MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kkfx | 2025-04-13 09:56:41+00:00
I'm from EU, the situation of the whole population of circa ANY age is the very same: most do not know NOTHING about common life things. I start to see young who do not want to learn how to drive a car "because we have the metro", re-read not to OWN a car, but just knowing how to drive. Shoelaces start to disappear for crappy tourniquets because many do not know how to tie laces and no, such tourniquets are not quicker not better. It's not a positive evolution like from an ICE to and EV. Many do not know how to cook most basic dishes, they live buying ready-made food and so on.

It's not better in generic culture: many do not know how to handle paper and write with a pen which is REASONABLE these days IF you know how to write on a computer and handle your files properly but no, that second part is not known as well. I know some PhDs who do not know how to manage their own info, even their libraries in Zotero and can't properly quote a damn email.
by xena | 2025-04-13 09:57:18+00:00
Xe here. If I had to guess in two words: timing and luck. As the G-man said: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. I was the right shitposter in the right place at the right time.

And then the universe blessed me with a natural 20. Never had these problems before. This shit is wild.
by michalpleban | 2025-04-13 09:57:19+00:00
Here are the models I used: - DeepSeek V2 Chat: design ideas, prompts, descriptions and keywords. - Flux.1-schnell: image generation. - Stable Diffusion x4 upscaler: upscaling to 4096x4096. - OpenAI text-embedding-3-small model + FAISS index: finding similar designs.

Total resource usage: - 350 million DeepSeek V2 tokens (through OpenRouter). - 1800 H100 GPU hours (through Nexius). - Two weeks on my desktop workstation (generating PDFs and ZIPs, uploading to the server). - 4.5 TB of disk space for everything.

Enjoy!
by KronisLV | 2025-04-13 09:57:28+00:00
That very much reads like the rant of someone who is sick and tired of the state of things.

I’m afraid that it doesn’t change anything in of itself and any sorts of solutions to only allow the users that you’re okay with are what’s direly needed all across the web.

Though reading about the people trying to mine crypto on a CI solution, it feels that sometimes it won’t just be LLM scrapers that you need to protect against but any number of malicious people.

At that point, you might as well run an invite only community.
by mptest | 2025-04-13 09:57:42+00:00
The German UBI experiment we're discussing didn't involve 'taxing workers to give to the poor' - it gave unconditional payments to people across economic backgrounds, most of whom continued working.

Your assertion about tax planning misses that proper UBI implementation would include tax reform to ensure the wealthy can't avoid contributing. If anything it demonstrates your clear understanding of whom would actually be taxed to achieve the funding for such social programs. The dragons.

More importantly, the data shows UBI recipients spent money locally on necessities and small businesses, not funneling it to large corporations. The 'indirect subsidy' theory contradicts spending patterns observed in UBI trials.
by maccard | 2025-04-13 09:57:55+00:00
> Nothing good can come from giving your TV Internet access.

> Get a <...> Android box.

Why are you ok for Google to spy on you but not LG?

There's absolutely 0 guarantee that a no name android box isn't doing the same, if not worse than what LG and Samsung are doing.

Another device adds another failure point, possibly another remote (lets be honest, HDMI-CEC is not reliable. It's been almost 20 years and device support is still spotty and bug ridden on both sides), extra complexity, extra space. You might want that choice and freedom, and that's absolutely fine, but I'd rather not thanks.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-13 09:58:07+00:00
The EU is mostly stringent on the environment, and single-use rockets are pretty bad for the environment: all the metal and sophisticated parts must be produced, only to be thrown into the ocean.

I would expect reusability to be a requirement based on that factor alone. You ca produce carbon-neutral fuel, but there is a lot of environmental load involved in production of the very rockets.
by graemep | 2025-04-13 09:59:29+00:00
and a lot of libertarians do favour UBI because it is an alterative to means tested welfare that does not distort market mechanisms. here is an example.: https://www.adamsmith.org/press-releases/rising-evidence-bas...

There is support for UBI from socialists too. The opposition comes from the "centre" - people whose main concern is maintaining the status quo.
by JimDabell | 2025-04-13 10:00:07+00:00
I’ve tried Arrow, Delorean, and Pendulum, plus the stdlib datetime of course, and settled on Whenever. It fits what I actually do with datetimes better, plus it seems more actively maintained. With the others I always seem to have a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I am missing a whole load of edge cases. With Pendulum that seems more baked into the API.
by Fargren | 2025-04-13 10:00:24+00:00
If it's inflation adjusted and I trust it's forever, I would 100% quit my job and work on something less stressful that I enjoy more. 1200 Euro is slightly below my average monthly expenses; my job pays multiple times this, but I keep at it to save and make sure I won't ever want for money.

(I live in Spain, not Germany)
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-13 10:00:38+00:00
> No one saw neutrinos coming for example.

Other than Pauli, you mean? It was hypothesized around 1930. Discovered in 1934.

The basis of scientific method is following:

1. You notice something.

2. You ask a question.

3. Form a hypothesis.

4. Experiment.

5. Analyze.

6. Draw conclusions.
by 05 | 2025-04-13 10:01:12+00:00
In my personal opinion using low melting point solder means you aren't qualified to do the repair and maybe should train on broken boards first. Sure, it makes desoldering easier but it's very hard to clean completely and mixing it with regular solder compromises the joints, which is especially important in a highly thermally cycled device like a laptop. Sure, use it to remove a through hole connector from an interface board but maybe keep it away from the mainboard or power delivery..

Just use a preheater for dogs sake, although I think this part can be removed just fine with a regular iron using a bent piece of copper wire that touches all its pins, then heating that wire. Not like you need to care not to overheat it - it's dead already.
by pastage | 2025-04-13 10:01:57+00:00
I know nothing of your objections, so this is more about how I think of mine and how they relate to these kinds of changes.

Being a power users is difficult, I think the best way to do software is to make it APL complicated and only educate one guy in it. The way power users in Excel/Emacs/Accounting software out perform user friendly stuff is amazing. But somethings are meant for the masses, e.g. opening a file.

Dumbing down or magification of interfaces was needed for many other reasons. Gnome and Ribbon were necessary changes IMO, what we had was never going to improve. Of course I wish there was elements that could be reused elsewhere, but that is a pipedream of Smalltalk proportions.

I am now stuck with windows at work, and it is a horrible experience. Everything is so needlessly complicated. In the same way Linux is. I do believe Gnome did manage to improve things, at least when I look at children using Mac, Linux and Windows as power users. My view is that the complexity of Linux is still a little bit easier to understand, but that is just because of a long history and easy abstractions.

I think core objections are often not compatible with products that need to fit and be produced for many people. I do software that is used once by many this has changed my view if GUIs for ever, especially in regards to desktops.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-13 10:02:29+00:00
Trump is no economic genius --- and "Liberation Day" is the proof.

How long did our "liberation" from sanity last? About a week. This is how long it took our former friends and trading partners to school Trump in the fact that trade isn't always "bad".

So why exactly did "Tariff Man's" big day turn into a big fail? Two reasons:

1) The real world is a complicated and interconnected place.

Simple minded solutions may sell to simple minded folk watching Fox Noise but this doesn't mean these simple ideas are credible and will actually work in the real world.

2) The USA's biggest export is debt. We sell a lot of debt to our former friends and trading partners. And if they suddenly stop buying, we are sunk.

In other words, isolation is a prescription for economic disaster. The next simple but equally bad idea --- a debt default.

This is all Economics 101 stuff --- and Trump is failing the test.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-the-bond-market-is-a...
by dharmab | 2025-04-13 10:02:50+00:00
I release it as open source and include it in my resume/portfolio. This has helped me get lucrative jobs. The resulting increased income is likely more than I would have earned selling these small projects by multiple orders of magnitude.

Of course, if I were making software with a wide market fit, or a very valuable narrow market fit, I would strongly consider starting a business. But my personal code generally solves very niche problems.
by santiagobasulto | 2025-04-13 10:02:53+00:00
Yes, GUIs and Web interfaces can support keyboard navigation. But I have NEVER found one fully exploiting this. Linear (ticket tracking app) is maybe the only one that comes to mind as a good alternative, but nowhere close to the fluidity achieved by TUIs.

I think the reason is "limitation", if you have to design an app that CAN NOT use a Mouse, you'll be darn sure it'll work well with the keyboard.
by xorcist | 2025-04-13 10:03:52+00:00
> I thought to write a 'house manual'.

Please do! Make it on paper, too.

I got a few old school binders with the house, and it's been a life saver. It's sorted by room, and all sorts of useful things are in there: Exact model number of the water heater. Wiring diagrams of the garage and cellar. Location of the master water valve. The location of the tool to reach inside the ventilation ducts. Where the stones are dug in the garden. How water flows when there is flooding. How to replace filters in the rain spouts. The garden roof may take damage from heavy snowfall, but that the incline of the garage roof is enough.

I am extremely grateful for this binder and try to keep it updated for the next owner. It seems a bit elitist to call it common sense. Sure, it's a house, everything can be repaired. But it's good to know why things are built the way they are. And it is much more useful to find out that the watering system needs to be drained late autumn before the fact.
by stavros | 2025-04-13 10:04:51+00:00
I'm not English so I get it, it's not that they dressed up as women specifically, it's that they did it constantly. After the Nth time it got a bit old. I know that men dressing up as women was a UK comedy staple at the time, but it always looked a bit too trite to me (even when I was a teenager).

It has nothing to do with feminism (for me, at least), it's just that I didn't find it funny.
by mptest | 2025-04-13 10:05:11+00:00
>I greatly enjoy your...fantasy role-playing terms

It's not that, dragons hoarding mountains of gold has always historically been an allegory for the rich hoarding wealth.

>'fulfilling' (for some) is always going to mean becoming a dragon.

Luckily we have anti dragon tools, like progressive taxation, wealth taxes, and robust social programs to prevent the dragons from sitting on too much gold.

>One example of a dragon was Saddam Hussein, who characterized oppression of the marsh Arabs as "being firm". So it goes. One possible exit from the cycle is the realization the 'fulfilling' is not necessarily measured in materialistic units.

Yeah, the fulfillment is the downstream byproduct of not having to worry about the difficulty of meeting daily material needs, not the justification for the policy itself.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-13 10:05:49+00:00
In general,

1) Concerns about EV Battery durability are overblown. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-battery-life

2) "very fast charging" should not be the default, it should be rare. It's there to answer the other concern: "But what if I want to road trip?".

As you say, the default is overnight at home or during the day at office or a mall, with the software giving you that "topped up as specified, every morning", that's better than what an a ICE vehicle can provide.

You can decide for yourself how valid these concerns really are, and to what extent EV critics like to inflate them beyond what's real. But nevertheless, they are being addressed.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-13 10:06:20+00:00
>who really can’t dedicate another 4 hours for another take home test.

My last job search I took the one that didn't demand a take home test rather than waste time on the job that was far more interesting, given that a take home test is also a crap shoot. I had done a great interview, the job had definite things I could bring to the table that others couldn't, the guy interviewing loved me but wanted me to do a take home test - for the same money as this other company that was a boring e-commerce thing, although international.

The problem is not just 4 hours. I have actually only ever had one that really took exactly 4 hours. Most take 5-6 hours because there are things that are left out of the consideration as to what is required.

I also wonder how this 4 hours time is hit upon? I have to expect most places ask their devs to come up with a problem that will take about 4 hours. And the devs do that. Obviously these are the devs that are really good at making exact estimations of how long any software development task takes, so no problems there.

One task I had to do for one interview I found there were some bugs meaning that the library needed could not just install on my machine I had to do a bunch of work to get it to work on my machine. I followed the git issues thread that was several pages trying out different solutions. Finally got it to work, that was 4 hours! I could now do the 4 hour task. I instead sent a message - hey can't do it, I spent 4 hours doing the get ready to do the task part because of the issues in this github thread, so I guess it's not worth continuing.

They sent back "no send us what you have! It's ok"

So I sent a repo consisting of a package json and a couple configuration files for used libraries, and a note saying this is it because I spent 4 hours doing this issues fix to get this library to work on my machine with link.

The guy who was supposed to evaluate my work sent back a message that my repo was particularly underwhelming. Which, no shit, that's why I sent a message I didn't want to continue! I spent 4 hours making your requested resources work on my machine, I'm not spending a theoretical other 4 hours to actually provide you some code.
by keybored | 2025-04-13 10:06:22+00:00
> New challenges would come up. If calculators made the arithmetic easy, math challenges move to next higher level. If AI does all the thinking and creativity, human would move to next level. That level could be some menial work which AI can't touch. For example, navigating the complexities of legacy systems and workflows and human interactions needed to keep things working.

You’re gonna work on captcha puzzles and you’re gonna like it.
by miki123211 | 2025-04-13 10:07:31+00:00
"never ask me again" is hard because it is essentially a setting, and if you introduce a setting, you need a way to turn it back off, including the design, UX work, localization work, testing work etc. that is involved in adding a new switch. If you get to 1000 of these, you probably need categorization and search. Oh, and you need to track which ones are even relevant for that user; it doesn't make sense to ask a German to link their Comcast account. You need to make it all work consistently across platforms, except for the settings that should only work on one platform. You get my point.

"remind me later" is simple; you check if there are any children accounts, if no, ask to create one with probability p. There is no state. There is no setting. There is no "what if I accidentally clicked no but want to reverse that decision, where do I go" problem.
by metalman | 2025-04-13 10:07:37+00:00
Cleese on a talk show with Taylor Swift is evidence of how efortless it is for him to totaly take over a situation, poke horrible fun at someone, without giving cause for offence, charm the hell out of woman 25% his age ,while talking about his own wife and her cat he's old now, but still formitable buddy got to work with him
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-13 10:09:46+00:00
I've been thinking about UBI a bit.

One effect it might have, is that employers need to go above and beyond to keep their workers happy. So, so many people have a job which they at the very best tolerate, but would quit on the spot - if they had the economic means to do so.

Some of those jobs are quite critical for society. Just think about healthcare...plenty of people enter healthcare with high morale and a desire to help, but find them completely disillusioned due to overwork, shitty shifts, unappreciation, mediocre pay, and what have you. If half of healthcare workers quit on the spot, that would lead to a societal crisis. But maybe it would also force the employers to fundamentally change the space, in order to not lose their employees.

I also think UBI would give people a "second chance". Lots of people enter the workforce before they know what they want to do, and find themselves lock into the profession or work - due to financial reasons.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-13 10:09:53+00:00
I think it's because kids are #1 stickiest reason not to cancel netflix. If there's content your kids love you're going to keep the subscription going. It's a less risky option than youtube which will start feeding your children raw sewage if they are left unsupervised for more than 5 minutes.

Most adults I know could take it or leave netflix and think about cancelling it now and then.

I reckon the dirty secret of netflix is that the two primary use cases are actually sleep aid and child minding service.
Saddest letters and texts written by programmers
by 01-_- | 2025-04-13 10:10:07+00:00
Sadness and loneliness are feelings that sometimes permeate the lives of programmers and people in the technology field, especially in times of burnout, failure or disappointment. Some letters, posts and texts written by programmers have gained notoriety for expressing pain, despair or melancholy in a profound way. Here are some of the best known:

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1. "Goodbye, Dr. Spencer" (Aaron Swartz’s Last Blog Post) - Author: Aaron Swartz (1986–2013), programmer, activist, and Reddit co-founder. - Context: Aaron struggled with depression and a legal battle over downloading academic papers from JSTOR. He died by suicide in 2013. - Heartbreaking excerpt: His final blog post was a book review of "The Man Who Sold the Moon," but his silent farewell and legal struggles made his story one of tech’s most tragic. - Read it here: <http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/>

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2. "I'm Sorry." (Bill Zeller’s Suicide Note) - Author: Bill Zeller (1984–2011), talented programmer and developer of MusicBrainz. - Context: Bill left an open letter before taking his own life, describing years of psychological trauma and loneliness. - Most painful excerpt: > "I have an entire lifetime of memories that I don’t want. I tried to suppress them, but they won’t go away. I can’t sleep because of this. I can’t concentrate. I can’t even go a single minute without thinking about these things. I’m sorry." - Read it here: <https://nghoussoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bill-zellers-note.pdf>

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3. "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (Ken Thompson) - Author: Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix. - Context: While not explicitly sad, this essay reflects on the fragility of trust in systems, with a melancholic undertone about hidden vulnerabilities in code. - Read it here: <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson1984ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf>

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4. "The Programmer’s Lament" (Anonymous Rants on Reddit & GitHub) - Context: Many programmers vent on forums like Reddit (r/cscareerquestions, r/depression) about burnout, loneliness, and workplace pressure. - Example post: > "I spent 5 years building this startup. 80-hour weeks. No friends. No life. Today, the investors pulled out. I have nothing left." - Another example: The "Programmers crying in despair" GitHub repo, filled with real stories of failure and regret.

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5. "Why I Left Google" (Disillusionment with Tech) - Authors: Various ex-employees of Google, Facebook, and Amazon write about how corporate culture drained them emotionally. - Example quote: > "I thought I was changing the world. Turns out, I was just making ads more clickable."

Read the full story at the source: <https://chat-to.dev/post?id=ci93eDdacDhXMGdTNnRocEs5UXBHQT09>
by timthorn | 2025-04-13 10:10:07+00:00
When EE launched 5G in the UK, they took out a full page ad with a massive headline saying simply "A real crowd pleaser"

One of the best adverts for a long time - if you knew about the technical advantages of 5G, it had a real double meaning.

If you knew 90s British dance music, it had a further humourous double meaning promoting the telco (an oblique reference to The Shamen's Ebenezer Goode)
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-13 10:10:08+00:00
Taxis aren't so bad in most countries. Here in Spain they are plentiful and fine. The same in most other countries I've been to. Only in the Netherlands they are horrible, they are ridiculously expensive because they all drive Mercedeses. As a result nobody uses them because they can't afford them. They're more like a limousine service, not like real taxis.

One time I told one of my Dutch friends I often take a cab to work here in Spain when I'm running late. He thought i was being pompous and showy. But here it's super normal.

Uber (Or cabify which is a local clone and much more popular) here on the other hand is terrible if you don't book it in advance. When I'm standing here on the street it takes 7-10 minutes for them to arrive while I see several taxis passing every minute. So there is just no point. Probably a factor of being unpopular too so the density is low.

I also prefer my money to end up with local people instead of a huge American corporation.
by pil0u | 2025-04-13 10:10:53+00:00
I somehow sympathise with the author, in how struggling his life must be if he gets annoyed by such a detail in the grand scheme of things.

If anything, I tend to witness more and more "anti-child" behaviours: hotels without children, restaurants without children, weddings without children. I don't have children and feel rather uncomfortable around them, but this trend just makes me sad.
by actualwitch | 2025-04-13 10:11:55+00:00
This dumb bothsiderism take is exactly the reason for the shitstorm hitting US right now. People really need to stop sane washing everything he says and try to actually have an objective glance at him and take him for who he is: a con man. He made a majority of conservatives as goddamn fools, voting against their own best interests because he said he'll punish the right people. Spoiler alert: he instead concentrated power in his own hands, dismantled research and social nets and is well on his way to wrecking middle class and the rights of the workers. Until this simple fact is acknowledged, every Trump voter is complicit in making this happen.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-13 10:12:45+00:00
>American politics looks basically the same before and after Facebook.

Trump and MAGA Republicans lie more openly than traditional Republicans. American politics are not the same.

Here's an easy exercise.

This is a post from MGT. Show me anything even close to this insane from an elected person in high office (house, senate, president) in the last 50 years

https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/st...