MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-05-14 05:57:47+00:00
> Like what a few other folks in this thread pointed out, your resume and your portfolio looks outdated and fragmented on my first glance. Most recruiters and hiring managers spend 5 seconds max during the first pass, so first impressions matter.

From the blog post, it seems the author already received that feedback multiple times, but somehow failed to act upon it.

It is also baffling how, after receiving feedback to showcase his skills in places like substack and YouTube, the blogger somehow opted to post self-comisorating content and even lambast anyone who ever interviewed him for the audacity if picking someone else.

The blogger's knee jerk reaction of attacking anyone expressing anything but support as being "cynical" and "negative" also conveys the idea of someone being unable to receive feedback and even handle feedback well without lashing back. Handling feedback is a fundamental skill to work in a team environment. Attacking those who give it with ad-hominems such as "fresh-faced bay area 25 year old with a Steve Jobs complex" screams out toxic personality.

And those are the good aspects the blogger cherry-picked expecting to portray himself as the victim. God knows what's the actual impression their peers got from him.
by awaythrow999 | 2025-05-14 05:57:47+00:00
Uninstalled my AirBNB because of 2 resolution issues with hosts that were not in my favor despite me providing all documentation and (damning) evidence.

The reason I should have uninstalled it much longer is because it's toxic for rent prices. I now pay more for hotels and sleep well.

I got rid of Uber for the same reason.
by riffraff | 2025-05-14 05:57:50+00:00
I don't think it's surprising that a plane got downed, and I wouldn't read much into it, apart from the PR.

Also, I think the rafale is a 40 year old design and has been in production since '91, the j-10 is from 10 year later.

I'm not sure this really tells us much about the current state of things.
by throwanem | 2025-05-14 05:58:13+00:00
You didn't start this conversation, nor so far as I can tell impute your own perspective on a work to its author. Indeed the second person appears at no time in the comment to which you here reply, or at any time when I was describing my perspective on a commenter who, were it not by now sufficiently explicit, is not you.

It does annoy me when the work is misunderstood in this way, because the technique in use is subtle. Watts doesn't show you what Desjardins does, so that a pervert would get off on it - indeed nearly none of the infamous torture scenes is actually very explicit at all, the gory details left mostly in implication, because Watts is interested not in what Desjardins does to his victims but why he does it. That's why he spends his time showing you how Desjardins thinks, instead. It would be interesting to me to talk about that, because I think it successfully depicts something essential about the nature of sadism, which is worth understanding if for no other reason than in self-defense.

Certainly it would offer more interest than evident in the matter of the discussion thus far. That people commonly mistake moralistic vacuity for substantive discussion I do recognize and acknowledge, but I believe I will never for the life of me grasp the appeal.
by codethief | 2025-05-14 05:58:22+00:00
> My phone is more than powerful enough to act as a travel laptop, yet its potential is constrained by a small touch screen..

In case glasses are an option, I heard that Xreal glasses can be hooked up to Android phones directly. Such a setup with a proper Android desktop mode (or even better: a Linux VM with all one's dotfiles and everything) would be fantastic IMO.
by el_oni | 2025-05-14 05:58:42+00:00
There is a difference between dark roasts from a specialty coffee roaster and a dark roast from Starbucks.

The specialty dark roast will have notes of cookies, chocolate, nuts. Lots of brown roasty flavour.

Starbucks tastes bitter. With very little nuance. (Unless you cold brew it, then you can leave most of the bitter behind)
by peterlada | 2025-05-14 06:00:30+00:00
Ask for medium roast, not light. You might like dark roasts, especially if you drink with milk or fakemilk.

There are two kind of "sourness" in coffee, one is of acidity, which is a (for some highly desirable) feature of the beans, which can be toned down with darker roasting levels. The other is astringency (tea-like) which is a sign of extraction defect and generally not liked by all. This can be controlled with grind settings.
by lemming | 2025-05-14 06:02:06+00:00
Mine is even simpler - I just control an off-the-shelf smart bulb via a couple of macOS Shortcuts, which is trivial using Homekit. Those are driven by Hammerspoon which triggers the shortcuts based on the camera events. No custom hardware and like 20 lines of code (not including the shortcuts, I guess). I have the bulb in a normal lamp base outside my door. It's properly event driven rather than polling, too.
by karamanolev | 2025-05-14 06:02:08+00:00
This reply rings true, but also had me thinking. If rereading those books when you're old enough makes you appreciate them, are they ideal for high school? Do they teach you what's good writing if you can't recognize it yet? Does it make sense to, then, choose different books - books you can appreciate and understand more in high school? I don't have the right answer, but the question seemed relevant.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-14 06:02:20+00:00
Every time I offer alternatives to slow hardware, people find a missing feature that makes them stick to what they're currently using. Other times the features are there but the buttons for it are in another place and people don't want to learn something new. And that's for free software, with paid software things become even worse because suddenly the hours they spend on loading times is worthless compared to a one-time fee.

Complaining about slow software happens all the time, but when given the choice between features and performance, features win every time. Same with workflow familiarity; you can have the slowest, most broken, hacked together spreadsheet-as-a-software-replacement mess, but people will stick to it and complain how bad it is unless you force them to use a faster alternative that looks different.
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by xiphias2 | 2025-05-14 06:02:51+00:00
I think the most important lesson is this:

Ownership is easy, borrowing is easy, what makes the language super hard to learn is that functions must have signatures and uses that together prove that references don't outlive the object.

Also: it's better not store referenced object in a type unless it's really really needed as it makes the proof much much more complex.
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-14 06:04:06+00:00
Authoritarian regimes traditionally touted public transit. From "he made the trains run on time", the German autobahn (which actually predated a certain party) to the lavish halls of the Soviet subway stations, to China's highspeed rail networks, public transit is just a thing that strongmen like to do. And absolute power certainly helps when you want to plow a road/rail/bridge through a neighborhood.

I watched an in-flight documentary about the architecture of soviet rural bus stops. Each one of them looked like it cost most than the neighborhoods they serviced.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-14 06:04:20+00:00
I doubt it's prompting. I think the issue is more likely that UI code is often similar, has a lot of examples online, and often doesn't require understanding data flow. This is why LLMs are great at "boring" React components, because they don't actually understand the flow of the data, but they don't need to.

Business logic on the other hand is much more likely to be novel in some way, there are likely fewer similar examples for rules to be learnt from, etc.

Obviously this is all gradations, LLMs can manage some business logic and mess up some UIs (they can't "see" the UI which doesn't help!), but this is my experience of them and fits with my understanding of the technology.
by mandevil | 2025-05-14 06:04:50+00:00
I think you've missed a person in your account. The guy Daisy marries is not working to make ends meet, he's an old-money racist (Tom mixes up Henry Goddard, one of the most famous proponents of eugenics in the 1910's and 1920's, and Lothrup Stoddard's book _The Rising Tide of Color_ which inspired Adolf Hitler, but liked both, even if he can't remember who wrote what). Tom Buchanan is just as fantastically wealthy as Gatsby but in the understated old-money ways, contrasting with Gatsby's new money extravagance. Tom conducts an affair with a nearby, much poorer woman, but is enraged at the hint that Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby. The combination of his affair and his anger at the possibility of her affair is what drives the novel to its explosive climax.

The guy who is working to make ends meet is the narrator, Nick Carraway. Daisy is his cousin, which is why he gets to hang around these much more wealthy people. Of course, the way he is working to make ends meet is as a bond salesman on Wall Street, but at the time bonds were a sleepy corner of the financial system, it didn't become the ticket to enormous wealth until the 1980s.

Similarly, another reference that made sense at the time but is lost to the modern reader is the book's reference to Gatsby making his money in drug stores- that meant he was a bootlegger. You could get a doctor's order for alcohol so drug stores were legal speakeasy's. Walgreen's in particular did absurdly well under prohibition, growing from 20 stores in 1920 to 400 stores in 1930, on the basis of its medicinal whiskey, available to anyone with a prescription.
by bsder | 2025-05-14 06:05:16+00:00
> If a language needs an article like this, absolutely begging people to bite the bullet to learn it, maybe that's a language design smell.

The problem with articles like this is that they don't really get to the heart of the problem:

There are programs that Rust will simply not let you write.

Rust has good reasons for this. However, this is fundamentally different from practically every programming language that people have likely used before where you can write the most egregious glop and get it to compile and sometimes even kinda-sorta run. You, as a programmer, have to make peace with not being able to write certain types of programs, or Rust is not your huckleberry.
by _puk | 2025-05-14 06:06:06+00:00
Is that what the market demands, or is the market unable to differentiate?

From the site there's a huge assumption that potential customers are aware of what extrait de parfum is vs eau de parfum (or even eau de toilette!).

Might be worth a call out that these fragrances are in fact a standard above the norm.

"The highest quality fragrance money can buy" kind of thing.
by jajko | 2025-05-14 06:06:49+00:00
Well, while certainly true, this is max few % of stressful reality. In fact, basically none of the workstress in my past 15 years was caused by this.

I had this mindset when much, much more junior but these times... not so much. Maybe in purely startup small shop env, but thats not where most of us get work done.
by bcoates | 2025-05-14 06:06:52+00:00
100% agree with you that it's worth going back and reading The Books You Should Read as an adult who can just read them as books and not some sort of obligation. That said. some of them are still stinkers that only a weird boomer could love. I'm looking at you, A Separate Peace & fucking anything by Joseph Conrad (sorry).

Half the pleasure of reading these books as they were meant to be read (as books, and not at frogs to be dissected in class) is that you get to discover it for yourself--a mix of life-changing gems and I-guess-you-had-to-be-there meditations on being a failson in the twilight of British imperialism
by jeffhuys | 2025-05-14 06:07:31+00:00
It sneaks in though. I only knew I had a problem when I started getting seizures.

Didn’t start at 6 cups a day. That happened over years and years of easy and accepted access to the drug everywhere I went.

Having caffeine jitters is a joke in society. But it’s literally just overdosing on drugs. Just plain ordinary drugs.
by al_borland | 2025-05-14 06:08:08+00:00
My mitigations are to eliminate systems I don’t actually need. Baggage being the big one. I pack one small bag (19L) that can fit under the seat. I don’t have to worry about lost luggage or the overhead bins being full, leading to unexpected checked luggage at the gate. It also saves a lot of money.

Some people find this difficult or impossible, but two realizations helped me immensely.

First, I am nearly always going to places that are populated by people who live their life in this place. If there is something I didn’t pack that I desperately need, I can probably buy it locally. I nearly always buy toiletries locally to avoid dealing with liquid restriction and spill risks. The need to do this has been rare, and even with as little as I pack, things still go unused, or things I pack break, and it wasn’t a big deal (this happened with a travel umbrella I bought, now I don’t bother with one).

Second, if you stay anywhere for long enough, you’ll need to do laundry at some point. If you accept this as a reality, it’s just a question of how often you’re willing to do laundry. I usually travel with 4 days worth of clothes (what I’m wearing, and 3 days worth packed). With this I can stay somewhere for weeks or months, just washing stuff in the sink or shower every few days. Ironically, I tend to pack more for a week long local trip than a multi-week trip overseas for this reason.

I do agree with getting to the airport early. Just hearing people talk about getting to the airport at the last minute stresses me out. I often end up going 4 hours early just so I have 0 stress. I’ll even do it for domestic flights. I can either sit at home waiting to leave, or just leave and sit at the airport. Waiting is waiting. I usually take the time to have a meal and read a book. Once I’m through security I can relax. Maybe I watched Home Alone too many times as a kid, and never wanted to be the person frantically running through the airport or trying to cut the line.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-05-14 06:08:25+00:00
I finally realised that black coffee isn't for me (i.e just coffee and water; not even if it has chicory).

I just can't have coffee without milk. So for it's the filter coffee (kaapi), or the instant coffee with milk, and cappuccino et al. I prefer well made instant milk coffee. Second comes the filter coffee and then everything else. Usually more coffee and really heated and stirred milk otherwise the typical fresh milk sort of taste remains and that's not nice. So I have to tell "swalpa strong, sugar beda" (little strong, no sugar).

I have tried for years and I could never make even instant coffee at home that I could like (while I make decent milk tea/chai). So I gave up again and I mostly have coffee outside. At home I keep a bit just for emergencies when I must fight the sleep and I don't have time to step out. Also, because even though I live in the coffee/kaapi heaven Bangalore I am on the outskirts so things are far.
by zjp | 2025-05-14 06:08:29+00:00
I don't think I've related to any other book more. When I was growing up my mom worked for a country club, and my dad was a mechanic who restored cars for the wealthy. They were divorced, so I would split my time between houses. My mom did a little better for herself than he did, so I was with her most of the time so I could go to better schools. I would meet the people who owned the cars my dad worked on, and I would go to my mom's country club sometimes and lend a hand. I was in a haunted house one year, and a part time caddy. Just constantly around this world, and those people, and their haunts, and their toys, and their kids, going to school with them. I understand this isn't all the book is about, but it spoke to the emotional experience of feeling like you have to change who you are and hide where you come from to try and fit in with people who can smell your station and may never (at the time, won't ever) accept you. I felt like I grew up in the valley of the ashes.
by OccamsMirror | 2025-05-14 06:09:52+00:00
> It was never going to be mainstream profitable to buy a normal apartment and rent it out on AirBnB.

It was never meant to be. It definitely has been though. Lots of people making much more money renting out AirBnBs rather than using their property for long term leasing. Which has obviously compounded the housing issues most cities are currently experiencing.
by bogdan | 2025-05-14 06:10:17+00:00
I’ve had my share of bad Airbnb hosts too, not as bad as yours, but still enough to ruin a holiday and make me hesitant to use them again.

The bit that I should have expected but didn't was how strongly they side with the hosts in case of disputes. In hindsight, of course they do; the hosts are their money makers, while I'm booking them only a few times a year.

I stopped using Airbnb and closed my account. Hotels are fine, and never had any major issues.
by mdhb | 2025-05-14 06:10:22+00:00
I guess that’s the thing, when I now look at the commits it’s way past what’s reasonable for nest. I see chromium is rolled back in for example, flutter is back in there, everything seems to be getting the bazel treatment, I see a bunch of non publicly announced releases this year… like things are clearly happening on some level in a way that’s not entirely consistent with the idea of a product that is in the midst of a death roll.

Do you think it’s possible that thinking evolved slightly beyond the number of devices shipped in the meantime perhaps?

I’d always been on the opinion of even just assuming they got to a point where the whole starnix linux syscall compatibility layer thing (which is what I see a lot of recent commits pointing towards) to a good point and stopped that it would still make sense in so many use cases that it would have been justified.

It would also change the number of devices shipped question from 1 dying product line to billions overnight which certainly might change the conversation and furthermore would put them into a pretty unique commercial position for more high assurance computing given the security model which would have a lot of follow on effects presumably

Also thanks again for taking the time to answer, you’re right I am genuinely very curious about this.
by tomhow | 2025-05-14 06:13:10+00:00
The title is clearly in a very different style to your comment. It's just not very hard to show that you have a sincere intention of using this site in accordance with the guidelines. The intention of this site is to be a place that satisfies intellectual curiosity. That's the reason people come here rather than the many other discussion sites on the web; to find interesting content and engage in interesting discussions. If you don't want that, it's fine, you don't have to participate here. If you want to use this site, please don't drag down the standard of discussion.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-14 06:13:17+00:00
Economic issues can cause an empire to start effectively dissolving itself, as happened with the British Empire, but that's not what happened with the USSR. It was forcibly dissolved from within as regions began literally just declaring their independence and refusing to recognize central authority, and that was largely caused by decades of increasing dissatisfaction with the system that simply reached it's final decline under the policies of Gorbachev.

One can also look to examples like the US which survived numerous catastrophic economic collapses, like the Great Depression, wholly intact.
by psychoslave | 2025-05-14 06:13:28+00:00
Well, it does look like there is a will to mimic religious social structure in the community, be it as a satiric form of it. I mean, I guess they purposefully named their pancakes cargo, as in "cargo cult", didn't they? Rustacean, rustomicon, and the other few words I saw leak out of the community all seem to go in the same spirit. I'm almost surprised they didn't went with more fancy terms for these core concepts of ownership and borrowing. Perl was also full of religious stuff like blessing your object, though Larry was actually more in the "true devot" side of the line.
by etbebl | 2025-05-14 06:13:49+00:00
Maybe people need persuading to learn Rust not just because they think it's hard, but also because they think it's bad? Not everything hard is worth doing. Difficulty is just one of the factors to consider.

I started to learn Rust, but I was put off by the heavy restrictions the language imposes and the attitude that this is the only safe way. There's a lack of acknowledgement, at least in beginner materials, that by choosing to write safe Rust you're sacrificing many perfectly good patterns that the compiler can't understand in exchange for safety. Eventually I decided to stop because I didn't like that tradeoff (and I didn't need it for my job or anything)
by palmotea | 2025-05-14 06:13:50+00:00
> See my explanation a couple posts away. It means the thing that many on the left often express on this topic, not the thing that almost none ever do.

And "abolish the police" doesn't mean literally abolish the police, and it's absurd to think it does, amirite?

> Not a hostile interpretation by someone who already decided what's what and is working backwards from that.

Interpreting "no human is illegal" as implying "denying the basic right for country to have an immigration policy," is not a "hostile interpretation." In fact, I'd say denying that as a reasonable interpretation requires a pretty high degree of bias and motivated thinking (akin to the attempts to calm the slogan "abolish the police" does not actually indicate support for literally abolishing the police).
by zimpenfish | 2025-05-14 06:13:53+00:00
Similar - Hammerspoon detects whether I have a Teams meeting window open (I never have my camera on) and calls out to Home Assistant to control a WLED strip visible outside the room. Also have a Zigbee button for ad-hoc control if I'm called into a Slack huddle, etc.

(I've also got it parsing my Outlook iCal to do "meeting pending", "meeting maybe pending" but it turns out that Outlook's iCal is nonsense and parsing it is a fool's errand.)
by nielstron | 2025-05-14 06:14:22+00:00
re detecting and switching language: you could run several constraint systems in parallel and switch as soon as one of them rejects the input and another accepts it

re backtracking: a core part of this paper is ensuring a prefix property. that is there is always a legitimate completion and the model can not "corner" itself!

research needs to be done for what kind of languages and language features this prefix property can be ensured