MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by outcoldman | 2025-06-30 23:55:43+00:00
If you are talking about Russia, the taxes are so hidden, paid by the corporations, and Gov is taking oil money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Russia, compare to Kuwait where people getting pensions from exporting oil. Not saying Russia is better or worse, just different ways of grabbing money from common folks, and making them feel better. It was always such a common thing, when Russians go to Europe on vacation - and find how clean and nice everything else is - they say "well we pay 13% of taxes, not 50%", which makes every Russian feel so much better.
by lhearachel | 2025-06-30 23:56:17+00:00
I first would question what a user wants to do with a hashmap that uses polymorphic key-values of unknowable type at compile-time.

As a thought experiment, you could certainly have users define their own hash and equality functions and attach them to the table-entries themselves. On first thought, that sounds like it would be rife with memory safety issues.

At the end of the day, it is all just bytes. You could simply say that you will only key based on raw memory sequences.
by benreesman | 2025-06-30 23:56:29+00:00
I don't know, I've heard that meme too but it doesn't track with the number of cool compiler projects on GitHub or that frontpage HN, and while the LLM thing is a lot newer, you see a ton of useful/interesting stuff at the "an individual could do this on their weekends and it would mean they fundamentally know how all the pieces fit together" type stuff.

There will always be a crowd that wants the "master XYZ in 72 hours with this ONE NEAT TRICK" course, and there will always be a..., uh, group of people serving that market need.

But most people? Especially in a place like HN? I think most people know that getting buff involves going to the gym, especially in a place like this. I have a pretty high opinion of the typical person. We're all tempted by the "most people are stupid" meme, but that's because bad interactions are memorable, not because most people are stupid or lazy or whatever. Most people are very smart if they apply themselves, and most people will work very hard if the reward for doing so is reasonably clear.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IQmOGlbdn8g
by robbiewxyz | 2025-06-30 23:57:17+00:00
Ultimately the attitude of self-restraint called for in the article seems near-impossible: modern capitalism puts companies in a desperate race for dominance, and modern foreign policy puts countries in the same. From the penultimate paragraph:

"I think in all of this is implicit the idea of technological determinism, that productivity is power, and if you don't adapt you die. I reject this as an artifact of darwinism and materialism. The world is far more complex and full of grace than we think."

This argument is the one that either makes or breaks the article's feasibility and I fear the author is too optimistic.

What force of nature is it that can possibly hold its own against darwinism?
by techpineapple | 2025-06-30 23:58:02+00:00
Do center parties work? I guess the problem is center what, I think it would be hard for people to agree on what Center means, I'm probably relatively center compared to some set of ideals, but certainly to left socially for a lot of people. . Center also somewhat implies a balance of two sides, but there aren't just two sides. Is FP center? Center as in halfway between the Democratic Party and Republican party? Center as in halfway between the women's studies department at Reed College and Alex Jones? In which case sometimes I think modern centrists are nuttier than either of the two sides.
by Biganon | 2025-06-30 23:58:03+00:00
I remember I had one called Pikaone Le Stick. No info on that brand anywhere, and what a stupid name tbh. Probably the exact same Chinese stuff as all the others, but hey it did work really well.

I remember thinking that people using iTunes to manage their music were complete idiots when you could simply drag and drop MP3 files into the drive. I still think that, to be honest.
by bogantech | 2025-06-30 23:58:08+00:00
Yeah I've been using Claude to review a bunch of m68k asm that I've been working on and it's been helpful at catching silly mistakes like using a direct address instead of an immediate value, clobbering registers, incorrect branches etc.

Of course if you just blindly ask it to write asm it will occasionally invent new instructions or address modes but it's very good at reviewing and making adjustments
by gerdesj | 2025-06-30 23:58:37+00:00
I haven't daily driven anything but Linux for 15 years or more. I remember when Xorg was the new kid and XFree86 could destroy your CRT (or so "they" said - I never managed it!) Mind you I also remember #make config taking about 20 minutes.

Advice advocating disabling selinux is very similar to SFC /SCANNOW or "turn off your anti virus". As soon as you see advice like that you do have to wonder at the motive.

A quick broad-brush approach to troubleshooting is fine and could be considered the first stage before a binary search is used to get to the real problem. So you make things safe first and then you switch off something like selinux. Does that work? If yes, then you switch it back on and then do your search within selinux and perhaps bother with reading logs.

You obviously have to support a lot of cough enterprise ... RH based stuff or perhaps Oracle's sufferings.

If you can, call someone's bluff: Insist on a standard. PCI DSS is involved as soon as a payment card is involved - that will soon sort things out. In the UK, we have Cyber Essentials and the plus form. Non UK Europe also has similar standards. The US will have Freedom versions of any standards and the rest of the world will have theirs.

Go in with standards if you can. As soon as you permanently switch off a security mechanism you have failed (yourself and your customer).

Good luck mate.
by dbreunig | 2025-06-30 23:59:10+00:00
Sometimes buzzwords turn out to be mirages that disappear in a few weeks, but often they stick around.

I find they takeoff when someone crystallizes something many people are thinking about internally, and don’t realize everyone else is having similar thoughts. In this example, I think the way agent and app builders are wrestling with LLMs is fundamentally different than chatbots users (it’s closer to programming), and this phrase resonates with that crowd.

Here’s an earlier write up on buzzwords: https://www.dbreunig.com/2020/02/28/how-to-build-a-buzzword....
by ethagnawl | 2025-06-30 23:59:24+00:00
Oh, you're spot on about the slow boot times on Blu-Ray players. Also, the copyright notices and previews you're forced to sit through are unbearable. The entire experience is just awful.

In comparison, my kids and I recently watched Jurassic Park on Laserdisc and I was floored by how quickly we were into the movie itself -- it was a handful of seconds.

Also, unrelated, I think we may have worked together a few years ago at a ... "quiet" ad/interactive agency. :)