MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2025-12-04 22:30:36+00:00
https://cclab.ucsd.edu/in-the-news/

There are a lot of examples, but also I am using "complex" generously - "we go friend walk later" and things like that, the limitations seem to be 3-4 direct ideas chained together, with person+activity+time being about as complicated as things get. It's probably possible with the right curriculum to expand on that significantly, but it's really hard to get sufficient repetition on abstract things, and dog attention is highly selective and limited. If they get overexcited, they're not in word-learning mode anymore, they're just fixated on the ball, or the pigeon, or the weird smell that just happened.

Once BCI for dogs is a thing, it wouldn't shock me to have a dog eventually write simple sentences or even engage in some sort of ideogram based text communications, but you're never getting a canine Shakespeare. You could definitely get narco k9s that deliberately say things like "I smell cocaine on this guy's shoe", or "I don't smell anything bad". With that and bodycam, you'd have a record and a way of auditing k9s.

One of the potential spin-offs of this canine cognition research is the potential for a structured standard vocabulary for working dogs in various professions, with obvious benefits in police accountability, disability accommodation and assistance dogs, and so on. If all dog trainers worked from a common curriculum, then it could be standard that dogs are taught a consistent 30-40 baseline words, so if a dog escapes, it can interact with animal control officers or the public in useful ways.

The biggest thing is that they can use language at all, I think. It's wonderful, and I hope it ends up being a big boost for animal welfare in general.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-12-04 22:30:44+00:00
There was a long standing illusion that people care about long-term thinking. But given the opportunity, people seem to take the short-term road with high risks, instead of chasing a long-term gain, as they, themselves, might not experience the gain.

The timeframe of expectations have just shifted, as everyone wants to experience everything. Just knowing the possibility of things that can happen already affects our desires. And since everyone has a limited time in life, we try to maximize our opportunities to experience as many things as possible.

It’s interesting to talk about this to older generation (like my parents in their 70s), because there wasn’t such a rush back then. I took my mom out to some cities around the world, and she mentioned how she really never even dreamed of a possibility of being in such places. On the other hand, when you grow in a world of technically unlimited possibilities, you have more dreams.

Sorry for rambling, but in my opinion, this somewhat affects economics of the new generation as well. Who cares of long term gains if there’s a chance of nobody experiencing the gain, might as well risk it for the short term one for a possibility of some reward.
by keeda | 2025-12-04 22:30:52+00:00
Even these everyday use-cases are infinitely varied and can displace entire industries. E.g. ChatGPT helped me get $500 in airline delay compensation after multiple companies like AirHelp blew me off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749803

For reference, AirHelp alone had revenue of $153M last year (even without my money ;-P): https://rocketreach.co/airhelp-profile_b5e8e078f42e8140

This single niche industry as a whole is probably worth billions alone.

Now multiply that by the number of niches that exist in this world.

The consider the entire universe of formal knowledge work, where large studies (from self-reported national surveys to empirical randomized controlled trials on real-world tasks) have already shown significant productivity boosts, in the range of 30%. Now consider their salaries, and how much companies would be willing to pay to make their employees more productive.

Trillions is not an exaggeration.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-04 22:31:03+00:00
> Do you think the disabled are being helped by letting bad actors trying to get a leg up over their peers abuse accommodations meant for them?

Of course it's terrible for the genuinley disabled. That said, I would rather accidently assist an able person than accidently fail to provide the required accommodations for a genuinely disabled person. The default should be acceptance.

Those who abuse these systems should be given an all expense paid trip to the surface of the sun. Ripping off the disabled is about as low as a person can get, and that is what they are doing.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-12-04 22:31:11+00:00
I didn't think your comment was mean, I just think sometimes people are a little too quick to tell other makers their idea won't work without putting enough time/thought/consideration into if that's true.

When it comes to finding product market fit (and providing feedback into if it exists) sometimes it helps to consider whether or not you are in that market.

I am never buying a Labubu but you better believe there is product market fit there.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-12-04 22:31:26+00:00
They're both censoring what individuals and organizations are allowed to say online and what their citizens are allowed to read/hear..? Just because they took a different approach and pressured companies without telling the public doesn't change that fact.

So you think the government forced TikTok to sell it's US operations to Oracle, the company with CIA ties, that has been caught spying on it's customers data before, and who's CEO proudly said "Citizens will be on their best behavior,” and “because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” is about" data privacy"?

https://www.iccl.ie/news/class-action-against-oracle/
by brailsafe | 2025-12-04 22:31:45+00:00
> Of course, that applies to everybody who achieves a stable career at all.

This stuck out to me, because even in tech, especially after being diagnosed with ADHD (out of desperately failing to adapt, despite technically being reasonably competent) my career and statistically that of many others is normally anything but stable. An overwhelming percentage of jobs and disciplines do not have any real affordances for just a little variation from the norm, and people broadly still do not believe the condition presents anything but hilarious superficial differences, but that otherwise if the person shares one skill with other employees they should be capable of being an arbitrary cog like any other.

"Other people are capable of showing up on time, why can't you!?"

"Well, I have ADHD, I have to take medication to regulate my dopamine levels and struggle with time blindless, it's a real problem that I wish I didn't have, but I do my best given regularly switching contexts and priorities"

"Ya, great, that's cute but show up on time, are we on the same page?"

"No, but I'll say yes because you can't understand, I have no choice, and I'll continue doing what I'm doing until you fire me for not meeting your expectations, even if they have nothing to do with the skill I do actually have and gravitate towards, and would like to continue applying in service of company growth or whatever"

"Great, then we're on the same page, and I'll just start checking in on you more frequently because clearly you're retarded, thanks"

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The only people who do realistically get accomodations are either in super niche fields, are absolutely exceptional in their niche field, or are just on their own or in industries that require none of the normal things associated with their discipline.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-12-04 22:31:53+00:00
I cautiously agree, with the caveat that while I thought I would really like Rust's error handling, it has been painful in practice. I'm sure I'm holding it wrong, but so far I have tried:

* thiserror: I spend ridiculous and unpredictable amounts of time debugging macro expansions

* manually implementing `Error`, `From`, etc traits: I spend ridiculous though predictable amounts of time implementing traits (maybe LLMs fix this?)

* anyhow: this gets things done, but I'm told not to expose these errors in my public API

Beyond these concerns, I also don't love enums for errors because it means adding any new error type will be a breaking change. I don't love the idea of committing to that, but maybe I'm overthinking?

And when I ask these questions to various Rust people, I often get conflicting answers and no one seems to be able to speak with the authority of canon on the subject. Maybe some of these questions have been answered in the Rust Book since I last read it?

By contrast, I just wrap Go errors with `fmt.Errorf("opening file `%s`: %w", filePath, err)` and handle any special error cases with `errors.As()` and similar and move on with life. It maybe doesn't feel _elegant_, but it lets me get stuff done.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-04 22:31:56+00:00
Well, there are more and less important parts of the car. I wouldn't bat an eye for 3d printed dash parts or the extreme example, a cup holder, but on flip side anywhere where there is heat is potentially bad for anything 3d printed with heat that's not metal or some hard to print high temp stuff, and anywhere where mechanical robustness = safety is spot where you want something very well tested, not "I printed it and it looks light".
by neltnerb | 2025-12-04 22:32:30+00:00
It is an interesting point about handwriting as distinct from reading or writing alone. I appreciate it, thank you.

I would not concede that speed is not as important as doing it correctly in the context of evaluating learning. There are homework, projects, and papers where there is a lot of time available to probe whether they can think it through and do it correctly with no time limit. It's ideal if everyone can finish an exam, but there needs to be some kind of pressure for people to learn to quickly identify a kind of problem, identify the correct solution approach, and actually carry out the solution.

But they shouldn't be getting penalized for not doing a page of handwritten linear algebra correctly, I totally agree that you need to make sure you're testing what you think you're testing.
by DontForgetMe | 2025-12-04 22:32:45+00:00
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in the UK using LLMs for any form of paid legal services is hugely forbidden, and would also be insanely embarrassing. Like, 'turns out nobody had any qualifications and they were sending all the work to mechanical Turks in third world countries, who they refused to pay' levels of embarrassing.

I say this as someone who once had the bright idea of sending deadline reminders, complete with full names of cases, to my smart watch. It worked great and made me much more organised until my managers had to have a little chat about data protection and confidentiality and 'sorry, what the hell were you thinking?'. I am no stranger to embarrassing attempts to jump the technological gun, or the wonders of automation in time saving.

But absolutely nobody in any professional legal context in the UK, that I can imagine, would use LLMs with any more gusto and pride than an industrial pack of diarrhoea relief pills or something - if you ever saw it in an office, you'd just hope it was for personal use and still feel a bit funny about shaking their hands.
by librasteve | 2025-12-04 22:32:51+00:00
I love this take - partly because I agree with it - but mostly because I think that this is the right way to compare PLs (and to present the results). It is honest in the way it ascribes strengths and weaknesses, helping to guide, refine, justify the choice of language outside of job pressures.

I am sad that it does not mention Raku (https://raku.org) ... because in my mind there is a kind of continuum: C - Zig - C++ - Rust - Go ... OK for low level, but what about the scriptier end - Julia - R - Python - Lua - JavaScript - PHP - Raku - WL?
by codingdave | 2025-12-04 22:32:54+00:00
> given that people pay a monthly subscription, so c-sat is rather important.

You are missing a key aspect of what is going on. People buy streaming services based on the content, not the app. People will complain about the app, put bad reviews up, and still pay their monthly fee, which is better for the business than having zero tech complaints and cancelling because the content sucks.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 22:33:21+00:00
> Try some lol.

Trying amphetamines classically gives short-term euphoria and confidence boost.

There have been a few studies on this. If you give college students amphetamines they will report performing dramatically better, but their actual performance is maybe slightly improved at best and some measures are worsened: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/6/3/58

The notable thing is that they all report doing much better despite the actual results not matching their self-assessment.

So don't "try some" and then think you're going to be speeding around like a superhuman for the rest of your life if you get a prescription.
by brrwind | 2025-12-04 22:33:22+00:00
> Is your only distinction that depression would be harder to obtain?

Yes. You seem to be taking chagrin with the fact that therapists have to attach a diagnosis code in order to bill insurance, and then conflating that with inflated diagnoses of mental disorders that qualify as disabilities.

My issue with your comment is that I think you're taking a systemic issue (which I acknowledge, btw) and framing it as therapists' misconduct. If your claim that therapists are categorically diagnosing anyone who shows up for the purposes of billing were true, we'd expect to see very high diagnosis rates specifically among therapists who rely heavily on insurance, relative to those who are mostly private-pay. I don't have that data, but I'd be surprised if the difference were as extreme as your framing implies.

What did change in a clear, documented way was the DSM-5 criteria in 2013, which lowered thresholds for several conditions and broadened who qualifies for a diagnosis. That is diagnostic classification problem, not a "therapists are gaming the system for billing" problem.
by gnulinux996 | 2025-12-04 22:33:24+00:00
What is the Java equivalent of Django?

I really love django and everything around it, but I would also like to write a webapp in Java.

Getting django + rest_framework up and running and actually be productive takes me max 10 minutes, trying to do the same with spring boot I am a week in and I had to open the jakarta specs to understand the magic.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-04 22:33:59+00:00
Uh oh.

Not everyone loves everything Lemay has worked on, but nobody bats 1.000 and designers love to critique each other’s work. [...] everyone I’ve spoken to is happy — if not downright giddy — at the news that Lemay is replacing Dye.

If those are the most flattering words that Gruber can compose about an Apple employee, then Lemay must be almost as bad as Dye!

I am not a Liquid Glass hater. I actually think, on the whole, iOS 26 is a better and more usable UI than iOS 18.

While someone's fondness for an OS can't really be 'wrong', Gruber is the first of many Apple commentators I have read who doesn't feel iOS 26 is a turkey. Liquid Glass is the Ford Edsel of user interface design.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-12-04 22:34:03+00:00
>If someone is advertising something at you, it's because you can get it and you are potential market.

>Not rocket science.

Yep. I see adverts for Psoriasis and so, of course, I developed Psoriasis although I never had it before I saw the adverts. I see adverts for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and, of course, then developed it because I am a "potential market."

Even better, I see adverts for tampons, sanitary pads and "feminine' deodorants. As such, I underwent gender reassignment surgery so I could then purchase said products because I'm a "potential market."

Yes, the above is satirical. And no, I don't purchase products because " they spend that money advertising"

If I show you an advert for brassieres, are you then forced to purchase them because of all the money spent on such adverts? Are you even slightly tempted to do so?

If I show you an advert for literal snake oil as a cure-all, are you then powerless to stop yourself from purchasing it?

I hate to break it to you, but we Americans aren't slaves to, or required to spend money based on, consumer advertising.

Heck, I don't drink Coca-Cola or Budweiser. If what you say were true, I'd literally be drowning in that garbage.

Please take your ridiculous stereotypes elsewhere.

Edit: Fixed typos.
by genewitch | 2025-12-04 22:34:07+00:00
yeah i had an A770; it should be ~$200-$250 now on ebay, lightly used. It's, in my opinion, worth about $200, if it's relatively unused. As i mentioned, it's ~= RTX 3060 at least for compute loads, and the 16GB is nice to have for that. But for a computer from the 4th gen i'd probably only get a A380 or A580; the A380 is $60-$120 on ebay.
by phkahler | 2025-12-04 22:34:14+00:00
>> Material was CF-ABS

With a glass transition temp of 105C.

And yet "Two samples from the air induction elbow were subjected to testing, using a heat-flux differential scanning calorimeter, to determine their glass transition temperature. The measured glass transition temperature for the first sample was 52.8°C, and 54.0°C for the second sample."
by LoganDark | 2025-12-04 22:34:25+00:00
> Have you considered the fact that you may be neurodivergent?

I scrolled through some of their Reddit comment history (it's linked on their profile) and I think I would peg them as probably autistic. Their patterns of emphasis, placements of sentence breaks, certain turns of phrases and pattern of emotional expression seem to closely match a few autistic friends I have & a few autistic coworkers. Research on this hasn't fully developed though so I can't really offer references (other than the preprint that inspired me, https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/untangling-biologica...)... I still don't really have a non-ambiguous way to call the different types.
by austhrow743 | 2025-12-04 22:34:28+00:00
Sure, if a butterfly flew past one of our parents on the day of our conception, causing them to spend a second glancing at it, then they may have had sex slightly differently that night and we wouldn't exist. We're all lottery winners in a billion different ways.

What is the practical application of bringing that to mind when considering what actions to take for career advancement?
by zahlman | 2025-12-04 22:34:35+00:00
> Congress added Section 230 in direct reaction to two court cases (against Prodigy and CompuServe) which made service providers liable for their user's content when they didn't act as pure common carriers but rather tried to moderate it but, obviously and naturally, could not perfectly get everything.

I know that. I spoke imprecisely; my framing is that this imperfect moderation doesn't take away their immunity — i.e. they are still treated as if they were "just the messenger" (per the previous rules). I didn't use the actual "common carrier" phrasing, for a reason.

It doesn't change the argument. Failing to apply a content policy consistently is not, logically speaking, an act of expression; choosing to show content preferentially is.

... And so is setting a content policy. For example, if a forum explicitly for hateful people set a content policy explicitly banning statements inclusive or supportive of the target group, I don't see why the admin should be held harmless (even if they don't also post). Importantly, though, the setting (and attempt at enforcing) the policy is only expressing the view of the policy, not that of any permitted content; in US law it would be hard to imagine a content policy expressing anything illegal.

But my view is that if they act deliberately to show something, based on knowing and evaluating what it is that they're showing, to someone who hasn't requested it (as a recommendation), then they really should be liable. The point of not punishing platforms for failing at moderation is to let them claim plausible ignorance of what they're showing, because they can't observe and evaluate everything.
by vasilipupkin | 2025-12-04 22:35:02+00:00
The number isn’t sourced. But the article does say 24% were receiving academic OR housing accommodation. So 38% registered disabled but only 24% receiving any type of accommodations sounds suspiciously like bullshit. It would require people registering and not using the thing they registered for.

But most importantly, the OR plays a big role here. Where is the data on how many people are using academic accommodations ? Complaining that people at a 90k a year school receive a housing accommodation is just frankly absurd. The article heavily implies that people are somehow using these accommodations to gain an academic advantage, when in fact 24% of people use any kind of accommodation, which includes dirty carpet replacement.
by Bender | 2025-12-04 22:35:14+00:00
DNT is a client header that failed to get traction and never did anything useful. RTA is a server header and small children will not be doing this for the most part and parents can of course disable parental controls assuming one day they are enabled by default for child accounts. Like I said, it's not perfect. Teens can of course bypass this a million different ways. For every 100 million dollars a company spends to lock teens out of something is just an extra 5 lines of python or 15 seconds of their time on AI if that. Currently many teens watch pirated movies and porn together in VR and assorted games that allow placing a media player in G-rated world building games.

It's probably worth noting that if teens can not view porn, they will likely produce porn making an entirely new tax free underground market on Tor or other networks.

This is just for keeping small children out. Nobody in the history or future of earth have ever or will ever locked teens out of a thing. Archive this comment so we can review it at a later time.
by mort96 | 2025-12-04 22:35:20+00:00
The analogy they weren't making: "This is life critical, just like Arch Linux"

The analogy they were making: "This is a commonly home-built and heavily customized hacker aircraft, just like Arch Linux is a commonly home-built and heavily customized hacker Linux distro"

Two things can be analogous in one aspect while being disanalogous in another aspect. That doesn't make the analogy invalid.
by watwut | 2025-12-04 22:35:47+00:00
It is not just about societal tolerance. It is also about autistic person having complete emotional meltdown with yelling abusive things or even hitting things because something was not exactly to his/her liking. You can "tolerate" that, but then you are just allowing someone else to be abused.

And even in milder cases, the "does not understand social rules" is sometimes or even frequently euphemism for what would be labeled as abusive or cruel or simply selfish behavior for non autistic person.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-12-04 22:35:48+00:00
There's a lot to comment on that post about strange conclusions.

Yes, C has an ISO standard. It took more than 15 years from the conception of the language. Same with C++. Before that, there didn't even exist a normative compiler. And if you want a certified C or C++ compiler, you have to pay a lot, or use the "it is wildly used with a well-known set of bugs".

Either way, there's a huge load of constructs that are Undefined Behavior which you need to know about and avoid. The discussion about the borrow checker being hard to understand and work around, only highlights a belief that is different from what you need to do in C or C++ anyway - but without help from the compiler.

And cost? Heck, Visual Studio Pro cost twice that of Ferrocene. The Enterprise version starts at 10x the price - and those aren't certified.

Then there's the discussion about proving to the compiler that the code is correct - while at the same time dismissing proof using formal verification, that in turn is an entire language and alphabet of symbols that doesn't even exist on a keyboard.

Yes, the Rust syntax could have been easier to read, to that I agree. And Rust is no silver bullet. But in general, the article could benefit from a review.