MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VirusNewbie | 2025-07-09 06:27:43+00:00
>You're never going to get moderately rich working for someone else, especially at a corporation without a union

I don't know what you mean by 'moderately rich', but I know multiple people who have saved millions of dollars (including myself), some of which who were able to retire early by working for 'someone else' - also none of which are union shops.

Do you really not know that many people have gotten quite rich working for FAANG companies? Do you also not know these people are much richer than union workers?
by rvz | 2025-07-09 06:27:54+00:00
> The people working on this have got to realize this, but they’re doing it anyway.

This is the most horrific part of all of this, including using the LLMs on everything and it is industry wide.

> They responded with “it happens but I would say it’s accurate 98% of the time.” They said that with a straight face. The number told me they don’t actually know the hallucination rate, and this is not the kind of work where you want to fuck it up any percent of the time. Hallucinations are incompatible with corporate finance.

Also incompatible with safety critical systems, medical equipment and space technology where LLMs are completely off limits and the mistakes are irreversable.
by matesz | 2025-07-09 06:27:59+00:00
I really like the ability to skip setup and go for sandbox presets with premium features paywalled - this seems like an obvious choice.

Most SaaS products like these require you to go through their complicated setup just to see what they are about.

Also, highly recommend "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick - https://www.momtestbook.com.

It is so revealing, especially to people like me who naturally tend to think that just automation of processes is going to make something people want. This book is, by far, the best resource I found to get out of that mindset and learn how to get real feedback.
by Gustomaximus | 2025-07-09 06:28:58+00:00
Was a long article and only skim read, but wouldn't a bigger factor be rising living standards? As more of the world moves to developed world living standards, which would be ideal, if this shift is faster than green technology + depopulation we are going to see increased climate pressure. I didn't seem them mention this but my inexpert view seems the rising tide of living standards may present the real problem.
by lmm | 2025-07-09 06:30:04+00:00
> What guarantees it? Literally nothing.

The behaviour of looking up index x in array y in rust is well-defined, and consistent between compiler versions. Maybe you use the wrong index and get the wrong customer's data or something, but you'll still get the data at that index (or a panic if the index is invalid).

> You can catch errors in testing in C as well. Yeah, in C you get "different" data on a different version of the compiler, but you get garbage data in all versions of the compiler and Valgrind flags that in testing.

Not always. It's very common for code to be broken according to the standard but do the right thing in some compilers, and then in a different compiler it does something completely bizarre. The code might not do the same thing in testing as it does in release. And while Valgrind does a lot of good for the minority of C programmers who use it, it's far from 100% reliable.

> you can get arbitrary code execution if your program is operating on data coming from multiple users of different privilege levels in Rust if you use vectors like that.

You might in some cases, but it's a lot tricker. You can get the program to operate on different parts of its data than it was intended to, but to go from there to running arbitrary code will still be a significant leap and require an exploitation technique specific to that particular program. Whereas the techniques for going from common classes of C vulnerabilities (e.g. buffer overflow or use after free) to arbitrary code execution are practically textbook at this point.
by Cu3PO42 | 2025-07-09 06:31:16+00:00
To make things more complicated: it's not necessarily your home bank making the exchange, it can also be your card scheme (e.g. MasterCard/Visa/...). However, this is something you don't get a choice in. Your bank has an agreement with the scheme which foreign currencies are handled by whom. In any case, the rates used by the schemes are generally also pretty good.
by weinzierl | 2025-07-09 06:32:55+00:00
Sounds like something Prof. John Ousterhout would say:-; The place where this was literally accurate would be Tcl.

I don't know enough Smalltalk to be sure but I think to remember it has a similar approach of everything is an object and I wouldn't be surprised if they'd coerced control flow somehow into this framework.

Also Forth comes to mind, but that would probably be a stretch.
by mrtksn | 2025-07-09 06:36:07+00:00
Tell me about an empire who conquered and held conquered land through asking politely. If you are able to come up with any, Ottomans certainly were not among those sure. That's why people don't like being invaded by empires. What do you think the first and the second Bulgarian Empires did exactly?

BTW Just like the way Bulgarians may not recognize that the Bulgarian Empire had a military and killed people in order to take others stuff and force them into things they wouldn't do unless defeated through slathering each other, Turks also tend not to understand that institutions like Devshirme or Janissary weren't liked by the people subjected to those.

For example In their mind Devshirme was an education program that gave the opportunity to minority children to have great careers and indeed that was the result(they don't think about how those kids were taken into the program).

Similarly Janissary were elite units with lots of sway in the administration, in their minds Janissaries were spoiled soldiers that are hard to satisfy.

Also, all the wives of the sultans were women from minorities. In the Turkish mind they were lucky women with a lot of influence on the empire. An entire genre of soap operas are made around this and they are very popular in the countries that used to be under the Ottoman rule. Including Bulgaria.
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-09 06:36:31+00:00
Wow, thank you so much, Bender16 — your comment feels like an article on its own! I really appreciate the depth and clarity you shared. It’s rare to see such thoughtful technical advice laid out so well.

I’ll definitely experiment with lrzip and the .tar approach — and I hadn’t considered pre-processing images with ImageMagick that way. Your tips opened up some new ideas I hadn’t even thought of!
by Strom | 2025-07-09 06:36:45+00:00
Schengen is incredibly useful, especially if you have to transit through several countries. It's also true that the decrease in cash usage has reduced the benefit of the euro.

However, the benefits of a single currency go beyond cash. It's also about understanding prices. You see a sign for coffee and it's 1199 Hungarian Forint -- or it's 14.99 Polish złoty. It's not clear at all what those numbers mean. Sure it's possible to pull out a currency calculator app to see what the rate is today and what it means in euros. It's not an insurmountable problem, but it is bigger than a mere inconvenience. It's constant friction on not really understanding what's going on. If those coffee prices were instead 2.99 € vs 3.53 €, you would immediately see that the Polish coffee is 20% more expensive.

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As for the payment terminals offering to pay in Euro, as others have already noted, that's a scam. There is a hidden fee, usually around 3.5% - 5.0% of your total, that you get charged for this "convenience". Refusing this and paying in the listed currency will mean that your own bank will do the conversion, which is basically always going to be far cheaper.

Unfortunately this currency conversion scam is so lucrative that even big brands engage in it. Amazon for example asks what currency your card is in. If you select some currency other than what this sepecific Amazon's listed prices are in, well, you're in for another juicy hidden fee, this time to Amazon.
by rgreekguy | 2025-07-09 06:37:21+00:00
I feel like this whole piece is why everyone makes fun of Apple fanboys. You have Apple dragging you by the b-... nose and you say thank you more. That's why everyone dislikes Apple and anyone who uses it.

And mind you I've turned from full Linux to full Apple. iPad, Macbook and iPhone (and more to come, given time and money).

And, yes, the constant regressions are a huge pain in all platforms. No heads up, and no way you are getting back that little feature or that little bug is getting fixed. Maybe in a couple of years... A good example of that is screenshotting on iPad. Suddenly you cannot create shapes or straight lines by holding down the Pencil not even remotely as easily. I think that handwriting touchup has something to do with this. Although disabling the option changes nothing.

This article just reinforces my opinion that chasing an up to date (Apple?) device is just too much energy. Pick the next major version than the one your device came with and live a happy life.

I have seen MagicLasso in the store before, and these days I also noticed it sponsors some blog, before I removed that RSS feed. Interesting for all the hard feelings its creator has.
by aoki | 2025-07-09 06:37:27+00:00
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is almost entirely a display of replicas. They are very upfront about being a “learning” museum - they do hold the original prints but display them in rotation. We were there last year and there was exactly one original print on display (in a back corner of the special exhibit room); it was one of the “36 views” but not one of the uber-famous ones.
by BehindBlueEyes | 2025-07-09 06:38:42+00:00
There were already too few people for the tasks before this round of layoffs. The working order has been "do more with less, use AI" for over a year.

Every MS FTE whom I knew enough to have that kind of conversation with was stretched thin to the breaking point. Now half their team is gone, and the show must go on apparently. It does not seem viable to me, not even with AI.
by retooth | 2025-07-09 06:40:43+00:00
Hi! I'll try to answer in order:

1. Just Intonation and non-linear temperaments are on the roadmap, but there are a couple of design problems I still have to figure out, mainly how to have a consistent definition of interval objects in regards to transposition if the distances between notes are uneven. It works nicely, if one uses multi-dimensional tunings, e.g. in a 5-Limit tuning with 3 dimensions every interval obtained from two notes can be applied to any other note as a measure of transposition distance, but once you reduce it to one dimension you can have two notes which form an interval that can not be applied to every note without reaching a note that is outside the temperament.

2. Tetrachords are already supported and can be easily defined using the scale object. There is no quartertone notation yet, but if you are happy with Up/Down Notation you can analyze arabic ajnas by using EDOTuning(24) as the base. Currently there is no pitch/note sequence object, so downward scale movement in maqams can not be properly defined, but if you are interested only in the harmonic qualities, scales should do.

3. MusicXML sadly does not have good support for non-12-EDO tunings. You can define quartertone accidentals by providing floats (like 0.5) as accidental values, but this gets increasingly difficult if you want to do anything other than 24-EDO. I looked into the MEI format as it supports at least turkish makam accidentals, but a more generalized semantic definition for arbitrary EDOs seems to be out of reach for the foreseeable future. One could however think of supporting MEI for a couple of tunings (like 24- or 53-EDO)

4. MIDI is also somewhat difficult. There is the MPE specification which allows individual note bending, however it is not supported by any python library as far as I can tell. One could try to hack something with channel pitch bends, but it would be limited to playing 16 notes at the same time.

I am still looking for contributors, so if you are interested in these things, feel free to contact me ;)
by kgwgk | 2025-07-09 06:40:46+00:00
> poorly managed suppression of a rebellion

Or a too well managed suppression.

“ We have been blamed for not making a distinction between guilty and innocent Armenians. [To do so] was impossible. Because of the nature of things, one who was still innocent today could be guilty tomorrow. The concern for the safety of Turkey simply had to silence all other concerns.”
by silisili | 2025-07-09 06:40:59+00:00
Years ago I watched a video of a young woman foreign worker from I think Philippines kill herself because of abuse. It really haunted me. And more research showed it's pretty common, as well as unsafe labor to the point of death, mostly all in middle eastern countries.

So, since then, my answer is modern day slavery. Wherever and however it exists.

Don't need unlimited resources to start, just to make a living.

Would likely need unlimited resources both monetarily and legal to actually attempt to tackle it, though.

If I had any real idea of how to start, I'd have done so yesterday.
by petre | 2025-07-09 06:41:18+00:00
Yes, but it's still agri products sold for pennies. Compare that to motor vehicles, car parts, furniture and sanitary hardware that Poland exports. Also, I never ate Shopska salad made with Dutch tomatoes in Bulgaria, even in restaurants outside of Sofia. I can tell the difference, they almost always served the good ripe stuff that has taste, not the watery green variety or the huge Greek tomatoes with air gaps inside.
by teekert | 2025-07-09 06:41:44+00:00
It’s sad isn’t (wasn’t) such a professor as a waste of money? I mean the market dictates what we get, with some influential persons and companies, but it’s all chance.

Why do we have these well paid professors working on stuff like this?

I think if we feel that we do need them, they should be laser focused on making sure there are societal benefits to tech. Not “working on cool stuff”.

Or is this no longer happening?
by ktsangop | 2025-07-09 06:42:11+00:00
I hope Bulgaria and the EU have learned from past mistakes (I don't think they have). While EU and the Euro had good intentions and prospect, it turned out to be a disaster for some of us. Greece is in a recession for more than 16 years now, with no visible exit, because (one of many reasons of course) it couldn't devalue its currency back in 2009.

Now we might speculate that Greece couldn't have avoided this, even if it weren't for the Euro, but having lived this from the inside, I think that it wouldn't be that painful.

Countries like Japan, Italy and even USA nowdays, have comparable debt to GDP indexes, but none of them (as far as I undestand) have had this kind of dorp in living standards, price inflation or increase in poverty rates since 2008.

Best of luck to our Bulgarian neighbours. They are going to need it!
by arthurcolle | 2025-07-09 06:43:27+00:00
Try it with Claude Code on Opus

Gemini CLI isn't very good

Edit: Also, the more competent models (Opus/ Sonnet to a lesser degree) are good at very complex subtask delegation that it can blow through and attempt and then verify in seconds, so not sure hand crafted regex examples are the best counter examples here

New code patch models that I didn't even take seriously are actually really impressive and pretty new
by tomhow | 2025-07-09 06:47:12+00:00
Could you please stop commenting in this style? I mean, these frequent, brief, inflammatory comments about politically/ideologically charged, divisive topics. The guidelines ask us to avoid posting in this style, and HN is only a place people want to visit because we and others make an effort to uphold those guidelines. We have to ban accounts that continue posting like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by raxxorraxor | 2025-07-09 06:47:15+00:00
You mean Albanese? Well, special rapporteur indeed. Objectively she isn't procecuted as she holds a high official position. I believe her to be unfit as well, but that isn't dangerous criticism and she isn't procecuted or in any form of danger.

What the lawyers did is certainly tasteless, but it also doesn't fit procecution.

I won't give you any sources, but these are utter trivialities to what some Jewish people have to endure. And I have yet to see a mob threatening anyone you mentioned, because they don't exist.
by menaerus | 2025-07-09 06:47:44+00:00
So you're saying that there are no professional therapists that can do the same bad? I think that the issue is more subtle, and as with everything, nothing is really black and white.

I have, for instance, used LLMs a couple of times to assess and reflect over the few situations I have been questioning myself about recently. And I thought it did really well, much better than what most of my well-thought friends would do. Some proper advice and reflection. I did this in 1hr of my spare time completely randomly (before I went to a sleep) and without extra time spent on finding the (right) therapist, waiting on the list, going physically into his/her office, spending that 1hr there, and finally paying some cash. So, for me in this particular case this was an obvious win.
by szszrk | 2025-07-09 06:48:28+00:00
I find his view a bit polarized, but can't really see him comparing those countries at all.

But if we talk about Polish-Bulgarian exchanges: Those two countries actually have more or less the same numbers of Euro spent on import and export between each other. Bulgaria doubled export to Poland in just 2 years. Food products are important, but Bulgaria also exports to Poland many metals, mechanical and electrical devices, pharmaceuticals...

The biggest Polish import from Bulgaria in 2023 were almost a billion Euro on guns and ammunition. "Seeds and oily fruits" (whatever is the correct translation) were 20x less than that.

- https://www.gov.pl/web/bulgaria/informator-ekonomiczny4
by Cu3PO42 | 2025-07-09 06:49:46+00:00
It is horrible UX and one might argue intentional. The terminals are provided by the acquirer, i.e. the same party that stands to make extra money if you let them handle the currency exchange.

In Germany, there was a sliver of time where stores essentially taped a piece of paper to terminals with instructions and big red arrows to select a specific scheme because that would benefit the store (and not cost the consumer extra). It didn't really stick, however. I suspect because it was two extra button presses and the consumer wouldn't notice either way.
by yamatokaneko | 2025-07-09 06:50:12+00:00
When you mentioned you’ve “recovered from burnout a bit,” do any of the options you listed actually feel exciting to you?

Assuming going back to your old job or job hunting isn’t your top pick, do things like a longer sabbatical or a total career shift spark any motivation?

Since you’ve got enough runway, I’d wait until something genuinely excites you before making a move.
by em3rgent0rdr | 2025-07-09 06:50:32+00:00
I was also going to suggest that... But I imagine that the Ethernet port or antennae wire (and necessary battery to power antennae) would dwarf the size of that MCU. But thinking again, I suppose if the rules permit the MCU to be directly wired to the Ethernet cable, then could bitbang an early Ethernet standard with this MCU's pins...
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-09 06:53:01+00:00
><the popular Front>

(I'm also carefully going through the possible reasons why upvotes on cmmnts on HN should be secret but while downvotes are almost not at all ;)

Ignoring ftm the not too interesting clusters of "prophet at home"+"hermit no-one will admit they take seriously" ideas:

-I assumed when Paul says "Republicans" he always means the guys in the Inner (& some portion* of Outer) Party.

-In my not even half baked model it's an inverted pyramid where the anti-intellectual/anti-institution ("subaltern") swing-voter base is sovereign

-Trump can go full subaltern because the guys (right+center+epsilon) that sincerely believe in (the sanctity of) the Institution "know" that It cannot be touched

-check with the very short list of "talk left walk left" historical examples, and see why no uh party member believes that "talk left smash everything" could happen -- that's way too subaltern for a moneyed dude.. and well it doesn't (not in any meaningful way-- he can't touch the Fed?)

-you may still handwave that perceptions are everything

-or you can help with baking the model (eg *what portion)
by yongjik | 2025-07-09 06:54:04+00:00
It's been ages, but I think an earlier edition of Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language explains that he specifically chose "throw" and "catch" because more obvious choices like "signal" were already taken by established C programs and choosing "unusual" words (like "throw" and "catch") reduced chance of collision. (C interoperability was a pretty big selling point in the early days of C++.)
by esperent | 2025-07-09 06:54:08+00:00
The Great Wave is a deservedly famous piece of art, but if it's the only thing of Hokusai that you know, do yourself a favor and look up some of his other work.

Waterfall penance is my favorite.

https://www.tremontauctions.com/auction-lot/hokusai-katsushi...

He also made some weird art involving an octopus and a woman, which is insightful both for understanding the other side of a famous artist, and also some of the weirder things in modern Japanese manga.

Edit: after I made this comment I was reminded of a comic I saw on reddit, where the artist was bemoaning their dream of getting paid to draw beautiful art, versus the reality where the only people willing to actually pay for art all want furry porn. So maybe not much has changed really, and maybe it says less about Japanese culture, and more about the general human condition.
by riffraff | 2025-07-09 06:54:25+00:00
Countless people see replicas everyday, don't know they're replicas, and are happy about it.

Sometimes the replicas themselves are so old they become a monument on their own right, like some "Egyptian" obelisks in Rome, which are roman copies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obelisks_in_Rome
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-09 06:54:33+00:00
>Imagine if it was intelligent and played witness to the giant cataclysm.

They'd have had to be watching from one very high orbit, and even then I wouldn't bet favorably on their chances considering the sheer gargantuan volume of debris Theia tossed into the space above earth.

Anywhere terrestrial and they'd be dead far too quickly to watch much of anything. I've seen some fairly detailed models on the presumed effects of this collision and it would have rapidly super-heated the whole Earth's atmosphere while vaporizing or melting the crust of the entire world down to a depth of at least several hundred meters. Good luck finding a bunker that can handle that.