MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-17 00:15:55+00:00
They routinely get away with it, it's a cottage industry of sorts. See [1].

> Why isn't there a bigger crackdown on such petty crime? I guess people think they can get away with it, but it feels like one of those creeping issues that might seem small at first but deters important activity (tourism, business relocation, etc.) longterm if not addressed.

Because no one cares about long term.

[1]. https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/how-your-sto...
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-17 00:16:07+00:00
"The issue here is that no one can agree on which portion of government spending is wasteful."

Human nature, I guess

"It’s almost taken as a tautology that the government is wasteful. After 50 years of cost cutting and wage freezes," These cuts are not reflected in government spending vs GDP is mostly flat for the last 40 years

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

Note that in the 1970s the US was paying for moonshots and Vietnam (both filthy expensive)

"I tend to find it fanciful that individuals paid 1/4 of their private sector compensation to work on core civil infrastructure, national research priorities, and policy are somehow a bad deal for the American taxpayer at large. "

Ya, that's not a thing. I worked in government, I still work on government projects and no one outside the NSA is getting paid a 1/4 of their private sector compensation. Maybe a 20% hit which they chose to accept since, in my experience, most start as contractors and move to become feds for the job sec + benefits.

Frankly, Id say half of the government employees I worked with are unemployable. And they most of them had at least a STEM masters.

"If anything, I’d imagine that the government could incentivize greater productivity by normalizing the pay scales. At a minimum, maintaining a public capability can often neutralize monopolistic pricing practices."

I don't necessarily disagree.

"Have you considered who the narrative of wasteful spending benefits? Even our narratives of tax increases never discuss tax increases on what is now the bulk of personal monetary gain."

Ive considered it a lot in fact. One of the main beneficiaries appears to be the DC area which was the only region of the country not to have a recession in 2008 and has been outpacing most of the country in growth for thirty years.

The main beneficiaries, thus, are the laptop-class (and their billionaire masters) which is a new way of saying mandarins.
by nickff | 2025-07-17 00:16:45+00:00
Construction costs are not the only costs relating to development and redevelopment. Financing and project risk are also quite significant. Issues that push back the start of construction vastly increase financing costs, and increase construction costs. A delay in getting a permit, or a stop work order because of an environmental lawsuit runs up the interest payments on the loan used to purchase the real estate, as well as increasing the impact of inflation, delaying the revenue, and impacting trades’ schedules, all of which reduce the ROI of the project. These are just some of the issues caused by delays.
by atbpaca | 2025-07-17 00:16:50+00:00
Machines will need humans, for sure. The question is how many? For instance, there is a company using printing technology to build homes in Austin, Texas. The target number of workers needed to operate the "printer" is 3, down from 10. So on the positive side, the remaining 3 workers will have a better work environment, maybe the costs of building houses will go down a bit, etc. In the other hand, 7 workers are no longer needed. My point is that the gains in efficiency will come with some winners and, in my humble opinion, many losers. And that will only help to downsize the middle class even further. Don't get me wrong, from a scientific/technological point of view, I am looking forward it. But I am concerned with the social impact in the long term.
by photonthug | 2025-07-17 00:17:09+00:00
Comprehension is a spectrum that starts somewhere superficial and merely "adequate" but also stretches into deeper literacy/fluency. On one end of the spectrum it is about reading between the lines, but that doesn't mean it's purely subjective nonsense. As for whether it's interesting or valuable, if you want to stay on the surface that's fine, but it's a narrow point of view to imagine that's all that is there.

Not sure if you've got an engineering/math brain with no taste for art, but I'll put it like this in case it helps. Who cares about the infinitude of primes, I mean it's just numbers and what could be interesting or valuable in that? If you're thinking squishy crap like literature and critical theory sort of sucks because you're craving something more hard and objective, maybe try to come at it from the point of view of semiotics[0], which is an adjacent topic, but also closely related to stuff like linguistics, formal semantics, cognitive science. Frege worked on this kind of stuff when he wasn't busy being a giant in mathematical logic [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
by efskap | 2025-07-17 00:17:25+00:00
I tried to make the softphone approach work but I was unreachable far too often when Android decided to kill whichever softphone app I tried.

And if it did keep running, I'm pretty sure it consumed decently more energy than a dedicated telephony module. And yeah as mentioned, even with a "real" local phone number ported to voipms, I wasn't able to get sms codes from some services.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-07-17 00:17:34+00:00
There are a lot of “it depends” here. I’ve worked at orgs where best engineer gets promoted to manager because… best engineer! And the result can be a train wreck. I’ve seen the reverse where managers from a business background are managing engineers (also can be a train wreck). There are also plenty of great managers who don’t “lead”; they go about their work building a great working environment and helping others succeed (often a senior engineer will be providing the leadership portion).

A good organisation will be good at offering opportunity to the right people and giving them the tools they need. I agree that a good org is rarer than it should be, which is probably the source of much cynicism.
by immibis | 2025-07-17 00:17:51+00:00
Did he use an LLM to write the bullshit parts of his resumé? It's mandatory. Companies are running LLMs to look for a certain kind of bullshit and you're supposed to use an LLM to write it. I got more interviews after asking ChatGPT to write my "professional summary" saying I have a proven track record of building reliable applications with a strong understanding of software architecture, blah blah blah. Nobody mentioned this section, even the ones who wanted to talk about the rest of my resumé. But I got more interviews.
by mogwire | 2025-07-17 00:18:18+00:00
Honestly do you not think what he is saying isn't true?

Do you think they count the items he mentioned in the total costs?

Every major project in America has undocumented costs to go along with the miles of red tape. Just look at California's High Speed Rail.

Where I live they wanted to extend the expressway and it was overwhelmingly supported. So why, 6 years later hasn't it happened? The environmentalist sued to get a survey done that took 2 years to find.... no impact. The county commissioners got voted out and now the new ones want certain promises. The company that got the original no bid contract is owned by a brother of a former commissioner so that led to law suits. People sued because they don't want the new exits to be too close to their house. Others sued because they felt the exits would targets towards higher end homes and didn't equally consider everyone. Then you have the demands that we use ONLY AMERICAN LABOUR!!! and ONLY AMERICAN MATERIALS!!! A state representative said they would boycott the expansion unless a certain percentage of his constitutions were hired to do the work regardless of their qualifications. Another said they would block it due to road noise and complaints from his constitutions unless compensation was made.

It goes on and on and each one costs money they don't count in the official budget.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 00:19:07+00:00
I'm sure, because phone have multiple problems. One is the software, usually it's fisher-price levels of dumbed down. Buttons are huge because people have fat fingers.

So we can fix the software, but we still have hardware limitations. The hardware is small. The screen is small. There's no keyboard, only buttons on said screen. I can open a document on my phone, yes. But I see 1/10th the content I would on a computer screen - just because the screen is very small. I mean, we have these super high resolution displays... running at 400% scaling. Meanwhile, I have 1440p running at 100% on my computer.

That's, like, a lot more stuff that can be on the screen.
by ackfoobar | 2025-07-17 00:19:29+00:00
I don't think "Scala+Maven is worse than Scala+sbt" is opposite to "Scala+sbt is worse than Java+Maven".

As much as I like to hate Scala, in my past experience if you have sbt console open, then hit compile after every few changes the feedback loop is tight-ish - barring crazy Scala features being used.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-17 00:20:11+00:00
> Because the police don't care, and these crimes are generally impossible to solve.

Because they don't care is correct. These crimes are actually trivial to solve. The devices are tracked, there is a clear money trail, people are doing this routinely as a business.

As you said people routinely track their stolen property and nothing is done about it.

They don't care because it's "petty" crime. And they will "get to it after they solve all the murders."
by napowderly | 2025-07-17 00:20:52+00:00
I think there is actually some really neat stuff to be built here. I think layout engineers would love to be able to write down their 'style guide' that is basically a set of parameters modifying the footprint. We would have a 'common' representation, basically a definition of the package itself that would be transformed to whatever you might like for the pad/silk shapes. Something very similar to having a linter in code that would enforce company best practices.

We already provide the 'plug and play' version which looks quite alot like LCSC data and is certainly good enough for playing around with. Id really like to put some effort into standardizing this in the mid-term, seems pretty crazy to me that there are way more footprints designs out there than actual packages.
by erentz | 2025-07-17 00:21:40+00:00
Companies should buy back their stock if their stock is undervalued.

This anti stock buyback meme is silly. It’s like people who are anti shorting stock. Companies list on the stock exchange in order to sell their own stock to raise capital. If they have excess capital, absolutely they should be able to buy back their stock. And buy other companies stock if they see it as undervalued also.
by muzani | 2025-07-17 00:22:23+00:00
It's outdated advice in 2025 IMO.

1) We had this methodology for over a decade now. Most of the business models that work with this have been mined out. The features that increase customer sales by 2-3x are the ones that nobody asked for.

2) Building prototypes is cheap. Like easier than making videos or slides. You don't need $100k and a few months to build features anymore.

3) Landing pages, wishlists, and product hunt have become a smell that these guys have no idea what they're doing. They're validating. The docs are incomplete, there's some tutorial videos on a screen that doesn't exist. 2 weeks later, these companies tell me they're pivoting to something agentic that I don't want.

Fuck that. It took us 3 days to build it internally. The logic for SaaS was that it caters for edge cases and maintenance that we don't want to do, but these modern SaaS don't want to do it either. If they knew what they were doing and if they cared, they wouldn't be playing the wishlist game.

Have some confidence in what you build. Do it better than your customers would do with Bolt or Lovable.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-17 00:22:43+00:00
I think putting up with the occasional crazed ideologies is worth it, if it means the rest of the articles acknowledge politicians are usually wrong, regardless of the party. That's why I read articles from the Reason Foundation (https://reason.com/latest/), unless there's something up their alley, like politician legalizing hard drugs for sex workers, or something crazy like that, they have no issue with calling politicians out on their nonsense, regardless of the party.

The next best option is finding a news source that at least has journalists with competing viewpoints. It does mean for every article calling out nonsense, you'll get another one supporting it, but at least they aren't ignoring any issues they find inconvenient. The best I've found for this is The Hill. (https://thehill.com/news/) Sure, one of their contributors took CNBC at their word on the quality of life ranking (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5402709-vermont-qua...) with no thought put into whether analyzing policy is an effective metric of actual life quality, but they also publish articles from contributors that call out news sources for similar rhetoric.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-17 00:22:52+00:00
One of the reasons I’m a bit bearish in AI is related to this, there still seem to be some basic tests that AI fail when trying to figure out, is it combining vectors in its training data, or actually understanding. In places where the training data is robust, it feels like understanding, but hit any place where it’s sparse and it stays around the problem.

ChatGPT used to not be able to generate an image of a full glass of wine(you can search YouTube for a long video of this). Probably because there had never been a full glass of wine in its training data.

They fixed that, maybe altering how they label things to include factors they hadn’t thought of? Maybe they literally watched the video and just added images of full glasses of wine? But there was a big article that went on to say “the problem has been solved, they think now”

So i went into chatGPT and started saying “generate me an image with x% full glass of wine, and it doesn’t do it.

Occasionally it gets close but with no consistency. And this is a problem that is very logical/mathematical, I could develop a script to understand the nature of the task easily. weird.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-17 00:25:11+00:00
I don't know what a fired certificate is unless you're making a funny about you needing to do that with a divorce certificate? I also don't know what that is either. There's a divorce decree issued by the court, is that what you mean? Have you actually had a date ask to see legal documents about your divorce or any of the other situations? I just have no experience with any of that so it seems very strange, and feels like your just belaboring the point.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 00:26:36+00:00
Microsoft used to have a Teams for Linux application. It was identical to the Windows application because it's just an Electron app, but shockingly it was buggy on Linux (???) I don't even know how... I mean, Microsoft chose a cross-platform framework. They must've written some stupid ass code that isn't portable, at which point why not use one of the dozen Microsoft GUI frameworks available?
by consumer451 | 2025-07-17 00:27:11+00:00
The billionaires appear to be more pro-Russia, as that is where more billions lay.

Look at the oligarch paper of record, the grey lady. Just last week, they claimed that the Western-most, and safest Ukraininian city, Lviv, was too unsafe. They instead chose to embed that reporter with russian troops, in Kursk, and described it as "A Landscape of Death: Where Ukraine invaded."

Look at the comments on this story. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/world/europe/ukraine-russ...

It is insane, and utterly disconnect from reality. Do you know who uses blanket artillery barrages on villages? Russia. Even if Ukraine wanted to do that, they don't have the shells to spare. Russia has a well known documented history of not giving a flying f about the lives of its own people. This was just another example, and NYT laid it on "Where Ukraine invaded."

I honestly have a hard time believing that this is a NYT headline, and story. This is "WMD in Iraq" levels of NYT journalistic malpractice. This is true manipulation. The aggressor is the victim. Up is down. Who cares about Reddit comments. Decision makers read this crap in the NYT!
by alganet | 2025-07-17 00:27:54+00:00
You're missing the point, but I'll entertain your misdirection for a while.

The Wachowski sisters never released a Matrix movie. One of them gave up completely, the other one also almost gave up and ended up writing just a part of it. I'm talking about Matrix Ressurrections, obviously.

Of course, none of it matters, but you're being pedantic, so, here's the pedantic response.
by starfallg | 2025-07-17 00:28:38+00:00
> In practice the best managers care primarily about politics and growing their personal stake in the organization.

This is fine, and expected of senior management.

> I've found that the more clueless they are the better (just don't point that out).

This is toxic. Management at the senior level of these organisations has been completely detached from the activities on the ground.

A healthy functional organisation should have senior managers that understand the complete stack of layers, but especially at the level where the value is being generated they need to fully understand.
by nemothekid | 2025-07-17 00:29:09+00:00
>When refactoring you just add assertions for NULL

This is a line of thinking I used to see commonly when dynamic typing was all the rage. I think the difference comes from people who view primarily work on projects where they are the sole engineer vs ones where they work n+1 other engineers.

"just add assertions" only works if you can also sit on the shoulder of everyone else who is touching the code, otherwise all it takes is for someone to come back from vacation, missing the refactor, to push some code that causes a NULL pointer dereference in an esoteric branch in a month. I'd rather the compiler just catch it.

Furthermore, expressive type systems are about communcation. The contracts between functions. Your CPU doesn't case about types - types are for humans. IMO you have simply moved the complexity from the language into my brain.
by napowderly | 2025-07-17 00:29:32+00:00
I basically dont write ato code when designing modules any more, claude code + rules file + a few decent examples and an MCP for basic functions like building, finding parts and inspecting library components is able to do a pretty great job. As an example, claude one-shotted this MPU6050 design: https://github.com/atopile/packages/blob/multi/adafruit_heis...

Currently working on a pipeline to generate a whole bunch of these automatically, stick them on some big test boards and make sure they actually work. We will be selling razor blades, and will have the test data to show they work.
by dahart | 2025-07-17 00:29:59+00:00
I am intrigued by your comment but a little confused as well, could you elaborate? What do you mean by ‘best manager’? Is that one who’s valuable and good for the org, or one that’s good at getting raises and promotions for himself and nobody else? If it’s the former, I’d love to hear more about why being clueless is helpful.

And what does one do if caught in the situation you describe of not ever being let into the fold? How do you manage up in that situation? Leave?
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 00:31:02+00:00
The reason Linux won't take off is because Windows users have unrealistic expectations. They define "intuitive" as "works like Windows".

But Windows is not intuitive - it's, possibly, the least intuitive operating system to ever exist. It's just familiar.

But it's a Catch 22. If Linux is like Windows, then there's zero reason to use it. Just use Windows. But if Linux is not like Windows, then it's not familiar.

The solution is to reframe your expectations. If you expect Linux to work like Windows, you will be disappointed - and rightfully so. Nobody expects MacOS to work like Windows, no, you adapt.
by paulcole | 2025-07-17 00:31:04+00:00
> However, it does seem like there is a profitable business for someone there given how beloved it was/is.

Normal people didn’t love small phones. They loved their small iPhones.

When it comes down to it they will not love the Pine Phone Mini.

For the vast majority of people, the key feature is that it’s an iPhone not that it’s small.
by kragen | 2025-07-17 00:31:24+00:00
Whether 16-bit data moves around the system as 8-bit values or not sounds like a question about the implementation, not the architecture (the spec).

For example, the spec says, "Reading a double from program memory will read the high byte of the double from the given address and the low byte from the following address," but I'd think that generally you'd want the implementation to work by reading the whole 16-bit word at once and then byte-swapping it if necessary, because that would usually be faster, and there's no way for the program to tell if it's doing that, unless reading from the first byte has a side effect that changes the contents of the second byte or otherwise depends on whether you were reading the second byte at the same time.

(Of course if you have a "double" that crosses the boundaries of your memory subsystem's word, you have to fall back to two successive word reads, but that happens transparently on amd64 CPUs.)
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-17 00:31:28+00:00
And my experience was in Australia, so the "decline of policing" has well and truly reached out shores as well.

To possibly make this even more frustrating, when I was told I could pick up my gear, the detective in charge said that a few things they found flagged as suspicious:

1. I had / used virtual machines

2. I had "Tor" on my computer(s)

3. I had downloaded stuff from Megaupload

Now I'm not entirely sure whether these comments were based on what they found on my seized gear, or whether these were actually sufficient 'red flags' to make them think the warrant was justified initially, but, my god, how completely out of their depth, and therefore totally unqualified, they are to make life-changing adjudications about these things - and that their access to metadata only makes it more likely that they'll make false positive mistakes (which is just terrible for society overall).

I'm literally not sure what they meant by saying "you have tor on your computer", whether there's evidence of my having visited the dark web, or just having a (way outdated) copy of the tor browser saved somewhere.

And I think the only things I'd ever downloaded from Megaupload were Android ROMs.

Regarding Virtual Machines: I can't even... they're obviously non-technical so couldn't possibly understand, and yet... gah, I can't even...
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