MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creer | 2025-08-31 02:00:33+00:00
Were your applications that good of a fit? You sent 450 applications for one hiring. Very roughly speaking this means you expect the employer to carefully consider 450 applications for their one job opening (assuming roughly speaking, that everyone does the same). "Carefully" is clearly not gonna happen. You sprayed and prayed but the employer is hiring one person for that one position (not quite true) and can't just spray and pray themselves.

You may have indeed found 450 real and fictitious openings that would be a great match for you. Yes, not impossible. Still the practice puts the employers themselves in a position where these resumes and answers cannot possibly be read. Not carefully, not at all. Again no blame one way or the other. I'm just arguing that we cannot expect the employer to carefully consider all these applications. There is no point in being shocked / surprised / whatever by this. The sprayed and prayed applications will not be read carefully. The employer will find whichever shortcut to sift through the pile and will carefully consider only a handful of all these applicants. Or hopefully, will see the light and consider other kinds of applications - such as network leads (but there are other options.)

My argument is about what we do next. My answer is that it cannot be job postings and answers to job postings. That ship has sailed. (And nonetheless, congrats on your new job.)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-31 02:01:17+00:00
AppViews do things like track likes, or replies.

The AppView doesn't do that only for Bluesky data. It does it for any Personal Data Stores (user accounts with all their user data) that it knows about.

When you "interact" with users elsewhere, all you do is generate new records on your own PDS. You generate a "like" entry, or a reply, on your own PDS. It's your pds, all your stuff goes there. The AppView sees that and indexes it, attaches that like or that reply in the AppView to the post you're reacting to.
by toastercat | 2025-08-31 02:01:17+00:00
I represented your claims accurately in the first two bullet points in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071647

The first bullet was from your now-deleted/flagged comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45048014

The second bullet was from your second comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056521

And then you moved your goalposts further here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072189
by manquer | 2025-08-31 02:01:23+00:00
It is not that simple, you can "declare" states[1]

There are two main theories declarative and constitutive for state recognition.

The Article 3 of the 1933 Montevideo convention infers a state can exist even if no other state recognizes it. The convention was merely codification existing principles, so it is supposed to even non-signatories as long they are subject to international law. This view is endorsed by the EU and other entities.

The declarative theory states only four basic preconditions:

- A permanent population of residents/citizens - A defined territory - need not be undisputed - A government - Ability to enter into relations with other states

The constitutive theory on other hand defines a state that has to be recognized by just one other state.

Recognition is merely paper legitimacy and about geopolitics and just esoteric aspect of international law.

In practice, as always it works quite differently basis power dynamics. There are many autonomous regions who have been basically independent for decades without recognition and other way round wide spread recognition without any autonomy.

For example Palestine is recognized by 147 UN member states compared to just 12 states that recognize Taiwan(ROC) and therefore not PRC[2] . In reality Taiwan deals with every single country in an informal capacity and their exports are core to the whole world.

There are states with no recognition like Somaliland but would be a state in the declarative theory. In addition to first three conditions being met, it has recently entered legal agreement with Ethiopia for port access, and has relationship with Taiwan etc, but it is not formally recognized by anyone.

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[1] Sadly you cannot "declare" bankruptcy legally yet though ;)

[2] Technically Taiwan(ROC) and Mainland(PRC) both claim the entirety of China as either the successor(PRC) or continuation(ROC) of the state before 1949, so recognizing Taiwan means recognizing Taiwan claim over all of China and not recognizing PRC. There is no mechanism for recognizing current reality of two independent functioning states.

There used to be many more states which did recognized ROC over PRC, till 1971 even UN did not recognize PRC, but those numbers have dwindled and only very few mostly micro nations now still recognize Taiwan.

The history of how China and Taiwan use a lot of diplomacy, investments, loans and other inducements in return for recognition is quite interesting. It is possible in another 5-10 years not a single state would recognize Taiwan formally but everyone would happily work with them as though they are a state.
by lossolo | 2025-08-31 02:01:40+00:00
> China will 100% invade Taiwan.

Stop looking at China through a Western lens. No one knows what China will do, so this statement is false. Considering their history and culture, they will first use all other tactics to take over the island. They said they want to do it by 2049, and they could succeed without firing a single bullet, as the commenter below noted.

> I would be astonished if the backroom deal wasn't "If you take Taiwan now, we'll have to stop you, if you wait until we're self sufficient, we won't interfere."

None of the cutting edge nodes are, or will be, produced in the US by TSMC. They are all produced in Asia, and the fabs in US will be X years behind.
by pyuser583 | 2025-08-31 02:01:44+00:00
Depends on how well it’s done. Monty Python’s religious mockery varies a lot. Some is quirky and insightful, but much is just dumb.

It’s a bit of an unfair question to ask, because the Pythons are competing with A Clockwork Orange, not to mention Oscar Wilde, Alexander Pope, and Chaucer. English religious mockery is a crowded market - even Thomas More took part.

But this wasn’t even religious mockery. They weren’t actually mocking anybody directly.

They were doing it very indirectly by supporting a group that is by itself is perfectly legitimate, but goes out of its way to offend others by its practices. But it doesn’t seem the group actually did anything offensive.

They supposed to be edgy by their mere presence.

It’s religious mockery by proxy, which isn’t funny or insightful. From the description, it doesn’t seem anybody was laughing. Certainly not the audience (us).
by notthemessiah | 2025-08-31 02:02:01+00:00
This is factually wrong, and disproven by the fact there are now fully independent federated instances such as BlackSky and soon to be NorthSky. Furthermore, they have independent codebases which are fully compatible. Compare to ActivityPub where most instances are just running Mastodon or some close fork or risk breaking compatibility. What's the point of federation if you are stuck with a monoculture of implementations?

The main BlueSky services are still by far the most popular, which is why we see centralization on the network.
by immibis | 2025-08-31 02:02:06+00:00
The problem was that you weren't following the rules.

The rules were clear about the right time to merge things so they get in the next version, and if you don't, they will have to get in the version after that. I don't know the specific time since I'm not a kernel developer, but there was one.

Linus is trying to run the release cycle on a strict schedule, like a train station. You are trying to delay the train so that you can load more luggage on, instead of just waiting for the next train. You are not doing this once or twice in an emergency, but you are trying to delay every single train. Every single train, *you* have some "emergency" which requires the train to wait just for you. And the station master has gotten fed up and kicked you out of the station.

How can it be an emergency if it happens every single time? You need to plan better, so you will be ready before the train arrives. No, the train won't wait for you just because you forgot your hairbrush, and it won't even wait for you to go home and turn your oven off, even though that's really important. You have to get on the next train instead, but you don't understand that other people have their own schedules instead of running according to yours.

If it happened once, okay - shit happens. But it happens every time. Why is that? They aren't mad at you because of this specific feature. They are mad at you because it happens every time. It seems like bcachefs is not stable. Perhaps it really was an emergency just the one time you're talking about, but that means it either was an emergency all the other times and your filesystem is too broken to be in the kernel, or it wasn't an emergency all the other times and you chose to become the boy who cried wolf. In either case Linus's reaction is valid.
by IdreesInc | 2025-08-31 02:02:43+00:00
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And yes the messages are sent to me, no worries. Submitted messages are sent to an AWS API Gateway endpoint for rate limiting and then to me. I then manually commit the ones that are not rude and don't include identifying info/don't seem to have been submitted by mistake! I have a couple of reasons for manually committing them rather than using a simple DynamoDB database or something. First, since I have to moderate through the messages manually anyways, it's about the same amount of effort tbh. Second, I wanted the messages to be available forever and having them committed allows for people to save them in the future should they wish to!
by chongli | 2025-08-31 02:04:45+00:00
People want some external system to construct a social environment for them and often blame everything but themselves

I think this dependence on external systems, on governments, is another symptom of the problem. When people belong to a community they don't have that expectation, they are participants. Look to the Amish, for example, and their famous barn-raisings. They don't depend on government relief or insurance policies. Everyone contributes to building a new barn when someone in the community needs one.
by Avshalom | 2025-08-31 02:05:24+00:00
No, the Flynn Effect is an observation that raw scores on "IQ tests" have increased over (a far too short period to be attributable to evolution) time and/but IQ is defined as having a median value of 100 . It is not an assumption that intelligence is a measurable metric (redundant) it is an observation that the metric is a shit metric -- particularly over time. It is explicitly a point against "IQ" as a valid and measurable metric.
by decimalenough | 2025-08-31 02:06:04+00:00
If the US buys less, there will be unsold inventory and a temporary glut in supply, which will lead to the Chinese dropping prices and exporting elsewhere. This is already happening in SE Asia:

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/china/china-export-dumping/

Obviously the profit margin will be less than selling to the US, but it does mean that the 3% of GDP mentioned above is not going away entirely, just shrinking to (say) 2 or 2.5%.

The article also mentions transshipment, where Chinese goods get routed to the US via a third country. Although Trump's strategy of "tariff everybody for all the things" is putting a damper on this too.
by maxglute | 2025-08-31 02:07:07+00:00
It's hard to take your comments seriously when you don't know the basic numbers. LKQ revealed during covid that 600m in PRC has income of 1000rmb per month -> 1500 USD per year, aka 600m (40% of 1.4B) generates 900b of of 19000B economy -> <5%. Maybe a few % higher if he's referring to disposable income. And since their base is 1:10 national average, realistically 1:20 top 60%, their net contribution likely to shrink even more with time. This is 101 PRC economy/demographics stuff, instead of accusing others of making up basic knowledge, maybe you should... brush up on basic subject matter stuff. Like how PRC passing US nominal GDP is predicated on modest growth and FX adjustments.
by nemo44x | 2025-08-31 02:07:08+00:00
The fact you don’t even understand this basic fact and yet are so certain should concern you.

1. Logarithmic effect of CO₂ • The warming effect of carbon dioxide grows logarithmically with concentration, not linearly. • This means the first 100 ppm of CO₂ caused a much larger temperature impact than, say, an increase from 400 → 500 ppm. • Each additional molecule of CO₂ contributes less extra warming because much of the infrared spectrum it absorbs is already saturated.

2. Geometry of “forcing” • Scientists describe this as radiative forcing, measured in watts per square meter. • Roughly, each doubling of CO₂ concentration produces about +3.7 W/m² of forcing, which translates (with climate sensitivity) to ~1.5–4.5°C warming. • So it takes geometrically more CO₂ to achieve each additional degree of warming. For example: • Going from 280 → 400 ppm may give ~1°C warming. • Going from 400 → 560 ppm (another 160 ppm) gives another ~1°C. • Going from 560 → 840 ppm (280 ppm more) gives another ~1°C. • And so on — the increments needed get larger each time.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-31 02:08:32+00:00
I wonder what the accuracy of the data is like. And what do you do about damaged pipes? I read that cities lose a lot of water to leaks. Doesn’t that also mean pollutants can get in? And it won’t matter if your pipe is lead or whatever else.

An aside: lead exposure is thought to lead to increase violence. I wonder if Chicago having the most lead pipes is also a contributing cause of their (reputed) crime problem.
by getnormality | 2025-08-31 02:08:55+00:00
> But take one thing and then another: you have two things. That’s true whether or not anyone notices.

You cannot justify this statement without equally justifying my position.

Say you conceive of a counterfactual world without any humans in it. You know that within this world there could be a rock and another rock, you understand that this would be two rocks, and so you are reassured that one and one is two, even though no one is watching within this counterfactual world.

All of this happened in your mind. All along, you were the observer of the supposedly unobserved world you conceived of.

You are the unavoidable human observer of any counterfactual world you conceive of. You intend the world to have no human observers, but your intention fails. It is impossible. The properties of a truly unobserved world are unknowable to you.

This is why the Enlightenment left Platonism behind centuries ago. We can't say what the world would be without us, because any attempt is not only constructed within the mind, but also contemplated and observed through the mind. You can't escape projecting your systems of ideas onto everything you think about.

Once this is taken into account, Platonism has no explanatory power and is nothing more than superfluous metaphysical mystification.
by fernly | 2025-08-31 02:09:00+00:00
> three Scottish brothers have set a new world record by completing the first and fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean... > The previous record of 159 days had been set in 2014 by Russian rower Fedor Konyukhov.

Um, if they are the first to do it, how can there be a previous record? I guess the Konukhov trip was "supported"? Or not "full"?
by billy99k | 2025-08-31 02:09:14+00:00
"Just pressing pause on this would leave the world more vulnerable to Russian cyber ops and give breathing space to criminal gangs."

Do you really believe they are going to tell the world that they are 'pressing pause' on secret cyber operations against Russia? Really????

Articles like this are being intentionally naive to make Trump look bad when during the Biden administration, it would be all about how great of a leader he is for standing up to Russia.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-31 02:10:20+00:00
You’re being pretty confidently dismissive about the religious validity of Satanists for someone claiming religious offense.

The Satan of the Bible isn’t that dissimilar from Heaphestus - a divine being that gave humanity something the gods reserved for themselves so we could better our lot in life ourselves. Just because Christians decided to make him an evil figure, doesn’t mean everyone else has to agree, especially since Satan is responsible for punishing the evil souls sent to Hell which seems like a righteous mission.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-31 02:10:37+00:00
I know you're only half joking, but I don't think you can pin the blame on John or TCL. Osterhaut's thesis, as I recall, was that there is real benefit to having multiple programming languages working at different levels of the domain (e.g. a scriptable system with the core written in a lower level language). Of course now this is a widespread practice in many domains (e.g. web browsers, numerical computing: matlab, numpy). It's an idea that has stood the test of time. TCL is just one way of achieving that aim, but at the time it was one of few open-source options available. I think scheme/lisp would have been the obvious alternative. AutoDesk went in that direction.

I remember using TCL in the 90s for my own projects as an embeddable command language. The main selling point was that it was a relatively widely understood scripting language with an easily embeddable off-the-shelf open source code base, perhaps one of the first of its kind (ignoring lisps.) Of course the limitations soon became clear. Only a few years later I had high hopes that Python would become a successor, but it went in a different direction and became significantly more difficult to embed in other applications than was TCL -- it just wasn't a primary use case for the core Python project. The modern TCL-equivalent is Lua, definitely a step up from TCL, but I think if EDA tools used Lua there would be plenty of hand-wringing too.

Just guessing, but I imagine that at the time TCL was adopted within EDA tools there were few alternatives. And once TCL was established it was going to be very hard to replace. Even if you ignore inertia at the EDA vendors, I can't imagine hardware engineers (or anyone with a job to do) wanting to switch languages every two to five years like some developers seem happy to do. It's a hard sell all around.

I reckon the best you can do is blame the vendors for (a) not choosing a more fit-for purpose language at the outset, which probably means Scheme, or inventing their own, (b) or not ripping the bandaid off at some point and switching to a more fit-for-purpose language. Blaming (b) is tough though, even today selecting an embedded application language is vexed: you want something that has good affordances as a language, is widely used and documented, easily embedded, and long-term stable. Almost everything I can think of fails the long term stability test (Python, JavaScript, even Lua which does not maintain backward compatibility between releases).
by adolph | 2025-08-31 02:10:37+00:00
Its all fake marketing. What kind of Satanists can't even get their own "pig’s head, for ritual use?" The negative reaction exhibited by the parent comment also figures into the game plan of negative marketing [0]. If this was 30 years ago Blackmore's document would unironically call it "synergy."

Blackmore drew up a document enshrining their shared goal: “Create a narrative and controversy that transforms ‘The Witch’ into an iconic film.” The satanists planned the parties; A24 minded the guest list, and canvassed butchers in search of a pig’s head, for ritual use.

0. https://www.trimarkdigital.com/blog/what-is-negative-marketi...
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by Arrowmaster | 2025-08-31 02:11:11+00:00
I don't use Mastodon because it's too decentralized.

What I mean is I own my own domains but I can't use them on Mastodon without self hosting an entire Mastodon server for one user per domain. Yes there are other implementations of the protocol but none really solve this well in a cheap to run way.

Mastodon's missing feature is identity portability. A user with their own domain should be able to easily use a larger instance to host their identities and be able to migrate them to another instance.
by txrx0000 | 2025-08-31 02:11:28+00:00
People want different things. Even if two perfectly rational people agree on a shared model of reality, they still might not agree on what actions to take as a matter of aesthetic preference.

That said, it's true that few are rational and honest. Everyone wants their ideals to be reality, but most people confuse their ideals with reality itself. Even those who can tell the difference may choose to trick others into delusion, so that they may use them for their own benefit.

I used to do that, but not so much now. Being honest with myself and the world is a more interesting way to live.
by gcanyon | 2025-08-31 02:11:50+00:00
I’ve rowed a marathon ( several, actually) on a concept 2. I’d even say I’m pretty suited to long distance rowing, since I usually don’t drink or eat while doing a marathon.

That said, the idea of going much longer than that — like an eight hour shift, or even two four hour shifts in a day, day after day… that’s insane.

And that doesn’t even begin to account for the difference between the erg and ocean rowing. Double insane.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-08-31 02:11:59+00:00
So many practical questions about how this worked. Sleeping, food/water (cooking the fish, seasonings?, did they have stretches where they failed to catch anything), boredom - did they have a radio/podcast library, how much rowing per day, how are the bowels after five months of hardtack and fish, how does your skin handle constant saltwater exposure without showering, etc

Also - I want to see a before photo. They all look pretty slim, but I imagine anyone would after five months of rowing and eating nothing but vitamins and fish.