MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-05 22:04:53+00:00
I don't know how to explain any better that, if given the choice, I would simply not do what I do for the company for which I do it. Full stop. Somehow, when we talk about companies laying off thousands, that's "business as usual" and "nothing personal". But when an employee acts like the robot the company sees them as, suddenly people get upset! Why is it so hard to understand that people work because they have to, and not because they want to? Why is that so threatening to your worldview? Is it because, deep down, you know it's true?

I used to cope like that. I told myself that I could throw myself into my work, maybe stand out and make a difference. Guess what? I was overworked, burned out, and laid off right as I worked a few weekends and pushed through a crazy (and arbitrary) deadline. I still haven't recovered emotionally. I was sort of believing the lie, for a bit, but this severed the last thread.

My story isn't unique or special, but then I come on HN and I get told that I just have to "take pride in my work", like I'm not checking my e-mail every day to see if I even still have a job, during the worst cost of living crisis since 2008. I'm sorry, that's a fucking joke.

There are a million other things I'd rather be doing all day than this. And a lot of them involve programming a computer! But not things that allow some suit to send me a smarmy e-mail about "making 2026 our best year ever", no. Things that help me, my friends, my family, my community. Those are the only things that matter. Work exists because my landlord wants to retire comfortably in Florida. Bully for him. The rest of us, well. We have to grind it out and hope we make it to the finish line.
by popalchemist | 2025-12-05 22:05:56+00:00
Yes, I am not advocating for it. Just pointing to the historical moment when the insight became concrete enough to deploy. The propaganda arm of the modern economic apparatus is -literally- The Matrix. The political / economic theories that inspired The Matrix are works like Society of the Spectacle which express exactly what you just said in extreme detail; that whoever has control or even just a significant influence over the images and words that move through peoples' minds in effect has them enslaved in a form of Panopticon.
by oxag3n | 2025-12-05 22:06:03+00:00
I'm a bit uneasy about so many people being pro-science and still falling into all the fallacies scientific method tried to address.

Disclaimer: I'm pro vaccine, I do think Covid vaccines saved a lot of lives. I still think the risk is relatively low even after getting an onset of auto-immune disease 3 days after the shot (diagnosis confirmed 2 years after it started after mRNA booster) and sister in law getting another auto-immune months after the vaccine (also confirmed diagnosis by now).

I did read the article and while deaths from Covid were clearly lower in vaccinated group, the sample selection has signs of various problems, starting from representation (why significantly more disadvantaged groups in unvaccinated group), to results like external causes of mortality 25% lower in the vaccinated group. 32% lower deaths from transport crashes - clearly healthy/selection bias.

Such studies bring nothing to pro-science crowd and give anti-vaccine propaganda another advantage.
by tripletao | 2025-12-05 22:06:06+00:00
Here's Biden in 2021:

> You’re not going to — you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-...

Perhaps any statement in that context should be assumed to be oversimplified; but I don't think I can fault someone for taking words to mean what they literally say. The COVID vaccines look great so far on balance, but they absolutely were oversold to the public. We'll pay the price in public confidence for at least a generation.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-05 22:06:12+00:00
Yeah, I immediately twitched when I saw the PartialEq implementation. Somebody is going to write code which finds the "correct" order and ends up allowing someone to order the same pizza but get yours, while you have to wait for it to be made and cooked again.

It's not difficult to write the predicate same_details_as() and then it's obvious to reviewers if that's what we meant and discourages weird ad-hoc code which might stop working when the PizzaDetails is redefined.
by susam | 2025-12-05 22:06:51+00:00
Yes! However, like I mentioned in my previous comment, corrections like this cancel out the number of bytes saved with the <ol>-based solution.

I mean, the solution in the original post is 152 characters long.

The <ol> based solution is 129 characters long. Shorter but uglier.

If we add your correction, we get neater output, which is nice, but it comes at the cost of 30 additional characters in the minified code thereby making the solution 159 characters long.

li { list-style-position: inside } li:nth-child(3n), li:nth-child(5n) { list-style: none } li:nth-child(3n)::before { content: "Fizz" } li:nth-child(5n)::after { content: "Buzz" }
by trts | 2025-12-05 22:07:23+00:00
In a March 29 2021, MSNBC interview, Rochelle Walensky stated publicly that CDC data suggested "vaccinated people do not carry the virus" and "don't get sick". a knowingly false statement at the time and at best an inexcusable error from the head of that agency.

I also had covid this year, zero boosters, had a mild fever and sniffle for two days. not sure what you are demonstrating with this anecdote. or what goalposts you think I moved. the "milder symptom" stuff all came long after it was obvious that the covid shots were not doing what had been promised. that is what I would call moving the goalposts
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-05 22:08:02+00:00
Everyone knows it was impossible to run a niche business before 2006 when Google thankfully shoved irrelevant advertisements in the way of everything we wanted to do!

There definitely wasn't prior art of entire industries building themselves up out of nothing by making something that was self evidently good and selling it to like five turbo nerds who made sure everyone they found wanted it.

That industry is definitely not for example the software services industry before about 2000, and there definitely isn't a huge trove of examples of literally two guys in a garage building software, sometimes mediocre software, and selling it to niche businesses.

That's definitely not the, like, founding narrative of our entire sector of the economy or anything.

There definitely wasn't such a thing like trade magazines where you could browse a vague and generic interest and find all sorts of awesome and expensive and niche products to buy for your hobby, like low production run test equipment or literal scams built by weird guys in a garage, again.

China definitely doesn't have a clear current example of a huge industry that runs basically from a bunch of guys with a box of junk in a stall in a giant physical building that westerners literally go to as a niche tourist destination that drives a bunch of niche product development.

No no, we definitely need to let Google rewrite the very words in front of your face to sell you whatever the highest bidder wants to sell you. How else could you possibly find things?
Show HN: The Doorstep – Voice RPG
by michalwarda | 2025-12-05 22:08:08+00:00
Hey, we've created an interactive game generated fully with AI sounds. You can play it @ https://qforge.studio/the-doorstep

There's also a builder if you want to build games like that yourself @ https://qforge.studio. For now it's completely free and no login required so you can just jump in and build. Would love some feedback!
by levmiseri | 2025-12-05 22:08:20+00:00
From what you have written, it actually sounds like Kraa 'might' be for you.

> I want the process of moving what I've written from the initial medium to online and publicly accessible to be as quick and painless as possible. With Kraa this is a matter of one click.

> If not, then... I just want it to be a file. Something I can save, archive, move, or whatever, like any other file. And this is more nuanced, but Kraa isn't using any proprietary file system. You can export your leaves to .md any time. Though it's not the same as e.g. Obsidian where it is literally a local file.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-12-05 22:08:26+00:00
That's a bit of a hot take considering all the donations they've been making to OSS projects. Sure, maybe they're not making Yet Another Distro but they're donating to and upstreamimg patches to things that everyone (including PopOS) uses.

To me, that's far from not caring about the software. Especially when you compare to other vendors like Pine.
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-05 22:08:29+00:00
This is a Reddit-tier quip that keeps being repeated. It doesn't spark curious conversation:

"I consider myself fairly strong and self reliant."

"Okay well we are going to kick you off of every private website, try to make you lose your livelihood, and mock you relentlessly on most media broadcasting networks!"

"Well, I am going to attempt to stop you from doing those things, since I don't like them. "

"Ironic! You need coddling and aren't strong at all, haha, your ego is so fragile."

It's very tiresome.
by xp84 | 2025-12-05 22:08:34+00:00
> I would think that americans would be much more vigilant about what medication they take, the price it cost, and so would have much lower pricing.

> Is it the proof that a true unregulated free market doesn't work ?

The market is heavily regulated (frequently crazily) by the FDA, and the actual amount anything costs is heavily obscured from the eyes of any consumers by the fog of bureaucracy and insurance.

Many people have 3-4 tiers of fixed copays that the insurance company makes up - some pharmacies won't even tell you when there is a cash price or a "coupon" that would be cheaper than your insurance copay! And pharmacies don't publish a plain list of what the cash prices are, and it would be hard for most people to even produce the tier formulary, it's buried as a PDF in some obscure page of a horrible website. So we just go to the pharmacy and see what it'll cost us.

Also, one major insurer owns a major pharmacy benefits manager and one of the big 2 pharmacy chains, so they use that to put their thumb on the scale however they can, while the other insurers and PBMs play games to lock consumers into restrictive exclusive deals that are to their detriment.

Anyway we don't have a market at all when it comes to healthcare, because the majority of price information is withheld from consumers until the opportunity to make any choice, if it even existed, is well past.
by vldmr | 2025-12-05 22:08:36+00:00
Offline nature of KeePassXC introduces two key challenges:

1. Synchronization: How do you keep your database in sync across multiple devices without relying on proprietary cloud clients?

2. Integration: How do you make it seamless to use these passwords in your system and applications (like Git or VS Code)?

This article describes a battle-tested setup that solves both problems using Rclone for synchronization and the Secret Service API for system integration in Linux distributions, specifically those based on Wayland.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-12-05 22:08:43+00:00
Ah yes. One of them got $2.6B for six flights. The other one got $4.2B for six flights.

One of them flew six flights successfully, got contract extended further to 14 flights for a total of 4.93 billion. They also flew other paying customers seven times.

In that time, the second one flew once with astronauts, and had so many problems that they ended up coming home on the first guy's spacecraft.

I will let you figure out who is who.

Consistent delivery at all levels indeed.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-05 22:08:52+00:00
> you can't put a price tag on national security

Of course you can. It costs more, but a finite amount more.

Your argument is it'sz worth paying that cost. I agree. But those cases are limited, both by the customer base and that additional cost.

SpaceX is not launching non-U.S. national security payloads. That's not great for American power. But it's a rounding error for a launch provider putting mass in orbit over three times a week [1].

[1] https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/...
by lukan | 2025-12-05 22:08:55+00:00
Advertisement works pretty much the same, whether in the west, as well as the east ( whatever those terms mean anyway). So I would rather like to talk about advertisement in general, how we as humanity can maybe move past it. How to fund online services in a different way, instead of advertisement. Venting about how all is shit, I see as not so productive in making any progress here.
by runarberg | 2025-12-05 22:09:12+00:00
This is the first time I hear the term LLM cognition and I am horrified.

LLMs don‘t have cognition. LLMs are a statistical inference machines which predict a given output given some input. There are no mental processes, no sensory information, and certainly no knowledge involved, only statistical reasoning, inference, interpolation, and prediction. Comparing the human mind to an LLM model is like comparing a rubber tire to a calf muscle, or a hydraulic system to the gravitational force. They belong in different categories and cannot be responsibly compared.

When I see these tests, I presume they are made to demonstrate the limitation of this technology. This is both relevant and important that consumers know they are not dealing with magic, and are not being sold a lie (in a healthy economy a consumer protection agency should ideally do that for us; but here we are).
by xracy | 2025-12-05 22:09:24+00:00
I interpret this as the comment saying "we won't know how this affected things until decades from now." Which can likely be attributed to existing vaccine skepticism and is unlikely to result in them changing their opinion in the next ever.

What I think a lot of people who are anti-vax miss is the risk of the vaccine compared to the risk of COVID. They feel like they're being asked something risky in a vacuum, when in fact, they're being asked for something with (as best as we can tell) limited risk against a backdrop of a dangerous virus that killed millions and caused a global pandemic.

Even if they could demonstrably prove the vaccine created a higher risk of outcomes for people who took it, the risk compared to getting COVID is de minimus, and the likelihood of getting COVID is high. I would be surprised if there was a significant population of people who had avoided it at this point.
by dbtc | 2025-12-05 22:09:58+00:00
> without the pain of extended hours of pressing hard with a pen or pencil.

Excuse me, do you have a minute to talk about fountain pens?

I recommend a Lamy Safari or Pilot Kakuno to start. If the nib is good, no pressure at all is required to write. You have to retrain to relax your hand and arm if you're used to ballpoints and graphite. High quality paper is not required but it can make a big difference too.

As far as digital, .txt will always have a special place in my hard drive. As long as a tool has a way to export into plaintext, I am not opposed to using it.
by pseudosavant | 2025-12-05 22:10:20+00:00
That is because it isn't actually tokens that are fed into the model for non-text. For text, it is tokenized, and each token has a specific set of vectors. But with other media, they've trained encoders that analyze the media and produce a set of vectors that are the same "format" as the token's vectors, but it isn't actually ever a token.

Most companies have rules for how many tokens the media should "cost", but they aren't usually exact.
by thrwwXZTYE | 2025-12-05 22:10:33+00:00
The funny thing is that when you have one big customer (a country) - you get good prices.

When you have 30 insurance companies, 10000 companies buying insurance policies and millions of individuals - you get shit prices.

That's why the drug in question is 200 USD in US (after deductions) and 20 in Europe (including taxes).
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-05 22:11:29+00:00
Cloudflare protects against DDOS but also various forms of malicious traffic (bots, low reputation IP users, etc) and often with a DDOS or similar attacks, it's better to have the site go down from time to time than for the attackers to hammer the servers behind cloudflare and waste mass amounts of resources.

i.e. it's the difference between "site goes down for a few hours every few months" and "an attacker slammed your site, and through in on-demand scaling or serverless component cloud fees blew your entire infrastructure budget for the year.

Doubly so when your service is part of a larger platform and attacks on your service risk harming your reputation for the larger platform.
by jakubmazanec | 2025-12-05 22:11:43+00:00
I don't know, that metaphors doesn't hold. I still like going to a local theaters (not multiplexes!) few times a year, the screen is much better than any TV, and the whole experience is overall nicer (beer on tap, etc.). TV can be good enough, but it can't replace larger screen. Few weeks ago I saw Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid for the first time and I'm glad I could see it in a cinema.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-05 22:12:10+00:00
another POV is that solutions that require no long term "durable workflow" style storage provide exponentially more value. if you are making something that requires durable workflows, you ought to spend a little bit of time in product development so that it does not require durable workflows, instead of a ton of time making something that isn't very useful durable.

for example, you can conceive of a software vendor that does the end-to-end of a real estate transaction: escrow, banking, signature, etc. The IT required to support the model of such a thing would be staggering. Does it make sense to do that kind of product development? That is inventing all of SAP, on top of solving your actual problem. Or making the mistake of adopting temporal, trigger, etc., who think they have a smaller problem than making all of SAP and spend considerable resources convincing you that they do.

The status quo is that everyone focuses on their little part to do it as quickly as possible. The need for durable workflows is BAD. You should look at that problem as, make buying and selling homes much faster and simpler, or even change the order of things so that less durability is required; not re-enact the status quo as an IT driven workflow.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-05 22:12:49+00:00
You can use "little parts of the language" in Rust too; the cleanest and most foundational part of Rust is pure value-based programming with no mutability or referencing at all, much like in a functional language (but with affine types!). Everything else is built quite cleanly on top of that foundation, even interior mutability which is often considered incredibly obscure. (It's called "interior" because the outer cell's identity doesn't really mutate, even though its content obviously does.)
by pnt12 | 2025-12-05 22:12:56+00:00
I fully agree.

It's great for prototypes reactors, sometimes debugging (I'm kinda annoyed at how googling seems less and less efficient nowadays), and also reviewing.

But you gotta be critical about it. It's like a junior assistant eager to show work - you shouldnt take it and deliver it as is, it needs to be filtered by a competent person with taste!
by Ancapistani | 2025-12-05 22:13:12+00:00
> Contrary to the USA where it's a much more responsible market, people do pay for the medications or they get it paid by their own insurance but it cost them directly a lot of money.

That's the idea, but in practice there are so many layers of indirect government incentives, disincentives, and direct interventions that market is no longer effective for this purpose.

It's virtually impossible to find out how much a medical procedure actually costs. Most hospitals and clinics refuse to even estimate as a policy, which has led to the creation of things like pre-paid services for labor and delivery. Those are quite rare.

I'm 100% in favor of allowing the market to work - but at this point, we have the worst of both worlds and the best of neither. Either extreme would be better than what we have.
by amiga386 | 2025-12-05 22:13:19+00:00
> in some part of europe, we have national healthcare so basically people don't think they are paying their medications, like there was some magic money.

Europe is a big place, buddy. Which particular part are "we" from today?

NHS England has NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), which does the cost-benefit analysis for all medicines prescribed, nationally. It frequently decides medicines aren't worth the money. If you, as a private citizen, want that particular medicine, you can waste your own money on it. NHS England does not have a moral hazard problem.

The NHS also spends money trying to convince people to exercise, eat well, lose weight, not smoke, look for early signs of cancer, etc., because they find that relatively tiny amounts of money on these campaigns results in massive, massive savings from not having to treat so much preventable disease later in life.
by xracy | 2025-12-05 22:13:31+00:00
"bUT wE StILl DoN't KnoW tHe LOnG TeRM EffECts oF ThE VacCInES."

I swear these folks will be on their death beds 50 years in the future claiming this. There will be no amount of evidence or time that matters to them.

Someone can prove me wrong, and tell me exactly what evidence would convince them that the vaccines are safer than the alternative.
by xg15 | 2025-12-05 22:13:39+00:00
> Kelvin’s machine automates the second half of that task. As the pulleys spin, they pull on a common chain by the correct amount for each of the calculated components. A year’s worth of tidal tables can be put together in half an hour, if you know the components. Even better, you can “guess and check” the components by comparing your machine’s output to past records, and adjusting the pulleys until you get something that works correctly.

I didn't know they already had machine learning and model fitting algorithms in the 1800s, but here we are...
by 30minAdayHN | 2025-12-05 22:14:06+00:00
I'm a Hacker News reader and relate with the community. At the same time, it's not like I've same interest and energy in every niche. For example, I might have interest in custom building my keyboards, but may not be in restoring an old router. It's not like HN users exclusively use Linux desktops and many of us prefer simplicity.

The point I'm trying make is that there is more nuance than a simple HN user stereotype.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-05 22:14:24+00:00
So there are a variety of options, but my stepdaughter is in a pod/suite setup. There are four dorm rooms, each with two people, and the four share a communal/interconnected bathroom set up.

So you need to have respect for your dorm mate, and your suite mates. And you know that, unfortunately, while "be respectful and adult" should be the expectation, there's always someone that ruins that, and the next thing the college has to set rules and say "this is why you can't have nice things".

And I expect there's a bit of liability minimization on the college's part - I'm not saying I agree, but the college probably has concerns of "it's mid term, and an allegation of inappropriate behavior happens, what do you do?" (and I think there's multiple issues with that, like it's not like that can't happen in same sex dorms, but I'm just trying to think about why the college might see it that way).