MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BeetleB | 2025-12-21 20:01:27+00:00
> if you think all the potential value of a fiction book is some commentary padded by a story.

Actually, I'm flipping the two: The potential value of a fiction book is a good story - social commentary is purely optional. Fiction that has commentary padded by a story are valued only by those who are sympathetic to the commentary. Whereas I can easily love a good story even if I disagree with the commentary.

> Good fiction usually exercises the mind in ways a non-fiction book never would. You experience life through someone else's eyes, you try to understand someone's mind by the actions they take and the words they say, you wonder in a meta-plane what the author is trying to show, you see language being used in non-common ways to provoke emotions or express ideas, you wonder how you would have acted in someone's shoes... Saying the author could get to the point quicker is like saying that lifting weights in the gym is done faster with a forklift, the process is the point rather than the extracted output.

I don't think we're in disagreement. I'm merely saying that I've yet to see someone changed by a fiction book. If there was change, it was always "change in the same direction" (e.g. "a renewed appreciation of X").

I have seen plenty of folks changed by nonfiction, though.

Incidentally, most/all of what you wrote above can be done as effectively with nonfiction. Books like When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him are extremely powerful. As was Killers of the Flower Moon. I doubt any works of fiction dealing with the same topics would be more powerful. Both of these books could have been written (and read) as fiction, but knowing the events were true makes a huge difference in appreciation.

> There is also a fundamental difference between being told 'pain is an unpleasant feeling that living beings take effort to avoid' and being punched in the face. Fiction gives you a fraction of the extra wisdom you get with the latter.

This seems like a false dichotomy. You can have nonfiction do this very effectively without simply "telling" you.
by creativeSlumber | 2025-12-21 20:01:31+00:00
Comparing it to X flights maybe correct from a greenhouse emissions standpoint, but extremely misleading from a safety perspective. A jet emits that co2 spread over tens of thousands of miles. The problem here is it all pooled in one location.

Also that statement of 70 meters seem very off, looking at the size of the building. What leads to suffocation is the inability to remove co2 from your body rather than lack of oxygen, and thus can be life threatening even at 4% concentration. It should impact a much much larger area.
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-21 20:02:39+00:00
There must be a way to disable this thing. Maybe we can disable the service? But anyway I already switched to Linux for my daily usage. It is not smooth as Windows due to driver issues and other weird things, like Firefox crashing frequently when I’m typing in a text box like this one, but still feels better than Windows.

The Windows team and its product manager is determined to trash the product. Good work!
by like_any_other | 2025-12-21 20:03:18+00:00
> I'm not sure if that's really true or just a stereotype

Stereotype Accuracy is One of the Largest and Most Replicable Effects in All of Social Psychology - https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/stereoty...

In fact, quite shockingly to many, that prevailing twofold sentiment, which sees stereotypical thinking as faulty cognition and stereotypes themselves as patently inaccurate, is itself wrong on both counts. - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/2018...

Most stereotypes that have been studied have been shown to be approximately correct. Usually, stereotype accuracy correlations exceed .50, making them some of the largest relationships ever found in social psychology. - https://www.cspicenter.com/p/the-accuracy-of-stereotypes-dat...
by ivan_gammel | 2025-12-21 20:03:33+00:00
The problem statement in this article sounds weird. I thought in 2025 everyone logs at least thread id and context id (user id, request id etc), and in microservice architecture at least transaction or saga id. You don’t need structured logging, because grep by this id is sufficient for incident investigation. And for analytics and metrics databases of events and requests make more sense.
by aftbit | 2025-12-21 20:03:33+00:00
It's amazing what this technology can do. I wonder what the interface in the cockpit was like, who activated it and why, how it chose the runway, and other details that will likely come out in the final report if not earlier.

I think the radio call could be improved a bit though. It spends sooo much time on the letters and so little on the "emergency" part. It almost runs that sentence together "Emergencyautolandinfourminutesonrunway. three. zero. at. kilo. bravo. juliet. charlie."

>Aircraft November 4.7. Niner. Bravo. Romeo. Pilot incapacitation. Six miles southeast of Kilo. Bravo. Juliet. Charlie. Emergency auto land in four minutes on runway three zero right at Kilo. Bravo. Juliet. Charlie.

It would be nice to hear something more like:

Aircraft November-Four-Seven-Niner-Bravo-Romeo. Mayday mayday mayday, pilot incapacitation. Six miles southeast of the field. Emergency autoland in four minutes on runway three zero right at Bravo-Juliet-Charlie.

Still amazing, and successful clear communication ... but it could use some more work :)
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-21 20:03:52+00:00
Maybe this hits for millennials and older but as a gen-z I think it's safe to say we're burnt out because everything we want is simply too expensive, our degrees are useless, dating and relationships have become damaged because of the apps, and we are inheriting a world that is broken and continues to shatter.

The older generations have everything and still feel burnt out and unhappy? Cool. Cool cool cool. That will certainly help with the nihilism.
by simonw | 2025-12-21 20:04:02+00:00
> The bot isn’t guiding you through the process so you can go do it yourself.

It is if you ask it to. Learning well with LLMs requires a lot of self-discipline - you have to be actively aware of the threat that you won't actually learn effectively and take steps to counter that.

I keep meticulous notes of everything these things do for me, which adds up to a valuable set of notes over time. I gave up on remembering things without notes a long time ago!
by troupo | 2025-12-21 20:04:05+00:00
This is a page that appeared on HN front page news.

So what do you expect? People ignoring the frankly idiotic choices made that you now defend with "they will come back and optimize it"?

> HTPP/2 parallel requests aren't that big a deal, all things considered.

I literally see a progress counter that is for some reason required to display the most trivial animation to show ... a single static link. On a gigabit connection. All that takes up to two seconds.

On that same connection the same thing happen to three purely three static examples of code that somehow need up to two seconds to appear and to shift the entire content of the page.

Both are especially jarring on mobile.
by koliber | 2025-12-21 20:04:18+00:00
Some of the positive sunlight exposure benefits are trivial to see.

- running around outside, because physical activity if healthy

- spending an afternoon in the company of good friends or family

- gardening, which can produce veggies that are pesticide free

Not everything is a biochemical direct benefit of the sun’s rays. Some of the positive effects are a few steps removed.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-21 20:04:28+00:00
AFAIK, the brine pits are pretty economical, they just require ocean access.

What I'm somewhat surprised about is that we've not seen synergies with desalination and ocean mineral extraction. IDK why the brine from a desalination plant isn't seen as a prime first step in extraction lithium, magnesium, and other precious minerals from ocean water.
by throw1235435 | 2025-12-21 20:04:30+00:00
I'm not sure that it will scale to other fields other than coding and math. The approach with RLVR makes it more amenable to STEM fields in general and most jobs believe it or not aren't that. The level of open source software with good test suites effectively gave them all the training material they needed; most professions won't provide that knowing that they will be giving their moat away. LLM's to other fields from my understanding still exhibit the same hallucination rates if only mildly improved especially if there isn't public internet material in that field.

We have to accept in the end that coding/SWE is one of the most disrupted fields from this breed of AI. Disruption unfortunately probably means less jobs overall. The profession is on trend to disrupting and automating itself I think; plan accordingly. I've seen so many articles claiming its great we didn't learn to code now; that's what the AI's have done.
by mindslight | 2025-12-21 20:04:32+00:00
Given how this regime has squandered money and ballooned the debt for things that are outright harmful to our country, I'd say as long as the reactors don't melt down (whether through sheer incompetence or as part of a deliberate plan) we're coming out ahead. I certainly wish we were at a place where fiscal responsibility arguments had relevance, but we just aren't.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-12-21 20:04:33+00:00
This list is all heavily extrapolated and there are good reasons to reject any antichrist is well defined or even prophesied as lists like this claim. The Bible warns of escalating deception and a future opponent of Christ through passages like John’s letters, Paul’s “man of lawlessness,” and Daniel’s prophecies, but the highly detailed profile of a singular Antichrist, complete with global empire, mark of the beast, and dramatic persecutions all depends heavily on the Book of Revelation’s vivid imagery. Without Revelation, these elements largely vanish, leaving a more restrained and debated concept focused on blasphemy and false teaching rather than an itemized checklist of traits and events. Moreover, Revelation itself faced significant controversy in the early church, with doubts about its authorship and theology leading some fathers and Eastern churches to reject or marginalize it for centuries before its eventual acceptance around the 4th–5th centuries. Thus, claims of precise, comprehensive biblical knowledge about one ultimate Antichrist figure are overstated, as the most elaborate details stem from a book whose canonical status was far from immediate or unanimous.
by keybored | 2025-12-21 20:04:38+00:00
> As I think I conveyed in my original post, I am not against anyone using whatever language they want to make their software.

You conveyed that? How?

Really, what neat little delineation is there between your little OS hack-on world and people using whatever language they want to make their software? There isn’t. Because people on a long-running project can have members who want to move code over or start modules in Rust or whatever language. As is happening in some places.

Beyond that though the projects that one is interested in would need to remain static and not include potentially new projects written in upcoming languages.

Against that backdrop we have you, moaning about lang X potentially infecting your OSS ecocsystem.
by jcims | 2025-12-21 20:04:51+00:00
I've been in an engineering manager role on and off for the past 7 years at two different companies. Both of which are highly regulated and incur a ton of audits, attestations and this impenetrable knot of distributed dependencies for segregation of duty and other 'stuff'. As a result I'm in meetings 75% of my working hours and rarely get involved with anything close to the actual technology my team delivers.

In the past two months I've been on two 4-6 hour incident management calls due to failures in our service providers and it's been quite some time since I felt that good about a day's work. No meetings, no planning, no bullshit...just raw collaboration and tactical problem solving. Even got to flex some of the skills that have been dormant for far too long.

Feelsgoodman.
by tptacek | 2025-12-21 20:05:18+00:00
Sasha Gusev and Alex Strudwick Young are two good follows on opposing ends of the spectrum of research beliefs here, both link constantly to new studies. From a more psychometric and behavioral perspective, Eric Turkheimer is a good starting point. On the other end of the spectrum from Turkheimer is Richard Haier.

These are, like, high-profile names, but of course there are many dozens more people actually doing work in these fields.
by primaprashant | 2025-12-21 20:05:23+00:00
Good stuff. You will enjoy my short essay, I want to give a lot of fucks! [1], which argues against the typical conclusion reached by people working at big corp long enough: "Stop caring. Stop giving a fuck. Focus on things outside of work".

The core insight it, if you start to feel the need to stop caring, instead of changing your character and values, treat it as a strong signal to change your environment.

[1]: https://anandprashant.com/posts/i-want-to-give-a-lot-of-fuck...
by tsunamifury | 2025-12-21 20:05:25+00:00
For all the yammering in this thread you’ve centered on the real problem no one can admit here.

You burn out creating value for others that you end up either not owning or it not materially contributing to your immediate community.

We evolved to work for ourselves and our tribe again immense satisfaction from that. Cleaning your house, pulling weeds volunteering locally. Etc.

But endlessly serving shareholders (ownership class or not) while giving up way more value then you out in yields a deep sense of happiness because we can’t express the unfairness woven into our life so deeply.
by jesprenj | 2025-12-21 20:05:37+00:00
I sure like seeing

Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is not enabled. 0 updates can be applied immediately. 108 additional security updates can be applied with ESM Apps. Learn more about enabling ESM Apps service at https://ubuntu.com/esm

every time I log in. Or

> You do not have a valid subscription for this server. Please visit www.proxmox.com to get a list of available options.

every time I log in.
by visarga | 2025-12-21 20:06:02+00:00
I would just put a PR_REVIEW.md file in the repo an have a CI agent run it on the diff/repo and decide pass or reject. In this file there are rules the code must be evaluated against. It could be project level policy, you just put your constraints you cannot check by code testing. Of course any constraint that can be a code test, better be a code test.

My experience is you can trust any code that is well tested, human or AI generated. And you cannot trust any code that is not well tested (what I call "vibe tested"). But some constraints need to be in natural language, and for that you need a LLM to review the PRs. This combination of code tests and LLM review should be able to ensure reliable AI coding. If it does not, iterate on your PR rules and on tests.
by Too | 2025-12-21 20:06:05+00:00
To be honest Linux desktop has been ready for the past 4-5 years or so. Long gone are the days where Bluetooth suddenly stopped, external monitors crashing and when closing the lid only put the laptop to sleep every fifth time. Heck, even Wayland, wireless printers and usb-c docking stations work these days, even with nvidia. You might even find some games.

It’s become a boring appliance that just works every time. Just they way I want it. I even forgot how to use grub.
by prmoustache | 2025-12-21 20:07:16+00:00
In late 2025, there are plenty of alternatives:

Linux FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD DragonflyBSD Haiku Plan9 Redox ReactOS Debian Gnu/Hurd FreeDOS Genode SculptOS

And probably some others I haven't heard of. Using Windows in 2025 AND complaining about it is complaining about a self inflicted wound.
by moomoo11 | 2025-12-21 20:07:20+00:00
I think it’s because once you educate yourself, you see how the masses behave and it’s like the ultimate revelation.

They are consumers. Feeders. They want to be told what to think.

Most people don’t even have an internal monologue and many people say they don’t even think much, not even a thought.

You thought for yourself. You used your brain. But you are outnumbered. Vastly.
by parpfish | 2025-12-21 20:07:22+00:00
One thing that I always try to bring up in these discussions is that “burnout” and “overwork” are two different problems, and I think this author would agree with me.

If your problem could be fixed with a raise or a nice vacation, that’s overwork. 996 schedules, crunch time, and a high cost of living make overwork.

Burnout is when you stat asking yourself “what’s the point of doing any of this?” and your life is overwhelmed with apathy and anhedonia. Closer to a career-induced bout of major depression.
by anigbrowl | 2025-12-21 20:08:04+00:00
Hiding dislikes is stupid. they don't even show them to you on the creator page so I'm required to do math to derive the number of dislikes from the # of likes and the '% favorability' metric.

Certainly, such tools can be abused as documented in the article. The solution to this is to deweight signals from people who do it systematically.
by Veserv | 2025-12-21 20:08:04+00:00
Saying they are all the same when no fidelity is lost is missing the point. The only distinction between logs, traces, and metrics is literally what to do when fidelity is lost.

If you have insufficient ingestion rate:

Logs are for events that can be independently sampled and be coherent. You can drop arbitrary logs to stay within ingestion rate.

Traces are for correlated sequences of events where the entire sequence needs to be retained to be useful/coherent. You can drop arbitrary whole sequences to stay within ingestion rate.

Metrics are pre-aggregated collections of events. You pre-limited your emission rate to fit your ingestion rate at the cost of upfront loss of fidelity.

If you have adequate ingestion rate, then you just emit your events bare and post-process/visualize your events however you want.
by otterley | 2025-12-21 20:10:40+00:00
Generation and publication is just the beginning (never mind the fact that resources consumed by an application to log something are no longer available to do real work). You have to consider the scalability of each component in the logging architecture from end to end. There's ingestion, parsing, transformation, aggregation, derivation, indexing, and storage. Each one of those needs to scale to meet demand.
by sinaatalay | 2025-12-21 20:12:09+00:00
The JSON Resume schema did not support what we needed, so we deliberately created our own.

We wanted to define 9 different entry schemas that could be used under any section title. In our schema, each section, regardless of its title, contains a list composed of one of these nine entry types. This is different from the JSON Resume approach, where specific entry schemas are tied to specific sections (work schema for work section, etc.).

In RenderCV, users can choose any section title they want and use any of the 9 entry types within it. Each entry type is rendered differently in the generated PDF.
by eterm | 2025-12-21 20:12:27+00:00
Personally, this is what I use in claude code:

"Diff to master and review the changes. Branch designed to address <problem statement>. Write output to d:\claudeOut in typst (.typ) format."

It'll do the diffs and search both branch and master versions of files.

I prefer reading PDFs than markdown, but it'll default to markdown unprompted if you prefer.

I have almost all my workspaces configured with /add-dir to add d:/claudeOut and d:/claudeIn as general scratch folders for temporary in/out file permissions so it can read/write outside the context of the workspace for things like this.

You might get better results using a better crafted prompt (or code review skill?). In general I find claude code reviews are:

- Overly fussy about null checking everything - Completely miss on whether the PR has properly distilled the problem down to its essence - Are good at catching spelling mistakes - Like to pretend they know if something is well architectured, but doesn't

So it's a bit of a mixed bag, I find it focuses on trivia but it's still useful as a first pass before letting your teammates have to catch that same trivia.

It will absolutely assume too much from naming, so it's kind of a good spot if it's making wrong kind of assumptions about how parts work, to think how to name things more clearly.

e.g. If you write a class called "AddingFactory", it'll go around assuming that's what it does, even if the core of it returns (a, b) -> a*b.

You have to then work hard to get it to properly examine the file and convince itself that it is actually a multiplier.

Obviously real-world examples are more subtle than that, but if you're finding yourself arguing with it, it's worth sometimes considering whether you should rename things.
by j1elo | 2025-12-21 20:12:35+00:00
Adding to the enshittified pile of bad decissions that Windows has become, the actual requirements for Windows 11 are just a corporate caprice and not a real "requirement". I did whatever it needed to bypass the checks at install time, and W11 is now working exactly and equally as well as W10 was, on a laptop which only has TPM 1.2 and an old CPU.

Where is the requirement then in modern CPUs and TPM 2.0, Microsoft? Didn't you mean "nice to have" so additional but perfectly optional security features could be enabled?
by belval | 2025-12-21 20:12:39+00:00
> I mean marriage is a global concept but it feels like the US makes a huge deal about it.

I should have made that part clearer but my comment was solely on the kids part of their statement. I don't think marriage is inherently different from any other long-term partnership when it comes "existentially starving".

> As if married people with kids are the happiest people in the world lol.

That's not what I meant at all. The article is about how burnout is a catchall that hides that at our core we actually struggle for meaning. "When facing the existential vacuum, there's only one way out - up, towards your highest purpose". Children do in a lot of way give meaning to your life, suddenly you have a reason for suffering. It's a hell of a stretch to call that happiness, but it's definitely something.