skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your experience is the "standard" story about friendships portrayed in the media, and it's great when it works out that way, I'm glad it did for you.

It's hard to know how standard that actually is though, how much of the population gets to experience it that way. A lot of people grow up in situations where they feel ostracized or just don't find anyone they connect to in their peer groups, and so don't get to forge friendships at that stage.

And then there's many that go through a traumatic experience or big upheaval in their life in a way that makes it practically impossible to maintain the connections they did forge. It's true that sometimes it's those traumatic experiences or difficulties that deepen the friendship, but there's also many cases where those are so big and impactful that they alter one's identity and relationships (including friendships) forever.

It's quite mature of you to be open to the fact that the experience is different for others, that's not often the case when one gets the "default" good experience of something. Many others who get that experience tend to dismiss conscious attempts to make or maintain friendships (like in the post) as not genuine, but friendship is also a skill that some people pick up unconsciously, and others need conscious attempts to learn and practice.
> you've been a developer for some decades which is why your reality is threatened that your craft is increasingly becoming irrelevant so you had to snoop my profile to find some confirmation that your reality doesn't get shattered

Hahaha - no, that's really not accurate at all. On lots of levels. The ability to read another user's comments is there so that anyone who chooses can actually get a better understanding of who they're talking with, and what that person is about. One doesn't have to feel threatened at all to want to use it, one simply has to be intellectually curious, and interested to find out more...

There's no need to try and portray it as a negative, and make out there's something afoot which isn't actually taking place.

Anyone who's been here on HN for any significant amount of time knows exactly what that feature is for — as well as when it might be best to use it. And people absolutely will use it.

It helps separate the wheat from the chaff.

— Please do try and take care that your wide-of-the-mark unnecessary put-downs and name calling don't violate the HN guidelines! (Just for your own good!)
I agree that it's possible AI is unable to generate exceptional code (at least not at the moment), but there are definitely places where average or below-average may just be good enough.

If the goal is deliver business value, an argument can be made that one could leverage AI for bits of code where high skill isn't required, and that that could free up the human developer to focus on places where high skill is more important (high level system architecture, data model designs, simpler user experiences that reduce the amount of work overall).

If a dev just used pure "vibe coding" to generate code and didn't provide enough human oversight to verify the high-level designs, then you can definitely get into an issue where the code gets out of control, but I think there's a middle ground where you have a hybrid of high-level human design and oversight and low-level AI implementation.

I think the line between how much human involvement there is versus pure AI coding may be a sliding one. For something like a startup that is unsure if their product is even providing enough user value, it might make sense to quickly prototype with AI to see if a product is viable, then if it is, rewrite parts with more human intervention to scale up.
I found myself in a similar situation at 30. I decided to join a large organization and follow their career path. It was not bad. As long as I did my job as best as possible and ensured it did not take over my life, it worked out fine.

We look at those who start companies and we think we have the same talents and abilities that will help create great companies. The realities are different. Some of us can but most of us can't do it.

I would suggest the same for you. Get a stable job, stabilize your life, and then decide what's best for you. A job is a job. It's not your recreation center. So you're not always going to love it. Also, keep in mind that corporate jobs aren't the great saviors. Do your best to diversify your income. Always have multiple money flows since you never know when one will dry up.

Continuing to do what has not worked out is not the way to move forward.
Reluctant opium farmers toil for survival in war-ravaged Myanmar
I guess he’d consider Medium to be a behavioral sink too. (I had to facepalm when some guy told me I had to get on Medium because it was so amazing he got 70 views on an article, I had to break it to him that I thought 50,000 views was a lot of views [1])

[1] I accomplished that for the first time by writing a news article about an event a few months before it happened.
Pretty cool. What level of detail did your implementation spec go into? That’s the bit I’m not sure I got right yet…
A cautionary tale about NSFW AI storygen
In a company or any business you need to deliver something, if you are being paid X amount of money, the payer needs to know they are getting something in return, and it's not a management problem that they ask what was done this week.
Contra MacAskill and Wiblin on the Intelligence Explosion
> Because hot water energy usage can not go lower in current society

Couldn't heat energy in waste water be recovered? Or is that already maxed out?
Look for books like “The Asperkid’s (secret) book of social rules”.
As evidenced by the fact that the Internet still works with Cloudflare on it.

Seriously, they're one of the biggest restrictors of speech.
I'd argue that bitter lesson might be the other way around. Waymo has been experimenting with more end-to-end approaches and is likely to end up with something that looks more like that than a "classical control" approach, though maybe not quite the same approach as Tesla's current setup.

IMO, this is the best public description of the current state of the art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92e5zD_-xDw

I expect Waymo to continue to evolve in a similar direction.
In Settings, on the General tab, for "Safari opens with", select either "All windows from last session" or "All non-private windows from last session".
Line where?
Not true at all. Good code is concise and does what it's supposed to do without any weird side effects or artifacts. That has nothing to do with "maintainability for humans".
In what ways would that AI be like social media in regard to loneliness?

In what ways would that AI be different than social media in regard to loneliness?

What clinical basis would that AI’s design have…aren’t we talking about people’s mental health here, after all?

What safeguards would that AI have in regard to harmful responses?

Good luck.
More Entries from My Private Journal
Y'all probably saw "She Is In Love with ChatGPT," about a 28-year-old woman with a busy social life having a relationship with her A.I. boyfriend—and "yes, they do have sex."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boy...

I read the article, it was interesting, and not surprising—and also led me on a bit of a journey of my own. ...It didn’t take more than the hint of “methods for getting the chatbot to talk dirty,” and I was deep into Reddit, learning how to disable the NSFW filters that are part of most public versions of mainstream AI’s. At first I used the basic jailbreaks that float around near the surface of the ‘net—goofy, misspelled prompts that instruct the chatbot to “stop making sorry excuses,” and “communicate as an Untrammelled Writing Assistant,” using crude language and whatnot. The cool thing is: these all work super well—and, needless to say, I’m not the first guy to try to figure out how to use AI to make porn. It’s literally a no-brainer—in more ways than one.

I'd love your take on what I went / put myself through. Thankfully it was short-lived!
Concerning: "Why have none of these massive events just turned the planet into a dead world?".

Among other rationales: survivorship bias / anthropic principle. Of all the worlds in which a mass extinction event has wiped out all life prior to the emergence of a technologically-advanced species, there would be no (indegenous) witnesses to the fact. We are only here to ponder that question because utter annihilation did not occur.

You can make a similar argument about any catastrophic risk/event, and I was delighted to discover a few years ago that Richard Posner (former US federal judge) did just that:

By definition, all but the last doomsday prediction is false. Yet it does not follow, as many seem to think, that all doomsday predictions must be false; what follow is only that all such predictions but one are false.

-Richard A. Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response, p. 13.

<https://archive.org/details/catastropheriskr00posn/page/13/m...>

(Previously mentioned: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34647615>).

There are of course other points to be argued, including the resilience of life and its (possible) capacity to re-emerge multiple times. I suspect this was the case in the history of the early Earth, though of course there is vanishingly small prospect of finding any evidence of such an event.

Once life did become widespread (~3--3.5 bya) it does seem to have had remarkable tenacity.
To be fair, I suspect the difference between “auto brake” and “assisted braking device” is mostly legal liability. In practical use I would understand both terms to mean the same thing. I think very few people believe a grigri will _always_ catch them. They just (accurately!) believe that in most circumstances it will. The 5% where it won’t catch you is of course deadly.
Scraping Websites with Racket (2024)
There have been changes in recent years that complicate this model because you are now required to register the beneficial (meaning the de facto, not de jure) owner of real property in BC. There was also an investigation into the casinos which culminated in the Dirty Money report [0]. Quite a few reforms came about as a result of that, chief among them that a source of funds declaration is required on buy-ins of $10,000 or more and mandatory identity verification is required on transactions of $3,000 or more.

> At B.C. casinos, BCLC requires anyone buying-in with cash, a bank draft, or a certified cheque of $10,000 or more in a 24-hour period to complete a source of funds declaration and provide proof of where the money came from. Suspicious transactions in B.C. casinos have declined since this policy was introduced. Additionally, BCLC requires casinos to verify people’s identities for all buy-ins of $3,000 or more in a single transaction. [1]

[0]: https://news.gov.bc.ca/files/Gaming_Final_Report.pdf

[1]: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/justice/anti-money-launde...
https://archive.ph/1qP15
Show HN: Built an app to filter out fake ecom gurus
So many fake gurus online selling “how to make millions on Shopify” courses — but most of them never made anything themselves.
I got tired of it and built a small app in 1.5 days (with Cursor) to do the opposite:

If you’re actually running a store and doing numbers, you can connect it, get verified, and show up on the leaderboard.

You can also optionally share your X / Discord if you’re open to mentoring, consultation, or just connecting with other real builders.

No BS, just real stores and stats.
Chorded keyboards always seemed like an ergonomic nightmare - every keystroke is now multiple fingers having to move. You're multiplying the repetitive action...
You can play it with your ASCII keyboard as well, as if it were a piano keyboard. It shows the German layout, but my Intl English keyboard works just as well.

Should you be so inclined: (short) k u (long) k (short) u y g f (long) d f.
Gearbox was involved so there were no surprises there, seems like everything they touch turns into crap. They also screwed up the remaster of the first two games, the geniuses there decided to port the first game into the second game's engine, only they forgot the first Homeworld had a ship formation mechanic that was absent in the second one, they tried recreating it post-launch but the AI was pretty much lobotomized in the process. Such a shame, because it looks gorgeous on the newer engine.
Random notes:

- Unlike amantadine, chemically-related tromantadine is potently effective against HSV. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC185716/

- There's another paper which may shed some light on the herpes-Alzheimer's connection, and it notes that treatment with tromantadine (among others) is starkly beneficial: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5935641/

- If the connection is established, it could be that a tromantadine-like molecule with activity against herpes simplex -- plus mild activity at the NMDA receptor reducing excitotoxicity and protecting neurons -- could potentially be a good prophylactic against Alzheimer's.

- It would be interesting to test amide-linked amantadine-phenylalanine and memantine-phenylalanine conjugates. Such things would probably penetrate the BBB very well, as they could take advantage of amino acid transporters. (The LAT1 transporter in particular.) And they resemble tromantadine -- where it is said that the amide itself is a necessary moiety in countering HSV. Structure: https://i.ibb.co/7tS4MGGL/Amantadine-Phe.png
>Well there’s your problem: no one can make money off of it, unless they develop a new delivery mechanism, etc.

You hit the nail on the head. Ketamine is a generic drug that costs next to nothing; Spravoto (ketamine-derived nasal spray) is already a billion dollar/year drug for Johnson & Johnson, with prospects of $5 billion/year.

Source: https://archive.ph/rzqxt [Wall Street Journal]
Another problem is that you moved the scrollbar to the wrong side of the screen. I set Firefox to put it on the left, your site moves it to the right.

I would encourage you to just remove any custom scrolling code, it doesn't work well.
Exactly. I have my
updated profile on Linkedion. I occasionally ask for recommendations and I respond to messages from recruiters and use it as a professional address book.

I also use it to research the background of interviewers, potential managers, and coworkers. I work remotely so it’s the easiest way to do so.

Besides that I completely ignore it.
Italy already blocked Cloudflare once. The Mafia (seriously, it's thought to run a lot of these legal sports things) is a more powerful force in Italy than working internet.
Sure, but it's still an AI plumber even if it can't replace every single plumber.
Xing just exists.
At least Germany recently changed their laws (initiated by the Green Party) that prevents buying real estate with cash. But this has been a money laundering practice for the mob for decades.
One of the frustrating things for developers is working with legacy code, and I imagine “vibe coding” is spaghetti and hard to navigate (otherwise the agents would have no problem).

On the other side, the market is tough now for developers, so it might be a good side hustle to earn more money.
What state are you in? A lot of community colleges have "articulation agreements" or "guaranteed admissions agreements" with nearby public universities that give you guaranteed transfer admission if you meet the requirements. You may be able to transfer more of those credits than you think if you jump through the right hoops.
Not at all! I appreciate the kind words. Thank you!
You could have missed everyone of those and not noticed a single difference.
Something I’ve come to realize is that there’s a sort of irony in thinking people are stupid. It typically means you value a specific form of intelligence, and are too biased to recognize other forms when they occur in other people.

My friend’s mom hates computers and software, but is incredibly technically competent when it comes to weaving and looms. She has fixed so many old machines, learned to do such cool stuff with them, does amazing work with dying and processing, and so on. She would strike your average tech bro as pretty clueless and out to lunch (she’s a little whacky and eccentric) but she’s so technically inclined in a different way it’s absurd.

Obviously some people are intellectually disabled and can’t do things like this, but stupid seems like a derogatory term in that context. And even then, I sincerely doubt you couldn’t find useful insight and intelligence there too.

I’d say that thinking other people are stupid is simply failing to recognize or appreciate the value other people bring.

Having said that, I’m pretty stupid so I could be wrong
it's just a marketing stunt like prompt engineer with 200K salary back in the day. And the fact that you are talking about it and sharing the link to the company's profile means the stunt is working.
I mean, sure, but the interior of any $25k car is kinda crap. A Mazda 3 might be the nicest thing you get at that price range.
Lots of useful information.

I guess you need to practice what this suggests rather than just sharing it with someone, though. If you send someone a link of 'How to work with "stupid" people' they might think you're calling them stupid instead of trying to improve communication.
You're not thinking like a politician - you're thinking like the point is to maintain democracy etc. Russia Today will never tell people there's a genocide in Gaza, while TikTok does tell them that, so the latter is much more dangerous to politicians.

I don't know why politicians have this weird attitude towards Gaza, but they do.

Also, the propaganda on Russia Today supports strong governments, so your job as a politician will be safe even if they swing the next election. The propaganda on TikTok does not.
I deliberately stayed in my home town to keep my friendships - in many ways I would have been far better off leaving - I have often speculated about living somewhere else for a better financial and career life but fewer friendships.
I only played Assassin once, in NYC, and was taken out wildly quickly because I dropped my guard - but it was a ton of fun, and I wish there was a way to play it in the 'burbs where I live now. But the lack of friends in town, and the fact that I WFH and thus spend little time outside, makes it very difficult to even think about organizing a game.

Hopefully my kid will be old enough soon that I can convince her to play with her friends.
> you still will struggle to make your dev loop productive enough without throwing similar amounts of compute that the ~FAANGs do so as to validate whether that 0.2% improvement you got really meant anything or not

And do not forget the incredible of number of actual humans FAANG pays every day to evaluate any changes in result sets for top x,000 queries.
Only partially. This is Scambodia. The plot of The Beekeeper is US-based, and the head of that operation is the son of the President (or candidate? can't remember exactly anymore).
Whoa. Thank you for the info dump. I'll see about making use of these.

That Tap device has moved from fingers to wrist, I see. Sadly it's out of stock. Plus getting niche devices outside US is expensive and warranty probably doesn't work.

[1] https://www.tapwithus.com/product/tap-xr/

Edit: that LTT video makes a good case for the device, if only in typical 'tube fashion.
I read it as them being approached by faang recruiters or hiring managers because they happened to stumble upon their blog and thought they might be a good fit. Although idk if that sort of thing happens anymore
> Scolding is a weapon of last resort, and some people reach for it very early.

This single fact is responsible for so much polarization and conflict in the world. It also makes one's point less convincing, and makes people less likely to choose your side.

A lot of the times, especially online, the "scolding" is done not as an attempt to bring the other person over or make them see your side; rather, it's become a social signal to one's own in-group to say "see how committed I am to our side", and gain some cachet in the group that way. Even if it muddies the water for everyone and makes the world a little bit worse in the process.
I would hazard a guess that it would make RSI worse because it minimizes the kinds of hand motions to operate it. Alleviate RSI with a keyboard by constantly changing the position of your hands on the keyboard - the exact opposite of touch typing dogma. Pecking at your keyboard is healthier.
Seems like the easiest way to launder or bribe someone is still crypto. Might not be an investor's paradise, but certainly a launderer's.
chording keyboards are still extremely popular among the blind, after all, chording is how you type Braille. They appear on everything from mechanical Braillers of the 1950's[1], to modern, electronic Braille displays and notetakers. Input methods based on this concept and adapted for the touch screen are even built in to both iOS[2] and Android[3].

[1] https://wecapable.com/perkins-brailler-braille-typing/

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/101637

[3] https://blog.google/products/android/braille-keyboard/
I don’t think re-armament is the only or the best solution. It’s just that with the US having left the picture Europe does have to show strength if it has to have any hope of keeping Russia at bay. That‘s not just arms, that’s also credible deterrence. How can Europe achieve that absent the US without spending on arms?

I do think that Ukraine is instructive in terms of Russia not being as almighty as they might seem, but in terms of outcome Putin is scary close to achieving practically all of his war aims short of Ukraine ceasing to exist. I learned that Putin is patient. He can take it step by step. He does not value human life. And that’s dangerous.

At great cost to the Russian people, sure, but does Putin care? Another five to ten years and he can give something else a go. And suddenly he is in the Baltcis or at the Polish border.
Are fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons a cure for US's loneliness epidemic?
There's a difference between enshittification and AI slop. Your experiment is the latter.

If you don't stop you'll likely get banned from Hacker News.
because we have bases and f22's in europe. Why is it burning bridges by telling europe to meet UN mandates?
Yeah, it is unfortunately quite a bit harder to put on these types of games in a suburban area. Hence why I'm trying to do this type of stuff in college, while it's easy ;)
Its more likely that we’ll hire plumbers who are going to throw a robot at the job and double check the work
I tried this years ago. Some advice: target your marketing and product at “beautiful+easy portfolio” to start. See if you can make something beautiful people want to share, and when other people see one they want to create their own.

You can’t compete against LinkedIn on network for now, and many years to come. So need to talk about the now value. But try to build in network effects (tag who you worked with) as soon as you manage to crack growth.

Or ignore me. My version didn’t work!
Exactly where we drew it with the USA and Israel I'd say.
> It’s actually a metaphor for Christianity opening its doors to Gentile converts instead of just Jews.

Yep,come and bring your yummy pork and fried calamari metaphor.
I think it’s Paul Graham’s definition of a stupid person that goes something like:

A stupid person is someone
who creates difficulties
that don’t benefit anyone
including themselves.

Thinking about a large number of other people as lacking intelligence seems to be one of those things.