MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techpineapple | 2025-06-24 16:18:39+00:00
> Now? I can’t remember when we were actually in somebody’s home. It’s always somebody’s side hustle. They own 10 of them and live six hours away and they don’t give a dead rodent about you. The decor is always Early Target. You got a complaint? Send an email and we’ll get back to you. Maybe by Thanksgiving.

> And while they’re penny-pinching on what you get, they’re dollar-grubbing on what you have to pay. You need a second job to pay for the maid service alone. Lately, they’ve stopped leaving soap. We’re paying for WiFi right now (20 euros a day). We stayed in a place in Rome once that gave us two towels for two weeks. No hand towels, no face towels, no bath towels. Just two in-between towels that looked like they’d been washed in the first aqueduct.

Why is the market failing here? Why is it that people with spare bedrooms or in-law suites aren’t beating the prices of professional - essentially mini-hotel owners? Or are they they just get booked to quickly.
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by hu3 | 2025-06-24 16:19:09+00:00
I've written a ton of throwaway toy applications for personal use.

The tip I can share is: publish them on GitHub.

You'll find out some of them are useful to a lot of people.

I have multiple toy repos with 20+ stars and one with 200+ stars.

Just put one screenshot and simple instructions to run on README.md, no need to write a manual.

As simple as `npm install && npm run start` is enough instruction for most.

The screenshot is important tho.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-24 16:19:32+00:00
> because we've been literally removing that from the curriculum in schools

Do you have any actual evidence of this or is this just more parroting of vibes based history?

Most of the people I know who say things like "School didn't teach me X" were just not paying attention. Turns out, if your society doesn't care about or value education, kids aren't going to pay attention.

Like, some states definitely have mediocre education in a lot of ways, but people will say shit like "Why didn't school teach me how to balance a checkbook" as if school didn't teach them basic arithmetic and the ability to read a single paper of instructions included in your checkbook by middle school.

Or you have people saying "Why didn't school teach me how to understand a loan" as if they didn't learn algebra and how to plug a couple numbers into a calculator right next to me in class.
by martinald | 2025-06-24 16:20:07+00:00
I don't think it's right at all at least to any systemic level. It's because Finland has a load of nuclear (~50% of all generation esp after the EPR opened) and also a lot of wind power.

Nuclear is not well suited at all to being curtailed, I also suspect it would be worth paying negative prices to avoid it to a certain level - the French reactor cracking problems (earlier design though) are hypothesized from what I read to becaused by a lot of demand curtailment putting stress on the various metals as they heat and cool frequently because of reducing output.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-06-24 16:20:35+00:00
> What does that matter when getting elected was apparently all he needed to dodge the entire thing?

Well it is relevant to your statement that neither party wants to see a president get convicted. And understanding there is some wiggle room in your exact phrasing, the dems presumably wouldn't have permitted or endorsed the prosecution if they didn't want a conviction.

> getting elected was all he needed

I mean, getting elected president of the United States is probably one of the hardest things to do. I don't like that he has immunity while holding office but the voters used their authority over the justice system to excuse him. It sucks, but it means the DOJ and Atlanta DA office didn't get their day in court. Well, DA Willis kinda shot herself in the foot, but that's beside the point.

> There's no evidence at all that said prosecution will resume

That doesn't change the fact that he was being prosecuted and in all likelihood would have been convicted of numerous felonies. None of the facts will change in four years except that Trump will either be dead or pardon himself.

> Even NIXON didn't actually get prosecuted for anything

He wasn't convicted because he was pardoned. This is a good example to your earlier point of the US not wanting to suffer the disgrace of a president being convicted. But that has limits that we witnessed with Trump. It's unfair to say the justice system won't hold presidents accountable when it doesn't actually get the opportunity due to a pardon from the executive or, in Trump's case, the will of the electorate.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-06-24 16:21:10+00:00
There are several sources of joy in programming. Some lean more toward the process and exploration of the problem domain, others more toward the outcome and impact.

I had a shift of perspective at some point where I realized that software wasn't just fun to create, but you can solve problems with it, including your own, which is incredibly rewarding and kinda feels like wizardry.

Ultimately I find both to be enjoyable, though in terms of career and life outcomes, focusing on solving real problems and producing tangible outcomes has had more of an impact than noodling with neat implementations that nobody but me cared about.

Turns out if you solve your own problems (or just publicly work toward solving them), there are often other people who also struggle with the sam problems, who may throw money your way ;-)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-24 16:22:07+00:00
Because these platforms competed with hotels and other commercial lodging, not couch surfing. Cost of capital has gone up, short term renters don’t want to offer any amenities to renters (because lodging is both a real estate and services biz), and here we are. Another casualty of ZIRP ending, resulting in the stretch for returns through decline in quality provided. They see their customers as sponges to squeeze, because what are you going to do? Complain to AirBnB? Just like Spirit Airlines, a lot of folks will still use it and grumble.
by molf | 2025-06-24 16:22:13+00:00
The key insight is that you can represent different features by vectors that aren't exactly perpendicular, just nearly perpendicular (for example between 85 and 95 degrees apart). If you tolerate such noise then the number of vectors you can fit grows exponentially relative to the number of dimensions.

12288 dimensions (GPT3 size) can fit more than 40 billion nearly perpendicular vectors.

[1]: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/mlp#superposition
by more_corn | 2025-06-24 16:22:16+00:00
This is stupid advice. When there are problems bring them up, while you’re there, on your way out, After the fact. Whatever. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

You get a reputation as a straight shooter You start acting at an executive level You get a reputation as someone who not only sees the problems but has ideas on how to fix them.

Do you want to go through life cowering in your rut or do you want to step up, take responsibility and start fixing shit?

Don’t be unkind, but learning to give constructive feedback is a life skill. Cultivate it and learn from your mistakes. Don’t be so afraid to make mistakes that you never learn anything.
by jimt1234 | 2025-06-24 16:22:19+00:00
> One of the biggest drivers of those deadly conditions is obesity

That jumped out at me, because, unfortunately, it seems it's become unpopular, or even offensive, to claim there's a link between obesity and poor health/lower life expectancy. I've heard of doctors refusing to recommend weight loss to their patients for fear of being accused of "body shaming".
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-24 16:22:28+00:00
I have a couple of projects like this and I'm not sure if they'll ever see the light of day. I enjoy writing code, simple as that. Only a small part of my day job is coding, but honestly, it's more like a hobby than anything.

The whole thing with getting people to like your work, using it for clout or padding your resume has an appeal to it that I won't dismiss, but all that takes the fun out of it.

I just don't have much else I actually enjoy in life, so ruining it with peer-pressure, chasing clout, impressing people, worrying about career prospects is a buzz-kill. I used to think that if I am passionate about something like this and I get really good at it, maybe it will help my career and prospects but the real world doesn't work that way. it sucks the joy, fun and passion out of you if you let it.

All that to say it is perfectly fine to like coding for the sake of enjoying it and nothing more. Others play a sport (or watch it), work on arts & crafts, or raise chickens or whatever, I code. I am not particularly skilled or great at coding either, I just enjoy it, and that's it.

If you have fun coding, be protective of your joy! even if you don't take it to the extreme like I do. that's my only point.
by simonw | 2025-06-24 16:22:39+00:00
This is also a great way to stand out among other candidates in the resume-review stage of a hiring process.

The number one question I have as a hiring manager is always "can this person actually write code". A GitHub profile with 2-3 projects with multiple commits to each one answers that question really well. I won't filter out people who don't have that - lots of great engineers have never published code before - but the people who do have that are much more likely to get picked for the phone screen.
by agotterer | 2025-06-24 16:22:46+00:00
Thanks, I hadn’t considered the plastic on the pepper grinder. Guess I’ll be looking for a new pepper grinder as I continue my pursuit of removing plastic and dangerous chemicals from the kitchen. So far the pans, tupperware, and cooking utensils have all been replaced.

While not food, another not so frequently talked about plastic exposure could be clothing dryer vents pushing materials from synthetic clothing into the air. It’s likely less of a problem than the rubber tires on our cars making their way into the air. But it was something that occurred to me while cleaning out the dryer vent this past weekend.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-24 16:22:51+00:00
The spec tells websites to please not do validation on specific hardware. You can do a light form of remote attestation, but you'll have to convince the user to use passkeys only and not some kind of username+password backup, which is still a tough sell.

If you want remote attestation, Safari already has it, but I'm not sure if their attempt at standardising is going anywhere. It's been a while since the draft got updated or mentioned anywhere.
by Twirrim | 2025-06-24 16:23:13+00:00
Or just a really big git repo. Starship includes a timings command, on linux (with an annoying antivirus meddling) this is what I see against one directory:

git_status - 6ms - "[!?] " directory - 4ms - "<redacted> " python - 3ms - "via v3.12.9 (.venv) " character - <1ms - " " git_branch - <1ms - "on  main " hostname - <1ms - "<redacted> in "

If I go in to my checked out version of the linux kernel, probably the biggest git project I've got kicking around:

git_status - 115ms - "" directory - 4ms - "linux " character - <1ms - " " git_branch - <1ms - "on  master " hostname - <1ms - "<redacted> in "

That's typically the worst I see it.
by kadoban | 2025-06-24 16:23:22+00:00
I think you could do that, but mass in space is kind of hard to come by. If it wasn't (like if you're on the moon) you could just use the mass for conduction anyway. If you have to ship it up and consume it like that, that's expensive and limiting.

I'm not sure you can practically superheat the ballast without just causing more heat that you have to deal with. Maybe a heat pump works? Something about that feels vaguely wrong.
by hedora | 2025-06-24 16:23:27+00:00
The easiest approach is to get high point credit cards and pay them off each month.

That way, you don’t pay anything (and are subsidized).

Of course the money comes from people that don’t do this, and vendors’ margins.

So, it’s “Participate in the credit card racket or no house for you” on one side and “That’s a nice shop you have there. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.” on the other.

The US really should abolish the credit rating industry.
by kgwxd | 2025-06-24 16:23:39+00:00
I've abandoned tons of toy code but I have 1 thing I wrote in a weekend for myself that I've been mostly blindly using ever since. I just realized while typing this that it's been 8 years. It's a Firefox add-on that I only published to the "store" because running a local-only add-on is a PITA.

It takes regex(s), searches attribute values and/or inner text, and applies a given CSS rule to elements that match. The UI is awful (regex escaped to be inside a json string escaped to be inside a textarea all parsed by javascript) but I know how to use it.

It can probably be used for many things, but I just use it to set visibility: none on elements that link to sites I don't ever want to see (facebook, twitter, linkedin, popular pay/register-walled sites, etc). For example, my HN and reddit views just have blank lines where links any of those sites would normally be. For the most part, I add a site once, and forget they ever existed (except when their CEOs do awful things).
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-24 16:24:32+00:00
Nixon was going to be impeached and removed from office. The House Judiciary Committee had already voted to impeach, so the motion to impeach was headed for the full House. He resigned because he knew he couldn't stop it.

It's true that he wasn't going to be imprisoned, but he wasn't going to "dodge the entire thing". I don't know whether he would have been prosecuted or not; Ford pardoned him before we got a chance to find out.
by dack | 2025-06-24 16:24:40+00:00
MCP still feels so early. It's getting better - we went from "set up `npx` on your system and edit this JSON file in an obscure directory" to "set the name and URL of your MCP server" in claude.ai. But you're right, even knowing how to find a URL for the MCP server is a tall order for most.

I wonder what the optimal form factor is. Like what if your AI could /suggest/ connecting with some service? Like your AI is browsing a site and can discover the "official" MCP server (like via llms.txt). It then shows a prompt to the user - "can I access your data via X provider?". you click "yes", then it does the OAuth redirect and can immediately access the necessary tools. Also being able to give specific permissions via the OAuth flow would be really nice.
by kldg | 2025-06-24 16:24:51+00:00
lol, unrelated to anything, but I had a police detective in my house about a year ago for something unrelated to me, though he did question me. At the end, he asked for my phone number. "Oh, I don't do phones. I've got a VOIP number if you want." He was so friendly up to that point, but then he clearly SCOWLED at me; I was so taken aback that I laughed at it.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-24 16:25:02+00:00
One of the important purposes of a society is to improve the raising of kids who might not be raised well by their parents alone, because it is a valuable outcome to everyone.

You don't choose who you get born to, so if society chooses to say "If you get born to a shitty person, you will suffer immensely and we will do nothing about it", that is a bad society.

Nobody deserves to suffer due to an accident of birth.

Also, "It takes a village to raise a child" is not exactly metaphorical.
by jamesgill | 2025-06-24 16:25:08+00:00
I agree, writing is a skill. My point was that when it comes to documentation, other skills are primary.

So--I wouldn't advise developers/writers looking to improve documentation to 'become better writers', I'd advise them to focus first on the other other skills, because without them 'good writing' in documentation is worthless. Put another way, the ultimate measure of good documentation is: how well it helps the user accomplish their 'jobs to be done'.
by lesuorac | 2025-06-24 16:25:21+00:00
Yeah forced liquidation is a big problem for a long-term loan.

IIUC, Musk et al take loans at 25% of their share's value to avoid this ever coming up.

Also the average house price is 500k in the US so a 20% downpayment (which not everybody does) is still less than 200k.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-24 16:25:24+00:00
I dunno. Working on a bike you want to use to ride to work could be stressful if it is your only bike, you need it to get to work, and your manager will be really mad if you don’t show up to work one day. If there was any slip available it wouldn’t be so bad.

Actually, I really like this analogy because

1) We can’t really work on non-trivial fixes for our cars because they are too complex

2) We’ve totally structured our living situations around these over-complex beasts

3) Sometimes they do just break down at random, and it becomes a mini-crisis for everyone involved, which can’t really be resolved without missing a day of work to go to a professional

4) The bike is in exactly the same situation, except you can actually fix most bike problems yourself with a little kit

And yet, it is seen as a serious adult thing to have a car, instead of a bicycle.

Some thoughts:

Outside of, like, customer service, most places are throughput-oriented and it doesn’t even really matter all that much if somebody misses a day.

If we really cared about “uptime” of employees, we’d all be living in bicycle range of our jobs, and able to fix our bikes. Maybe there’d be a bus route as well.
by kube-system | 2025-06-24 16:27:32+00:00
> It just needs to be certifiable, reliable and replacable.

I think those are some good unanswered questions here. The supply of used phones is pretty cyclical, and almost all of them are out of production when their supply peaks.

Also pretty much all smartphones rely heavily on components without data sheets and with proprietary firmware blobs that won't be updated or patched without first-party support, or at all.
Ask HN: Software engineers who've moved for opportunity, do you have any advice?
by acureau | 2025-06-24 16:27:47+00:00
I am a software engineer based in Louisiana. I've hit 2YoE and I feel as if I've already hit a ceiling. There are few software jobs here, most of which are under-paid senior roles. Every interview I've landed this year ends at salary expectations. I currently make 70k, I've been asking 90k.

Another concern of mine is that software here seems to be frozen in time. There's only so far you can go with professional experience in VB6, MSSQL, and Crystal Reports. I've been lucky to work on modernising in my current role and I've become very familiar with the .NET desktop ecosystem. My hope is that this lends me some credibility in the "real software" world.

Personally, I am completely confident in my ability to build good software. I was writing code long before I got paid to. I've worked on some really cool projects in my own time. What I'm lacking is process and professionalism. Noone has ever critiqued my code, we don't use version control properly, we don't write tests. I've inherited projects where there wasn't even a planned architecture, just lines of code growing with time.

I want to work somewhere where software is taken seriously, with people who care about doing a good job. I want to learn from people more skilled than me. It's becoming clear that if I stay in Louisiana I'll only grow into a more skilled junior.

I just don't know where to go or how to get there. I'm not a strong competitor at the national scale. I'm unsure if any company is willing to wait for me to relocate, let alone provide relocation assistance. Should I just pick a city and go? Should I drop the idea entirely? If anyone has been in a similar situation I'd very much appreciate the advice.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-06-24 16:27:47+00:00
Okay, i have to admit you got me. 10/10 Ragebait until that last edit I was thinking you were serious, but you cannot be. Thank you gave me a good laugh and I haven't been this triggered in a while. Before he edit's let me copy his last edit for posterity, it's amazing.

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> 1. Why should the GrapheneOS Developers do the work you want them to do? They seem uninterested and I don't see you paying them the 100s of thousands of dollars to hire someone to do the work for them.

They dont do any work regarding security that would matter. As hardly anyone is using GrapheneOS. Most people use it for privacy, I don't know a one single person that would use it for security, I have bootloader unlocked as I don't care, its not something that would be a reasonable threat to me, while government actors are not something, I can defend against as they will break my legs and I will beg them to allow me to enter pin.

> 2. Name a Phone that's not made by a corporation.

So they can immediately stop doing it. It is futile, insecure and worthless even from perspective of privacy unless they give people a chance to use it. And currently they dont with excuse of security.

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Something about gay fish.
by renewiltord | 2025-06-24 16:28:16+00:00
That's true. If you're African, your talent goes wasted. If you're British, the smartest guy ends up working on gov.uk for £40k/year. If you're American, the smartest guy ends up a billionaire.

The "more meaning" business is cope because as societies add more ability to excel, people of ability switch into economically rewarding activities at a high rate.

There's a nice middle where you can exploit them for positive externalities. In the past, through religion (many monks were undoubtedly great researchers) and today through a mediocre (but not awful) society.
by dwh452 | 2025-06-24 16:28:47+00:00
What's sad is how difficult it is to write software today. In the old days your dad could buy a C64 and cobble together an application. It should be vastly easier to do the same kind of thing with vastly better building blocks today. Why can't some Grandma drag and drop some widgets and have a recipe manager with sharing features amongst her friends and family?
by nostrademons | 2025-06-24 16:28:49+00:00
It's quite an achievement of modern medicine that the vast majority of early deaths in the U.S. now amount to various forms of "killing oneself", or occasionally "killing other people near you". Accidental, unpreventable acts of nature (or God, depending on your persuasion) have basically dropped out of the statistics.

I wonder how much of this is because of America's embrace of liberty. If you give people choices, some of them will inevitably make stupid choices.