MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by estearum | 2025-12-09 20:44:27+00:00
I didn't say that should be the message.

I said that there's no "pragmatic, positive message" that overcomes simply lying and having an entire media and political apparatus that supports it.

Biden's primary advantage was running against a guy who was demonstrably a complete shit show as an actual incumbent. That was memory-holed by the same shameless lying (e.g. ask Republicans who they think "locked people down" during COVID).

Biden (and Harris) then had a similar disadvantage going into 2024.

It's extremely, extremely silly to act like voters were looking for pragmatic messages lol. Simply no evidence for that.

They were primarily looking to get rid of the incumbent, as was the trend across all democracies during a period of extreme inflation.
by 0x0 | 2025-12-09 20:44:37+00:00
They were great in the beginning, and then when you issued a few more certs than they liked you were asked to pony up some $$$, and then when you did that and actually "verified" who you were on a personal international phone call, you got a grace, and then issued a few more, they decided they didn't like you so they would randomly reject your renewals close to the expiration date, and then they got bought out by some scummy foreign outfit which apparently caused the entire CA to be de-listed as untrustworthy in all major browsers. Quite the ride.

Also, the only website I've ever encountered that actually used the HTML <keygen> tag.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-09 20:44:44+00:00
A significant part of my workflow is getting a ticket that is ill-defined or confused and rewriting it so that it is something I can do or not do.

From time to time I have talked over a ticket with an LLM and gotten back what I think is a useful analysis of the problem and put it into the text or comments and I find my peeps tend to think these are TLDR.
by theozero | 2025-12-09 20:44:46+00:00
I like all the extra scanning features this provides :)

I've seen a few tools like this that try to keep things in sync. While it is better than the alternative of doing it manually, it is still a losing battle and not the greatest DX. Often you still have validation (if it exists) and types that also need to be kept in sync, and documentation is scattered throughout the codebase.

Another approach is to turn the example into a schema - and have it be included in the env loading process. This way non-sensitive values can be included directly, and it can never be out of sync. Only values that differ need to be defined in your git-ignored files or injected by the environment. This is precisely how https://varlock.dev solves this problem. The schema becomes the single source of truth, and is used to generate types as well. It also provides validation, leak prevention, and a bunch of other nice tools.

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Other env-syncing libraries - https://github.com/luqmanoop/sync-dotenv - https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv-safe - https://www.npmjs.com/package/generate-env-example
by lunar_mycroft | 2025-12-09 20:44:56+00:00
I have no reason to think you're lying about the first part (although I'd point there's several ways that metric could be misleading, and approximately every piece of evidence available suggests it doesn't generalize), but the second part is very fishy. There's really no way for you to know whether or not you'd have written the same code or effectively the same code after reviewing existing code, especially when that review must be fairly cursory (because in order to get the speed up you claim, you must be spending much less time reviewing the code than it would have taken to write). Effectively, what you've done is moved the subjectivity from "how much does this speed me up?" to "is the output the same as if I had done it manually?"
by abustamam | 2025-12-09 20:45:01+00:00
> unless you specifically prompt it to search.

Ah, that's a good call-out. I don't use Claude aside from in Cursor; I use ChatGPT for normal queries and it's pretty good about doing searches when it doesn't think it knows the answer. Of course it'll search when prompted, but it'll often search without prompting too. I just mistakenly assumed that your fiancée's usage of Claude implied Claude was actually searching as well.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-09 20:45:17+00:00
> Given that devstral is much smaller, I can not imagine it will be more expensive

Devstral 2 is 123B dense. Deepseek is 37B Active. It will be slower and more expensive to run inference on this than dsv3. Especially considering that dsv3.2 has some goodies that make inference at higher context be more effective than their previous gen.
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by markhallen | 2025-12-09 20:45:23+00:00
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by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-09 20:45:30+00:00
I’ve been doing public speaking for my entire adult life, but not for a living.

That said, it’s not my strong suit. Others are far better at it than I am.

This is one of those areas where folks can make money/satisfy ego, so there’s a ton of competition. I’m not competitive, and am not interested in making money doing this kind of thing, so I don’t really try.

I do appreciate folks that are good at it, though; especially when I want to learn. A skilled orator can make learning a lot more fun, and can be very motivating.
by smj-edison | 2025-12-09 20:45:36+00:00
I'd put Noita in that category. I usually describe it as "broken both ways", because (as a rogue like) you have very little healing, and the enemies are punishingly hard. Not only that, but it's a full falling sand+physics simulation, so certain elements will randomly combine and kill you in the most unexpected and spectacular ways. On the flip side, the wand system is near turing-complete, and gets abused in the most crazy ways, to the point that you can do millions of damage per tick. One of the most chaotic and fun games I've played!
by HaZeust | 2025-12-09 20:45:55+00:00
In an overwhelming majority of cases where social media ruins a life, I've seen it do only one of the following: (A) change a personality toward opportunism; (B) lose jobs; or (C) chase an endless pursuit of vanity.

In an overwhelming majority of cases where drugs ruin a life, I've seen all 3 at once.

They can both ruin lives and people, no arguing that. But a life ruined by drugs is almost always so much more detrimental and all-encompassing than someone ruined by social media, it's just not a fair comparison.
by hu3 | 2025-12-09 20:46:24+00:00
> There's really no way for you to know whether or not you'd have written the same code or effectively the same code after reviewing existing code.

There is in my case because it's just CRUD code. The pattern looks exactly like the code I wrote the month prior.

And this is where LLMs excel at, in my experience. "Given these examples, extrapolate to these other cases."
by crazygringo | 2025-12-09 20:46:48+00:00
OK, now I understand what you're saying.

You used the wrong metaphor though... those are drug dealer tactics.

Drug lord tactics are about how to e.g. murder the leaders of a rival drug gang to gain market share, or diversify supply routes and methods in case the feds figure out one of them.

So you can understand my confusion about what you were trying to say about Microsoft... :P
by didibus | 2025-12-09 20:46:57+00:00
Yes, gold is very similar, but it has the benefit of being centuries old and not dependent on complex infrastructure.

Specifically, there is value in a global peer to peer and agreed upon standard of exchange of a guaranteed scarce resource that can't be double spent, such as gold and some cryptos.

Imagine a war, a natural catastrophe, societal collapse or upheaval.

You have to pack up, go elsewhere, or you're suddenly occupied.

Basically you have to ask yourself, what's more likely to be worth something in the future or elsewhere that I can park my money into until I need it?

Since Gold has such a history of being accepted by various cultures and people around the world, and it is very resilient, it doesn't require power, infra, computers, nodes, won't get easily destroyed to environmental incidents, can be stashed away for centuries without degrading, etc. It is arguably more likely to still be used as an exchange of value in the future.

Crypto, well, you have to be specific, let's say Bitcoin BTC, how likely is it that your wallet on your hard drive if you migrate from a war and find yourself in a new world order at the other end of the world, you can still use them to trade for goods/services and they're worth close too or more of what they were before?

It's hard to predict, but arguably it seems less resilient than Gold and therefore less likely for it to hold its value over time. That said, it may still appear better than USD, Euros, or shares in some company, etc.

That's why people say BTC is a "store of value", like gold. You use it to stow away value for when you need it later (even generations later), because it appears to be good at holding value even through geopolitical shifts, passage of time, and so on.

But, if people aren't actually using it for storing value, but instead for speculative bets, it means they are taking money out of it and not leaving it in, it becomes volatile, and volatility is a bad "store of value", because when you might need the value if it's at a "low" it's gone, and it failed at the use case.

If you go outside BTC, it becomes even less likely the other cryptos are good stores of value, and more and more they become speculative bets and a game of chicken.

And even BTC has high volatility and is used for speculative bets a lot. And gold isn't immune to his either.

There's no good answer here, nobody knows the future for sure, but that's the idea.

When people defend crypto as a store of value, now you know what they mean. They're basically hoping it'll hold value through borders, time, and so on.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-09 20:46:59+00:00
"Hey, I can't burn my presentation to disc."

I still refuse to buy Sony labelled products from that one. When you have to go through several dozen computers to wipe their rootkits off... even though creating a custom deployment image was faster, it was still a massive time consuming pain I'd never put on anyone.

If they'd have released a simple, single download, then maybe I'd have been less burned... but having to install custom uninstaller per machine, with an email address, and that software itself left another security hole... I'm out.
by joshmarlow | 2025-12-09 20:47:16+00:00
> Bryan Johnson is an interesting case here. If you take the longevity project to its logical end, you get someone who's stopped living in order to keep living - for the most part not eating food he enjoys, not drinking, not doing anything spontaneous, all in service of more years.

I never understand this type of critique of Johnson. It's framed like he's suffering daily for his project, but the guy sounds happy as a clam - especially contrasted with his pre-Blueprint podcast with Lex Fridman.

Seems like he's doing something right.
by qgin | 2025-12-09 20:47:18+00:00
The argument against screening is kind of like if you had a really inept fire department that ended up crashing the firetruck into other vehicles and buildings every time they were dispatched... and instead of figuring out how to have the fire department respond to calls in a better and safer way, you ban smoke detectors because then the fire department will only be called after buildings are confirmed to be already engulfed in flames.
by sweettea | 2025-12-09 20:47:36+00:00
In sum, the author proclaims that without human death, nothing people do has a time limit so people wouldn't have any incentive to do.

But this is false - even if we were a sovereign observer only, the universe is constantly changing and evolving, species go extinct, the seasons are never the same. And we are not just observers, we are also actors - we have opportunities to create today which will not be available in the future. You cannot create the Internet today, it already happened. You cannot spend arbitrary time traveling to and fro across the galaxy to talk to friends, the molten iron geyser you wanted to see at Betelgeuse will no longer be running by the time you get there. Perhaps time motivates us, but our death is not the only thing which limits time.
by drob | 2025-12-09 20:47:45+00:00
Hi bflesch, fair point – our About Us page has a lot about what we think and not about... us!

I'm the founder. Previously I was at Heap for nine years. There's a company LinkedIn with the rest of the team: https://www.linkedin.com/company/detail-dev/

We're located in SF. The About Us page lists some of our angel investors at the bottom.

Regarding security in particular, there's a lot more info in our Trust Center: https://trust.detail.dev/

If anything else seems conspicuously missing, please flag. In all likelihood it's omitted without intent.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-09 20:48:09+00:00
> Median age of ownership? Skews older now I'm guessing

First-time homebuyer (FTB) "average and median age stood at 36.3 and 33 years for the period Q3:24-Q2:25, and there has been minimal FTB average age change since either 2001 or 2021" [1].

[1] https://www.aei.org/articles/nar-says-the-typical-first-time...
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-09 20:48:46+00:00
> Having 20 different 3-second thoughts transcribed to notes that I have to process every day sounds more like added complications than problem solving.

Frankly, I'm surprised this is a selling point, because I think it attaches too much importance to our "ideas". If it's a good idea that you'll pursue in earnest, you'll come across it again. And if you don't, so what?

I say this as someone who does quite a bit of reflection throughout the day. I jot down things I find interesting, which can be, paradoxically, a way to move past the musing and onto other things instead of having it nag and pull my attention from other things. So, in all likelihood, this product would likely lead to a bunch of crap being stored in memory that you'll never return to.
by mschaef | 2025-12-09 20:49:13+00:00
> I'm curious what the CX-83D87 and Weiteks look like.

The Weitek's were memory mapped. (At least those built for x86 machines.).

This essentially increased bandwidth by using the address bus as a source for floating point instructions. Was really a very cool idea, although I don't know what the performance realities were when using one.

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/weitek/dataSheets/WTL-31...
by lukan | 2025-12-09 20:49:28+00:00
No you don't. Commercial use means it makes economical sense. When you have to spend more on maintainance (and recycling/dumping contaminated wall material amd somehow get the fuel) then you never can hope to make any profit.

A running ITER with positive energy output for 20 minutes just proofs that the concept can actually work. From there to commercial use would still be a long way, if it ever can compete at all, except in niches, like deep space.

(I rather would bet on the Stelleratar design)
by cyberax | 2025-12-09 20:49:36+00:00
No, it's not. The article is nothing but a complete lie and a ragebait against scapegoats. This is similar to how conservatives are raging against trans people.

Starting from this:

> The United States is short 4 million housing units

It's a lie. The US has more than one housing unit (1.1) per family.

We don't have a housing problem. We really really don't.

We have an urbanism problem, that made the dense hellscapes the only viable housing location.
by cycomanic | 2025-12-09 20:49:55+00:00
What is your evidence? A quick search on google (and the git commits) would show you that many wayland developers are significant former xorg developers.

1. Kristian Høgsberg the founder of wayland, did all the DRI2 work on xorg before becomming frustrated 2. Peter Hutterer was a main xorg developer and has been behind the wayland input system 3. Adam Jackson, long time xorg maintainer essentially called for moving on to wayland https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server... (I found that he was involved in wayland discussions, but not sure if he contributed code) 4. you already mentioned Daniel Stone

The only main xorg developer not involved in wayland arguably could be Keith Packard, although he made a lot of the changes for xwayland so I'm not sure if it is correct to say he did not have wayland involvement.

So who are the "vast majority of X.org developers"? I think people always read about the couple of names above and then think, "well there must have been hundreds of others", because they thought xorg was like the linux kernel. AFAIK xorg always only had low 10s of active developers.
by eichin | 2025-12-09 20:50:06+00:00
I've wanted exactly this since I first saw spider's note-recorder in the first issue of Transmetropolitan (before the fancy glasses.) Just something with exactly one button, positive confirmation that it's recording, a decent pipeline into my private infosphere, and safe to use while driving.

But in 2025, the disposable aspect is a crime... and wouldn't you be able to use the body of the ring to interface with an inductive charger?
by dvt | 2025-12-09 20:50:10+00:00
I've had this (often drunken) conversation many times, I think mortality is fundamentally ingrained in not just the human condition, but the fabric of our universe. Without the finality of death, life seems to lose its meaning. Not only do we need to die, we are compelled to die, we should die. This memento mori makes every day, ironically, worth living. One of my favorite verses from the Bible is Job 1:21, where he somehow reconciles this tragic finality with trascendent faith:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
by 47282847 | 2025-12-09 20:50:16+00:00
> Instead of writing this, I could sit next to them and watch an episode with them.

And as any study into the effects of parental attention and shared experience will show that kind of behavior would be beneficial to their overall long-term mental health. Requiring them to make themselves heard and to actively “disturb you“ is a very high barrier for children to break through (even if you don’t consider it a disturbance). Children need active mirroring and external guidance when it comes to their needs in order to develop a healthy sense for them. They are “left alone“ as soon as you leave the shared emotional space.
by 112233 | 2025-12-09 20:50:16+00:00
Claude Code with their models is unusable because of this. That it keeps actively sabotaging and ruining the code ("Why did you delete that working code? Just use ifdef for test!" "This is genius idea! You are absolutely right!") does not make it much better — it's a twisted Wonderland fever dream.

For "chat" chat, strict hygiene is a matter of mind-safety: no memory, long exact instructions, minimum follow-ups, avoiding first and second person if possible etc.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-12-09 20:51:07+00:00
The author talks about the how the certainty of death ultimately coming to all of us (sooner or later), gives us drive.

In terms socio economic issues of immortality, the Altered Carbon books (or the first season on Netflix), paint a somewhat bleak picture how immortality makes the rich and powerful even more privileged. Not to say it’s all bleak, but I would certainly say it’s dystopian overall.
by jrowen | 2025-12-09 20:51:09+00:00
I know, the fact that "consecutive" is actually significant in this context is part of the joke. Just try to read it from the perspective of someone that isn't steeped in the details (and expectations) of the slog of fusion. Relative to any kind of aspirational "flying cars" or "wacky ideas" future predictions, it sounds very underwhelming.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-09 20:51:09+00:00
> Not if private equity just snatches it all up

"As of December 2022, the five largest investors owned about 300,000 homes — just under 2% of single-family rental homes nationally."

Where institutions dominate is in rentals: "institutional investors own roughly 2% to 25% of single-family rentals in major markets" [1];.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/09/09/g-s1-87...
by benjiro | 2025-12-09 20:51:17+00:00
The problem with creating a programming language for LLMs, goes back to, what are LLMs? They are trained on masses of human written code, that is written in human readable form.

So even if you make a better programming language for a LLM, it has nothing to train on. Unless we start to transcode human language code to the LLM code.

Are the vectors/tokens/whatever, not already LLM code at this point? Technically, LLMs not are doing what Haxe was doing (haxe.org) but in a more advanced form?

Even if we make a more LLM like programming code, in a sense, we are just making another code that needs to be translated into the tokens that consist in a LLM model, no?

Feels like we are starting to hit philosophical debates with that one lol