MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-26 04:44:30+00:00
When confusion gets framed as "this is substandard writing", it rewards showing up and performing a lack of context rather than engaging with the substance or asking clarifying questions. Over time that creates pressure to write to the lowest common denominator, instead of the audience the author is clearly aiming at. ... So yeah, I am genuinely curious why you see personal unfamiliarity as something the entire discussion should reorganize itself around.

(Shrug) The fact is that all major style guides -- APA, MLA, AP, Chicago, probably some others -- call for potentially-unfamiliar acronyms to be defined on first use, and it's common enough to do so. For some reason, though, essentially nobody who writes about this particular topic agrees with that.

Which is cool -- it's not my field, so I don't really GAF. I'm mostly just remarking on how unusually difficult it was to drill down on this particular term. I'll avoid derailing the topic further than I already have.
by markerz | 2025-12-26 04:44:54+00:00
re: the phone number

Businesses really underestimate how much having a human representative helps customers feel connected to a business. I see it in corporate sales (B2B) where accounts are pretty much tied to the account manager. When the manager leaves, the companies refuse to renew because the account was only good because of the manager.

I think of my favorite businesses I regularly visit and they all have a memorable face to them. I feel more than a consumer. They help me understand the product and guide my decision making. They tell me when my order doesn’t make sense. And they refer me to other places they recommend. Or they tell me my problem is real and a mess, but assure me they’ll fix it.

You don’t get that with AI chat bots.
by gcanyon | 2025-12-26 04:45:52+00:00
When our kids were little we got them a wire bead rollercoaster, something like: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304637213979

It's one piece. Cleanup is picking it up and putting it where you want it. For playability, that thing kept each of our kids occupied for an unreasonable portion of their toddler-hood. We then passed it on to friends, and it did the same for their kids. They kept it, and gave it back to our kids when they had kids, and it's still delivering joy.
by tourmalinetaco | 2025-12-26 04:47:08+00:00
I mean, there really isn’t for the majority. Fame and fortune are fleeting; fame has a short half life (hence the phrase “15 minutes” of it) and fortunes can be lost as quickly as they’re made (80% of NFL players face financial distress after retirement). Not to mention that for every pro athlete there’s at least 100 that don’t make the cut.

The same is true in every field to varying degrees. For the average individual who can provide for themselves and their families, more money and fame only sounds good on paper. In reality, it invites more stress than anything else.

Veritasium made an excellent video on that: https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2024/1/15/what-the-longest...
by WillAdams | 2025-12-26 04:47:37+00:00
I need to improve my facility with Python and math and geometry sufficiently to finish up my current project, a previewer for G-code which allows creating design files programmatically.

Really need to get back to practicing archery on a regular basis as well (really need the exercise).

Hopefully I can also find more time for woodworking, and hopefully I can figure out how to calibrate my 3D printers so that I can print PETG and PETG-GF as readily as PLA.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-26 04:48:04+00:00
I don't know if I'd agree that "probabilistically memory safe" is better because it also fits a hypothetical implementation which catches out-of-bounds accesses /etc. 50% of the time regardless of whether in-the-wild exploits exist.

Maybe something like "Go is effectively/practically memory safe at the moment" would be better? Or if you want to put on your lawyer hat "Go is not known to be memory unsafe at this time", but that's rather cumbersome at best.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-26 04:49:04+00:00
> Sorry to be crass, but this type of argument is exactly why non-experts shouldn't be talking about topics

> I myself am not a doctor. I love to learn from my wife.

I suggest that you speak to your wife before correcting my unimpeachable explanation of why someone might die from being told, incorrectly by their CGM, that their blood glucose is low.

I say this as someone doesn't need to rely on a spouse but have actually received my own medical education. And I've had my own HHS patients—it's not even clear if your wife (!!) works in this area.

As the sibling commentator shares, we don't really expect these patients to show up after a day of bad data, but we also have no idea how many days of bad data occurred.
by spicyusername | 2025-12-26 04:49:50+00:00
It might sound like I’m just offering clichés – less is more, stop and smell the roses, take your time – and I guess I am. But clichés suffer the same issue: they are often profound insights, consumed and passed on too rapidly for their real meaning to register anymore. You really should stop and smell roses, as you know if you’re in the habit of doing that.

Great quote
by hideroze | 2025-12-26 04:51:17+00:00
Thanks for raising this — it’s a very reasonable concern.

Yes, the novel exists entirely outside of ChatGPT. All chapters are saved locally and backed up independently. I never relied on the model to “remember” or store the text for me.

ChatGPT was used strictly as a collaborative tool during the writing process (discussion, iteration, feedback), not as a storage mechanism or source of truth. The manuscript itself is maintained separately, like any conventional long-form project.

I agree that AI can be overly agreeable at times, which is exactly why I treated it as a tool rather than an authority, and verified everything outside of its scope.

Appreciate you pointing this out — it’s an important distinction to make.
by u16 | 2025-12-26 04:52:27+00:00
How long have you been doing this? I've had a hard time falling asleep my entire life (no issues once I am asleep). I'm resistant to chemical solutions, and I think my sleep issues are more emotional, given that I can fall asleep early if I really have to, but I can only maintain it for a week or so. But after a life time of laying awake, I am curious.
by HeliumHydride | 2025-12-26 04:53:07+00:00
I don't know much about lighting, but looking at the source code of the shaders might give a clue. https://modrinth.com/discover/shaders has a lot of shaders that change the lighting. In other parts of the rendering pipeline, there are some very impressive mods utilizing GPU magic. One of them is Voxy (https://modrinth.com/mod/voxy), one that massively increases render distance with mesh shaders and level-of-detail based rendering.
by godelski | 2025-12-26 04:53:12+00:00
Yeah I agree but that's why I think there's a balance. But the context here is the more nervous blurting which I think is going too much in the other direction. We should be comfortable with some silence and thinking.

But everyone has their own personal preferences. Which is perfectly fine too. But I think it's worth mentioning that, as illustrated by the comment, it's typically more acceptable to blurt than think silently. And there's the bias that blurting makes it harder to think silently by thinking silently doesn't make blurting harder (the uncomfortable with some silence part is not healthy imo. Of course long silence is a different issue but we're talking 30-60s)
by gcanyon | 2025-12-26 04:53:29+00:00
How to build and deploy web apps. I worked as a developer for many years (before becoming a product manager), but always in desktop apps. I still code for fun, but I never made the jump to web apps. Now with AI that's easier than ever, so I'm going to do it.

Python. I played around with it three years ago, and did about 30 Project Euler problems with it, but I've let that lapse. I'll work to pick that up.

I bought my wife a learn-to-draw kit for Christmas, but it's really a gift for both of us.
by kaz-inc | 2025-12-26 04:54:44+00:00
Learn more saxophone, learn more jazz piano. Get better at ear training.

Technically, apply myself more to projects at my job, learn how to fit in our flow better. I've been using AI to program some goofy projects, and I've found a good medium between vibe-coding and auto-complete, where I make it draw up a plan for every commit, and then I ask it to implement it, and if the generated code is wrong I undo the changes and revise the plan to be more precise. It's relatively easy to verify the plan, not as easy to verify the code, but it's still easy to debug the code and figure out what's wrong.

The burden shifts more to creating small modules with stable interfaces.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-26 04:55:27+00:00
> This has been my impression. I briefly used an Abbott Lingo to help me understand some health issues I was experiencing.

> This article is equivalent to calling the Boeing 737 unsafe because it's had the most Full Lost Events while completely ignoring it's flown 238.84M flights (which is basically more than the entire rest of the list combined).

It sounds like you aren't actually diabetic but feel comfortable explaining how people experience using the equipment they use to manage their disease?
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-26 04:58:48+00:00
When I was younger I also re-read The Lord of the Rings perhaps a dozen times. Each reading did seem to land differently—small details I had not noticed the first n times.

For some reason the first half of the first book appealed to me the most. I liked the leaving, the setting out on an adventure that you know not where it will lead you.

After Rivendell the hobbits no longer seemed to be driving.
by eleventhborn | 2025-12-26 04:59:05+00:00
Technical skills:

- Launch my own hand-rolled paper trading solution by mid to late 2026. I want to focus on strategies that prevents heavy losses, rather than actively looking for profits. If I succeed, go live in 2027.

- I hope to complete 3 semesters with a B or above in the ongoing Online Masters Degree program I've enrolled for.

- Do more coding with AI.

- Be prepared for job interviews - even though I have no plans to change jobs. This year my rustiness and lack of interview readiness has cost me "dream jobs" (from my POV)

Non-technical skills:

- The usual. Lose weight, eat mindfully, gain strength, learn the language of my country.
by jibal | 2025-12-26 05:00:19+00:00
> Did you find that dictionary yet?

Typical of the sort of comment that irredeemably awful people make. At no point did I say anything that can be rationally construed as being at odds with the dictionary definition of "antonym". This troll trash implied that I had without any basis, when all I said is that "closed source" can be arbitrarily defined as being the antonym of "open source" -- which is a tautology, independent of the actual meaning of "antonym" (but clearly consistent with it).
by Zambyte | 2025-12-26 05:00:52+00:00
I want be able to play music on the piano. I got a nice keyboard earlier this year, and have only really been inspired to dig into it since I got myself a circle of fifths decoder in the last couple of months. I'm confident now that I have the tools to learn and make concrete progress.

I want to get better at speaking to people. I love conversing with people who have a lot to say, but I feel like lately I struggle with coming up with things to say myself. Especially if it's someone I'm not very familiar with. It's not even necessarily a shyness thing or something like that, I've just got a bad habit of carrying an internal monologue that I don't share even when it'd be appropriate, because I don't feel like it's necessary. But communication shouldn't be limited to what is necessary.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-26 05:01:46+00:00
Yep, read LoTR to my daughters before the film came out. (Thankfully.)

As promising as Fellowship was, the films just kept going down hill—one after the other.

As the girls were growing up we worked through all the Harry Potter books, a half-dozen of the "colored Fairy" books (edited by Andrew Lang), plenty of Uncle Remus tales, the "Little House" books and a number of Sid Fleischman books…

Those were magical years. Only when homework arrived did the reading hour finally come to a close. :-(
by Palmik | 2025-12-26 05:02:34+00:00
Hard disagree.

At Google, in most orgs, manager can influence the chance of success significantly:

- Making sure their team works on what the org leads find "impactful"

- Facilitating cross team collaborations, which will lead to good peer reviews for your report

- Helping your report write the promo packet

- Presenting the promo case effectively during the calibration meeting and being prepared to advocate for the report and respond to criticism from other managers at the meeting

- etc.

There are many managers that do very few if any of these things, and it shows.

Yes, there are quotas, but nonetheless the manager plays a big role in whether their report makes the cut.

There is no harm in saying that you are quitting because you do not feel valued / rewarded enough. Hopefully it will effect change in the manager. Of course it's best to keep it polite and not burn any bridges in the process.
by jibal | 2025-12-26 05:03:41+00:00
> I mean, I can buy opensource.co.net but that doesn't mean I can tell you how you can use the term.

> Need more of a citation to understand that..?

This nonsense is not at all relevant to the claim for which I asked for a citation: "No, the original definition of open-source is source code that is visible (open) to the public."

No support for that claim has ever been offered.
by furyofantares | 2025-12-26 05:04:04+00:00
Generated content (not just text) has given me a deeper understanding and appreciation of content that's expressing something human.

Seeing so much reasonable looking text with no clear opinion, no perspective, no point of view, no taste, no sense of what's important and what's not, not excitement or other desire to share something - it has all made the connection to another human much clearer when I read something that has those things. The same goes for images, music, and voice. I can sense someone on the other side of the work much more clearly than before.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-12-26 05:08:07+00:00
Imran Ahmed, the founder and chief executive of a nonprofit
organization that works to stop the spread of online hate and
disinformation, was among five Europeans barred by the
State Department from the United States on Tuesday.

The State Department said in a separate announcement that it had
“taken steps to impose visa restrictions”

The US State Dept describes disinformation research this way:

“organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor,
demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”
by mroche | 2025-12-26 05:10:05+00:00
That's the purpose of the forge platform, to provide a way to prevent changes to these files from being accept into the source repository. For example:

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...

https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/protected_tags/

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/protection/#protected-t...
by flipped | 2025-12-26 05:10:29+00:00
Banks launder money for extreme illicit activities. Look at TD Bank or HSBC, they were find record breaking for laundering cartel money. Your naivety is not surprising since you refuse to dig deeper and discover the actual truth. Banks and govt doesn't care about you. Their purpose is to deceive, steal and manipulate their true motive from general population. They own your whole life.
by codys | 2025-12-26 05:12:10+00:00
"at the moment" implies that Go would need to change for that statement to change, but instead we're waiting on a programer to make a mistake (A mistake that memory safe languages prevent).

Which does get us to why defining the properties of a language based on what people have written in that language _so far_ is weird. It's not really a property of the language that no one has screwed up yet. It's perhaps an indication that it might be less likely that folks will screw up, which is where the "probabilistic" comes in. It assumes that given the lack of a counter example (a screw up) so far, and given the time that Go has existed, it _appears_ that it's low-likelyhood to screw up go programs in that particular way.

Agreed that the word is non-targeted in one way, but it's better than the alternate (implying go would have to change to become memory unsafe), if one wants to talk about how-memory-safe-is-go.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-12-26 05:12:34+00:00
I find a lot of these articles that compare worries about social media to worries about TV, or worries about comic books, or in this case worried about trashy novels on mass market paperbacks incredibly frustrating.

They miss the fundamental issue with social media that was never true before.

The answer is data. No other media before ever had so much information about every individual that consumed it. No media before could tailor their content at an individual level. About the most you could tailor your content to was a zip code.

This is the problem with TikTok. It’s not that the quality of content is low. It’s that TikTok knows exactly what you like and when you like it, and can give you the exact content to scratch that itch at the time.

There are several problems with this.

- It sucks up all your time.
- You’re never uncomfortable and/or consuming content that isn’t what you already want at the time. That means you are rarely exposed to anything that isn’t releasing dopamine all the time and it means you’re rarely challenged.
by jakogut | 2025-12-26 05:12:40+00:00
There's a difference between carrying ten pounds small distances for short durations, and carrying an extra two pounds over twenty hours of travel, across multiple connecting international flights in a single day. It's also not just an extra two pounds, it's an additional proprietary power cord, bulk, more mass moving in and out under an airliner seat, it all adds up. Especially when you're sleep deprived and physically exhausted.
by Marsymars | 2025-12-26 05:12:54+00:00
I understand what you're saying and that you're not talking about the average. The problem is specifically that short form things are short. It's like the monkeys on typewriters - you'll get some beautifully crafted sentences, but you're never going to get a number of sentences that add up to an actual work of Shakespeare - they're aren't enough atoms in the universe for the number of monkeys and typewriters you'd need.
by jibal | 2025-12-26 05:13:04+00:00
> There is a word for people who cannot tolerate even the smallest difference of opinion: bigots.

No, that's not what that word means.

> all the same rights could be obtained through a domestic partnership or an out-of-state marriage. It was just a nominal dispute about what the word “marriage” means.

That too is not true.

> The fact that Mozilla didn't allow their CEO to deviate from the majority point of view on this issue (again, a minority viewpoint in California at the time!) revealed Mozilla to be a heavily politicized, extremely bigoted corporation, that puts ideological conformity first.

Not at all true.
by sloaken | 2025-12-26 05:13:33+00:00
I love walking around as a mental break from thinking. Preferably solo, but when at work I typically invite others as it is the socially approved event and makes me feel like I am being a good person, despite rumors otherwise.

At home, for fun, I enjoy working with plants. I get a joy out of re potting plants. I especially love finding out an experiment to propagate a plant worked. Ask me about my random Christmas cactus success. I was so thrilled, 6 months later I brought in to work a dozen little plants to share.
by justinjeff | 2025-12-26 05:14:19+00:00
Modern secure messaging focuses on encrypting content while leaving the act of communication itself observable. In high-risk environments, this metadata observability is the primary vulnerability.

I'm proposing an alternative: Low-Observability Context Synchronization. Instead of transmitting explicit symbols, participants synchronize context through ordinary, non-salient interactions.

The goal is to shift the cost of surveillance from decryption to large-scale semantic inference. It’s a trade-off: we sacrifice scalability for reduced observability. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the economic feasibility of this model
by computerdork | 2025-12-26 05:14:25+00:00
Hmm, am no LLM expert, but agree with you that the models themselves for the individual subject domains seem like they're starting to reach their peaks (Writing, solving math, coding, music gen...) and the improvements are becoming a lot less dramatic than couple of years ago.

But, feel like combining LLM's with other AI techniques seems like it could do so much more...

... As mentioned, am no expert, but seems like one of the next major focuses on LLM's is on verification of its answers, and adding to this, giving LLM's a sense for when its result are right or wrong. Yeah, feel like the ability for an LLM to introspect itself so it can gain an understanding of how it got its answer might be of help if knowing if its answer is right (think Anthropic has been working on this for awhile now), as well as scoring the reliability of the information sources.

And, they could also mix in a formal verification step, using some form of proof to prove that its results are right (for those answers that lend themselves to formal verification).

Am sure all this is all currently being tried. So any AI experts out there, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
by strangelove026 | 2025-12-26 05:14:34+00:00
Develop a calistenics practice. Ive been to the gym more on than off over the past few years and feel like I’ve plateaued. I also had a minor thing that I’ve gone to the physio for recently and I prefer the routine of doing those exercises (which would be similar to a calistenics practice in a lot of ways) to going to the gym. Kettlebell and pull up bar to be ordered when I’m back from India

I recently bought a stainless steel pot set which already seems like such a game changer in terms of cooking due to how much better sauces come out due to better fonds. So I want to see what else I can do to push things forward again and generally level up my cooking

Also want to do better with skincare. Partially to age gracefully but I’ve always had dryness here and there off and on on my face. I’ve been in India all month and it got worse, but, got better when I bought some coconut oil. I think the oil acts as a barrier to prevent moisture from escaping.

Also would like to play with some mlops tooling. I do a lot of infra / DevOps stuff, which I can do in my sleep at this point. So I haven’t really been growing in a specific vertical much aside from just generally getting better at software engineering (communication / prioritization / clean and simple architectures).

Also would like to learn linear algebra. Reading a book on how that works with ML and it’s been actually super satisfying seeing how all the math connects. The book is called why machines learn
by phyzome | 2025-12-26 05:14:39+00:00
I sign up with a different email address on every website. (I have a catchall at my domain, rather than using plus-addressing.)

The results are more boring than you think. Almost no one leaks my address. A couple have been hacked, but almost all of those are widely known. (I did discover one early and help Troy Hunt validate a leak.) At least one Kickstarter campaign has shared my address, as has a local business. But that seems to be the extent of it.

I still do it, because I did manage to catch those things, and because it reduces cross-site correlation. But yeah, there's less skeevy behavior than you might think.