MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by getcrunk | 2025-06-19 08:19:49+00:00
Im not an academic but went to fairly prestigious science university (not ivy league or MIT or something like top top tier). I don’t have any experiences to compare it to because I didn’t go to school in other countries.

But haven been through the system and being an American my whole life and understanding America, I would say no I didn’t see anything special about my education.

nothing particularly note worthy and in fact, I have a long list of criticisms. especially tenured professors, professors that don’t speak English very well, and then actually just horrible professors.

Curriculum wise, yes many universities can have fairly cutting edge curriculums but that’s not something we have a monopoly over.

And let’s not talk about the price.

Also, I had quite a few foreign exchange students that I’ve interacted with through throughout the years, whether at school or other places. And more often than not in the cs majors, I would say that they were ahead.
by kazinator | 2025-06-19 08:20:28+00:00
Fun tangent.

The 1981 film Looker, written and directed by Michael Crichton, features a trope: the Looker gun, which induces a trance in its targets via flashes of light, such that they are unaware of the passage of many hours of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-19 08:20:38+00:00
I'm pretty sure an empty social media account is more suspicious than no social media at all. Remaining silent may not be your best option.

Also, as a foreigner, it doesn't really matter what rights you may or may not have when people at the border have broad power to reject your attempted entry. Unless you're willing to try a legal battle, you'll be forever marked as "refused entry" in the US government systems, which is one of the many flags you need to clear to even get a VISA. I wouldn't trust the country that deports legal immigrants or just plain citizens without due process to care much about your right to remain silent.

I think it's been pretty well-known that the US government will track your social media activity by any means it can anyway. Setting everything to public makes it easier for the courts (after all, no need to admit to secret spying when everything is set to public) but I think it'd be an illusion to think the government doesn't have access to this data anyway. Or perhaps this is just a grift so more private companies can start scraping social media as a business model around immigration control.

The most interesting change here is that they're targeting people criticizing Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians specifically.
Ask HN: What happens post ESOPs vesting period is over at a startup?
by makeavish | 2025-06-19 08:20:57+00:00
Initial ESOPs compensation is generally higher than subsequent refreshers thus at the end of vesting period (commonly 4 years), the total compensation is significantly reduced post vesting. I researched on this but couldn't find any blogs or real person experiences. How do others handle it?
by sandreas | 2025-06-19 08:22:22+00:00
The monetary value comes in the long term (5+ years).

Other Brands Notebooks are not upgradable, not repairable and the most frustrating part are the batteries - which framework offers an original replacement for.

"Modern" office notebooks don't have to be that powerful. I'm still using a T480s which will only render unusable as soon as the battery dies with no <100 bucks replacement parts available.

I think buying a framework is an investment for people planning to keep the device for 5+ years and/or want to support the right to repair movement.

I'm really suprised and impressed they managed to ship such a great device and keep their promises for so long even if it is not the besteht bang for the buck (short term). Keep up the great work.
by fergie | 2025-06-19 08:22:34+00:00
There were some cool ideas- I particularly liked "psychology of AI"

Overall though I really feel like he is selling the idea that we are going to have to pay large corporations to be able to write code. Which is... terrifying.

Also, as a lazy developer who is always trying to make AI do my job for me, it still kind of sucks, and its not clear that it will make my life easier any time soon.
by create-username | 2025-06-19 08:22:59+00:00
People must come up with new characters because they lack their own script. You can either have a script adapted to your language, or make the best of what you’ve got.

English doesn’t. Bernard Shaw tried inventing new letters. I guess that changing the English alphabet os a slippery slope. If you make it as phonetic as the Latin script is meant to be, and with special characters, people would have to relearn how to read from scratch
by oersted | 2025-06-19 08:23:22+00:00
> nowadays the ONLY way to have fun in most multiplayer games is to win by any means

That’s quite the hyperbole, I play plenty of multiplayer games and I enjoy myself plenty wether I win or not. Granted, games like Dota, Counterstrike or Tarkov are designed for a certain ultra-competitive audience, that’s fine, but there’s plenty of choice besides, more than ever.

These competitive games might be at the top of the charts, but they are rather niche in the grand scheme of things. It's just that the kind of people that play these games, they end up only playing that one game for years for a few hours a day. But in reality they are a minority and there are many more players spread out among all other games.

I think you are projecting your motivation to play games onto others, there are many reasons to enjoy games other than just getting those fake points at the end, and not everyone is as sore for loosing.
by nlitened | 2025-06-19 08:24:11+00:00
Written characters and sounds don't usually correspond because pronunciation drifts very quickly in time (even two consecutive generations might have noticeably different pronunciation), and in different directions in different locations, while rules of "proper writing" change rarely, usually as a result of people agreeing to change them in order to catch up to an apparent accumulated drift of pronunciation.

As I understand (in a simplified way), every once in a while (once in a few centuries) there's a major language reform to make written form reflect current pronunciation as much as possible, but already in 100—200 years people would start asking "why do we write not like we pronounce", until some political movement decides reforming orthography would promote their agenda. Then the cycle continues.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-19 08:24:13+00:00
This is a deeply frustrating and energy-draining situation. Thank you for sharing it so candidly. The fact that your motivation has taken a hit is a completely natural and valid response to poor leadership. You are not the problem here.

I'm a founder based in Seoul, so I can't comment on the specifics of US corporate culture or the internal politics at your company. However, I believe the framework for making a decision in such a situation is universal. When I or my team members have faced difficult career choices, I've found it helpful to analyze it through three lenses:

1. The Learning Lens: Are you still growing? Despite your manager, are you still acquiring valuable skills and experiences that you couldn't easily get elsewhere? Is the work itself still challenging you in a positive way?

2. The Mission Lens: Do you still believe? You said you still care about the mission. The question is, how much? Is your belief in the mission and the product strong enough to endure this manager for another 6, 12, or 18 months? Can you still find a way to contribute effectively to that mission?

3. The Life Lens: What is the daily cost? This is the most important question. What is the daily tax this situation is imposing on your mental and emotional health? Is this cost sustainable over time? Is the person you are becoming in this environment—perhaps more cynical or stressed—someone you respect?

No one on the internet can answer these questions for you. My only advice is this: take an hour, write down your honest answers to these three questions. Don't decide today. Put the paper away, and read your own words again in a week.

Often, seeing your own thoughts written down, separate from the daily frustration, makes the path forward surprisingly clear.

Ultimately, your career is long, but your life is happening now. Your well-being is the most important asset you have. Making a conscious choice for yourself, whatever that may be, is a victory in itself. Wishing you clarity.
by paganel | 2025-06-19 08:24:47+00:00
Really, really cool visualisation!

Even though I know almost nothing at all about the subject of medieval palaeography in Western Europe, I did read recently the write-downs of a Italian conference focused on the subject of palaeography in the Italian Middle Ages, and that is how I learned about stuff like La minuscola cancelleresca and La mercantesca. A link (in Italian, google translate can help) [1] about these two styles of writing and how they were formed:

> la MINUSCOLA CANCELLERESCA, usata dai notai e dalla classe colta non universitaria, e la MERCANTESCA, scrittura professionale dei mercanti, usata anche per testi letterari (ma solo in lingua volgare).

via google translate

> the MINUSCULE CANCELLERESCA, used by notaries and the non-university educated class, and the MERCANTESCA, the professional writing of merchants, also used for literary texts (but only in the vernacular).

[1] https://spotlight.vatlib.it/it/latin-paleography/feature/17-...
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-19 08:25:06+00:00
> It's not to cover one's ass but communicate limitations.

Ostensibly to communicate limitations; I respect this case. But often times it's to cover one's ass in the guise of communicating limitations.

Hard sciences do it way way less. The reason is that in the hard sciences, using a methodology that "has limitations", depending on what the limitations are, might mean the output is straight up meaningless. Imagine I tell you "I've managed to prove theorem X. Let's start by assuming that 1+1=3. I know it's not, but I'm communicating limitations and let's see where that gets us".

But ok I think we're on the same page, you're just more generous than me.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-06-19 08:25:49+00:00
If you work in a language that can pass closures as arguments, then you don't need a special visitor pattern. It is one of those patterns, that exists because of limitations of languages. Or, if you want to call passing a closure visitor pattern in some cases, it becomes so natural, that it does not deserve special mention as something out of the ordinary. You may be too smart for it.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-19 08:27:34+00:00
It is lie. They're making up stuff to spin their position

> The canvas jitter for each iPhone 15 Pro will be different.

There is no such thing. I write tests for GPUs and iPhones in particlar. They don't produce different results

> Different battery ages, different lifetime workloads.

This is not something you can check from a webpage on an iPhone

> That results in different nanosecond ranges of performance, for your canvas.

There is no nanosecond measurement you can use to generate a fingerprint in a browser. All you'll get is noise which will give you a different fingerprint.

Maybe if you ran for several minutes with a frozen page doing nothing but timing could tease some signal out but no sites are doing that. No one would continue to use a site that froze for seconds every time they visited.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-19 08:30:14+00:00
This looks taken out of context. First, Economic Times is a shitty news source. The original was reported by Bloomberg, a much better news source. (What is their SEO dept doing to get ahead of Bloomberg in Google search results?)

The exact quote: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/immigration/rubio-orders-tough...

> Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday ordered more scrutiny of the social-media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University, telling US consular officers that applicants’ lack of an online presence might be enough evidence to deny a visa.

This part is important: "any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University"

Is Rubio's cable sent to US embassies worldwide public? It would be nice to see the full text.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-19 08:30:24+00:00
Great question. As a founder also working on my next project, the fear of "solving fake problems" is something I think about every day. Thanks for asking it.

For me, the single most frustrating part of any data-related task isn't the data itself. It's the "work about the work" – the soul-crushing feeling that I'm doing the same thing two or three times in different windows.

The biggest irony is that this is often caused by the very "smart work" tools that are supposed to make us more productive.

My typical workflow looks like this:

A request for data comes in on Slack. I pull the data, analyze it, and share a conclusion in the Slack thread. Then, I have to go to Jira to create a ticket that summarizes what I just said on Slack. Finally, I have to open Notion to write a brief document explaining the findings for the record. The context is constantly being copied, pasted, and fragmented. It's exhausting and feels like a waste of human potential.

This isn't a pitch, but this exact frustration is the only thing I'm focused on solving right now. My entire thesis is that the endless context switching between our communication layer (chat) and our execution layer (tasks, docs) is the biggest source of "fake work" in modern companies.

I'm building a tool where that entire "copy/paste the context" cycle is eliminated. A place where the conversation is the task, is the doc, is the context—all in one single flow.

I'm just a founder who is sincerely obsessed with this problem, and it's validating to see I'm not the one who feels this pain.
by bloak | 2025-06-19 08:31:25+00:00
It seems a bit of an arbitrary choice. For example, Polish has digraphs, but Czech has diacritics, and Icelandic has a couple of additional letters that aren't modified Latin letters.

Old English had four letters that are not in today's US-ASCII, two of which are borrowed from a runic alphabet rather than created by modifying Latin letters.

It's also a bit arbitrary whether a modified Latin letter is regarded as a new character or an existing character modified by a diacritic: take Ø, for example. And there are characters like Æ. And never forget what Turkish did: add dotless i so that ordinary i could then be regarded as dotless i plus a diacritic (though of course it isn't usually regarded that way).
by spwa4 | 2025-06-19 08:32:15+00:00
Wow ... this will suck. Islam, the ideology, either is a state, or meant to be a state (just ask a few muslims, they'll explain. Also historically islam was a state until 1918/1923, and died in WW1, with the leader of islam, the caliph, abandoning islam)

And, frankly, while this is most prominent with Islam, that religions describe their goal to be a single state and trying to be a single state is the norm, not the exception. Christianity is the exception here that does not want to have state power (even though that rule screams "compromise with the Roman emperor", and hasn't exactly been followed very well once Christians were well established)

So no more muslims allowed in the US then? In fact no religion allowed except Christianity or revering the US directly somehow?
by panick21_ | 2025-06-19 08:32:16+00:00
Falcon 9 is by no means small or even medium. In the history of rockets its quite a large and powerful rocket. And so is Ariane 5. Not sure what you are referencing with Ariane, I guess Ariane 1-4 were small.

So far in history, we didn't have enough to launch. If the volume we launch increases then a larger rocket flying often is helpful.

We are at the peak of what a rocket the size of Falcon 9 can do. If you want full re-usability, the size helps you out quite a bit.

And hauling the 'orbiter' into 'orbit' is only wasteful if you can't reuse it. I would argue what's actually wasteful is throwing the second stage in the ocean, even when it costs minimum 10million $, and likely more.
by ndr42 | 2025-06-19 08:33:09+00:00
>> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money.

> No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand.

I read an interview a long long time ago (with Jobs, Schiller or Cook - I don't remember) where they were saying explicitly that Apple charge the amount that get them the most money not marketshare. I remember the times when analysts where obsessed with market share and that apple had to lose because they were to expensive. I don't hear that opinion that often today.
by jampekka | 2025-06-19 08:33:32+00:00
> Why is it that so much of our political class openly and unabashedly act like agents of israel?

According to Jimmy Carter:

"The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations — but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices.

It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians."

https://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-carter8dec08-story.html

Carter was of course widely (and absurdly) slandered as an antisemite. He probably wouldn't get a visa.
by Aromasin | 2025-06-19 08:34:24+00:00
FD-SOI fabs are lacking. It's a planar transistor technology used frequently in very low power/thermal devices with small packages and with a high SEU tolerance. Lattice semiconductor use them in their FPGAs, which are the lowest power draw FPGAs on the market at the moment, with a really flat power curve all the way up to 125C. They're used everywhere in A&D and industrial, as root-of-trust devices on servers, and are the largest FPGA manufacturer by volume.

Currently it's fabbed in France (STMicro), Germany (GF), and South Korea (Samsung). No plans to onshore that in the US.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-06-19 08:34:47+00:00
If it's an armed conflict then it started a long time before that. Otherwise Israel wouldn't have built the hilariously named "Freedom Wall".

It's incredibly depressing that the Jewish people have basically done unto others as was done to them. Even if we don't consider it a genocide, then it's definitely a pogrom and Gaza and the West Bank are ghettos. I would have hoped that at least one people might have learned that this kind of stuff is wrong based on their own history.

But i guess all that we learn from history is that no-one learns from history.
by writebetterc | 2025-06-19 08:35:29+00:00
It's surprisingly slow. Switching files in the tab list has a noticeable delay. Typing is higher latency than both Emacs (lsp-mode activated) and my web browser. Also uses approximately 60MiB more than my Emacs. It starts fast though!

I wouldn't complain about this stuff if it wasn't for their tagline being 'it's fast' and they're losing to Emacs Lisp (not a language amenable to being very fast) with a highly optimized C core.

I looked at their plugins, they're compiled into WASM and run in some VM. Maybe that's part of it?
by DavidSJ | 2025-06-19 08:37:24+00:00
A larger rocket mitigates the effects of the rocket equation.

The wet (loaded with propellant) to dry (empty of propellant) mass ratio is determined via the rocket equation to be the exponential of delta V divided by exhaust velocity.

Certain parts of the rocket, such as the external tank structure, scale sub-cubically with the rocket's dimension, as do aerodynamic forces; whereas payload and propellant mass scale cubically.

Hence if the rocket is smaller than a critical threshold size, the requisite vehicle structures are too large relative to its propellant capacity to permit the required wet:dry mass ratio to achieve the delta V for orbit.

At exactly this size, the rocket can reach orbit with zero payload.

As the rocket increases in size beyond this threshold, it is able to carry a payload which is increasingly large relative to the rocket's total mass.
by goku12 | 2025-06-19 08:37:38+00:00
> The earlier Starships were just manually welded steel. Is still so?

I don't know if they use manual welding or robotic welding. But robotic welding is well established and is justified for the volumes of work that SpaceX carries out. What is more difficult is to avoid vertical weld seams on its cylindrical segments. I'm yet to encounter a roll forged cylinder that big, especially with stainless steel. (Disclaimer: I have no direct experience with industrial metalworking)

> If any failed weld can lead to a catastrophe like this, how would you guarantee the quality of each weld without going into nuclear power plant construction level of costs?

That is done using Non-destructive testing (NDTs). The usual methods are high-energy X-ray imaging, ultrasound testing (UT) and dye penetration testing (DP). These methods are usually reliable in catching such faults - even for machinery that's in use. For example, turbine blades in a jet engine.

Updated: As the other commenter pointed out, robotic welding doesn't ensure elimination of defects. The robotic process is more consistent and therefore reduces the defects. But uncontrollable random variations can still cause defects that could fail later. The only way to eliminate them (almost) entirely is to identify them with NDT and rectify them as long as the defects are within a certain tolerance limit.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-19 08:38:08+00:00
It was always about that, but I'm very curious what you think it's about. Because taxing someone $X and then giving them some of that money back as $Y is just word games - it's exactly the same as taking $(X - Y). We have that system already. If UBI just means higher welfare spending then call it that and stop running pointless trials.
by panick21_ | 2025-06-19 08:38:25+00:00
> what we're now proposing to do with 10-15 Starship launches

That's complete nonsense. 10-15 Starship launches would land a lander that can carry like 100tons of payload orbit.

Saturn V landed 15000kg on the moon, but most of that isn't payload.

But of course with Saturn V you are throwing away a rocket that cost 1 billion $ or more per launch.

You are comparing 'thing lands on moon' to 'things lands on moon' without any nuance.

But you are right Apollo was insane in how fast it was done.
by LoveMortuus | 2025-06-19 08:38:43+00:00
Probably because the AR/XR glasses are not yet at a stage where they could be used by the general populace.

I have Viture XR Pro, the edges are still blurry and even though glasses have a miopia adjustment it has been difficult for me to get a clear image, not to mention the issues of IPD. Having a display at arms length still has many advantages over the face mounted displays.

That being said, as someone who feels the need to wipe any and every speck of dust off the display, the glasses have resolved that issue, it's just that they get heavy and painful after just a few hours of use.

In my opinion, we're not there yet, but I'm very optimistic for the future.