MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by treetalker | 2025-08-02 12:23:01+00:00
I remember that when I was first learning Spanish in high school, I found a piece of (Windows) software that pelted you with a series of pairs of an infinitive and a tense, and you had to conjugate the infinitive accordingly. (Spanish conjugation typically changes the end of the word; irregular verbs tend to involve stem changes). It was fantastic practice and really ingrained the rules; I became a whiz at it.

When I started learning Russian, the declensions (like the ones mentioned in the article) really threw me for a loop. I looked all over for a similar app to explain the patterns and drill rote practice, but never found one.

While slightly off-topic, does anyone know of such an app (web-based or macOS/iOS)?
by ath3nd | 2025-08-02 12:23:06+00:00
I like how you are thinking. When hype is involved, why should one bother with facts, timelines and reality.

Great, stable and successful companies like Enron, Wirecard, Theranos, FTX and WeWork are prime examples of that.

Note: I am not saying OpenAI is a fraud like the above, just saying that their valuation is as divorced from reality as Zuck's "Superintelligence is behind the corner" comment last week.

Their models are not largely better than other competitors', they haven't cornered the market, they are burning through money with no profitability in sight, Anthropic just cut their access to Claude (not relevant, just funny).

Come on, their most recent product announcements were:

- an office suite: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4021949/openai-goes-fo....

- a restricted, less powerful (hide-the-spoilers) version called "Study Mode": https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

It's just...there is nothing going on for them at the moment. The valuation is just wishful thinking, if we are looking at the facts.

We live in a crazy world, all one can do is buy some popcorn and enjoy the shitshow.
by throwaway6612 | 2025-08-02 12:23:52+00:00
The NYT is not right. WaPo is perhaps a touch more right than the NYT but both are left-leaning and liberal. NPR is centrist but its editorials lean liberal.

You’ve cherry-picked a few stories where the NYT leaned more right, but on the whole the NYT, WaPo, and NPR certainly lean liberal or left of the general American public. The point of labels like right,left, liberal, conservative, etc. are relative valuations to the general American public. Just because the NYT leans less to the left on issues you are more to the left on does not make the NYT right-leaning.
by yihtserns | 2025-08-02 12:25:33+00:00
From https://web.archive.org/web/20211002045634/https://www.tesla...:

> Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and *full self-driving capabilities* — through software updates designed to improve functionality over time.

> Tesla's Autopilot AI team drives the future of autonomy of current and new generations of vehicles. Learn about the team and apply to help accelerate the world with *full self-driving*.

Now you can say that can be interpreted multiple ways - which means the copywriter is either incompetent, or intentionally misleading. Interestingly, the text from 2019 (https://web.archive.org/web/20191225054133/tesla.com/autopil...) is written a bit differently:

> ...full self-driving capabilities *in the future*...
by bell-cot | 2025-08-02 12:26:00+00:00
> This isn't scientific. This isn't journalism. And ...

If you're looking for "Hypothesis...Data...Analysis...Conclusion" hard Science, then you are correct - it obviously is not. That kinda science just ain't published on general news sites like The Guardian.

But if you're looking for Journalism - the article is an obvious "if it bleeds, it leads"-type story. Replace the old "Crime Wave" with "Climate Change", then replace "Violence in Nice Neighborhoods" with "Hot in Cold Countries". No one familiar with newspapers expects them to do serious criminology and statistics when they're publishing Bleeds/Leads articles. For better or worse, it ain't in their business model.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-02 12:26:03+00:00
>We're there 1/5 the number of roads back then?

Probably more like 1/2 or 3/4 depending on how you want to count dead end office park and residential subdivision roads of which there are many.

Pretty much every road in the US and Europe that isn't in the above category or a purpose built highway existed in 1900, and likely 1850 if you're looking at europe or the american northeast.

Obviously size and quality was lesser, many times they weren't even paved. But they existed because they were the roads between towns and points of interest.
by davrosthedalek | 2025-08-02 12:26:12+00:00
I don't think this is quite correct, at least for private universities. They absolutely have the right to disallow protests on their property. The first amendment protects you from the government -- the government cannot force the university to take these action, but the university could totally do it on their own. It's a little bit murkier with state universities, because you could argue they are a part of the government.
by rs186 | 2025-08-02 12:26:32+00:00
> If you really want to play you will play regardless of the instrument you have.

That's just you, not for any other musician who aspire to improve their technique and isn't so poor that a better instrument is completely out of reach.

I was playing piano on a budget Yamaha digital piano, and as soon as I could afford it, I upgraded it. I upgraded to an upright again. I knew my progress will be hampered by the lack of dynamics and proper key actions. The sound just isn't expressive.
by inglor | 2025-08-02 12:27:20+00:00
Sure, Palo Alto can acquire Cyberark and then use its sales organization to up-sell its customers on CyberArk's offering.

I've seen this at Microsoft where acquiring startups that provide capabilities and then incorporating them into Azure or Defender led to the usage of those capabilities skyrocketing and those particular acquisitions (not going to specifics because NDA) ended up being profitable.
by joshuanapoli | 2025-08-02 12:27:55+00:00
CVector | Full Stack Software Engineer; UI/UX Designer | USA | REMOTE | Full-time | $75k/yr + 0.3% – 1%

CVector builds software to make energy systems smarter, more reliable, and autonomous. We integrate real-time data visualization and analytics to help power generation stations, chemical plants, and other critical infrastructure make informed decisions in rapidly changing environments. You'll help create intuitive, robust web apps and backend systems, shaping tools that directly impact industrial operations and energy reliability.

Remote-first team with occasional domestic travel to connect with users directly. Recent graduates may need to relocate.

Full Stack Software Engineer: We're looking for a passionate Full Stack Software Engineer comfortable working across our stack (Python, Typescript, React, Supabase, MQTT, Kafka, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, AWS).

UI/UX Designer: Explore the solution space for how users will interact with our app, and help us communicate more clearly with our customers and investors.

Reach out to me at jnapoli+hn@cvector.energy
by incomingpain | 2025-08-02 12:28:07+00:00
>Maybe it became a burden to maintain,

This is literally why i think AI coding cant touch dev jobs.

In theory you can code LOADS of projects. Want a panel widget on your desktop environment, dont even know what language its in? ask ai to produce it.

but when you have open source projects, people from all over the world bring their requests and problems to you. Some are great to just merge, others you have no clue what they are doing wrong but it's totally them; and you get paid in github stars? Now there's a bunch of open source projects that are just working for me every day, but i havent modified in years and they look stagnant.

but even in the non-open source realm, no dev wants to forever maintain a project. Its not a regret, just 1 dev can probably only be responsible for a handful of codebases/projects and ai coding isnt going to super expand this.
by jleyank | 2025-08-02 12:28:24+00:00
Over the decades, I've found that my debugging success requires me to be (somewhat) rested - it's waiting for a spark, which I guess makes it similar to creative activities. No spark, no ah-ha moment and it's a slog. Thinking is a muscle, and like all muscles it needs both exercise and rest in proper amounts.

And, as a developer, there's always more bugs and requests than can be dealt with. We all exit the stage with a full in-basket.
by t_mahmood | 2025-08-02 12:28:55+00:00
Location: Bangladesh Remote: Yes, Remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, HTMX, Hyperscript, Tauri, PyGTK, spaCy, Tailwind, AWS, Linux, Google API, Amazon SP-API, Server Management, Shell scripting, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1td7o0Gl8Zcr8GPNzG3KF0N4TtKAClZDY/view?usp=sharing Email: mahmood.tarin ## gmail.com

Hey, I have been working as a Software Engineer for over 14 years, and have experience with diverse technologies like high-performance computations, data mining, web/desktop applications, automation software, data conversion tools, system utilities and whatnot.

I have excellent problem-solving abilities, which help me to go through any complex issues, pinpoint them, and resolve them quickly.

If you need any help with get a legacy code base up to a certain standard, fix any nagging issues, need unique ideas to approach a task in hand, or need to discuss technical aspects of your project, or look at a problem with a fresh eyes with diverse knowledge of technicality, I can help you!

You can check my GitHub too: https://github.com/tmahmood
by buran77 | 2025-08-02 12:29:02+00:00
> I'm not competent enough to drive one safety

Underestimating your abilities in any vehicle is a good way to stay safe. In my encounters with motorcycles in traffic, as pedestrian, cyclist, or driver, even in those short few seconds while our paths cross, the motorcyclists almost always put themselves in some dangerous situation (cyclists do it even more often I'd say, but at lower speeds).

Every time I talk about this to acquaintances who ride they explain that "I do this all the time but it's fine because I know what I'm doing". Everyone is an above average driver or rider but drivers have a metal box filled with airbags. Motorcycle riders often play Russian roulette with 5 bullets in. Blaming another for when your luck finally runs out in on par with the belief most hold that they are above average.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-02 12:29:06+00:00
For the WSL part: that's one command in powershell/cmd and then a download from the Microsoft store. You won't find it challenging, there's not much more to it than that in 99% of cases (and if you do run into issues, there are probably better alternatives to trying to fix WSL anyway).

As for C++, Ladybird uses very modern C++ that makes it substantially easier to write reasonably safe code than the C++ of yore.

Still, as much as I would like to see the world move to safer languages, C++ is everywhere. Every major browser is written in it. It's not "unusable" in the slightest (though I certainly understand not wanting to learn C++ as an outsider at this point in time, it's a quite boring language in comparison and the C++ job market probably won't let you make use of modern language features that might make it interesting).

I would love to live in a world where projects with security risks like web browsers would "just" use Rust instead of C++ but you'll have to convince the people building the browser to spend their own time or their bosses' time to learn Rust first, and that's a tough sell.

There's Servo if you want to contribute to an open source browser in Rust. It looks like it can certainly use the help it you compare its development speed with Ladybird.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-02 12:30:15+00:00
The one time I used it for dev work I had a basic bee shell script that would recreate a really basic setup for me on it and I would launch the things once on it. I found tmux easier than other options at the time.

Every command can be scripted out so when you are in tmux you only have to worry about navigating. It definitely had quirks with vim and stuff though.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-02 12:31:09+00:00
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GE Coffeemattic PC, is in fact, GNU/GE Coffeemattic PC, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus GE coffeemattic. GE Coffeemattic is not a PC unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full PC as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which pumps hot java today is often called "GE Coffeematic PC", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a GE Coffeemattic exists, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. GE Coffeematic is the coffee kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's caffeinated resources to the other the user's physical space. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Coffeemattic is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Coffeemattic added, or GNU/GE Coffeemattic. All the so-called "GE Coffeemattic PC" distributions are really distributions of GNU/GE Coffeemattic PC.
by vel0city | 2025-08-02 12:31:13+00:00
You asked:

> Are angry homeowners...blocking homebuilding?

And then now:

> Local council meetings are notorious for attracting people willing to oppose any development.

So yes, even you agree there are angry homeowners doing what they can blocking homebuilding.

Yes, it's been happening at the local level, because that's where those decisions are almost always made.

> Recent zoning changes in Texas came from the state legislature

As in, this last legislative session. It took to that point because of angry homeowners blocking development. And how did they do it? By pushing out any local government that tried to enact development plans that tried to densify over and over again throughout tons of towns. The legislation didn't come from a vacuum, it came in response to these NIMBYs that have otherwise yielded significant political power at the local level.

> zoning is largely about what is blocked on existing inhabited land.

Practically all that land is currently zoned. It's not developed, but it is zoned. Almost always zoned agriculturally, as it was once pretty much all farm lands. Lots of those areas are still farms, but largely for tax reasons.
by MagerValp | 2025-08-02 12:32:35+00:00
> In the same vein. Why is there no, I want this thing, but from a German seller.

eBay used to let you filter results by region, but apparently that ruined some kind of metric and the option is gone. When buying games or books or what have you I only want sellers in the EU. I don’t care that it’s available in the US or UK, shipping and duties are going to be 4x what the product is worth.
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-02 12:32:37+00:00
Hello. I see you're trying to log into some shitty website that somehow survived 20 years of changing internet. Probably you don't even know what email you used for registration, but there's a chance that some variation of your "all-websites password" will work. Maybe. The catch though is that you have 5 tries, after that your IP gets banned.

Don't shit your pants. The IP ban doesn't actually work.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-02 12:34:06+00:00
Surely you can spot the similarities if you try hard enough? If not, maybe we can ask ChatGPT about it (below is ChatGPT's "opinion" on the similarities between Enron and OpenAI):

Structural Complexity & Opacity:

- Enron was infamous for its convoluted corporate structure, which helped obscure financial realities.

- OpenAI has a similarly complex setup: originally founded as a nonprofit, it now operates through a for-profit arm with a structure that some critics say lacks transparency.

Investor Hype vs. Financial Fundamentals:

- Enron attracted massive investment based on future projections, not present performance. Its ventures, like NewPower Co., had no clients or revenue but were valued in the billions.

- OpenAI has been valued at over $300 billion despite not turning a profit and having no clear path to profitability. Critics argue this is reminiscent of Enron’s “vibes-based” valuation.

Leadership & Ethical Concerns

- Enron’s leadership was later revealed to have serious ethical lapses.

- OpenAI has faced scrutiny over leadership turnover and internal conflicts, raising questions about governance and long-term stability.

Grandiose Predictions:

- Both companies have been known for bold, sweeping claims about the future. Enron promised revolutionary energy solutions; OpenAI is at the forefront of AI’s transformative potential—but some worry the hype may be outpacing reality

Hope that helps :)
by so-cal-schemer | 2025-08-02 12:35:01+00:00
Strange Loop Language Panel - Hickey, Sussman, Wirfs-Brock, Pamer, Alexandrescu, Ashkenas (2011)

https://youtu.be/zhZMaF8vq5Y?t=297

Sussman:

well it's really very hard to find the worst idea because there are so many bad ideas in programming languages. of course the ones that bother me the most are the ones that are designed to keep me from doing what i want. i was after all a libertarian programmer. okay. and so i don't want anybody to tread on me, but the worst features of languages that i can think of -- the really worst thing -- is complex syntax. okay. and as alan perlis quipped, syntactic sugar yields cancer of the semicolon. okay. the problem with complex syntax is that it hides possibly important to understand mechanisms, but more importantly it makes it very difficult to write programs that manipulate programs -- that read them, that write them and analyze them. and that, in fact, i often have programs that write programs that i want to run in-line. for example, numerical programs that are constructed from symbolic algebra expressions. okay. so that's a nice feature of lisp, for example, which has lots of parentheses, is a uniform representation of programs as data and the ability to execute code that you've just constructed. and as a consequence i would say my mantra here is syntax without representation is tyranny.
by davrosthedalek | 2025-08-02 12:35:08+00:00
Honest question on this: It is clear that first amendment protects the rights of protesters from persecution by the government. But does that mean that the government would need to endure protests in any federal building at any time?

If not, I think you could make a case that UCLA could kick protesters out, for example if they take over a building. In contrast to a private university, they probably couldn't act on what the protesters do outside of the university. But I do think that they must have some regulatory power on campus.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-02 12:35:30+00:00
Those who follow economic indicators know that revisions happen and always will due to the nature of how the data comes in. It is sometimes simply not possible to have all of the data before the date that the release is scheduled for.

Perhaps the dumbest thing about Trump’s dictatorial firing of the person in charge of these numbers is the fact that downward revisions work in his favor because most people don’t pay attention to them. They just pay attention to the current release. The numbers for May and June looked good when they came out and no one would have been talking about the revised had it not been for his temper tantrum.

In fact, Trump accused the Biden administration (on Truth Social) of using this as a way to hide bad numbers from the public back in August 2024 - release good numbers and quietly revise later. Now he’s claiming that it’s being used against him. What’s really going on is he knows the economic shitstorm from his idiotic tariffs is about to begin and he will need to control the narrative. Unfortunately for him, this is about to spiral way out of his ability to control.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-02 12:35:52+00:00
Honestly no one knows but two scenarios could play out:

1. The economy goes bad quickly as actoes realize they cant rely on data to make rational economic decisions.

2. Certain actors pay some quasi-governmental organization (say, "Friends of Mar-a-Lago Book Club") to get access to more accurate data, on the agreement that they make the stock market go brrrr, and they continue to make money.
by reval | 2025-08-02 12:35:59+00:00
> You don't have enough clout to make organizational-level changes. So process things that you see that are really inefficient, and you have some ideas how to address them? Now you've got to convince your manager and probably theirs, too, and they usually don't want to rock the boat.

As long as you are a go-to person, you have more clout than you realize. Spend your social capital while you have it and make changes. Also, making change requires allies but they don’t necessarily have to be in your direct chain of command. Lastly, to make a change in an org, just change. People will follow. Most people are not leaders, but you are. Act like it and you will see that you command far more respect than you think you do.
by jatora | 2025-08-02 12:36:21+00:00
You can absolutely be sure of market forces not destroying established behemoths. It simply doesn't happen frequently. Inertia is a real thing. Look at Uber, Tesla, etc. I dont think there necessarily won't be a bust for many fledgeling AI companies though, in fact I'm certain there will be.

But thinking Tech Giants are going to crash is woefully ignorant of how the market works and indicates a clear wearing of blinders. And it's a common one among coders who feel the noose tightening and who are the types of people led by their own fear. And i find that when you mix that with arrogance, these three traits often correlate with older generations of software engineers who are poor at adapting to the new technology. The ones who constantly harp on how AI is full of mistakes and disregard that humans are as well. The ones who insist on writing even more than 70% of their own code rather than learning to guide new tools granularly. It's a take that nobody should entertain or respect.

As for your point on 'future none of us can be sure of.' I'll push back on that: It is not clear how AGI or ASI will come about, ie. what architecture will underpin it. However - it is absolutely clear that AI powered coding will continue to improve, and that algorithmic progress can and will be driven by AI coders, and that that will lead to ASI.

The only way to not believe that is to think there is a special sauce behind consciousness. And I tend to believe in scientific theory, not magic.

That is why there is so much VC. That is why tech giants are all racing. It isn't a bet. It is a race to a visible, clear goal of ASI that again, it takes blinders to not see.

So while AI is absolutely a bubble, this bubble will mark the transition to an entirely new economic system, society, world, etc. (and flip a coin on whether any of us survive it lol, but that's a whole separate conversation)