MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flutetornado | 2025-05-09 01:48:58+00:00
Everyone in my entire team - best of engineering as well as every manager left. Underpaying and over subscribing people has become a hallmark over there - it's just a body shop now. Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout. Upper management has no vision and everyone's constantly firefighting and struggling to catch up with competitors who had long term vision to invest in engineering teams, tooling and infrastructure to scale up the products and people. They want to do in 2 years what took Google and Amazon a couple of decades. Result post-HPE: poor quality, unscalable, cobbled together, barely functional codebase. Before, the startup I worked for had a well balanced rare combination of high performance, modular and well architected codebase. Later the constant push to ship as fast as possible to catch up with competition, completely destroyed the whole thing - teams, codebase and infrastructure. All because they only know how to react and have no idea how to stay ahead of the curve. Buying startups has become their only means of survival as talent stays away from their brand and the only way to justify value to shareholders is to jump from one rock to another, hoping the new one will rocket them away from the black hole they are spiraling into - all they manage to do is stick to the new rock and pull it with them as fast as they were going into the hole they will eventually vaporize in.
by standardUser | 2025-05-09 01:49:10+00:00
> Cantsbee, also a silverback, led his group for 22 years -- the longest dominance tenure ever recorded -- and fathered at least 28 offspring. He was known for his authoritative but peaceful nature, rarely initiating or entering fights, but was quick to protect others and resolve conflicts in the group. He had a particularly close relationship with his son Gicurasi, whose mother left when he was young, and who eventually took over leadership of the group in Cantsbee's final years. When Cantsbee later became ill, he chose to leave the group, spending his final months alone, except for one brief visit to the group shortly before his death.

This last paragraph is almost hidden by the ads, but worth reading.
by caulkboots | 2025-05-09 01:49:13+00:00
I believe enciphered hieroglyphics were covered by David Kahn in The Codebreakers. If memory serves, literate people wouldn't have too much difficulty solving them. The idea was the the plaintext would seem more significant to the reader/codebreaker after they labored for a few hours or a few days working it out. The labor required would add emphasis to what was being communicated.
by gad21034 | 2025-05-09 01:50:31+00:00
Trying to force fit a monolith/modulith is also a problem. I've seen overreactions to fears about having separate services create suboptimal solutions. The real answer is that you have to make the right solution for the problem you're facing without lapsing into a dogma. Humans tend to be pretty bad at this and want simple rules of thumb. The only rule I would endorse almost blindly is, don't start with microservices. The rest depends on what happens with your business and in what time frame. After building a company from scratch to 15 devs and experiencing tons of services at Spotify, I would recommend:

- monolith to start with very little time spent on code architecture patterns like DDD (although these days with llms I would say go for it and use DDD patterns in your prompts)

- optimize code cleanliness by adhering to better code architecture patterns

- when it feels like you are doing weird things to scale a process on the monolith (scheduling background tasks where you could break out a pubsub to function service and defend your uptime while coordinating on a shared DB), drop any religion around no micro services.
by dislore | 2025-05-09 01:50:34+00:00
For those of us unfortunate to use Atlassian Bitbucket, from version 9.0 onwards OpenSearch is the only supported search server [1] - it'll be interesting to see whether this view is ever flipped back to Elasticsearch in the future.

[1] https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/end-of-supp...
by asdev | 2025-05-09 01:50:52+00:00
>Our head of product is a reformed lawyer who taught himself to code while working here. He’s shipped 150 PRs in the last 12 months.

>The product manager he sits next to has shipped 130 PRs in the last 12 months.

In a serious organization, non technical people should not be shipping any sort of code. They should be doing the highest leverage things possible to help the business, and if that seems to be coding, there are grave issues in the company.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-09 01:52:25+00:00
> doesn't change the amount of money Congress appropriated

they cut tons of money that Congress had appropriated; USAID is just one example of many

so yes, it's illegal and Congress could call them on it, but the GOP won't.

the Admin is also counting on the allocation changing with the next budget, coming up, at which point it is "no longer allocated"
by 2arrs2ells | 2025-05-09 01:52:42+00:00
You’re spot on. Bootstrapping a reputation is really hard (and expensive), and the very painful accreditation process makes it much harder (need students to get accredited, can’t offer degree to students without accreditation).

Two good colleges who’ve overcome the challenges recently are Olin (engineering school in Boston) and Minerva (globally distributed college).
by thegrim33 | 2025-05-09 01:52:46+00:00
By "regular subscription" you mean it's included in their "all products" pack which contains 12 IDES.

So if I buy a yearly subscription to their IDE for the language that I do development in (CLion), I don't get AI Pro with that "regular" subscription, but if were to buy all their other 11 IDEs which I have no use for, I'd get AI Pro included.

So .. CLion at $100 per year plus AI Pro at also $100 a year, that'd be $200 per year. Or, buying the "all products" pack to get free AI pro, that'd cost $289 per year.

It's barely more expensive to buy licenses for 11 IDEs that I don't need to get the AI pro comes with it, than to just buy the 1 IDE I need and AI pro.

Man .. I use CLion as my main IDE but the things they do with their licensing has driven me insane for years.
by vel0city | 2025-05-09 01:53:30+00:00
The point is you don't have to have FAANG salaries to hit $20k/mo in cost to your employer.

Tons of software developer jobs in the US for non-FAANG tier or unicorn startup companies are >$100k and easily hit $120-150k.

Also the fourth quintile mean was like $120k in the US in 2022. So you'd be in the top 30% of earners making that kind of money, not the top 10%.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-quin...
by api | 2025-05-09 01:53:35+00:00
The US has a history of hitting rock bottom every so often. First constitutional crisis leading to the replacement of the articles of confederation, civil war, Great Depression and the new deal, the Vietnam era, and now the collapse of the post Cold War order.

I am not sure fascism will take here. Americans might think they want it until the fascists start telling them what to do. We are kinda starting to see that.

We will see more. Wait until some stand your ground red blooded American homeowner guns down a bunch of ICE goons doing a warrantless raid on the wrong house. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. I’ve been checking the news for it daily. Then Trump tries to confiscate guns. I’ve been predicting for years that it’s MAGA who will try to “come for the guns.” That will be a hoot as they say a few hours South of where I am.

Of course they still have the culture war card. For some reason trans derangement syndrome (TDS) still has a hold on people. I don’t understand why that particular thing works so well, even on some people you would not expect.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-09 01:54:36+00:00
>To alter the gender portrayed in robots during the second study, the researchers used an iPad display showing different gendered facial features that topped a Bear Robotics Servi robot, which does not have any typical human-like features of its own. These facial features had “cute” designs, including round faces and big eyes.

Maybe read the article?

It's well studied that waitresses get tipped at a higher rate then waiters, the inclination that these human behaviors would be placed on semi-anthropic semi-gendered robots doesn't really seem like a big surprise to me.
by 9o1d | 2025-05-09 01:55:02+00:00
Tip: Use Python

Twenty years ago I tried to start using Python. I tried to make a sniffer in Python - a program for logging data on the network. But this program returned an error. I started to figure it out, I found that the error was in the Python implementation. I then rewrote this program in C - it worked very reliably. Since then I have avoided using Python. For the last five years I have been doing research on writing effective programs. I have used C and even made a framework for it, but programming remains difficult under time constraints. Then I tried to make a prototype in Python. In one day I tested several ideas. I can say that I like writing in Python. I plan to make a translator for automatically rewriting programs from Python to C. I plan to test ideas in Python and then rewrite them in C.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-05-09 01:55:12+00:00
These are the sorts of hurdles that a wealthy, powerful, amd/or famous person could overcome. If Buffett University or Gates University opened tomorrow you'd have people clamoring to support it and attend it.

As for a draw, the US jniversity system is so flawed at this point that it wouldn't be hard to come up with something better.
by leoapagano | 2025-05-09 01:56:25+00:00
Centralia, PA has a mine that has been on fire since 1962 and will be on fire for at least another 250 years [0] - the town had to be evacuated in the 80s because it caused people to fall into sinkholes that randomly and suddenly opened up. Scary.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-09 01:56:37+00:00
I'll preface this by saying that I may have some misconceptions. Other people much more knowledgeable than I am have posted summaries of how modern graphics hardware works on HN before.

My understanding is that modern hardware is significantly more complicated at the lowest levels and (at least generally) no longer has a dedicated framebuffer (at least in the same sense that old hardware did).

My understanding of the memory access provided by fbdev is that it's an extremely simple API. In other words an outdated abstraction that's still useful so it's kept around.

An example of this complexity is video streams utilizing hardware accelerated decoding. Those often won't show up in screenshots, or if they do they might be out of sync or otherwise not quite what you saw on screen because the driver is attempting to construct a single cohesive snapshot for you where one never actually existed in the first place.

If I got anything wrong please let me know. My familiarity generally stops at the level of the various cross platform APIs (opengl, vulkan, opencl, etc).
by pclmulqdq | 2025-05-09 01:56:39+00:00
You may want to check your numbers because polio type 2 and type 3 are both still around (in fact, cVDPV type 2 is very, very common). The GPEI website has the recent numbers, updated weekly (although with ~3 month lag).

400k to 4k is not 400k to 0. Eradication means 0. People don't get smallpox vaccines today because we hit 0. American children get ~4 doses of IPV still, despite what you are claiming as "eradication."
by gus_massa | 2025-05-09 01:56:43+00:00
In case you choose

> Option 2: Pay-as-you-go bundles ($3 for X answers, no expiration)

add a ridicule expiration date, like 1 year. So you don't have complains in 10 years when you have to redesign your plans.

Some people used a model that charge only the months the user use the service, It may be a good middle ground, but it's better to add a warning so people don't complain becuse they forgot that they registered the credit card 6 months ago.

I think I prefer "X answers in 1 month", but I'm not sure my opinion is a good one.
by exiguus | 2025-05-09 01:57:05+00:00
Basically this started with vercel / next.js. And now react support server components itself. Its nice, if you have business requirements that you can't handle with the classic JAMStack approach. For example a shop, where the stock of products updates the UI (e.g. there is a sold-out label and the add to cart button should be disabled if out of stock). Lets say we use next. After a code update or with a cron job, you build the site every 6h. 3k pages (every product, categories etc.). Then, you use server componts and ISR with a ttl of 10min. ISR 10min means, the page get rebuild on the server after 10min with the next request and button gets disabled if the product is out of stock.

Yes, you don't need this, and you can directly call an API, but, thats bad for the user, because they have to wait for the API request (and UI update) and bad for you, because you have as many API request, you have as page visits.

So, server components bring value with the ttl / revalidate option of the page. A framework like next/vercel brings value if you want to maintain you page over the next 10 years with more then 1 developer.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-05-09 01:57:10+00:00
>> It's kind of like asking your grandpa the story behind a scar he has

I'm old enough to be a grandpa for many of the people here, I've got a lot of scars, and none of those scars are from going to a scar store, getting out my wallet, and saying, "hey! give me a cool scar, scar artist!".

The scars I have on my body are from moments in my life where everything went wildly fucking wrong. If you want that in your life, something is wrong with you, same as it was for me, and I don't what to tell you other than you don't have to pay money for it. You can get scar tissue for free.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-09 01:57:47+00:00
I mean, people somehow came to regard Mickey Mouse as a beloved and endearing mascot, despite showing his true colors in "Steamboat Willie" as a malevolent, obnoxious, violent asshole who steamrolls anyone/anything who gets in his way. After viewing that again, combined with a few other "early roles" I am unsure how Disney became a popular children's brand, except Mr. Rogers' lament begins to sound in my ears.
by robben1234 | 2025-05-09 01:57:47+00:00
I work with python codebases and consider comments that answer "what?" instead of "why?" bad.

LLMs tend to write comments answering "what?", sometimes to a silly extent. What I found helping for using Claude 3.7 was to add this rule in cursor. The fake xml tag helped to decrease the number of times it strays from my instructions.

<mandatory_code_instruction>

YOU ARE FORBIDDEN FROM ADDING ANY COMMENTS OR DOCSTRINGS. The only code accepted will be self-documenting code.

</mandatory_code_instruction>

If there's a section of code where a comment answering "why?" is needed this rule doesn't seem to interfere when I explicitly ask it to add it there.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-09 02:01:18+00:00
My vague impression is that the Phoenicians may have been just as important, historically, as the Greeks (first alphabet seems like a huge deal!), but they just didn't leave behind as many records. I remember trying to find a good book on them without succeeding. I wonder if Carthage had beaten Rome, the Phoenicians would take away the "ancient Mediterranean genius" slot away from the Greeks, since the availability of historical materials would be reversed.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-09 02:02:17+00:00
I was a member of a group at church that was populated mostly by old retired White men. And many of them were veterans of various military services. They were not the kind of guy who tooted their own horns. They often struggled with various disabilities.

One fellow I was very close with, had served in Vietnam, and had significant pieces of shrapnel/flak embedded in his skull that they couldn't pick out. He sometimes had minor memory lapses and PTSD bad enough to require sleep medication, every night.

Another fellow was doing well and had a construction job still, but noticeable scarring all along his forearms. And he never made a big deal about it or anything, until once we were all gathered for a meal, and our pastor pointed out that this fellow had run back into a burning building to rescue someone and his arms were set on fire from that incident, and he sustained significant damage to them, but in the end it was indeed an act of heroism and unselfish bravery to save another human being.

It was very humbling to be given this new perspective on guys whom I barely knew. There is definitely a story behind every scar on someone's body. Some of those stories may be quite eye-opening!

The Monkey's Paw: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8rtxPmHTA&si=v607QuxDK11...
by satellite2 | 2025-05-09 02:02:46+00:00
Thanks a lot for this research. Seing the comments here I think it's really important to make breakthroughs and progress more visible to the public. Otherwise the impression that "we're always 50 years away" stays strong.

Here was my completely layman attempt to forecast fusion viability a few months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791997 (in short: 2037)

Is there some semblance of realism there you think?
by vmh1928 | 2025-05-09 02:02:55+00:00
The first one went over during evasive maneuvers while it was being moved by a tractor. So it wasn't tied down and the people on the ship can't schedule plane movements around missile and drone attacks. That the ship had to take evasive maneuvers tells us a missile or drone got close enough to be a danger, not a good situation. The second plane went over when its hook missed the wire while landing. It happens. Also there was a plane shot down by a guided missile cruiser. Luckily in all cases the crew (including the guys moving the plane,) survived. The Navy in that part of the world has been operating at a war tempo for quite a while. It's extremely dangerous at all times.
by DrillShopper | 2025-05-09 02:02:55+00:00
The next study from the Hospitality Management majors is going to be "Effects of an overflowing toilet on people's willingness to stay in their hotel rooms", and I'm sure they'll be as shocked at the results of that as I am of the results here.

Can we give the research funds to people who aren't the goddamn Marriott Professor of Lodging Management? Let Marriott fund that garbage.
by hattmall | 2025-05-09 02:03:42+00:00
But how do you even know if it's actually higher quality. I find that expensive stuff breaks just as readily as cheap stuff in many cases. Speaking to dishwashers specifically in my rentals I've found that pretty much they all have similar flaws. The $1500 Bosch doesn't last longer or clean better than the $300 Frigidaire. What I've learned is that the best is to get the cheapest, but popular model with the decibel rating you want. Samsung Stormwash has been the best for me because the replacement parts are readily available. The cheaper models they keep changing parts every 6 months so it's more difficult to replace them.
by mrandish | 2025-05-09 02:03:59+00:00
To me it does because his actions while alive clearly establish a consistent pattern of behavior which indicates he would not have any issue with the company he founded and dedicated most of his life to using his likeness to honor him (while also making money). As far as we know, he didn't sign an explicit license for use of his likeness. Although he may have, like for those memorabilia framed/signed photo sales), but either way he certainly established an implicit license by creating and supporting products for Disney using his likeness while alive. Under common law, often voluntarily acting on something repeatedly and consistently tends to establish intent in the absence of a written contract.

If it existed, would such an explicit license extend to derivative usages like this? Probably not legally but I think ethically it does sharply reduce the likelihood Disney is acting against what Walt would have wanted.
by fallingknife | 2025-05-09 02:04:59+00:00
The university accreditation system is a cartel. You can't gain accreditation until you have already graduated students! So basically you have to find a group of students who are willing to risk studying at an unofficial university, then operate the university for several years before you can even apply for the stupid credential that allows you to issue degrees that anybody else recognizes. It clearly should be illegal, but like in so many other areas, the university system gets special treatment while continuing to suck up more and more resources for an ever diminishing return.
by bhaney | 2025-05-09 02:05:48+00:00
I've heard this take several times before and I can't help but roll my eyes every time. I know the intention is good but it simply does not work.

If I ask "Why don't you just do X?" I'm saying "You've been working on this for a while and I want to be caught up on some of what you've learned. The first thing I would try here with no context is 'just' X. I assume you've already tried that, so please tell me why it didn't work, since I'm clearly missing that information."

Yes, "just" is implying that the hypothetical solution is trivial. No, it is not implying that your entire problem is trivial and that the hypothetical solution we're talking about will solve it. I want to know why the trivial solution didn't work, because there's likely a wealth of useful context in that answer.

If you hear a completely innocent question like this and immediately ascribe a whole bunch of malice and pompousness to it, you are incredibly exhausting to talk to in the best case, and borderline insane in the worst case. I really don't want to have to comb over every sentence I say to you to make sure every random minor casual word in it can't possibly be twisted by you into a slight or dismissal like this blog post is doing. If I need to do that, I'm just going to stop talking to you and go speak to a reasonable adult capable of basic conversation who will default to a reasonably charitable interpretation of my words.
by bmaxhacks | 2025-05-09 02:06:15+00:00
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