MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dh2022 | 2025-04-23 04:49:15+00:00
In this case the PE firm would have been better off not getting a loan to begin with - it would have kept the interest payments to itself.

This looks a lot like selling some bad assets to some sucker investors. But the question a lot of people seem to ask in this thread is: when will the world run out of suckers? (Maybe this question shows how naive I am? Maybe some people know how to find these suckers one after the other?)
by v1sea | 2025-04-23 04:51:00+00:00
It’s nice to see this addition. I’m not sure if Godot would be better off bridging OpenXR to apple’s ar compositer or do as these PRs implement.

It isn’t much work to bridge from a metal renderer to the ar compositor. There are nice, if under documented c apis for Compositor Services in visionOS. I don’t think this will end up being a heavy maintenance burden, but they should donate some headsets as the second vertex amplification doesn’t run in the simulator. The max threads per thread group also differ. So real hardware is needed to measure performance.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/compositorservices...
by iterateoften | 2025-04-23 04:51:48+00:00
It would probably only work in countries where services are cheaper than buying new.

For example in south america is is common to get shoes repaired or customized. Clothing altered to fit or be repaired etc. In the US it really only makes sense if that article of clothing is > $200-300. Its pretty hard around me to find a tailor that will do much of anything more than basic hemming for less than $75-100. whereas in south america it would only cost me around $5 to get something altered or a shoe repaired.

I would get something altered about once a month in south america. In the US, maybe once every couple years.
by protocolture | 2025-04-23 04:53:30+00:00
You cant form a theory without evidence.

"In science, a theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment"

Your idea, your concept, is that there's some huge missing gap in history. You haven't met the standard to expect other people to go and investigate things for you. You are free to take your idea, and go and seek approval to dig up the richat structure.

>what evidence falsifies the theory

No evidence falsifies the theory. First there isn't a theory, but second, the capital of atlantis will simply move somewhere else when evidence fails to be located.

>I find it really hard to have a constructive dialog with you about the actual evidence and theory

The chief proponents of the idea, are kind of relevant. They have 20 years or so of history, moving the goal posts all over the planet. Realistically, you should be looking at it like this:

1. Is there evidence to support your claims, if not, why not.

2. Is there evidence to support your intended course of action, if not, why not.

3. Go and find 2, and then seek 1.

I mean we have seen 1 and 2 unravel before you in this comment section. Theres no geologically sound "mud flood" or impact event that would explain why theres no evidence in the richat structure. Theres no visible evidence of atlantean civilisation in the Richat structure. Why do you expect some other person to go do labor when they have no reasonable expectation of results? Its hard enough for archeologists to get permits to dig where they have a reasonable expectation of findings. Putting down digs in the middle of the desert without a single reason to do so seems mad right? Its like asking a physicist to test gravity in the richat structure just in case it works differently there. Or a chemist to double check the atomic weight of helium on alternate tuesdays. If you are burdened with the glorious imagination that will free us from the shackles of incorrect history, why wouldnt you put that amazing talent to work yourself?
Ask HN: Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months?
by kwar13 | 2025-04-23 04:53:41+00:00
I have a decent job offer in the USA which I am quite hesitant to take. I am a Canadian citizen but was born in Iran and seems like it's not going to go well at the border.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-more-canadians-with-iranian-backgrounds-stopped-from-entering-the-us/
by yobbo | 2025-04-23 04:53:56+00:00
No, python had already won by the time django and numpy started.

Pike's C interface is better in most ways, but of course that might depend on tastes.

Python's easy syntax, accessible documentation, books and tutorials make the learning experience completely different. It's an excellent choice for low-effort small scripts and short-lived projects. It became widespread. At some point it started to be the chosen language in schools. Numpy and django (etc) followed from that.

Pike with modernised syntax (something like Swift?) could have been a contender web-language maybe 2005-2006 at the latest.

Pike's learning experience was always less welcoming. The module tree reference is great though.
by anonzzzies | 2025-04-23 04:54:26+00:00
I guess torching the concept because of the implementation is a thing but we now have quite a few places allowing this where I live (you can still pay cash and a human if you want at all of them), but none of them require an account or app; you just scan a qr on your table, order and pay like any online shop. There is no friction; at least if you have a smart phone and use it to order online. Maybe you only saw bad implementations. Why the hell would you need an account?
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-23 04:56:17+00:00
Unfortunately for this idea, special relativity tells us that Planck length is an observer-dependent phenomenon. That is two objects that are at a distance that is more than the Planck length apart for one observer will be closer than the Planck length for another observer and vice versa. So Planck length can't be a fundamental property of space-time, unless special relativity breaks down at some point even for non-accelerated observers.
by joshdavham | 2025-04-23 04:56:37+00:00
> “The notion going in was, you got a computer science degree, you were set. There was going to be a job waiting for you when you got out, and I think many people went into computer science for that reason,"

As much as the current market saturation in tech can be linked to interest rates, overhiring or AI, I think that this is actually the main reason. Too many people got into tech simply for the paycheque, social status and perceived job security who weren't necessarily very passionate about the field to begin with.

There was a great YC video about this around a year ago where they basically lamented that many of the people getting into tech nowadays are the same people who, 20 years prior, would've gone into law, medicine, finance or management consulting. This has made the field ridiculously competitive and has also made it really difficult for employers to tell the yuppies apart from the true hobbyists.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-23 05:00:30+00:00
> it could be beneficial to the other platforms too (iOS).

In what way?

As far as I know, iOS support on Godot is almost entirely community-driven. If true, Godot has nothing to gain. Apple is struggling with adoption so they have most to gain from Godot support for visionOS, but is not obvious that visionOS support would benefit Godot in any strategic manner.

One strategic heuristic is that you don’t want to undertake the work to enable another company’s success on a product line, unless you depend on it or believe you have a strategic advantage against other competitors.

For example, if Godot negotiates for exclusivity or primary status for game engine positioning on visionOS and they believe VR is a material future footprint, that might be interesting. Anything less is in Apple’s favor and not in Godot’s.
by greenspam | 2025-04-23 05:00:36+00:00
I don't buy the argument because the world around us is build for human, we'd better build humanoid robots. Robots with belted wheels or 4 legs can handle stairs, ramps, uneven terrains well, easily and fast. Installing a couple of robot arms on it, you have much more robust robots. Spending so much effort just to solve the moving and balancing is a waste of money and talent.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-23 05:00:47+00:00
More importantly, this idea doesn't work in the context of space dilation. Per special relativity, the distance between objects is arbitrarily different for different observers, so any grid you draw will be wrong for me if I'm moving at a different velocity than you. This is especially bad because it doesn't just depend on the magnitude of the velocity, but also the direction - space is compressed in the direction of motion. So two observers moving at an angle to each other will have very different views of the grid.
by wingerlang | 2025-04-23 05:01:03+00:00
Nice, definitely gave backpacker vibes.

Some issues:

- It doesn't "feel" like a game, it felt a bit aimless. Maybe some missions like travel to X countries, do Y things, within Z starting budget. - The "X" at the top of the screen feels disjointed. - The popup covers the pin sometimes. - I wanted to click the departures to travel onwards. - Clicking the true/false feels odd, I was not sure whether I correctly guessed or not sometimes.

Is this genre alive at all nowadays?
by pmontra | 2025-04-23 05:01:13+00:00
I've seen this arrangement countless times in cities:

First key for the gate on the road to get into the yard.

Second key for the gate in the yard to the stairs and elevator.

Third and possibly fourth key for the door to the apartment.

That's pretty normal. I've seen at least once another key for a door between stairs/elevator and the home door. That's because of many burglars in the very first months after the building was built.

That said, I agree with you that living in a place where you only have one key and nothing happens if you forget to lock the door is much better.
by user_7832 | 2025-04-23 05:01:14+00:00
I’d like them to explicitly set out how they’re going to avoid such an issue occurring in the future, rather than symptomatically commenting on an HN post that’s now a top post.

They say:

> We hear you loud and clear and are going to make sure we improve our processes to help us be better stewards in the open-source community. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. We will improve the way we work and collaborate in open source and are always open to feedback.

…which is a lot of nice words with absolutely NO accountability. They could write a sticky note “do better” and technically that’s all that’s required from their side. Is that okay with you?
by pjmlp | 2025-04-23 05:01:25+00:00
You see this on the surviving team keeping up WinUI 3.0 / WinAppSDK.

It is quite obvious from whoever takes place on community calls, or that still answers on endless Github discussions, that their background isn't Windows development.

You see this by them usually not understanding what the framework is still missing from MFC, Forms, WPF, both in features, and Visual Studio tooling.

All the key figures from Windows 8 days regarding WinRT, left for Amazon, Google, or internally to Azure and AI groups.
by johngai | 2025-04-23 05:02:16+00:00
Most ERPs buckle under heavy load or cost a fortune. We built Barawave (AI-powered ERP/CRM) to handle 10M transactions/day without breaking the bank. Here’s how we did it:*

DB Tricks: Switched from row-based to columnar (PostgreSQL → ClickHouse) for analytics, 8x faster at 1/3 the cost.

Async Everything: Used Rust + Actix for background jobs (invoicing, AI predictions) to avoid blocking the UI.

Cold Storage Hacks: Moved audit logs to S3 + Lambda (saved $12K/month vs. DynamoDB).
by esperent | 2025-04-23 05:02:32+00:00
> So class components are still first class citizens

Yes

https://react.dev/reference/react/Component

> play well with existing ecosystem code?

That's not something the React team has any control over so it feels like an unfair complaint.

However, besides external libraries that are specifically designed to work with hooks, I'd say quite a lot of things would still work. And you can always just use older versions of things, nobody is forcing you to upgrade.

Anyway, React has been using hooks for about 6 or 7 years now. Not quite the ten years claimed in the previous comment but not so far off either.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-23 05:03:01+00:00
This comment is so disingenous it's almost pointless to respond to.

Previous presidents did things because they genuinely believed that what they were doing was the right thing for America based on their deeply-held beliefs.

Trump has no beliefs. He does not act from rational thought. He does whatever makes him feel good in the immediate moment, without regard to the consequences or even his own prior words and deeds.
by anonzzzies | 2025-04-23 05:03:14+00:00
I have never heard about this or seen it and I am in mh 50s who goes to fancy places. What bizarre craziness is this?

Anyway;I should have mentioned that it is not an ONLY pay like this, they also have menus and the normal way. Here (EU or at least where I live) this is not a cost saving thing; it came from covid and many people liked it so they kept it. But waiters and menus are back next to that. I prefer electronic as then I don't have to sit and wave for a waiter or the bill for 30 minutes. But other do whatever they want.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-23 05:04:44+00:00
> People will understand, after great suffering, that destroying stuff is much easier than building it.

"It is easier to destroy than to create" doesn't tell you when something should be torn down.

You can have a house that provided shelter for your family for generations, but if it's water damaged, the floors are rotting and it's full of toxic mold, the person who shows up with a bulldozer isn't necessarily wrong.
by lucb1e | 2025-04-23 05:04:53+00:00
> Condensing boilers can be close to 100% efficient (vs ~70-80% for ye olde gas boilers)

So you save up to 30% of the gas while heating your home nearly 24 hours a day, instead of saving 67% of the gas by using it only for the ~8 hours that you're home and not under a duvet?

The math might work out for those who work from home, but I mean in the standard case with an hour's commute (round-trip), an 8-hour work day, and a 30-minute lunch break (9.5h gone, 7h sleep -> 7.5h during which the apartment should be warm if you run no errands). Of course, you'd schedule it to start before you get home, but it can also stop a bit before going to bed

I've been hearing both arguments for years and while it's exceedingly convenient to believe the condensing boiler story and just heat 24/7 to always come home in luxurious warmth, nobody ever does the math. You're one of the few people who even mention what the alleged savings are in the first place

We have a condensing boiler, chosen by my landlord so I'm no expert but I looked into it because we pay the bills in the end. The device's manual lists the efficiency as 88% ƞ4 at 60°C return water temperature, called high-temperature operation, and 98% ƞ4 at 30°C return temperature. It also gets tested yearly by a professional (Schornsteinfeger I think they call it here) and produces two efficiency measurements. Just looked up the record again: the mechanic handwrote "min" and "max" with them, so I presume that the "max" one is where the system operates at maximum capacity (minimum efficiency, then?), where the efficiency is 98%. At the "min" setting, the efficiency is shown as 106% (iirc some older measurement techniques don't include the condensation efficiency gain in the percentage, that's how it goes above 100%, or so I read when I looked it up a few years ago). For that difference, please correct me if I'm overlooking something but using a low heat for 24h/day makes no mathematical sense to me
by jaza | 2025-04-23 05:05:00+00:00
> 74% of 200 IT professionals surveyed worried their jobs will be replaced by AI tools

Seriously? I can't speak for that 74%, but personally, I'm not worried. AI is not that smart, and my job is not that dumb. And I'm just a garden variety (non-AI-specialising) Python back-end dev.

How about the rest of y'all? Are you worried or are you meh?
by pjmlp | 2025-04-23 05:05:26+00:00
Unfortunately, that means Windows XP, as most of the new OS APIs since then are COM based, and the team keeps making it harder than it should be, as all efforts to improve its usability tend to die out after whoever championed them in first place moves into something else.

It is like Windows Development team has something against nice tooling for COM, only man with hard bear are supposed to handle it. /s
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-23 05:05:38+00:00
I once met a scientist who spent a week traveling to where there was a powerful x-ray laser. He used it to blast a thin film of something or other that was floating on the surface of some water. He left with a flash drive full of data and some FORTRAN titled LSQREFL, which allegedly could decode the laser results. He then spent the next 6 months trying to make it actually do that. Turns out you had to have a folder with today's date on it on your desktop, otherwise the program would crash. This was documented nowhere, he just eventually puzzled it out from the code.

I offered to put it on github for him, so that at least he didn't have to be the sole caretaker for this endangered bit of software, but he was afraid of running afoul of the original author's rights, so endangered it will stay.

This was maybe an unlikely occurrence, falling neatly in the not part of your:

> More often than not it's not anything software related

But it makes me think that there is still some juice left to squeeze out there. I mean, I'm having a good time with my one-class-per-semester, I'd just prefer to not have to do it for another decade before I'm enough of a biologist to get my hands dirty.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-23 05:05:49+00:00
> a plausible syllogism is that the universe has near-maximal rotation

And also from the abstract:

> Curiously, this is close to the maximal rotation, avoiding closed time-like loops with a tangential velocity less than the speed of light at the horizon.

That's weird considering that in lambda CDM the universe's accelerating expansion implies that stuff falls out of our observable universe, which implies that there is more stuff beyond the edge of the observable universe, and anyways there is no center of the universe and we are only at the center of our observable universe, which also further implies that there is stuff beyond the observable universe. Are they saying that our observable universe has a rate of rotation such that the tangential velocity at the edge is about the speed of light? What about the stuff beyond the edge? And as u/BigParm wonders, doesn't having the whole universe rotate imply a center? Surely we can't be at that center. But maybe there can be an illusion that we are at the center of rotation.
by tptacek | 2025-04-23 05:06:22+00:00
There are clearly people who are interested very specifically in the Latin mass. But even though the church is losing practicing members, it's still huge; normie Catholics dwarf tradcaths.

But again: drawing people isn't the point. Francis didn't crack down on TLM because he thought it was a bad way to get people to show up at mass! He did it because things in the church with TLM were getting weird. It's a doctrinal thing, not a marketing strategy.
by akra | 2025-04-23 05:07:58+00:00
Many tech companies and/or training places did try to though didn't they? I know they do boot camps, coding classes in schools and a whole bunch of other initiatives to get people into the industry. Teaching kids and adults coding skills has been attempted; the issue is more IMO that not everyone has the interest and/or aptitude to continue with it. The problem is that there's parts of the industry/job that aren't actually easy to teach (note not all of it); can be quite stressful and require constant keeping up - IMO if you don't love it you won't stick with it. As software demand grows, despite the high salaries (particularly in the US) and training, supply didn't keep up with demand till recently.

In any case I'm not saying I think they will achieve it, or achieve it soon - I don't have that foresight. I'm just elaborating on their implied stated goals; they don't state them directly but reading their announcements on their models, code tools, etc that's IMO their implied end game. Anthrophic recently announced statistics that most of their model usage is for coding. Thinking it is just augmentation doesn't justify the money IMO put into these companies by VC's, funds, etc - they are looking for bigger payoffs than that remembering that many of these AI companies aren't breaking even yet.

I was replying the the parent comment - augmentation and/or copilots don't seem to be their end game/goal. Whether they are actually successful is another story.
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-23 05:08:47+00:00
I’m freelancing for a lawyer right now and want out even though there’s nothing out there unless I want to commute 3-5 days/week and take a massive pay cut. The pay is good and consistent but… I would say the good lawyers are going to naturally be bad clients for software development services. “Can’t be bothered” is how I would sum it up. Can’t be bothered to flush out requirements, can’t be bothered to use any project management tools like JIRA or Basecamp, absolutely no interest in understanding the difference between Solution A and Solution B or the potential consequences of either.

I won’t commute. No point in being a software engineer if I have to drive to an open office floor plan just to utilize a bunch of tools to try to tune out my surroundings and focus (eg., noise cancelling headphones).

I think I can get in somehwere via a referral but these friends/former coworkers don’t sell them at all. One is always complaining about a deadweight engineer on the team who hasn’t been fired because of nepotism. One always says how soul-sucking his job is, that the SRE basically decides how things are built rather than an architect, and it’s in the advertising space. The third one is a company I used to work for, and they’re full-remote now but apparently still rely heavily on cheap, garbage offshore “talent” which is why I left in the first place.

I love writing code and building apps but as time goes on it looks more and more like it’ll have to just be a hobby.

I thought about trying handyman type stuff. I have most of the tools needed, and I do things correctly. Like with code, I hate cutting corners and tend to be slower but I think deliver higher quality output. Some will say that is not appreciated anywhere- and perhaps least of all in the “handyman” space- I mean who wants to pay $80/hour for me when they can get another guy to do an “adequate” job for $60/hour?

I’ve also thought about building an app and trying to sell it/turn it into a revenue stream (I have a few ideas ) because it’s what I know how to do and if nobody is going to pay me I might as well write code “for me”.

Brass tacks, it’s a bad time to be a SWE.
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-23 05:09:26+00:00
It has been painful working with yuppies in this way because most of them have no regard for correctness of the code. They push whatever runs. Code-consistency and maintainability are alien concepts to them, and most management isn't even aware of the existence of these concepts. Any product they develop turns to a wild, unmaintainable, unscalable, and incorrect mess within three years.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-23 05:09:50+00:00
This has been an issue for decades.

Here are some numbers:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_325.35.a...

Note the peak in 1986 or so. Another peak right after the dotcom bubble burst (students started during the bubble). And the late 2010s surge in masters degrees as people are either trying to make themselves more competitive (than just having a BS) or coming in from another field like EE or Physics and trying to get a credential to get in the door.