MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by purple-leafy | 2025-05-01 23:54:17+00:00
People that don’t ask questions, don’t show any curiosity at all, don’t reciprocate, and don’t contribute to conversation other than talking at length about themselves - are not worth a second of your day.

I’m sorry but if all you can do is talk about yourself and not have a conversation, you are not worth my time.

If you think it’s okay to let the other person lead the entire conversation maybe you need to learn some social skills
by usef- | 2025-05-01 23:54:27+00:00
That's sad to see.

> If you sense some ire here it’s because I went all-in on Deno. I was fooled. I was rugged pulled.

I don't agree with the author's use of "rug pulled" here. Deno took a shot and not all businesses succeed — they did have unusually strong competition in Bun.

Them scaling down the number of regions might make them sustainable longer with their current customers who have deployments. That seems nicer than a hard shutdown.
by Spivak | 2025-05-01 23:54:48+00:00
My condolences, the only thing Windows is actually needed for is playing games and thanks to Valve and SteamOS's work on Proton, Linux is a truly viable alternative now.

Generally specialist software for different industries will make you pick between Apple and Microsoft but I think that's a different beast because having a one-off (cracked) Windows box for say video editing meets the protest bar pretty well.
by neilv | 2025-05-01 23:55:36+00:00
For a school assignment, we had to find a dusty old computer, to run dusty old software DECtalk, to better understand speech.

The assignment was to annotate lines from some famous sayings and speeches, to make the DECtalk output much better than the default.

My lab partner and I might've spent an hour alone on the Gettysburg Address fragment, "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" be delivered like an impassioned speech.

(That line was the most memorable, since there was so much to work with, and you could make it dramatic.)
by cube2222 | 2025-05-01 23:55:38+00:00
Spacelift | Remote (Europe) | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | $80k-$110k+ (can go higher)

We're a VC-funded startup building an infrastructure orchestrator and collaborative management platform for Infrastructure-as-Code – from OpenTofu, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, to Ansible.

On the backend we're using 100% Go with AWS primitives. We're looking for backend developers who like doing DevOps'y stuff sometimes (because in a way it's the spirit of our company), or have experience with the cloud native ecosystem. Ideally you'd have experience working with an IaC tool, i.e. Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, or SaltStack.

Overall we have a deeply technical product, trying to build something customers love to use, and have a lot of happy and satisfied customers. We promise interesting work, the ability to open source parts of the project which don't give us a business advantage, as well as healthy working hours.

If that sounds like fun to you, please apply at https://careers.spacelift.io/jobs/3006934-software-engineer-...

You can find out more about the product we're building at https://spacelift.io and also see our engineering blog for a few technical blog posts of ours: https://spacelift.io/blog/engineering
by rf-tristan | 2025-05-01 23:56:23+00:00
Rightfoot | Onsite San Francisco | Full-Time | ~$170k | Sales!

We are looking for our first Salesperson to join our team! We need someone who is able to get their hands dirty in cold outbound as well as being able to be flexible enough to adapt with a small (9 people) startup. Working at a company our stage, ideally as the first AE or similar role is ideal.

Rightfoot is building the first customer-permissioned financial data platform that does not require end customers to share their bank usernames and passwords. The power of our product is that it both decreases friction in the user experience and increases financial access. Today, lenders leverage Rightfoot to slash failed payments and subsequent bank fees to their end customers, seamlessly monitor customer accounts, increase collections, and more.

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rightfoot/a0783715-6f62-42be-bb36-b... or use your powers of intuition to guess my name and email me :)
by ronanf | 2025-05-01 23:57:36+00:00
Ronan Fraser

Location: Wellington, NZ Remote: Yes, but hardware should be in person. Willing to relocate: Yes! Technologies: CAD, PLM, FEA, P&ID, PLC, GD&T, DFM. (I realize these aren't technologies in the SWE sense but thought i would write them regardless) Résumé/CV: Contact me. Email: Ronan@fraser.net.nz

I'm a mechatronics engineer with 5 years of experience working in a start up re-imagining the metal casting process from the ground up. I have primarily been working on the design and build of state of the art binder-jetting ceramic 3D printers. I'm looking for opportunities to design, build and hack on hardware in a meaningful and disruptive way. I have broad experience with industry standard tools designing, building and testing mechanical components, assemblies and fully integrated automated systems.
by creer | 2025-05-01 23:57:39+00:00
Calling out narcissism is a good point. I feel though that this is ascribing a reason or motive to the person. Which maybe we need, maybe we don't. There is how it makes you feel "feeling that you don't care about me" and that's sufficient to look elsewhere if we don't have the energy in us to give it a little more effort.

Where it might help if we could tell the one from the other, is perhaps there are better ways to prod for input into the conversation that would fit better the narcissists or the "overly polite non-askers".
by sohkamyung | 2025-05-01 23:58:27+00:00
The line at the bottom of the article sounds a bit weird:

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Gerry Canavan is chair of the English department at Marquette University and the author of Octavia E. Butler.

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Gerry Canavan is the author of the book, "Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)", not the author of the author. :-)
by snvzz | 2025-05-01 23:58:34+00:00
>I find the autoplay so annoying

Fortunately, there's an actual setting to get rid of that. Found out yesterday, when trying to fix the OP problem (which youtube sadly forced on me).

That's extremely depressing on 27" 4k screen. Give me a density setting! I want compact thumbnails and to glance at a pack of vids at once.
by fintler | 2025-05-01 23:58:53+00:00
2025/5/5 is the next square root day. The next one won't happen until 2036/6/6.

Also, the year itself is a square (45^2=2025).

If I'm calculating right, the last time this was the case was on 1936/6/6 (44^2=1936).
by codeforafrica | 2025-05-01 23:59:59+00:00
Location: Africa or REMOTE

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, to any location in Africa, where I can get the necessary permission to live and work. Occasional travel is possible.

Technologies: Linux, Front or Backend Web Development, General Software Development, System Administration.

Résumé/CV: on request (software development, CTO, mentoring, training, fluent in English and German, german citizenship)

Contact: Email: see profile or http://codingforafrica.at/

Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work, but I am open to work on any interesting project. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I value good teamwork over fancy tech, and I don't shy away from working on legacy code. I am primarily motivated by solving problems, so let me help you solve your problems.

I am open to work for a company anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

In addition, I want to use some of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. I also sponsor children that otherwise can't afford to go to school (see my website). If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up a team for you.
by hnick | 2025-05-02 00:00:02+00:00
I can't find it right now but I recall seeing somewhere that around 40% of ADHD patients reported better effects on Ritalin (methylphenidate) or dexamphetamine roughly equally, another 40% says both are about as good as each other, and the final 20% don't find either very effective.

In my personal testing the Ritalin was much better, dexamphetamine was more up/down and shorter lived. However I didn't really get a crash or lethargy with either, it's just the focus wearing thin (and yes, the benefits were real and massive starting for the first time in my forties).

According to my psych, both have been around 70+ years and are fairly well understood. Longer term therapeutic doses shouldn't be habit forming and tolerance is minor after the initial phase, there's no withdrawal effects and it's easy to forget to take a dose if your routine changes. My morning coffee is far more demanding in that regard.
by pdimitar | 2025-05-02 00:00:07+00:00
Which database might that be?

I have been looking for replacement of SQLite for years -- admittedly, not very actively, embedded databases are just a hobby obsession and my life did not allow me much leisure time in the last years -- and still couldn't find one.

The written-in-Rust `sled` database is more like a key-value store and I had partial successes with it but it's too much work making a KV store a relational database.
by codeforafrica | 2025-05-02 00:00:20+00:00
SEEKING WORK | local or REMOTE

Location: Africa or REMOTE

Willing to relocate: yes, to any location in Africa, where I can get the necessary permission to live and work. Occasional travel is possible.

Technologies: Linux, Front or Backend Web Development, General Software Development, System Administration.

Résumé/CV: on request (software development, CTO, mentoring, training, fluent in English and German, german citizenship)

Contact Email: see profile or http://codingforafrica.at/

Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work, but I am open to work on any interesting project. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I value good teamwork over fancy tech, and I don't shy away from working on legacy code. I am primarily motivated by solving problems, so let me help you solve your problems.

I am open to work for companies anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

In addition, I want to use some of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. I also sponsor children that otherwise can't afford to go to school (see my website). If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up your team.
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-02 00:00:28+00:00
My sister is an extrovert and has about a small village worth of friends. She used to hold parties before she had kids, and would invite me.

I'm an introvert so would dread these, but always ended up enjoy going when I did.

One day she called me the day after such a party to say it was nice of me to come, as she would, but added "everyone always enjoys it when you're there, you're so good at making people feel seen".

I got really taken aback by that. I hadn't thought about that at all, I was just coping with my social anxiety by asking people questions.

Years later I was at a family function, and a relative had a new girlfriend from the US. I noticed not many talked to her except her boyfriend, so I sat down and started to ask some questions. We ended up talking for several hours until everyone else had left.

At the end when it was time to go to bed, she suddenly started crying. We asked what was wrong but she just said "you have no idea how good it was to just talk to someone".

She'd been in the country for a couple of weeks at that point without really having anyone else but her boyfriend have a conversation with her, despite meeting his family and such many times.

That also moved me. While I had noticed she was a bit alone that evening, I hadn't considered how much it could mean to her. I was just thinking she would be interesting to talk to being from another country, and figured she might be a bit bored so hopefully I could alleviate that.

Again, I don't feel like I'm doing anything special. I'm curious so I like discovering new stuff. I try to find what people are passionate about, as that's almost always something I don't know a lot about and so I can discover a lot of exciting new stuff. And doing that helps me overcome my social anxiety.

However, I do try to listen to people and I try to respond thoughtfully. How else can I have a meaningful conversation?
by sidibe | 2025-05-02 00:00:33+00:00
I hope that means yield to cyclists ahead of them. To me the whole point of getting in the bike lane is to avoid cases where the cyclist going straight is in a blind spot during the car's right turn. As a cyclist I'll sometimes get into the car lane at intersections to make sure I'm seen. seems like the car being required to let the bike behind them go straight is exactly what you'd want to avoid
by AYBABTME | 2025-05-02 00:00:42+00:00
Sorry for bringing up my own side-project on a "Show HN", but I'm making humanlog.io which does exactly what you want. Local-first log query engine (and tracing too, soon). You feed it your logs and you can search them, aggregate them, and soon make some graphs and dashboards with them. It started as just a CLI tool to parse and make structured logs pretty, and now I'm turning it into a full observability tool on your machine.

It's very WIP but I would love to help you get started if you want to try it out.
by spirodonfl | 2025-05-02 00:00:47+00:00
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills to programming. Building fast, simple, websites and applications is my bread and butter.
by mrandish | 2025-05-02 00:01:22+00:00
Apple will certainly appeal this ruling to the Ninth Circuit and probably to SCOTUS but Apple already appealed the original order which the Ninth denied and SCOTUS denied by declining. That makes an appeal on getting busted for non-compliance of the already appealed ruling unlikely. If the Ninth doesn't issue an emergency stay of the order tomorrow, it'll go into effect while the appeals grind on. This is very likely a done deal except for Apple wasting a little more lawyer money theatrically "exhausting every appeal."
by spirodonfl | 2025-05-02 00:01:39+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC | Remote Only Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills to programming. Building fast, simple, websites and applications is my bread and butter.
by mubou | 2025-05-02 00:01:58+00:00
Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant "AI" in the sense that people refer to anything using machine learning as "AI". (Honestly "AI" is such a meaningless term. LLMs are anything but intelligent.) But I agree. For most tasks, a non-gen AI model trained specifically for that task is significantly better. People are just taking the output of gen AI and using it as-is, rather than treating it as a tool to be leveraged as part of something larger and programmatic, like all ML before it.
by OCCC-user | 2025-05-02 00:02:06+00:00
Orange County Clerk of Courts | Multiple | Orlando, FL (ONSITE) (HYBRID)

Put the me in government, lol, by joining our ~24 person IT department. The Clerk’s work centers around document management, collections (e.g. traffic tickets), and external reporting. We support parties in their legal cases, deputy clerks assisting customers at front counters, judges reviewing cases in their chambers, the public online, and the judiciary managing caseloads / etc. Software centers around solutions from Microsoft and Tyler Technologies, along with some important in-house work. Current IT roles:

* Cybersecurity Analyst Sr | 83 - 110k

* BI Engineer | 91 - 121k

* Application Support Specialist | 62 - 83k

https://occc.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/JobSearch/viewAll
by russellbeattie | 2025-05-02 00:02:28+00:00
> ...screen grant proposals for “topics or activities that may not be in alignment with agency priorities”

The only priorities the Trump administration has is in enforcing their myopic right-wing worldview and continuing their Manchurian Candidate destruction of our future by crippling science and education, and alienating the best and brightest people from around the world to make sure they don't come here to live and work, or leave as soon as possible.

We're going to be paying the price for this administration's actions for decades, if not for the rest of our country's existence.

(If you think this is too political for HN, or an over-reaction, remember that's what you said before the election as well. We weren't wrong then, and we're not wrong now.)
by caseyy | 2025-05-02 00:02:35+00:00
Plus, you'd be giving Google your government ID. A company that collects and trades thousands of your behavioral metrics as their core business model.

The Baltics have handled this better with a Smart ID system[0] that also allows cryptographic document signing (like Adobe Sign but non-repudiable by law). It can perform proof-of-human like Altman's orbs, and allows Baltic citizens to file documents with the government, access electronic court records, electronic medical records, e-banking, and similar services.

One downside of the system is that its purpose is to identify a natural person using a service. So whichever service uses it as authentication, it will receive personal data. However, there are third-party sign-on gateways that use Smart ID (and other e-signature methods legal in the Baltics) to authenticate users and only disclose certain bits of personal information to those requesting authentication. In Lithuania, the government operates a service called the E-Government Gateway, and one can easily imagine it could be used for zero-knowledge age verification.

Ultimately, Google seems to be offering a far inferior product at a lot more risk to the user. Once again, their core business is user profiling, associating various user metrics with each profile. A government ID is the holy grail for user profiling. It's sort of like if a wolf offered a sheep-verification service - yes, we could trust the wolf to act professionally towards the sheep, despite it coming out in sheep court several times that it hasn't in the past. But is it wise to suspend disbelief like that? It's better to leave this to independent, expert companies, or even governments.

[0] https://www.smart-id.com/
by ivape | 2025-05-02 00:03:05+00:00
That's what common decency would suggest, yes. There's ways to do it of course, and one should confer with wiser people around them on how to do it. If there is a hospital full of 100 dying patients, and I offer one of them the chance to go viral (maybe they just have some viral quality that others don't), I would hope that one person doesn't take it. The whole thing is very somber and needs to be handled in that way. Nothing about this is easy, and I am suggesting modesty in the face of suffering.

Comedy might be the best analogy. There are ways to do it around sensitive topics. The go-ahead to do something is not as simple as "well I think it's funny", or in this case "well I'm the one that's dying".
by jltsiren | 2025-05-02 00:03:22+00:00
I'm not familiar with the specific situation in the UK, but age-based discounts can support many policy goals.

Maybe you want teenagers to be more independent, instead of relying too much on their parents for transportation needs. Maybe you want young adults get used to using public transit instead of driving everywhere, which can lower infrastructure costs in a densely populated country. Maybe you want to encourage retirees to get out and participate in the society, instead of sitting alone at home. Or maybe you want to encourage the use of public transit outside peak hours, which could reduce the overall need for subsidies.

Simple systems, such as age-based categories, often work well enough. Targeted subsidies can be more efficient in principle. But that assumes that regulators manage to target them properly and have the regulations implemented in software correctly and in time. All of those often fail. And even when they are successful, they may cost more than you save with better targeting. Not to mention the opportunity costs: when regulators focus on one thing, they can't work on another.
by bravura | 2025-05-02 00:03:24+00:00
Sorry, I side with GP. Just because you don't want to use Llama/GPT because of cost, the middle-ground of DistilBERT etc (which can run on a single CPU) is a much more sensible cost/benefit tradeoff than VADER's decade old lexicon-based approach.

I can't really think of many NLP things that are one-decade old and don't have a better / faster / cheaper alternative.