MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by com2kid | 2025-08-01 21:20:11+00:00
> I think it would be a waste of this girl's time to be forced to learn about and write about random subjects that don't interest her.

This is a common STEM view, but it is inherently wrong. IMHO it dates back to the unfortunate divide between science and the liberal arts, whereas both were once considered a single field, now days there is disdain and mistrust between the two sides.

The point of history classes isn't to memorize the dates of wars, is it to understand the motivations of humans, it is to understand how the world we lived in has been shaped throughout time, and it is to learn how to do, and understand, research about the history of a place.

The point of English classes isn't just to get good at writing, it is to get good at various types of writing, it is to learn how to read different forms of literature, and it is to have a guided tour through a chosen selection of literature to hopefully develop one's character and thoughtfulness.

One of the most valuable classes I ever took at University was the Art Of Listening To Music. We started off around 500ad or so and went forward through time up until about 1920. We learned the vocabulary of music, how to sit down and listen to a piece of music and describe what we were hearing. After I was done with the class I went from appreciating a handfuls of genres of music to appreciating music itself no matter the genre. It was a 3 credit guaranteed A class that had enriched my life by an enormous amount.

If you really love your major, then the point of going to university was NOT your major, odds are you would've studied that field with or without the school. (Barring fields that require large capital investments, chemistry, physics, playing with an entire orchestra, building airplanes, etc) The point is everything else.
by alecco | 2025-08-01 21:20:41+00:00
Same here. I stopped using Gemini Pro because on top of it's hard to follow verbosity it was giving contradicting answers. Things that Claude Sonnet 4 could answer.

Speaking of Sonnet, I feel like it's closing the gap to Opus. After the new quotas I started to try it before Opus and now it gets complex things right more often than not. This wasn't my experience just a couple of months ago.
by lavelganzu | 2025-08-01 21:22:22+00:00
Agreed.

There are technical challenges that are so basic that a programmer should be able to regurgitate them even under normal-for-an-interview stress, and these are still useful filters. (e.g. For a front-end web dev role, we asked candidates to change the web page's text color. Half couldn't.) People who suffer from truly extreme stress at interviews are probably best off treating it as a medical condition to be managed.
by paugs | 2025-08-01 21:22:42+00:00
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by fidotron | 2025-08-01 21:23:19+00:00
I wonder if Google plan on keeping any of the resulting changes purely US, or if they are being compelled to do so globally.

> Stop sharing money or perks with phonemakers, carriers, and app developers in exchange for Google Play exclusivity or preinstallation

Going back many years, my understanding was that a certain amount of Play Store revenue finds its way to carriers (and this was definitely a thing in Asia too), and that this was used to explain why there was a disparity in fees between the Play Store and the Chrome Store.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-08-01 21:23:23+00:00
House cleaners and hotel help are not janitors, but all of our workplaces are cleaned by them. We don't tip them, or the front desk people at any doctor's office, or the traffic crossing guards at any school, or the EMTs at the hospital, or the ticket taker at a movie theater.

There's a huge list of people you interact with daily who don't get tax free tips. Why are they less valuable than restaurant workers? That was my question.
by nomel | 2025-08-01 21:23:32+00:00
> These corpocrats are like robots.

I'm from the US, so employment here is at will. There were layoffs at every company that I worked for, and are entirely expect by anyone what has worked a while, when the economy turns down a bit.

Out of them all, the "red envelope on your desk" was the best approach, in my opinion. It let people have a moment to themselves to react to and accept something that they were, at that point, unable to change. Then, the manager would have one-on-one with everyone, to explain the packages. In my opinion, I wouldn't want a manager to tell me. It would be awkward and unnecessary, since it's usually entirely out of their control.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-01 21:23:47+00:00
It’s a check for ‘can this person handle losing a large chunk of money when they get swindled by management after investing in a private company’, which will almost certainly be the case if you don’t have more money to kick in every round (dilution) or don’t own preferred shares, or any number of other tricks. Google or Meta recently ‘acquired’ a company by offering them salary packages that matched the equity they had in their company and then skipped buying the company so anyone with shares left got screwed over when the husk was sold for 1% of its prior value, since it was almost worthless once all the talent was acquihired.
by b8 | 2025-08-01 21:24:05+00:00
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by munificent | 2025-08-01 21:24:09+00:00
> Should people just not make new languages any more?

They should, but they should understand it's very hard to get widespread adoption when they do. Not impossible, but very hard.

> There was and is in fact abundant tool support for this in Python. The `2to3` script shipped with Python and the corresponding `lib2to3` was part of the standard library through 3.11. The third-party `six` compatibility libraries are still downloaded from PyPI more often than NumPy.

Yes, and even so everyone involved knows the transition took a very long time, required a ton of labor, and was a major headache for many years.

Work on Python 3 began in 2006, and Python 2 wasn't officially sunsetted until 2020 [1]. To put that in perspective, the Python community spend almost as much time migrating to Python 3 as they spent in Python's entire history prior to that point. (Python was 15 in 2006, and it took them 14 years to deprecate Python 2.)

You'll notice too that the easiest changes to automate were the ones that were either lexical (renaming core library methods) or syntactic (print to print()), and the hardest ones involved the change to types of values (strings).

Static types make it much easier to automatically migrate code.

[1]: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
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by cge | 2025-08-01 21:24:37+00:00
To agree with you: I've worked with several really brilliant undergrads doing and publishing great research. But all of them were rightfully undergrads. Even if they were actually capable of doing great research, they benefited from the breadth.

If you have bright enough undergrads, you change the curriculum for them within their field of expertise, so that they still get the breadth of things outside it while not wasting time with things they know. You let them not take as many classes, take graduate courses, do more research, take more courses from other departments in related areas but with different perspectives, and so on.

When I was an undergrad, in physics, there was a professor in the department who had done his undergrad there and was legendary, as was quietly mentioned in awe, for not taking any undergraduate physics courses while there; the department had let him skip all of them, and instead take graduate courses and do research.
by neilv | 2025-08-01 21:26:06+00:00
These are traditional textbook examples for layoffs, of the kind told to impressionable young aspiring economists. Sometimes they are true.

Often, the company actually still needs those skills for what it's doing, but it's a bean-counter move, to "appease investors". Knowing that this will put more pressure on remaining employees, and also knowing that they'll soon be hiring for the same roles.

This is another way it's not right. There's little sense of obligation to the employee.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-01 21:26:38+00:00
The total headcount is irrelevant. What specific department overshot their required headcount by a hundred and fifty? Reviewing TFA, it's customer service and the context of it leans to being mass layoffs as Altlassan anticipates replacing those reps with LLM, which I'm sure Altlassan customers are simply thrilled about, and related, means the CEO's heartfelt message is even more hollow.

So, I will fully grant that my original statement doesn't really matter here; this wasn't a department that over-scaled to meet a project that didn't exist, this is in fact, the far shittier kind of layoffs: the ones that are a direct result of a company taking by all accounts a fully functioning department and taking an axe to it to improve their bottom line in 6 months, trading experienced workers who likely have relationships with their clients for soulless chatbots for their customers to now argue with.

So yes, I fully acknowledge I was wrong, and also, this is shittier than I assumed without reading. Take that how you will.
by pdimitar | 2025-08-01 21:27:23+00:00
And I am extremely skeptical of your "direct evidence" (source?). Most jobs are not measurable, they are more like N amount of employees collectively moving a target / goal. And just like in school projects there are the lazies of course, but again, direct measurability is mostly an illusion sold by consultants that get sweet money by lying to executives and telling them what they want to hear.

Consider that you might be in the bubble of yes-people.

Work from home allowed many people to find their exact productive schedule, motivators and rhythm. But we can't have that, 8h or leave!
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-01 21:27:45+00:00
I will say 1:1 layoffs are very tricky logistically, and can be less humane in some ways.

If a manager has several layoffs to do, you have people waiting on pins and needles for the dreaded calendar invite over a few hours or even days.

In a layoff, it’s important to do it humanely, quickly, and let people settle down as soon as you can. It’s bad for both the laid off and the remaining employees you have a trickle layoffs happening over a longer period of time… it’s less bad if you rip the bandaid off quickly.

You want to be able to say to your team, “Hey guys, we had a layoff this morning, and everyone affected has already been notified. It’s all done at this point - everyone in this room is not affected.”

If I hear through the grapevine there’s a layoff happening this morning, and my manager schedules a surprise 1:1 with me in a few hours because he has a few of them to do, I’m going to be a wreck between now and then.
by NomDePlum | 2025-08-01 21:27:52+00:00
Hamas didn't start a war. It committed an atrocity. Israel has committed worse before and since. I've no idea how Israel recovers as a country given the continuous and popularity of the daily atrocities they perpetrate and the decades that this has been happening for.

Wars involve sides attacking each other. Israel bombing anyone in Gaza doesn't qualify as a war.

There wasn't a question just an excuse.
by scoofy | 2025-08-01 21:28:17+00:00
Yes, Teachout is one of the most prominent anti-monopoly advocates (along with Tim Wu). She wrote one of the first critical reviews of Abundance. She was then invited onto Klein's show to discuss the topic candidly with critics. Her positions are not "her's" but of a large section of the left who wants to blame the housing crisis on corporations rather than on cartel-like supply effects pushed by homeowner groups.

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by squigz | 2025-08-01 21:28:45+00:00
A question for those talking about how the law is the only system that should be deciding this stuff.

Suppose I run a community online. Suppose several women come to me and say they've been sexually harassed by a senior male member of the community. Suppose that male denies it. What do you expect me to do? Call the cops? That doesn't seem very feasible. Just ignore it? Suppose the accusations are true; without the law saying they're true, I'm supposed to just let someone who might be sexually harassing other community members stick around?
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-01 21:28:58+00:00
It's over. Apple lost, Google lost. They lost in the EU, and they've lost in the US. Just today, Japan jumped on as well: https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/01/japan-mandates-apple-must-all... (This affects both companies actually.) No country who cares about their own citizens is going to let Apple and Google take advantage of them now that the US and the EU is putting a stop to it, so it won't be long until both companies unify their global policy to stop restricting this stuff.

What you're still going to see, is any way they can delay enforcement in the large markets, because the money they're raking in the government will not claw back in penalties. So things like the stays of enforcement are not because they have any chance of winning, but because it's profitable to draw out the case. They have no chance of winning this in front of this Supreme Court or any other one, for that matter.

The comedy here is the changes they're saying would be too hard for them to do in 14 days were ones that Apple has already had to accept... and they had less than 14 days to do them. So if the judges are vaguely aware of the parallel Apple case, they have already seen how this plays out and deny this stay request too. But we'll see.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-01 21:29:21+00:00
The first error seems to be a transcription error, it's correct in their graph representation further down.

The second one isn't an error, but a poor explanation. After a balloon is burst, the balloons now have new neighbors. That is, it isn't this:

3 1 5 -> pop 1 = 15 3 _ 5 -> pop 3 = 3

It's:

3 1 5 -> pop 1 = 15 3 5 -> pop 3 = 15

The distance between the balloons doesn't make them not neighbors.
by oriettaxx | 2025-08-01 21:29:44+00:00
you spot the problem? you are the problem

easy behavior.

The man has a very simple mind: nobody stopped him when he was (I would add "an ignored") teenager.

The good is that he proved how nowadays "democracy" works: ok, you are in charge, but you must obey "the circle": he did not, so the king is naked....

He is the living proof they cheated us.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-08-01 21:29:50+00:00
Flatpak's "sandbox" is mostly theater, and it gives little when it comes to privacy. Apart from the obvious that packages sometimes come with overly broad permissions to be usable at all (but you are still given a marketing pitch about enhanced safety, granted, flatpak.org doesn't do it but flathub does), the fact that some paths are denied or some access is revoked is also a data point.

I'd like to have a system where I can choose to give any bitmap, movie, or blank screen when an application asks me for permission to use my camera. It shouldn't know that I have denied it. When it asks for my microphone, I should be able to choose to make it think I allowed it microphone access with dummy audio stream with no audio or audio of my choice. When it asks me to open a file, or a directory, it should invoke a system dialog that cannot be faked, and when I pick a file/directory for it, that directory or file should be bind-mounted into its mount namespace without giving it extra information about other files beside it, or indeed what's the full path of the file. When recording a screen, I should be able to pick which regions and which applications it should be able to see, and the system should make it think it's all there is.

All the while the application doesn't even have to cooperate. This is the important bit.

I think the pieces to do this are mostly there already (portals, Pipewire, namespaces), it's just a lot of faff to actually implement.
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by b8 | 2025-08-01 21:30:42+00:00
Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I got hired, I reached out to the guy in charge of the anti-fraud team at Amazon, and got unbanned. Emails to support etc. did nothing before I reached out internally (unbanned by 1am the next day).
by thrance | 2025-08-01 21:31:26+00:00
> people’s desire to keep their property value high is part of it.

Yes, exactly, and what are Klein and Thompson proposing to fix this? Fuck all. They only write about curing the symptoms of this crisis while telling us to ignore the root cause of it all: housing is now a very popular investment vehicle, used by many powerful private interests who absolutely wouldn't want to see their portfolios halve in values.

How are we to believe that the Democratic establishment, lead by the same old people, backed by the same old wealthy donors, will now be able to make a stand against the very people that put us in this situation in the first place, and are now funding the politicians and "thinkers" behind this movement?

Abundance liberalism is nothing but a rebranding of neoliberalism in a desperate attempt to astroturf a renewed interest in the failing democratic party. It is running away from any reform that would be critical to capital, hence why they dispense so much vitriol on the progressives and almost none on the right.

tldr: abundance does not address money in politics because it is birthed from it, and will therefore never be able to fix the housing crisis because its existence is convenient to capital.
by onetimeusename | 2025-08-01 21:32:12+00:00
McDonalds did not officially endorse Israel. The franchise owner of all the McDonalds restaurants in Israel did. McDonalds corporate did not approve the message although it seems like it did not really matter what the facts were. (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/05/mcdonalds-i...)