MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qart | 2025-12-18 16:16:26+00:00
> Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007

When an article starts like this, I instantly close it and wait for proper sources. Anyway, the phrase "metabolic syndrome" has been gaining currency for the last few years. For those who don't want to read journal papers and meta-analyses, there are plenty of doctors and fitness coaches (on YouTube) who have made videos on how to get metabolic syndrome under control or even reverse it. And many of the doctors do a good job of filtering and summarizing the research.
by larkost | 2025-12-18 16:16:28+00:00
I did find it odd that there was no discussion about whether those other media now represent the exact colors that they had when they were originally created. I know from experience that colors fade, but the argument seems to ignore that.

I also know that most of the old paintings that we have today have been though multiple rounds of "refreshment" in order to counter both the fading and dirt/soot that they were exposed to over the years (remember: most of these were displayed by torchlight/lamplight/candlelight for centuries). Nowadays there is a real emphasis on trying to produce an original ascetic, but that has not always been the case.

So I would want a better discussion of how accurate those "standard candles" are.
by btilly | 2025-12-18 16:16:29+00:00
This is exactly right. It affects movie stars, dictators, successful politicians, powerful CEOs, cult leaders, and so on. (Hello there, Donald Trump.) When you're surrounded by people who are willing to tell you whatever they think that they want to hear, a contrary opinion can become painful.

And people who have fallen into this are very often exploitable. See Scientology for an organization that has successfully done this in Hollywood. (I didn't see you there, Tom Cruise.)

I have some personal familiarity with this. Two of my sisters are (at this point minor) movie stars with Oscar nominations. (Jennifer Tilly, and Meg Tilly.) Neither suffers from this. But only by consciously working to keep touch with reality. And both know plenty of others who went off the rails.

When I've seen recently how people have been losing touch with reality with ChatGPT, it was very familiar. It's actually building on the same phenomena that creates ideological bubbles in social networks. The leaders of whom have also had this same famous disease. (I won't even try to name the various influencers.) Except this time more personalized. You get to be the center of attention, rather than a member of the group.

I think we've all known a few narcissists in our lives. Well buckle in. That's becoming the new normal. And there's no limit on how far out there these ones are going.
by jpalawaga | 2025-12-18 16:16:38+00:00
except your argument as to why "build moar" isn't an option is basically "we acknowledge the population is booming, however, the vibes are more important than providing housing."

Sure, everyone wants their particular city to be frozen in time for cuteness and nostalgia reasons. However, it sort of assumes that the sociopolitical environment is also frozen (it isn't).

so instead you end up with voters voting against densification because, essentially, "I got mine."

p.s. i'm not sure that places that banned/heavily restricted airbnb experienced a meaningful decline in rental prices (e.g. new york, san francisco, vancouver, etc). it's basically a distraction from failed policy.

p.p.s. new york is one of the most popular tourist destinations and incredibly built up, and doesn't seem to have issues with tourists wanting to visit. tokyo too. and these also still have their quintessential historic/preserved areas, too.
by coliveira | 2025-12-18 16:16:42+00:00
You're confusing control with total control. Nobody has total control, even the most powerful and rich entities. This doesn't mean, however, that a lot of the policies we see being enacted by governments have not been discussed and promoted by a small number of people in very high positions of economic and political power. You're trying to disprove this well known and easily attested fact with the straw man of total control.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-18 16:16:50+00:00
> If I wrote something for my own use and decided to open source it and then someone hypothetically decided to sue me because it wasn’t accessible, I would say f%%%. them too and take it down.

The difference is that they won't win in court. There's no law requiring you to make your open source work accessible - unless that open source work was part of a project for which you got federal grants.

Sorry, but it's clear that many commenters to this thread no almost nothing about what happened, and are merely engaging in outrage mania.
by neom | 2025-12-18 16:17:26+00:00
I also didn't enjoy it, sloppy boundary drawing combined with some motivated reasoning. He explicitly distinguishes research from development in paragraph 4, but then spends the rest of the essay treating "fast" and "legible" as inherently inferior without consistently applying his own distinction...like, If you're building a bridge or shipping software, legibility and speed aren't signs you're not pushing boundaries...they're signs you're being competent. also, he seems to suggest that slow thinking is actually a different kind of intelligence that institutions miss. But this conflates processing speed with intellectual ambition, plenty of fast thinkers work on hard, illegible problems.... Plenty of slow thinkers work on trivial ones.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-12-18 16:17:43+00:00
> Today, someone can post a Telegram group message and make thousands of people rally to a town square. I see the dangers, and I see why governments think they are doing this to protect the people.

Don't play into their propaganda. Governments don't like it because they're protecting themselves and their power; making it harder for people to find each other and organize and rally is one of many ways governments do that. (There's a reason authoritarian governments regularly shut down cell networks.)

https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2...

> The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-18 16:17:56+00:00
<button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML">

You know, I see logic/"programming" inside of templates and I'm out, gave up that life many years ago and never have I been eager to go back to it.

No, I'll keep using hiccup and similar things that are just data and nothing more, no syntax, just functions and built-in data structures, then give me HTML as a string which consumers can do whatever with, and we're golden.
by delaminator | 2025-12-18 16:17:59+00:00
> First time I’ve actually seen someone measure this.

Maybe the actual count but it was in the news back in April

Saying ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Costs OpenAI ‘Tens of Millions of Dollars’

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/saying-thank-you-...
by hank2000 | 2025-12-18 16:18:14+00:00
I've bene working with a GPU security company for the last few months... I can tell you that neo clouds (generally) do not see security as a high priority—or often, even their responsibility. Many do not have hte ability to even know if your GPUs have been compromised and they expect you'll take responsibility.

Meanwhile companies think the clouds are looking at it.... anyhow. it is a real problem.
by neutronicus | 2025-12-18 16:18:15+00:00
I'm not either

But LLMs don't really perform well enough on our codebase to allow you to generate things that even appear to work. And I'm the most junior member of my team at 37 years of age, hired in 2019.

I really tried to follow the mandate from on high to use Copilot, but the Agent mode can't even write code that compiles with the tools available to it.

Luckily I hooked it up to gptel so I can at least ask it quick questions about big functions I don't want to read in emacs.
by ekzhang | 2025-12-18 16:18:38+00:00
Wanted to share this library that I'm open-sourcing now after working on it for the past year.

You write code like in JAX/NumPy, but it’s fully interactive on the frontend and compiles down to shaders on the user’s GPU (with WebGPU). So far I’ve used it for purely frontend-only ML demos. https://jax-js.com/mobileclip
by showsover | 2025-12-18 16:18:57+00:00
> On one hand, being able to temporarily live in an apartment greatly enhances the immersiveness when your travel - you get to feel like a local and experience life in another place.

Yes, if your local life is being inconsiderate and having parties till 3 because you're on holidays. Having an airbnb in your building is terrible as you don't know the people and they don't care about getting to know you.

> Hotels suck as they cut corners to the point where an article posted here complaining about the lack of bathroom doors in hotels.

The great thing about hotels is that they can be planned for and zoned correctly for. Even so, I've had a hotel go up 100m from my apartment and had to invest in blackout blinds since they chose for a modern design with glass all over (and the lights are bright at night).

The biggest problem here in Barcelona is that most airbnbs / short term rentals are companies buying housing as an investment and so are stealing the opportunity from actual people and families trying to live.
by giaour | 2025-12-18 16:19:19+00:00
I would probably go for natural resources management or population biology.

Masters degrees are (from my experience in the US workforce) generally only professionally useful when there is an explicit requirement for one set by a professional standards body or codified in law. As in, you usually need a masters to get tenure as a teacher in a public school, and some government jobs have specific and inflexible degree requirements. But for private sector employment, masters degrees are mostly just for personal enrichment.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-18 16:19:19+00:00
That’s an interesting thought.

IMO this is somewhere where if we were really doing something, we might as well go all the way and double check the relevant standards, right? The filesystem should accept some character set for use as names, and if we’re generating a name inside our program we should definitely find a character set that fits inside what the filesystem expects and that captures what we want to express… my gut says upper case Latin K would be the best pick if we needed to most portably represent Kelvin in a filename on a reasonably modern, consumer filesystem.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-18 16:19:38+00:00
> 1) Why would redeeming a bad gift card result in a complete shut-down of the account?

Because they assume you stole the gift card and are therefore a criminal. As to why they're making the assumption that you are the criminal, not the actual criminal who successfully redeemed the gift card first, you've got me. Since either situation is possible.

> 2) Why is it seemingly impossible to get any support now unless you drum up a ton of press?

I'm as infuriated as you are.

> 3) Should companies be restricted from growing too large where they can’t support their customers?

Size has nothing to do with it. Plenty of small companies ignore their customers too. So I don't think this is the right solution.

> In my personal and professional experience, banks are the only companies that seem to actually know how to handle these issues appropriately when it comes to fraud or access.

There are plenty of horror stories with banks too. I'm not sure they're that much better at all.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-18 16:19:45+00:00
"Dance your PhD" exists for several reasons, but one of them is to point out that the divorce between scholarship and art in some academic fields isn't "required" but an accident of how we separated colleges and how hard it can be to do multi-disciplinary work.

You can do both: prove the base case and reach across the aisle to the art college next door to see if someone is interested in the follow up "creative exercise". You can present both "here's what we can prove" and "here's an extrapolation by a skilled artist of what additional layering/contouring might have done".
by notahacker | 2025-12-18 16:19:55+00:00
Statues were typically large and outdoors and viewed at a distance, frescoes were typically viewed in close proximity and needed details adding to not look completely flat. Some of those also were rather "garish" compared with modern tastes, particularly when freshly painted and not after years of fading and being covered up (and very sensitively restored according to protocols which frown on adding pigment)
by yardie | 2025-12-18 16:20:05+00:00
The Spanish financial crisis in 2009 was an overabundance of private debt. Developers used that debt to build lots of flats, too many in all the wrong places. Those developers then went out of business and construction has been moribund since then.

A lot of other European governments took on too much public debt and had to enforce austerity measures. This proved very unpopular.

Unlike the US, the Spanish government did not bail out private industry debt. And so 15 years later here we are. Not enough housing stock and not enough private builders to carryon building more.
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by NeutralCrane | 2025-12-18 16:20:22+00:00
This seems like an overly reductive worldview. Do you really think there isn't genuine interest in LLM tools among developers? I absolutely agree there are people pushing AI in places where it is unneeded, but I have not found software development to be one of those areas. There are lots of people experimenting and hacking with LLMs because of genuine interest and perceived value.

At my company, there is absolutely no mandate for use of AI tooling, but we have a very large number of engineers who are using AI tools enthusiastically simply because they want to. In my anecdotal experience those who do tend to be much better engineers than the ones who are most skeptical or anti-AI (though its very hard to separate how much of this is the AI tooling, and how much is that naturally curious engineers looking for new ways to improve inevitably become better engineers who don't).

The broader point is, I think you are limiting yourself when you immediately reduce AI to snake oil being sold by "business magnates". There is surely a lot of hype that will die out eventually, but there is also a lot of potential there that you guarantee you will miss out on when you dismiss it out of hand.
by alfonsodev | 2025-12-18 16:20:38+00:00
I overlooked Astro for a long time, I didn't really get it, and my journey back to it went something like this:

- 1 Getting burned out by Nextjs slowness in a complex production project that shouldn't be that complex or slow on the dev side, (this was 2022 approx)

- 2 Taking a break from React

- 3 Moving back to classic server side rendering with python and Go and dealing now with template engines. Hyped with HTMX and loving it, but my conclusion after so many years of react was that template partials don't feel right to me and templates engines are somewhat not maintained and evolved as used to be. I found my self not feeling naturally inclined to reach for the htmx way and just let the coding agent do it the way they wanted AND stating to notice again the burn out.

- 4 Looking with some envy to co-workers using shadcn how fast they are getting things done and how good they look.

- 5 Wondering would be a way to use JSX with HTMX server side, I miss components, I don't want partial templates.

And then I found Astro, ahhh now I get it, Astro prioritizes generation over run time, and that unlocks a lot of gradual complexity where you can choose how to mix things ( islands ) you get something way more interesting than a template engine, and it uses JSX so you can benefit from React ecosystem.

This where I am now, but yet I have to complete a side project with it to know if I fully get it and love it.

So far seems to me is the answer I was looking for.
by miningape | 2025-12-18 16:20:39+00:00
> Unless you wrote the compiler, you are 100% full of it. Even then you'd be wrong sometimes

You can check the source code? What's hard to understand? If you find it compiled something wrong, you can walk backwards through the code, if you want to find out what it'll do walk forwards. LLMs have no such capability.

Sure maybe you're limited by your personal knowledge on the compiler chain, but again complexity =/= randomness.

For the same source code, and compiler version (+ flags) you get the exact same output every time. The same cannot be said of LLMs, because they use randomness (temperature).

> LLMs are also deterministically complex, not random

What exactly is the temperature setting in your LLM doing then? If you'd like to argue pseudorandom generators our computers are using aren't random - fine, I agree. But for all practical purposes they're random, especially when you don't control the seed.
by Habgdnv | 2025-12-18 16:20:44+00:00
And also it would be good to limit the ban duration with a law. For example manslaughter can be 5 years in prison. So if google decide to ban your account because you send your doctor a photo of your son for medical purposes, they are not allowed to ban you for more than 5 years and then they must restore full access to your account.
by sph | 2025-12-18 16:21:21+00:00
> You say your mornings are sacred now; before you made the change did you treat your nights as sacred? Do you think you were always a "morning person", but didn't/couldn't realize it?

Yes. I've always loved morning time, despite waking up around 11 until my early 30s. I've been told I was lazy, lost a potential job offer because I was always late for work, until one day magically I became one of the "normal" ones :-)

I don't believe night owls to be lazy, variety is the spice of life, but I believe a percentage of them simply have a messed up sleep schedule and no idea how to fix it.
by moltopoco | 2025-12-18 16:21:36+00:00
The cable makes the claim that Calibri did not actually help anyone, and even backs up this claim with numbers. So how is it aimed at minorities? Who is prejudiced against people with bad eyesight?

https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/12/state-department-ret...

I don't usually go back to comments from seven days ago, but I missed the full memo being on DF. The sideswipe at the previous administration is childish, sure. But the way in which Reuters has portrayed this memo is even more shocking to me after reading it. Holy culture war partisanship, batman.
by 0x500x79 | 2025-12-18 16:21:36+00:00
Agree, maintainability, security, standards, all of these are important to follow and there are usually reasons for these things existing.

I also see AI coding tools violate "Chesterton's Fence" (and the pre-Chesterton's Fence, not sure what that is called, the idea being that code is necessary otherwise it shouldn't be in the source).
by dataflow | 2025-12-18 16:21:47+00:00
> It would not only mean that Congress can create independent agencies, but that all cabinet officers are independent by default. Nobody seriously thinks that’s true, but that’s the implication of the non-redundant reading of the Opinions Clause.

No. "By default"? That's a really weird way to make this sound crazy when it simply isn't. Congress is the branch that creates the departments and creates the legal framework around them in the first place. The president faithfully executes the law. That's not unserious, that's literally the point of the whole system.

A realistic Congress is, generally, not going to pass an act establishing an entire department and somehow neglect to prescribe how the heads are appointed and removed. (!) If it did that for some reason, then yeah, the heads would "by default" be independent, until/unless Congress prescribed otherwise in the future. And... so what? Either that'd be deliberate -- in which case it's equivalent to explicitly prescribing their independence, so it makes no difference unless your real belief is that Congress can't even prescribe this explicitly -- or it would be the result of hundreds of people simultaneously goofing, in which case they can just... fix it by passing another act. Or they deliberately wanted to sow chaos or play games by leaving this unclear, in which case... what else do you expect. In that case it's up to the voters to vote them out, or for courts to rule something if this silly hypothetical ever happens.

All of which is to say: "by default" basically means nothing here. It feels like a pointless argument with an agenda. The idea that the "by default" scenario somehow means some clause was superfluous and deliberately added for funsies is the unserious take here.
by tedggh | 2025-12-18 16:21:55+00:00
I got myself a pretty little condo in Asturias for a steal, at least compared to US prices. I tried first just outside Madrid but it’s crazy expensive there, I saw a small and modern condo and they wanted more of what I paid for a brand new large home in the US very close to a big city, massive in size by European standards. If you want a modern tiny condo in Madrid city center you are looking at over a million euros for sure. Almost NYC prices. But Asturias is so freaking beautiful, and people are sooo laid back and kind, the best! There’s also a train that takes just over 3 hours to Madrid.
by gldrk | 2025-12-18 16:22:04+00:00
High-level languages were absolutely indispensable at a time when every hardware vendor had its own bespoke instruction set.

If you only ever target one platform, you might as well do it in assembly, it's just unfashionable. I don't believe you'd lose any 'productivity' compared to e.g. C, assuming equal amounts of experience.
by Xylakant | 2025-12-18 16:22:05+00:00
Any model that charges for self-hosted runner is going to feel unfair to someone. Per seat pricing is better for small orgs with a lot of CI minutes, per-run pricing would be good for orgs with few, long runs, per minute pricing is nicer for orgs with many small runs.

In my observation the critisicm was strongly dominated by outrage over the actual fact.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-18 16:22:07+00:00
Because now people aren't priced out of their current place where they live simply because the landlord wants more money each month, now it's limited to increases by an index. And landlords can also not just kick out a tenant, raise the rent price and find someone else.

Again, many small streams make a big river. Not one single action or new law will instantly fix the issue, you patch what you can and incrementally work towards something better.