MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quantadev | 2025-04-04 17:01:03+00:00
Sure, you have my permission. However, in my own case, I'm not currently looking for a job, and never in my life did it take more than 2 weeks to FIND a job, when looking. Been coding 24x7x365 since 1981. :)

...however I'm absolutely certain there are many interviews I've aced and not gotten the job, primarily for being in an several undesirable categories that Silicon Valley progressive wokesters despise with a passion: 1) Over 40. 2) White 3) Male 4) Straight 5) Handsome 6) Rich 7) American, speaking perfect English.

All 7 of those demographic stats about me are absolutely despicable to Silicon Valley hiring managers, and any one alone is enough for them to pass by a candidate over a different one lacking the trait.

You can also quote, this post about Silicon Valley too, and there was even a time when such rants like this would've been CENSORED immediately by HackerNews. Thankfully they've lightened up a bit.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-04 17:01:22+00:00
I have the pleasure of living in a pretty "red" part of the country, and everyone I know who is a self-described libertarian (or otherwise worships at the altar of self-sufficiency) lives utterly dependent on societal systems. They're on Medicare, Disability or Social Security, live in neighborhoods with solid public services, rely on the rule of law for protection from crime, and enjoy clean air and drinking water, safe food and medicine, that they only have access to due to strong environmental and safety regulations. They were the first ones to freak out on Social Media during COVID when they had to actually rely on themselves for a bit.

As someone else put it on Twitter, they are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.
by immibis | 2025-04-04 17:01:39+00:00
> While the protests are per se not illegal, the people arrested aren't accused of just protesting, they are accused of supporting a terrorist organisation. The right to free speech isn't as all-encompassing in Germany as it is in the USA, so shouting the wrong slogans can very well get you in trouble.

Yes, that's correct. Anyone who protests and grabs the attention of the police is accused of supporting a terrorist organisation. That's why I added the information that although they protest completely legally, they still get arrested and deported. The pretense for the arrest and deportation is that protesting to stop the carpet bombing of Gaza supports Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-04 17:01:47+00:00
This was like 2004. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all had getElementById in their first versions in like 2003, Opera had it in version 7, Internet Explorer was the odd one out.

This was IE6 days, the real bad old days. Remember that we were still mostly constrained to XMLHTTPRequests for calls to APIs

Anything actually important to be done in a web browser didn't use javascript, it used an ActiveX Component/extension, a java applet, or Flash or Shockwave (by Macromedia at the time!)
by guhidalg | 2025-04-04 17:02:10+00:00
I agree with you that the most consistent theory for explaining the current GOP going off the rails is a lack of compassion and empathy for their fellow human beings, replaced by a hope that Trump will smile upon them and be compassionate to them. It's a vicious cycle of signaling, since Reagan, that your government is not compassionate towards you therefore you should not empathize with your government and instead trust corporations (but don't think about their need to make money).

I don't know how to promote empathy and compassion without relying on religious arguments. I usually find the strictly secular and over atheists are very compassionate and empathetic, but the mildly religious and definitely the evangelists in my life and the absolute _least_ compassionate people to those outside their tribe.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-04 17:02:36+00:00
You are not required to rewrite everything if you exceed $1million in annual revenue. You are required to get a commercial license from them, which costs money.

That's not the same thing. And quite frankly, if you're making over $1 million in annual revenue you should be able to afford the license fee for the most important part of your company.
by vel0city | 2025-04-04 17:02:50+00:00
> Given the speeds at which EVs charge, at least every other parking spot at the stop would need a charger to make it viable for the average consumer

This is not based in reality.

My car visits many dozens of parking spots in an average week. Only one of them needs a charger.

When I leave the house, its fully charged with >200mi of range. I drop the kids off at school, I don't need to charge. I go to the office, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I go to a restaurant for lunch, I don't need to charge. I go to the pharmacy, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I go to hardware store, I don't need to charge. I go to grocer, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I pick up the kids from school, I don't need to charge. We go to the city park, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I get home, and plug in. Finally, it charges, even though it didn't use 25% of its capacity. It can charge slowly over several hours, imparting about the same load on the grid than my air conditioner or pool pump.

I am absolutely an average American car consumer. Maybe only slightly less, as I don't own a pickup truck.

I do agree, an EV today probably isn't for everyone. People who routinely do very long road trips might not have a great experience depending on where they are. People who absolutely can't charge at home and there aren't many chargers around their grocery stores or office probably shouldn't get an EV. Currently EV pickup trucks are stupid expensive and aren't great for towing, so if you're the kind of person putting his boat in the lake every weekend its probably not right for you today.

But most Americans live in single-family homes, which generally speaking can easily get a several kW charger installed pretty cheap. And it wouldn't put much more load on the grid as any other appliance in their house.
by bradley13 | 2025-04-04 17:02:54+00:00
All of Europe is stomping all over free speech.

Take Mr. Habeck (German politician). He is having more than 600 people criminally prosecuted for calling him a "Schwachkopf" (that is a very, very mild insult). One citizen journalist reported on this, including the meme that people had been sharing, then wondered "oh dear, is reporting on this going to get me prosecuted?". Yes, it did.

Or take an anecdote from Scotland. As Vance described in his Munich speech: It is illegal to protest within 200 meters of an abortion center. 200 meters is quite a distance, and includes a number of private dwellings. People living in those dwellings were informed that it is therefore illegal for them to say anything against abortion in the privacy of their own homes.

Those are just two of many, many examples. A lot of this is driven by politicians fearing for their power. Looking back to Germany, the attempts to shut out the AfD have backfired spectacularly: the AfD will soon be the most popular party in the country. Which scares the established political parties more, which make them more repressive, which drives more people to the AfD, which...well, you get the idea. FWIW, no, the AfD is not extreme - read their party program. They are, however, becoming a serious threat to the established parties.

You can find similar stuff throughout Europe, and especially within the EU. The EU itself, driven by the (unelected, corrupt) commission is behind a lot of it. Ms. LePen cannot run for office? Why, then, can Ms Van der Leyen hold office when she was convicted on much more serious corruption charges several years ago?

To add salt to the (potential) wound, TFA says that the EU wants to base a potential fine on the value, not only of X, but also of other companies. That would be incredibly...let's say, "creatively extralegal".

The EU wonders why their are so few tech startups in Europe. They need only look in the mirror...
by didgetmaster | 2025-04-04 17:02:57+00:00
Except I am seeing the same thing on shopping sites where I am the paying customer. I was shopping for some RAM the other day. I searched for 'DDR5 6000 cl30 64gb'. I hoped to see all the 64gb kits that met those specs. Instead I had to wade through many results that were only 32gb, had a higher cl rate, or different speeds.
by GNOMES | 2025-04-04 17:03:02+00:00
I had to do something like this with Ansible's get_url module once.

Was having issues getting module to download an installer from a vendors site.

Played with Curl/WGET, but was running into the same, while it worked from a browser.

I ended up getting both Curl + get_url to work by passing the same headers my browser sent such as User-Agent, encoding, etc
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-04 17:03:02+00:00
In the Midwest US I also see evangelical Christianity pushing faith healing so hard that to be some kinds of sick are moral failures. Combined with the puritan view of poverty as a symptom of moral failure, and there is a lot of turning up ones nose at the poor and sick as undeserving of public assistance. Only when they bend the knee to God will they be worthy of help, and only with strings attached.
by pknopf | 2025-04-04 17:03:21+00:00
I'm exactly like this.

I have a OneWheel that I use to get around, and a JBL speaker. I legit listen to music in Publix isles, dancing, vibing, all day, every day.

I'm known around my neighborhood as "the speaker guy".

If I don't have music playing, I'm usually finger drumming/tapping/bobbing my head anyway.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-04-04 17:03:36+00:00
Thanks for the correction.

> GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case.

Allowlisting makes so much more logical sense. New ideas shouldn't be allowed by default.

Especially when so many variables are at play, the FDA's denylist model across a massive population makes it very difficult to narrow down what is causing a problem. If I could make only 1 change to US health policy, it would be switching the FDA to allowlisting.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-04 17:03:40+00:00
There's a reason all the billionaires built their hidey-holes in NZ and bought citizenship. Stable liberal democracy that probably won't seize all their shit, relatively rich, not so tiny that there's little to do, really good natural environments, not likely to turn totally awful under climate change, really hard for climate or other refugees to reach, out-of-the-way and non-threatening enough that it's unlikely to be attacked by anyone or put entirely under the thumb of a great power for the next century or so, at least.

I can't think of a single other country that even comes close to matching that list of benefits. Only major downside is Christmas in Summer.
by nsagent | 2025-04-04 17:04:23+00:00
Nope. I did it purely due to long-term intellectual curiosity.

I first pursued "AI" in undergrad during the last AI winter. For example, the only professor who taught neural networks at Purdue was in the EE dept, not CS, and was retiring the semester I was first qualified to study it. There weren't enough seats in the class, and since it was graduate level, I wasn't allowed to take it as an undergrad.

I really tried every avenue I could think of at the time to pursue AI — taking part in Robocup, taking classical AI (also from the EE dept), etc. None of what I was exposed to seemed like it was pushing the the intellectual boundaries, so I instead got into video game AI as a way to pursue AI (a number of famous ML researchers like Demis Hassabis got their start in video games).

When I started my PhD a very tiny group of researchers were looking at text generation, let alone for creative text. The idea was very niche.

Note, I only pursued a PhD after I got an interview at OpenAI in 2017 that made me realize a PhD was likely necessary to pursue research.
by stevenAthompson | 2025-04-04 17:04:46+00:00
To be fair, Rand herself said (to paraphrase) that because the state took it from her against her will it was fair play to take it back and I think that was self-consistent.

That said, she wanted to let the disabled starve to death so I don't think anyone really has to be fair to her at all. Empathy is only for the empathetic.
by balls187 | 2025-04-04 17:04:59+00:00
I didn't analyze this for either: rahter what is what is the typical outcome for young humans who achieve a high degree of success/fame before their prefrontal cortex is fully formed.

As we understand more about brain development in kids, I think and under studied aspect are kids who got access to a lot more money than normal typical kids have, and the results such wealth brings.
by capnrefsmmat | 2025-04-04 17:05:04+00:00
For what it's worth, this is a uniquely American view of copyright:

> The ONLY reason to have any law prohibiting unlicensed copying of intangible property is to incentivize the creation of intangible property.

In Europe, particularly France, copyright arose for a very different reason: to protect an author's moral rights as the creator of the work. It was seen as immoral to allow someone's work -- their intellectual offspring -- to be meddled with by others without their permission. Your work represents you and your reputation, and for others to redistribute it is an insult to your dignity.

That is why copyrights in Europe started with much longer durations than they did in the United States, and the US has gradually caught up. It is not entirely a Disney effect, but a fundamental difference in the purpose of copyright.
by teekert | 2025-04-04 17:05:12+00:00
I also get such energy from Atlas Shrugged, I don't understand why. I know that the good guys are very carefully crafted, they don't cheat, they don't do things like lobbying to win. They don't compromise on their world view to the extreme. They don't have children, that makes it all easier, but also less real.

Raised christian but feeling burned out by the contradictions, the emptiness of trying to live for others (it's killing for relationships I can tell you), the mental struggle to rationalize all the rules, I too felt that spark. I realize dogmatism is always bad but that voice inside keeps saying: It's not when the theory is perfect! The truth is knowable and can be discovered through reason. How super comforting (and damn that Incompleteness Theorem I learned about later).

I don't know what it is, my hunger for a system? For rules to make sense of the world? Whatever it is, Rand's philosophy remains so appealing. It's probably the reason I started a company, walk into meetings now boldly, with a goal, why I enjoy things now, just to enjoy myself. As a rational, healthy human, there is nothing wrong with that, in contrast to what my upbringing tried to instill in me.

Perhaps that's it, it liberated my from a confining worldview. Perhaps another worldview could have done the same.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-04 17:05:18+00:00
Right on. And the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-Jew feels really dangerous, considering the current state of affairs in Israel.

I'm an American, thankyouverymuch. I've been to Israel once. I don't care a whole lot about the place either way. Acting like I must be aggrieved when someone attacks that country is doing far more damage to me than the attack.
by vunderba | 2025-04-04 17:05:20+00:00
I can't speak to universities specifically, but I've always felt there has been a strain of anti-intellectualism underlying a great deal of mainstream America for as long as I can remember.

It's the little things like tv shows or movies with characters who seem to glorify ignorance, people who state self deprecating things like "I'm bad at math" and wear it like a bizarre badge of honor, etc.
by edoceo | 2025-04-04 17:05:39+00:00
Way back in the ASP3/IIS days, we had these "big" pages and because of the engine building big strings was slow. So, I made this little COM library (Linum) which would simply pre-allocate a buffer for writing into. Yes, a StringBuffer. For those scripts the runtime improved like 500%. Memory usage was only like 10% worse.
by 9rx | 2025-04-04 17:05:41+00:00
> Natural language is a terrible interface to interact with a computer

And period. It is terrible when interacting with people to. Its only saving grace is that it is widely supported.

> You fundamentally cannot get it significantly better.

It will when we flip the script. The trouble right now is that we're trying to do it backwards. Eventually we'll settle on a programming language as the de facto language of LLMs, that can be translated to natural language for interfacing with the pesky humans still running in legacy mode. That is when transformation will occur.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-04 17:05:43+00:00
Oh thank you, that cpu_detect.c3 is exactly what I need, the posted single-header library is almost the same in terms of functionality.

BTW my last question still stands, however, that if there is a C library that is only a single header file that implements functions through macros, can it be used from C3? In C, for what I posted, you would need to first do "#define CPUDETECT_IMPL" and then include the header file. Could it be done from C3 somehow? As in, could this (or any) single-header library be used from C3?

And regarding the errors, can I have something like "Error" (in Odin), or an enum of errors? Sorry for this silly question, I realize I will have to read the source code of the libraries first.

Thank you for your help!
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-04 17:06:00+00:00
Small US companies near me, reliant on Chinese inputs, aren't suddenly getting hundreds of millions to build factories that'll take years to finish. Trump’s plan assumes most small businesses can pause everything for long, expensive factory construction/toolup projects. In my area our three big manufacturers depend on Canadian aluminum and Chinese subcomponents. Tariffs won’t bring jobs back but they’ll kill the ones we still have.
by hbn | 2025-04-04 17:06:05+00:00
It's "easy to learn" and you get all the downsides that come with that.

At work right now we're integrating with scoring models hosted in Amazon SageMaker written by a "modelling team" and as far as I can tell they follow absolutely no basic coding practices. They give us the API and are asking us to send English strings of text for names of things instead of any real keys, and they're just comparing against plain strings and magic numbers everywhere so if they're asked to make any change like renaming something it's a herculean task that breaks a bunch of other things. Something will break when a field is null and then they'll tell us instead of sending null if we have no data to send -9999999. One time something broke and it turned out to be because we sent them "MB" (Manitoba) as someone's province, and whoever wrote it was just plain-text checking against a list of province codes as strings and didn't remember to include Manitoba.

I know this is still mainly a business/management issue that they're allowing people who don't know how to code to write code, but I'm sure this is happening at other companies, and I think Python's level of accessibility at the beginner level has been a real blight to software quality.
by hinkley | 2025-04-04 17:06:16+00:00
For writing many people only become popular after they are dead.

I heard this explained once as the art in some writing is explaining how people feel in a situation that is still too new for many to want to pay to have it illustrated to them. But once the newness has passed, and people understand or want to understand, then they enjoy reading about it.

As a personal example, I could enjoy movies about unrequited love before and long after I experienced it firsthand, but not during or for years after. People may not yet have settled feelings about an event until afterward, and not be willing to “pick at the scab”.

The other, more statistical explanation is that it just takes a lot of attempts to capture an idea or feeling and a longer window of time represents more opportunities to hit upon a winning formula. So it’s easier to capture a time and place afterward than during.
by chrisrodrigue | 2025-04-04 17:06:16+00:00
Yeah, definitely. It's basically executable pseudocode and it's really simple for a beginner to pick up and hit the ground running for a variety of use cases.

Some people will tell you to start with C or C++ to get a better intuition for what's actually happening under the hood in Python, but that's not really necessary for most use cases unless you're doing something niche. Some of the most popular use cases for Python are webapps, data analysis, or general automation. For the 1% of use cases that Python isn't the right fit for, you can still use it to prototype or glue things together.

There are a lot of great resources out there for learning Python, but they won't necessarily teach you how to make great software. You can't go wrong with the official tutorial. https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/ is pretty terse and incorporates a lot of best practices.
by tpmoney | 2025-04-04 17:06:19+00:00
I wonder if there is value in splitting copyright into two parts and keeping a longer duration on the copies of the original work, but shortening the duration on the concepts in that work. That is, allow an author / studio to retain a long duration ownership of the original movie or story, so no one else can just start distributing copies of their VHS tapes after a few years. But at the same time, after 10 or 20 years other people can start making new Star Wars universe movies and books without licensing it from the original artist/author. If the original was good enough, then the rights to be the sole distributor of that original material should be plenty worthwhile, and in the mean time, just in time for the generational “nostalgia bump” a whole new set of related properties can come out, reinvigorating interest in the original.

Maybe even some sort of gradual opening of the IP, where after say 10 years, broad categories are opened (think things like “the Jedi” or “the Empire” or “Endor”), but specific characters and their representations aren’t (so no Darth Vader or Luke Skywalkers), then after 20 years you open the characters themselves but only derivative works. And then finally after 30 years or so you open the originals as well for things like translations or “de-specialized” editions or what have you. Then finally 50 years puts the raw originals in the public domain as well.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-04 17:06:45+00:00
My absolutely biased take is that ICE car drivers are so accustomed to their frequent trips to the gas station that they just can't imagine a vehicle that does not require this.

Granted, that observation applies mostly only to single family home owners who can run an L2 EVSE. It is naturally different for people who cannot charge at home.

But I think there's also often an assumption that an EVSE is some elaborate expensive thing. I charged for years at 3kW, and drove 100+km a day on that. It was fine. Even an L1 120v charge could just fine for people who are going like 30-40km a day, which is a lot of people.
by jonfw | 2025-04-04 17:06:50+00:00
I fail to see the irony of "inheriting" an empire from Rand, when the protagonist of atlas shrugged and other main characters were heirs to a fortune. Inheritance is thoroughly explored in her work.

To me- this article is about the social dangers of taking a philosophy to the extreme, and about how easy it is to take advantage of the elderly when estranged.