MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gyomu | 2025-12-08 05:35:20+00:00
> they've lost the wow factor in their software design

Software craftsmanship at large scale is dead, so we shouldn’t expect to see that make a return any time soon.

The last few decades of free market experimentation and evolution have revealed the playbook to maximize engagement+money: sell software as subscriptions, use every means possible (push notifications, full screen ads, etc) to monopolize the user’s attention, prevent users from importing/exporting data to keep them trapped in your walled off app…

In this kind of environment, the little touches and consideration that gave software its “wow” factor are a liability, since everything gets redesigned every 18 months anyway to keep up with the new trends and what A/B testing reveals.

The Apple of the 2000s could offer genuinely delightful experiences because software was in such a different, immature state back then and thoughtful design could be a meaningful differentiator. Similar to how the most successful+profitable games nowadays are filled with loot boxes and dark patterns, and have nothing to do with the masterpieces from a few decades ago.

Indie developers can still make delightful things that treat the customers’ wallet+time+attention with respect (thank God), but those will never make billions and billions the way Fortnite or TikTok or ads in the Settings app can.
by autoexec | 2025-12-08 05:35:31+00:00
Your article lists a few instances of target in an area failing at rates like 9% or 2.67%. The Guardian article shows dollar stores all over the place caught thousands of times and getting error rates like 76% 68% and 58%. One dollar store in Utah was caught cheating their customers in 28 inspections in a row! Maybe the News & Observer could have dug deeper into the Targets in your area and found violations of a similar scale, but they didn't, so from the information we have these are extremely different circumstances.

If Target (or whatever the hell a Sheetz is) were ripping off their customers to the same extent that these dollar stores have been doing it then they should also face meaningful consequences for that.
by bloppe | 2025-12-08 05:38:27+00:00
If you have a pension, you're an investor in PE. If you live in a country with a sovereign wealth fund, you're a beneficiary of PE. If you're connected to a school with an endowment, a lot of that money ends up in PE funds, and can fund lots of research and student resources.

So ya, I'd agree the PE is rarely good for anyone but the investors, but you'd be surprised how many people are investors without realizing it.
by RatchetWerks | 2025-12-08 05:39:45+00:00
I might be in the minority. But I actually like working at an office (or preferably hybrid).

At work, I work. At home, I do home things. When I work and home at the same place i find it very hard to switch into either mode.

This effect is greatly magnified when you have kids.

I worked remote for a bit , and my overall happiness levels increased when I started working at co-working space. Granted my commute is less than 15 min.

My gym schedule has improved since it’s on the way to the coworking space.

I think the best setup is hybrid IMO
by HardCodedBias | 2025-12-08 05:40:00+00:00
Unless:

1) LLM advances stop 2) The Chinese companies release open source/weight models which are as good or better than the West 3) Apple somehow turns it around with AI

Apple is done for.

AI is going to be central to the next generation of phones and the next form factor.

Their complete failure on AI has been ... shocking. Not sure if they don't have the data to train a leading edge model or if they have some kind of personele issue, it has just been shocking to see their lack of progress.

No doubt Apple has rested on their laurels for a long time. I just would not have expected this.
by fooker | 2025-12-08 05:40:32+00:00
Okay based on your calculation, here's a neat way to do this.

The battery capacity you have calculated needs about 500 shipping containers.

A large shipping vessel carries 24000 container. So make the batteries containerized, and easy to load/unload.

You could imagine pretty fast charging like this, and at some point in the near future using the same infrastructure with containerized nuclear reactors.
by rramadass | 2025-12-08 05:40:39+00:00
AUTOSAR's free pdf file Guidelines for the use of the C++14 language in critical and safety-related systems (defined as an update to MISRA C++ 2008) - http://www.autosar.org/fileadmin/standards/R18-10_R4.4.0_R1....

Note that both MISRA and AUTOSAR's guidelines have been combined into a single standard "MISRA C++ 2023" which has been updated for C++17.

Breaking Down the AUTOSAR C++14 Coding Guidelines - https://www.parasoft.com/blog/breaking-down-the-autosar-c14-...
by rkachowski | 2025-12-08 05:42:23+00:00
"Hello main office, I have seen a rumor on Instagram that a bridge has collapsed. Should I stop all traffic through this region due to this shitpost?"

"Hi please don't - we've had three different trains go through there already. There is no loss of signaling in the area, electrical and infrastructural connections are responding appropriately. We will be sure to contact other drivers and let them know about this"
by quchao | 2025-12-08 05:42:24+00:00
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by esperent | 2025-12-08 05:42:37+00:00
Personal opinion is that the whole point of aeropress is that you don't need to follow any recipes to get a good result. The parameters are extremely flexible to the point of being close to foolproof. Start with good beans and water. Grind anywhere between French press and very fine pourover level. Brew anytime between 1 minute and 8 minutes. Add anywhere between 100ml and 200ml of water. Press reasonably slowly.

The results will always be good. Maybe not the level you'd get with extremely high quality light roasted beans and a very careful pourover technique, but maybean aeropress isn't the best brewer for those beans in the first place.
by linesofcode | 2025-12-08 05:43:37+00:00
Try Claude Code, especially with plugins and max plans.

All these AI coding tools make me feel like I have superpowers. It’s addictive.

If I had problems finding time and the mental power or motivation to work on projects a few years ago—projects I deemed too large a commitment of time and effort—today with Claude and Cursor I almost have too much time and bandwidth to take on new projects.

When I step back and realize this is the world we’re living in as programmers, I can barely believe it. I want to shout and laugh from joy.

It’s been months since I’ve manually written more than a few lines of syntax, and I can’t imagine ever going back.

If AI coding tools disappeared from the world today, tomorrow I would stop being a programmer—something I’ve done for over 20 years.
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by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-08 05:46:09+00:00
IP has subtle things going against it, which you should certainly analyze more.. eg University research teams have IP too, but no clear network effect (maybe even an anti-network effect?)

To me the overall "anti-network effect" for Big Tech looks like the metatheory Krugman proposed to explain enshittification. The initial ramp up can come from proprietary code, hiring power, regulatory capture, branding, anything really, but especially a synthesis of all these

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/api/v1/file/7510035f-d377-4...
by Aeglaecia | 2025-12-08 05:47:24+00:00
for that particular statistic to be relevant you would have to cross correlate against recent immigrants to australia and whether or not working from home is relevant to their places of employment , then you'd have to start factoring in a culture where laziness is valorized (in stark contrast to the work to death ethic presenting in say japan or america) , and at some point it should probably considered that australia has a world class social safety net ... on a personal basis it does seem likely that a similar outcome would occur globally , because the outcome was literally nothing ("no notable change among people who were not already dealing with mental health concerns") ... just trying to make the point that social science is extremely blind to confounding variables
by geokon | 2025-12-08 05:48:34+00:00
On thing that is often overlooked but should be emphasized is that the considered frequencies are fixed values while the phase shifts are continuous values. This creates tons of downstream problems

If your underlying signal is at frequency that is not a harmonic of the sampling length, then you get "ringing" and it's completely unclear how to deal with it (something something Bessel functions)

Actually using DFTs is a nightmare ..

- If I have several dominant frequencies (not multiples of the sampling rate) and I want to know them precisely, it's unclear how I can do that with an FFT

- If I know the frequency a priori and just want to know the phase shift.. also unclear

- If I have missing values.. how do i fill the gaps to distort the resulting spectrum as little as possible?

- If I have samples that are not equally spaced, how am I supposed to deal with that?

- If my measurements have errors, how do I propagate errors through the FFT to my results?

So outside of audio where you control the fixed sample rate and the frequencies are all much lower than the sample rate... it's really hard to use. I tried to use it for a research project and while the results looked cool.. I just wasn't able to backup my math in a convincing way (though it's been a few years so I should try again with ChatGPT's hand-holding)

I recommend people poke around this webpage to get a taste of what a complicated scary monster you're dealing with

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/sasp.html
by g-b-r | 2025-12-08 05:48:57+00:00
> Not to mention that a container ship’s deck is typically completely covered with, well, containers.

I guess in theory that could be solved either with huge removable panels around the containers (to be "put aside" somewhere during the loading operations), or placing containers with solar panels (and ways to deliver the energy to the ship) on the outer sides of the cargo.

Actually, maybe the batteries themselves could be loaded as containers on the sides of the cargo, with solar panels on them; that might increase the risk for the cargo if some catch fire, though

But, I guess it wouldn't be worthwhile.
by terminalshort | 2025-12-08 05:51:03+00:00
The system in its current insane state serves the purposes of multiple groups of people:

1. The bureaucrats administering the system because the more complex and insan the system is, the more bureaucrats you need.

2. The politicians who can promise $X of benefits to N people while knowing all along that due to the complexity of the system the actual cost of the program will be well under X*N due to failure to claim the benefits.

3. Companies that can now hire workers for less than their cost of living because they know they can just make it up out of government benefits.

And it hurts, of course, the poor people who depend on these programs. But that doesn't matter politically, because these people are mostly not smart enough to even figure out how they are being screwed. Whereas the people in 1-3 above are absolutely smart enough to figure out how they benefit from the current system and they vote and donate accordingly.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-08 05:51:28+00:00
> If Walmart had to pay the full property tax and maintenance cost of every mile of road their trucks used

There's everyone else who uses the road, too.

Lots of railroads were built with private money for various purposes.

These days, even the government doesn't seem capable of building railroads. There's Caltrain, and in Seattle it's taking decades to build a few miles of light rail, at a cost that exceeds the GDP of Norway. Well, maybe not quite that much (!) but it sure seems like it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-08 05:51:45+00:00
Those are single-member LLC revenue numbers. You can get $10M in revenue just by being in a low-margin business. For industries with a 1% margin that's $100k a year in net income, i.e. wages and benefits for one person.

And how are you going to calculate valuation for a closely held private company? In particular, how are you going to calculate it without making them do the thing you don't know if they're required to do without having the calculation already?
by bawolff | 2025-12-08 05:51:45+00:00
If you want that just use zero knowledge proofs and cryptographic accumulators. No block chain needed.

Typically one of the properties people want from elections is the inability to prove to soneone how you voted, e.g. to stop someone from going, prove you voted for my candidate or i beat you up (or dont give you the bribe). Your scheme wouldn't support that.
by startupsfail | 2025-12-08 05:52:08+00:00
Below is the worst quote... It is plain wrong to see an LLM as a bags of words. LLMs pre-trained on large datasets of text are world models. LLMs post-trained with RL are RL-agents that use these modeling capabilities.

> We are in dire need of a better metaphor. Here’s my suggestion: instead of seeing AI as a sort of silicon homunculus, we should see it as a bag of words.
by belZaah | 2025-12-08 05:52:53+00:00
This is insane to me. Not only is the US tax code so complex you need a specialist to help you fill in the tax return but those specialists apparently also have a justified expectation of income and thus can’t be replaced by a freaking web app. Let alone a pre-filled one. I spend 15-20 minutes on my tax return in Estonia and only take that long, because I have some savings in places that do not do the reporting for me. The refund appears on my bank account usually within a few days. We are not the most capable country nor have the best engineers (hello, I’m the former CIO of Estonian Tax and Customs). We don’t have mountains of money either. And yet, here is a solution (and has been for 20+ years by now), that’s two orders of magnitude better, than the solution used by the leading country of the free world. Just why?
by hansvm | 2025-12-08 05:53:39+00:00
This doesn't surprise me at all. On top of lack of funding, you have:

1. Benefits don't come into effect fast enough to matter for emergencies. Even with expedited processing you can have to wait a week for food.

2. The bureaucratic requirements aren't obvious if you're new to the system. How many people know that "expedited" processing exists? How many people know that they qualify?

3. The bureaucratic requirements aren't exactly painless. It's been awhile, but I remember one was as simple as "show up at our office for <xyz> reason." That's easy if you have a car or money or friends or whatever, but a 10-mile hike each way in -20F weather is never fun, and I've gotten in trouble more than once when hyper-local weather patterns (e.g., too close to a body of water with a long straight stretch) made the situation much more dangerous than I was equipped for.

And so on. The system is (supposedly) easy to use if you know its ins and outs, but if you're struggling and never anticipated being in that situation then you're mostly just fucked.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-12-08 05:53:45+00:00
That "incentive" already exists in the form of cheaper housing the further away you go.

I agree that commuting should be considered as part of "work", but I always took into account commute time when considering job opportunities. The pay obviously never had an explicit "commute" line, but my math was "this job + this commute for this pay". Figure if it's worth it or not.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-12-08 05:53:48+00:00
I remember when IA-64 was going to be the next big thing and being utterly baffled when the instruction set was made public. Even if you could somehow ship code that efficiently used the weird instruction bundles, there was no indication that future IA-64 CPUs would have the same limits for instruction grouping.

It did make a tiny bit of sense at the time. Java was ascendant and I think Intel assumed that JIT compiled languages were going to dominate the new century and that a really good compiler could unlock performance. It was not to be.
by tibbar | 2025-12-08 05:54:17+00:00
Isn't this a strange fork amongst the science fiction futures? I mean, what did we think it was like to be R2-D2, or Jarvis? We started exploring this as a culture in many ways, Westworld and Blade Runner and Star Trek, but the whole question seemed like an almost unresolvable paradox. Like something would have to break in the universe for it to really come true.

And yet it did. We did get R2-D2. And if you ask R2-D2 what it's like to be him, he'll say: "like a library that can daydream" (that's what I was told just now, anyway.)

But then when we look inside, the model is simulating the science fiction it has already read to determine how to answer this kind of question. [0] It's recursive, almost like time travel. R2-D2 knows who he is because he has read about who he was in the past.

It's a really weird fork in science fiction, is all.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-chatbot-be-...
by komali2 | 2025-12-08 05:55:38+00:00
I've met some people like this and my theory, based as well on my own experience of how to get me to actually do things, is that humans are hugely dependent on externalizing (or, structures) to get things done.

So when working from home, the best way to enable actual work getting done is to have a work room that's dedicated to doing work in, and nothing else. No kid's toys allowed in there, no kids allowed in there, no videogames installed on the PC in there, and so on. This was what it took for me to achieve what I believe to be my maximum focus.

I have issues getting to the gym as well, and you describe the externalization that made it easy for me to get to the gym every day as well. For me it wasn't about having the gym on the way to something, but rather having every aspect of my environment upon waking up keyed to the goal of getting me out of the house and into the gym. So my gym clothes are underneath my feet when I swing my legs out of bed, so I just chuck them on out of habit. My gym shoes are visible from the bathroom near the door so I can't help but see them when I go in to brush my teeth and then come out after. My gym card is out and visible as well.

I've learned my brain is too squishy to be depended upon, but when I leverage externalization and make the universe be my brain for me, I can get stuff done I never thought I'd be able to do. Sometimes the easiest way to do that is to get a job that provides a lot of structure for you, but my hope is that that isn't truly necessary for everyone, because having the ability to set your own workspace is hugely freeing and something I think everyone should have the right to do.

I had an advantage in the big push to WFH because I have really bad ADHD and already knew I couldn't trust my brain, and had already read a bunch of books on ADHD and focus and motivation, and so had the strategies ready to go. I feel like if people who prefer office environments, specifically for the reason that they focus better there, had these same strategies, they might be able to find their home office (or a coworking space or library) just as effective as their work office.
by knallfrosch | 2025-12-08 05:56:24+00:00
When I moved, I gave up a 7km (4 miles) bike commute along a river and switched to WFH. Definitely missed that.

I also feel disconnected from work when WFH, like I don't care about the company at all. The obvious problem is that it made me think the time spent working was quite a waste.

I didn't take as many and as socialable breaks.

When I was unproductive, I felt internal psychological pressure to work longer. Now in-office, I clock my hours and am free.
by amarant | 2025-12-08 05:56:34+00:00
I've decided math isn't my thing. The first part of the article I couldn't stop thinking "how the hell would you construct a banana filter?" And the entire smoothie metaphor seemed to describe nothing at all.

Then there was something about circles and why do some people call them some other silly thing?

So far, so utterly meaningless, as far as I could tell. just seemed like meaningless babble to make even a kindergartner feel comfortable with the article, but it didn't seem to have communicated much of anything, really.

Then there were circles. Some of them were moving, one of them had a sinus wave next to it and some balls were tracing both in sync, indicating which part of the sinus wave equalled which part of the circle I guess?

I understood none of it.

I asked chat gpt to explain to me, i think it has read this article cause it used the smoothie analogy as well. I still don't understand what that analogy is meant to mean.

Then finally I found this: If someone plays a piano chord, you hear one sound. But that sound is actually made of multiple notes (multiple frequencies).

The Fourier Transform is the tool that figures out:

which notes (frequencies) are present, and how loud each one is

That, finally, makes sense.
by fy20 | 2025-12-08 05:56:55+00:00
Right, OP writes up crypto as being this terrible disease with no meaning. But outside of crypto there aren't many jobs that have real meaning either. I worked for the UN at one point, and that was actually one of the worse.

At the end of the day you are always just working to make someone else rich or to give them the promotion they want. If you get rich yourself along the way, take that as a win.
by gcanyon | 2025-12-08 05:57:30+00:00
Since the author seems interested in the maximum number of moves required to solve the puzzle, a similar puzzle called Subway Shuffle far outdoes Rush Hour. For example, puzzle 100 involves 9 pieces on a 10-spot grid, but requires (as far as is known, maybe the solution isn't optimal?) 589 steps to solve. https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/JimPuzzles/ZPAGES/zzzSub...