MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cnst | 2025-08-01 16:43:21+00:00
That's a nice trick to get a fresh Google Account without any verifications!

But why would you need so many Google accounts? I think at one point it may simply become cumbersome to keep track of all the accounts, so, using an account-less Aurora Store seems like a very easy pathway to take.

I honestly never feel disadvantaged in any way by not having a Google Account on my Android. Aurora Store works, Google Maps works, banking and streaming works, everything just works.
by alphazard | 2025-08-01 16:44:29+00:00
It's fascinating to see the correlation in opinion between taxing tips and raising the minimum wage.

If the prevailing sentiment was to make things easier for low income workers, I would expect people to want to not tax tips, and increase the minimum wage. And people who want less government interference, would want less tax, and lower minimum wage. Those are the two opinions I expected to see.

But instead it seems like people want to tax tips, and increase the minimum wage, which is evidence of a kind of authoritarianism that I did not expect.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-01 16:44:58+00:00
Type-stripping, not TypeScript parsing or type safety.

Related:

Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js (59 points, 15 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597966

Node.js enables TypeScript handling by default (17 points, 6 months ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630790
by tom_m | 2025-08-01 16:45:17+00:00
Live coding has never been a good way to interview. I've been on both sides of it. I've even had to do it by writing on a whiteboard once upon a time. Super awkward to write code on a whiteboard and my writing skills on a whiteboard sucked (and still suck).

Often times coding interviews are academic and only prove basic understanding.

Those that are most successful are ones related to the business/product and that have no expectations of being finished or solved. So much so that I will simply bring up code as a reference to discuss and talk about -- not actually have anyone do any coding. The value is in understanding how someone approaches a challenge or simple day to day work. What are the questions they have? They should have questions. How engaged are they? Is there any past experiences with something similar? Etc.

Using code as a talking point or guide in an interview isn't bad. It's the awkward and stressful academic mental gymnastics that is. Most people giving interviews simply get this wrong. As a result, they have a lot of employee turnover. The funny thing is many people still sit there scratching their heads over why people don't work out if they passed the coding challenges.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-01 16:45:31+00:00
Highlights (emphasis mine):

> Open source maintainers can request a free license by emailing safe@erlang-solutions.com and including a link to their [GitHub] repository. Once approved, we provide a SAFE license for one month or up to a year, depending on the project’s needs, at no cost.

The legalese[1] (is incoherent but apparently) does not pass the Curl test, that is, the maintainer of Curl—who gets money by providing commercial support for his completely FOSS project—wouldn’t be allowed to use this had it applied to him:

> You can only use SAFE for open-source software. Any commercial use is prohibited.

[1] https://www.erlang-solutions.com/policies/safe-for-open-sour...
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-01 16:46:20+00:00
> because LLM inference is limited by memory bandwidth not compute, you can run multiple queries in parallel on your graphic card at the same speed as the single one

I don't think this is correct, especially given MoE. You can save some memory bandwidth by reusing model parameters, but that's about it. It's not giving you the same speed as a single query.
by quechimba | 2025-08-01 16:46:27+00:00
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by LargeWu | 2025-08-01 16:46:28+00:00
Maybe I'm missing context but this would be the exact opposite of the Abundance agenda.

If your point is that Andreesen advocates for abundance policies, but then also opposes them in classic NIMBY fashion when it affects him, well, that's an indictment of Marc Andreesen, not Abundance mentality. In fact, your point inadvertently seems to say "Marc Andreesen is not Abundance enough!" since he is engaged in anti-Abundance activity in lobbying against multi-family housing.
by polivier | 2025-08-01 16:46:32+00:00
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by creata | 2025-08-01 16:46:42+00:00
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by reactordev | 2025-08-01 16:47:23+00:00
I know, I’m joking about the tv series having anything to do with it. In reality, it’s because NYC is a city that never sleeps, financial markets call home, immigrants land there, it’s a city of opportunity and the rents reflect that. It’s been going up and up since 1900s.

My tongue in cheek joke was because most of the audience here doesn’t really know NYC history (they should, it’s fascinating) and doesn’t understand that a young quant hedge fund person has no problems paying $10k/mo in rent for a shoebox they’ll never be in. Just to have the NYC address, to be able to work within NYC. Any sane person would look towards Staten Island or Jersey, but even then the rent prices along the transit lines are double what’s available further out.

But I could be wrong and all the history buffs will rebuke me with facts about how commissioners in the 50s did this or that, or that some policy in the 70s created it.
by abeppu | 2025-08-01 16:47:37+00:00
But the thing in the study cited in the post was putting people alone in a room for the same task with the same time limit -- _not_ take home assignments.

What if this is just a (labor-saving) tweak to on-site live coding interviews. You've already reserved the room. The status quo is that a member of technical staff is in the room with the candidate for the duration of their interview. The low-cost alteration is, after you explain the task and make sure it's clear, you leave them alone in there for the remainder of the period. Perhaps the interviewer gets a few small work tasks done while waiting outside.

I think the only unfortunate thing is that when you're in the room trying to talk to them about their solution as they write it, sometimes you can have a helpful discussion, which may involve probing or leading questions, which sometimes give you some signal -- but these also make it much more difficult to compare across candidates, so perhaps we should be ok letting go of that opportunity.
by nvader | 2025-08-01 16:47:52+00:00
It seems to me that there's some advantages to undertaking "Freedom of Navigation Operations" by randomizing implementations from time to time to discourage any dependence on internal behaviors.

For instance, traversal order of maps in Go is always randomized, to prevent subtle bugs caused by depending on the order.

As AI generated code becomes cheaper, it may be worthwhile to change some subset of your internal behaviors from release to release, so that users don't become too complacent.
by munificent | 2025-08-01 16:47:54+00:00
> A good number of the inks are because of artists

I actually think you have it backwards. Hobbyists drive the economics of almost all gear used for creative pursuits. For every artist making meaningful objects and sharing them with the world, there are a 100 dabblers who fantasize about being that, buy a bunch of stuff, but never really use it.

This is a strange but ultimately harmonious economic arrangement. Hobbyists increase scale, which helps gear producers lower costs, which benefit actual artists.
by jklinger410 | 2025-08-01 16:48:33+00:00
Servers also know that if tips are outlawed, they will never make that much money again.

It's possible for high end bartenders or servers to make over $500 a night in tips. The whiplash of moving into true salary or hourly work is an open secret in the high end service industry. This is why you see some old waiters and bartenders hanging around, when some people consider the service industry "entry level."

This is also why I don't like to listen to them complain about their jobs lol. The difficulty of work to income ratio is unique to this industry.
by stickfigure | 2025-08-01 16:49:03+00:00
Interviews aren't always confrontational. I have been using the same pair programming exercise for roughly the last hundred interviews. There are no tricky algorithms, just walking through the implementation of a basic rest endpoint. It's cooperative and I want the candidate to ask questions. If you can code at fizzbuzz level, are comfortable writing tests, and know a little about databases, it's easy.

There are probably great programmers out there that think pairing is horrible and stressful and this is the interview from hell. I accept that, but I also think that being able to pair and communicate is an important job skill. I want a team, not brilliant lone wolves.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-01 16:49:19+00:00
Less interest means that buyers can ask for a higher price for their home and the buyer will have the same mortgage payment as they would with a lower priced home and a higher mortgage rate.

The buyer is paying the same TCO in the end so they’ll accept the higher ask from the sellers due to limited supply and the TCO being equal. The Fed is about to start cutting rates so you can watch this happen in real time over the next few years.

Bonds work that way if you hold them to maturity, but the face value is continuously being repriced as rates fluctuate. You don’t have to sell, but that’s how bond pricing works.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-01 16:49:33+00:00
> Onavo Protect Android app, which had over 10 million Android installations, contained code to prompt the user to install a CA (certificate authority) certificate issued by "Facebook Research" in the user trust store of the device. This certificate was required for Facebook to decrypt TLS traffic.

I mostly can't think of a legitimate reason to install your own root certificate for a VPN, so I'm inclined to buy that this is Facebook being Facebook. I would also run as fast as I can if I installed an app and it started prompting me to install a certificate, but 99% of people have absolutely zero idea how TLS and PKI work, so maybe this is taking advantage of their ignorance.
by the_biot | 2025-08-01 16:50:00+00:00
The article is a little wide-eyed about how new this kind of censorship is.

Belgium broadly has a duopoly, with the first two ISPs listed having the vast majority of the market. Both of them have been doing blocking of pirate sites for decades, with at least one of them actually resolving + blocking by IP address, not just DNS blocking.

Needless to say, both have video on demand services to protect.
by tzs | 2025-08-01 16:50:03+00:00
There is usually more than one way to do it in Python, too. For example most people's Python fizzbuzz seem pretty different from mine:

def fizzbuzz(n, *args): cur = ['' for x in range(1,n+1)] for m, postfix in args: cur = [y+postfix if x%m==0 else y for x, y in zip(range(1,n+1), cur)] cur = [str(x) if y == '' else y for x, y in zip(range(1,n+1), cur)] return cur print("\n".join(fizzbuzz(100, (3, 'fizz'), (5, 'buzz'))))
by gruez | 2025-08-01 16:50:04+00:00
>Because someone needs to work there. So just as Walmart employees being eligible for EBT allows Walmart to pay employees less so does affordable housing indirectly subsidize the city.

1. How is giving food stamps to walmart employees a subsidy for walmart? Are those people suddenly not going to consume food if they quit walmart? If not, what difference does it make whether they're employed by walmart or not? If the person was not working at walmart and was instead washing windshields at intersections, does that mean that drivers are being subsidized by the EBT?

2. This feels suspiciously like an acceleration argument, ie. "welfare is just a tool of the bourgeois to keep the proletariat from rebelling. We should get rid of it so the proletariat gets angry and starts a revolution!"

>Without those artificial bandages on the problem, the costal expensive cities would run into a crisis - everyone is a Google or Apple employee, and there's nobody to do any work for under $100/hr. Either they'd have to pay baristas $100/hr, or they'd have to go without, or build a high-speed commuter rail that could bring them in from Bakersfield where prices were reasonable.

...or they spend 3 hours commuting instead

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/economy/san-fran...
by marcusb | 2025-08-01 16:50:12+00:00
Well, they say they did experience it. You cannot possibly know otherwise.

There’s also another commenter in this thread who says they’ve lived in Ireland for their entire life and says they’ve experienced the same thing.

Then, there’s you.

There are two likely explanations I can think of for your behavior here. 1, you are arguing in bad faith. 2, you are unable, for whatever reason, to understand that others might have a different experience in the world than you.

In either case, I don’t see any point in continuing this conversation. Have a nice day.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-01 16:50:23+00:00
You can look up how to culture it in the academic research but not only is it relatively hard, culturing Bt isn't enough to turn it into an effective pesticide. Bt is a soil microbe and sticking it on a regular agar plate guarantees it will be outcompeted by contaminants so culturing it requires sterile lab conditions and expensive lab equipment. You're going to need a full blown fume hood with active ventilation just to handle the initial samples and that's the bare minimum. Chances are you'll need a sterilized glove box and commercial off the shelf bioreactor.

The end product is produced in large submersion fermentation tanks where the bacteria is first grown, then then forced to sporulate and allowed to ferment which produces the Cry/Cyt toxin crystals within the spores. Going through these phases requires precise control over nutrients, pH, agitation, and electron acceptors. Even activating the spores to create the inoculum and begin the reproductive cycle is nontrivial because of how sterile everything needs to be.
by darksaints | 2025-08-01 16:50:59+00:00
We have been suffering from this problem for nearly 50 years now, due to ineffective supreme court checks and balances in the face of psychotically expansive executive interpretation of the law in the era of the war on drugs.

Americans will only do the right thing after they have exhausted all other options. Slavery, women's suffrage, jim crow laws, police brutality, civil forfeiture, reproductive rights, health care...we always seem to be among the last nations on the planet to figure out how to do things correctly. It's almost like our constitution is fatally flawed and designed for oppression rather than freedom.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-08-01 16:51:04+00:00
> It was actually kind of a scary because later that day I realized how in that moment that woman, who my dad had never met before, could probably have destroyed his life right then and there if she wanted to.

I know what you mean, but he could also have said "fuck off, lady; that's a kid crying, so grow up" and thereby have made clear he was worried about the kid, not some creeper who she hoped to have just told off.
by jphoward | 2025-08-01 16:51:59+00:00
I think they could release non-agentic models that are as good as 4o, and have almost no repercussions on sales tbh.

I have Ollama installed (only a small proportion of their clients would have a large enough GPU for this) and have download deepseek and played with it, but I still pay for an OpenAI subscription because I want the speed of a hosted model, and never mind the luxuries of things like Codex's diffs/pull request support, agents on new models, deep research etc. - I use them all at least weekly.
by svantana | 2025-08-01 16:52:06+00:00
> they have a monopoly on the ad market

Only if you look narrowly at search ads, but really they compete with Meta, Tiktok and X for ad spend. And the quality of the LLMs is beside the point, just like search engine quality. ChatGPT has a near monopoly on 'AI' mindshare, with the general public.
by kej | 2025-08-01 16:52:08+00:00
>You can copy an SQLite database file

Completely off topic, but I think it's a fun quirk of English that sometimes the choice of a/an will tell you how a person pronounces a word. You can spot whether someone has an American or British/Australian accent by whether they write "a historian" or "an historian", for example, even if you've never heard them speak.
by littlexsparkee | 2025-08-01 16:52:13+00:00
It's just an example - most people live in major metros where the jobs are and those are the places the rate drops just wouldn't help much. What you said kind of makes my point of how jacked up the market is due to homeowners having done their best to slow production as much as possible, and our emphasis on housing as investment. It didn't have to turn out this bad.
by dgfitz | 2025-08-01 16:52:34+00:00
Ft. Meade is a big employer in that area, Raytheon as well. Northrop Grumman is commutable from there, as is Annapolis junction and Columbia.

Baltimore and DC can be commuted to from that area. DC would be rough if you don’t take the metro from somewhere. Not a great drive but I know a lot of people who did/do it.

I live north east of the Baltimore beltway and recently started a new job between BWI and Arundel Mills, about an hour with no traffic, but I work remotely half the week.

There are an absolute ton of jobs in your area. It’s much more sparse north of 695. Basically APG.
by akshitgaur2005 | 2025-08-01 16:52:41+00:00
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by gwd | 2025-08-01 16:53:02+00:00
> At the very least, relying on quirks of someone else's implementation is a risk that should be understood and accounted for, and no one has any reasonable grounds for complaint if those quirks suddenly change in a new version.

It's almost always unintentional. Someone wrote some code, it works, they ship it, not realizing it only works if the list comes back in a specific order, or with a specific timing. Then a year or two later they do some updates, the list comes back in a different order, or something is faster or slower, and suddenly what worked before doesn't work.

This is why in Golang, for instance, when you iterate over map keys, it purposely does it in a random order -- to make sure that your program doesn't accidentally begin to rely on the internal implementation of the hash function.

ETA: But of course, that's not truly random, just pseudorandom. It's not impossible that someone's code only works because of the particular pseudorandom order they're generating, and that if Golang even changes the pseudorandom number generator they're using to evade Hyrum's Law that someone's code will break.
by jszymborski | 2025-08-01 16:53:06+00:00
Piston pens have the filling system fully contained. The only place ink can come out is the nib. Converters, in my limited experience, don't always have a perfect fit or come loose during the filling process.

More deft hands probably don't have this problem. I would come out with inky hands no matter the filling system when I first started using fountain pens. Look ma', no (stained) hands!
by ajabhish | 2025-08-01 16:53:10+00:00
I’ve seen this “stress ≠ skill” gap play out again and again. The Microsoft study the OP cites is brutal. Yet most prep advice (“just grind LeetCode”) still ignores the cortisol factor.

One thing that’s helped me, as both an occasional interviewer and a frequent interviewee, is recreating the stress loop on my own terms. Friends rarely push hard enough, and a paid coach is $150+ an hour. Lately I’ve been working on a little side-project Tough Tongue AI: a voice-driven agent that drops you into a live code editor, throws follow-up questions, even interrupts when you go off-road, then gives a feedback at end. It’s not magic, but after a few sessions the “somebody’s watching me” adrenaline spike starts to feel familiar.

If live coding interviews are here to stay, a repeatable way to train the physiological side of the test, not just the algorithms would be helpful!
by moped | 2025-08-01 16:53:42+00:00
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by arp242 | 2025-08-01 16:53:48+00:00
I've sometimes wondered what their plan for this is wrt. people. Richard Hipp is 64, and I don't think he plans to continue working on SQLite until he's 90. I know two other people work on SQLite, but AFAIK he owns the company(?)

That said, I think the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source (as much as anything in this world can be guaranteed anyway). Look at Rust: it's done fine since Mozilla stopped sponsoring it. Go will be fine when/if Google stops sponsoring it. etc.