MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fluidcruft | 2025-06-23 01:09:17+00:00
I don't know if this is still the case or not but equations in Word can be upgraded to MathType. IIRC the Word equations were a basic version of MathType (i.e. developed by the same people). MathType included latex syntax and much better layout and formatting. It was the only way to stay sane when working on journal articles with collaborators who gave less than zero interest in latex (i.e. physicians).
by smaudet | 2025-06-23 01:12:52+00:00
I'm not sure that it is as much about ritual humiliation as much as that, well, you are supposed to be at some sort of summit, so you must have refined your process.

A mountain hiker can wear whatever, but above a certain altitude something must be true of them (fit, trained well, holding various gear, has supplies, or is in a plane/heli and probably even better trained/equipped/fit).

I would hope that typesetting is just a qualia of an ordered mind not a goal of it.

You can choose to feel "humiliated", but the truth should be closer to that you may simply be inadequate in that regard.

I.e. it is not that using LaTeX (or even Typst) makes you a better person, just that certain types of people will tend to use tools, like mountain climbers likely use carabiners.
by skissane | 2025-06-23 01:13:08+00:00
I don't know why all this focus on "public schools".

Of my 13 years of K-12 education, I spent 2 years in a public school, the other 11 in three different Catholic schools. Whatever the merits of your complaints about school systems, I think many of them would apply to many private schools too

There are at least four countries/territories worldwide (Aruba, Bangladesh, Sint Maarten, and Macau) where over 90% of secondary students attend private schools, public schools enrol less than 10% of secondary students – you think none of the private school students in those countries would sympathise with any of your criticisms?

> Public schooling can be directly traced back to protestants

You think Catholic majority countries don't have public education systems? In Brazil 86% of secondary students attend public school; in Portugal, 81%; in Argentina and France it is 74%; in Spain 69%; by contrast, Australia, a country in which historically Protestants have outnumbered Catholics by as much as 3:1, the percent of secondary students in public education is only 53%.

Sources:

- Public education rates worldwide: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.PRIV.ZS?most_rec... (okay, that's percent private, but subtract from 100 to get percent public)

- Australia historical religious affiliation statistics: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/2f762f95845417aeca2...

As an aside, although Australia's Protestant:Catholic ratio was around 3:1 in the first half of the 20th century (and I believe through the 19th century too, although I don't have hard figures handy on that), nowadays there are only slightly more Protestants in Australia than Catholics – this is because, while both branches of Christianity have lost huge numbers of followers to secularisation, Catholicism has always partly compensated for that by immigration from Catholic majority countries (most recently the Philippines), Australia's post-1950 immigration patterns have left Protestants at a comparative demographic disadvantage – which I believe is true of the rest of the Anglosphere too
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-06-23 01:13:59+00:00
>> Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting?

Probably because Donald Knuth created TeX and Leslie Lamport created LaTeX.

Two of the greatest minds in Computer Science created the tools and used them to write papers and articles that are beautiful.

Elegant ideas presented beautifully make reading and writing papers a nicer experience.
by jongjong | 2025-06-23 01:14:09+00:00
I've been waiting for architecture skills to 'explode in value' for my entire 15+ years career. Basically the reverse happened thus far; architecture has been neglected and even the number of roles like 'Software Architect' and 'Solution Architect' have been on the decline.

I hope AI will force this shift to occur. Once the juniors stop thinking that they know everything, stop seeing themselves as coders and start seeing themselves as 'vibe coders'; they may be more inclined to rely on senior devs to evaluate 'their' code and to fill in the gaps.

Part of the issue before was that juniors who could churn out code at a rapid rate, didn't want to take advice from dinosaurs. I understand this very well because I was on the other side of the fence as a highly sought-after junior dev back in the day. I myself didn't see the value of senior devs back then.

Part of the issue is that it takes a long time/effort even to be a junior dev and so by the time junior devs can write any apps at all and they've read a couple of 'Software design patterns' books (sigh...), they think they're geniuses and don't need to take advice from anyone.
by kentich | 2025-06-23 01:14:30+00:00
I'd suggest trying to work in intervals. I use Black Screen (https://blackscreen1.com/) to black out my screen for 3 - 5 minutes every X number of minutes. I start from 30 minutes and gradully reduce the interval as long as I'm getting more tired - even down to ridicules 5 - 10 minutes. The interval should be long enough to have an undivided attention span. If you get distracted then set up shorter interval. This approach helps me a lot lot.
by roshdodd | 2025-06-23 01:15:28+00:00
A small, but important aspect of typesetting/WYSIWYM is the ability to break down a large document (like a thesis) into discrete sub-components. You could work on each section of your document in an individual .tex file and include it later in your top-level .tex file. This setup works well with VCS like git.

Another ergonomic benefit is scripting. For example, if I'm running a series of scripts to generate figures/plots, LaTeX will pick up on the new files (if the filename is unmodified) and update those figures after recompiling. This is preferable to scrolling through a large document in MS Word and attempting to update each figure individually.

As the size and figure count of your document increases, the ergonomics in MS Word degrade. The initial setup effort in LaTeX becomes minimal as this cost is "amortized" over the document.
by rented_mule | 2025-06-23 01:16:44+00:00
> My UML professor said very similar things 25 years ago.

Yeah, it feels like a lot of these stories are the new version of the methodology / database / framework hype we've seen for so many years... with our new tool, you can write Reddit / Yelp / Wikipedia / S3 / etc. in a week. Sure, you can write a prototype that kind of replicates the surface level functionality. How about the actual hard part? Things like scaling, optimization of computing resources across large fleets, evolution of the system to attract more customers, fighting spam, increasingly complicated integrations with 3rd parties, maintenance, etc.

So much of this will turn out like all those things we've seen before. It will take skilled engineers doing a lot of thinking to figure out the right way to leverage the tools to make better systems for less.
by stephenbez | 2025-06-23 01:17:02+00:00
There are plenty of things I did outside when growing up that kids could still do: invent sports (we had one involving a hockey net and a koosh ball), bike around the neighborhood, have a water fight, go to the pool, play capture the flag, ghost in the graveyard, jump on a trampoline, go to the ride scooters, play basketball, play with sidewalk chalk, etc
by strken | 2025-06-23 01:17:03+00:00
It's not persuasion that's the issue. Opinion articles in newspapers are persuasion and I actively seek them out sometimes.

One of the blogs I used to read was The Last Psychiatrist. The author had a saying: "if you're seeing it, it's for you". In other words, if someone goes to the effort of putting something in front of you, they did it for a reason. Usually that reason is not "my company is growing via word of mouth and organic PR efforts because our product is so good, but I just want to grow faster."
by hackitup7 | 2025-06-23 01:17:42+00:00
Thank you for writing this. I am an employer and see versions of the advice / similar techniques to patio11's post put into practice by candidates (ie used against us) with some regularity. It doesn't always work, and we try to be disciplined, but it helps fairly often and at worst does no harm as long as you're polite.

I strongly encourage people to read the post and not give up because of the unrelenting cynicism in these comments.
by geodel | 2025-06-23 01:18:39+00:00
I see it from many sides.

1. A non-web dev creating a personal website for spouse because well, I am the IT/tech guy. 2. At work with side/ productivity projects where manager asked something to be done but not how it is to be done. 3. At work with enterprise project as main role.

So on 1) AI/LLM are amazing. As easy Hugo maybe I can't create a small website on weekend without even using readymade themes. For 2) again it is great I was able to lot of interesting code/scripts for personal automation with Go, Java, duckdb etc. For 3) they are okay mainly because those large IT applications have far too many hard dependencies on legacy backends and services. Generating some fancy wrapper in Node, React or whatever is not going to do much (for me). They do help with bits on API discoveries and usage examples.

Maybe it is my experience bias but all the Java code it throws at me uses old Java 8 APIs even though my projects are setup to use at least Java 21. So I have to constantly nudge it towards using better APIs, whereas for 1) and 2) I'll take what I get.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-06-23 01:18:43+00:00
I agree with you that the economic factors are much more persuasive.

I'm curious though, if you're a reader of contemporary literary fiction, do you think that it hasn't undergone a transformation to become more obscure and trendy compared to where it was in, say, the 1960s? Are the critics' favorites now just as accessible and of the same standard as, say, Lolita or Portnoy's Complaint were back then? Or do you agree there was a transformation and just disagree with the vague reasons he gives for it?

Also, do you have any recommendations of contemporary literary fiction for us here on Hacker News? Asking as someone who mostly only reads literary novels by dead people, contemporary sci-fi or speculative fiction, and of course, inevitably, books by Sally Rooney.
by decretum | 2025-06-23 01:19:07+00:00
>It's not so much a P5R problem as a general problem in the industry. In my current playthrough status ailments, buffs, debuffs and such just don't matter. That's the case for most turn-based games, just as the weapons triangle ceased to matter in Fire Emblem games a long time ago.

You can try Etrian Odyssey series by Atlus. It's all about status ailments, binds, buffs and debuffs.
by like_any_other | 2025-06-23 01:21:35+00:00
> Why? 1. Basically because physical laws obviously allow more than algorithmic cognition and problem solving.

You seem to be laboring under the mistaken idea that "algorithmic" does not encompass everything allowed by physics. But, humoring this idea, then if physical laws allow it, why can this "more than algorithmic" cognition not be done artificially? As you say - we can obviously do it. What magical line is preventing an artificial system from doing the same?
by allturtles | 2025-06-23 01:23:54+00:00
Isn't this easily solved by reading part of the book and then deciding whether you like it enough to continue?

The typical novel takes no longer than watching a season of a serialized TV show... and because it is written as a coherent whole rather than piecemeal, it is much less likely than a TV show to suffer from a bad ending that undermines everything that came before it.
by hustwindmaple1 | 2025-06-23 01:25:03+00:00
Every major Cloud vendor is trying to develop their custom AI ASIC. Putting Google aside, Amazon has trainium/inferentia, which Anthropic uses quite extensively. Microsoft is doing sth. similar, although they are quite behind. OpenAI is doing it. Meta is doing it. That's why the stock price of Broadcom/Marvell soared.
by comp_throw7 | 2025-06-23 01:26:41+00:00
What do you mean? All standard engineering offers (and probably most non-engineering) roles at FAANG are negotiable; in fact, Netflix might be the least flexible - or at least used to be, because they tried to hit what they thought would be "top of market" for you, and would be much harder to budge unless you had an actual competing offer for more than they thought your market value was. (Might be less true today, since they've moved to having actual internal "levels", but idk.)
by some_furry | 2025-06-23 01:27:05+00:00
I do not love when salary negotiation comes up on message boards, because it attracts in roughly equal parts: people with impostor syndrome, LARPers, extroverted neurotypicals who think it's "obvious", and nervous junior developers that might need real advice but end up being misled by some or all of the above.

The advice you'll find online for salary negotiation is predicated on you already deciding that you want to do it. If you're worried about being "employee 12887" and having no leverage for negotiation, sorry to say, you've already talked yourself out of it. Come back to this idea when you've decided that the offers on the table are "decent, but I can do better".

Nobody can make that choice for you. You have to do it yourself. And if you don't, yes, you are almost certainly leaving money on the table by not negotiating. However, the money you're leaving very likely won't be the difference between "can I make my rent/mortgage payment?" or not. If it is, maybe you're applying for the wrong positions.

TL;DR - If you're telling yourself a story about why it won't work for you, you're absolutely right.
by YZF | 2025-06-23 01:28:20+00:00
Interesting. I don't remember the Bush involvement but it's quite possibly true.

The Wikipedia article does not mention this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Palestinian_general_elect... but that doesn't mean anything given the current sorry state of that site, and this article supports this idea: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/was-hamas-electe...

This is relevant to the coup: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/04/usa.israelandt...

Thanks for the extra colour here.
by tomhow | 2025-06-23 01:28:37+00:00
Some are saying the page is inaccessible to them. The content is audio and it's available on all the major podcast platforms:

- Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/laphams-quarterly/id1223...

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2bWZWzUbA5v5PPcKTs18Uo

- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/laphamsquarterlyworldintime

- Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGN...

- RSS: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:27346532...
by bell-cot | 2025-06-23 01:29:55+00:00
(After the young women move to cities.)

> In its 2025 white paper on gender equality, approved at a Cabinet meeting the same day, the government stressed the need to eliminate the "fixed sense of gender roles" in rural communities and create environments in which women can play active roles.

Rather than trying to force changes on aging rural communities, might it be better if the government offered a variety of roadmaps to them? Towns choosing to emulating Nagi, Okayama ( https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14730746 ) would receive bureaucratic labels amounting to "this place has a future, plan & provide for long-term growth". Vs. places "fully committed to traditional roles" would get labels closer to "phase out and erase, as the final survivors die off".

[Article seems to be paywalled after the 3rd paragraph, I didn't bother trying to circumvent that.]
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-23 01:31:02+00:00
"The hens were unaware of the heist. They had done their part: the shuffling around, the squatting down, the gentle plop! to release one perfect orb"

Someone tell me if i'm wrong, but I've always understood a "perfect" orb to be basically a sphere shape, so what's with this about eggs being perfect orbs?
by happyopossum | 2025-06-23 01:32:15+00:00
> No other local clients currently interop very well with MCP Tooling

Not even close to true - VSCode and cursor both have MCP support, and INE VSCode’s is great.

Also, I’m curious about your claim to have spent 10 months building MCP servers, as the spec has only been out since the end of November - which is ~7 months.
Ask HN: How much would you pay to solve the largest problem you face?
by YAndreaRusso | 2025-06-23 01:32:41+00:00
I'm working on something new and I need to test it with real problems - the kind that keep you stuck for weeks or months. (basically stumbled on this framework, solving my own problems and want to see who else it could be useful for / what people would pay). Really just looking for a conversation. Here's what I'm looking for: complex situations where you've tried multiple approaches but nothing quite clicks. Business strategy paralysis, relationship dynamics you can't figure out, career transitions that feel impossible, creative blocks, or any problem where you know there's a solution but can't see it. Not selling anything - just testing whether this approach actually works for problems other than my own.
by geodel | 2025-06-23 01:33:24+00:00
> Basically the reverse happened thus far; architecture has been neglected...

I see the same. My conclusion is a lot of people who'd be doing these marketing, analysts and many other low paying jobs where one needs to appear slick have now joined computer/IT due to hig pay in considerable numbers and to the point they hold positions of technical director etc.

At least in my experience I find this push for micro services, async, reactive, cloud, kubernetes, kafka which are part of "we are going state of the art" narrative is just to appear slick.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-23 01:33:28+00:00
Personally, I don’t get anything for more than $50 from Amazon, and, usually, not even that.

Amazon used to have the best prices, but that is no longer the case. Just a couple of weeks ago, I needed to get bulk cat food (for a bulky cat). I tried Amazon, but they wanted double what I would pay at chewy. So I got it from chewy, and will never look at Amazon for that kind of thing again.

I also tend to go directly to manufacturer Web sites, and order from there. The price is seldom much higher than Amazon, and I won’t have to worry that I’m getting a fake, or gray market junk.
by alister | 2025-06-23 01:33:55+00:00
In case there are readers who don't know who Clifford Stoll is, he's the author of The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, that was practically required reading if you were a programmer or hacker in the early 1990s.

I didn't understand how hijacking worked on Amazon until I read this lucid explanation. Clearly he's still a great writer.

He's on Hacker News as CliffStoll. This makes me wonder how Hacker News deals with someone registering a famous person's name if they are not that person? I'm guessing that it's not a big problem here on HN because there's nothing being sold.
by YZF | 2025-06-23 01:34:56+00:00
I remember sitting around the lunch table in a tech company when Google IPO'd and none of us understood the IPO valuation. I didn't buy any stocks. I also didn't get "cloud" either. Sometimes new business is essentially created out of thin air. Google and Amazon's valuation did not increase only due to their efforts, it also increased because the broader market shifted.

I guess that means don't take investment advice from me ;) I've done OK buying indices though.
by xhunmon | 2025-06-23 01:35:12+00:00
HarmonyOS Next aims to achieve "multi-device collaboration and seamless experience." Apps need to adapt to phones, tablets, watches, car systems, and more. This article details adaptation principles, responsive layout methods, device capability grading, common issues, and official resources to help developers deliver high-quality cross-device experiences.

1. The Importance of Multi-Device Adaptation Enhance user experience: Different devices have varying screen sizes and interaction methods; good adaptation ensures beautiful UI and smooth operation. Expand user base: Supporting multiple devices covers more scenarios and increases market competitiveness. Meet platform review requirements: HarmonyOS Next emphasizes multi-device adaptation; poor adaptation may affect app approval. 2. Adaptation Principles and Process Responsive Design First Use flexible layouts (Flex, Grid, etc.) to automatically adjust component size and arrangement based on screen size. Avoid absolute positioning and fixed sizes to improve UI adaptability. Resolution and Density Adaptation Use relative units (vp, fp) to ensure consistent display across resolutions. Provide multiple sets of icons and images for different DPI devices. Interaction Method Adaptation Optimize UI and flows for touch, rotary, voice, and other interaction types. Device Capability Grading Classify devices as basic, standard, or enhanced based on performance and features; allocate features and UI complexity accordingly. Detect device type in code and dynamically load adaptation resources. ...
by vincent-manis | 2025-06-23 01:35:17+00:00
The “atomization” issue is one of my biggest bugbears, which I often comment on here. If your project's documentation is a website with many small documents all linked together in multiple ways, don't expect me to spend time trying to sort it all out. I recognize that some people are hyperlink-happy, but my way of learning was influenced by an obsolete technology called “books”[1], which provide a linear path, so later topics can build on earlier ones. This is very basic pedagogy, which so many documentation practices ignore.

[1] “When I was your age, television was called books.” The Princess Bride
by sQL_inject | 2025-06-23 01:36:49+00:00
The rote narrative that somehow all the Native Americans were some peace-loving Earth shamans is factually incorrect.

>"stolen from the hands of the Native Americans who had stewarded them for millennia before colonialism in different forms devastated their tribes."

The Comanches, the most powerful tribe in the country, were brutal, vindictive, plundering murderers who took slaves and delighted in killing as a rite. They "stewarded" only by murderous foray 250,000 square miles. Read "Empire of the Summer Moon"

They had no concept of private property because their territory ended right where their massacres couldn't reach, not because of some transcendent and noble ideals.
by gottorf | 2025-06-23 01:36:54+00:00
This description still applies to Big Island (if we stretch it a bit):

> You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical.

You can drive from the beach on the leeward side, going past dry ranchland with an average annual rainfall of ~10-15" (similar to arid West Texas places like Midland), to the Mauna Kea Observatory, where snow can sometimes be found, in under an hour and a half; and from there across to the windward side, back to the beach at Hilo, with about 10 feet of rain a year, in another hour and 15 minutes or so.

Truly wild and must be seen to be believed.