MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SamBam | 2025-06-02 16:11:30+00:00
Interestingly when I try to give things away for free on Craigslist (yes, I'm old, I still use CL) I am frustrated to no end by no-shows. I've occasionally charged $5 just because that seems to filter out people who will actually come.

But I don't remember that being an issue with NeighborGoods. Maybe it was the community nature of it, that you really felt like you were borrowing from a neighbor, instead of just getting some free stuff to re-sell.

I never dealt with damage. I think actually IF I were charging per hour, I might care more, because then it feels like a business transaction. If I'm putting stuff up for free, then it's because I'm willing to lend to neighbors. (Obviously I'd feel different if someone broke my $400 drill press or something.)
by charterDev2025 | 2025-06-02 16:11:51+00:00
Charter Communications (Spectrum) | Sr DevOps Engineer | On-Site Denver, CO | Full-Time

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by Aachen | 2025-06-02 16:12:04+00:00
It seems to require specifying all spelling variants of a word https://github.com/words/cuss/blob/6bab3fef250481e34ba55bc40...

And then fails to do that for words that are not uncommonly written with a space https://github.com/words/cuss/blob/6bab3fef250481e34ba55bc40...

Making this a complete list will probably be a challenge when it needs to be a byte-for-byte match
by wat10000 | 2025-06-02 16:12:12+00:00
I thought this would be about what you actually do versus what you're perceived as doing.

That's how I'd interpret these words. "Useful" means you do something that's beneficial to the company (or at least your management). "Valued" means that the company (or at least your management) believes you do something that's beneficial to them. In a well-run company, these match well. In many companies, they don't.

Being valued is a big part of what drives advancement. If you're seen as beneficial then the company (or management) will usually try to keep you, and offer you opportunities to expand that benefit. If management sees and understands what you do, then being useful can suffice here. Otherwise, the gap between these things means you need to be political and ensure that your usefulness is seen and understood.

The article seems to be talking about leverage, collaboration, and reach. Your usefulness on your own is limited. Beyond a certain point, the only way to become more useful is to start acting as a multiplier to other people's efforts. That's what it describes as "valued," but that really doesn't seem like the right word at all.

I'd put it like this: success on the job depends on how you're seen, not just what you do. Be mindful of how those are connected at your particular position. And your impact, both in terms of practical outcomes and visibility, can only grow so much on your own. If you want to go beyond that, you need to work with others and multiply their work.
by yibg | 2025-06-02 16:12:20+00:00
It seems the difference is just the degree of usefulness / value. Rather than being different terms, I think they're just different spots on the spectrum. What's the difference between someone being "useful" vs "valuable", one is 6/10 the other is 8+/10 (made up numbers).

A sales person that consistently hits quota is useful. A rainmaker that keeps bringing in million dollar deals is valuable.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-06-02 16:12:26+00:00
>I must say I miss the quality and depth of writing that one got in Byte and PCW of yesteryear - even though I recognise that the online stuff often exceeds it in both breadth and quality.

My worry is the online stuff is going to fade away as well. After all what's the point of publishing online if some AI is going to regurgitate your hard work for $20/month.
by palata | 2025-06-02 16:12:53+00:00
This is your opinion, and you are free to do whatever the fuck you want, precisely because you do it for free, in your free time.

I don't come telling you that your projects suck or that you apparently can't be bothered to mention them on your profile.

It has a lot to do with the tone you use. Had you said "It's a great project, I wonder if they thought about adding X", I wouldn't have said anything. But you said "Man, nobody at LibriVox can be bothered to", which is disrespectful. The fact that you don't seem to realise suggests that you are part of those people that make open source toxic (often not in purpose).

I have many examples where people came to my open source project and heavily complained because they struggled with something, or pressured me into implementing a feature for them (for free, obviously) or into changing the licence, etc. And when I tell them how toxic their behaviour is, many times they hadn't realise (some apologise, some are jerks). Still their behaviour is toxic.

When people do stuff for free, we should at least be respectful.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-02 16:13:38+00:00
Are there beneficial compounds that are only found in meat? Sure. But that doesn't mean they're essential nor that they are superior to the other swathes of beneficial compounds available in any other foods.

It's a weak claim.

There are beneficial compounds unique to pretty much every food you can think of like avenanthramides in oats, curcumin in turmeric, and sulforaphane precursors unique to broccoli. It doesn't mean you need every last one of them to optimize your health.

And in some cases like fatty red meat, the juice isn't necessarily worth the squeeze.
by schlauerfox | 2025-06-02 16:13:50+00:00
Microcontrollers and PLC are historically different fields that have some overlap as the fields converge somewhat. PLC come from relay logic and so learning Ladder Logic and playing with a cheaper Automation Direct PLC might be good if you're looking to do control systems like industrial machines and those robotics. RPi series micros are good to learn embedded electronics, servo controls and Realtime OS. Computer Engineering and Control System Engineering are treated differently even in the California State Engineering License Exams, so they tend to be different paths but the skills have some overlap. My degree was in computer engineering and didn't cover any PLC, but I contract and PLC comes up a lot in one-off things that need to be reliable.
by sophanox_ | 2025-06-02 16:14:30+00:00
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote (European timezones only) | London UK | Full Stack/Backend Engineer (C#, TypeScript, Postgres)

We're Stored – a digital payments startup redefining how merchants sell and get paid. We recently closed an oversubscribed funding round, driven by several new partnership agreements with some of the world's largest payments businesses.

You’ll be joining a small team where your work will have immediate and visible impact. The majority of the backend has been built by one of our founders, and you'll work closely with them to help take it to the next level.

What we’re looking for:

-Strong experience with C# and back end systems.

-Deep understanding of Postgres, performance tuning, batching, and scaling.

-Proficiency in TypeScript, and capable of owning full features end-to-end.

-Comfortable handling front end logic (we use Svelte, but experience with any modern framework like React or Vue is fine). To be clear, you won't need to design/build UIs, but you should be able to work across the stack.

-Experience with Linux and networking, especially profiling/debugging in high-traffic production environments is desirable but not essential

-Fluent in written and verbal English

-Self-disciplined, motivated, and able to manage concurrent tasks

This is a fully remote role, but we’re based out of London, UK and so only considering candidates in GMT/BST ±3 time zones who are willing to work between the hours of 8am - 6pm GMT/BST.

Interview process:

1) Initial video chat where we'll get to know you and ask some technical questions

2) Technical exam

3) Final call with the wider team

Please email CVs to tech-hiring[at]joinstored.com
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-02 16:15:00+00:00
> That hasn’t been true for a very long time? Unless by "technical" you mean sending an email with the file in question attached.

Was it ever true?

It's even easier to just load the book over a USB cable, assuming you have it in mobipocket. It's a "technical" process in the same sense that using a USB key is a "technical" process - one that everyone is already familiar with.

Though I do remember that the packaging for my Zen Stone specifically indicated that it would only work with a Windows computer. That wasn't true; it showed up as a USB device and you could transfer files just fine regardless of your operating system. There wasn't even an alternative proprietary method to use on Windows. The manual carefully covered the meaning of the directory structure on the device. I'm not quite sure why they claimed to require Windows.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-02 16:15:43+00:00
Its considered an LLM tell because its a term that is rarely used by the median modern casual writer; its not at all uncommon even in current literature [0], and its even more common in older literature, so complaining about it in a model designed to reproduce a particular style of 19th century print literature is silly in the extreme.

[0] many “LLM tells” fit this pattern of just being common features of professionally-published works that are less often seen in casual writing.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-02 16:16:31+00:00
Was in a hurry, so realize I forgot my main point.

I wish I had realized the source of my frustration and thus acted on it earlier.

It lead to a quite downbeat feeling, which still lingers a bit every now and then.

Of course this was just before the current mass layoffs, so getting a new job was definitely an option then, which I almost certainly would have taken had they not seen me.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-02 16:16:50+00:00
> Almost every device I have, there's a bit that goes in the wall, and a bit that goes in the device. If it fits in the wall, it's meant to cope with the voltage in the wall. If it fits in the device, it's meant to supply the voltage the device can cope with.

I have some concerns in this area related to outlet adapters, though.
by hnlmorg | 2025-06-02 16:17:18+00:00
> I'm East German; you people got a headstart

That doesn’t mean PCs were somehow more capable in the 80s though ;)

> Windows was as relevant to me as an Amiga.

Same point as above.

> I never experienced serious troubles in DOS.

I think that’s probably rose tinted glasses on your part then. The pain was real. Games seldom “just worked” and you often had to be really knowledgeable in your system to get stuff working.

To this day, I’ve never heard the music in Transport Tycoon because that game refused to work with whatever midi drivers I threw at it.

> > But by the mid-90s, we had a whole new set of problems with PCs: the OS silently corrupting itself.

> News to me. How bizarre!

I’d be amazed if you’ve never once heard about the old problem of computers getting slower or buggier over time and a reinstall fixing things.

> Hardware? Until '87.

You’re comparing theoretical top of the line PC hardware (which nobody actually owned and no one had written software for yet) with commodity Amigas and STs.

And even those top of the line PCs still missed a few tricks that made some genres of games better on Amigas and Atari STs, like fast blitters.

It wasn’t until the era of ray casting 2.5D 1st person shooter that PCs started looking better than their counterparts. And then things really accelerated (no pun intended) with 3D hardware graphics acceleration. Which, to be fair, was available for Amigas too, but the only software that targeted them were 3D rendering farms.
by bradlys | 2025-06-02 16:17:26+00:00
Women frequently complain about the behavior of men - period. I have an endless list of women who have complained about the men who have approached them in real life. Look at how Bumble turned out - it ended up behaving just like every other app because women didn't actually want anything different. Women complain all the time about men's behaviors - regardless of the medium through which they're interacting. It is a filtering issue. Women rarely have trouble attracting men - they have trouble figuring out what men they are shown are best for them. (In all mediums)

Whether or not you're "told" you're attractive or "are" attractive is the difference here. If you're not getting matches, you're not attractive. It is that simple. The amount of times you will hear anyone be called ugly by someone they enjoy being around will be near zero - regardless of how physically unattractive that person is. Try to remember the last time you told someone that they were ugly even though you thought they weren't physically attractive. You probably can't remember. Yet, you've surely complimented people and can remember that.

Maybe they worked in the past because you were considered physically attractive then and aren't now due to age, fitness, etc. Very often I hear from men who are in their 40's talking about the "good ol' days" of OKC and how all dating apps now are "bad and no good". They're ignoring that they've gained 15% body fat, are bald, sagging skin, and so on.
by joeld42 | 2025-06-02 16:18:14+00:00
We're launching Arcol today! Check it out. Modern CAD tool, built for the browser with Rust+Typescript for high performance and an elegant UX.

Check out the announce video that explains some of the ideas behind it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-o-carroll-38aaa1105_arco...

Feel free to post any questions and I'll do my best to answer!
by mikeocool | 2025-06-02 16:18:43+00:00
Though arguably cloud infra made it so that a lot more companies who never would have built out a data center or leased a chunk of space in one were spinning up some serious infra in AWS or Azure -- and thus hiring at least 1-2 devops engineers.

Before the end of zero interest rate policy, all the sysadmins I knew who the made the transition to devops were never stuck looking for a job for long.
by swores | 2025-06-02 16:18:50+00:00
I disagree, for the reasons stated by the person you replied to.

Historically, being told that a voice recording is AI generated would be enough to tell you to expect basic TTS robotic voice, but with advances in AI voice generation we're approaching the point where AI can sound as good as real humans - it's not yet to the point where it's easy to generate an audiobook as good as a professional reader, but that point will come in the not too distant future.

And equally on the other side, something being recorded by a human doesn't automatically mean it has the quality of a professionally-read audiobook. This is something LibriVox has always had to deal with, by gatekeeping which volunteer recordings to either give feedback requesting improvements to or to not use at all.

In some but not all cases, an amateur human reader can already be as good as a professional, that will soon be true for AI. For both AI and humans it will remain the case that some efforts are not as good, but the line between them (for quality) isn't going to be whether or not they are AI - though I do agree that AI or not should also be labelled.
by schlupa | 2025-06-02 16:18:59+00:00
I bought a Mega ST2 because I studied CS and wanted to become a developper. I sold the Amiga 500 my father had bought me. The ST was cheaper for programming than the Amiga 500 as you would need to add, at least a second floppy and a lot of memory. Furthermore, I hated Workbench the GUI of the Amiga (for the same reason I hated also Windows 3.1, you had to use a special program to access the files on the drives, you had icons in the windows only if you had drawn specifically a special icon, I preferred how on GEM and the Mac Finder, windows would directly show what's on the disk).
by jmarchello | 2025-06-02 16:19:13+00:00
I think AI is simply exposing problems with academia that have always been there. In my personal experience with both high school and a completed bachelor's degree, 20% of the process is actual learning while 80% is proving what one has learned for the sake of grading and measuring.

As soon as one graduates and enters the real world, the ability to learn is paramount, but the ability to grade said learning is never used again. We need to re-think the system from the ground up so that a student can leverage all available tools, AI included, and still develop a core ability to learn.

What's more, the current focus on grading has been shown to stunt the love of learning, because we're not stupid and we know when we're doing something that does not gain us anything beyond a grade.

If academia responds to this change properly we can eventually see a system that actually serves our students better than what we currently have.
by mcv | 2025-06-02 16:19:35+00:00
It's Putin who dreams of terrorist attacks. He attacks civilian targets, schools, hospitals, and residential areas almost constantly. To terrorize Ukrainians. Ukraine targets only military targets. Even after years of suffering Russia's terrorism.

And Putin has ordered multiple attempts to assassinate various presidents of Ukraine, including Zelensky. Putin as commander of this brutal war is absolutely a valid target.
by sophanox_ | 2025-06-02 16:19:55+00:00
Stored | Full Stack/Backend Engineer (C#, TypeScript, Postgres) | Fully Remote (European timezones only) | Full-Time

We're Stored – a digital payments startup redefining how merchants sell and get paid. We recently closed an oversubscribed funding round, driven by several new partnership agreements with some of the world's largest payments businesses.

You’ll be joining a small team where your work will have immediate and visible impact. The majority of the backend has been built by one of our founders, and you'll work closely with them to help take it to the next level.

What we’re looking for:

-Strong experience with C# and back end systems.

-Deep understanding of Postgres, performance tuning, batching, and scaling.

-Proficiency in TypeScript, and capable of owning full features end-to-end.

-Comfortable handling front end logic (we use Svelte, but experience with any modern framework like React or Vue is fine). To be clear, you won't need to design/build UIs, but you should be able to work across the stack.

-Experience with Linux and networking, especially profiling/debugging in high-traffic production environments is desirable but not essential

-Fluent in written and verbal English

-Self-disciplined, motivated, and able to manage concurrent tasks

This is a fully remote role, but we’re based out of London, UK and so only considering candidates in GMT/BST ±3 time zones who are willing to work between the hours of 8am - 6pm GMT/BST.

Please email CVs to tech-hiring[at]joinstored.com
by squigz | 2025-06-02 16:20:13+00:00
> But when you stick it next to a 10" Android tablet with an 8 core CPU, 12GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, full colour higher resolution screen, dual cameras and all that jazz, which is less than half the price of a black and white Kindle...suddenly it doesn't look so great.

$60 for all that? I wonder how it runs in reality, and how well it'll run in just a year or two.

The thing about these dirt cheap tablets is... they're cheap for a reason, and it's not simply because that hardware is cheap these days. I've never once used, or had a family member bought, one of those super cheap tablets or laptops, and not have it be unusable in less than a year. They grind to a crawl, stop receiving updates, etc.

On the other hand, as many other comments here say... my Kindles are the absolute best value electronic device I've ever bought, no contest. I got one of the first generation Kindles, and only had to replace it a couple years ago after quite a few drops eventually broke the screen.
by ookblah | 2025-06-02 16:20:37+00:00
AI critics always have to make strawmen arguments about how there has to be a human in the loop to "fix" things when that's never been the argument AI proponents ever make (at least those who deal with it day to day). This will only get better with time. AI can frequently one-shot throwaway scripts that I need get things done. For actual features I typically start and have it go thru the initial slog and then finish it off. You must be reviewing the entire time, but it takes a huge cognitive load off. You can rubber-duck debug with it.

I do agree if you have no idea what you are doing or are still learning it could be a detriment, but like anything it's just a tool. I feel for junior devs and the future. Lazy coders get lazier, those who utilize them to the fullest extent get even better, just like with any tech.
by jatin510 | 2025-06-02 16:21:13+00:00
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vH-Ws0YfAO1UGqzJVm4wElhkyiZ...

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by nonethewiser | 2025-06-02 16:21:14+00:00
>China relied on two U.S. companies--Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks--to help carry out its network upgrade, known as "CN2," in 2004. This upgrade significantly increased China’s ability to monitor Internet usage. Cisco also sold several thousand routers (IHT) used to censor web content, and "firm’s engineers have helped set it to spot ’subversive’ key-words in messages."

What's ironic about that? Cisco sold them networking equipment and the CCP used it to censor.