma doesn't give a shit, and they hate that. Who does she think she is?
by Fwirt | 2025-11-09 22:50:15+00:00
See my other reply, when people count energy costs they fail to take into account the existing sunk cost of producing said resources, and the energy from having to build out new infrastructure to create these “more efficient” datacenters.

It’s like when people replace their fridge with a “more efficient” one and wipe out any energy savings with the cost of the new fridge. The difference in energy use will not pay for the new fridge for many years and by then you’ve already replaced the new fridge with another newer “better” one.
by syndacks | 2025-11-09 22:50:32+00:00
I've been building SageNet, a voice-first AI coach that turns your goals into structured, adaptive learning plans.

After a 2-minute voice conversation, Sage generates a personalized 6-module roadmap with build-first projects. It checks in by voice, analyzes your reflections, and regenerates your plan if needed. You can invite friends to your Support Squad for accountability.

The biggest insight so far is people don’t want “infinite content.” They want structure and someone who remembers them.

would love feedback!

http://sagenet.club
by jleyank | 2025-11-09 22:50:49+00:00
The us milirary, independent of the shutdown, should be able to send food from their larger bases in the states to their bases overseas…. Or are they all busy off South America? They’re right, sponging off the host country paints a bad picture.

Or, us food donation agencies should be picked up by air transport etc. People should help out rather than forget the folks over there.
by saulpw | 2025-11-09 22:51:04+00:00
The reason C beats Forth is code-sharing. Forth is a better language and system on its own, but it's difficult to standardize for reasons both technical and cultural. So if you write some really wonderful code in Forth to, say, decompress a bytestream, another Forth programmer is unlikely to be able to use that code without substantial modification. So Forth becomes either a single-person or a small-team system at best. Larger teams can't grow (in part because onboarding to your particular Forth system is a non-standard process), and especially cross-pollination between teams and companies is not possible.
by zeroq | 2025-11-09 22:51:40+00:00
The main reason it has this "calming" feature is because it's imperfect. By averaging different, sometimes incompatible font faces the result looks like a letter pressed on a soft paper, with all it's natural imperfections. It looks real.

Somehow I was not aware of Averia and used Old Timey for exact same reasons in the past.

On the other hand, someone here mentioned "Lato", which to me looks exactly how two robots would write holiday postcards to each other.
by bickeringyokel | 2025-11-09 22:52:03+00:00
This comments spot on. Coming from a guy that used to do mobile professionally as a one man show where the company had multiple apps and multiple stacks. I had the least pain from the ionic stack which I guess is a happy middle ground, but even then there's always some new app store requirement changes to adhere that's almost a full-time job in itself.
by johnfn | 2025-11-09 22:52:18+00:00
Literally no one reads your code. No one! Not other engineers, not annoyed people on HN, not even people for whom it would probably be a pretty good idea. There is a common misconception that published code can build your portfolio; this is basically entirely false. I've had conversations like this:

Recruiter: "We want you to do a take home so we can get a sense of how well you can code."

Me: "I have a repo on Github with 10M downloads, 10k stars, and about 50k lines of my own code. Would that be useful to make an assessment?"

Recruiter: "Haha, no. Please do this take home that has you render a few divs in a tedious way."

So if people who are even financially incentivized to read your code don't do it, I'd say that the chances of anyone reading your code is virtually nil.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-09 22:52:18+00:00
> Even when Obama was president and had both houses of congress, I don’t recall headlines about ‘far left’ stuff.

You mean the same Obama whose signature legislative accomplishment was passing a healthcare reform law modeled on a proposal originally made by the insurance industry and embraced by the Republican Party as an alternative to the proposed Clinton healthcare reform?

Yeah, there's a reason that there wasn't much talk about the "far left" except from very openly right-wing partisan sources.
by acdha | 2025-11-09 22:52:21+00:00
They announced grassroots donations for 10% of the total. That’s good, but still short of where it should be for something so popular.

I think of it like crime or natural disaster: a PyPI compromise could easily cause economic damages on the order of a bad storm or small terrorist attack. Collectively we spend billions trying to mitigate those societally rather than telling each person to defend themselves, and this feels like the same idea adapted to a different context.
by foldr | 2025-11-09 22:52:54+00:00
So does this:

https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-stan...

It’s quite a fun game to match every accusation of BBC bias with its exact opposite. That’s not to say that BBC reporting is perfect and that no individual criticisms are valid. But the BBC simply could not report on Israel/Palestine at all without being accused of bias in all directions. Show me the media organization whose reporting on this issue is agreed to be unbiased by all relevant parties.

(Also little ironic to link to a Telegraph article, of all things, while complaining about media bias. On anyone’s analysis, the Telegraph is a vastly more partisan media organization than the BBC.)
by emaadm | 2025-11-09 22:52:57+00:00
Stopping Agents [1] - LLM agents that stop conversations early and save time.

Because they're trained using imitation learning instead of RL, they're scalable and easy to deploy with your own data (also open-source!).

Mainly targeted at and tested on quickly disqualifying prospects in sales calls, but can be applied more broadly.

[1] https://stoppingagents.com
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-09 22:53:05+00:00
> great sound chip, and some amazing composers.

I understand it as more of the latter than the former.

Hardware might not have been great, but they were dedicated to push it to the extreme limits of what it could do, and all of it was punching way above its weight in all respects.

Japanese companies saw an opening, and extremely brilliant people went in head first, sleeping under their desk to leave their mark in the field.
by quinto_quarto | 2025-11-09 22:53:16+00:00
I'm a writer, non technical, and I'm building Eyeball - https://tryeyeball.com/

Eyeball is a bookmarks app that turns your own saved links into hyper-personalized playlists. It's like having a personal curator in your pocket that sends you a weekly issue of your own personal "magazine" on Sundays.
by josephcsible | 2025-11-09 22:53:45+00:00
> Thanks to unions we have things like 8 hours work day, it used to be 16 hours during 19th century. Thanks to unions we have things like job safety so industrial machinery won't rip you apart. Thanks to unions, company will give you tools for doing your job. I can go on and on.

This is the March of Dimes syndrome. Unions had noble goals at first, which they've fully accomplished (things like occupational safety rules are now the law for all employees, union or non-union), so they no longer have any useful purpose and their continued existence is now a net negative.
by cbare | 2025-11-09 22:53:52+00:00
It's very plausible that anxiety causes heart disease, anxiety causes insomnia, and insomnia leads people to use melatonin. Same with diphenhydramine, overactive inflammatory response causes allergies, allergic people take allergy meds, and too much inflammation contributes to dementia.

Association studies too easily get interpreted as X causes Y. Maybe that's true, but not necessarily.
by drob518 | 2025-11-09 22:53:56+00:00
We’re hitting that point in time when key figures in the history of early computing are starting to leave us. It’s nice to see these early applications preserved. If we can get this code off old disks and tapes and into modern cloud-based repositories, with open source licenses, we might be able to enjoy these programs for a long time, whether for actual amusement or just historical significance. The digital age is both a blessing and a curse in that so much information can be moved around so easily, but a lot of it is locked away on obsolete media that will eventually decay.
by blazingbanana | 2025-11-09 22:54:46+00:00
Ahhh this is exactly what I'm looking for! I don't see any pricing on any pages. Would love to know how much this costs (I don't know what 455 diamonds is worth) as there's a few sprites that I'd love to animate and use in my app.

Not a fan of signing up before seeing how much I'd have to pay. The examples look great though.
by tiagoTedSky | 2025-11-09 22:54:50+00:00
I’m building Cozy Watch, a macOS app that brings GitHub notifications straight to your desktop.

It tracks pull requests, CI results, and mentions in real time — so you know when you’re needed without checking GitHub or digging through emails.

It has a menu bar for quick access and a clean desktop UI for more detail.

https://www.cozywatch.com
by dkdcio | 2025-11-09 22:55:26+00:00
my point is using AI is distinct from from the quality of blog posts. these frequent baseless, distracting claims of AI use are silly

this wager is a thought exercise to demonstrate that. want to wager $1,000,000 or think you’ll lose? if you’ll lose, why is it ok to go around writing “YoU uSeD aI” instead of actually assessing the quality of a post?
by shrubble | 2025-11-09 22:56:12+00:00
If you’re near Pittsburgh the Large Scale Systems Museum is definitely worth a visit. Working PDP11, VAXes, SGI, IBM midrange and mainframe systems can be booted up and used.

The second floor has smaller micros and Macs; not sure if there’s a working NeXT machine or not.

https://lssmuseum.org/
by a24j | 2025-11-09 22:56:21+00:00
You said:

> Surely this would be indicated by a glut of unfilled job postings.

I posted a link about Ghost jobs. Then, you said:

>[...]it is a job posting an employer has no intention of filling to begin with.

GP' comment speaks to recent graduates feeling less engaged. Whether it's because they fail to meet the requirements, or the requirements are literally fake doesn't matter. AI isn't used simply to cheat on coursework, but also to erect a de facto glass ceiling viz fake jobs with fake requirements, engagement suffers.
by pcrh | 2025-11-09 22:56:23+00:00
The one consolation is that these efforts in vanity are unlikely to have broader impacts.

Selecting embryos to avoid a known deleterious allele/gene is easily done, and without any harm. Similarly, one can choose blonde hair or blue eyes, etc. However, this is less reliable as too many different genes contribute to these traits, e.g. approximately 16 genes are involved in eye color alone.

Consider an attempt to select 5 different genes each simply available in a "good" or "bad" form in both the parents, and which are randomly contributed to an embryo. Statistically, you would need to screen 97 embryos to get one single embryo that has the optimal combination.

IVF typically transplants 2 or 3 embryos per cycle, so you need 200-300 embryos to get your chosen combination of only 5 genes. A typical woman will produce 3-400 eggs in her lifetime.

So, optimal genetic selection of embryos will not be a major thing any time soon. Those paying for it are deluded.

CRISPR editing of embryos is even more complex and less likely to succeed that the simple screening of embryos described above.

If you want to optimize the genetics of offspring, it's far, far, easier to choose the parents than to engineer the embryos.
by huijzer | 2025-11-09 22:56:23+00:00
Well luckily according to Bill Gates the climate is not really an issue anymore [1]:

> There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:

> In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.

> Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise.

Note that this is from someone who used to be one of the most focal "doomsday viewers", see for example [2] or [3].

[1]: https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three...

[2]: https://youtu.be/rhNxDp8e7p8

[3]: https://youtu.be/zrM1mcKmX_c
by amacalac | 2025-11-09 22:56:24+00:00
Show value in as little steps as possible.

If it needs access to my real system data, tell me why, and guide me through the all steps I need to complete to set it up.

Write out every step. Make it obvious. Come back to your instructions the next day and make them simpler, and more obvious.

Have as few steps as possible.

Time to value is key here.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-09 22:57:00+00:00
Sorry I was THAT child in school. While I now definitely have some technical knowledge, 10-year-old me, definitely wasn't that smart.

This is just not true. LibreOffice is way easier to understand as a child, since all the functionality is available and discoverable as a menu/tree structure, as opposed to the toolbar mess of MSOffice. That might be useful for professionals, but when you are a child, the unpredictability of these ribbons is just confusing. I just want to format this thing. Click on it. Search the ribbon for the thing. It's not there. Click slightly differently. Now the ribbon header changed. Click that back. Where is it? Still not there. Shit, how do I do that? Describe it in the browser. I have no clue, how anything is called. When I happen to find something, everything is in some foreign language where I can only say "apple" and "house" in. Also there are tons of advertisements and useless whitespace everywhere.

Screw it, I am just opening Notepad (because Notepad++ is not installed and I will only figure out how to use portable programs from an USB stick in 2.5years) do some drafts and finish it at home with a sane office program. In LibreOffice at home, I can find the functionality I need independent of finding out how I need to click on the item to apply it. Also when I click on something, on the left there is a property window open, which lists all the basic properties I can change.

MSOffice has moat for professionals who already know how to use it. It is not friendly for children who have never used a word processor.

Converting MSOffice documents to LibreOffice is not that hard, especially as a child, since my mates also have not used a word processor for decades, and have not used fancy formatting. And then you come around the corner with a poster designed in Scribus. They are all like: what you can do that? And guess with whom, people want to be in a group for a presentation, and who people will trust when you tell them to please save it in this format?
by Razengan | 2025-11-09 22:57:29+00:00
There's other out-there ideas that I don't remember seeing elsewhere and I don't know what made me think of them, but I definitely want to try:

For example, let's call it "environments" or "event scopes": If a game entity (class) is in a certain environment/scope, that environment can trap/intercept all events/signals sent to/from that entity.

I'm not yet sure how exactly it would work/look, but I feel like it could be useful for easily implementing complex RPG-like conditions like: "Hitting {purple} {orcs} with this sword on a {Tuesday} night with a {full moon} deals +42 damage"

So none of the base objects need to know about that condition, but the "environment/scope" could impose or "overlay" extra conditions on every event passing through it..