MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-21 20:19:42+00:00
Edelman this week released a flash update to its highly influential Trust Barometer, showing Americans are deeply fearful and distrustful of the Trump administration's top domestic fixation: accelerating AI. Big majorities are pessimistic about the technology broadly, and super-anxious that robots will eat their jobs. The global poll found that younger people in the U.S. (18-34) are much more distrustful of AI than their counterparts elsewhere in the developed world. Edelman CEO Richard Edelman told us: "People might believe that AI is globalization 2.0 — that jobs will shift out of our country, and jobs will go to ... somebody younger or cheaper."
by cj | 2025-11-21 20:19:42+00:00
> stems from living a life that is not true to myself and due to countless failed attempts to be someone I cannot never be.

If this is their mindset, they might benefit from CBT more than medication.

I'm not against SSRI at all. But after taking them for a few months in my 20's, and experiencing how terrible the withdrawal symptoms are when stopping, I'd be very hesitant to ever start up on them again. I remember having to open up the lowest dose pill capsule and splitting the dose into very tiny increments to be able to wean off completely.
by rolph | 2025-11-21 20:20:27+00:00
decades ago, this scenario occured with a highschool hangaround.

he was drunk and high, came back from a party, actually broke in through his nieghbours door, 3 doors away, and encountered a 70 some year old cowering man who fearedfor life and safety, stabbed him and nearly killed him.

police closed the "case" and both parties charges were dismissed.

it would have been different if the door wasnt breached.

in the case in topic, it would have been different if both parties announced themselves, and cleaner took the hint from google map inconsistencies.

Even if a building, is suppossed to be empty, or unoccupied, Always confirm with your client you are at the right place, Announce Yourself, and avoid costly mistaken jobsite identification.

the blame goes all around here.

we have similar stand your ground laws where i am, and we call people, or call out while "walking up on someone"

we are also not allowed to carry on someone private property unless explicit, and enduring permission is given by the owner/controller of the property.
by mikece | 2025-11-21 20:20:49+00:00
Or there could be absolutely no force or coercion involved: the mutual desire for him to work and her to stay home and raise and homeschool could have been how they met in the first place. You're not going to find people wanting that life on Tinder or Hinge or whatever people use for finding one another these days but it's easy if you want that kind of life.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-21 20:20:49+00:00
The article assumes that engineers have the technical wherewithal to know when they should manually upgrade their dependencies!

Clearly I should have mentioned that Dependabot (and probably others) don't consider cooldown when suggesting security upgrades. That's documented here[1].

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-...
by shagie | 2025-11-21 20:20:50+00:00
In my sibling comment, I linked the chat session where I prompted ChatGPT for possible answers and reasoning.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6920b9e2-764c-8011-a14a-012e97573f...

Given the following riddle, identify the object to which it refers. # Chaos erupts around The shape moot The goal is key # Identify 10 different possible answers and identify the reasoning behind each guess and why it may or may not be correct.

The second item in the possible answers:

Soccer ball Why it fits: “Chaos erupts around”: Players cluster and scramble around the ball; wherever it goes, chaos follows. “The shape moot”: Modern footballs vary in panel design and surface texture, but they must all be broadly spherical; to the game itself, variations in cosmetic shape are mostly irrelevant. “The goal is key”: Everyone’s objective is to get the ball into the goal. Why it might not be correct: The third line emphasizes the goal, which points more strongly to the scoring structure or concept of scoring rather than the ball.
by procaryote | 2025-11-21 20:20:51+00:00
I often use picos because they're much more capable when it comes to interfacing with hardware.

You can do gpio, pwm etc from a linux pi but the hardware is worse at it and you'll be fighting against the system quite a bit. It's a lot of boring complexity to be allowed to do something simple; and the next update might break it.

If I need a linux system AND hardware interfacing, I'll usually use a regular pi + a pico for the hardware stuff and connect them via serial or something
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-11-21 20:20:56+00:00
Get thee to SimpleFIN https://www.simplefin.org/ecosystem.html

I think without sync with financial institutions it's going to be hard to grow a userbase.

But this is very cool software!

P.S.: I ctrl+f "encrypt" on your home page and no hits. It's banking / budget / money software, there should be a hit.
by sevensor | 2025-11-21 20:22:21+00:00
I’m sure these motivations do play out in some circles. However, every single homeschooler I know personally, and I know quite a few, does so because they want their children to have a very specific kind of religious education. Often the way this plays out is that they homeschool for a while, transition to a denominational school, and then depending on the family they may stay there or make a second transition to public school around 9th grade.

I think this tendency is heavily dependent on where you live. We have great public schools that will track advanced children aggressively if the parents push for it, so the motivations you list are unusual in my area.
by skydhash | 2025-11-21 20:22:39+00:00
Anything that pulled in chalk. You need a very good reason to emit escape sequences. The whole npm (and rust, python,..) ecosystem assumes that if it’s a tty, then it’s a full blown xterm-256color terminal. And then you need to pipe to cat or less to have sensible output.

So if you’re adding chalk, that generally means you don’t know jack about terminals.
by flatline | 2025-11-21 20:22:47+00:00
The chatbot is great as a first-line of research for many things, but something like this needs to be backed up by actual research to make a concrete claim. It will absolutely fabricate falsehoods or misrepresent truths based on an unknown number of stochastic factors behind any response. Shame on your for propagating a bunch of mumbo-jumbo that every reader must go verify for themselves if they want to substantiate or refute your claim - in response to a request for substantiation!
by nine_k | 2025-11-21 20:22:52+00:00
Well, there must be an obvious solution where the fizzbuzz sequence is seen as a spectrum of two frequencies (1/3 and 1/5), and a Fourier transform gives us a periodic signal with peaks of one amplitude at fizz spots, another amplitude at buzz spots, and their sum at fizzbuzz spots. I mean. that would be approximately the same solution as the article offers, just through a more straightforward mechanism.
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-21 20:23:13+00:00
Ye Olde "Cache Invalidation" problems really

Instead of updating the cache of dependencies you have immediately, the suggestion is to use the cooldown to wait....

As you point out, this means that you have a stale cache member has a critical fix applied.

Next week's solution - have a dependency management tool that alerts you when critical fixes are created upstream for dependencies you have

Followed by - now the zero day authors are publishing their stuff as critical fixes...

Hilarity ensues
by mlindner | 2025-11-21 20:23:58+00:00
> Judge: EU should block sanctions

If you do that then the US would respond by doing things like attempting to block EU laws that affect US companies. They're American companies. You can't just block them. American companies won't refuse to follow American law. If you put them in a position where they are forced to either follow American law and European law that are in conflict then they'll be forced to withdraw from the European market.
by amazari | 2025-11-21 20:24:20+00:00
Indeed, their work on WebKit, Servo, Mesa drivers, the kernel, and more is seriously impressive!

Their customers, Valve, in this case, deserve credit for being good FLOSS citizens (even if they are building a DRM walled garden on top of it :/), but the actual workers are the real unsung heroes. Them, Codethink, Collabora, and other open-source consultancies I might have missed are doing the community a huge service."
by noosphr | 2025-11-21 20:24:20+00:00
Never mistake motion for action.

An eco system moving too quickly, when it isn't being fundamentally changed, isn't a sign of a healthy ecosystem, but of a pathological one.

No one can think that js has progressed substantially in the last three years, yet trying to build any project three years old without updates is so hard a rewrite is a reasonable solution.
by apitman | 2025-11-21 20:24:33+00:00
That's just been my experience. LAN especially seems rock solid, once it's going. All sorts of issues getting it to connect sometimes. Definitely lag sometimes online.

I'm with you on the system requirements bloat. Really sad honestly. That said, I don't think the engine is more 3D than it used to be, is it? I believe it's still isometric 2D with 3D physics. Could definitely (definitively?) be wrong though.

Here's some discussion on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofempires/comments/16aowwc/are_t...
Show HN: Nemorize – AI-powered spaced repetition for learning anything
by reverseblade2 | 2025-11-21 20:24:47+00:00
I built Nemorize to solve my own frustration with flashcard apps: spending hours creating cards instead of actually learning.

What it does: Describe what you want to learn (e.g., "Norwegian A1 vocabulary" or "React hooks") and AI generates a complete lesson with 15-25 questions

Spaced repetition system tracks your progress across 9 mastery levels (Apprentice → Burned)

AI evaluates open-ended answers for language courses and conceptual questions Works on mobile and desktop

Tech stack: F# / ASP.NET Core backend Vanilla JS frontend and lit SQLite database

Claude for AI generation and evaluation

What makes it different: AI generates both the lesson content AND the flashcards, not just one or the other

Stricter evaluation at higher mastery levels (Guru+ requires correct spelling/grammar for language courses)

No subscription wall for core features

Try it: https://nemorize.com

I'd love feedback on the learning experience and any rough edges you find.
by mikece | 2025-11-21 20:25:42+00:00
I thought you were going to go in a different direction with that: recruiting. In States where home schoolers can play on public school sports teams there are cases where the family gets an apartment and one parent and the kid establishes residency for the purpose of being in a particular school district. A notable case in recent-ish history was someone called Tim Tebow in Jacksonville, FLA. It's not a common thing though, far less of a complaint-magnet than the Catholic schools who "recruit" players from all over a city or even region to come be a starter on their football/basketball team...
by 299exp | 2025-11-21 20:25:49+00:00
>But if it turns out that LLMs are conscious That is not how it works. You cannot scientifically test for consciousness, it will always be a guess/agreement, never a fact.

The only way this can be solved is quite simple, as long as it operates on the same principles a human brain operates AND it says is conscious, then it is conscious.

So far, LLMs do not operate on the same principles a human brain operates. The parallelism isn't there, and quite clearly the hardware is wrong, and the general suborgans of the brain are nowhere to be found in any LLM, as far as function goes, let alone theory of operation.

If we make something that works like a human brain does, and it says it's conscious, it most likely is, and deserves any right that any humans benefits from. There is nothing more to it, it's pretty much that basic and simple.

But this goes against the interests of certain parties which would rather have the benefits of a conscious being without being limited by the rights such being could have, and will fight against this idea, they will struggle to deny it by any means necessary.

Think of it this way, it doesn't matter how you get superconductivity, there's a lot of materials that can be made to exhibit the phenomenon, in certain conditions. It is the same superconductivity even if some stuff differs. Theory of operation is the same for all. You set the conditions a certain way, you get the phenomenon.

There is no "can act conscious but isn't" nonsense, that is not something that makes any sense or can ever be proven. You can certainly mimic consciousness, but if it is the result of the same theory of operation that our brains work on, it IS conscious. It must be.
by jquery | 2025-11-21 20:26:31+00:00
The scientific method only makes predictions about what the inside of the star is using the other things we've learned via the scientific method. It's not purely self-referential, "science" makes useful and repeatable predictions that can be verified experimentally.

However, when it comes to consciousness, there are currently no experimentally verifiable predictions based on whether humans are "phenomenally conscious" or "p-zombies". At least none I'm aware of.
by dole | 2025-11-21 20:27:35+00:00
You eat at McD's or most fast food places these days, you need the app to get reasonable prices, usually at a 15-20% discount. The app really does enhance the experience, order exactly what you want without human error, roll up to the drive-thru, give them the code, and they begin making the order at that point.

They've been pushing $5 value meals recently because the dollar menu's just not fiscally feasible anymore and $10-12+ for the normal value meals isn't a value to most people.
by afavour | 2025-11-21 20:27:47+00:00
> or you have to helicopter-parent and tell your kids who to be friends with...

Isn't that essentially what you're describing, though? You literally talked about "healthy communities, hand-picked by parents to keep away problem children". No, you don't have to tell them who to be friends with... but you've pre-selected the pool of potential friends, so there's no instruction necessary.
by voxl | 2025-11-21 20:27:59+00:00
These are two indisputable facts about our world, if you disagree you are wrong and anti-science:

1. Gender is a social construct

2. Whiteness is a social construct and in particular has been used as a bludgeon against minority "non-whites" in the United States for a very long time

If you do not believe these things you are the problem. You lack education. You lack critical thinking. You are brainwashed.
by qianli_cs | 2025-11-21 20:28:10+00:00
I really enjoyed this post and love seeing more lightweight approaches! The deep dive on tradeoffs between different durable-execution approaches was great. For me, the most interesting part is that Persistasaurus (cool name btw) use of bytecode generation via ByteBuddy is a clever way to improve DX: it can transparently intercept step functions and capture execution state without requiring explicit API calls.

(Disclosure: I work on DBOS [1]) The author's point about the friction from explicit step wrappers is fair, as we don't use bytecode generation today, but we're actively exploring it to improve DX.

[1]: https://github.com/dbos-inc
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 20:28:14+00:00
> Why would you need to learn to deal with bullies?

Because bullying is an extreme example of a common human power dynamic.

> If you try that the modern world as an adult you get charged with aggravated assault, pick up a criminal record and then are weeded out from polite society

Fair enough. I was thinking exclusively of non-violent bullying. (It may get physical. But in a roughhousing way. Not one intended to cause pain or injury.)
by abraxas | 2025-11-21 20:28:17+00:00
Depression is almost never caused by actual life circumstance - just by your response and usually a delayed response.

Also you should try your SSRI prescription. They really aren't very strong drugs. You might get mild relief or if you're like me and the majority of people you will see no effect whatsoever. It's worth a try anyway. You won't get "high" or "dull" or any of that nonsense. At best it will lift your mood a bit. But more often than not, just won't do anything.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-21 20:28:42+00:00
What we call "AI" right now could never do something of the complexity we're discussing. It has no memory, no experiences, no consciousness, no capability to continually learn, no ability to abstractly understand ideas and apply them.

It's text probabilities in a box. Until something comes around that is NOT an LLM, it doesn't matter how much memory or training data you throw at it, the fundamental idea can't work.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 20:28:46+00:00
I think they are making a point about how very few, if any, consumers have "perfect information". I'm _guessing_ they are trying to say that even if you have a better product it doesn't matter but I'm not 100% sure and I'm not completely sure on how that fits in with your original comment. Maybe saying that even if you optimize for safety that people won't take that into account?

Their comment itself is making a sarcastic statement about how few consumers there are with "perfect information" given TikTok's user-base (the same could be said for Temu or even Amazon). To be fair, I agree with their statement by itself, I'm having more trouble fitting its message into this thread.
by ayewo | 2025-11-21 20:28:56+00:00
You are ignoring the possibility of technological disruption.

Apple disrupted Nokia and Blackberry. ARM is currently disrupting Intel.

What if someone lands on a break-through using a completely different tech: what if X-ray lithography [1] becomes viable enough that they don’t have to acquire state-of-art EUV machines from ASML?

[1] X-ray lithography was abandoned in the 80s but it is being revisited by Substrate https://substrate.com/our-purpose. They are an American company that hopes to make it commercially viable by being cheaper and far less complex than EUV.
by belval | 2025-11-21 20:29:00+00:00
Your comment is/was getting downvoted perhaps because of the last line but this is very true:

> It's just that it doesn't seem to come from someone with authority to make decisions like that or even from someone well informed about the global strategy of the corporation.

Arduino is owned by Qualcomm, Qualcomm is known for being litigious. Whoever wrote that note, unless it was the CEO of Qualcomm, doesn't actually call the shots and if tomorrow the directive comes from above to sue makers they will have to comply.
by jimbob45 | 2025-11-21 20:29:10+00:00
Isn't this more or less what the Microsoft Long-Term Support (LTS) versus Short-Term Support (STS) is meant to do? LTS only receives critical updates but eschews all experimental/beta features. STS gets everything for the people that couldn't care less if their app gets hacked (e.g. apps like calculators, sandboxed internal tools, etc).

I know Ubuntu and others do the same but I don't know what they call their STS equivalent.
by anonymousab | 2025-11-21 20:29:42+00:00
I remember installing XBMC with a 360-style "blades" interface and being blown away by how much smoother and nicer it was then the blades interface on the Xbox 360 at the time.

Obviously the OS wasn't doing as much as an Xbox 360 was, but as an end user, it made me perpetually annoyed at what we "could have had" on the 360.

And then Microsoft changed the 360 UI to their windows 8 uwp Tile-style UI with even more ads and I realized that I underestimated how bad things could get.
by nomel | 2025-11-21 20:29:52+00:00
> It's probably a continuum of some kind.

This is well documented fact, in the medical and cognitive science fields: humans consciousness fade away as their neurons are reduced/malformed/misfunctioning.

You can trivially demonstrate it in any healthy individual using oxygen starvation.

There's no one neuron that results in any definition of human consciousness, which requires that it's a continuum.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-21 20:29:52+00:00
What is "detox inefficiency"?

EDIT - I ask because the only results I get when searching are a Harvard article debunking it. I'd rather hear the opinion of someone that actually believes in it before I read about why it's all malarky. I believe in arguing against the best version of someones argument.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-dubious-p...
by wincy | 2025-11-21 20:29:57+00:00
I mean sometimes. For me it was multivariate for sure. Biggest problem - wife and kid. Helped a ton. My specific wife, really. I doubt someone else would have helped me. I had a lot of self defeating thought patterns she helped me fix.

Second - light. Lots of light, specifically in winter time. Like this https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/

I had a horrible time with school because as finals rolled around in the fall semester I’d get extremely depressed and anxious.
by seneca | 2025-11-21 20:30:27+00:00
> ...a healthy community hand-picked by parents is not "the real world" though, is it?

It very much is. No where else in life are people forced to mixed with the general unfiltered public. "The real world" is highly filtered social circles and freedom of association. The idea that it's somehow an automatic good to force healthy kids to mix with everyone who happens to show up, regardless of whether they have severe behavioral or social issues, is pretty questionable.

> My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in there.

You can expose your kids to different cultures without leaving them wide open to everything else. It's not a binary. The point is that home schooling lets you pick and choose.
by solomonb | 2025-11-21 20:31:01+00:00
> No, no loss of safety. Was there something in particular you were thinking of?

This is second hand information and may apply more so to effectful then bluefin. I have just done some pretty minimal test projects with bluefin and effectful but I was told:

""" It's not too hard to make segfault if you organize your higher order effects just right.

It's been a while but i think you just return a continuation with the effect you just handled, and then all of a sudden it's not in scope and yet you need to still handle it.

And the tricks they use to make things go fast don't work in this case and things go boom """
by xg15 | 2025-11-21 20:31:11+00:00
It's a good idea, but not without weak points, I think.

One of the classic scammer techniques is to introduce artificial urgency to prevent the victim from thinking clearly about a proposal.

I think this would be a weakness here as well: If enough projects adopt a "cooldown" policy, the focus of attackers would shift to manipulate projects into making an exception for "their" dependency and install it before the regular cooldown period elapsed.

How to do that? By playing the security angle once again: An attacker could make a lot of noise how a new critical vulnerability was discovered in their project and every dependant should upgrade to the emergency release as quickly as possible, or else - with the "emergency release" then being the actually compromised version.

I think a lot of projects would could come under pressure to upgrade, if the perceived vulnerability seems imminent and the only point for not upgrading is some generic cooldown policy.
by OptionOfT | 2025-11-21 20:31:45+00:00
> Cameras should have just rotated the actual image pixels when saving, instead of cheating. If that's too slow, implement it in hardware, or schedule a deferred process and don't let the images be exported until that's done.

What if I want to rotate an image by 90 degrees because my camera didn't correctly detect up & down?

To my understanding rotation is lossless, where as moving the data will incur quality loss (except for certain exceptions).