MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dewey | 2025-12-11 12:25:31+00:00
Same, and this is one of the great advantages of ebook readers to me. I can go to the cafe in the morning to read, and then pick which book I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I only have a short amount of time so I'm reading interview-style books (One of my favorites is https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/192420/lunch-with-the-ft/978...) that you can read in bite-sized portions.
by ggirelli | 2025-12-11 12:25:41+00:00
I did it and yes! I've been reading more books, exploring the indies/smallweb, and spending more time with friends IRL. I highly recommend it! And I agree that the mainstream internet and social media are possibly driving a shortening if it attention span, but books are a perfect example of how to counteract this. After I quit/drastically reduced social media exposure and started reading books again, I initially found it tough. Slowly though I adjusted to the old media.
by roenxi | 2025-12-11 12:26:21+00:00
> You realize the dark figure of men getting abused by their wives is higher then the media reports? In any case, my point is, violence in relationships happens both ways.

Yes. That is in fact pretty much exactly what I'm arguing. People are often horrible.

> BUT, you definitely can make sure you surround yourself with decent people...

People generally can't. Otherwise there'd be a bunch more noticeable social stratification to isolate abusive spouses instead of it being politely ignored. And if people could, you would - you note in the next sentence that you can't being dealt with in an inappropriate way.

And you aren't even trying to identify people who are generally low empathy, you're just trying to find people who don't treat you badly.

> me the frustrated kind of person you seem to be.

The irony in a thread on empathy. What frustration? Being an enthusiastic human-observer isn't usually frustrating. Some days I suppose. But that sort of guess is the type of thing that AIs don't tend to do - they typically do focus rather carefully on the actual words used and ideas being expressed.
by asphero | 2025-12-11 12:26:39+00:00
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by lordleft | 2025-12-11 12:26:47+00:00
The irony is if I quit social media, I start devouring youtube, including both high quality video essays and general video slop. If I quit youtube, I'm inclined to binge watch TV. I sometimes wonder if I need a more dramatic act of "unplugging." As writer Manu Joseph says on substack:

"Yet, I do not believe it is true that attention spans have changed significantly over the decades. People’s minds have always wandered. They have always struggled to focus. And most of them couldn’t bear to spend too much time with their own minds. The real world, outside the phone, is so glorified today. But consider this thing that happens in the real world. You’re at a party and someone comes up and says that inane but useful thing, “What’s up?” And even as you answer, he looks behind you for something more interesting, which is never there. This has happened for decades, and not just in conversations. In everything people did, they looked beyond to see if there was something more interesting, which they never found."

...

"I don’t say there is no substance to the lament about modern attention spans. The fact that human attention was always fragile does not diminish the fact that the modern world has created extraordinary tools to facilitate distraction. A distraction is a kind of boredom that looks like entertainment, which saves you momentarily from another kind of boredom. Today, a slab of metal and glass at nearly everyone’s disposal captures the wandering mind and carries it far away, to some limbo. You could be working and reach for your phone, or an icon on your laptop, and suddenly ten minutes of your life are gone just like that."

https://manujoseph.substack.com/p/the-world-is-wrong-about-y...
by tialaramex | 2025-12-11 12:26:57+00:00
Your "I bet they're God" stance is even more naive. They're not God, they've got a finite budget both in financial terms and in terms of what will be tolerated politically.

Of course spooks expend resources to spy on people, but that's an expenditure from their finite budget. If it costs $1 to snoop every HTTP request a US citizen makes in a year, that's inconsequential so an NSA project to trawl every such request gets green lit because why not. If it costs $1000 now there's pressure to cut that, because it'll be hundreds of billions of dollars to snoop every US citizen.

That's why it matters that these logs are tamper-evident. One of the easiest ways to cheaply snoop would be to be able to impersonate any server at your whim, and we see that actually nope, that would be very expensive, so that's not a thing they seem to do.
by biglyburrito | 2025-12-11 12:27:07+00:00
My previous company was like this, and it boggles the mind.

Sales is so focused on their experience that they completely discount what the customer wants. Senior management wants what's best for sales & the bottom line, so they go along with it. Meanwhile, as a prospective customer I would never spend a minute evaluating our product if it means having to call sales to get a demo & a price quote.

My team was focused on an effort to implement self-service onboarding -- that is, allowing users to demo our SaaS product (with various limitations in place) & buy it (if so desired) without the involvement in sales. We made a lot of progress in the year that I was there, but ultimately our team got shutdown & the company was ready to revert back to sales-led onboarding. Last I heard, the CEO "left" & 25% of the company was laid off; teams had been "pivoting" every which way in the year since I'd been let go, as senior management tried to figure out what might help them get more traction in their market.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-11 12:27:15+00:00
> There are also practical problems with taxing wealth. [...] With a wealth tax, you might not have the money. For example, if you own an investment apartment or some other illiquid asset you can't just sell a piece of it every year to pay the tax.

This is a strawman trotted out against wealth taxes.

Stated another way: no, people shouldn't be able to put their wealth into an arbitrary form to make it untaxable.

After that, it's standard planning. Owe an unexpected amount of tax on a high performing asset you don't want to liquidate? Take a loan with it/gains as collateral. (The same as people do now!)

The bigger issue is valuation of illiquid assets. I.e. how to properly tax someone benefiting from opaque trusts or with shares of non-public assets (which they might be inclined to hide the profitability of).
by maccard | 2025-12-11 12:27:24+00:00
I've been involved in decisions like this that seem stupid and obvious. There's a million different things that could/should be fixed, and unless you're monitoring this proactively you're unlikely to know it hsould be changed.

I'm not an arrowhead employee, but my guess is at some point in the past, they benchmarked it, got a result, and went with it. And that's about all there is to it.
by spicyusername | 2025-12-11 12:27:39+00:00
Imagine being bold, or foolish, enough to risk almost a billion dollars, most of which was borrowed, on something as speculative as Bitcoin... an imaginary object that basically only has a punchy techno-libertarian story and no intrinsic value or real world application.

Really takes a neurotype I cannot comprehend or empathize with, but society needs all kinds I suppose.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-11 12:27:39+00:00
International law, as poorly enforced as it is, needs to have answers what to do with organizations that exist for the reason to destroy another country and that is financed through hostile nations. In this case Iran. Lebanon suffers as well here and Israel certainly isn't the main threat.

The Geneva convention doesn't apply to combatants in this case and you cannot be more targeted than this operation. You spoiler alter falls rather short on many accounts.

The truth is that the veneer of any international law is quite thin and you can pretty safely exist if you don't start aggression against another country. Any law that treats this differently isn't a law that serves justice.
by norome | 2025-12-11 12:29:08+00:00
Well, the poor seem to have smartphones as well XD — Uganda for example has 54% smartphone ownership. But in terms of vaccination rates, education, access to clean water, access to electricity yes things are ever improving if we look at statistics on global wellbeing. "In 1981, 44% of the global population lived in extreme poverty. By 2019, that figure had dropped to just 9%." So inequality may be huge today, but it doesn't mean the bottom hasn't also risen dramatically.
by squigz | 2025-12-11 12:29:18+00:00
I'm pretty happy to say I've read somewhere between 20-30 books this year*. Right now making my way through The Silmarillion finally. I also read the entire Aubrey-Maturin series, which was incredible, even if they were probably the hardest books I've ever read.

(* Less happy to say it's mostly because I've been cripplingly depressed but hey, reading is reading)
by mrweasel | 2025-12-11 12:29:35+00:00
Okay so basically just "inline":

class MyType(TypedDict): a: str b: int

or infer the type hint in:

my_typed_dict: dict[str, int] = {"a": 5}

It should probably be something like:

auto_typed: dict[typing.Const, typing.Const] = {"a": 5}

where typing.Const defaults to Any for an empty dict.
by kouteiheika | 2025-12-11 12:29:48+00:00
There's no story. You need to remember - big corporations are not your friend. They're your enemy. They don't care about you. They don't care about doing good. They care about money. They care about control. They care about their stock price. That's it.

You might ask - but what about the people who work at those corporations? And that's also pretty simply explained by this classic quote: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
by encyclopedism | 2025-12-11 12:30:12+00:00
Amazon.com is a business. AI is a technology in of itself it isn't a business.

Thus far it appears applications of AI that provide 'benefit' do so by removing or reducing the need for human operators. Examples include: fewer software engineers, fewer call centres, removing potentially whole areas of work such as paralegals and in general automating away many white collar jobs.

By far the largest use case of AI is this.
by publicdebates | 2025-12-11 12:30:15+00:00
I made this because many people have requested an AHK alternative with something like Lua.

Also, this ports the entire Windows API to Lua, so it's not limited to just the convenience APIs.

The website is not good at explaining this, I admit. I'll work on the website and then resubmit this at a later date.

And yes, it's paid, but I spent about a thousand hours making it, and I think it's fair to be compensated for that somehow. Maybe after enough licenses are sold to pay for my time, I will open source it.
by qwery | 2025-12-11 12:30:27+00:00
> So it's a poor article, so what?

I believe their point was to illustrate the disconnect between the problem and the solution. They agree with the problem, and experienced "whiplash" when the solution was described.

> For Government, kids on social media are not a big problem, that will only bite them in the decades to come.

In Australia the kids on social media are a problem for the government, today. A 16 year old is less than two years away from voting. Successive governments have laughed at the idea of lowering the voting age to 16 or 17. The government has very little influence on social media -- this is different to older forms of media / communication.
by toast0 | 2025-12-11 12:30:41+00:00
From that paper, table 4, large files had an average # of fragments around 100, but a median of 4 fragments. A handful of fragments for a 1 GB level file is probably a lot less seeking than reading 1 GB of data out of a 20 GB aggregated asset database.

But it also depends on how the assets are organized, you can probably group the level specific assets into a sequential section, and maybe shared assets could be somewhat grouped so related assets are sequential.
by indian_mafia | 2025-12-11 12:30:59+00:00
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by barry-cotter | 2025-12-11 12:31:13+00:00
> South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Its population is (optimistically) projected to shrink by over two thirds over the next 100 years. If current fertility rates persist, every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them.

> This disaster has sources that will sound eerily familiar to Western readers, including harsh tradeoffs between careers and motherhood, an arms race of intensive parenting, a breakdown in the relations between men and women, and falling marriage rates. In all these cases, what distinguishes South Korea is that these factors occur in a particularly extreme form. The only factor that has little parallel in Western societies is the legacy of highly successful antinatalist campaigns by the South Korean government in previous decades.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-11 12:31:22+00:00
The biggest issue has been that CPython exposes its internals to native libraries, thus since many Python libraries are actually thin bindings to native libraries, this reduces the interest in using PyPy.

There is now new ABI proposal that should work across Python implementations, proposed by PyPy, but the uptake seems slow.

https://discuss.python.org/t/c-api-working-group-and-plan-to...

https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/extending.html

With a good enough JIT, the amount of native libraries wouldn't be needed to the extent it is..
by ben_w | 2025-12-11 12:31:33+00:00
> Is libel in AI generated summaries a problem?

Clearly, given there have been cases about it already.

> Also, it seems you are fundamentally missing how AI is different. What would you expect a “regulator mandatory correction” to look like, a one sentence summary comes with a notice that it was corrected at some point?

Laws shouldn't care about mechanisms, they should care about outcomes. We can't allow ourselves to say "this tech makes ${legal obligation XYZ} impossible to perform, let us deploy it anyway": either you figure out how to solve for ${XYZ} or you don't get to deploy it.

> AI is also going to make regulators and bureaucrats totally superfluous if done properly, where AI simply “regulates” based on laws written in a clear text and open weight manner.

"If" is doing heavy lifting there — "if done properly", AI makes all human labour redundant. Nobody knows how far away "done properly" is.
by tyleo | 2025-12-11 12:32:16+00:00
I always wonder about the truth in, “No advertising is bad advertising.” I think you can have bad advertising that isolates customers but this doesn’t seem to cross that line. We’re all talking about McDonalds now after all.

It reminds me of Apple’s Crush! commercial: https://adage.com/video/crush-ipad-pro-apple/
by apapsksn | 2025-12-11 12:32:29+00:00
> Basically, the type of person that can get this rich is in 99% of all cases also the type of person that doesnt give two shits about other people.

This is mostly because we’re ruled by elites that hate us. Noblesse oblige is a thing and wealth disparity is not necessarily a bad thing. What’s bad is our current elites using wealth to enrich themselves instead of planting trees (so to speak) for America.

There are humans out there who are much better than the rest of us at doing things. I’d like the subset of those that care for their people to have money and power.

The missing piece from this conversation is our current elites have made all the elements that produce good rulers taboo. The term “blood and soil” is a big no no, but it’s also the kind of cultural bond that’s needed to produce good rulers. What more noble cause is there than sacrificing for your land and people? Its been a rallying cry for all of human history.

The oligarchs that run society know exactly what kind of ideas will remove them from power and make sure these ideas are effectively banned.
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by adrian_b | 2025-12-11 12:33:15+00:00
The crossbar of a t is not a serif, but those of the capital I are definitely serifs.

Only on computer screens it is possible to confuse serifs with crossbars, because of the very low resolution, which forces the increase of the width of a serif to 1 pixel, possibly making it as wide as a crossbar.

To convince yourself that capital I has serifs and not crossbars, just look at high-resolution photos of some Roman imperial inscriptions, like that on Trajan's column, which are the gold standard for the design of the capital letters in serif fonts.

Most letters of the Latin script are made of 3 elements, thick lines, thin lines and serifs. The width ratio between the thick lines and the thin lines is called the contrast of the font.

Serif fonts normally have a higher contrast and sans serif fonts not only have no serifs, but they also have no contrast or only a low contrast.

Serifs are even thinner than the thin lines (which include some of the crossbars), except in sans serif fonts (which have no serifs) and slab serifs fonts (where the serifs are as thick as the thin lines).

Both the sans serif and the slab serif fonts are fonts typical for the 19th century after the Napoleonian wars, when they were used mainly for advertising, where they attracted attention due to their anomalous serifs and they also allowed a lower cost by using cheap paper and printing machines, which would not have rendered well the standard serif fonts.

In several programmer fonts, where most characters are sans serif, a few characters are made slab serif, i.e. with serifs that are as thick as a crossbar, with the purpose of distinguishing them clearly from similar characters. Thus capital I is made with thick serifs looking like crossbars, even if that is not the standard capital I shape. The reason is less to distinguish it from l, which should have a low hook even in sans-serif typefaces, but to distinguish it better from vertical bar, which is important in programming languages.

Moreover, because such programmer fonts are fixed-pitch, a few narrow characters have slab serifs that do not exist in variable-pitch fonts, in order to avoid excessive areas of white space between letters. Such slab serifs added for blackening are put at the top of the small i, j and l letters, not only on capital I (but on the small letters the slab serifs are unilateral, not bilateral, like on capital I). Such extra slab serifs on the narrow characters are inherited from the type-writing machines, where they had the purpose to diminish the pressure of the hammer hitting the paper, to avoid making holes in the paper.
by drunner | 2025-12-11 12:33:57+00:00
A camera doesn't stop those acts though, it may only discourage those who know about it at a huge cost of privacy and rights.

How about we build better infrastructure and regulate vehicles since those do actually stop this behavior. Most of those red lights and stoplights in the US should be roundabouts. Narrower lanes and other traffic calming measures should be much more pervasive. Vehicle size, specifically bumper height is out of control.

Compare US traffic and pedestrian deaths to the rest of the world, or at least a lot of EU countries. Its embarrassing.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7408a2.htm#F1_down
by rodolphoarruda | 2025-12-11 12:34:00+00:00
Using metaphors is dangerous, but I would dare to say that big tech AI is like cement suppliers. It's too low level of a service. In civil engineering you have the option to contract value added suppliers that will give you prefabricated pieces in concrete or steel you could be using to build your construction.

I'm seeing a lot of AI firms building value added services on top of big tech "foundational" AI offerings. Value addition can start very early at a clear plans/billing structure, going through rate limiting, documentation and extra features that will bring stability or consistency to our AI enhanced products.

Going the other way around (I tried) and building things on top of big tech AI is challenging starting at the fundamentals as the OP described well.
by lazarus01 | 2025-12-11 12:35:24+00:00
There is $8 trillion said to be earmarked to build 100 AI data centers[1]. At 10% hurdle rate, the industry will have to generate $800 billion a year to pay it off, while GPUs are replaced every three years by faster chips.

If you watch Ilyas recent interview, “it’s very hard to discuss AGI, because no one knows how to build it yet[2]”.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-says-no-way-103010877... [2] https://youtu.be/aR20FWCCjAs?si=DEoo4WQ4PXklb-QZ