MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Centozir | 2025-08-11 15:59:21+00:00
The company is looking for an experienced backend developer to work on high-load web applications and APIs. The candidate will participate in architecture design, write high-quality code, and mentor junior developers.

Work Conditions What the Company Offers • Fully remote – work from anywhere in the world • Results-focused approach – no micromanagement • Stable salary in EUR / USDT • Corporate English lessons for skill improvement • 5/2 work schedule – stable routine • Professional development and career growth Corporate Culture • Value for each team member – employee comfort is a priority • Internal growth – we encourage career development within the company • Support and development – creating conditions for professional progress • Friendly team atmosphere Salary 2000-3500$/month

Technical skills Technical Skills • Programming Language: Advanced level in Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, or PHP • Web frameworks: In-depth knowledge of one of the following: • Python: FastAPI, Flask, Django • JavaScript: Express.js, NestJS • Java: Spring Boot • C#: ASP.NET Core • PHP: Laravel, Symfony • ORM: Advanced usage of ORM (SQLAlchemy, Prisma, Entity Framework, Hibernate, Eloquent) • Databases: PostgreSQL optimization, understanding of indexes and queries • Redis: Caching and sessions • Message Queues: Experience with Celery, RabbitMQ, or Apache Kafka • Docker & Docker Compose: Application containerization • REST API: Design and development • Testing: Unit and integration testing

Soft skills Soft Skills • Communication: Ability to clearly explain technical solutions • Teamwork: Effective collaboration within the development team • Mentoring: Ability to teach and develop junior developers • Adaptability: Quick to learn new technologies • Problem-Solving: Deep analysis and resolution of complex issues • Attention to Detail: Thoroughness in code and architecture work • Time Management: Effective planning and meeting deadlines • Initiative: Willingness to take responsibility for projects Personal Qualities • Technical Leadership: Ability to lead technical projects • Responsibility: Meeting commitments on time and with high quality • Punctuality: Meeting agreed deadlines • Stress Resistance: Ability to work under pressure and in crisis situations • Critical Thinking: Ability to assess and analyze architectural decisions • Empathy: Understanding the needs of colleagues, users, and clients • Goal Orientation: Persistence in achieving technical goals • Self-Discipline: Strong self-organization and control
by pfannkuchen | 2025-08-11 15:59:22+00:00
There’s a dead comment asking why he doesn’t live where the other billionaires live.

This seems like a fair question. Atherton for example just already has lots large enough to build a compound without doing anything weird. It’s not like he needs to be walking distance to things, it seems like he doesn’t just go out in public these days, does he? It is kind of odd.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-11 15:59:33+00:00
Reason is pretty neutral and factual in my experience. They do have an ideological stance that affects which stories they cover, which is a focus on protecting people’s rights (individuals) and minimizing abuse by governments or corporations. Personally I don’t have a problem with biasing towards individual rights, or at least I appreciate that someone covers these things, as long as they’re doing so at a high quality.
by fsloth | 2025-08-11 15:59:33+00:00
I strongly disagree agents are for extroverts.

I do agree it’s definetly a tool category with a unique set of features and am not surprised it’s offputting to some. But it’s appeal is definetly clear to me as an introvert.

For me LLM:s are just a computer interface you can program using natural language.

I think I’m slightly ADD. I love coding _interesting_ things but boring tasks cause extreme discomfort.

Now - I can offload the most boring task to LLM and spend my mental energy on the interesting stuff!

It’s a great time to be a software engineer!
by runlaszlorun | 2025-08-11 16:00:02+00:00
I'm not so sure that loading "more than a few thousand rows" is as bad as it used to be.

I did some quick benchmarks a couple years back. It's been a while but I want to say that Chrome was drawing 10k rows of a decent size each (10 columns of real world data and about 500b/row iirc) in about 300ms on a 10 year old MBP.

I'll do a little benchmarking later today if I get a chance.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-11 16:00:43+00:00
> Big fan of the Rite-In-Rain notebooks, myself, and Fisher Space Pen's Click-o-matic.

I carry this combo everywhere I go. Way less friction than taking out my phone, unlocking, and suffering the horrible experience of typing something on a virtual keyboard.

I do enjoy the looks I get from friends and family sometimes, as they all expect me to be high tech everywhere in my life but I'm probably one of the most low-tech people outside of work.
by bluGill | 2025-08-11 16:00:50+00:00
Thought it isn't quite as bad as stated - manufactures need their cars to have value as used cars for a while because very few people could afford to pay $70k for a new car without trading in something else that is still work $35k. And those people buying the $35k car in turn expect it to hold value for a while (either so they can trade it in for $15k in 5 years, or they expect to keep running for 10 years).

Which is to say if they made cars that only lasted 3 years they could only charge $35k for the high end ones, and a lot of people would be looking to buy a base model without the optional heater. Or worse for them, if cars become too unaffordable people will start demanding good public transit.
by fencepost | 2025-08-11 16:00:51+00:00
She was immediately upset that they were talking back to her and asked if she was going to have to "call the police and get your parents in trouble." This obviously scared the children, and they began to walk home, in tears. Meanwhile, I was standing at the kitchen window watching the kids talk to a neighbor, not understanding what was happening until I saw one child visibly upset. I immediately walked out of the house, and the neighbor (who, coincidentally, is a social worker) drove off without speaking to me about her concerns.

At that point I'd be approaching both the police and this 'social worker's' employer and complaining about her threatening my children.
by bertman | 2025-08-11 16:01:07+00:00
At first, I was confused because I didn't get why they would call it "hand-picked" when literally every single "article" on that site is attributed to the site itself.

And then I clicked a random page and, well, it's slop:

>By amplifying the signal from minority class data and leveraging the diversity of models, these methods enhance prediction accuracy and fairness across all classes. When paired with complementary techniques such as resampling, adjusting class weights, or generating synthetic data, ensemble methods can yield even more robust results in handling imbalanced datasets.
by philistine | 2025-08-11 16:01:30+00:00
On the other hand, Apple is quick to get rid of old APIs in their software, but they consider features sacrosanct. Only this Fall will macOS lose support for Firewire, which finally means that we have a version of macOS that doesn't support the first iPod. Which came out in 2001. All the USB iPods will still connect and sync.
by jasonkester | 2025-08-11 16:01:51+00:00
I had one of those for S3stat for a while. It lost decisively in A/B tests to the ugly wall of text that it replaced, so that’s what’s up there today:

https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx

I’m still waiting for the next generation of trendy SaaS companies to crib it.
by don_neufeld | 2025-08-11 16:01:52+00:00
sigh

I've done the text file thing, and it’s fine. Up to a (very small) point.

What the author describes as their “workload” barely registers.

For context, for me, Things on any given day has over 100 individual actions, most of which are recurring.

By doing this, I can stay on top of an extremely broad surface area. There is no way a text file can handle the number of parallel work streams my (or really many) people have.

Broadly, for me these work stream are:

* Self Care

* Relationship

* Children

* Special Needs (IEP, SSI, Conservatorship, GGRC, Medical, Special Needs Trust, etc)

* Friends

* Professional (BD, etc)

* Investments (Real Estate, Angel Investments, SEP, etc)

* Legal (LLCs, Litigation, Wills, etc)

* Financial (Quarterly and Annual Taxes in 2 countries, Insurance, etc)

* Home (Massive)

* Hobbies

* Vehicles

Without a serious amount of structure in the form of my todo system, there’s no way a person could manage this - certainly not with a text file.

Calendars very rapidly fall down for scheduled tasks that you can’t knock out the day of, they lack reminder functions, etc.
by yieldcrv | 2025-08-11 16:02:05+00:00
what they mean is that it is common consumer grade hardware, available in laptop form and widely distributed already for at least half a decade

you don't need a desktop, or an array of H100

they don't mean you can afford it, so just move on if its not for your budgeting priorities, or entire socioeconomic class, or your side of the world
by pron | 2025-08-11 16:02:16+00:00
> In (safe) Rust we categorically don't have type unsafety

This is very inaccurate. Simple (i.e. non-dependent) types can describe very, very few properties. 99% of correctness properties cannot be described with simple types at all. That is exactly why, from ATS's vantage point, Rust is about as "safe" as Assembly; its types can guarantee almost nothing, while ATS can guarantee virtually everything.

So now the question is, with what little simple types give us (which is still useful), how much are we willing to pay for what confidence in their soundness. After all, Rust doesn't actually give us 100% safety, because we interact with C code etc.. But it does give us some higher confidence than the one given to us by Zig. So now the question is, since we don't have 100% confidence anyway - there are no zeros or ones here, neither on cost nor on the benefit side - how much are we willing to pay for what amount of added confidence?

Some people find the cost of Rust to be worth the added confidence; some don't. There is no binary line here.

> It's OK, the C++ Convener is absolutely convinced of the same line of thinking as you. Surely if they can just keep finding adjustments to make C++ fractionally safer it'll be as safe as Rust.

I'm not interested in making C++ as safe as Rust. For applications programming I use Java, which is somewhat safer than Rust, and for low-level code, I'm much more interested in other correctness properties than just safety. Safety gives me some small portion of the correctness I want, and it's great when that small portion is mostly free, but the bang-for-the-buck that I get from Rust is too low for me. I pay for all this complication in exchange for only guaranteeing no UAF? For that effort, I want a lot more.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-08-11 16:02:19+00:00
I know someone whose work is cited in the "Try and" paper, and she asked me to pass this along in response to your comment:

> Feel free to let djtango know that the paper they're looking for is Bergen (2001), "Nativization processes in L1 Esperanto". It's a minor classic and deserves any attention it gets!

I searched for the title, and this PDF was among the top matches: https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/papers/NEJCL.pdf
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-11 16:02:25+00:00
A 50% duty on imported aluminum!? How is any manufacturing business in this country supposed to function at all? America doesn't even have bauxite mines to protect or spool up anymore!

They even use recycled aluminum for 80% of their production, the 20% they import is supplemental. This does nothing but harm the consumers.

Not only that, Arizona already struggles with international sales, since they can't pull the same 99¢ model with the added distribution & import costs. This will hamper the international market even more.
by alphazard | 2025-08-11 16:02:34+00:00
> Do you just let Umbridge into your house and hope that the quick look around is enough to close the case? Or do you recognize you're dealing with an Umbridge and not take the chance?

In the US at least, you absolutely do not give consent for anyone from the government to come into your house. It can only hurt you. Call the police and tell them someone is trespassing. Call your lawyer and explain the situation.

Children should know it is inappropriate for adults they don't know to ask for details about their home life. Any adult acting in good faith will always make it easier for a child to contact their parents without negotiation. "Yes you can use my phone" is the only acceptable response. No "come over here first", no "let's talk about where your parents are".
by IMTDb | 2025-08-11 16:02:34+00:00
> Is that the fault of the parent [...] ?

Yes, it is.

You can complain all you want about land allocation, but when there are 2 tons vehicles going 100+ Kmh/h somewhere and it's closed to pedestrian you don't let your kid got there. Period.

Similarly, if they are reintroducing wolves and grizzlis in a forest near you, and they close it off for trails etc, you don't organize a weekend camping trip there.

Sometimes it's about common sense, stop blaming "society and the government" for your inability to function as a reasonable human being.
by pyrale | 2025-08-11 16:03:07+00:00
Not commenting about the ic/leo part specifically, but there is a pretty abundant body of work on what "normal" people are willing to do, as long as they find a way to rationalize it away. The banality of evil is well documented.

In that light, what others would do is rarely a reliable indicator that you shouldn’t think twice about your actions, lest you regret later, once the thinking has happened.
by Terretta | 2025-08-11 16:03:11+00:00
> I can’t get into using AI tools like Claude Code. As far as I go is chat style where I’m mostly in control.

Try aider.chat (it's in the name), but specifically start with "ask" mode then dip a toe into "architect" mode, not "code" which is where Claude Code and the "vibe" nonsense is.

Let aider.chat use Opus 4.1 or GPT-5 for thinking, with no limit on reasoning tokens and --reasoning-effort high.

> agents are a boon for extraverts and neurotypical people.

On the contrary, I think the non-vibe tools are force multipliers for those with an ability to communicate so precisely they find “extraverts and neurotypical people” confounding when attempting to specify engineering work.

I'd put both aider.chat and Claude Code in the non-vibe class if you use them Socratically.
by cloverich | 2025-08-11 16:03:25+00:00
For someone with ADD, it can be extremely difficult to keep track of even 3-4 relatively simple items that need completed in a day. They will get distracted by something minor, and 8 hours later have completed 20 things in a highly productive manner, but 0 of the 3-4 important items they were supposed to do (and most likely, they will have forgotten those items existed entirely). For me what works is starting each day with a list of 3 items that need done that day, and to check that list about every 30 minutes all day long.
by codazoda | 2025-08-11 16:03:29+00:00
I'm glad to see this was a bug of some sort and (hopefully) not a full RAM limitation. I've used quite a few of these models on my MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM. I also have a plan to build an AI chat bot and host it from my bedroom on a $149 mini-pc. I'll probably go much smaller than the 20B models for that. The Qwen3 4B model looks quite good.

https://joeldare.com/my_plan_to_build_an_ai_chat_bot_in_my_b...
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-11 16:03:35+00:00
It's quite right that petitions are (mostly) ignored in Parliamentary matters, IMHO.

MPs are elected to Parliament, they get input from their constituents. Bills are debated, revised, voted on multiple times. There are consultations and input from a board range of view points.

A petition is in effect trying to shout over all that process from the street outside.
by jmull | 2025-08-11 16:03:56+00:00
I think the reason people use text file + "snowflake software" is that they want just the structure (constraints) they want, and no more. BTW, what people want changes over time and by circumstance.

org mode has a lot of features, including customizability, but imposes some heavy constraints as well. By its nature it's only going to satisfy a sliver of the people who have come around to text file.

It's good you linked that document, though. At a glance it gives a fair idea of what you'd be buying in to.
by netsharc | 2025-08-11 16:04:00+00:00
I bought a 2020 car recently. It comes with Android Auto, whereas previously I'd just mount my phone to the dashboard. But with Android Auto, every time the voice gives out a navigation instruction, music playing from the infotainment is paused; in my previous car the voice would play from my phone, on top of the music coming out of the car's sound system.

So I've ordered a mount so I can mount my phone to the car again...
by koolba | 2025-08-11 16:04:47+00:00
An oft overlooked part of being involved in open source is the networking and mentorship, both technical and personal. Being a part of one or more well run projects lets you interact with some incredibly smart people discussing technical topics well outside your day job. Not all of that will pan out to something directly useful, but over time it adds up to both a wider skillset at actual development and dealing with a distributed team. The evolution of your written communication skills alone are probably worth it.
by atoav | 2025-08-11 16:05:09+00:00
As somone who uses text and paper for todos, happily for years now after spending equally much time procrastinating in search of the perfect task management system I will now do a half-ironic take on answering your points:

> having your computer alert you to things that come up

That's what the calendar or the alarm is for

> being able to tag notes

Write #tag and then grep for it. Not that hard

> being able to add events to a calendar

A event isn't a todo, you add it to the calendar instead

> being able to set priority of tasks

Cut it and paste it up to the top or write "IMPORTANT". If you have so many tasks that you need something better, you probably spend too much time organizing your todos and should start working

> expecting prioritized/currently relevant tasks to be at the top of the agenda

If your todo lists are so long thst you cant read them in 30 seconds they are too long. Split them up and mive them to the relevant project.

> being able to add recurring tasks

Just leave it in the list and add a questionmark at the end. If it is time critical add it to the calendar

> full-text search (grepping)

Yeah, good observation you can grep text pretty fine. If you're annoyed by having to type the filename that is a shell oneliner

- formatting features (markdown)

You can use markdown in text, it is just more or less useless wothout rendering. But I don't see how formatting leads to more productivity

> feeding TODOs to an LLM to filter out the currently relevant ones and send Telegram notifications

Yeah ok, that one is bad.

> hand-copying currently relevant tasks to the top of the TODO list

Get a decent texteditor where you can press modifiers + arrow keys to move lines. Works pretty well. In fact better/faster than dragging with your mouse.

> running a script on a VPS to sync notifications

No need to do that, you have a calendar

> set up cron job with git commit

If you need your todos in a git you either work at a nuclear facility, a space station or you take yourself too seriously

> writing post-it notes by hand

What else would you use, a typewriter? Just kidding. Paper has undeniable strengths for the todo space. It is there and you don't have to remember to open it. Rewriting your todos is doubling as both checking their state, refreshing your memory and cleaning them up. Paper can be read without electricity and by other people without any form of setup. People know how to use it without onboarding. Hackers cannot use a flaw in the the paper has been made to gwin remote code execution (they can however potentially use photographs of paper to do so).

I am not kidding, one of the best work-handoffs I ever had was entirely organized via emails and post its. It worked flawlessly.

And I say that as someone who has spent days on todo systems, task warrior and the likes. Everybody has their own needs, but very often boring and pragmatic wins.
by freedomben | 2025-08-11 16:05:37+00:00
Oh dude, I played a ton of Chex Quest back in the day. They did a really good job with implementation there. Honestly, an utterly brilliant marketing plan because to this day I still have major warm vibes for Chex brand. Wish they'd up the protein to carb ratio a bit though so I could eat it in good conscience :-)
by js2 | 2025-08-11 16:05:44+00:00
I mean, it got itself written into a major motion picture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_Mail

A few years back I was pacing a marathon and toward the end it was just me and a recent college graduate. Something caused me to mention AOL and she hadn't heard of it. I mentioned CD-ROMs and she said: "you mean, like for music?". She had no idea what CD-ROMs were. So that's was from someone born in maybe 1995? It's amazing how something that was as ubiquitous as AOL (and it was ubiquitous) can come and go in a single generation.
by codazoda | 2025-08-11 16:07:01+00:00
Like other posters said, maybe a local model is a good option. I've found the Qwen3:4B (reasoning) model works pretty well for many things.

I'm planning to run a local model on a $149 mini-pc and host it for the world from my bedroom. You can read a bit more about my thinking below.

https://joeldare.com/my_plan_to_build_an_ai_chat_bot_in_my_b...

These hosted models are better but it feels like the gap is closing and I hope it continues to close.
by YVoyiatzis | 2025-08-11 16:07:02+00:00
I believe the Reminders app, when used alongside Notes and Calendar, is becoming a strong competitor in the productivity space. One feature I'd love to see added is persistent nudging reminders that keep alerting you until you manually dismiss them.

Things 3 is another excellent third-party option in this category. Together, these apps form my essential productivity stack. I honestly can't function without them.
by derefr | 2025-08-11 16:07:06+00:00
> (make and complete) finish making or "oh shit he really ended up making that" (the MORE common meaning in this case)

I would note that we have that one in [vernacular] English, too, but only in the past tense: "done [X]ed", i.e. "he really done made that."

> (make and go) gradually make (or make more and more)

And we have a construction equivalent to this, but that means more like "set out to [X]" — that being "go and [X]." I.e. "now why'd you go and make that?"
by skydhash | 2025-08-11 16:07:20+00:00
Taks tracking is different from reminders. There’s actually few things that I want to be reminded of, and they either belongs to a calendar (collaborative items) or a reminder app. The separation is blurry and they can all fits within the agenda concept.

As for tasks tracking, it’s all lists. And a daily/weekly/monthly review is enough for me.