MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-05-02 01:10:04+00:00
I read this one the other day and couldn't make heads or tails of it. I must not be the target audience.

> The Lord of the Rings seems immersed in racism (the superiority of the fair and noble elves, the inferiority of the brutish, mongrel orcs), colonialism and imperialism (the return of the king means the restoration of empire), and deeply retrograde sexism (with a core cast of characters that is overwhelmingly male).

That's just one half of Tolkien's dialectical examination, though. An apolitical reading reveals all sorts of nuance in these themes, especially in LOTR. Racism cuts both ways - humans are portrayed as being baser than Hobbits in many cases, but aren't discriminated against despite their weakness and short lives. Imperialist virtue is mocked by the government of the elves, who almost completely lack individual agency owing to their trust in governance and religion. Sexism... I don't even know how DEI-obsessed you have to be to care about this. Women are portrayed with depth, depicted in positions of power and recorded in combat. It's exemplary, for 20th century literature.

People always talk about the influence of WWII on Tolkien's writing, but I'm fascinated by the increased politicization of the novels as we drift away from a postwar unity. Part of me even wonders if the Peter Jackson films could be made nowadays without being accused of wokewashing the whole thing.
by mauvehaus | 2025-05-02 01:10:05+00:00
NEMA 6-15 and 6-20 seem to be pretty uncommon. This is no doubt in part because most stuff we run on 240 in the US is higher amperage anyway, and probably in part because some stuff also wants a neutral?

The only NEMA 6 I have is on my table saw, and maybe the planer? Everything else is NEMA 14 (two hots, neutral, and ground). The upside of that is the bulb in your dryer, for example, can be a standard 120 volt bulb.

I'd also like to note that the locking connectors plug and unplug a hell of a lot nicer than the non-locking ones, at least at the 30 amp size (which is common for a dryer). They just operate much more smoothly, presumably because they aren't relying on friction to keep them plugged in.
by kccqzy | 2025-05-02 01:10:15+00:00
I think being explicit is a good thing in C++. Suppose there is not constexpr in C++ and the following works:

inline int foo(int x) { return x + 42; } int arr[foo(1)];

I think it would qualify as spooky action-at-a-distance if modifying foo causes arr to be malformed. And if they are in different libraries it restricts the ways the original function can be changed, making backwards compatibility slightly harder.
by news_to_me | 2025-05-02 01:10:49+00:00
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by dottjt | 2025-05-02 01:11:05+00:00
I think this might be the answer.

I think the issue is that I just do so much at my desk. I work. I eat etc. So it's like, when I'm eating it doesn't occur to me to wear them. but I just need to remember that when I'm at my desk, I wear them. Though wearing them all the time in the house might be the answer.
by krasin | 2025-05-02 01:12:03+00:00
Quote from the article:

>With these innovations, the team fabricated a 1.09 cm2 flexible monolithic perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cell. Competing with top rigid counterparts, the device achieved an impressive stabilized efficiency of 24.6% (certified at 23.8%), one of the highest reported values for flexible thin-film solar cells to date.

>After 320 hours of operation and 3,000 bending cycles at a radius of 1 cm, the device retained over 90% of its initial efficiency, demonstrating exceptional mechanical durability and long-term stability.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-02 01:12:14+00:00
I have a rule when reviewing code - don't approve it unless I'm willing to maintain it later.

I guess if I'm using an LLM both to write and review the code I'm enforcing the same principle on the tooling, but I can't say that's a situation I'd really put myself in (or a situation I expect anyone would pay me to be a part of for long).
by tkgally | 2025-05-02 01:12:56+00:00
For the past couple of months, I’ve been running occasional side-by-side tests of the deep research products from OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and others. Ever since Google upgraded its deep research model to Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, it has been the best for the tasks I give them, followed closely by OpenAI. The others were far behind.

I ran two of the same prompts just now through Anthropic’s new Advanced Research. The results for it and for ChatGPT and Gemini appear below. Opinions might vary, but for my purposes Gemini is still the best. Claude’s responses were too short and simple and they didn’t follow the prompt as closely as I would have liked.

Writing conventions in Japanese and English

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/c883a9a5-7069-419b-808d-0...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8Ae7xCkPNykhbfZuJnPtCMH...

https://chatgpt.com/share/680da37d-17e4-8011-b331-6d4f3f5ca7...

Overview of an industry in Japan

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/ba88d1cb-57a0-4444-8668-e...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j1O-8bFP_M-vqJpCzDeBLJa3...

https://chatgpt.com/share/680da9b4-8b38-8011-8fb4-3d0a4ddcf7...

The second task, by the way, is just a hypothetical case. Though I have worked as a translator in Japan for many years, I am not the person described in the prompt.
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-05-02 01:13:26+00:00
I seem to recall that zero-tolerance policies caused the expulsion of multiple Boy Scouts who were merely obeying the requirement that they always have a multifunction pocket tool with them (such as a Victorinox knife), and these caused the Scouts to rescind the rule.

"Zero tolerance" policies are a generally a tool of the Sith.
by altairprime | 2025-05-02 01:15:55+00:00
It’s certainly a legal signal, insofar as once you have that signal, you have the ability to make a legally-sound decision on usage — but I don’t presume that it’s in any way an indication of how strongly the author is or isn’t invested in whatever license they chose. Unless accompanied by something written by the maintainer, the only certain statement is that the maintainer released with a metadata attribute set to a value; nothing more.

See also: “Npm should remove the default license from new packages” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864518
by james_marks | 2025-05-02 01:17:49+00:00
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3.1.1: Apps on the United States storefront are not prohibited from including buttons, external links, or other calls to action when allowing users to browse NFT collections owned by others.

3.1.1(a): On the United States storefront, there is no prohibition on an app including buttons, external links, or other calls to action, and no entitlement is required to do so.

3.1.3: The prohibition on encouraging users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase does not apply on the United States storefront.

3.1.3(a): The External Link Account entitlement is not required for apps on the United States storefront to include buttons, external links, or other calls to action.
by conroy | 2025-05-02 01:18:03+00:00
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by zitsarethecure | 2025-05-02 01:18:33+00:00
> In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice.

Hypocrisy indeed.
by xyzzy9563 | 2025-05-02 01:18:47+00:00
The App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes affect apps distributed on the United States storefront of the App Store, and are as follows:

3.1.1: Apps on the United States storefront are not prohibited from including buttons, external links, or other calls to action when allowing users to browse NFT collections owned by others. 3.1.1(a): On the United States storefront, there is no prohibition on an app including buttons, external links, or other calls to action, and no entitlement is required to do so. 3.1.3: The prohibition on encouraging users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase does not apply on the United States storefront. 3.1.3(a): The External Link Account entitlement is not required for apps on the United States storefront to include buttons, external links, or other calls to action.

View the App Review Guidelines.

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by systemstops | 2025-05-02 01:18:54+00:00
People still argue what things made a small city state (Athens) suddenly become the cornerstone of western civilization. That fact is that we have these explosions of human potential where certain groups of people in certain environments make massive leaps, and we don't what the magic sauce is. It's great when it happens, but It's foolish to think that we can somehow socially engineer the same results through brute force, which is the problem with DEI thinking. That is also why so many companies are silently ditching those policies.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-02 01:19:11+00:00
It seems reasonable enough that the government may have built a forked version of signal with message archiving that meets documentation requirements.

If its an app they wanted kept under wraps, it will make the while Hegseth situation seem a lot more benign.

I use Molly Messenger on a secondary phone that doesn't have a SIM, its a fork of Signal with a few differences related to encryption at rest. It still works with normal signal users just fine, on the other end you can't tell I have a different client. If the government has a similarly forked version you could likely still accidentally invite the wrong user in from their normal Signal app and they wouldn't know you're on a forked version with government archiving features.
by steezeburger | 2025-05-02 01:19:51+00:00
How can you possibly realistically manage a 100+ engineer team? 100+ direct reports?

Also, the Python landscape is just as bad as frontend! And I enjoy writing both quite a bit. Pip, pipenv, pyenv, poetry, conda, virtualenv, uv, ruff, black, pep8, etc, etc. They both need massive improvements.
by tptacek | 2025-05-02 01:21:32+00:00
For knowledge work jobs there's no defense required. Again: gigantic, risk-averse corporations, household names, do IQ tests (or equivalent tests) for some of their positions. The Wonderlic company exists specifically to market these tests for job search programs.

The reason everyone doesn't test IQ is that it's not very useful, not that it's legally risky.

People think it is because there's an subtext that everybody would hire straight off IQ scores if they could, which supports a (frankly gross) biological essentialist argument a lot of edgy nerds are fond of. But the whole argument is fractally mythological.
by K0balt | 2025-05-02 01:22:05+00:00
Well, the trick to finding it cheap is to not look for anything/anywhere specific, so I doubt I can help with that. It’s not that I am good at it, it’s that when I’m momentarily bored, I’m not in a picky mood. If it’s cheap and I can imagine a life there, no matter how humble, and it makes me smile, then my wife is probably going to be asking me questions I don’t have good answers for and I’m going to have to work on a reasonable explanation that doesn’t sound like I’ve finally gone off the deep end.

It’s pretty much all eBay for me or local equivalents in other countries. So many rabbit holes.
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by xp84 | 2025-05-02 01:23:43+00:00
If you’re using a debit card anyway, Privacy dot com is what you should use to solve this problem, and many others relating to your authority to control access to your funds. (You can pick when the generated numbers stop working, pause them at will, limit amounts etc.)

I don’t use it extensively because I’m a credit card points nerd and the only fee-free way to use it is to pull from checking with ACH. But I do use it when I’m suspicious that a business will make it hard for me to cancel.

As a bonus, you don’t need to use a real name and address — it’ll pass those checks as correct with any name or address you make up.

Note: I’m not a paid endorser or anything - I do use a free account personally.
by parpfish | 2025-05-02 01:23:47+00:00
Over my years in academia, I noticed that the linguistics departments were always the most fiercely ideological. Almost every comment of a talk would be get contested by somebody from the audience.

It was annoying, but as a psych guy I was also jealous of them for having such clearly articulated theoretical frameworks. It really helped them develop cohesive lines of research to delineate the workings of each theory
by phire | 2025-05-02 01:23:56+00:00
We aren't talking about just compile time function evaluation of ConstExpressions. C++ had that all the way back in C++11, and many compilers were doing CTFE long before that as an optimisation (but as a programmer you couldn't really control when that would happen)

Compilers are always allowed to CTFE than what the C++ standard specifies, many do. The standard is just moving the lower bar for what all compilers must now evaluate at compile time, and what c++ programmer may expect from all compilers.

Since C++11, they have been massively extending the subset of the language that can be evaluated at compile time. C++14 allowed compiletime evaluation of loops and conditionals, along with local variables. C++20 allowed CTFE functions to do memory allocation (as long as it was also freed) along with calling object constructors/deconstructors.

The main new thing in C++26 is the ability to do CTFE placement new, which is something I remember missing the last time I tried to do fancy C++ stuff. Along with marking large chunks of the standard library as constexpr.
by pfarago | 2025-05-02 01:26:21+00:00
Great piece—I appreciate how you frame AGI as a continuous set of capabilities rather than a singular endpoint. At RunLLM, we've observed precisely this: generalized intelligence as just the starting line, with specialization critical to delivering reliable, practical value. Curious about your views on specialization as a way to address common LLM issues, like hallucinations?
by atonse | 2025-05-02 01:26:37+00:00
They are. And they have one job. To sell. So they’re motivated by the only output that matters in their job, how much they sold.

A lot of selling is zero sum. For you to win, if usually means someone (a competitor) has to lose. So it attracts competitive people just like programming tends to attract more analytical people.

The right skills for the right job.
by BoorishBears | 2025-05-02 01:27:24+00:00
Amazon's product had confusing naming and positioning, and lagged in compatibility which created a headache for Elastic.

And they were using an open source piece of software, but scaling it with closed source secret sauce on top of that. The license was saying they'd have to open up their secret sauce or pay, and their response was to leave the table instead.

OpenSearch still lacks tons of really basic functionality from Elastisearch, and watching how far ahead Elasticsearch got as a product shows how much free lunch Amazon was getting... and how much they actually cared about the product when it was time for them to put their money where their mouth was (despite AWS pulling Elastic's yearly revenue every 4 days).

Elasticsearch has generally matured like it has a passionate builder with a vision. They pushed on two major fronts (LLMs and Observability) and managed to execute effectively without letting product quality slip.

Meanwhile OpenSearch is still the place where tickets requesting 3+ year old ES functionality go to die.

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I'm honestly on the opposite side: how is the hyperscaler offering a strictly inferior product with closed extensions and still managing to eat the main developers' lunches for the sole reason they already have sales pipelines established not the bad guy?

I guess I'm not really someone who believes in infinite scaling rules: something that can work at the individual scale doesn't have to work when hyperscalers do it (like selling hosted clusters)
by 9d | 2025-05-02 01:28:19+00:00
One major reason I still haven't switched away from Node and NPM is major stability and support, pretty much everywhere, e.g. full automatic VS Code support. Plus, even if it's ever so slowly, Node.js is legitimately keeping up to date with the latest ES features and always improving its stdlib, and V8 is still the king of performance and likely to remain so, unless, say, a court were to split up Chrome from Google funding by monopoly laws. That said, Node progress is slow. I'm not entirely sure why. I'd be glad to get paid to help make Node.js better if that were a job. And I'm still waiting on #57696 to avoid using async in a few places that I otherwise wouldn't need to.
by mjklin | 2025-05-02 01:28:32+00:00
Something I’ve noticed that I’ve never seen remarked on: English has weird pairs of opposite where only one is Germanic/Nordic and the other one is “made up” or otherwise unclear.

Examples:

German: man

Unclear: woman (not frau or kvinna)

German: white (weiss/vit/etc)

Unclear: black (bläck means ink in Swedish but?)

Swedish: up

Unclear: down (not undan or ner)

German: full (voll)

Unclear: empty (not leer or tom)
by cdelsolar | 2025-05-02 01:29:19+00:00
This isn’t a perception thing. ICE is breaking down the doors of people, arresting others without warrants or identifying themselves. They’re deporting people to a concentration camp in a foreign country that no one has ever left alive. Just because people choose to not educate themselves doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. And as a matter of fact, I’ve heard plenty of people arguing that all of these things are good and that ICE should do them.
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