MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-11 14:25:52+00:00
A bunch of things are at play here.

This is actually a good thing for personal autonomy. Instead of accidentally having kids you can't afford, due to modern science, it's completely optional.

The article alludes to this, but the government previously promoted smaller families. Just a few generation ago the birthrate was considered too high. Realistically to have a growing population you probably want to have around an average of 3 children per couple.

This is economically impossible for most people though. No one has a stable job anymore. We're all temps and gig workers.

If you just do it anyway, and find it's a struggle... Society blames you and calls you careless.

The path of least resistance is to just skip having a family.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-12-11 14:26:02+00:00
> That's just another way of saying "my opinion is acceptable, and theirs isn't".

Is it? According to who? After all, anybody can say "A is just another way of saying B" (especially if they ignore the differences), but it doesn't make it true. To wit: the differences I cited prove that there are differences.

> The only way this works, is if we become more accepting of opinions we fundamentally truly disagree with.

Historically speaking, accepting violence against minorities, and the rhetoric which fosters it, has not "worked" for the minorities.
by makle | 2025-12-11 14:26:20+00:00
A lot of startups get built around hype instead of a real problem. When the buzzword fades and the funding dries up, the company suddenly has to stand on its own legs, and many can’t.

Growing fast without a solid solution underneath is a dangerous combo. If you’re not solving a real, painful problem for someone, no amount of funding or storytelling will save you.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-11 14:27:06+00:00
> The only way this works, is if we become more accepting of opinions we fundamentally truly disagree with. Anything short of that, and you're always going to run into people who draw the line in a way you find harmful.

We've tried this. This is what lead to Florida removing the vaccine mandate, something that is going to cause real harm because people have bought into a shared delusion. This tolerance of fundamental disagreements has metastasized into people committing real harm using the power of the state rather than any sort of centrist utopia.
by graemep | 2025-12-11 14:27:07+00:00
Evidence?

Men are less "motherly" because we are discouraged by society from being that. Even your choice of words shows your prejudice.

I was my kids primary parent when married and a single dad after divorce. I am MUCH better suited to raising kids than my ex-wife was. That is largely a result of how I was raised to have empathy and care about people.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-11 14:27:29+00:00
>Interesting. If not to reduce CO2 emissions, what was the rationale presented to the voters for having high taxes on fuel 40 yr ago?

Energy security. They didn't have north sea oil back then. Buying from Russia or the ME was fraught with political peril. And of course the .gov is never gonna pass up a chance to increase revenue.
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by palata | 2025-12-11 14:28:04+00:00
I did not mean "everybody has to learn the vocabulary". I meant the opposite, actually: it's fine not to know the word for the tool (I don't enjoy reading about patterns just to learn about patterns, it's not my thing at all).

Say I build a tool that makes it easier for me to drive a nail and call it a "Naildriver". If I show it to a colleague, they may be able to tell me "oh, this is generally called a hammer!". Maybe they will even tell me how I may improve my hammer, because they happen to like to learn about hammers in their free time. Or maybe now that they said it's a known concept, I will enjoy reading about hammers online (doesn't mean I will now read the entire encyclopedia of tools).

The fact that there is a name for the concept ("it's called a hammer") does not say you have to know the word. It's just useful to have a word for it, because then we can reference it in discussions and share knowledge about it more easily.
by layer8 | 2025-12-11 14:28:36+00:00
I would put it slightly differently: Patterns (including anti-patterns) happen whether you call them such or not. Any developer will sooner or later come up with patterns like Adapter or Builder or Composite or Iterator. In that sense, patterns are not invented, but discovered. The benefit of design patterns is to be able to communicate these discovered patterns, and to define agreed names for them, so that you don't have to describe the pattern each time you talk to another developer, but can refer to it by a well-understood name. (Or when not yet well-understood, can refer to the corresponding pattern description.) It extends the language we use to talk about software design.

The point of design patterns is less about the individual patterns, than about having "design pattern" as a general concept of coding patterns relevant to software design, that you name and describe because they keep reoccurring.
by delichon | 2025-12-11 14:28:36+00:00
> and people will start having many more kids again.

This has been my assumption, but now I question it. See

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1644264/

In this experiment, a mouse population grew quickly, then at high population density started falling quickly. But rather than recovering when the population decreased, it continued to fall until it was wiped out, in the presence of plentiful resources.

This keeps me up at night. Please someone tell me why it doesn't apply to us.
by TheFlyingFish | 2025-12-11 14:28:36+00:00
That works if you're dealing with a known set of keys (i.e. what most statically-typed languages would call a struct). It falls down if you need something where the keys are unknowable until runtime, like a lookup table.

I do like dataclasses, though. I find them sneaking into my code more and more as time goes on. Having a declared set of properties is really useful, and it doesn't hurt either that they're syntactically nicer to use.
by SecretDreams | 2025-12-11 14:28:39+00:00
> I think reporting ought to try to get to some level of truth through rigor.

Information literally moves faster on socials than it does from need sources and those things come with far less "truth through rigor".

I agree news sources should do leg work.. but in a world where nobody cares about the facts when spreading a story, is there still a point?
by adamzwasserman | 2025-12-11 14:29:02+00:00
The disanalogy you quote might actually be the key insight. What if language operates at two levels, like Kahneman's System 1/2?

Level 1: Nearly autonomic — pattern-matched language that acts directly on the nervous system. Evidence: how insults land before you "process" them, how fluent speakers produce speech faster than conscious deliberation allows, and the entire body of work on hypnotic suggestion, which relies on language bypassing conscious evaluation entirely.

Level 2: The conscious formulation you describe — the translator between perception and meaning.

LLMs might be decent models of Level 1 but have nothing corresponding to Level 2. Fedorenko's "glorified parser" could be the Level 1 system.
by empath75 | 2025-12-11 14:29:15+00:00
There is no way the character licensing survives an hour of contact with the public, unless it is _extremely_ restricted. I can't imagine a worse job than trying to "curate" the torrent of sewage that is going to get created. Deadpool is pretty much the only Disney-owned property this makes sense for.

And I say this as someone who _likes_ using Sora.
by mrweasel | 2025-12-11 14:29:26+00:00
Really, I think most people in tech generally believe that getting teens of social media will be a positive thing. The question is how to go about it.

It's understandable, to some extend, that people will protest government interference, but it's also an industry that have repeatedly show itself to be incapable of regulation itself. I don't really see the big surprise, most government are relatively hands of, until you prove that you're incapable of regulating yourself. Most regulation happens after the damage is done.

I do think that 16 is a bit low, I'd like to have seen it be 18, or a complete ban on algorithmically generated feeds (I believe the latter would be the better option).
by 9vigugfgg | 2025-12-11 14:29:33+00:00
This is perfect for me. I want to stay updated on the same kind of information that is shared here, but i don't care about cred points and find the social networking aspect of hn to be a codified toxic echo chamber.

Thus i love the contrarian take.

I also love that you can switch the default analysis from the story to the comments.

I think this is a good use of ai. Using ai a a creative crutch is dehumanizing like all division of labor as Adam Smith described in his magnum opus was a major problem with capitalism. As we see.

However, as it is wise enough to browse the covers of magazines, but skip the detail inside, so too it's it sufficient and better for the mind, body, and soul to merely browse what happened than the radioactive details from the brainwashed miscreants inside.
by skrebbel | 2025-12-11 14:29:39+00:00
Looking at all this as an outsider, I'm a bit baffled at the responses. Basically, it seems to me that the vast majority of Americans want this.

And by "this" I mean that they want organizations to proactively make changes that fit with the policies of whoever is in power, even if there's no actual laws that make them do this. When Democrats ran the place, big tech was going out of their way to out-woke one another, with product announcement videos somehow starting with land acknowledgements and the likes, and now the same companies are going out of their way to out-dumb one another and this is just one of many examples.

I mean, America is a place with only two sides, and both sides are very on board with having their particular preferences and ideas enforced informally without any sort of legal framework. I think it would be useful for a lot more of the outrage to be directed at that fact.

Just.. be against all of this! This shit where legally you can do whatever the fuck you want but actually in reality you're going to get in serious trouble if you don't toe the party line, and oh by the way the party line switches every 4 years... that's no way to run a business! It's banana republic stuff.

I mean I agree that there's a difference in scale, in that censoring access to abortion advice is actively harmful and most things people felt they had to do under Biden (eg land acknowledgements, DEI trainings etc) are just cringe. But come on, don't politicize everything! It will only come to bite you back in the arse, as this episode illustrates beautifully.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-11 14:30:15+00:00
They could have been lying I guess but I listened to a great podcast about the development of Helldivers 2 (I think it was gamemakers notebook) and one thing that was constantly brought up was as they iterated they forced a huge chunk of the team to sit down and play it. That’s how things like diving from a little bit too high ended up with you faceplanting and rag-dolling, tripping when jet packing over a boulder that you get a little too close to, etc. They found that making it comically realistic in some areas led to more unexpected/emergent gameplay that was way more entertaining. Turrets and such not caring if you’re in the line of fire was brought up I believe.

That’s how we wound up with this game where your friends are as much of a liability as your enemies.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-11 14:30:25+00:00
This is a great response, even for a blue collar worker understanding none of its complexities (I have no code creation abilities, whatsoever — I can adjust parameters, and that's about it... I am a hardware guy).

My layperson anecdote about LLM coding is that using Perplexity is the first time I've ever had the confidence (artificial, or not) to actually try to accomplish something novel with software/coding. Without judgments, the LLM patiently attempts to turn my meat-speak into code. It helps explain [very simple stuff I can assure you!] what its language requires for a hardware result to occur, without chastising you. [Raspberry Pi / Arduino e.g.]

LLMs have encouraged me to explore the inner workings of more technologies, software and not. I finally have the knowledgeable apprentice to help me with microcontroller implementations, albeit slowly and perhaps somewhat dangerously [1].

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Having spent the majority of my professional life troubleshooting hardware problems, I often benefit from rubber ducky troubleshooting [0], going back to the basics when something complicated isn't working. LLMs have been very helpful in this roleplay (e.g. garage door openers, thermostat advanced configurations, pin-outs, washing machine not working, etc.).

[0] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging>

[1] "He knows just enough to be dangerous" —proverbial electricians

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by Normal_gaussian | 2025-12-11 14:30:34+00:00
Yes. Its quite common for games to have mods that repack textures or significantly tweak the UE5 config at the moment - and its very common to see users using it when it doesn't actually affect their use cases.

As an aside, I do enjoy the modding community naming over multiple iterations of mods - "better loading" -> "better better loading" -> "best loading" -> "simplified loading" -> "x's simplified loading" -> "y's simplified loading" -> "z's better simplified loading". Where 'better' is often some undisclosed metric based on some untested assumptions.
by Freak_NL | 2025-12-11 14:30:35+00:00
These people have all set up financial constructions that will see them and their children safely into old age with the very best of medical care, pocket money to the tune of being able to just buy off the whole evening of their favourite fancy restaurant for the night for just the two of you on a whim, and owning one or two private fucking islands in perpetuity, whatever happens to their megacorps.

They can indeed do with their toys whatever they want. They just don't want to put up with the bother of other investors trying to get rid of them, or the orange guy not sending them a Christmas card, or having a little less than infinite money.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-12-11 14:30:44+00:00
So they premature optimized for a wrong case.

> multi minute load times

23Gb / 100mb / 60s = 3.92m

So in the worst case when everything is loaded at once (how on a system with < 32Gb RAM?) it takes 4 minutes.

Considering GTA whatever version could sit for 15 minutes at the loading screen because nobody bothered to check why - the industry could really say not to bother.
by derf_ | 2025-12-11 14:31:33+00:00
South Korea went through an astounding period of economic growth. In 1961 its per-capita income was US$93 (inflation-adjusted). Ghana, one of the poorest nations in Africa, had more than double that (US$190). In 2024, Korea's had grown to US$36,624. That is almost 40,000% growth in a single lifetime. It is hard to conceive of in most places where GDP growth averages 1...2% per year. The difference between working hard to get ahead and trying to sit out and keep doing what you were always doing was literally the choice between affluence and destitution. So no wonder you have a population hyper-focused on their careers who pushes what children they have as hard as they can, so that none of them have any time for family now. The opportunity cost of anything else was enormous.

The positive news (if it can be called that), is that this level of growth cannot continue, so something will have to change.
by input_sh | 2025-12-11 14:32:15+00:00
Or, and this is gonna sound crazy, I know, it's not because it used to be novel and cool but because young people feel less safe to come out now that the trans panic has done its thing and the current administration has spent an inconceivable amount of money, time and attention painting this marginalised community in a bad light at every perceivable opportunity to do so?
by andsoitis | 2025-12-11 14:32:22+00:00
The Guardian has a duty and responsibility to not create false narratives or misinformation.

I am entitled to a dose of healthy skepticism.

If I believed that Meta is suspending accounts for the mere fact that they link to abortion information or non-pornographic queer content, rather some other policy reason, then I WOULD dig deeper because apparently The Gaurdian can’t be bothered to.

However, I don’t believe that to be the case by the mere fact that there are millions of accounts active that DO link to queer content or abortion information.

Heck, Planned Parenthood has an active Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/plannedparenthood/
by wongarsu | 2025-12-11 14:32:26+00:00
Openrouter is roughly at that level of value-add. With plenty of competition now, since being able to charge 5% on your AI spend just for having sane billing, spending controls (actually enforced per-api-token budget limits!) and easy sign-up is an insanely profitable business proposition

On the other hand I think it's fair to criticize the model hosts for not offering the same
by ben_w | 2025-12-11 14:33:04+00:00
> 280 GWh

> we can average over a week because we may assume 2 hours' storage (so for 100 GW nominal, 200 GWh) and that's about 4-5 worst days in a row […] because storage over even longer periods is unrealistic

I don't see any particular logic to either part of this.

Better question for "realistic" storage is how much do people actually want to spend, how do the costs change as quantities scale up from hours to days to weeks to seasons. (4kW * 24h * €50-€70/kWh) / 10 year battery life from daily cycles is an unsurprising part of a monthly energy bill (especially as this would basically substitute most of the grid's role in the hypothetical where Germany for whatever reason wasn't still buying nuclear power from France etc.); pumped hydro is estimated around €100/kWh installed, but different maintenance cost and lifetime.

> Now electricity consumption is about 10TWh a week. Which means, 35x

9.3, I think you're using old numbers.

I find no search results for 280 GWh claim; I will assume the number itself is correct, but given the rate of growth of PV it is of material relevance which year this happened in, e.g. if that 280 GWh was in was in 2020 it's more like 18x, if it was in 2015 it's 13x.

> with the average solar park density of 1 MW per 7.3 acres

You're double-counting here.

33.9 W/m^2 with 22% cells means the capacity factor is 15% of the name-plate capacity. This is a standard value in much of the world, varies from about 10%-20%, you can't do better than about 32% from anything fixed to the ground even on a completely clear sky on the equator. The map I linked to already accounts for all of that stuff, it's *internal to* how they reach the ~1000kWh/m^2/year for the worst bits of Germany: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Germany_...

Anyway, point is 1 MW/7.3 acres *already* accounts for "winter is bad".

> This number can be slightly improved by installing panels over the angle that optimises performance in winter

Opposite error! Not when you're talking about covering an entire country it doesn't. Panels would shade each other.

> and also in the fact that solar park is not fully packed with panels because they need pathways to service them and they need to not shade one another

And again, now you're double-counting. Precisely because 1 MW/7.3 acres number is already accounting for gaps, you've mixed up the optimal output per m^2 of *panel* with the optimal output per m^2 of *land*, and it's land that matters on this scale, the optimal number per unit of land is what you get from laying the panels flat on the ground.
by eunoia | 2025-12-11 14:33:14+00:00
Companies are not helpless dames in a fascist takeover. History has proven that the people on top of the capitalist hierarchy generally actively welcome fascist elements in government.

It’s a lot easier to juice the profits of your megacorp when the power of government is vested in a single, friendly individual. Of course ten seconds of thinking exposes the fragility of such a system (they may turn on you, they may be replaced, they may destroy the entire country, etc). But Capitalism itself encourages short term, winner-takes-all all thinking. If you don’t cozy up to the wanna be autocrat and help them attain more power, you will be outcompeted by someone who does.

The path of a greedy corporate executive is practically pre-ordained in such a situation. The only question is whether the wanna be autocrat succeeds to become the real deal.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-11 14:33:43+00:00
Yea but those men with 106 IQ on average lose out to men with 120 IQ and good looking on dating apps, right?

And the vast majority of those 106 IQ men can't move somewhere else where their IQ advantage comes into play. Passport bros are a thing but they're a very small (but growing) part of the male population.
by elif | 2025-12-11 14:34:21+00:00
Further in the article when it is discussing that one page, which was not "shut down" as the title implies but had their content placement lowered...

"the organisation had received a message almost every week from Meta over the past year saying that its page “didn’t follow the rules”"

If you are getting content violation notices every week for a year, it is certainly not all because of this one cartoon.
by anovikov | 2025-12-11 14:34:29+00:00
Why do you say pre-2020? 2020-2021 were the easiest times ever for funding with a lot of money-printing and zero rates (unlike 2018-2019!). Only in 2022 things started to get worse, and ground to a halt, at least for everyone outside of the AI bubble, from 2023. Now all who i know who are still operating, do so simply with the money raised before. Companies are going belly up left and right simply because that money runs out.
by Strilanc | 2025-12-11 14:34:50+00:00
This is a type that I would use a lot.

For example, I often write classes that do cacheable analysis that results in a dict (e.g. the class stores a list of tiles defined by points and users want a point-to-tiles mapping for convenience). It's worth caching those transformations, e.g. using @functools.cached_property, but this introduces a risk where any caller could ruin the returned cached value by editing it. Currently, I take the safety hit (cache a dict) instead of the performance hit (make a new copy for each caller). Caching a frozendict would be a better tradeoff.
by onionisafruit | 2025-12-11 14:35:47+00:00
I think I would like a “stackvar” declaration that works the same as “var” except my code won’t compile if escape analysis shows it would wind up on the heap. I say that knowing I’m not a language designer and have never written a compiler. This may be an obviously bad idea to somebody experienced in either of those.

I commented elsewhere on this post that I rarely have to think about stacks and heaps when writing Go, so maybe this isn’t my issue to care about either.