MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vhantz | 2025-08-10 05:26:06+00:00
Very nice! I have been working on something similar so I'm glad more people are going in this direction. QML is so obviously one of the best things that happened recently for GUI development, but it's not used enough.

Browsing quickly through the docs I can see we've made some of the same choices. Although I have no plans to support anything other than X11/i3wm right now (simply because that's what I use). And I have things a little bit more clearly separated. I have a small library (qi3pc)[1] to bring i3's IPC to Qt's signal/slot mechanism. And a separate project (buffalo)[2] that's a bar that uses qi3pc. None of them have reached 1.0 yet. That should be soon for qi3pc. And Buffalo eventually. Since they aren't released yet, docs are sparse (for buffalo mostly) and I haven't talked about it online much, but there's a little preview here[3] for any interested.

1. https://git.sr.ht/~hantz/qi3pc/tree/staging/hantz 2. https://git.sr.ht/~hantz/buffalo/tree/staging/hantz 3. https://www.freelists.org/post/i3-discuss/I3bar-doubleheight...
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by justsomejew | 2025-08-10 05:26:51+00:00
Easy to claim, only that the claim is false. It was not so much about jews being jews (would you claim that there were no jews in science, engineering, hospitals?). Having quotas in top universities is what you try to do now with asian students (by this I do not mean to negate the fact that lives of many jews were ruined because of these quotas). And the true nature of "Zionism" can be seen by everyone today. The "zionists" do not even try to hide it. I mean Zionism in the "Zeev" Zhabotinskiy sense. Go read his "Wall of Iron".
by namibj | 2025-08-10 05:27:34+00:00
Doesn't need to be a heatpump dryer, just needs to be ventless.

E.g. the 20+ year old common German dryer that runs the clothes air closed-loop, first through the clothes, then to a heat exchanger with drainage geometry (typically feeding into a tray you have to pull out and pour out after each cycle), then across an electric heater, circulation fan, and back to the clothes. A second fan blows room air across the heat exchanger; the dryer action relies on the clothes being much warmer than room temperature such that the desired relative humidity of/at the clothes doesn't survive the cold from the room temperature.
by corysama | 2025-08-10 05:28:38+00:00
I’m only an armchair expert on Erlang. But, having looked into it repeatedly for a couple decades, my take-away is the “Let it crash” slogan is good. But, also presented a bit out of context. Or, at least assuming context that most people don’t have.

Erlang is used in situations involving a zillion incoming requests. If an individual request fails… Maybe it was important. Maybe it wasn’t. If it was important, it’s expected they’ll try again. What’s most important is that the rest of the requests are not interrupted.

What makes Erlang different is that it is natural and trivial to be able to shut down an individual request on the event of an error without worrying about putting any other part of the system into a bad state.

You can pull this off in other languages via careful attention to the details of your request-handling code. But, the creators of the Erlang language and foundational frameworks have set their users up for success via careful attention to the design of the system as a whole.

That’s great in the contexts in which Erlang is used. But, in the context of a Java desktop app like Open Office, it’s more like saying “Let it throw”. “It” being some user action. And, the slogan being to have a language and framework with such robust exception handling built-in that error handling becomes trivial and nearly invisible.
by re | 2025-08-10 05:29:36+00:00
> The dopamine-free shopping experience.

This doesn't seem like an accurate description, since it's designed to trigger the same dopamine release as shopping, just without the real-world consequences.

I'm confused by the NoBucks Rewards ("Need $xx.xx more NoBucks; Complete anti-consumption tasks to earn more"; <https://justbuynothing.com/rewards>). Obviously no real products are getting shipped. I'm not going to make an account on this site but can NoBucks actually be earned? What happens when you've earned enough to actually "checkout"?
by energy123 | 2025-08-10 05:29:45+00:00
The real criticism should be the AI doesn't say "I don't know.", or even better, "I can't answer this directly because my tokenizer... But here's a python snippet that calculates this ...", so exhibiting both self-awareness of limitations combined with what an intelligent person would do absent that information.

We do seem to be an architectural/methodological breakthrough away from this kind of self-awareness.
by ImageXav | 2025-08-10 05:31:39+00:00
I've had the complete opposite experience, and feel the complete opposite way. What is there to learn from failing a leetcode? It feels like luck of the draw - I didn't study that specific problem type and so failed. Also, there is an up front cost of several months to cover and study a wide array of leetcode problems.

With a take home I can demonstrate how I would perform at work. I can sit on it, think things over in my head, come up with an attack plan and execute it. I can demonstrate how I think about problems and my own value more clearly. Using a take home as a test is indicative to me that a company cares a bit more about its hiring pipeline and is being careful not to put candidates under arbitrary pressures.
by integralid | 2025-08-10 05:33:16+00:00
Did it make your sleep actually better? I always considered these a needles luxury (other than maybe humidifier, but I don't think it's useful in my climate).

I'm not trying to downplay you, I'm actually probably underspending and you seem to come from the same background as I do. I'm certain that interesting in one's sleep is worth it.
by vamega | 2025-08-10 05:33:20+00:00
I control my Mitsubishi mini-splits with an esp32. I’d never done any soldering or worked with a microcontroller before, but I was able to install this into 4 units in a single day.

This esphome project has great integration with home-assistant and Apple Home and I’d highly recommend this approach over the Mitsubishi app if your unit is supported and you’re willing to do a little work.

https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105ESPHome
by pietrrrek | 2025-08-10 05:33:22+00:00
> The person could be doing their job to survive, or they could be working a few hours on a fun job on the weekend for a bit of extra cash.

Your statement makes it seem as if these populations are of equal size, but in reality the vast majority works to survive.

An item should not have a minimum price as it is just an item, meanwhile every person is, well, a person, and should be able to sustain themselves.
by frank_nitti | 2025-08-10 05:37:57+00:00
We might be talking about two different things. Yes, under normal circumstances the setup steps involve software that defaults to using telemetry -- though I'd be surprised if it's not possible anymore to achieve those in an air-gapped env using e.g. offline installers, zipped repos and wheel files, etc.

My comment was referring to runtime workloads having no telemetry (because I unplugged the internet)
by com2kid | 2025-08-10 05:40:04+00:00
The point of going to an Ivy is to interact with the rich and powerful. It is a way for people to jump up a few social classes all in one go.

If Stanford was just filled with kids who got high test scores, that purpose would be gone. Plenty of startups have a story "we met in college" and one had brains and another had the social connections and family finances to make things happen.
by yalok | 2025-08-10 05:40:12+00:00
> the administration probably done some basic calculation: they get more in donations from alumni who want legacy admissions for their progeny than they get from Cal Grants.

The calculation was beyond basic - I read somewhere here that it was around $3m that they were getting from Cal Grants.

Around 8 years ago, I heard (from a friend of mine) that the min donation to guarantee admission to Stanford was ~$10m. Wouldn’t be surprised that it’s even a higher number nowadays…
by jcgl | 2025-08-10 05:41:43+00:00
You may not like it, but “arbitrary” isn’t a fair description; there’s reasoning behind it that is over 10 years old:

http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...

That said, my knee-jerk is also that this is about strong-arming distros. Which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I’d be interested to hear other viewpoints though.
by burhanrashid52 | 2025-08-10 05:41:57+00:00
Location: India

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My name is Burhanuddin Rashid, and I am a software engineer with 8+ years of experience in developing mobile applications. I am an open-source enthusiast and a Google Developer Expert in Dart and Flutter.

I owe most of my career to the open-source community. I got exposed to this when I open-sourced my first Android PhotoEditor library, which reached around 3.8K stars and is still active. This led me to an opportunity to speak at Droidcon Berlin 2021, sharing my open-source learnings.

My biggest contribution so far in the product was to improve code and app quality by introducing testing to the team. Before that, I was the Android tech lead to build an offline-first app to manage package delivery with real-time location tracking, collaborating with a remote team. Apart from this, I've also worked on web and backend technologies like React and Spring Boot, which gives me additional knowledge of how the system works end-to-end.

Also, in my free time, I learn and share my knowledge by writing blogs, newsletters, Youtube videos, or speaking at conferences.
by osener | 2025-08-10 05:43:00+00:00
Ah the joys of enterprise.

Once, a team at my old job wanted to try A/B testing for the first time. After some research, they picked a SaaS tool to make it quick. Simple, right? Just sign up and go.

Of course not. First they had to go through THE PROCUREMENT! (dun dun dun dun)

Those legends weren’t about to let us limp along on a humble pro plan. They wheeled, dealed, and months later emerged triumphant: a glorious three-year enterprise contract. SLAs! Volume discounts! The whole nine yards. The art of the deal baby!

Small snag: by the time the ink dried, the original team had moved on. New PM, new priorities. No one even generated an API key during the whole time we paid for this top-tier enterprise service.
by burhanrashid52 | 2025-08-10 05:43:01+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide

Technologies: Android, Flutter, React(TS/JS), Node, SpringBoot and Go

Résumé/CV: https://burhanrashid52.com/consultation

Email: burhanrashid5253@gmail.com

Github : https://github.com/burhanrashid52

Website : https://burhanrashid52.com

My name is Burhanuddin Rashid, and I am a software engineer with 8+ years of experience in developing mobile applications. I am an open-source enthusiast and a Google Developer Expert in Dart and Flutter.

I owe most of my career to the open-source community. I got exposed to this when I open-sourced my first Android PhotoEditor library, which reached around 3.8K stars and is still active. This led me to an opportunity to speak at Droidcon Berlin 2021, sharing my open-source learnings.

My biggest contribution so far in the product was to improve code and app quality by introducing testing to the team. Before that, I was the Android tech lead to build an offline-first app to manage package delivery with real-time location tracking, collaborating with a remote team. Apart from this, I've also worked on web and backend technologies like React and Spring Boot, which gives me additional knowledge of how the system works end-to-end.

Also, in my free time, I learn and share my knowledge by writing blogs, newsletters, Youtube videos, or speaking at conferences.
by motorest | 2025-08-10 05:44:05+00:00
> "€20/month from Hetzner" is great until you actually need it to be up and working when you need it.

I managed a few Hetzner cloud instances, and some report perfect uptime for over a year. The ones that don't, I was the root cause.

What exactly leads you to make this sort of claim? Do you actually have any data or are you just running your mouth off?
by com2kid | 2025-08-10 05:45:41+00:00
> Yeah in my view, the primary value of undergrad in college, is the social connections you make and the status it grants you.

For those of us who went to state schools, it was about learning. Going to a 2nd tier state college instantly changed my social class from "family of laborers" to "highly paid white collar".

> You learn far more in a single year on the job than in your four year college degree (and I say this as an engineer).

Maybe. I've met plenty of experienced devs who didn't know fundamentals that colleges teach. College also teaches other skills, such as writing, presentation, and appreciation for the arts. Ideally it also teaches people how to be responsible members of a democratic society.

> In fact I think a STEM degree is mostly superfluous except for the connections you make in college which is very important.

Most people don't have access to a fully stocked chemistry lab, or super computer clusters. College is a place where you are surrounded by other people who also want to learn, so your own learning is greatly accelerated by the conversations you are able to have.

There are countless times I'd be stumped in a math class trying to understand a topic and I wouldn't get it until I sat down and tried to explain it to someone else in my study group.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-10 05:47:52+00:00
I truly don't understand why it's supposed to be the end of the world. They need to monetize eventually, and simultaneously its userbase desireg good inference. It looks a complete win-win to me. Anyone can fork it in case they actually turn evil once it'd happen.

I mean, it's not like people enjoy lovely smell of cash burning and bias opinions heavily towards it, or is it like that?
by jdietrich | 2025-08-10 05:48:37+00:00
Tokenization. Before text is fed into an LLM, it's processed into tokens typically consisting of multiple characters. GPT-4o would see the word "jokes" as the tokens [73, 17349]. That's much more efficient than processing individual characters, but it means that LLMs can't count letters or words without some additional trickery. LLMs have also struggled with arithmetic for the same reason - they can't "see" the numbers in the text, just tokens representing groups of characters.
by nine_k | 2025-08-10 05:48:44+00:00
The problem with leetcode is time. If you know a good solution to a puzzle, or can instantly come up with it, you have the time to write it down, make it work, discuss, improve, etc. If you spend extra 10 minutes on a wrong approach, you're very strained, and if you spend 15 minutes, you're toast.

But knowing the good solution by heart is not the point! For that reason, when I ran code interviews, I often gave hints to the candidate, or sometimes just stated that a particular algorithm is a good solution, and it's usually implemented using this and that. ("Use BFS. You'll need a queue.")

This is where the demand for realistic conditions kicks in: at work, you're not going to invent an algorithm, you'll ask the machine what works in a situation like yours, consider, and choose. Doing otherwise would be imprudent.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-08-10 05:48:49+00:00
Funny you mention Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky's beliefs were formed from the proof playing out in front of him, that not even the Ukrainians, the second largest ethnicity in the Russian empire, could get even a semblance of fairness out of the Russian empire. If the Ukrainians failed, what chance did the even fewer Jews have? Trying to understand Jabotinsky without understanding the world he was born into is like trying to put modern beliefs onto Alexander the Great.

If you were a Jewish person of ordinary means, certain engineering paths were completely barred to you in the USSR. Keep in mind, engineering and math were the most prestigious forms of STEM for the Soviets.

So are you trying to claim the Doctor's Plot case, the assasination of Solomon Mikhoels, the rootless cosmopolitan campaign, Soviet "Zionology", that all those just didn't happen? People were around for those you know.
by devjab | 2025-08-10 05:48:53+00:00
I think it'll be hard to find a LLM that actually respects your privacy regardless whether or not you pay. Even with the "privacy" enterprise Co-Pilot from Microsoft with all their promises of respecting your data, it's still not deemed safe enough by leglislation to be used in part of the European energy sector. The way we view LLM's on any subscription is similar to how I imagine companies in the USA views Deepseek. Don't put anything into them you can't afford to share with the world. Of course with the agents, you've probably given them access to everything on your disk.

Though to be fair, it's kind of silly how much effort we go through to protect our mostly open source software from AI agents, while at the same time, half our OT has build in hardware backdoors.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-10 05:50:03+00:00
I also loved the idea.

Except it was wildly unpopular amount the other interviewers as t was seen as setting traps and watch if the poor guy falls into them.

And interviewees were sometimes dumbfounded looking at the code, and we didn't know if they were just crushing under the stress or had never looked at code in their life.

All in all, it wasn't that different from a straight leetcode interview.

Code reviews were basically the same, nice on paper but hard to judge in practice.
by mrintegrity | 2025-08-10 05:50:27+00:00
Sweden does not have a minimum wage but does have strong unions which negotiate wages on behalf of workers.

Norway has minimum wage for some sectors (including unskilled labor), these minimums are also due to strong unions and collective agreements which have become law.

Denmark, no minimum wage but strong unions and collective agreements.

Finland has no legal minimum wage but also collective bargaining mandates minimum salaries.

All of these countries have strong social security nets.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-10 05:52:23+00:00
You could not install Nextcloud on Sandstorm. Sandstorm has an app that used to work with Nextcloud's mobile app, but Nextcloud makes a very poor Sandstorm app because it is a monolith, instead of being granular.

(Personally I also find Nextcloud incredibly sluggish, but it is quite popular so it must work better for others.)
by aaronbrethorst | 2025-08-10 05:52:47+00:00
I've been using a variation on the "Code Review" example for years, and really like it. I give the candidate some fairly straightforward sample code[1] that interacts with a Python library[2] along with a couple user stories that they are expected to implement. I tell them I'm both their product manager and pair programming buddy, and that they should ask me any questions they might have, use ChatGPT, consult Stack Overflow...whatever they do to solve the problem at hand because I'm just interested in seeing how they think.

No system is perfect, but I have a 100% success rate with the engineers that have been hired using this model, and several years of data to back it up.

[1] It actually has a few subtle bugs in it that I'm always curious to see if they'll catch.

[2] The job in question requires working on a Python web app, and so I assume some basic Python knowledge.
by radio879 | 2025-08-10 05:53:52+00:00
really - no monthly subscriptions? i hate those but i am fine with bringing my own API URLs etc and paying. I'm building a router that will track all the free tokens from all the different providers and auto rotate them when daily tokens or time limits run out.

Continue and Zed.. gonna check them out, prompts in Cline are too long. I was thinking of just making my own VS Code extension but I need to try Claude Code with GLM 4.5 (heard it pairs nicely)
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-10 05:54:06+00:00
They don't allow model switching below GPT-5 in codex cli anymore (without API key), because it's not recommended. Try it with thinking=high and it's quite an improvement from o4-mini. o4-mini is more like gpt-5-thinking-mini but they don't allow that for codex. gpt-5-thinking-high is more like o1 or maybe o3-pro.
by koyote | 2025-08-10 05:54:08+00:00
Here in Australia it takes barely a day to install a couple of split ACs and maybe 1-2000 USD all-in (Mitsubishi Electric; Midea would be cheaper of course).

No idea how they justify the time and cost over there.

Then again they pay tens of thousands of dollars to install solar when it's 1/10th of the price here.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-08-10 05:55:11+00:00
People sell something to survive (their labor, their goods, etc.). It doesn't mean that every single transaction they make is for the sake of survival, or that external actors are a better judge of what their prices must be.

In college I would often make some extra spending money by partaking in social science experiments. I didn't really care if the compensation was below minimum wage - I had time, it was easy enough, and it was easy to opt in when I could. I wasn't doing it for survival, but for a bit of extra spending cash. If someone forced them to significantly increase wages, I might have benefited, but it's far more likely that they would done fewer experiments with a more select group and I would have been worse off.

If someone is on the edge, and it's only a minimum wage job that they have open for them, California's minimum wage could help them if they're one of the lucky ones who benefit from it, or could hurt them if they were one of the people hurt by the loss of 18,000 jobs it caused (per the linked report). A policy that leads to fewer jobs that pay more tends to just increase inequality.
by dustractor | 2025-08-10 05:55:19+00:00
Wow. It's nice to finally have a better name for this. I saw several therapists when I was age 12-17 and they would just slap the blanket label "panic attacks" on it which never felt very apt at all. It rarely happened out of a state of panic. For example, I might look out the window at some trees and houses on the horizon and suddenly something would trigger a sensation that was like the awareness that the true scale of things was much, much larger than we usually let on. That line in a Pink Floyd song -- "My hands ... felt like ... two balloons" was like a lifeline for me in my teens to believe that I wasn't the only one dealing with this. (Except I would have sung it "My tongue ... felt like a ... schoolbus")

Sometimes I would be riding in a car, looking out the window and suddenly the "panic attack" would occur and I would beg the driver to slow down. Even when they stopped the car completely I would still be freaking out. "No! Go slower!"
by hpincket | 2025-08-10 05:55:22+00:00
I am developing the same opinion. I want something fast and dependable. Getting into a flow state is important to me, and I just can't do that when I'm waiting for an agentic coding assistant to terminate.

I'm also interested in smaller models for their speed. That, or a provider like Cerebras.

Then, if you narrow the problem domain you can increase the dependability. I am curious to hear more about your "surgical" tools.

I rambled about this on my blog about a week ago: https://hpincket.com/what-would-the-vim-of-llm-tooling-look-...