skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been listening to Moomin audiobooks and reading some of the books to my wife in recent years, and I started to spot some of the more adult/darker subtext in it (I'm still processing the one where the Moominpappa makes the entire family move to a lighthouse, and Moominmamma is desperately trying to cope with growing depression). Still, I have an answer for the author's conundrum, that's accurate for a significant fraction of the readerbase:

> "One of the oddest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex tales of apocalypse, breakdown and disfunction have been consistently misread as cutesy celebrations of domestic life."

It's actually really simple. Here in Poland, myself and my entire generation grew up watching the children cartoon adaptation of the Moomins. It was cute, it was happy, it had nice art and music, it was suitable for small children but engaging even to older ones, and it was aired when all kids would be watching[0]. This was our generation's intro to the Moomins, and it colored how we read the books.

I imagine the case is similar all across Europe. A whole generation primed to read these stories as positive and light-hearted, because of a TV adaptation.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieczorynka - public TV (TVP1), every day at 19:00, just before the evening news slot. In times I grew up, watching this was pretty much a national tradition for any family with children.
impenetrable (?) paywall
This is a social site too, and not much better than Reddit if at all - at least when I only consider the communities I "participated in" there. That said, I have been thinking about quitting HN too several times, and I find it disappointing that there's no (easy) way to export my data from here.

Pretty unhappy about it as well. I have no real interest in physical socializing, but virtual socializing is slowly becoming untenable. Small communities (can) work OK, but anything at-scale is various degrees of rough. I just don't think natural language and the human experience can properly scale this large, and it shows.
Sorta. You could definitely go in on something worthless that never gets any traction and end up with less than zero, as in, you owe money after the experience. But for every Stripe or Airbnb there's 100 more lesser known names that still pay out, not in the millions, but a couple hundred thousand dollars range, which is still enough to change most people's situation.

Definitely look at them as worthless untill they're worth something, but the untold secret is the secondary and private market. SpaceX employees have gone that route and some are quite rich despite there not being an IPO. Again, the failure mode to be aware of is you could end up in debt and owe money which is worse than if you'd never played.
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Choosing Castration: A Thematic Analysis of the Perceived Pros and Cons of Genital Injuries and Ablation by Men Who Voluntarily Sought Castration

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102058/

This is kind of funny: “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 2021).”
It's just the average thing you learn going through EE or CompE, plus a knack for turning specs to code.

Don't get me wrong, I find him to be an elite dev, but more for the incredible ability to hold a spec in his head in sufficient detail - and do that multiple times.
From large scale e-commerce applications to small-scale frontend applications, data and how to manipulate one is key to an optimal solution. this tutorial offers useful tips on how we can manipulate data in the client side for effective read and write to state opration, especially in a typescript based app -such as using react.
> when the "talking directly to the display server" approach incurs so much more cost, unless you were willing to accept an unusably minimal user interface (worse than any terminal program would be).

Talking directly to display server simply can not incur more cost than having terminal application and then terminal emulator talking to display server; the talking to display server is something you need anyways, and anything else (like having a tty layer) is just additional cost on top of that.
I agree with that.

Why GAZETTE rather than just COMPUTE! ?

Big fan of the project here BTW.
I am in a rental and don't have a charger I just plug into the wall.

I haven't had to visit a gas station since I got it so that's about 10 minutes a week this year saved. So I'm up almost 2 and a half hours so far this year.
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To add to this, the electrolyte will leak out and damage the circuit board.
> The plug in charging is short ranged enough that it's not meaningful and you still need to maintain all the combustion stuff.

Probably depends on usage patterns; I know someone with one of the plugin BMWs, and they effectively never end up running on petrol.
>I just missed writing code.

Even before AI really took of that was an experience many developers, including me, had.
Outsourcing has taken over much of the industry. If you work in the west, there is a good probability that a large part of your work is managing remote teams, often in India or other low cost countries.

What AI could change is either reducing the value of outsourcing or make software development so accessible that managing the outsourcing becomes unnecessary.

Either way, I do believe that Software Developers are here to stay. They won't be writing much code in any case.
A software developer in the US costs 100k a year and writing software simply will never again be worth 100k year.
There are people and programs who are much cheaper.
I save about 10 minutes per week not having to ever go get gas. So even two of these 15 hour trips a year and I'd still be ahead
In the context of the story, i think "dream" should be taken as "yearn for" i.e. something you dream of having one day, not so much what you dream of at night.
This is a clickbait article. More towers mean that existing triangulation somewhat more accurate, and "anyone with access" is the cellular service provider.

5G does not always result in more towers, it just supports closer towers for better performance.

"Anyone with access" to Google or Apple data also knows exactly where you are. "Anyone with access" to <social media app of choice> knows exactly where you are. "Anyone with access" to police databases know exactly where you drove. "Anyone with access" to VISA/Mastercard data knows exactly where you've shopped. "Anyone with access" to Find my data will know exactly where your phones, headphones, and other trackable items are at any point in time.

This isn't a complaint about 5G, but about cellular anonymity which has never existed.
It's amazing that we'd rather consider eugenics than change our social norms
you are not an independent agent, but where the corporate politics dictate what time you do what, when, who you can hire and fire, what your team versus another team does, who gets called when something breaks, and what priorities are what

Having clients is doubling down on all that, not an escape from it.

With the added stress of irregular income and a real possibility for not being paid at all.

And probably for less money because you don’t have good clients.

The biggest red flag is you are here on HN playing house instead of getting rejected by cold calling…everything is easier to stomach than rejection — including failure of the business.

If you can’t see why things are the way they are at your employer, how are you going to understand why things are the way they are at a client business?
This article highlights the AI part just as clickbait. The interviewed could have used job descriptions or interview guides/videos to exaggerate its resume, with the same result.
Saying you used AI nowadays to find ANY information shouldn’t be more surprising than saying that you Googled a question.
Ideas for Super Intelligence
I remember going down the "dead internet theory" rabbit hole of reddit and it was gruesome.

Tons of people who are actually paid to go through conversation scripts, push narratives, etc.
Sense-Certainty and Cocktails
> Forty-six percent of the global population lives on less than $5 per day. In some countries, more than 90% of the population lives on less than $5 per day. If agentic AI code generation becomes the most effective way to write high-quality code, this will create a massive barrier to entry. Access to technology is already a major class and inequality problem. My bitter prediction is that these expensive frontier models will become as indispensable for software development as they are inaccessible to most of the world’s population.

Forty-six percent of the global population has never hired a human programmer either because a good human programmer costs more than $5 a day{{citation needed}}.
I’ve gotten to study a lot about hat making recently, and a little known fact about is that the use of mercuric nitrate in the felting process poisoned many workers in the hat factories, creating a condition called erethism, also called "mad hatter disease."

The exposure resulted in slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations.

It’s pretty likely that Corbett was exposed to the same!
I can tell you with 100% certainty that Google the user facing products like Google Search and Gmail don’t share hardware or infrastructure with GCP and they don’t just repurpose servers between the two.

This is like the same myth that AWS started because Amazon decided to sell “excess capacity” from Amazon Retail to bootstrap AWS. That never happened either.
Richer Swedes are getting healthier more quickly
Sounds like SystemD to me, all it's missing is a good editor.
My apologies for failing to guess that when you complained they used too many fancy words to hide that the reason is to make more money, you actually weren't objecting to their use of a simple phrase acknowledging their goal of making more money and you were actually thinking about everything else they said rather than that.
> That can only happen if you ban all imports of anything those small business manufacturers would made, and be content with the prices going up so those Americans can really be paid who make those products. ... then it is either slavery, poorly paid illegal immigrants or back to some other low-wage country like we’ve done for the past decades.

Counterpoint: About 1/3 of Australia's GDP is small business. We have very few tariffs. We have a high minimum wage (about USD$16/hr) and it's enforced, so slavery yada, yada isn't a factor.

What you said sounds like it might be true, but in reality it ain't so.
I really don’t think that the blackface in the Philosophers sketch is about the reaction of the triggerable.
The creators thought that having 50% of your codebase be `if (err != nil) { ... }` was a good idea. And that channels somehow make sense in a world without pattern matching or generics. So yeah, it's a bizarrely idiosyncratic language - albeit with moments of brilliance (like structural typing).

I actually think Java is the better PL, but the worse runtime (in what world are 10s GC pauses ever acceptable). Java has an amazing standard library as well - Golang doesn't even have many basic data structures implemented. And the ones it does, like heap, are absolutely awful to use.

I really just view Golang nowadays as a nicer C with garbage collection, useful for building self contained portable binaries.
Antarctic gravity anomaly likely caused by meteorite
Problems in Treasury markets (from my email)
I am starting to think of fiction from the past few decades. Two things stand out:

The Neal Stephenson Novel Fall, or; Dodge in Hell. One of its themes was an internet saturated with bots to the point where people need special filters. A hacker assaulting the internet with "apes", etc. Post-truth society.

The Talos Principle, Chatbots.html:
>

"Jenny77: chatbots are becoming increasingly sophisticated
nigel_pyjamas: true, but hardly relevant to this discussion
Jenny77: are you sure?
Jenny77: how do you know that I'm not a bot?
samschwartz: don't be ridiculous
Jenny77: i'm not ridiculous
Jenny77: honestly, how would you know?
veganwarrior: haha troll
Jenny77: i'm not a troll
veganwarrior: yeah right
Jenny77: is there anything I've written so far that could not be written by a bot?
Jenny77: i responded to simple insults like "ridiculous" and "troll" with very basic negations
Jenny77: and i detected that none of you use proper orthography so i also avoided capitalization
veganwarrior: what's the capital of France?
Jenny77: paris
Jenny77: even the simplest script could pull that info from the net
nigel_pyjamas: what's the capital of Croatia?
Jenny77: Zagreb
nigel_pyjamas: OK she's a bot, lol
Jenny77: i'm not a bot
Jenny77: i'm European
Jenny77: we learn these things in school
samschwartz: i've seen you in this chatroom many times
samschwartz: bots can't participate in discussions
samschwartz: at best they can interject random comments
veganwarrior: sam is right
veganwarrior: stop trolling
nigel_pyjamas: uhh, veganwarrior
nigel_pyjamas: sam is a bot"

I suppose my point is, people have been discussing this for a decade +, including in an era of more primitive bots. I am not sure there will be away to stop the flood... and mitigation will be mandatory, in the vein of Dodge.
Writing software will never again be a skill worth 100k a year.

I am sure Software developers are here to stay, but nobody who just writes software is worth anywhere close to 100k a year. Either AI or outsourcing is making sure of that.
If you have any links or book recommendations to share on that history, I for one would love to know them.

I find the history of the interactions of SF authors strangely compelling -- e.g. the book "Hell's Cartographers" is a personal favourite, and it's just a set of autobiographical essays from NY 40s-70s SF authors talking about their time in the scene.
I too used to think TV is dead and no one is paying for cable anymore, but every now and then I keep hearing it's still alive and well, and that's always in association with some big sportsball events; I can believe that their customers nowadays are almost entirely sports fans, but then the pull they have with that segment is still strong. In my mind, the term "ESPN" registers as "something to dangle in front of US customers to get them to buy some TV plan".
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For some of these, the title is very key to the theme of the book, and the characters reference it in the climax.

At least i remember that happening in a scanner darkly and do androids dream of electric sheep.
How green an orange is when ripe has to do with the climate they are grown in. In warm climates with little variation in temperature between day or night, oranges will remain green on the tree even when ripe. If nights get cold enough (~55 F), they will turn orange.

That said, in the US, oranges destined for markets de-greened for aesthetic purposes since customers won't generally buy them otherwise.
In 12,000+ years of anthropological record, there are zero advanced civilizations (defined as having written language, urban centers, and some form of state apparatus) that didn't have the institution of marriage. Zero.

I'm worried a lot about the declining rates of marriage and family formation. I don't see a lot of good that can come from it.
> In my experience, almost everyone prefers cash over startup stock options.

Good to know, because its common for the founder and hiring manager guilt trips to be insane.
(Not an AI stan) I would like to see the evidence that the AI contributed to the suicide.

Without seeing the evidence this feels like a cynical attempt to make political hay out of a tragedy.

The person whose AI companion forms their most important social connection is already not doing well psychologically. And from what I’ve seen, they only offer salubrious advice.
Fair enough. I missed that while scanning through it. The evidence of one Palestinian but sure. Could have happened.

I know this is a tough one but the question is what are the norms. One anecdote (including one unit where this is practiced) doesn't answer the question. The anecdotes are just that. This practice could have happened 10 times out of 100K, could have happened 100 out of 100K, could have happened 1000 out of 100K.

I'm pretty sure this is not the norm. I.e. that all/most/many IDF units advance in Gaza by capturing Palestinians, putting them in IDF uniforms, and sending them in the front. Very very far from it.

I would rather we had zero stories like this one.
>so the industry better look for people who enjoy programming

Why? Both AI and outsourcing provide a much cheaper way to get programming done. Why would you pay someone 100k because he likes doing what an AI or an Indian dev Team can do for much cheaper?
> the value of not having their entire economy (or telecommunications &etc) be vulnerable to the whims of one person, be that the richest person in the world or a president nobody in Europe voted for.

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> Could also rope in the Chinese to help

This is pretty funny. That's just switching who you rely on.

> Europe could easily allow them to go over there and practice their skills on a Europe First initiative

In Europe we prefer unskilled labour from third world countries so that they can do uber eats for cheap
How does that implicit state help with anything if you look at the system as whole? Sure, with terminal applications the costs are spread around in more components, but ultimately the total can not really be smaller. You still have the GUI stack in the end, with terminal apps there is just terminal emulator and tty layer in between.
South Korea's 'heartbreaking' wildfires expose superaged society
Because I have to spin up a neovim instance for every user on the backend, I only allow authenticated users to gate the amount of users at this time. I am going to adjust the site more to reflect that as it’s more of interactive experience rather that a vim tips site.
Hacktivism is back – but don't be fooled, it's often state-backed goons in masks
Fastest Business Jet in the World Nears Completion in Canada
We're talking about Seattle because it is in the headline (the source is the Seattle Times). But there are 10 cities in the USA that have a higher percentage of "never-married single men." So this is a trend that is not unique to Seattle.

I just wanted to call that out since many of the comments seem focused on diagnosing what it is about Seattle specifically to lead to this trend.

IMO, it is mostly a housing issue. It seems like most new construction goes towards apartment complexes where the units are all 1-2 bedrooms, or else they go to more "luxury" big houses. I personally would love a 5 bedroom apartment in a dense, walkable city, but good luck finding it.

So I'm currently in the suburbs with my kids, even though I hate the suburbs.
It may be tricky, but it's a piece of cake compared to doing good retrieval.
I would love to see a stripped back ML-style language that targets lua, just something like ocaml's type system and exhaustive pattern match right on top would be all I need. There have been a few attempts but nothing I know of that got usably far and is maintained.

There might be a way to get standard ML to output lua or something but I'm not that familiar with it. I think it would be an incredible fit for a third backend for gleam, but they say they aren't adding any more beyond erlang and js.
My understanding, is that it went back to Shakespeare. In Ye Olde Days, women weren't allowed to act. Men dressed in drag to play the parts of women, and used those shrill voices.

As it was, I think Connie Booth was the only proper lady that showed up in Python stuff.
Someone got this to work with Linux?
It's technically legal -- the best kind of legal!
What surprises me the most is the cost. This is considered to be one of the most expensive endeavors in science… but the first stage costs just about a billion a year?

Jeff Bezos (or any other billionaire) could pay for the whole of it, and it would be like me going for a coffee.
The yearly cost is 1% of what DOGE allegedly saved, three Marvel movies, and less than the GDP of San Marino.

If one of the costliest ever scientific enterprises is this cheap, how many scientific advances are we leaving on the table? It makes me extremely sad.

*Disclaimer: I enjoy Marvel movies and don't particularly believe DOGE claims about saved money. But I wanted to give some scale of what a billion francs (now about 1.2 billion USD) are.
I kinda think they believe AI can learn much faster and on par with humans in quality. Hope that doesn't happen until I retire...
Oh, that would make sense, as a webfont for Linux and Android.

Still, Arial isn't poor. It's nearly Helvetica. It's a knockoff, but all it does is simplify some letterforms. It's not like it destroys the spacing or balance or weight or anything. You're talking as if it were Comic Sans...
Not op but how I understood it is that until recently the majority of programmers were geeks and liked to tinker and understand the systems they were writing and deploying code on.

Not sure that this is the case now, nonetheless it can be a good thing that people are specializing and concerned just on the frameworks or design patterns.
Generally such websites work fine in older browsers and with JS disabled.
The system is built so that individual users can choose how information relaying happens. Most users however, have no interest in doing so.
Unrelated, but the phrase "late stage capitalism" intrigues me. It hints that capitalism is about to end, in some magnificent marxist prophecy, but that's pretty presumptuous to say the end of 400+ years economic system is near
maybe because English is my third language, but i always loathed the scanner darkly title. so empty and try-hard.
Why Haven't We Adopted a Unified Time System Like Global Pulse Time Yet?
I’ve been mulling over how tricky it can be to coordinate across time zones—scheduling meetings, syncing software, or even just chatting with friends globally. It got me thinking about a possible idea: the Global Pulse Time System (GPTS). Basically, it’s a universal time system that splits each day into 100,000 "pulses," starting at midnight UTC. Each pulse is about 0.864 seconds, and it resets daily (so you’d see times like P000000 to P099999).

You might be wondering why it’s called "pulses." The name "pulse" evokes a sense of rhythm, much like a heartbeat—a fundamental, repeating beat we all know. In GPTS, each pulse lasts about 0.864 seconds, which is remarkably close to the average human heartbeat at rest (around 0.83 seconds). This heartbeat analogy makes the system feel intuitive, almost like time is ticking along with our own natural rhythm.

Beyond that, GPTS might actually feel more natural for tracking time progression. Unlike our traditional system of 24 hours, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds, it uses a straightforward decimal setup: 100,000 pulses per day. That means P050000 is exactly half a day, and P025000 is a quarter—simple fractions that are easy to grasp without mental gymnastics. Plus, with a daily reset at midnight UTC, there’s a universal starting line that keeps time consistent worldwide.

The thought is to ditch time zone math altogether. If I say, “Let’s meet at P050000,” that’s the exact same moment for everyone, no matter where you are. It could make scheduling a breeze, cut down on coding headaches with time zones, or even give systems like blockchain a consistent global clock.

That said, I’m not blind to the downsides. People love their local sunrise and sunset cues, and getting everyone to switch would be a nightmare. I’m just curious if something like this could ever make sense in our digital age, or if there’s a better way to tackle global time chaos. What do you all think? Rip it apart or build on it—I’d love to hear your takes!