MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-16 22:08:49+00:00
Alternative summary of Roses Are Red: Love, simplicity, beauty, ambiguity, tradition.

There are different ways of summarizing a text. Odyssey (another poem) could be summarized bluntly:

Homer's The Odyssey follows Odysseus, king of Ithaca, on his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. For ten years, he faces trials, including the Cyclops Polyphemus, the witch Circe, and the deadly Sirens, while angering the sea god Poseidon. Meanwhile, in Ithaca, his wife Penelope fends off persistent suitors, awaiting his return. With the help of the goddess Athena, Odysseus finally returns, disguised as a beggar. He reveals himself, defeats the suitors in a contest of skill and battle, and reunites with Penelope.

Or it can be summarized as I summarized Roses Are Red:

The Odyssey, attributed to Homer, is a richly layered epic that follows Odysseus’ tumultuous journey home after the Trojan War. It explores themes of heroism, identity, loyalty, and human frailty through encounters with gods, monsters, and mortals. The narrative intertwines adventure with moments of introspection, revealing a tension between fate and agency. Penelope’s endurance, Telemachus’ coming-of-age, and Odysseus’ cunning invite reflection on resilience and transformation. Yet, its moral ambiguities—violence, deception, and divine caprice—resist tidy resolution. The epic’s power lies in its openness to interpretation, offering a timeless meditation on the complexities of human experience and the longing for home.

Obviously very different approaches.
by janalsncm | 2025-07-16 22:08:52+00:00
I believe the changes have more to do with US tax laws which have made it harder for companies to write off R&D. Companies might say it’s due to AI to put an investor-friendly spin on it.

I’m biased and it worries me that the above is also what I’d like to believe, rather it being than a permanent tightening of the screws on SWEs. We could test the hypothesis to see if the same trends happened in other countries (like Canada) who didn’t change their tax policies.
by hopelite | 2025-07-16 22:09:42+00:00
Buybacks are in effect and by definition a kind of fraud even if people make excuses for it or do not want to see it that way. It's the equivalent of a vested interest driving up an auction price or, you know, buying a bunch of your own product and then using the "sales" figures to convince others to invest or buy your product at a higher rate/price due to artificial scarcity.

The fact that c-suites authorize buybacks largely to boost the stock price in order to trigger their own performance bonuses tied to the stock price only highlights that point.

If you did something even remotely similar, you would be prosecuted for fraud, because it's fraud.

1) Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

2) A person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.

The problem though is that the incentive structure is so that none of the involved parties has any disincentive, let alone an adversarial incentive to end the practice, let alone has standing to do anything legally, short of sabotaging their own stock value.

It's a totally perverse and corrupted incentive structure, similar to why both Trump or Biden, or Democrats or Republicans have the real will or interests in ... non of the involved parties have any interest in revealing the rot and corruption, and all parties involved have every incentive to keep it all under wraps, suppressed, covered, up and distracted from.

In some ways, a civil activist organization could in fact buy a single stock of one of the most egregious stock buyback stock price inflation causing corporations and sue them for fraud and deception, but it would have to come with a claim at manipulation of the market due to fraudulent manipulation of the price discovery process similar to a light version of cornering the market through restriction of supply, i.e., cartel behavior.
by coderjames | 2025-07-16 22:10:12+00:00
My department at the place I work is actively hiring Software Engineers. We have nine open requisitions for any seniority level and are regularly conducting interviews, but the new-grad candidates this year have been... disappointing.

I've conducted two phone screens this month and asked each candidate to implement FizzBuzz in their language of choice after giving them an explanation of the problem. Both took more than ten minutes to write out a solution and we don't even require them to run it; I'll excuse trivial syntax errors in an interview setting if I can tell what you meant.

When CS students can't write a basic for loop and use the modulo operator without relying on AI, I weep for their generation.
by secondcoming | 2025-07-16 22:10:13+00:00
Because the police don't care, and these crimes are generally impossible to solve.

There are stories of people finding their stolen bicycles, motorbikes or cars, and when informing the police they're told to 'steal it back'.

The phones thieves are generally youths riding around the city on electric bikes, fully balaclava'd up. There's little chance of catching them. Even if they were caught nothing would happen to them.

London has apparently gone to shit since I lived there 5 years ago.
by spankalee | 2025-07-16 22:10:36+00:00
For those of us who are aware that these things exist, but now how they all integrate: how do you go from SIP server to actual phone service?

Are you meaning that the SIP server is shared by all the friends in the network who want to talk to each other, or that you can get phone service via the SIP server?

My dad worked on a lot of VOIP equipment in his career, so I always kind of wanted to do this, but don't like the $10/month for something almost never used, and got my kid a phone anyway because the portability and camera are pretty key. We just control the phone so that it acts like a land-line. I might be templated to do a VOIP setup for the house any if were easy enough.
by fidotron | 2025-07-16 22:10:41+00:00
This will prove to be a strange business.

Civil engineering is already a field where the very largest projects are done by humans planning and building the roads and bridges for the robots to move in (such as things rented from Mammoet [1] with extra control systems), but it does require significant human oversight (typically a metaphorical red button).

It's all very one off and specific, and given how big those projects are that seems unlikely to change. The manufacturing of suburbs though would be a whole different ballgame.

[1] Specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propelled_modular_transpo...
by ivan_gammel | 2025-07-16 22:11:02+00:00
There will be one at some point. There is no plausible scenario in which it will be favorable for Ukraine: the West missed the moment to build up military production to match and surpass Russian capacity, so there is zero chance that there will be any military wins. And sanctions don’t work, that should have been pretty clear by now to anyone who sees the numbers. It is all about damage control and how many Ukrainians will have to die before Western politicians will accept inevitable.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-07-16 22:11:08+00:00
Democracy and equality is crumbling in front of our eyes. Epstein's client list has disappeared in full public view, his footage is doctored in full public view and no one can do anything besides write angry comments or shuffle around legal paper that won't amount to anything. Everything just looks like a meaningless TV show, whatever new horrific thing happens it'll be on the news for a while and disappear - no one will face any consequences, all of us will just click the next article. We are serfs and no one wants to admit it, and we love individuality and isolation too much to have the kind of class-consciousness it would take to actually create change.

Propaganda is everywhere but so many people believe their countries are free of propaganda.
by screature2 | 2025-07-16 22:11:23+00:00
Not entirely disagreeing, but Intel feels more like a poster child of buybacks that (in hindsight and in comparison with their peer group) would have been much better spent reinvested into the company https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-intel-fi...:

* they've done about $152B in stock buybacks since 1990 https://www.intc.com/stock-info/dividends-and-buybacks. I think... ~$108B in the last decade.

* during the same time period they fell behind TSMC and SEC in semiconductor fab , missed the boat on mobile (couldn't really capture the market for either smartphone or tablet CPUs), and are missing the boat w/AI training https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/07/14/intel-officially-throws-i...

Discussion of Intel's buyback behavior as excessive and wasteful was also picked up on during all the discussion of CHIPs subsidies last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849727 see also https://ips-dc.org/report-maximizing-the-benefits-of-the-chi...
by jonas21 | 2025-07-16 22:12:12+00:00
After reading the first half of your comment, I was afraid the second half was going to end with something like "Then there was a fire and 3 people died because the exit was blocked."

Getting fined doesn't sound so bad -- if it was like $100, your friend could just be treating it as a $0.30/day fee for convenient parking. But you both seemed to ignore the really high-impact potential outcome. So I guess that proves your point.
by ajross | 2025-07-16 22:12:27+00:00
Right. That's the economic argument: hosting anonymously-submitted/unvetted/insecure/exploit-prone junkware is cheap. And so if you have a platform you're trying to push (like Python or Node[1]) you're strongly incentivized to root your users simply because if you don't your competitors will.

But it's still broken.

[1] Frankly even Rust has this disease with the way cargo is managed, though that remains far enough upstream of the danger zone to not be as much of a target. But the reckoning is coming there at some point.
by crtified | 2025-07-16 22:12:44+00:00
I am not sure how you think a 17 year old kid with ZERO legal or social rights or family support or money was somehow meant to overpower the iron will of the girl's furious parents (who in turn intractably convinced the girl herself), whose roof she still lived under - being in the final years of high school - and the medical fraternity, and the laws of my country, and the will of society. What was I supposed to do? Lock her in a tower?

But congratulations on shallowly judging people as murderers on a whim. Perhaps you might consider how that is a less than ideal characteristic, if caring about the lives of human beings is your actual goal here.
by IsTom | 2025-07-16 22:13:00+00:00
You need to switch to desktop mode to install non-steam software like emulators, so I assume some people use it at least intermittently. And I've seen some posts about people running a DAW (bitwig) on it. It's not going to be many people, but the deck is a legit linux PC if you've got a dock with peripherials attached. Can't say that about other consoles.
by neilv | 2025-07-16 22:13:07+00:00
Yeah, this was buried under a section about "child users". I don't know how that's legal in a two-party consent state.

> C. Information Related to Child Users (Collected via the Service):

> Voice Audio Data: Audio data transmitted during calls made or received on the Tin Can Device.

Between this, and the civil and possibly regulatory liability of having 911 not necessarily work, this company might end up blowing their runway and more on lawyers.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-16 22:13:20+00:00
> No, I don't know the specifics of how you do it.

HN had four stories of the US government violating the 4th and 5th amendments for surveillance for CBP and ICE yesterday alone. The President jokes about revoking citizenship, of both natural born and otherwise. We have had dozens of citizens sent to black sites without due process. We are monitoring social media for immigrants while deporting people to illegal death camp prisons in countries they have never been.

The sitting US president is a convicted rapist who attempted to violently overthrow the government 5 years ago. Who is now covering for the leader of the largest, highest-profile child rape program in history - led by one of his best friends! They, this week, published fabricated videos from official government sources. And the SCOTUS has declared him effectively immune from prosecution.

We are so far from pretending to be a country of rules and laws anymore. So, fuck it, just decree it and call them terrorists at this point. Ship the execs to Guantanamo.
by subhro | 2025-07-16 22:13:21+00:00
Yes, get a trunk from someone like BulkVS, SignalWire and run your own freeswitch or asterix. You can set up arbitrary “allowed” lists. Hell you can even get fancy with lookups and decide on the fly to allow a call or not.

There are other comments about providers, but my way is way cheaper and you can run you EPBAX on a pi or even get a pre made VM from Azure, Amazon, etc.

Damn I hate paying rent.
by em-bee | 2025-07-16 22:13:51+00:00
that's like suggesting someone complaining about security issues should fork libxml or openssl because the original developers don't have enough resources to maintain their work. the right answer is that as users of those packages we need to pool our resources and contribute to enable the developers to do a better job.

for pypi that means raising funds that we can contribute to.

so instead of arguing that the PSF doesn't have the resources, they should go and raise them. do some analysis on what it takes, and then start a call for help/contributions. to get started, all it takes is to recognize the problem and put fixing it on the agenda.
by saulpw | 2025-07-16 22:14:22+00:00
> Even if you had a meager income of $50-$55k a year this whole time, you would have produced nearly $1 million dollars worth of income before taxes by now.

And how much was rent, and food, and car insurance? It's easy to multiply a salary by 20 and conclude that they fucked up. It's a lot harder to actually live on $50k/year when the system, owned and run by extraordinarily rich people, is trying to extract money from you with every dark pattern at its disposal. Car broke down? Credit card debt, 18% APR. Delay in paycheck deposit? Overdraft fees. Kindly old landlord decides to sell? Rent +20%.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-16 22:14:28+00:00
> There will be one at some point.

Even if that's true, the content you assume will be in it (even before considering the probability of your predicted content being wrong) may have as much bearing for Russia (or any othe nation’s) near term prospects as the eventual content of the peace deals ending the Israeli-Palestinian war or the US-North Korea war have on any nation’s near-term prospects.
by broken-kebab | 2025-07-16 22:15:30+00:00
I see what you mean, but it's simply doesn't work this way. Raising kids is so life changing that it has no money equivalent, like you can't buy another life. So if that mentioned self-interest is strictly materialist, one won't choose to have kids no matter how generous are welfare programs. We can find moral or practical reasons to support (or tax-relieve) those who does this work for the future of humanity, but it has nothing to do with low birthrate. You can't fix it by throwing money anywhere. It's a problem of ideals.
by emrehan | 2025-07-16 22:15:36+00:00
FCC has rules for calling 911, and many state statutes reinforce or extend FCC rules.

Tin Can is probably not bound by these rules, but it looks like a phone and works like a phone. In an emergency where seconds matter, it better not fail anyone.

Enabling 911 calls for all could not only save lives, but also save the company from lawsuits.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-16 22:16:15+00:00
> "Even if all the model is capable of is memorizing text then just the sheer volume it has memorized should yield unique insights, no human can ever hope to hold this much text in their memory and then make connections between it."

Yes, potentially, but the model has no curiosity or drive to do this (or anything else) by itself. All an LLM is built to do is predict. The only way to control the output and goad it into using the vast amount of knowledge that it has is by highly specific prompting.

Basically it's only going to connect the dots if you tell what dots to connect, in which case it's the human being inventive, not the model. The model is trying to predict, so essentially if you want it to do something outside of the training set you're going to have to prompt it to do that.

A human has curiosity (e.g. "what happens if I connect these dots .."), based on prediction failure and associated focus/etc - the innate desire to explore the unknown and therefore potentially learn. The model has none of that - it can't learn and has no curiosity. If the model's predictions are bad it will just hallucinate and generate garbage, perhaps "backtrack" and try again, and likely lead to context rot.
by freejazz | 2025-07-16 22:16:44+00:00
>I am not sure why you would think your single anecdote is defensible or evidence to prove much.

Evidence? Prove? What are you talking about. This is just a discussion between people, not some courtroom melodrama you are making it out to be.

>My perspective is valuations that are going on right now don’t have multiples that are that wild especially if we aren’t compare it to the com bubble.

Okay, I could be equally rude to you, but I wont.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-16 22:17:08+00:00
Cosigned 100%.

The only thing I would say is don't burn the shipping crates. That's just wasteful. Sell the products at 50% off retail to everyone in the US below the poverty line first, then everyone else, and use the funds to pay to improve the working conditions overseas. Our atmosphere doesn't need more waste in it.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-16 22:18:15+00:00
Looks like when you set the graph to annual average (which you have to do to avoid spikes each year when everyone graduates), the new college grad unemployment rate is in fact the highest it's been since 2014 when you take out 2020 and 2021. It's higher than it was in 2002, but lower than it was during the housing crisis. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CGBD2024#
by woodruffw | 2025-07-16 22:18:46+00:00
Murky security model for domain validation aside, how does that ensure the honesty of the uploaded package?

(So much of supply chain security is people combining these two things, when we want both as separate properties: I both want to know a package's identity, and I want to know that I should trust it. Knowing that I downloaded a package from `literallysatan.com` without that I should trust `literallysatan.com` isn't good enough!)
by hammyhavoc | 2025-07-16 22:19:22+00:00
Monkeys and typewriters.

Some of what paranoid schizophrenics have come up to me and said in the street or on public transport has come true too—even what my own stepfather struggled with in terms of delusions—doesn't make it meaningful though. It's a statistical inevitability.

If a thousand people each pick a unique number between 2025 and 3025 for when the USA will enter into another significant major conflict or offer UBI then statistically some people will be correct but most people will inevitably be wrong.

Now extrapolate that to a larger sample size, include specific demographics of people who are extremely intelligent and previously had a firm grasp of reality before having a poorly managed psychiatric issue, and you will inevitably end up with some people (very tragically) being correct about what they're fearful or angry about.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-07-16 22:19:33+00:00
> I can't quite see how this works in Rust...

You won't understand it unless refactor some Rust programs.

Bunny summed it up rather well. He said in most languages, when pull on some thread, you end disappearing into a knot and you're changes are just creating a bigger knot. In Rust, when pull on a thread, the language tells you where it leads. Creating a bigger knot generally leads to compile errors.

Actually he didn't say that, but I can't find the quote. I hope it was something like that. Nonetheless he was 100% spot on. That complexity you bemoan about the language is certainly there - but it's different to what you have experienced before.

In most languages, complex features tend lead to complex code. That's what made me give up on Python in the end. When you start learning Python, it seems a delightfully simple yet powerful language. But then you discover metaclasses, monkey patching, and decorators, which all seem like powerful and useful tools, and you use them to do cool things. I twisted Python's syntax into grammar productions, so you could write normal looking python code that got turned into an LR(1) parser for example. Then you discover other peoples code that uses those features to produce some other cute syntax, and it has a bug, and when you look closely your brain explodes.

As you say C doesn't have that problem, because it's such a simple language. C++ does have that problem, because it's a very complex language. I'm guessing you are making deduction from those two examples that complex languages lead to hard to understand code. But Rust is the counter example. Rust's complexity is forces you to write simple code. Turns out it's the complexity of the code that matters, not the complexity of the language.
by ponector | 2025-07-16 22:19:44+00:00
>>This just goes to show how little you've ever considered the problem

It's not really considered a problem. A real problem is a wellbeing of the old people, that's why it is financed better then wellbeing of future generations.

Cut elderly support and make a free childcare and education, huge tax rebates for each child, etc.

A huge pile of government debt is another indicator that future generations are fucked.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-16 22:20:01+00:00
This is all very well but how does Linus Thorvalds use git? Given he invented the bloody thing, it might be nice to see how the Boss uses it!

git was created to scratch an itch (actually a bit of a roiling boil, that needed a serious amount of soothing ointment and as it turns out: a compiler, some source code and quite a lot of effort). ... anyway the history of it is well documented.

FFS: git was called git because a Finnish bloke with English as a second, but well used, tongue had learned what a "git" is and it seemed appropriate. Bear in mind that Mr T was deeply in his shouty phase at that point in time.

Artisanal git sounds all kinds of wrong 8) Its just a tool to do a job and I suggest you use it in the same way as the XKCD comic mandates (that is the official manual, despite what you might think)

The Conclusion is spot on - great article.
by rezmason | 2025-07-16 22:20:13+00:00
What do y'all think of this one?

In 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, one of my commencement speakers (and the recipient of an honorary doctorate) was Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express. I don't remember his exact words, but his message to the graduating class was, we have a different perspective on the world and different values— thriftier ones, necessarily— and if we stay true to them, the world will reflect them when we succeed.

"Maybe instead of having a car, like your parents' generation, your first big purchase may be a bike. Times change." Something like that.

Four days later, he laid off four thousand workers from AmEx, just a smidge more people than the graduating class.

Edit: according to Wikipedia, that year he took home $16.6 million.
by libertine | 2025-07-16 22:20:13+00:00
You still failed to address the question: "little russians", "kholkhols" are ethnic slurs being used by Russian nationalists as terms of endearment?

> It says that some Ukrainians consider this word offensive which is not surprising taking into account active propaganda and lack of historical education in masses.

So not because Russians are in their land trying to kill as many Ukrainians as possible, terrorizing them, and destroying their culture? It's all because of propaganda?