MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by technoabsurdist | 2025-05-11 23:15:26+00:00
We built Crackd to solve a fundamental problem: helping students understand where they stand technically, and helping them learn how to become the absolute best.

Technical students have no reliable way to know how good they are. Grades don't work because they vary by professor and university. Getting internships can boil down to arbitrary indicators, and online advice is filled with contradictions.

Athletes have it better. A college football player knows exactly where they stand nationally (e.g. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/play...).

More importantly, they know what the best players do differently: their training methods, their practice routines, the specific skills they're mastering.

CS students are flying blind by comparison. They face a collapsing job market with nothing but twitter threads giving them contradictory advice.

We built Crackd to fix this. Students judge pairs of technical students, and choose the person they believe is more “cracked.” After enough comparisons, the Elo algorithm generates a leaderboard. Humans are terrible at absolute judgments but good at comparisons. You can't reliably say if someone is a 7/10 developer, but you can usually tell who has a better profile based on technical achievement.

What matters about Crackd is letting other students see precisely what the top students do differently. Their projects, internships, skills, school clubs, etc. This is the information that turns rankings from a leaderboard into a roadmap for ambitious students.

For the time being, Crackd is restricted to college students as we refine our platform and build our initial community.

We're attempting to cover as many dimensions of technical skill as possible, covering projects, experiences, and including a miscellaneous section so students can add whatever info they feel showcases their best work. But we'd love your feedback on what other dimensions we should include to create the most comprehensive assessment of technical capability. We would love to hear from you at contact@crackd.io
by fucker42069 | 2025-05-11 23:15:50+00:00
Well, for starters, the SIM card in the eCall system is only needed to receive a callback from the 112 service if the call drops, which the system automatically picks up. You can actually dial 112 without a SIM card in your phone, as a GSM device without one can still connect to nearby radio towers in a "limited-service set," better known as "emergency calls only."

I know some carriers have strange quirks in their SIM provisioning systems. For instance, it may take more than a few minutes or require a specific type of coverage (like UMTS) for an otherwise "dormant" SIM card to activate from limited service on short notice.

I found an article about eCall Callback that confirms this is a known problem: https://eena.org/blog/resolving-the-ecall-callback-issue/
by mikebelanger | 2025-05-11 23:16:08+00:00
Bringing it back to the site, the author does describe implementations of context providers and signals:

https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-10-07-needs-m... https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-08-30-poor-ma...

I haven't tried signals yet, but I couldn't see why you could pass in an object with multiple values.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-05-11 23:17:32+00:00
No, the closest comparison is Apple's own devices that they also sell, Macs. The exact same store features many of the exact same apps (often literally the same executable). That store also takes 30%, but is not the only way to get apps on a MacBook.

And I am eager to apply the sam standard to video game consoles; you can charge 30% to people to use your store, but you can't force them to use it, same as on PCs.
by prussia | 2025-05-11 23:17:36+00:00
Not OP, and I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but why? Reddit now blocks many IPs (requires login/signup to see the page now). Plus the site takes a few years to load, if you don't know about old.reddit.com. I imagine many people no longer go to Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc anymore because of this. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
by Etheryte | 2025-05-11 23:18:05+00:00
That's a very subjective take on what properly means in this context. Many would argue that serving the content is the main thing that matters to your users, and if your font takes so long to load that you need to deal with it separately, it would be better to not do that to begin with. To put another way, as a fellow user of websites, I would much rather read what's written than look at a blank page while some marginally different version of Helvetica is fetched in the background.
by nabla9 | 2025-05-11 23:18:38+00:00
>Tyler has been recognized as one of the most influential economists of the past decade.

What?

He is not influential at all. He has a blog and podcast.

When someone points out that he is completely wrong, he just quietly deletes the whole entry from his blog. Receives Funding from Mark Zuckerberg and does not reveal it, but sings his songs uncritically.
by anthk | 2025-05-11 23:18:53+00:00
No, is not incompetence. Contrary to MS, FLOSS Unixen were designed as a client/server role, and with these Unixen with easy licenses, you can decouple your core and your UI and manage your software anywhere, be it from terminal, a TUI client, HTML, a QT client, TCL/TK, your smartphone... Try that with MS Windows Server licenses.

Simply, the network won. And, for the 'integrated' guys... MSOffice and VBA are silos were the data often got mangled, losing billions in bioinformatics, for instanced.

Having the markup, the data, the input, output and reports in the same file, that's the recipe for a disaster. And it did happen. As I stated, Unix established a clear pipeline, transforming data sequentially and having each step of the process either recordable or trivially decoupleable.

Smart people would just begin with plain text files and format them once they are finished. Ditto with spreadsheets. CVS/TSV first, data transforms and function should come later, ideally separating the input file from the output.

Reading to print/end user documents should always be under a PDF/DJVU format, never to be edited, but universally viewed in the same way no matter the OS. Period.

PDF's/DJVU's should be the target format, either from Excel, or Word or even PPT's. Oh, these format don't support inline videos nor macros or whatever potentially risky function to crap out your, you know, valuable outputed data? That's even better. Data should have been precalculated and presented long ago.
by insin | 2025-05-11 23:19:11+00:00
It is simple, and it very quickly becomes un-simple when it comes into contact with increasing app size/complexity (for things which _need_ to be apps, and which have to deal tasks where the size/complexity is essential due to factors which _can't_ be avoided, e.g. an app which deals with Workers' Comp, with laws and requirements which differ by U.S. state in ways which cut across the entire app) and team size/mix of experience.
by lolinder | 2025-05-11 23:19:14+00:00
I could, but it would be a distraction because my entire point is that there are an enormous variety of apps with a large variety of requirements being deployed on the web. If I give examples that's going to turn into an argument over whether these specific examples actually need a framework, which will turn into a whole bunch of other hypotheticals of situations that would justify it or situations that won't.

Rather than opening up that can of worms I'm going to leave it where I left it.
by fallingknife | 2025-05-11 23:22:05+00:00
I'm using "liberal" very loosely here as the prevailing political establishment from the 1930s to 1990s when the Republicans started splitting off from that coalition. Though you could even argue that Bush II was a continuation of the same. You can cherry-pick dates if you like, but even in that cherry-picked 24 year range Democrats controlled the senate 18-6 and the house 24-0 and the Democrats had unified control of congress and the presidency for 4 years to 0 for the Republicans. The Democratic party was dominant in US politics from 1932 to 1992 and that is not really arguable. The modern US administrative state was build by primarily liberal Democrats with plenty of cooperation from moderate Republicans (who don't really exist anymore) and with opposition from segregationist southern Democrats (who also don't exist anymore). You can argue that they did a good job (and I would argue that for a lot of it they did), but you can't claim that they didn't do it and that they aren't the political establishment of the modern America state.

> Once you got a degree, you were in a different socioeconomic class,

Yeah, maybe in 1960 when 8% of Americans had a degree, but not today when 40% do: https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics

A degree can either be a ticket to a high status job or common. It can't be both. As a society we have resolved this contradiction by making a tiered system where people nominally have the same degree, but actually only the ones from exclusive, high status schools count. And somehow the low status degrees cost almost as much as the high status ones even though they have a fraction of the value. But apparently a lot of people didn't get the memo and still think their low status degree is a ticket to a high status job.

> but degrees were available to those who could get them

So you are saying that degrees are less available now even though the number of people who have them has gone up 5x since 1960? Citation needed, because that fundamentally makes no sense.

> Now whether you get into college depends, most of all, on the class you're born into.

So you are telling me that in 1960 when 8% of people had a college degree, those 8% were a meritocratic sampling of all classes of society, but today when 40% of people have a degree, that 40% is somehow only the upper middle class? Again, citation needed, because that fundamentally makes no sense.
by sky2224 | 2025-05-11 23:22:26+00:00
I think job stability/security for the individual is highly dependent on the company rather than the size. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have had a history of laying off employees during downturns, while Apple has generally been better about avoiding this (this most recent economic downturn has been the first time Apple has done large layoffs in quite a long time IIRC).

Layoffs are always possible no matter the company, so it's good to be prepared financially for that, however, you can look at a company's history to determine how you should react when the economy starts going down.

For example, I grew up during the 2008 financial crisis. I frequently heard my friends' parents getting laid off from the big tech companies. Years later as I've reflected on this, I came to the realization that if I ever get into a big tech company like Amazon, Microsoft, or Google, that I either need to make it to a position where I'm confident I won't be axed, or get out before I do. And even if I'm confident that I won't get the boot, I should still plan for the possibility of that happening.
by cesarb | 2025-05-11 23:23:41+00:00
> Google’s response also appears to go against the advice of the Belgian court, which required the DNS providers to redirect users to a dedicated page, presumably to provide further detail.

That advice made sense in the plain-text HTTP era, but it's not longer viable; attempting to do that nowadays would only lead to an "invalid certificate" error page. The only ones which can make that work are the site itself, or a CDN in front of it (which, as others have noted, often means cloudflare can do that, but not other DNS providers like google).
by nineplay | 2025-05-11 23:23:55+00:00
I largely agree but there is some egalitarianism with 'gifted' tracks in that they can exist poor areas. A friend of mine was the son of migrant workers who went to Stanford. He had the right combo of innate smarts, luck, caring teachers, and affirmative action policies which benefited dirt-poor minorities.

There's still a lot that I would improve if I were dumb enough to become president. Free daycare, free preschool, free after school programs - I think it's the best thing we could do for income inequity but there's not enough people to champion it so it will never happen.
by Bender | 2025-05-11 23:24:19+00:00
I too am in a rural area, just not as rural as NZ. My setup would also be 0ms in NZ and AU for 98+% of my requests. The real impactful delays come from the excessive requests browsers have to make to bloated frameworks, excessive cookies and third party integrations, ads, videos and so on. uBlock can clean some of that up but not all of it.
by griffzhowl | 2025-05-11 23:24:53+00:00
> America, which is the center of world power and culture.

Yeah, ok. So an explicitly parochial prespective. This isn't compelling from a disinterested, objective perspective.

> Warrior god cults, like that of Mithras, didn't have a strong role in the overall state and direction of the empire. They weren't major players and it is actually perfectly fine for terminology and understanding to focus on those.

just like Christianity in 79AD Herculaneum
by encrypted_bird | 2025-05-11 23:24:56+00:00
My ideal car:

- No Internet connection - No touchscreens - No LCD dashboard; I like dials. - 100% user-repairable; there should be no need to go to a dealer if one can easily fix a problem themselves or one wants to go to an independent mechanic (often cheaper!) - Buttons and (analog, not digital) dials for the media center - Media center with ONLY Bluetooth, CD player, and radio media center - Analog locks (not software based) - A Physical, metal key (not a chip)—I like to be able to go to my local hardware or key shop and make backups, thank you very much. - I don't need navigation; I have a phone for that.

And I don't need an app either:

- Wanna check the fuel/battery level? A little thing called a fuel gauge on the dashboard will work just fine. - Wanna check the tire pressure? Use a pressure gauge, feel the tire directly, or look at the tire, or base it on feeling while driving, i.e. the same little things we've done for decades just fine (not to mention the app or dashboard may not take into account used or third-party tires, as each tire brand/type/size is filled up to its own pressure rating). - Wanna lock/unlock doors remotely? Detached key fob. - Need diagnostics? OBDII still works excellently.
by ghaff | 2025-05-11 23:25:25+00:00
I did a bit of BASIC in high school and took a FORTRAN course in college. Not much else with computers until later. In retrospect might have done EE or CS though CS was very mathematical and theoretical at the time. (No PCs.)

I did sort of switch as I realized I didn't like college level organic chemistry so just switched to straight Mechanical Engineering from sort of a Biomech thing.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-05-11 23:25:28+00:00
> we're also trying to impress upon him that wages - however high - are not a path to wealth and security. Owning things is

I'm not a parent, so I'm a little hesitant to disagree, but this seems like the dumbest thing I've heard in my life.

Wages are exactly the path to wealth and security -- the matter is what you do with those wages. You can't own things without receiving wages unless you inherit your wealth.

If what you were trying to say is that the best path to being wealthy is to already be wealthy, then I definitely agree, but for those born missing their silver spoon wages are the only way.

Your kid had his silver spoon (no offense intended here), and it seems like he's going to be a balanced person because he'll probably be able to see and appreciate different worlds, so congrats on that. I find it hard to believe someone can go into a field like welding (knowing tech exists, and having the aptitude).

I am curious to hear though -- what is your plan? In my own pre-parent mind it seems like this is a chance to teach him about as much of the world and the people around him/society above and below him as you can before settles into his life (clearly there's a ton of time left to change, etc). The struggles of the average blue collar worker are very different from that of the white collar worker -- but the right advice about the various big things in life I'd imagine would make a world of difference.

With regard to owning things, knowing things like "banks giving out mortgages are playing a trust game -- and they trust you a lot more if you have 50 working years left". It's possible of course to get a bad mortgage, but the first rung of the ladder is more about projections more than anything for young people. In the Bay Area I'm sure that... isn't reasonable advice though since your housing market is absolutely insane.

Also, is he going into welding with some sort add-on skills? Like welding with a little bit of CS/robotics? Welding with a passion for cooking? etc. The (currently) secondary skill tree can completely change careers.
by skybrian | 2025-05-11 23:25:38+00:00
When the interest is paid out of a store’s marketing expenses, it’s pretty ambiguous who specifically pays it, but the money ultimately comes from the store’s revenue.

If it results in higher prices, the people who actually use “buy now pay later” aren’t going to be the only ones paying more, since they pay the same price as everyone else. The costs are spread across all customers.

Depending on demographics, this could work as either a progressive or regressive “tax.”
by Jensson | 2025-05-11 23:26:36+00:00
> I think that "polite" and "honest" and "direct" are orthogonal.

They are certainly correlated so not orthogonal, its much harder to not be rude when you communicate a complaint than with praise.

You need to put much more effort in when you complain about something to not be seen as rude, that means they are not orthogonal. It also means many will just not do it since its too much work.
by Bender | 2025-05-11 23:26:41+00:00
No I am not referring to domain registration. I am fairly certain that if I want to use their free accounts I would have to point the root servers at them to manage my zones even though they are registered through a dozen other registrars. In other words I can not manage my own DNS if I use their free accounts. It's not a big deal since I also do not use them. I make my own tiny CDN's when I need one. It's all hobby sites for me these days, retired from tech and no longer manage big zones.

So in other words, instead of being able to have the root servers provide the IP addresses of my bare metal servers running NSD NS records I would have to tell the root servers via the registrars I use to give the NS names/IP's of cloudflares DNS servers. The domains are still on the dozen registrars I use but CF have to be authoritative for them for the free accounts or at least that is they way it was when I first played with CF after they stopped being honeypots that I contributed to. I would say custom DNS but nowadays that means 50 different things to 50 different DNS admins on HN. It's just apex NS records in the root anycast clusters.
by shusaku | 2025-05-11 23:27:39+00:00
It blows my mind that people use these food delivery services at all. The prices are wild. You hear people complain about how hard it is to make ends meet these days, yet they waste their money on these kind of luxuries. At least before you could wave it off as “well people buying Uber eats and complaining about the economy are separate groups”, but the existence of loans specifically for this blows up that argument.
by cma | 2025-05-11 23:27:52+00:00
> No longer a leader in the industry and simply following trends and riding the waves (the AI trend…)

While they missed out on the first major commercialization of LLMs, they invented transformers and now have the leading LLM for coding and second best or potentially best training hardware in the world, designed in house, which they started working on before the current boom and kept improving.
by a4isms | 2025-05-11 23:29:37+00:00
Blogs and news sites are both in the "content publishing" space, so yes their requirements will overlap. There's likely a complexity continuum from:

1. Something like a one-person blog published by committing Markdown to a GitHub repository and having that published automatically, all the way to; 2. A journalistic news site that has a full CMS back-end tracking multiple authors/bylines, some kind of editor/approval/review workflow, features for deciding what gets shown "above the fold," linters that enforce style guidelines, specialized search features, &c.

While some blogs can have complex requirements and some news sites might be simple, I hope we can appreciate that there will be some blogs that are much, much simpler than the NYT and this have fewer and simpler requirements.

They're both "publishing words," but the back-end complexity reflects the complexity of the business -processes and model more than the complexity of displaying articles on web pages.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-05-11 23:31:01+00:00
Not at all, a high end car will use an entirely different architecture to a mid/low end...

When you target a certain feature set it can make sense to use one big central processor, for lower end things it's more sensible to use limited smart sensors (from multiple vendors, for absolute cost minimums).

And it's generally not cost effective to move an old high trim platform down range due to changes in hardware and regulations.
by SquareWheel | 2025-05-11 23:32:17+00:00
Totally different caching techniques. MPAs have a built in mechanism called back/forward cache. It works automatically on most sites, though some invalidate the cache. https://web.dev/articles/bfcache

SPAs need to hold onto the data themselves, and correctly transition it between pages/components. Poorly-built ones will simply refresh it every time, or discard it if the data is too large.

Both mechanisms can allow for immediate page loads if they've been correctly implemented. They just require a different approach.
by ahajajakakaba | 2025-05-11 23:32:36+00:00
Usury is outlawed in many religions for good reason. This is a known problem with a known solution, but our society is run by billionaires who can put substantial capital to convincing the proles otherwise.

Simply bring up inflation is wrong and not necessary (outside of disaster, etc) and the US government should control its own monetary policy and not the fed. You’ll get downvoted and/or fed arguments from economists (modern day priests) about how wrong you are. And yet the wealth gap keeps growing while we’re the most technologically advanced and efficient we’ve ever been.
by vikingerik | 2025-05-11 23:33:36+00:00
C# or VB.NET or MS Access with Winforms still exists and you can still use it, but you wouldn't for anything more than a personal toy.

I don't think you can do anything nowadays that replicates the VB style of interface design. That was completely tied to a fixed layout and only a few desktop screen sizes, but everything these days needs screen size responsiveness from mobile to 4k. And you also need cross platform, accessibility to screen readers, language localization, dark mode, and so on. A flowable and styleable layout just works better for everything, and runs in the HTML/HTTP client that every device already has. Sadly the VB style of design was a temporary waystop and not an enduring norm. I guess the closest you could do would be a big HTML table and just let the small screens scroll biaxially painfully.
by inverted_flag | 2025-05-11 23:33:54+00:00
They’re the primary obstacle to port automation. The US has only 3 fully automated port terminals because the unions throw a tantrum and vow to strike the economy into oblivion whenever they feel threatened by increasing automation.

The east coast union in particular, the ILA, is a real rats nest and it’s a shame they aren’t as impacted by the trade war as the west coast union.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett