MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voidhorse | 2025-12-04 02:10:34+00:00
Many mathematicians do in fact teach the rules of the game in numerous introductory texts. However, you don't expect to have to explain the rules every time you play the game with people who you've established know the game. Any session would take ages if so, and in many cases the game only become more fun the more fluent the players are.

I'm not fully convinced the article makes the claim that jargon, per se, is what needs to change nor that the use of jargon causes gatekeeping. I read more about being about the inherent challenges of presenting more complicated ideas, with or without jargon and the pursuit of better methods, which themselves might actually depend on more jargon in some cases (to abstract away and offload the cognitive costs of constantly spelling out definitions). Giving a good name to something is often a really powerful way to lower the cognitive costs of arguments employing the names concept. Theoretics in large part is the hunt for good names for things and the relationships between them.

You'd be hard pressed to find a single human endeavor that does not employ jargon in some fashion. Half the point of my example was to show that you cannot escape jargon and "gatekeeping" even in something as silly and fun as a card game.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-04 02:10:37+00:00
SOC2 is mainly to check boxes, and forces you to think about a few things. There’s no real / actual audit, and in my experience the pen tests are very much a money grab. You’re paying way too much money for some “pentesting” automated suite to run.

The auditors themselves pretty much only care that you answered all questions, they don’t really care what the answers are and absolutely aren’t going to dig any deeper.

(I’m responsible for the SOC2 audits at our firm)
by d12345m | 2025-12-04 02:11:13+00:00
Hear, hear. Dragging cables around with a mouse was a hard sell in the first place, but now it’s pretty much inconceivable.

I’ve been using LLMs to help build out audio-related projects that I didn’t think I’d get a chance to pursue until I retired.

Under the hood, are they crap? Maybe. Probably, even. But they function well enough to make my own weird music with, and they’re available for use now - not twenty years from now when I retire.

The era of custom software on tap is here. As someone who is primarily interested in making unique stuff, it’s a great time to be alive.
by hippo22 | 2025-12-04 02:11:24+00:00
So if Osama bin Laden was on a small boat in international waters, then it would be “wrong” to attack the boat?

Anyway, the point isn’t to justify extrajudicial killings, whether they occur in the Middle East or international waters.

The point is that, logically, you should feel the same way about both. “It’s ok to bomb people the country doesn’t like in a cave but it’s not ok to bomb people the country doesn’t like in a small boat” isn’t logical. It’s ok to believe both are wrong or both are right. That’s consistent. It’s inconsistent to believe one is right compared to the other, though.

Which brings me to the ultimate point, which is, if you feel that the boat bombings are a violation of law that should cause Trump to be removed from office, then you should also believe that Bush, Biden, and Obama should have been removed from office. And, if you believe Trump should be removed from office but not Obama, then you’re letting a media narrative influence your rational judgement.

If you need further evidence of Trump’s exceptionalism in the media, consider Hacker News. If you tried to discuss Obama’s Middle East bombing, your conversation would be flagged as political discussion. Yet discussing Trump does not receive the same treatment. The thing I dislike most about Trump is that every apolitical corner of the internet I enjoy has put political stakes in the ground.
by komali2 | 2025-12-04 02:11:52+00:00
> Also, I don't want to repeat this everywhere but I paid taxes and I lost a comma, so no need to worry about that anymore! Everyone please pull out your most microscopic violins!

Well, since we're talking about it, maybe you're down to answer a question I've always wondered about: money into the hundred millions, let alone billions, is for me an unfathomable amount of capital for one person to wield. I've always thought, if I ever had that kind of power to swing around, I'd spend it all trying to solve every problem I could get my hands on, until there was nothing left but my retirement fund (which could be 10 million and still let me spend hundreds of millions while retiring in permanent wealthy comfort). Hunger in specific areas, housing crises, underfunded education, across the world many issues that, at least locally, one individual with that kind of money could, so far as I can tell, independently resolve.

Why aren't the ultra rich doing it? You seem to have a more philanthropic mind than most, you're doing this cool project and nobody can deny your FOSS contributions. But even you are still holding onto keeping that count into the hundreds rather than the tens - is there some quality of life aspect hidden to us that's just really difficult to imagine giving up or something? Yacht life? Private flights? Chumming it up with Gabe and Zuck?

Becoming that wealthy won't happen to me but if it did, what would change about me that'd make me not want to spend it all anymore?
by alwillis | 2025-12-04 02:12:01+00:00
> All of the fuss seems to be entirely driven by Mitchell's clout, and maybe some interest in Zig.

Nope, that's not it.

It's mostly because he noticed the majority of terminal applications were okay but not great. So he decides to address this by creating a cross-platform terminal app that's faster and more compatible than pretty much every existing terminal app. And has a native macOS UI written in Swift without compromising its cross-platform features.

Kind of out of nowhere, Ghostty is in the conversation of being the best terminal app available. "Best" doesn't mean the most features; but it nails speed and compatibility. (I’d love to see iTerm switch to using libghostty in the near future. That would be a killer combination!)

From "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions": [1]

Before presenting the latest results, Ghostty warrants particular attention, not only because it scored the highest among all terminals tested, but that it was publicly released only this year by Mitchell Hashimoto. It is a significant advancement. Developed from scratch in Zig, the Unicode support implementation is thoroughly correct

In 2023, Mitchell published Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators, demonstrating a commitment to understanding and implementing the fundamentals. His recent announcement of libghostty provides a welcome alternative to libvte, potentially enabling a new generation of terminals on a foundation of strong Unicode support.

[1]: https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2...
by plaidfuji | 2025-12-04 02:12:10+00:00
The moat will be memory.

As a regular user, it becomes increasingly frustrating to have to remind each new chat “I’m working on this problem and here’s the relevant context”.

GenAI providers will solve this, and it will make the UX much, much smoother. Then they will make it very hard to export that memory/context.

If you’re using a free tier I assume you’re not using reasoning models extensively, so you wouldn’t necessarily see how big of a benefit this could be.
by futuraperdita | 2025-12-04 02:12:56+00:00
Is this not just "with freedom comes responsibility" applied to technology? Often the freedom to do something means that, when given that sovereignty and missing the requisite experience, that means you also end up with the freedom to harm yourself (whether through a misunderstanding of a danger or just simple error.)

Do we want to accept that as a potential consequence, or have someone else choose for us what consequences we are allowed to accept?
by linguae | 2025-12-04 02:13:23+00:00
I'm not the parent poster, but in my experience it depends on the location. I live in the Bay Area. We had Fry's Electronics before it closed, and when Fry's closed I shifted to Central Computers. We finally have a Micro Center in Santa Clara now! I find Central Computers and Micro Center to have reasonable prices that are competitive with online stores. However, it can sometimes be a difficult drive through traffic getting to these stores, and so it's often more convenient for me to order something online. I've had nothing but good experiences shopping from Newegg.

When I was an undergrad at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 20 years ago, I relied heavily on Newegg, since there were no large electronics stores in San Luis Obispo back then for computer enthusiasts. Best Buy today has come a long way and is now a great place for PC enthusiasts, but this wasn't the case 20 years ago; it had much more of a consumer electronics focus back then. Four years ago I was visiting Cal Poly friends in Santa Maria; we were building my PC together. I bought the wrong power supply online, and so we ended up going to Best Buy in Santa Maria, where I was able to find the correct power supply for a good price!

Even with Best Buy's improved selection, nothing beats Micro Center in either Silicon Valley or Irvine, but if you're in neither location and Best Buy doesn't stock what you need, then you have to order online.

As much as I love Micro Center, though, nothing beats Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara, Tokyo. That store is electronics heaven, at least for new components. For used components, I peruse Akihabara's alleys, which are filled with small shops specializing in used and retro gear.
by rietta | 2025-12-04 02:13:33+00:00
It was 2017 that I decided to go all in ensuring that my main work computers were built from parts sourced via the local Micro Center. The real eye-opening situation is even if I have a top line most expensive MacBook Pro or most expensive Dell laptop with full warranty, the truth is anytime there was a hardware issue which happened every 2 to 3 years it would destroy a day or more of work. you cannot have it fixed and returned to you the same day being able to have more redundancy in the ability to source individual parts locally is a gigantic financial benefit when you’re livelihood depends on a working high-performance systems as a high-end consultant. I also ensure that I have two laptops capable of running my work though neither perform as highly as my high-end gaming class workstation.
by Trinhchuong | 2025-12-04 02:14:27+00:00
STL Therapy V3.1 introduces a precision cancer-therapy platform built on ultra-stable circularized e-circRNA, integrated with a Rolling Circle Translation (RCT) mechanism that enables perpetual intracellular amplification of therapeutic proteins. The system activates only when all three layers of an AND Logic Gate are satisfied (Toehold Switches sensing tumor-specific microRNAs and micro-environmental cues), triggering the release of a combined payload consisting of Cas13b RNA-degradation effectors, BiTEs for immune redirection, and anti–PD-L1 shRNA.

The therapeutic cargo is delivered via a hybrid Exosome–LNP vector (functionalized with CD47/iRGD) to maximize stealth and deep-tissue penetration, while incorporating a Degron safety switch that enables immediate shutdown of the therapy through administration of an exogenous oral drug.
by Kirby64 | 2025-12-04 02:14:39+00:00
> If your income is closer to average (and stagnating inflation), there isn't much money to double.

When you’re in your 20s though, there doesn’t need to be a lot. You’ve got the magic of compound interest to work for you.

I’m sure you’ve heard the statistic, but $100/mo invested over 40 years is worth a million dollars. $100/mo isn’t particularly a lot.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-04 02:14:50+00:00
Making this more related (to GP's comment):

Charge is conserved => symmetry (though not capturing exactly the "(non-Noetherian) localization" that is special to it)

GP suggested the opposite thought process-- as you rightly imply:

disagreement between 2 observers whether charge is conserved or not => discovering that _something else_ is conserved
by taftster | 2025-12-04 02:14:53+00:00
Yes, exactly. It's kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge at this point. A company citing "public good" under the guise of "shareholder value" is not actually supporting the public good at all.

Not that I condone capitalism, or socialism, or communism, or fascism, or any ism for that matter. Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself.

But a private company, at this point, can arguably affect the greater good just as much as a public company. The rich are getting richer, and the corporate model is just there to support that transfer of wealth.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 02:15:11+00:00
It’s never been easier to be a hobbyist or a small electronics company. Honestly I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Micron is exiting this business because it’s a commodity. It’s everywhere. There are numerous companies producing parts in this space. Their investments are better spent on other things.

> I wonder if it's possible even for a company to make even 1980s-era electronics without massive capital expenditures? How feasible is it for a small company to manufacture the equivalent of a Motorola 68000 or Intel 386?

I don’t know what your threshold is for massive capital expenditure, but you could get a tapeout for a 68000 clone easier than at any point in history. There are now even takeout services that will let you get a little piece of a shared wafer for experimenting with making your own chips for very low prices. There are even accessible tools available now.

The hobby and small scale situation is better now than at any point in history. I don’t know how anyone can be sad about it unless they’re ignoring reality and only speculating based on the most cynical online takes about how the future is going to do a complete 180.
by ghostly_s | 2025-12-04 02:15:11+00:00
> I think in the future I'll anonymously contact companies with way more strict deadlines if their customers (or others) are in serious risk. I'll lose the ability to brag with my real name, but I can live with it.

What you're describing is likely a crime. The sad reality is most businesses don't view protection of customers' data as a sacred duty, but simply another of the innumerable risks to be managed in the course of doing business. If they can say "we were working on fixing it!" their asses are likely covered even if someone does leverage the exploit first—and worst-case, they'll just pay a fine and move on.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-04 02:15:30+00:00
It's very annoying when I'm using my personal mac mini and have to type my password a billion times, compared to my work macbook which lets me touch id.

But is it annoying enough I'd actually buy one of these hypothetical $50 boxes? IDK.... I've got my two machines on a KVM so I can use my Kinesis keyboard with both of them.
by petterroea | 2025-12-04 02:16:21+00:00
For an understanding of what Valve are doing, here is a 1 hour talk by Gabe Newell (CEO):

Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_PGkfIdIQ

TL;DR:

* The most skilled workers are the most undervalued

* Make products to serve the customer

* Management is a skill, not a career path

* The only people they consider themselves to be unable to compete with are their customers, so enabling the customer to produce better content in their ecosystem is the most efficient way of producing things.
by lvass | 2025-12-04 02:16:48+00:00
>On paper it should be a good thing

Not really. Most people have terribly low time preference. Democracy for example is a very bad idea when you account for that (read Hoppe for a detailed explanation). Public company ownership is much better because it doesn't suffer from one vote per person, but still susceptible to much of the same management problems, specially in a society that already favors lower time preference by other means.
by telui | 2025-12-04 02:17:29+00:00
*`system` – Tiny OS Utils for Isolated Cmds & Info*

```python import shlex, os, uuid, psutil, requests from ipaddress import ip_address from typing import Optional ```

*Globals* - `id = uuid.uuid4()` → session UUID - `uid = str(id)` → temp dir `./{uid}/` - `parts = psutil.disk_partitions()` - `usage = psutil.disk_usage("./")`

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### `run(cmd: str = "True")` Executes `cmd` in isolated `./{uid}/cache.sh`, auto-cleans. Uses `shlex.quote()` → injection-safe. ```python run("ls -la") ```

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### `getoutput(label: str = "True") -> str` Runs `label`, captures *stdout+stderr* → `output.txt`, returns stripped string. ```python getoutput("uname -a") # "Linux …" ```

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### `py(cmd: str)` Writes `cmd` to `cache.py`, runs via `python`. Prefer native Python. ```python py("print(42)") ```

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### `install(manager: str, pkg: str)` `sudo {manager} install {pkg}` – *needs passwordless sudo*. ```python install("apt", "vim") ```

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### `ip() -> ipaddress.ip_address` Public IP via `https://ifconfig.me`. ```python ip() # IPv4Address('203.0.113.42') ```

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*Lifecycle* 1. `mkdir ./uid/` 2. Write → exec → capture (if any) 3. `rm -rf ./uid/`

*Deps* `pip install psutil requests`

> *UUID-isolated, zero persistent state, sudo-aware.* Use responsibly. > by eotter-beep – Python 3.6+
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2025-12-04 02:18:10+00:00
For me, Alacritty and Foot do not support ligatures, Kitty does now but I personally find the maintainers behaviour a bit abrasive. Wezterm is great but I found it noticeably slow in some (dumb) instances -- eg 144fps rendering of games, input latency and had issues on wayland at some point.

Dunno if that makes Ghostty "better" than other terminals, probably not. It just ticks the boxes of ligatures, fast, integration with wayland, simple amount of configuration to work how I want. It also seemed to have a focus on "correctness" which I appreciate. I don't use any of the tab/ssh/whatever features. I know ligatures are the new vi-vs-emacs religious war. Without that single feature-request, I'd probably just use foot. Swapping terminal also isn't that hard, it'd easily swap to something else if it gave me a reason.

I do think its reasonable to question focus on a millionaires toy with a large social presence vs other projects, helped by the somewhat --if not intentional, at least side-effecting -- hype-focused release style of Ghostty. Would it be nearly as successful if it were released anonymously at a 1.0? Probably not? Maybe? It does score highly in sort of arbitrary feature & performance benchmarks so it would probably still have a number of users without the name attached.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-04 02:18:28+00:00
This is Dual Process Theory [0] otherwise known as Fast vs Slow thinking, or System 1 and System 2 thinking.

Humans are the only known organism to do System 2 (which doesn't mean we're the only ones that do it, just that we don't know if whales do it), but System 2 is what the author is talking about when they refer to Chains of Thought.

System 1 is what they're referring to when they talk about Messi reacting to an unusual situation on the field.

Related anecdote: I tested myself for ADHD by taking amphetamines. I normally think by intuitive leaps from point to point, without doing the intermediate steps consciously. I found that during this experience my System 2 thinking was fast enough to follow and I actually experienced proper chains of thought. Or I was whizzing my tits off and hallucinated the whole thing. Not sure yet. I should repeat the experiment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory
by faidit | 2025-12-04 02:18:32+00:00
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own like 90% of stocks, and the top 1% own 50%. While the poorest 50% of the population own about 1% of the stock market.

So "publicly" traded (the term public ownership can be confusing because it can also mean state control) just means it's open for the elite to invest in.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-04 02:18:32+00:00
I have an “enabling suicidal ideation” concern for starters.

To be honest I’m kind of surprised I need to explain what this means so my guess is you’re just baiting/being opaque, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and answer your question taken at face value: There have been plenty of high profile incidents in the news over the past year or two, as well as multiple behavioral health studies showing that we need to think critically about how these systems are deployed. If you are unable to find them I’ll locate them for you and link them, but I don’t want to get bogged down in “source wars.” So please look first (search “AI psychosis” to start) and then hit me up if you really can’t find anything.

I am not against the use of LLM’s, but like social media and other technologies before it, we need to actually think about the societal implications. We make this mistake time and time again.
by jarjoura | 2025-12-04 02:18:48+00:00
Anecdotally, the common theme I'm starting to hear more often now is that people who use “AI” at work despise it when it replaces humans outright, but love it when it saves them from mundane, repetitive crap that they have to do.

These companies are not selling the world on a vision where LLMs are a companion tool, instead, they are selling the world on some idea that this is the new AI coworker. That 80/20 rule you're calling out is explained away with words like “junior employee.”
by cortesoft | 2025-12-04 02:19:19+00:00
Yes, what you say is technically correct.

We feel trapped because we would have to massively downgrade to move. Obviously, we COULD do that, but we don't want to.

You are right, we also couldn't afford to buy our current house if we currently didn't own a home, either. I am arguing that the fixed thirty year mortgages artificially drives up prices, which means that you are stuck and can't move whenever interest rates are high.

If we didn't have the fixed thirty year mortgages, housing prices would have never gotten so high, and buying and selling houses would be a lot easier, and people could move to where they want to be much easier.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-04 02:20:33+00:00
ZIRP is gone, and so are the Good Times when any idiot could get money with nothing but a PowerPoint slide deck and some charisma.

That doesn't mean investors have gotten smarter, they've just become more risk averse. Now, unless there's already a bandwagon in motion, it's hard as hell to get funded (compared to before at least).
by andyferris | 2025-12-04 02:21:09+00:00
The portable lithium battery "powerstations" double as great double-conversion UPS in addition to their intended outdoors (camping, beach, etc) activities, and depending on capacity go for less than 900 USD. It's only noisy when fast charging or providing high currents.

Definitely had various computer equipment plugged in to ours and it was great (I didn't specically test for EMI).
by stogot | 2025-12-04 02:21:58+00:00
> To address this challenge, Garg and colleagues scoured Verilog code on GitHub and excerpted content from 70 Verilog textbooks to amass the largest AI training dataset of Verilog ever assembled. The team then created VeriGen, the first specialized AI model trained solely to generate Verilog code.

I expect this will become the norm in a number of fields. Perhaps COBOL is next?
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-04 02:22:25+00:00
> Do you think the industry will stop because of your concern?

I’m not sure what this question is addressing. I didn’t say it needs to “stop” or the industry has to respond to me.

> It's lovely that you care about health,

1) you should care too, 2) drop the patronizing tone if you are actually serious about having a conversation.