MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rushingcreek | 2025-12-03 21:49:26+00:00
A hypothesis here is that well-crafted UI helps you understand/see options for what you don't yet know.

For example, here's an example for a "day trip plan in Bristol" that contains a canonical example (directly based on the query), but also a customization widget that presents some options that you might not have already thought about if you were just doing a text-based followup.

https://www.phind.com/search/make-me-a-day-plan-ac8c583b-ce6...
by agosta | 2025-12-03 21:49:45+00:00
No. They simply shouldn't be able to trade individual stocks. Requiring them to tell the world the exact second they're buying a stock doesn't change that that purchase was made to make money. If you're the elected authority who, by your rule, creates corporate winners and losers, we should not merely have to hope that your rule benefits us more than it does you. The job description is clear - you're a civil servant. If doing your job as a senator is unappealing to you because you can no longer invest in individual companies, then don't let the door hit you on the way out. Goodbye
by observationist | 2025-12-03 21:50:13+00:00
The worst part is it'd probably cost less than $100 of fiber and labor to splice something into your building, maybe $200-400 of gear to light it up, and you'd have a 10 gbps pipe back to some colo. It's more economical to run new fiber in most places these days, even if the local ISP knows exactly where all the old abandoned legacy lines are run, because of subsidization and basically scamming. The big companies like Lumen keep their knowledge regionally compartmented, legally shielded, and deliberately obfuscated, because if it became known that existing fiber was already run to a place they claim they can't serve, they can't get access to yet more funding for their eternal "service for the underserved" government money grift.

I stumbled on old maps that showed a complete coverage of fiber in my municipality, paperwork from a company that was acquired, and which in turn merged, then was bought out by one of the big 5 ISPs. When local officials requested information regarding existing fiber, this ISP refused and said any such information was proprietary. They later bid on and won contracts to run new fiber (parallel to existing lines which they owned, which still had more than a decade of service life left in them at that point).

I estimated that only around 10-15% of the funding went toward actual labor and materials, the remainder was pure profit. The local government considered it a major victory, money well spent.
by halflife | 2025-12-03 21:50:31+00:00
Well, the official statement is that 1 and 2 are 2 different frameworks. That’s why they were later named to angular JS and angular, to avoid confusion.

The migration path between angular 1 and 2 is the same as react and angular, it’s just glue holding 2 frameworks together

And that change happened 10 years ago
by layer8 | 2025-12-03 21:50:41+00:00
> Yeah, "Engineers don't try" is a frustrating statement. We've all tried generative AI, and there's not that much to it — you put text in, you get text back out.

"Engineers don't try" doesn’t refer to trying out AI in the article. It refers to trying to do something constructive and useful outside the usual corporate churn, but having given up on that because management is single-mindedly focused on AI.

One way to summarize the article is: The AI engineers are doing hype-driven AI stuff, and the other engineers have lost all ambition for anything else, because AI is the only thing that gets attention and helps the career; and they hate it.
by agosta | 2025-12-03 21:50:49+00:00
They simply shouldn't be able to trade individual stocks. Requiring them to tell the world the exact second they're buying a stock doesn't change that that purchase was made to make money. If you're the elected authority who, by your rule, creates corporate winners and losers, we should not merely have to hope that your rule benefits us more than it does you. The job description is clear - you're a civil servant. If doing your job as a senator is unappealing to you because you can no longer invest in individual companies, then don't let the door hit you on the way out. Goodbye
by stanfordkid | 2025-12-03 21:51:02+00:00
I mean... in what world would you send a customers private root key to a web browsing client. Like even if the user was authenticated why would they need this? This sort of secret shouldn't even be in an environment variable or database but stored with encryption at rest. There could easily have been a proxy service between client and box if the purpose is to search or download files. It's very bad, even for a prototype... this researcher deserves a bounty!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-03 21:51:09+00:00
I hate to admit it. But it really isn’t that bad. My only custom instructions are basically never use an em dash and avoid the “Not $x. But $Y” pattern when writing.

And hypocritically, I plan on putting it on my own link list/some custom writing blog.

But in my defense, my blog is more of a public journal. I don’t link to it anywhere and my name isn’t attached to it.
by lambchoppers | 2025-12-03 21:51:28+00:00
Do you think the industry will stop because of your concern? If for example, AI does what it says on the box but causes goiters for prompt jockeys do you think the industry will stop then or offshore the role of AI jockey?

It's lovely that you care about health, but I have no idea why you think you are relevant to a society that is very much willing to risk extinction to avoid the slightest upset or delay to consumer convenience measured progress.
by gishh | 2025-12-03 21:51:58+00:00
Valve selling skins is just so trivial relative to dopamine-inducing doom-scrolling, social media in general, the toxicity of the news cycle, I can keep going.

It would be super democrat-american to address valves loot boxes before, say, fucking healthcare.

We need a government priority Jira board of things that need to be addressed. Loot boxes _might_ make the backlog.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-03 21:52:18+00:00
An 85% disk size reduction at minimal performance impact is negligent by the standard of professional excellence.

But that's also par for the course with AA+ games these days, where shoving content into an engine is paramount and everything else is 'as long as it works.' Thanks, Bethesda.

Evidenced by the litany of quality of life bug fixes and performance improvements modders hack into EOL games.
by fallinditch | 2025-12-03 21:52:45+00:00
Yes I love that piece, such a trip - good for driving too. When I was at school and revising for exams I used to listen to a lot of classical music, mainly Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Elgar, Britten - I found that it really helped (also The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett). So maybe the ultimate focus music is a bit like classical but with added noise and hypnotic rhythmic patterns ...
by paulddraper | 2025-12-03 21:53:02+00:00
Open source is not a sustainable business model.

There are two ways open source projects continue.

1. The creator has a real, solid way to make money (React by Facebook, Go by Google).

2. The project is extremely popular (Linux, PostreSQL).

Is it possible for people to reliably keep working for ~free? In theory yes, but if you expect that, you have a very bad understanding of 98% of human behavior.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-03 21:53:09+00:00
> This is a thing where having more parties would really help.

Using a "first past the post" voting system structurally results in a two party system, because if there are more than two viable parties then the two parties most similar to each other split the vote and both lose to the third, which gives the first two an overwhelming incentive to merge with each other.

Score voting or STAR voting fixes this and allows you to have multiple parties. (Avoid IRV or similar systems, nearly anything is better than FPTP but if you're going to do it at all then do it properly.) Any states that could enact this via referendum are encouraged to do so.
by MaintenanceMode | 2025-12-03 21:53:14+00:00
Whenever I see "everyone", and broad statements that try to paint an entire geography based on one company "Microsoft" I'm suspect of the motives of the author at worst, or just dismissive of the premise at best.

I see what the author is saying here, but they're painting with an overly broad brush. The whole "San Francisco still thinks it can change the world" also is annoying.

I am from the Seattle area, so I do take it a bit personally, but this isn't exactly my experience here.
by jfindper | 2025-12-03 21:53:30+00:00
"it's not just x, it's y" is an ai pattern and you just said:

>"It's not just "using any punctuation rarer than a period": it's the overuse and misuse of punctuation that serves as a tell."

So, I'm actually pretty sure you're just copy-pasting my comments into chatgpt to generate troll-slop replies, and I'd rather not converse with obvious ai slop.
by j45 | 2025-12-03 21:53:37+00:00
I’m not asking if it’s fundamentally insecure.

Architecturally there appears to be an increasingly insecure attack surface appearing in JavaScript at large, based on the insecurities in mandatory dependencies.

If the foundation and dependencies of react has vulnerabilities, react will have security issues indirectly and directly.

This explicit issue seems to be a head scratcher. How could something so basic exist for so long?

Again I ask about react and next.js from their perspective or position of leadership in the JavaScript ecosystem. I don’t think this is a standard anyone wants.

Could there be code reviews created for LLMs to search for issues once discovered in code?
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-03 21:53:46+00:00
Yeah-- I'm thinking the same thing.

I have a Honda Pilot (full-size SUV) and CR-V (crossover SUV) and I've driven my brother-in-law's Odyssey (minivan) a fair amount.

The Pilot feels like a lumbering beast that begs to roll over. It also has less visibility than the CR-V and the Odyssey.

I don't feel a ton of difference between the CR-V and the Odyssey. I also never worry about the CG in either one. They have a very similar feel. I can definitely see around both of them better than the Pilot (though I think the CR-V has a little bit of an advantage).
by palmotea | 2025-12-03 21:53:50+00:00
> My partner (IT analyst) works for a company owned by a multinational big corporation, and she got told during a meeting with her manager that use of AI is going to become mandatory next year. That's going to be a thing across the board.

My multinational big corporation employer has reporting about how much each employee uses AI, with a naughty list of employees who aren't meeting their quota of AI usage.
by blakeburch | 2025-12-03 21:53:56+00:00
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by runarberg | 2025-12-03 21:54:00+00:00
I live in Seattle (well a 20 min ferry from Seattle) and I too hate AI. In fact I have a Kanji learning app which I am trying to push on to people, and I brand it as AI free. No AI was used to develop it, no AI used to write content, no AI is there to “help you learn”.

When I see apps like Wanderfugl, I get the same sense of disgust as OPs ex coworker. I don‘t want to try this app, I don’t want to see it, just get it away from me.
by rayiner | 2025-12-03 21:54:14+00:00
It is a problem with H1B because it undermines the whole idea of selective immigration. H1B is pitched to the public as a way to get "the best and brightest" from foreign countries. But because of family reunification, the decision to admit one skilled worker actually means one skilled worker plus potentially dozens of other people with no qualifications whatsoever.

Bangladesh gets around 50-60 skilled immigrant visas a year, but the Bangladeshi population in the U.S. has someone grown from under 10,000 in 1990 to over 270,000 today. That's the product of family reunification. Voters who supported H1B thought they were voting for a handful of Bangladeshi doctors and engineers, and instead they got Little Bangladeshes popping up all over the country.
by stockresearcher | 2025-12-03 21:54:17+00:00
These are good developments, but it remains to be seen how much of impact they will have. Software developers will have to follow a bunch of “best practices”, but there isn’t a requirement that they are good at them. There are no fines for producing insecure software, only fines for not following the rules.

Software providers are also likely to be specifying narrow “fit for purpose” statements and short (ish) support window. If costs go up too much, people will be using “inappropriate” and/or EOL stuff because the “right thing” is too expensive.

To be clear, this is a step in the right direction but is not the panacea.
by cortesoft | 2025-12-03 21:54:22+00:00
We use it because we are already running our own k8s clusters in our datacenters, and we have large storage requirements for tools that have native S3 integration, and running our own minio clusters in the same datacenter as the tools that generate and consume that data is a lot faster and cheaper than using S3.

For example, we were running a 20 node k8s cluster for our Cortex (distributed Prometheus) install, monitoring about 30k servers around the world, and it was generating a bit over a TB of data a day. It was a lot more cost effective and performant to create a minio cluster for that data than to use S3.

Also, you can get durability with minio with multi cluster replication.
by mhashemi | 2025-12-03 21:54:25+00:00
Haha, wait until you hear about our fancy 50-year mortgages we'll be getting any day now!

But seriously, my favorite discovery when researching CU mortgages is the prevalence of the 15/15 ARM. It's fixed for 15 years, and then adjusts once. Most people refinance within 7 years, or move within 12. So it's like a 30Y fixed, but comes in at 20 basis points cheaper (0.2% lower APR).
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-03 21:54:38+00:00
Most people don't have a problem with using genai for stuff like throwaway UI's. That's not even remotely relevant to the criticisms. People reject having it forced down their throats by companies who are desperate to make us totally reliant on it to justify their insane investments. And people reject the evangelicals who claim that it's going to replace developers because it can spit out mostly working boilerplate.
by kentm | 2025-12-03 21:54:52+00:00
> have you considered that you haven't used the tools correctly or effectively?

The problem is that this comes off just as tone-deaf as "you're holding it wrong." In my experience, when people promote AI, its sold as just having a regular conversation and then the AI does thing. And when that doesn't work, the promoter goes into system prompts, MCP, agent files, etc and entire workflows that are required to get it to do the correct thing. It ends up feeling like you're being lied to, even if there's some benefit out there.

There's also the fact that all programming workflows are not the same. I've found some areas where AI works well, but a lot of my work it does not. Usually things that wouldn't show up in a simple Google search back before it was enshittified are pretty spotty.
by terlisimo | 2025-12-03 21:55:27+00:00
well...

1) GoL is turing complete

2) there are algorithms that calculate digits of Pi or e.

so... yes?

but if I just took any old Pi-digits algorithm and encoded it on GoL, its appearance would not be meaningful or "elegant" to our senses. You're probably asking "what does the shortest/most elegant program to calculate Pi in GoL look like, and does it maybe have some unexpected relation to other mathematical terms like, I dunno, Euler's identity or... Mandelbrot set?" And then you would probably need to answer the question "Well, how would you like the digits encoded and represented?".

All of a sudden your question becomes a bit ambiguous. Or did I misunderstand what you meant?

I mean.... I think I feel what you're asking, like... is there some primal version of Pi that can be encoded in GoL initial condition with as few bits as possible but I'm afraid that the answer is something like "well, that depends on what you mean by [...]"
by calvinmorrison | 2025-12-03 21:56:06+00:00
> I don’t understand what the “one-off app” is trying to achieve.

Many years ago in college I worked on building Java applets that let kids visualize math related concepts. Sliders make things like sine/cosine and all sorts of other cool stuff way way more intuitive. We had a applet that, let you do ridiculous comparisons, to visualize how many empire state buildings a marathon is in length, etc. We had an primitive 'engine' simulator that let you adjust inputs on a steam engine. stuff like that
by gjulianm | 2025-12-03 21:56:27+00:00
The article does not complain about notation. It describes how the different fields of mathematics are so deep and so abstract that it’s hard to understand them as a professional mathematician in a different field. That’s a hard problem worthy of discussion, but as the article says, it’s not as much a problem of notation or of explanations, rather than it’s just intrinsically difficult and complex because these are abstract and deep fields.

It’s not gatekeeping. It’s just hard.
by Denvercoder9 | 2025-12-03 21:57:11+00:00
> It did not turn all of this into a SIMD mask or something like that.

Did you try using bitwise and (&), or a local for the struct? The short-circuiting behaviour of the logical means that if `s->a != a`, `s->b` must not be dereferenced, so the compiler cannot turn this into a SIMD mask operation, because it behaves differently.

Generally compilers are pretty smart these days, and I find that more often than not if they miss an "obvious" optimization it's because there's a cornercase where it behaves differently from the code I wrote.
by gangstead | 2025-12-03 21:57:21+00:00
Maybe average cost of next-size-up SSD price divided by a SWAG of a gaming PC lifetime? So if I had to buy a 2 TB NVMe stick instead of a 1 TB stick it's an extra $70 and I upgrade after 5 years that's only about $1 per TB-Month. I don't game I have no idea if those are good numbers.

The cheapest storage tier on s3 with instant retrieval is $.004 per GB-Month which implies AWS can still make money at $4 per TB-Month so $2.50 for consumer hardware sounds reasonable to me.
by jfindper | 2025-12-03 21:57:37+00:00
I'm not replying to your slop (well, you know, after this one).

Anyways, if you think something is ai, just flag it instead so I don't need to read the word "slop" for the 114th fucking time today.

Thankfully, this time, it was flagged. But I got sucked in to this absolutely meaningless argument because I lack self control.
by tombert | 2025-12-03 21:57:39+00:00
More than a little irritating that the only real contenders for smartphones is either Google or Apple, two companies with more-than-a-little dubious business practices.

I really wish that the Ubuntu phone had fully come to fruition. I think if a dedicated Ubuntu Touch phone had been pushed in the US in ~2013, Canonical might have had the weight and funding to make it work. Sadly the Indiegogo was never funded, and we're stuck with the duopolistic dystopia we have now in the smartphone world.

Yes, I know about the Pinephone and it looks neat and I'm sure it's a decent enough product, but I haven't bought one because I've been afraid of things being missing. The network effect is strong, and I find it unlikely that my bank app or basically anything I use for work will ever get ported over to SailfishOS or Ubuntu Touch, meaning I'd have to carry around an iPhone or Android phone with me everywhere anyway.

I am not sure that this kind of vertical integration should be legal; Apple services and iOS should probably be different companies.
by paulddraper | 2025-12-03 21:58:00+00:00
> JSON compresses extremely well even in ancient gzip

Correct. MessagePack comes out significantly ahead for small messages, otherwise it's nearly a wash.

> CBOR is probably the closest to a widely adopted "pure" adaptation of JSON

It adds (1) binary data (2) numeric variants including big integers (3) timestamps (4) tagged/semantic types.

I.e. it adds quite a bit. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Browser implementation would be great, but I'm skeptical.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-03 21:58:16+00:00
"high-functioning alcoholics"

That's the crux of the situation, though; on hard liquor, the slippery road to becoming a non-functional alcoholic is much steeper.

There also might be a gender difference. In my experience, men who drink wine, mostly drink with friends and self-limit. The sort of men who are prone to alcoholism won't be satisfied by mere wine and will proceed to hard drinks quick. On the other hand, women often drink wine alone and might develop a daily habit that degrades into full-blown alcoholism even without resorting to hard drinks.

FYI, I barely drink at all and I dislike sloshed people (incl. myself when I rarely get intoxicated; it is an unpleasant state to be in). But even hell has layers.
by matheme | 2025-12-03 21:58:31+00:00
> If the idea is that the right notation will make getting insights easier, that's a futile path to go down on.

I agree whole heartedly.

What I want to see is mathematicians employ the same rigor of journalists using abbreviations: define (numerically) your notation, or terminology, the first time you use it, then feel free to use it as notation or jargon for the remainder of the paper.
by l___l | 2025-12-03 21:58:50+00:00
This might be super-obvious or it might already exist but can you make Phind create mobile apps? I don't know of any site that builds a mobile app and actually gives you the app instead of give you half the app or ask to pay for credits and so on and never showing you the full real app that you can install on your phone and actually use.

Phind user for ~2 years.
by Animats | 2025-12-03 21:59:03+00:00
A sizable fraction of current AI results are wrong. The key to using AI successfully is imposing the costs of those errors on someone who can't fight back. Retail customers. Low-level employees. Non-paying users.

A key part of today's AI project plan is clearly identifying the dump site where the toxic waste ends up. Otherwise, it might be on top of you.