MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAdamist | 2025-08-28 00:08:37+00:00
Meetup was great until it became so expensive to run a glorified calendar+ email list. $180+ a year is silly for small groups.

But meetup was awesome for discoverability of small local niche groups.

Manual link sharing doesn't help with local groups.

The alternative was Facebook groups for free, but has awful discoverability and awful event calendars. But most people have Facebook, so thats the default now.

How does this benefit me as an organizer? How can local people find my event without me having to spam it on services(Facebook, etc) that they already have accounts on?
by B-Con | 2025-08-28 00:08:43+00:00
GOOG has made a systemic push to eliminate the role starting ~3 years ago. At that time my M was a staff level IC TLM with 4 reports who was forcibly converted to EM.

In those last 3 years I've only seen TLMs used to assist an overloaded EM.

The pattern I've seen is something like:

Principal EM |- Staff EM (7 reports, project A) |- Staff EM (8 reports, project B) |- Staff IC (projects A, B, C) |- Senior IC (projects A, B) |- Senior IC (project C) |- Mid level IC (project C) |- Mid level IC (project C)

Maybe project C was just reorged under the Principal EM or maybe it's a speculative side project. But those last three are clearly clustered, there's no good line manager fit and the principal EM feels disconnected from the 2 mid level ICs. Project C is a bit of an island and projects A and B are taking up most of the EM's time.

So the Principal EM deputizes Senior IC on project C as a TLM until things have changed enough that there can be a dedicated EM. Eventually the TLM converts to EM, a new EM is brought in, or there's a reorg, etc.

Of the two times I saw saw it happen locally, both converted back to ICs after a year or two and noted that the role felt like being 70% IC and 70% EM.

Nowadays the TLM role doesn't exist so the principal would delegate most of the technical responsibilities of the M role, giving them nearly full control of project C, but would not give them a formal role. (I've been that senior IC for project C.)

(Edit for formatting.)
by tomhow | 2025-08-28 00:08:43+00:00
The purpose of HN is to discuss things in the spirit of intellectual curiosity. To respond to an article about chip manufacturing with such a generic ideological flamebait line as "You can’t build a foundry on DEI, but you can feel good about yourself as you virtue signal about straws as you buy fast fashion" is the opposite of intellectual curious discussion. If the topics of DEI, straws and fast fashion are mentioned in the article or are relevant to the content of the article, sure, write them into the comment in a way that is relevant to the content of the article. The way you've invoked these themes, without any clear relevance to the article's content, is just what we're trying to avoid on HN. This is not new or difficult; the guidelines have been in place for many years and make it clear what we're trying for here.
by foobarian | 2025-08-28 00:10:06+00:00
The fun thing is that as long as you have the requirements and acceptance right, this could still be solved with a garage door opener and welded rebar :-D

Reminds me of early Google DIY rack PCs. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1lf6yat/googles_fir...
by donkeybeer | 2025-08-28 00:10:20+00:00
The public compares price tag first, and often only because its a LUXURY to factor in anything else. If they could afford and they saw some higher quality in it, they would have already bought something more expensive. Which obviously artificially inflating the price of the exact same item via tariffs doesn't suddenly make the "quality" part of the equation any different, so why bother with the same item but more expensive.
by Rusky | 2025-08-28 00:10:27+00:00
> I'd be fine writing `.into()` or `.trunc()`

Yes, this is specifically what I'm disagreeing with.

> I fully expect that such methods will be inlined, likely even in debug mode (e.g. `#[inline(always)]`), and compile down to the same minimal instructions.

That's the cost to compile time I mentioned.
by BearOso | 2025-08-28 00:10:45+00:00
They said it took months for each CPU to fail. Both systems used the same inadequate heatsink/fan. Then there's also the lower-end motherboards (they are not "top-quality", the brand means nothing) and the miniscule 450W power supply used in the initial configuration, which are confusingly paired with a 16-core CPU and 64/96GB of RAM.

It doesn't strike me as odd that running an extremely power-heavy load for months continuously on such configurations eventually failed.
by utyop22 | 2025-08-28 00:11:14+00:00
Im convinced the big tech firms are so overly bloated simply because they do not possess high-quality leadership at the top who are able to clearly distill a vision of where they want their sub-ordinates to go.

That's not to say it's easy - its absolutely not. But Apple is living off of Steve Job's visionary prowess and continues to do so.
by int_19h | 2025-08-28 00:11:25+00:00
I'm not young, but I see workable AI as a fulfillment of a 180-year-old dream that lies at the very beginnings of our entire field:

"[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine... Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."

- Lovelace, Ada; Menabrea, Luigi (1842). "Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq".

So yes, of course I'm excited about AI. I grew up on 1960s sci fi where AI was pervasive, and most of it wasn't dystopian.

What I'm not excited about is the greedy fucks who are largely in control of AI today and who deploy it to the detriment of society at large. But that is a general problem with greedy fucks (and our political and economic system enabling them), not with AI as such. They can, and do, similarly abuse all kinds of technological advancements.
by kazinator | 2025-08-28 00:12:20+00:00
OOP only disallows inheritance with unimplemented functions when it's a contract violation.

So that is to say, if the base class has a certain function which must be implemented and must provide certain behaviors, then the derived class must implement that function and provide all those behaviors.

The POSIX functions like read and write do not have a contract which says that all implementations of them must successfully transfer data. Being unimplemented (e.g returning -1 with errno EOPNOTSUPP or whatever) is allowed in the contract.

OOP just wants a derived thing to obey the contract of the abtraction it is inheriting, so if you want certain liberties, you have to push them into the contract.
by pabs3 | 2025-08-28 00:12:47+00:00
On Software Heritage: for forges (GitLab, cgit etc), every couple of months SWH lists all repos, pulls new/updated ones. I think if you save an individual repo, it gets pulled later too, but I'm not sure of the schedule. They have custom tooling (open source) for doing the importing of repos, tarballs and other things. They deduplicate on the backend, so if you cloned some repos then the files/commits that are shared between them are saved once. They import the git tags (and other refs) too.

ArchiveTeam Codearchiver is quite a bit different, it does one-shot archiving of repos into VCS-native export formats, like git bundles. There is some deduplication based on commit hashes I think.
by spoaceman7777 | 2025-08-28 00:13:00+00:00
All you really need to see is the picture of the CPU with thermal paste only on one half. Thermal throttling is tuned to work when there is 1. a sufficient heatsink (theirs was significantly below requirements) and 2. it is installed correctly so that its triggers for downclocking happen with the correct timing. This is just another instance of ridiculous PEBCAK error
by codezero | 2025-08-28 00:13:01+00:00
I recently built a 9950x3d system and it definitely runs hotter/louder than my other builds. To be fair, it also has a 5090 in it, but I liquid cool the 9950 and over all the system is just hot. If I saw 165W rated on a 170W system, I think that kind of just answers it, I see no reason not to overcool a system with high end electronics on it, and there's no reason to toe the line so closely.
by altairprime | 2025-08-28 00:14:05+00:00
When did Firefox Sync start using accounts.firefox.com for their login site? One assumes they’ve owned it since at least then, if not before. https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amozilla-firefox%2Ffirefox... says 2014? So probably earlier than that, though I don't know for sure when.
by kuschku | 2025-08-28 00:14:13+00:00
As a reluctant Commerzbank customer, there's some inaccuracies. The amount was 100k€ re: negative interest, and the subscription charge only applies if you're not moving a certain amount of money each month (which is very low, even unemployment payments would be enough to clear that hurdle).

So you're only paying for your second or third account.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-28 00:14:22+00:00
> Section 230 doesn't in any way supercede the constitution, but it does clarify which party is doing the speech

No, it immunizes certain parties from being held automatically liable (without separate proof that they knew of the content, as applies to mere distributors [0]), the "publisher or speaker" standard being the standard for such liability (known as publisher liability.)

It doesn't "clarify" (or have any bearing on) where the First Amendment would apply. (In fact, its only relevant when the First Amendment protection doesn't apply, since otherwise there would be no liability to address.)

[0] subsequent case law has also held that Section 230 has the effect of also insulating the parties it covers against distributor liability where that would otherwise apply, as well, but the language of the law was deliberately targeted at the basis for publisher liability.
by lmm | 2025-08-28 00:15:11+00:00
> Its not their fault there is no governing body to award or remove the title of "software engineer" and promote the concept of a software engineer refusing to do something without harming their career.

Those governing bodies didn't form by magic. If you look at how hostile people on this site are to the idea of unionization or any kind of collective organisation, I'd say a large part of the problem with software is individual developers' attitudes.
by TGower | 2025-08-28 00:15:11+00:00
Surveillance definition "Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means." If you are pinging someone's IP to determine their physical location, you are engaged in a form of surveillance. If you have a copy of the table of area codes to city mapping, you are not engaged in surviellance. If you aren't trying to make money, you are not engaged in capitallism.
by credit_guy | 2025-08-28 00:15:17+00:00
I'm not sure. Most software (by orders of magnitude) is not critical software like the software running that X-ray machine. In general, if your software fails, a page loads too slow, or a report comes with lots of NaN's, or some batch job does not run at the right time, and someone needs to start it manually, etc. The cases where someone dies because of a software quality issue are very rare, and the developers working on that type of software know who they are and what their duties are (I hope).
by klik99 | 2025-08-28 00:15:57+00:00
Nice! I was wondering if it would be good for making ascii art assets for roguelike games (for example: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2014/12/cogmind-ascii-art... or https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/games/ultima-ratio-regum/) - some of the art you've made for oxide thinks it must be good for that!
by bobmcnamara | 2025-08-28 00:16:19+00:00
> The brakes on all Toyotas are fully hydraulic

No, most are hydraulic with vacuum boost.

If you aren't expecting it, the increased force required to drive the brakes hydraulically from the pedal without boost assist is significant and can be surprising. I assume most folks haven't had an engine fail going downhill, but for a large pickup I was standing on the brake pedal and had to push my leg down by pulling on the steering wheel to stop it.

> That seems.... hard to believe

Anyhow, the vacuum booster is driven from the engine airflow. At wide open throttle the vacuum available to the booster is minimal because the restriction is as open as it can be.

You can test how it feels by rolling at a medium speed in a parking lot, shifting into neutral, and killing the engine. The vacuum reservoir may provide you one or two brake pumps and then you're on your own.

Another test: after shutting down your car after a regular drive, try depressing the brake to the floor a few times. You'll soon exhaust the boost reservoir and the brake pedal will become very stiff now that it's fallen back to full hydraulic operation. In this condition if you hold the pedal halfway down when you start the car you'll feel the brake boost kick in soon as the engine starts.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-08-28 00:17:10+00:00
I did hear an argument on Mastodon that made some kind of sense: currently the US dollar is the reserve currency of the world, not least because oil is bought with USD. Reduce the world's dependency on oil, and you reduce the world's dependency on USD. If the USA loses the benefit of the rest of the world needing USD to buy oil, that changes the US economy in bad ways. Hence the USA opposing renewable energy as much as it can.

I'm not saying it's true - I have no idea. But it's at least a rational reason for opposing renewables, which otherwise seems to be very irrational.
by embeng4096 | 2025-08-28 00:17:14+00:00
While my feelings are not as strong as yours here, I felt a big relief and resonance reading your closing remarks.

I also have sympathy as, if this thread gets bigger, I bet you get more of the same reactions you’ve already described. Feels to me like this is less screaming into the void for nobody to hear and more into a hurricane where, for your troubles opening your mouth, it gives you back a metaphorical lungful of water to choke on and a metaphorical cloud of debris to batter you with.

Thanks for trying anyway

Edit:

> Thanks a lot, really. I certainly feel more included now.

Sadly, I believe that to them, this is a feature, not a bug
by Ologn | 2025-08-28 00:17:17+00:00
NVDA had a surprise earnings on May 24, 2023, closing at $305 and opening at $385 (before the 10 for 1 split). Pretty much every earnings day since then has been the same - the numbers come out, they beat what they estimated, the stock goes down a little. People have been doom and glooming it every earnings call - you can read the threads here from May 2023, people were saying it was a bubble then, and it's over four times what it was then.
by OJFord | 2025-08-28 00:17:24+00:00
I would say it's neither, it's complacent misuse by the user. As you allude to we generally already are, but non-deterministic & especially 'agentic' AI makes the stakes/likelihood of it going wrong so much higher.

Don't use an MCP server with permission (capability) to do more than you want, regardless of whether you think you're instructing the AI tool do the bad thing it's technically capable of.

Don't run AI tools with filesystem access outside of something like a container with only a specific whitelist of directory mounts.

Assume that the worst that could happen with the capability given will happen.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-28 00:17:25+00:00
Is the implication that “hung” threads refers to a hanging? Like someone hung for murder, versus hanging a coat up on a wall?

Because I always assumed a hung process was one that “hung up its boots” and retired, as in, the process has stopped working. It’s not dead, it’s no longer doing meaningful work or proceeding with a task.

I hope this has been an innocent, naïve understanding.
by ericmay | 2025-08-28 00:17:35+00:00
> so why bother with the same item but more expensive.

It's not the same item, that's why. You're still not understanding how products are priced, nor are you accounting for negative externalities (or positive ones) that factor into that price.

Prices aren't being artificially inflated because of tariffs any more than they are artificially lower because of a certain country's monetary policy or wage gaps or whatever.
by nikcub | 2025-08-28 00:18:00+00:00
Just dug up my old Typepad blog and cringed at the 20 year old content, but definitely have to take a backup because I also used the photo album feature. We blogged back then more how we use Twitter today - short form thought bubble content, but it feels a lot more personal (hence the cringe - I can't imagine posting in public like that today).

This is a dead horse topic but so much of social media today is rage bait, being sold something, or being scammed into something else. I'm nostalgic for that era of the web.
by NoPicklez | 2025-08-28 00:18:58+00:00
> Sure, but when you eat sugar in several forms and overeat generally, you statistically get fatter. This works the other way round too. There are myriads of specific cases on the sides of the bell curve but the solution for the everyday Joe is to eat less, more healthily. Practicing sports helps too, but not so much (it is important for other health reasons)

Absolutely the issue is overeating, but you don't safely achieve good energy balance or even a calorie deficit by cutting out all forms of sugar.

You could increase your fat intake and still stay the same weight.

It's okay to reduce your sugar intake, or intake of simple sugars but removing sugar altogether isn't the right way to go.
by EarlKing | 2025-08-28 00:19:34+00:00
> This just deepens my confusion: defamation crimes most definitely do exist in the US—have not been abolished by courts.

Right now there are laws in Utah, Texas, and Mississippi that require you to identify yourself by government-issued ID just to post on social media. These laws are blatantly unconstitutional and currently undergoing legal challenges in court. That unconstitutional laws exist at any particular time or place has no bearing on whether or not they are unconstitutional, nor does the Supreme Court's denial to hear a case as they only take so many cases every year, and that particular one may not have been suitable for review for any number of reasons. Since you just posted the ACLU's press release rather than actual court documents I can't really say one way or another.

In any event, under the SPEECH Act, foreign defamation judgements are generally unenforceable unless they offer at least as much protection as afforded to citizens of the United States under our own laws. That law was passed in direct response to libel tourism. Censors looking to launder their censorship through the UK are effectively thwarted by the SPEECH Act, hence why it was raised in their filing.
by dwd | 2025-08-28 00:20:04+00:00
"Second, although it's undoubtedly sad that one of the Five Towers came down, there were actually 12 towers to start with – they got shortchanged on the name because only five are visible against the sky from below. So, the fact that the number of towers doesn't match its official name is nothing new."

Immediately made me think of the 12 Apostles. (there were only 9 stacks at the time it was renamed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Apostles_(Victoria)

It's down to 7 now, but it's expected new stacks will emerge as the coast is eroded. This is not some geological age timeframe. My father was a civil engineer on parts of the Great Ocean Road years ago, even moving one section of the road twice in his career as erosion exceeded their initial predictions.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-28 00:20:55+00:00
I wonder if someone would build a personalized social media simulator where you are the most popular person, a top celebrity and you get the most likes, and you everyone posts selfies with you (generated with editing models like Gemini's nano banana), and whatever dumb opinion you have, it's affirmed as genius and so on. Like a UI clone of a site like Instagram, but text and images populated by AI, with a mix of simulated real celebrities and random generated NPCs.

People get hooked on the upvote and like counters on Reddit and social media, and AI can provide an always agreeing affirmation. So far it looks like people aren't bothered by the fact that it's fake, they still want their dose of sycophancy. Maybe a popularity simulator could work too.
by runarberg | 2025-08-28 00:21:27+00:00
I wouldn’t, and neither would most people, and neither would most in academia. At some point (probably around the 1960s) both human rights and equal rights became integral to the concept of democracy. You may not like it, but that is how most people (and most academics) use the concept. The standards for human rights and equal rights are also evolving and today includes stuff like indigenous rights, equal access, universal education, etc.

In the 1970s people were debating whether Apartheid South Africa was democratic or not (it obviously wasn’t; not even by the standards of the time) and today people are debating whether Israel is a democracy (again; it obviously isn’t) but if we apply the standards of the 1940s to both Apartheid South Africa, and today’s Israel, they would both be considered democratic.

And just to clarify, the concept of racism is equally evolving. Much of what we consider racist today would not have been considered racist in the 1980s. The (then considered non-racist) behavior of the 1980s was equally harmful as the same behavior today. But humanity has simply learned, and updated the concept of racism to include this behavior. This is the nature of knowledge and the human experience, we learn more things, and adjust our concepts to fit with our ever increasing knowledge.
by altairprime | 2025-08-28 00:22:13+00:00
If you wish to refer to the submission uniquely in the subject, as of a few years ago anyways they requested appending ` (1235676423)` to the end of it with the ?id=1235676423 of the comment/post/whatever that you're writing about. I tend to do so more in emails sent from a keyboard than from a mobile phone for UI reasons.
by quesera | 2025-08-28 00:22:54+00:00
It's a classic problem of externalized consequences. But with the added challenge that the action happens in a very private place.

Also, this tends to be a topic where the actor has a dramatically negative interest in suggestions from the person who will have to deal with the problem.

Nevertheless, septic fields cost $20-30K, and municipal sewer management is also very expensive.

Aside (but not far): Someone should honestly bring litigation against the wipes that call themselves flushable.
by c4wrd | 2025-08-28 00:23:00+00:00
I’m in this position now. The longer I’ve been in it, I’ve come to realize can be summarized as:

You experience some the benefits of being a manager but bear all the responsibilities of managing others. It becomes challenging to make sound judgments when you must consider two different perspectives of a problem. Essentially, you’re taking on the duties of two jobs. I’ve found it incredibly difficult to step back and allow the team to make decisions without my input. My technical bias compels me to intervene when I perceive a decision as clearly incorrect. However, this approach hinders growth and may be perceived as micromanagement. While it’s a challenging position, it’s an excellent opportunity to explore management and determine if it’s a long-term career path you’re interested in.