MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JojoFatsani | 2025-04-27 01:21:45+00:00
Get career experience in a role that allows you to tangentially experience things in the “senior” role you’re looking for, and do enough independent learning to fill in the gaps when you go interview.

Like… work a helpdesk job where you get to change backup tapes and you can say “I work to ensure the resilience of business critical servers.” Meanwhile go to YouTube University to develop some familiarity with “actually doing that.”

Might be a slow process but it’s how careers are built.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-27 01:22:24+00:00
Sounds like he's interested in people listening to the music while creating. Maybe also using it as inspiration for their own music.

He's not supplying it as a stock sounds library.

Eh. Some of his music I like, some, not so much. I'll give it a listen.

I don't listen to music while I code. The only time I listen to music, is my daily exercise in the morning. This may be good for that.

Might use it as background music for some presentations. I don't vlog; which seems to be where a lot of stock music is used.
by the_af | 2025-04-27 01:22:49+00:00
> Are you? By all appearances this is a direct result of it.

This is a result of it when it no longer matters, in adults who no longer matter for breeding purposes. When natural selection acts on humans of age 60+, it's mostly irrelevant. There's nothing to select, they've already done their part. It's just that natural selection is blind and doesn't "know" when to stop -- but we humans know better (this is what I meant later by combat/countering it).

> Arguably your specific example might constitute an edge case that historically didn't occur with enough frequency to be selected against. Seems like little more than a curiosity to me.

Why would it be selected against? All else being equal, natural selection wouldn't exert any particular pressure on old people after they've passed their genes. It's "blind" to them. It certainly doesn't know anything about being media star material! ;)

But it's not an "edge case" for modern humans, especially as we live longer and keep working well into our later years. Modern society doesn't always resemble what the forces of natural selection act upon anyway.

> What are you arguing for here?

The same as the thread starter, only with a focus on women since they get the short end of the stick in this aspect (in media).
by cibomahto | 2025-04-27 01:23:05+00:00
I've been working on CircuitPainter, a Python-based system for generating PCBs. Some examples are here: https://circuitpainter.blinkinlabs.com/examples.html .

It uses KiCad as a backend, so you are able to take advantage of the design rule checker and other niceties that come from the traditional CAD world. We've been using it successfully to automate very repetitive design jobs at our studio.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-27 01:24:43+00:00
There’s a utilitarian way of looking at it, that measures the benefit of doing it against the first-order harms.

But the calculation shouldn’t stop there, because there are second order effects. For example, the harm from living in a world where the first order harms are accepted. The harm to the reputation of Reddit. The distrust of an organization which would greenlight that kind of experiment.
Show HN: Chess-Notation.com – Digitize Handwritten Chess Scoresheets with Gemini
by coolwulf | 2025-04-27 01:24:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share chess-notation.com, a free tool I developed that uses Google Gemini AI to convert photos of handwritten chess scoresheets into digital formats. The platform allows you to replay the game move by move on an interactive board and offers a one-click option to import the game into Lichess or Chess.com for further analysis.

Why I built this: My son has been actively participating in chess tournaments, diligently recording his games on paper scoresheets. Over time, we've accumulated a stack of these sheets, many of which are now crumpled, faded, or lost. Manually entering these games into online platforms for analysis was time-consuming and often frustrating. I wanted a simple solution to preserve and share his games effortlessly.
by hamandcheese | 2025-04-27 01:24:54+00:00
I still think "dev environments" really ought to be running tests directly with your languages native tool. e.g. `cargo test`, `bundle exec rspec`, etc. If you make me run a VM that runs Kubernetes that runs a docker container that runs the tests, I will be very, very upset. Doing this properly and reliably can still be a lot of work, possibly more work if not relying on Docker is a design goal (which must be if you want to run natively on macOS).

There seem to be a lot of tools in this space. I wish they wouldn't call themselves tools for "dev environments" when they are really more like tools for "deploying an app to your local machine", which is rather different.
by cykros | 2025-04-27 01:27:21+00:00
I'm shocked hearing there are people who try to read everything in their RSS queue. That's madness. I get 300-600 in any given day.

What it does though is give me a range of headlines from news sources I've chosen to follow, that I can skim through, and read maybe 10-30 of on a given day (for some definition of "read" anyway...engage with would be more accurate). Heck, it's how I got here in the first place.
by danielrhodes | 2025-04-27 01:28:21+00:00
I think this is a genuine concern for prominent people. Like if you are Mark Zuckerberg, there is material interest in a bad actor installing malware on his laptop. But for a random person where you get low value data that may or may not let you better target some low value ads? That is much harder to justify. Would have to reevaluate as things change and the cost of compute goes down.
by anenefan | 2025-04-27 01:28:26+00:00
lol so it's getting that bad. Assigning meaning to random phrases is BS. If it keeps on going it'll start attributing meaning to misspelled words.

LLMs are only as good or bad as they are created - or their function / parameters? Google got real sad mid 00s - it's all about the money now isn't it.

Topic recently [1] re Google A.I. BSing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748171 ('Epistemological Slop: Lies, Damned Lies, and Google' - <newcartographies.com>)
by christianqchung | 2025-04-27 01:28:26+00:00
The comment you replied to isn't about whether friendships are transactional. They detailed a long list of ways that your theoretical and "realistic" friendships are bad and unrealistic definitions. If you didn't have friends closer to your first definition in most ways than your second, you haven't had a close friend, which isn't something to be shamed over but is something to consider.
by santoshalper | 2025-04-27 01:28:41+00:00
If gaming is important to you, build a good desktop gaming PC. If you enjoy games casually and don't want the money/hassle of a gaming desktop, get a Playstation, Switch, Steam Deck, or buy a lower-end gaming laptop.

If you enjoy tinkering, setting up Linux or a Mac for gaming can be a fun project, but it's not a good use of your time if your goal is to play games well. You'll jump through a lot of hoops and maybe get something 70% as good.
by alpaca128 | 2025-04-27 01:31:06+00:00
Apple secretly linked my account to my >15 year old inactive account as well as another random account that isn't even mine. Nothing happened of it until I let my iPhone sync its settings to a new iPad. The iPad spammed a password input form for my old account that blocked all other UI elements. It didn't accept any password even after a password reset. Took me an hour to make the tablet usable again. The password form still randomly pops up every few weeks and there seems to be no way to fix the mess.

Bonus: the iPad's device name is now "My iPhone" because it also synced the device name from the phone.
by svennidal | 2025-04-27 01:31:26+00:00
I do my work on a mac because I don't like the nuisance of trying to do it on windows. There is always some wonkiness that I don't even bother to remember the details of, because the solution is just to do it on mac.

I rather play games on windows because I don't like the nuisance of trying to do it on mac. There is always some wonkiness that I don't even bother to remember the details of, because the solution is just to do it on windows.
by TheFreim | 2025-04-27 01:32:09+00:00
> The worst library is still better than the best corporate bookstore.

We are talking about book stores, meaning there is a desire to own the book being read. You don't get to own the books in a library. As someone who heavily annotates my books—except fiction—I will need to own a physical copy (or a digital edition). I haven't been to a book store in a while, but I recall the last two times being quite disappointing. Meanwhile, on Amazon, or other online providers, I can find what I need more often than not.
by Aunche | 2025-04-27 01:32:45+00:00
This is why Amazon started as a bookstore. Jeff Bezos didn't just happen to like books. It was meant to sell everything from the start. Rather, he started out with books because he identified it as an area where an online marketplace solves a problem that a physical store cannot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM&pp=ygUWQmV6b3MgZWF...
by Supermancho | 2025-04-27 01:33:50+00:00
Amazon knows about the day. Amazon has third party independent sellers. Amazon decided this was a good opportunity for them and their marketplace.

It's not mysterious. It hurts small stores that aren't aligned with Amazon and helps Amazon and small stores aligned with Amazon. Looks like typical Amazon bullying which has already been accepted since nobody is challenging the passthru book marketplace. Amazon used to sell books though, so that matters?
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-27 01:34:01+00:00
With AII.S2.C1.3.1 power jails are porous.

There's one effective sentence, if gained, which avoids this. I'm ordinarily #NotAFan, and that's another Rubicon once crossed presents massive peril, but in cases of flagrant constitutional violation I'm increasingly open to arguments in favour.

If that sentence cannot be attained, options are even more parlous.
by II2II | 2025-04-27 01:34:21+00:00
To be fair, one couldn't have even said that much about Linux a decade ago even though Linux ran on the same hardware as Windows. Now we can say that we can do Windows gaming on Linux and it is amazing. It is possible to both play a huge swath of Steam games under Linux, with comparable performance to Windows, and to go the "a lot of effort" route with non-Steam games under Wine (again, with comparable performance to Windows). That's before considering native Linux games.
by apothegm | 2025-04-27 01:35:07+00:00
Everyone’s brains work differently. I do best writing an outline and then fleshing it out. Some people just need to go straight through start to finish. Etc.

Most people do better with a draft pass plus an editing pass than just a single draft, though. Even if your first drafts tend to be fairly polished, an editing pass rarely hurts.
by pelagicAustral | 2025-04-27 01:37:41+00:00
I love gaming, that's what got me into programming in the first place... my career right now. And I just learned after many painful attempts that unfortunately Windows, macOS and Linux all got their territory... I don't want to preach about any particular system, it's pointless, I gave up on trying to force my OS to do something is just not meant to be, that's how I ended up with one gaming laptop with Windows, one with pop OS and a macbook pro. I just switch them over and to be honest Im Happier now.

I must recognise that there is some overlap on the dev functionality now that WSL is a thing... years back it was crazy talk to try to do Rails on windows.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-27 01:40:05+00:00
Well "anywhere near" is a wider range than "near". I think.

And absolute profit matters too. For a cheap enough part, a higher percentage is okay.

> It costs the company 10 dollars, and that 100 out of 110 people will purchase the upgrade for $20. That is $100 profit. Maybe the company also finds that 80 of those 110 people would also buy the same upgrade for $150 and yields like $11,200 in profit.

> So it makes sense for the company, the persons running it, and the investors in the company to have the markup as high as it will maximize their profits.

Yeah, and screw them.

Nickle and diming is bad and anyone doing it should feel bad.
by mayoff | 2025-04-27 01:41:15+00:00
I use CrossOver to play lighter-spec games on my Mac, like Animal Well, Loco Motive, Ori, UFO 50, and The Outer Wilds. I also have a gaming PC but I pretty much only use it for more demanding or super latency-sensitive games like Overwatch and Elden Ring. I’m not into most of the really high-spec AAA titles so I have not idea how well those would run.
by dlcarrier | 2025-04-27 01:42:09+00:00
1. Even though they aren't required to have OBDII, every electric vehicle has some kind of management interface, although manufacturers do often lock out users and third-party mechanics. Slate seems to show an interest in allowing third-part modifications and repairs, so I doubt that will be an issue. No matter what they do, I sure hope it doesn't require me to install their software on my phone or computer to access it, although I have no problem with them providing it.

2. Only very early first-gen electric cars, like the Nissan Leaf and Smart Fortwoo, were shipped without effective battery management. There's no reason any manufacturer would do that now, and I doubt any battery supplier would want to work with them, if they tried.

3. The Slate truck will be more capable. It has 201 hp and 195 lb-ft of torque, significantly outperforming the 117 hp and 149 lb-ft of torque in the standard-model 1998 Ranger. How they quantify hauling and towing capacity may have changed since the 90's, but you can rest assured that it is more powerful.

4. Designing an optional bench seat would be easy, but getting approval to sell them would be expensive, due to current safety regulations. This could likely only happen once sales volume is large enough to justify the long approval process for that variation.

Number four is likely the only holdup. If the SUV accessories are easy to install, it may still be worth considering, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a long process for their first generation. Most auto manufacturers can't design an easy-to-install hard-top, on their first try.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-27 01:42:20+00:00
You think that letter was not signed under duress??

And I don't see the system particularly being gamed. The reality is an awful lot of people are fleeing oppression. The gangs and the cartels etc make it so the people don't have an option but to turn to them.

And despite what the reich wing says most of the immigrants are not a problem. And the reich wing specifically set out to ensure Biden couldn't accomplish anything. And now we see high profile and often wrong deportations, yet a lower total rate than under Biden.
by gcanyon | 2025-04-27 01:42:59+00:00
I tested on this image: https://imgur.com/a/YSoMBc1

It nailed it down to the exact park in Lisbon: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vpvqA14TCbeFb3Rd7

> The little clues that make me lean that way are the Portuguese-language exercise sign (“Abdominais”), the classic calçada portuguesa cobblestone path, the style of the outdoor-gym equipment the city installs, and—biggest tell—the long red-and-white neoclassical façade in the background, which looks just like the Nova Medical School building that borders that square.

I had forgotten the medical school!

It's not perfect, it thought this was in KL Malaysia: https://imgur.com/a/fbSDqyp (it's Bangkok Thailand)

> My hunch this time: the covered pedestrian sky-bridge that links Pavilion Bukit Bintang to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre / Suria KLCC in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The things that tipped me off are the distinctive white-panel ceiling and slim columns of that air-conditioned walkway, the glass balustrades, the vertical “PAVILION” banner glimpsed on the right, and the big LED façade of Pavilion Mall visible off to the left.

The sign on the right is part of the text Central World, which is a prominent mall in Bangkok.
by WillAdams | 2025-04-27 01:45:32+00:00
Yeah, the irony is that there was a competing online bookstore at the URL books.com, which was later bought by Barnes & Noble.

When I bought my copy of Peter Karow's _Digital Typefaces_ the proprietor asked if I was in a hurry to receive it, and if not, if it would be okay if he reviewed it first to see if it was something he would want to purchase.
by mkl | 2025-04-27 01:45:50+00:00
You have a very strange definition of "nearly impossible".

> 1. It's quite easy to miss a tab and use only `|`.

Any format is hard to edit manually if you don't follow the requirements of the format (which are very simple in this case).

> 2. Generated TPSV would look like an unreadable hard to edit mess.

CSVs are much less readable than this, but still entirely possible to edit.
by abakker | 2025-04-27 01:47:19+00:00
I mean, I assume that most people who are in a position of financial stress continue with their near-term need to commute to earn a living, and bear the cost of a tax that hurts them.

The government's job is to say that in aggregate, they people better off from the overall reduction in carbon emitted.

My opinion is that trying to make consumption taxes non-regressive is a fool's errand. If it needs to be progressive, figure out what the total dollar contribution needed and pick a rate that when scaled with incomes yields the outcome needed.
by bitwize | 2025-04-27 01:47:31+00:00
People were up in arms about it because it's unworkable as a code of conduct for an open-source project.

Codes of conduct are specific, enforceable standards of professional conduct that apply to all contributors to a project that cover things like appropriate language and behavior in project spaces, equity and respect towards other community members, and especially, protecting members of marginalized communities from further marginalization or discrimination. They contain specific procedures for raising complaints (as well as protecting the complainants from retaliation), determining responsibility, and meting out disciplinary action.

The SQLite Code of Ethics is vague, can't be reasonably enforced, and its authors declared no intention to enforce it. No means of raising a complaint of a Code of Ethics violation is provided, nor is there an establishment of a committee or process to adjudicate complaints and administer disciplinary action. It is, per its authors again, merely a symbolic gesture. Furthermore, being a Christian seems to be a requirement to be in compliance.

So you can understand why people might be "up in arms" about it.
by ummonk | 2025-04-27 01:49:25+00:00
That is so awesome! I'd really like to see more people bringing back the spirit of early computing with much more tinkering at the computer rather than app level.

I've been thinking about doing a long term hobby project of creating a personal computer - one where I create the entire software stack myself and can know the provenance of every bit that goes into the system (though I can't do the same with the hardware, unless I can get enough performance out of an FPGA to run everything on it).

Until now it seemed unrealistic but you proved it's possible! And looks like you're even implementing a hobby C compiler: https://github.com/joexbayer/C-Compiler
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by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 01:50:49+00:00
This is probably true though as a non-gamer and recent mac convert I have basically zero complaints. Windows these days is full of too much crap that sucks away attention and makes it hard to use.

Average windows experience:

Welcome to BING (tm) with your MSN chumbucket spam links! Here's a desktop notification for a "sweepstakes"; no, you didn't get adware, just MS Windows! Enjoy this full-screen pop-up telling you to "prepare for windows 11" that completely disrupts your workflow when you're in the zone! Your computer is running slowly? Oh yeah, that's windows defender sucking up half your CPU, because not scanning every file would be a Security Risk (TM)! Want to turn that off? No worries, but you can't do that on the home edition because we don't give you group policy editor! If you do it anyway, we will re-enable this "feature" with every update and change the precise incantation of powershell miscellany, regedits, and menus that haven't been updated since the nineties you need to turn it off again!

We hope you enjoy your Windows (TM) 11 (TM) experience!

It's like fisher price, a casino mogul, and a schizo got together to cook up the latest batch of whatever slop microsquash is trying to pass off as a legit OS. Which is a shame, because the technical fundamentals are actually pretty sound. Some of this doesn't apply if you're using a corporate-managed machine, because companies don't want to put up with that nonsense, but a chunk of these annoyances still does.

It's weird to say but I enjoy using a computer to get stuff done substantially more after no longer using windows. While I still like linux, a bunch of software I need doesn't really work, and I don't have time to dick around with wine when I'm trying to do a job, so I'm glad there's a reasonably non-garbage option.

Windows will probably be the default corporate os for the forseeable future, but if the only people who actually have reasons to use it are "gamers", that should be a wake-up call for the ms product guys.
by KerrAvon | 2025-04-27 01:51:24+00:00
It wasn’t a discovery: DEC knew the 9000 wouldn’t be competitive against VLSI implementations! DEC’s board really should’ve replaced Ken Olsen by 1985 at the latest.

> There are several quotes by prominent engineers on the NVAX project that describe Olsen's unwillingness to kill the 9000 even after being told point-blank that it would not be competitive by the early 1990s,[14] and his outright rejection that such a thing was even possible.[18]
by latentsea | 2025-04-27 01:52:11+00:00
I went to watch the Minecraft movie, and when the scene where they arrive outside their new house came on I was like... that feels so much like New Zealand. Then a few weeks later I went to visit my mum in Huntly, and she was like "oh yeah, they filmed part of it in Huntly!".

So, yeah vibes are a real thing.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-27 01:53:33+00:00
What I know for sure is anybody talking about V10 engines is obviously utterly divorced from normal person reality, and I can't take any of their suggestions seriously.

Performance does not matter to the majority of car buyers. Reliability and capability are what matters. Whether you can count on the car doing what you need it to do. Even fuel economy is second to those. Anybody talking about the sound of turbochargers, performance and V10 engined (seriously, WTF) is totally out of touch.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-04-27 01:53:41+00:00
This seems like a pretty awful place to work if my bosses have such fragile egos they can't handle me saying "our insurance requires us to do X". I'm not even really passing judgement on whether X is good or bad.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I've never worked in a company this large (except for a brief internship), or in IT specifically. But also, like, come on people, grow up.