MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hxii | 2025-08-01 18:25:32+00:00
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by chuckadams | 2025-08-01 18:25:41+00:00
Builders have some neat properties like partial evaluation, which becomes especially neat when you use stateless builders that return new instances. They can also be subclassed, allowing not only behavior that can be overridden at individual method granularity, but able to build a different subclass.

Obviously don't reach for a builder if you don't have these use cases though.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-08-01 18:25:50+00:00
One of my all-time favorite interviews was with a YC company where the CTO jumped on and the first interview was a code review of a backend. Check for missing indexes, sub-optimal data types, missing validations, exception handling, performance optimizations, missing `await`, etc.

Really great interview and what I realized from that experience is that this format is so good because it really measures for both breadth and depth without a lot of pressure. Here, you're not measuring so much for right and wrong, but how experienced an engineer is in real-world scenarios; everyone can find something to fix in the code, but more senior engineers will find more, faster, with less hints.

I think it also reflected day-to-day responsibilities more and in this AI agent era, reflects the needs for an engineer to carefully review AI generated code for correctness, performance, security, and fit-for-purpose.

I enjoyed the exercise so much, I ended up building a simple, OSS tool to facilitate this kind of interview using code reviews:

https://coderev.app (https://github.com/CharlieDigital/coderev)
by m463 | 2025-08-01 18:25:58+00:00
Some people are of the opinion that ANY way to lessen the burden of taxation, especially automatic taxation, will lead to silent and continual increases of taxes.

I wonder if people actually know how much of their income is taxed away?

federal tax, state tax, local tax, property tax, sales tax, gas tax...

I wonder how much we actually get to keep, and I wonder how many people are aware of it both now and historically?
by incomingpain | 2025-08-01 18:26:01+00:00
>Countries like Canada need higher taxes to fund things like universal healthcare.

Canada and US trade is far more complicated than having high taxation.

What's happening right now... is that the liberal party alleged that Trump/MAGA had invaded Canada and had a military occupation outside Parliament in Ottawa; intending to overthrow the government(which if true, would have been an emergency). This was justification for using the emergency act. Our courts have now determined this was utterly false and was used to unconstitutionally crush a peaceful protest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-federal-cou...

But better yet, the liberals seized bank accounts of people who werent even in Ottawa and did nothing at all; many of which were dual citizens and were MAGA. The judge even commented that the media had grossly misrepresented the protest. Unsurprisingly each journalist who did not get named by the judge were terminated for cause about a week before the judge's ruling came out. All within a week across multiple organizations.

Trump is now back in power and during the election recommended/endorsed 7 times for Canadians to vote for Carney. That's the same guy who was brought before congress to answer for white collar crimes/fraud in GFANZ relations. He's literally the guy Trump was running against during the US presidential election being the guy behind climate change and ESG stuff.

Canada now has a 35% tariff which is higher than China at 30%. Canada cant have free trade with the USA because the current administration sees us as the enemy and he's not wrong.
by cosmic_quanta | 2025-08-01 18:26:04+00:00
> It reminds me of George Hotz’s legendary single week at Twitter in 2022, where he joined just to fix a login popup that was bothering users, then bounced.

The author remembers this, uh, event differently than I remember it... George Hotz boldly claimed that he could "fix Twitter search" faster than those lazy Twitter devs, only to bail almost immediately. Hubris!

On the way out, he removed that login popup as a sort of consolation prize.
by bevr1337 | 2025-08-01 18:26:09+00:00
PBS and NPR don't have regional programming. They're national. Local, member stations provide regional content. You'd be comparing WETA to OETA.

I'm looking at your WETA TV guide and it is completely standard material. We've got kids cartoons, Bob Ross, some selections from BBC and Bloomberg, and Ask This Old House (one of my favorites). OETA has almost identical programming.

Where's the programming where they bully people about race and sex? Are you talking about that couple that give the good financial advice? Or maybe those cooks on America's Test Kitchen? I never did trust that Wishbone dog...
by prats226 | 2025-08-01 18:26:10+00:00
This is super interesting to think about in LLM world where lot of software is getting replaced with LLM calls.

In terms of output of an LLM, there is no clear promise in the contract, only observable behaviour. Also the observable behaviour is subject to change with every update in LLM. So all the downstream systems have to have evals to counter this.

One good example is claude code where now people have started complaining them switching models effecting their downstream coding workflows.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-01 18:26:27+00:00
> The initial draft was terrible in conveying tone, irony, or any kind of cultural allusion.

My mother reads books mostly in Russian, including books by English-speaking authors translated into Russian.

Some of the translations are laughably bad; one recent example had to translate "hot MILF", and just translated "hot" verbatim - as in the adjective indicating temperature - and just transliterated the word "MILF", as the translator (or machine?) apparently just had no idea what it was, and didn't know the equivalent term in Russian.

As a mirror, I have a hard time reading things in Russian - I left when I was ten years old, so I'm very out of practice, and most of the cultural allusions go straight over my head as well. A good translation needs to make those things clear, either via a good translation, or by footnotes that explain things to the reader.

And this doesn't just apply to linguistic translation - the past is a foreign country, too. Reading old texts - any old texts - requires context.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 18:26:43+00:00
Honestly, that's a great question

I think I might be doing a self plug here, so pardon me but I am pretty sure that I can create something like a link shortener which can last essentially permanent, it has to do with crypto (I don't adore it as an investment, I must make it absolutely clear)

But basically I have created nanotimestamps which can embed some data in nano blockchain and that data could theoretically be a link..

Now the problem is that the link would atleast either be a transaction id which is big or some sort of seed passphrase...

So no, its not as easy as some passphrase but I am pretty sure that nano isn't going to dissolve, last time I checked it has 60 nodes and anyone can host a node and did I mention all of this for completely free.. (I mean, there is no gas fees in nano, which is why I picked it)

I am not associated with the nano team and it would actually be sort of put their system on strain if we do actually use it in this way but I mean their system allows for it .. so why not cheat the system

Tldr: I am pretty sure that I can build one which can really survive a really long time, decentralized based link shortener but the trade off is that the shortened link might actually become larger than original link. I can still think of a way to actually shorten it though

Like I just thought that nano has a way to catalogue transactions in time so its theoretically possible that we can catalogue some transactions from time, and so basically its just the nth number of transaction and that n could be something like 1000232

and so it could be test.org/1000232 could lead to something like youtube rickroll. Could theoretically be possible, If literally anybody is interested, I can create a basic prototype since I am just so proud really that I created some decent "innovation" in some space that I am not even familiar with (I ain't no crypto wizard)
by dreamcompiler | 2025-08-01 18:27:18+00:00
Another weirdness was that for the first couple of years of the Mac's existence you had to have a Lisa if you wanted to write code for it. The Mac had so little RAM that it couldn't run a Pascal compiler. For this reason, when I bought a Mac in 1984 I also bought a Lisa with a huge 5MB (!) hard drive.

You bring up a great point though: Whatever happened to LisaOS? Did anybody archive the source anywhere or did it completely vanish?
by neilv | 2025-08-01 18:28:22+00:00
> I am currently interviewing candidates and so far about 50% of them used live GenAI to answer questions. I think so far it has been trivial to notice who was doing that. It takes very little to figure out if people know what they are talking about in a natural language conversation.

Before LLMs, I would often answer a hard/important question by automatically looking away from the person, and my eyes scanning some edge/object in the background, while I visually and verbally think about the question... Then I'd sometimes come back in a moment with almost a bulleted list of points and related concerns, and making spatial hand gestures relating concepts.

Today, I wonder whether that looks for all the world like reading off some kind of gen-AI text and figures. :)
by maybevoid | 2025-08-01 18:28:40+00:00
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Newsletters: What to Do or Not to Do?
by shreythecray | 2025-08-01 18:28:46+00:00
Email newsletters are usually kind of boring.

Working in a role close to marketing, I find myself asking the same question every couple of years. What would I do differently if I got a chance to design one. And guess what? I now have the opportunity to design one.

Here's what I think:

- You spend a few seconds skimming an email

- If something catches your eye, you read/click on it

- Sometimes, you're busy and you'll mark the email unread but never really go back to it

- Usually, you won't get hooked and you'll leave the email, never to read it again.

So the key thing is: have something shiny that will catch someone's eye. But for an audience of hundreds/thousands of people.

What is something that catches your eye in a newsletter? What is something that makes you want to unsubscribe? What would you suggest that I do?
by unsupp0rted | 2025-08-01 18:28:54+00:00
She has vastly more power than he has. With one sentence she could have him arrested or at least temporarily detained for nothing.

Just one comment thread up there's a person rushing to believe her and distrust the dad:

> "And don't get me wrong, I'm strongly inclined to believe women and I generally distrust men."

^ from the other comment thread above this one
by dang | 2025-08-01 18:28:55+00:00
Related. Others?

Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44683481 - July 2025 (219 comments)

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998549 - July 2024 (49 comments)
by jmccarthy | 2025-08-01 18:29:01+00:00
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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 18:29:06+00:00
Oh boy... I think I found the man that I can yap about the idea that I got scrolling thorugh HN: link shortener in blockchain with 0 gas fees Here is the comment since I don't want to spam the same comment twice, Have a nice day

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=44760545
by alurm | 2025-08-01 18:29:20+00:00
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A systems programmer. Prefer US opportunities.
by nyeah | 2025-08-01 18:29:32+00:00
I'm afraid this discussion is in danger of sinking from finance into economics. Sure, what you describe is one thing that happens. Interest rates affect demand. Demand affects price. If you pick your data, you can find times when that mechanism appears to dominate and the model fits perfectly for a while. But in general it's simply not the case that interest rates, alone, determine house prices.
by spderosso | 2025-08-01 18:29:41+00:00
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by sho_hn | 2025-08-01 18:29:41+00:00
> It's amazing this is an acceptable thing to say in polite society

I'd say it's an OK stance to take (e.g., based on past experience) if one of the conclusions you take from it is that it calls for a process that isn't similarly biased. If you recognize and acknowledge your own bias, you should be able to critically challenge it and/or be interested in neutral fact-finding, due process, and so on.

For myself, I'd say it's less general distrust of men and more the observation that many situations in society greatly favor men in their power dynamics and make it more probable for men to misbehave, i.e. given the option.
by 9rx | 2025-08-01 18:29:46+00:00
Interesting stuff! I wouldn't say a lot of it applies to my personal experience — much of it sounds more like what I do — but understood that no two organizations (or people) are alike.

> Meetings.

This seems to be where all of their time is spent as best as I can tell as an onlooker. But what goes on in those meetings, in your experience? "I worked on meeting with Mary to deal with X so that we could Y. No blockers." doesn't make it to standup, strangely enough. Which is sad as that is the only information I'd want to know about from a standup! I already know about what the developers are doing. Their work is highly visible.

I don't mean to imply that there is no reason for those meetings, or that they are somehow easy, but I'd love to know what it is all about. One part just because I'm plain curious, one part because I wonder what information isn't making it back to me that would improve the ability to do my job, and one part because I want to know if is something I'd want to take more involvement in.
by unnamed76ri | 2025-08-01 18:29:48+00:00
I’ll listen to snippets of right wing talk radio but it generally doesn’t take long before the exaggeration (Glenn Beck) or Trump idol worship (Clay Travis) get annoying.

I like hearing perspectives on stories that I won’t hear elsewhere but in general, I don’t need very much political news in my life. I’m happier spending my time on audio books and podcasts.

I’m not sure I’ve ever engaged with NPR beyond seeing conservatives mock some of their silliest propaganda headlines in the past few years.
by toast0 | 2025-08-01 18:30:38+00:00
I mean, if you're trying to be a good netizen, you try to tune your congestion control so it's fair enough in at least a few scenarios. You want it to be fair relative to status quo streams when status quo is dominant or when your new system is dominant, and also fair relative to new streams in the same conditions. This is a challenge of course, and if something in the middle is doing its own congestion control, that's indeed its own layer of fun and pathology.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-01 18:31:05+00:00
Here’s Fox reporting on NPR’s bias: https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-head-asks-critics-show-me-...

As you can see, it’s mostly gotcha quotes and unfair glosses. For example:

> NPR also called America’s interstate highways racist. I did not know our highways were racist. I thought they were concrete, but not according to NPR.

Of course, it’s a historical fact that many minority neighborhoods were bulldozed to make room for interstate highway development, among them Cincinnati, OH and St. Louis, MO.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-freeways-flattened-black...

But of course this history that actually happened is interpreted as Reuters’ liberal bias. There’s no winning this.
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-01 18:31:28+00:00
I'm actually a filmmaker and highly value full length feature films. I'm not arguing against watching whole movies. But there is also value in short films, short form videos, and even just watching specific scenes of a film at times. If it makes you feel something meaningful that's all that matters. There is room for all types of experiences, no matter the length. Emotions only last for around 90 seconds so sometimes that's all you need in the moment. If you want a deeper or longer experience by all means please watch a full movie, I am not trying to stop you or anyone from doing that.
by ShayNehmad | 2025-08-01 18:31:33+00:00
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by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 18:31:44+00:00
No he means me -- I probably did suggest this by accident by quoting all of one of your sentences but without replying to it all.

I personally do not find that the skin of fruit ever needs a particularly pointed blade, and I think that is usually an unsafe use of a knife.

I don't mean to suggest you don't need a knife for cutting things, but I would have thought that was an obvious bad faith interpretation.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 18:31:50+00:00
My "holy shit, we're in for... interesting times, and like, soon" moment was when Trump suggested his supporters might shoot Hillary if she won ("If she wins, I can't do anything about it. But the 'Second Amendment people'...."), and didn't see a huge hit to his popularity, and supporters in his own camp distancing themselves, immediately.

Norms are dead, you can just suggest assassination of your opponent and still win a Presidential election now, the batshit crazy stuff's not just for races in rural Montana or whatever. Like, IDK how this reads to younger folks, but I assure them that things are now happening practically daily that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago, let alone farther back. Things got visibly weirder fast.
by SamPatt | 2025-08-01 18:31:53+00:00
How did you begin to succeed in indie development?

I'm almost 40 and I've always loved programming as a hobby, but I decided to try it professionally last year. I know, I know, not the best timing!

I have an active Github of (what I think are) interesting projects, success in other fields before I tried software development professionally, good communication skills, etc. But my experience with live coding sounds like yours.

So I'm very curious if you have thoughts on the routes to independent contribution where all that matters is being able to do the thing, not signaling ability to do the thing. I know I can do the thing (or I'm confident I can learn how), so I'd rather get paid to do it myself, if that makes sense.
by throwawayohio | 2025-08-01 18:32:13+00:00
Commenters in this thread citing NPR as a reason that dollars shouldn't go towards helping kids learn how to count and not be antisocial is the kind of win right wing media could only dream about a decade or so ago.

Absolutely embarrassing for a site like this that claims to value education and democratizing it (and always jumps into threads about childrens education with all of their anecdotally built ideas, of course!) isn't condemning this.
by codedokode | 2025-08-01 18:32:28+00:00
> For those of you who aren't familiar with this Act, NYC has been an outlier in the US where the tenant would pay a broker fee to rent apartments that were listed by a broker.

It might be unusual in US, but it is a standard thing in Russia: a tenant pays the fee and landlord pays nothing. I always thought it was the same everywhere. However, when selling the property then the seller pays the fee.

As for high prices, isn't it caused by the fact that everybody wants to live there but there is not enough properties for everyone? If the rent in place A is 3 times higher than in place B it means that people want to live in A and whoever lives in B is there only because they cannot afford living in A.