MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2025-12-30 19:27:47+00:00
Finally an answer! damn it, I just saw the "May"

Oddly, Someone at my local church asked me if I was autistic just this week!

Of course I am not autistic. I have been wondering how a member of the church came up with the idea that a retired psychotherapist might be autistic.

I have considered that she may have a family member who has been diagnosed with autism and saw similar behaviours in me. I am after all, a very annoying introvert.

How could a lay person, think, that it is OK to diagnose a complete stranger, or even assume, that I was on the spectrum with something, which is usually only accessible via professionals browsing the old DSM-5, without any training in the field.

How would she have felt if I had diagnosed her with a life threatening veterinary disease like Canine distemper.

I digress. Though I must say the spectrum has rather expanded over my 20 years as a psychotherapist.

In the mid 90's autism diagnosis was pretty much for the non verbal, Now its seems that an annoying introvert like me can easily get on the autistic spectrum. Even a church member can diagnose me.

All my young colleagues will be out of a job, dont worry about ai taking, clinical psychologists, psycotherapists and psychiatrists jobs, worry about the lay person at church. Diagnosis is free there, no medical qualification required.

For me, its the same for people promoting autism online. They are promoters, they get paid.

If this behaviour, thought, action, task, belief, happens to you, Welcome! you must be autistic, Thanks, for that, I will definitely take on board that new label as my own.

I was looking for a new label to answer all my existential questions, because life has been shit lately.

Wicked, I am now autistic, I have the same symptoms as the autistic promoter. I'll Shoot down the GP's office in the morning and get some meds and life will be great again.
by kentm | 2025-12-30 19:27:52+00:00
#2 is happening a lot more than people think. It’s incredibly hard to quantify tech debt in software and so as a result productivity measurements are pretty inaccurate. Even without AI there is a trend of devs writing a barely working system and then throwing it over the wall to “maintenance programmers”. Said devs are often rated highly by management as being productive compared to the “maintenance devs,” but all they really did was make other people deal with their garbage. I’ve seen these sorts of systems take months to years to be production ready while the original dev is already off to their new gig (and maybe cluelessly bragging on HN about how much better they are than the people cleaning up their mess).

To get an accurate productivity metric you’d have to somehow quantify the debt and “interest” vs some alternative. I don’t think that’s possible to do, so we’re probably just going to keep digging deeper.
by ericmay | 2025-12-30 19:27:56+00:00
Donald Trump and, frankly, those around him in general are what poor people think rich people are like, but I wouldn’t exactly be one to claim that the design language used by the Biden Administration, like switching to Calibri, are very tasteful either. In leftist popular culture there is a love for modernist style architecture, minimalism, and a disrespect for building beautiful things that cost a lot of money or time. Rightwing circles have their own problems here too, to be fair.

But mandating Greco-Roman architecture by the Trump administration for federal buildings was actually a huge win for taste and design. Though unfortunately many people have become confused about what good design is or the reason to choose that architecture style can’t be overcome by their distaste for President Trump or his administration, which is very arguably deserved based on their conduct, speech, or mannerisms.

When we take away formality or tradition from governmental institutions you take away pieces of civilization and governmental authority that we, really can’t afford to lose. When government buildings are designed to look like shit, for example, one might come to believe the government is shit too (Democrat or Republican run) and the next thing you know you’re running red lights or flipping off the court because the document they sent you in the mail doesn’t look scary and official.

Secretary Duffy was right too about airline travel. Well, there is another to unpack there. Flying is lame compared to rail unless you’re flying across the country, and being shaken down by the TSA is undignified and thus people dress to meet the lack of dignity and respect the government shows them at the airline terminal.

But he’s not wrong.

When you put more care into how you dress you instinctively put more care into how you treat others and how you dress impacts how others treat you. I’m not suggesting a mandate or anything, but I’ll fly in a suit and tie easily and comfortably all day long over stained sweatpants and bringing my comfort dog on to the flight to annoy everyone. Dress how you want, but if you can’t take care of the basics I’m not sure where else you think society is going other than downhill in a fashion.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-30 19:29:30+00:00
Hm Interesting, I already live in India and its already really cheap and still has a really good startup ecosystem. When I wrote that comment, I didn't mean that I wanted to go to startup, I am a little annoyed by some of the things happening there too

So I guess India's the best option considering all factors I guess.

but one of the problems especially in India is the saturation of the market for software engineers and the competition to get into college is so cut throat that I can't even start to tell smh

I think perhaps remote jobs from india might make more sense but I clearly am not the only one with this idea so might be hard to differentiate I suppose

> AI is going to increase inequality far more than economic policy, I’m 5x more productive with AI and am able to compete with much larger orgs. What happens when they lose their job, what happens when someone does the same to me. The Pareto distribution of productivity is about to get a hell of a lot steeper.

That's great but I think I have nuanced discussion on AI, I think that we are gonna have much bigger financial issues all around the world because of the AI bubble itself
by game_the0ry | 2025-12-30 19:29:40+00:00
FWIW, I am building a market place app in rails and trying to vibe code the majority of it. Mostly with Gemini CLI + Cursor.

Its been very decent so far. Time will tell if the PMF is there for the MVP, but thats on the product, not the AI generated code slop.

FYI, this was more of a hobby horse + learning project than an "enterprise SaaS requiring SOC2 compliance." I am basically building a toy. So far, I have learned that you can ship code toys very quickly to test a market demand with an MVP.
by naet | 2025-12-30 19:29:57+00:00
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's partly because a couple of large ad companies decided to stop backing podcasts which took a large amount of money out of the ecosystem.

Podcasts are much harder to get analytics on since the ecosystem is made up of a bunch of different podcast platforms and services, and I bet that plays into part of it. You might not be able to tell if people are downloading your podcast (a copy might be cached by a podcast provider), you might not know if people are listening or listening all the way through, if people are skipping over your ad, etc.

Ad marketers love statistics.
by josephg | 2025-12-30 19:30:03+00:00
The people we happen to work with is an incredibly biased sample set of all software engineers.

As an example, almost everyone I’ve worked with in my career likes using macOS and Linux. But there are entire software engineering sub communities who stick to windows. For them, macOS is a quaint toy.

If you’ve never met or worked with people who care about typing, I think that says more about your workplace and coworkers than anything. I’ve worked with plenty of engineers who consider dynamic typing to be abhorrent. Especially at places like FAANG.

Long before typescript, before nodejs, before even “JavaScript the good parts”, Google wrote their own JavaScript compiler called Closure. The compiler is written in Java. It could do many things - but as far as I can tell, the main purpose of the compiler was to add types to JavaScript. Why? Because googlers would rather write a compiler from scratch than use a dynamically typed language. I know it was used to make the the early versions of Gmail. It may still be in use to this day.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-30 19:30:09+00:00
Just aesthetically one of the worst websites I have ever seen.

It is obviously impossible to engage with every single idea proposed at once, but I think the main thrust of the argument is encapsulated in

>"Personally, I feel like the world might be a happier, more cooperative place if situations were by default framed as Stag Hunts."

Which is just so bizarrely and obviously false. Especially when just sentences before the issue of climate change came up, which certainly is not a positive sum game and we would be lucky if it was a zero sum game, but given all evidence it is very obviously a negative sum game, where governments get to talk about who has to bear the most pain. (And it isn't clear that cooperation even is the best opportunity for survival)

The optimism strikes me as so blindingly naive that it makes it hard to take anything said seriously. Maybe this is just a generational divide, many of the older people I know, in their 40s or older, seem much more optimistic about the state of the world. And the attempt to justify affirmative action is just so bizarre. If historic grievances are legitimate arguments for preferential treatment, then you will never get me to accept that this is anything but a brutal race to the bottom, which is about who can make the other suffer most. No, the world is not a positive sum game and I will never live under the delusion that it is.
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-30 19:30:28+00:00
That's an interesting difference to make. You are defining an AI based on a result (that it displays intelligence) yet dismissing another thing based on method (how it works). By that logic it would have to work by a method which you already define as intelligent in order to display intelligence. Isn't that circular?

Let's remove AI or LLM from this question and ask if there is anything any non-biological system could do to convince you that it was thinking?
by pixl97 | 2025-12-30 19:30:58+00:00
If it's a French bank the country of France can tell said bank they must service said customer regardless of the loss of their US assets.

Every country that works at an international level assumes said risks.

I for one am tired of internal national companies playing pick and choose on the best options and ignoring everything else. If the world wants to go multipolar again it's time for corporations to get kicked in the sack.
by tevon | 2025-12-30 19:31:05+00:00
Completely agree. This statement is immediately disproven by the authors following points. Eg pointing out that the supreme court, and other authoritative bodies exclusively use serif fonts...

Of course there is no "a priori", the general public doesn't know what a letter is "a priori" until they are taught. At the same time they are taught which fonts are formal and authoritative and which are not.

Everyone knows Comic Sans is not appropriate for a legal brief. No matter if that is "a priori" or not.
by sgnelson | 2025-12-30 19:31:13+00:00
Since TNR was designed for print and thus it seems they expected the ink to "bleed" and make the characters appear thicker than they would have been for the actual (leaded?) type face, was this taken into account when turning it into a digital type face?

From reading the article, it appears the answer is no. Has anyone made a TNR digital font that would account for how it would look if printed on 1900's newsprint?
by simonw | 2025-12-30 19:31:31+00:00
One interesting feature of DuckDB is that it can run queries against HTTP ranges of a static file hosted via HTTPS, and there's an official WebAssembly build of it that can do that same trick.

So you can dump e.g. all of Hacker News in a single multi-GB Parquet file somewhere and build a client-side JavaScript application that can run queries against that without having to fetch the whole thing.

You can run searches on https://lil.law.harvard.edu/data-gov-archive/ and watch the network panel to see DuckDB in action.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-12-30 19:31:56+00:00
> On performance: ... In particular I am thinking how there's a whole body of research of database buffer pool management

Why? The solution has always been turn off what the kernel does, and, do these things in userspace, not move everything in the kernel? Where are these performance gains to be had?

> The Linux kernel is a general purpose utility optimizing for the entire range of "normal things" people do with their Linux machines.

Yeah, like logging. Perhaps you say: "Oh we just add that logging to the blob we run". Well isn't that now another thing that can take down the system, when before it was a separate process?

> That and startup times, big world of difference.

Perhaps in this very narrow instance, this is useful, but what is it useful for? Can't Linux or another OS be optimized for this use case without having to throw the baby out with the bathwater? Can't one snapshot a Firecracker VM and reach even faster startup times?

> On security, I don't think it's unreasonable or pure "security theatre" to go removing an attack surface entirely

Isn't perhaps the most serious problem removing any and all protection domains? Like between apps and the kernel and between the apps themselves?

I mean -- sure remove the filesystem, but not the memory protection? But even then, a filesystem is a useful abstraction. I've never found myself wanting less filesystem. Usually, I want more, like ZFS.
by OfflineSergio | 2025-12-30 19:32:01+00:00
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by vitaelabitur | 2025-12-30 19:32:22+00:00
I am struggling to understand the need for this. If AI output is indistinguishable, that could mean -

1. It is as good as human output. For this to happen with the current state of AI, a human still needs to be an expert to guide and review. In this case, I don't think it hurts anyone to use AI.

2. It is worse than human output but the humans consuming it don't know any better. The AI reproduces successful patterns to produce books, paintings, music, films, instead of producing novel ideas/concepts that add to society. This is a deeper problem, and humans in pop culture have been doing it for years without AI. And besides art, bad outputs like vulnerable code or inaccurate text get detected naturally sooner or later.
by miki123211 | 2025-12-30 19:32:24+00:00
The Polish "paradocumentary" format is like this, but taken to an extreme. Such shows are mostly dialog interleaved with a narrator describing exactly what just happened. There's also a detailed recap of everything that happened in the episode so far after every ad break, of which there are many.

It's basically daytime TV, to be watched at work, often as background, and without looking at the actual screen very often.
by retrac | 2025-12-30 19:32:51+00:00
The All-Red Line as a piece of imperial infrastructure remained well into the 20th century. Its last iteration in the late 1950s was CANTAT, COMPAC, and the TransCanada Relay. CANTAT-1 linked Newfoundland and Scotland. COMPAC linked BC in Canada, via Hawaii and Fiji, with Australia/NZ. It opened in 1962 with 80 phone channels. One of the last reflections of the old way of thinking about empire.
by tolerance | 2025-12-30 19:33:22+00:00
Could you clarify what you mean by “meaningless”?

How you can conceive a literate society that is not affected by type. The fact that general literacy is apparently declining is beside the point but we remain surrounded by letters and words, the shape of which determine how we comprehend what they point out. Planes, signs, screens depend on font choice to be effective. Newspapers and memoranda too.

The degrees may vary but the significance of a font choice just can’t be as simple as you make it seem. Just only to the extent of the value the public ascribes to the type-bearing object. Granted, we may be assigning too much to US State Department documents. But who’s to say?
by feynn-ai | 2025-12-30 19:33:31+00:00
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by keiferski | 2025-12-30 19:33:52+00:00
Not exactly a new idea...but I do think it's one that is underused in democratic societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Having said that, it doesn't seem obvious to me that elected power is actually all that powerful, compared to unelected powers like corporations. I think you could use the same reasoning as pro-sortition arguments, but to argue for more democracy and elections, not less. Or at least that a state/citizen-focused theory of power is inadequate. (Raymond Geuss talks more about this.)
by pixl97 | 2025-12-30 19:33:57+00:00
>all payment card systems popular in Europe are American - aren't subject to the French government's enforcement or lack thereof.

I disagree. Tomorrow France can tell Visa/MC/Banks they must service ICC judges or lose the ability to bank in their country and suddenly said providers will be concerned about the predicament they are in.

The EU better pull its head out of its ass about following everything the US does at this point. It's obvious over here in the states things have gone off the rails, and they'll go down with us if they want to remain so tightly coupled.
by hosh | 2025-12-30 19:34:07+00:00
Dr John Todd has figured out and demonstrated a method to remediate DDT-contaminated water without the use of electrolysis, or other energy inputs. He was able to decontaminate one of the top superfund sites. The method is broadly versatile, and requires even lower tech than electrolysis. His methods can also sequester heavy metals. It involves introducing organisms across all of the kingdoms so that they self-organize on the contaminant.

More narrowly, Paul Stamets has worked a lot on mycroremediation — remediating with fungi.
by jiggawatts | 2025-12-30 19:34:34+00:00
Because it’s total nonsense.

The darkness of shows has more to do with the mastering monitors having gotten so good that colorists don’t even notice if the dynamic range is just the bottom half or less. Their eyes adjust and they don’t see the posterisation because there isn’t any… until the signal is compressed and streamed. Not to mention that most viewers aren’t watching the content in a pitch black room on a $40K OLED that’s “special order” from Sony.
by jawns | 2025-12-30 19:34:38+00:00
The main problem with choosing representatives by lottery is that the average person just doesn't want to do the job. I know I wouldn't. It's about as appealing as having to do jury duty for three years.

The book proposes financial incentives as a way to address this reluctance, such as paying the person 1.5 times their current salary. But that seems like it will lead to representatives who are only doing it for the money, not because they care about doing a good job.

And then, of course, there's always a chance that you end up in a "Napoleon of Notting Hill" situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Napoleon_of_Notting_Hill

Part of me wonders what would happen if a lottery were used not to select representatives from among the population at large, but from among the candidates who have won their parties' respective primaries. Of course, then you'd have to decide whether to use weighted selections (which would strongly favor the entrenched parties) or non-weighted (which would give a strong edge to minor parties).

But realistically, sensible term limits seem like they would help achieve a lot of what the proposed lottocracy system would achieve.
by etempleton | 2025-12-30 19:34:39+00:00
Suspend disbelief in that you can't see that the punch never actually landed, or that the monster that ran across screen was actually a man in a rubber suit. When something happen fast at 24 fps it naturally blurs. It is why shaky cam, low resolution footage can be scary. Direct to VHS horror movies could be scary because you could only barely see what was happening allowing your brain to fill in the gaps. At full resolution captured with a high speed camera everything looks a bit silly / fake.
by phtrivier | 2025-12-30 19:35:04+00:00
> Despite a production capacity of 250,000 units per year at Giga Texas, the Cybertruck is currently selling at a run rate of roughly 20,000 to 25,000 units annually.

How can such an overcapacity be possible ? Is that a massive failure of market analysis ?

On the other hand, is the factory building the cybertruck easy to modify to build other, most successful models ? I hear there is demand for billions of autonomous robotaxis.
by rsync | 2025-12-30 19:35:10+00:00
"I'm a EU citizen, never heard about any EU citizen getting removed from any EU bank because of USD ..."

US and USD need not be involved - EU does this on it's own without any pressure:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/former-swiss-in...

"As a result Baud will not be allowed to travel within EU countries and his assets in the Euro zone will be frozen."

His assertions are not particularly extreme and, without question, fall into the realm of protected, free speech.

This is orthogonal to whether you or I agree with what he is saying. Finding his views "dangerous" is an admission of profound weakness.