MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 37824912238 | 2025-08-01 14:16:01+00:00
The thing is, /both people are telling the truth!/ If you read their accounts, they're not especially contradictory. It's not as if she's saying, "he raped me" and he's saying, "no I didn't."

It's somewhat subjective, but if you read between the lines, it's clear, and sad all around:

pretty.direct is borderline incel, incapable of forming meaningful romantic relationships. But he's not being malicious -- in his view, he's acting in good faith, trying to at least get some consensual action.

yifanxing is young and not yet sure how to exist in the world. She believes what people tell her.

They had sex, as humans do. She was friendly with him for a time thereafter, but eventually came to regret the act, and then came to see herself as a victim.

This was understandably unforseen by him, and the whole episode, though unfortunate, is not really worth all the anguish it has caused everyone.
by tolmasky | 2025-08-01 14:16:11+00:00
You’re aware that, just for starters, 98M of the 185M total population of non-voters had the pretty rock solid excuse of not being eligible to vote, right? Almost a third of the country can’t vote (permanent residents, children, ex-cons in certain states, etc.) This is without needing to get into the very real voter suppression effort that took place (we’ll assume every one of those “stands” with the winner). These people may not be able to vote, but they’re still people, and able to participate in the political process in other ways, and thus not worth ignoring (for example, they can donate). They also probably skew more to your position given their demographics.

I am not sure why you insist on going out of your way to dramatically overrepresent the size of your opposition. If there’s some sort of underdog psychology you are trying to tap into, you should maybe also consider the possibility that staunchly presenting the current situation as “we’re outnumbered and most of our population stands with these abhorrent values” may actually be more demoralizing than invigorating as a battle cry, which is even more of a shame when it isn’t true.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-01 14:16:22+00:00
Okay so if I get it correctly they could be kicked out like in the cinema or not, because like I assume regardless of free speech there are rules, but this "cinema" cannot be prosecuted by US gov for NOT kicking a noisy jerk out of it because then it becomes a free speech thing. If taking away grants counts as prosecution? I guess that makes sense.
by derbOac | 2025-08-01 14:16:26+00:00
I think this is the thing these types of arguments miss. Regulations are the result of another type of market, the vote market. That's the whole point, to counteract hidden failures of the market with another feedback mechanism.

For what it's worth, imho Thompson presents a strawman argument about oligopolies to avoid the real critiques. He even kinda contradicts himself at the end because it's convenient for his argument.

It's never really about oligopolies writ large, it's about the players in the local decision in the moment (which is all that matters) and who profits at whose expense with what consequences.
by consumer451 | 2025-08-01 14:16:39+00:00
It's related to the history of Simon Willison[0] having used this as a benchmark on many models.[1]

I believe this model's output is noticeably superior... but yeah, people do tend to get hyperbolic when new stuff happens it their domain of interest.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=simon+willison+pelican+ridin...
by paulyy_y | 2025-08-01 14:16:48+00:00
Humanity just doesn't ever learn. Europe will end up having draconian oversight and censorship that will be abused beyond belief by fascists. When some central entity--subject to the whims of political temperature--controls what you can access, there can be no trust in the durability and integrity of information. Same as in the US really, except there being executed to support the nascent regime without any liberal auspices.
by geodel | 2025-08-01 14:16:49+00:00
Different because now list price of a sandwich is $8.99 instead of $14 that customer will actually pay. Hotels, resorts, restaurants, tours etc are master at this. Even after knowing these add-ons people fall for it often enough to keep this practice running.

Besides economists think positively of this so it has support not just from interested parties but officials, think tanks etc.
by johndhi | 2025-08-01 14:17:15+00:00
I've participated in this too.

You're right that zero or four or five figures is the more common outcome -- usually because most people aren't quite so passionate to really lean into this type of thing.

On "never heard of a company paying these settlements out of the budgets of small departments" -- actually, that is the best practice. For the department the toxic employee was hired into to be 'accountable' for the fact that they hired such a person and did not exit them with adequate documentation to easily defeat a lawsuit.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-01 14:17:53+00:00
>"Do I actually want to do that?"

There's no reason to believe you can be any more confident about your answer to this then the person in the article is about their hazy idea about what something is like.

If people "unpacked" marriage or childbirth to the extent suggested in the article everyone would be frozen in dread. That's not because they're smart and have just disovered what those things are truly like, it's because they overestimate their current emotional state and underestimate what they can grow into.

In fact the article I think is far removed from how people live. We don't chose professions because of our secret "true" interests, we make decisions based on circumstance, luck, financial security and then we adapt our emotional state. And that's a good thing, the emotional state of a young person isn't a good yardstick for anything.
by zemo | 2025-08-01 14:17:56+00:00
I don't really think that's accurate. In my last interview cycle, I aced the livecoding portion at each interview and didn't practice any leetcode problems at all. In my normal workflow I write utility scripts in Python using only the standard library pretty regularly. If you know how to write complete, small programs using only the standard library of some language, you'll do fine on livecoding interviews. A lot of people struggle to do this because they only know how to work inside of a framework.
by jraph | 2025-08-01 14:18:14+00:00
> or Discord

Oh, no, why do alternative web browser engine devs love Discord so much? The Ladybird project also does this… that's certainly a barrier to entry for would be contributors attached to free software and software freedom… It's a shame, I suspect the intersection between people like this and people interested in alternative web browser engines is not small (comparatively speaking)…

Anyway, it's nice to see alternative web browser engines appearing like this. We need browser tech that does not rely on Big Ad funding. Even better if they cooperate on some common libraries like this.

Thanks for working on such things.

Web browser engines have always interested me, I might one day jump in.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-08-01 14:18:16+00:00
How did my comment engage in 'excuse-making'?

I specifically called out that I was interested in understanding people's rationale for disagreeing with the actions taken by the federal government.

From your comment, it seems like you're mostly in the (B) camp, i.e. wrong enforcement method. Maybe also (C) due to questionable motive for enforcement. Have I understood correctly?
by dimatura | 2025-08-01 14:18:26+00:00
The few examples they show do look pretty good for a wifi-based method, although who knows how cherry-picked they are. I wonder how much the "SLAM" part is contributing and how sensitive that is to the sensor quality on the phone. I would've assumed that they'd be using vision, which seems to be the method of choice for other companies like niantic. The ground-truth data part for vision would certainly be more onerous, though.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-08-01 14:18:27+00:00
> I never see the NIMBY movement really engage with what falling prices would mean in practice

It means the landed gentry lose, and the working class win. Unlike the status quo of the past few decades where the landed gentry make fistfuls of cash by doing 0 actual work.

Obviously housing prices going down will make some people's assets mixes worth less. That's why they fight to stop building housing. But that's true for lots of commodities and businesses too. Just because many people are invested in diamonds doesn't mean we have to ban lab grown to save diamond prices
by pklausler | 2025-08-01 14:18:37+00:00
I have found over the years that I learn more by asking easier questions and interacting with candidates as they think through problems out loud. Little things that test the critical ability to craft a Boolean expression to accurately characterize a situation can be explored in a brief interview where you have some assurance that they're working on their own, and not just getting an answer online or from a smart roommate. (Sample: given two intervals [a,b] and [c,d], write an expression that determines whether they intersect.). Candidates that have lots of trouble programming "in the small" are going to have trouble programming in the large as well.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 14:19:02+00:00
> Apologizing to a faceless group is pointless.

Well... it might be at least pragmatic. Apologising to the wider community for wronging a member of the community is normal; it's also expected.

And I guess apologising to one's audience for not being who they think you are is essentially, the same thing, just with a parasocial twist.

Parasocial "communities" exist (fandoms) and they do rather complicate things.
by dxdm | 2025-08-01 14:19:03+00:00
> Here's "a thing that happened" vs "here's a tall tale" means whatever message is approached very differently.

I agree. I meant to point out that tales can be entertaining and/or instructional, too, even while we're aware of what they are. ("Knowing that a story is fictional does not take away from it", maybe I should've written that.)

My point still stands, though: knowing a tale from a "thing that happened" is important, and what you said underscores why.
by agentultra | 2025-08-01 14:19:33+00:00
I enjoyed how witty and charming the community was back in the 90s when I was into Perl.

I had a similar path to Perl as a lot of people here. I was making games and into C when I learned about Linux from a friend. From there I heard about Perl and started using it to automate making my websites… those halcyon days before someone started calling them “web logs,” and later, “blogs,” etc.

Text munching and slinging around files was much easier in Perl than it was in C and I became a big fan.

The community was awesome. And the books were great.

I feel like Perl embodied that hipster-Socialist Bazaar style moment in programming/tech.
by lapcat | 2025-08-01 14:20:05+00:00
I won't attempt to generalize from my case, but let me offer a personal anecdote.

I'm now a successful, self-employed indie developer. One of the main reasons I stuck with indie development through the hard times—the maxim that it takes 5 years to become an overnight success was true for me—was that I became practically unhireable. There are multiple strikes against me: I'm middle age in an industry rife with age discrimination, I don't have a computer science degree, and I experience brain freeze during live coding interviews.

I would note that not all stress is the same. Firefighters rush into burning buildings for a living, and what could be more stressful, yet many of them would panic at the idea of giving a speech to a non-burning roomful of strangers. I have no problem with stress on the job, and I've successfully navigated many work emergencies during my career, but something about strangers standing over my shoulder judging me, determining my financial future by providing or withholding a job, like the sword of Damocles, turns my stomach inside out. And like the article author, I can revisit the coding problems and solve them afterward, as soon as the interview is over. Interviewers must think I'm a fraud who can't code, yet all evidence from my career, now almost 2 decades long, suggests otherwise.

A lot of commenters causally speak of "false negatives" as if they were random, but some people, myself included, are always the false negative. I am consistently filtered out by audition-style interviews. I'm not a stage performer.

[Edit:] I didn't expect my comment to rise to the top of an already crowded discussion. I feel a little self-conscious about it. ;-)
by EthanHeilman | 2025-08-01 14:20:06+00:00
AI has been extremely useful at teaching me things. Granted I needed to already know how to learn and work through the math myself, but when I get stuck it is more helpful than any other resource on the internet.

> To become good at something you have to work through the lower rungs and acquire skill. AI does all those lower level jobs, puts the people who need those jobs for experience on the street, and robs us of future experts.

You can still do that with AI, you give yourself assignments and then use the AI as a resource when you get stuck. As you get better you ask the AI less and less. The fact that the AI is wrong sometimes is like test that allows you to evaluate if you are internalizing the skills or just trusting the AI.

If we ever have AIs which don't hallucinate, I'd want that added back in as a feature.
by rollcat | 2025-08-01 14:20:21+00:00
> It more just argues than tmux is a pita on the terminal ecosystem which I’m sure is true.

Start thinking of tmux, screen, ssh, etc as terminal emulators, and everything will suddenly make sense.

> perhaps we should rethink protocols etc to make many of these features more native

I've been opposing terminal emulators (NOTE: emulators, not REPLs) for a long while. I also do believe we can collectively do better than emulating 1970s hardware. I do believe we can build applications where "ctrl-c" means copy, and selecting more than one screen's worth of text is possible. It's not hard, we're just stubborn.
by londons_explore | 2025-08-01 14:20:26+00:00
How fast do the WiFi signal strength maps get out of date?

Just someone changing the angle of an antenna or shifting a pile of stock near the router has to have a pretty big impact on signal strength.

And obviously a WiFi system upgrade where all the Mac addresses change must be a fairly big change and effectively gives a full service outage for all the users till you remap.
by laurent_du | 2025-08-01 14:20:40+00:00
People keep repeating this argument that you don't need to know how to do X (where X is something extremely easy) because that's not part of your job, doing your job entails Y (much harder). That's BS. I have never met someone who was good at their job but couldn't do easy things. That's just cope. If you can do hard stuff, you can do easy stuff. If you can't do easy stuff, you definitely can't do hard stuff.

You are not going to do well on "computer bugs" if you don't even have the basic intuition of what an even number is.

Yes, stress is real, that's why we ask very easy questions during interviews. Like summing even numbers.
by parpfish | 2025-08-01 14:20:44+00:00
i like the idea of bids, but only if its coupled with the ability of workers to just outright reject the offer.

the problem is that there's still a guarantee of service for the user regardless of what you bid. if i want my burritos delivered at 2AM and am only willing to bid $1 on delivery labor, i shouldn't expect that my burritos will be delivered.

for tips, the model is "the work will be done and i'll pay extra if it's good". but with bids its "how much do i need to pay to get this work started"
by nolist_policy | 2025-08-01 14:20:57+00:00
I think both of you and TFA misunderstand what the targetSdkVersion is.

If your app barely uses any permissions (like TFA's apps), you just need to update the targetSdkVersion in the manifest once per year and push the update. That's it. You're not updating SDKs or compiling against a newer SDK or anything.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-01 14:21:02+00:00
> I care about the subset of mosquitos near my house.

So do I, but mosquitos are usually a problem for people who live close to nature. And then you'll have lakes, puddles, ditches, swamps, etc. But maybe I'm wrong and mosquitos don't fly that far, as another commenter here mentioned.

I will certainly try the mosquito dunks as you advise. Hope they can help.
by bb86754 | 2025-08-01 14:21:07+00:00
No, this guy (the writer of the article) has no idea what he’s talking about. I say this as someone isn’t even on the left.

He sets a false dichotomy to protect himself from criticism. Zoning/building codes being too strict and monopolies existing in that market aren’t incompatible.

It’s worth noting that there’s a lot of money behind this abundance movement or whatever, so that’s something to take into account when reading this stuff.
by thrance | 2025-08-01 14:21:08+00:00
Truthfully, I don't. IMHO, abundance liberalism has a blind spot when it comes to the power of money in modern politics. We didn't stumble into a situation where buying a house requires an entire lifetime of work out of sheer bad luck. Some private interests greatly benefit from this situation and have enough power to keep things from changing.

Until we address this, and the abundance crowd doesn't want to, all of this is pointless bickering.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-01 14:21:21+00:00
>I guess my question is, where does one go to discuss political and world issues with similar respect and tolerance?

X is the only online social media that has healthy(and unhealthy) political discussions; with both sides available for discussion. Reddit, bluesky, mastodon, etc banned conservatives off the site. Gab, truth social, etc banned liberals. You cant have political discussions if you are an echo chamber of only 1 viewpoint.

> It's more like shouting and slander as opposed to respect and understanding. Thoughts?

That's something newer to politics in general. I call it the jon stewart consequence.

He was aiming for a laugh; he's not engaged in healthy political discussions but his popularity spilled into political discussions; he'd take a video out of context, make a jab, make funny face, force the audience to laugh, and then bring on a guest that agrees with him to confirm everything he thinks.

Now liberals are essentially mimicking him. It's about dunking on the dumbest conservatives. Those who arent dumb, they are nazis.

But then conservatives do it as well; we're all humans and sometimes we say or think dumb things.
by ajar8087 | 2025-08-01 14:21:32+00:00
Tiny models that you can just run locally sound pretty sweet. I can see a lot of privacy‑minded folks liking this since you don’t have to phone home to an API for every request. Curious how big the trade‑off is between size and accuracy once you get beyond simple classification tasks, I see you can "bring your own data" too instead of just throwing a bunch of synthetic stuff at it.... I wonder how well that works.
by nyrikki | 2025-08-01 14:22:17+00:00
RK35XX only worked well because volunteer maintainers like Joshua Riek were doing hard work, the support of those boards falls when people like him burn out.

For me personally, much of the value of the RPI products is knowing they will have long term support.

RockChip really only appears to care about embedded auto apps etc...thus their support horizon is more about sustainment and not enhancement, and they do little to support the community.
by bombcar | 2025-08-01 14:22:19+00:00
There was a (at least local) McDonald's inversion just after Covid; they were paying $20/hr which was competitive or better than the local factories.

It's one of those "reset" things you need to do now and then, because it's really easy for an industry like CNA or similar to end up paying less than the gas station for more annoying work.
by paxys | 2025-08-01 14:22:28+00:00
Stress or not, if you can't write the following code in 10+ minutes in your language of choice in an interview setting you are going to get rejected, period. Complaining and writing blog posts about it isn't going to make a difference. Instead spend your energy towards learning, and see a therapist if necessary.

int total = 0;

for (int i=0;i<arr.length;i++) {

if ((arr[i]%2) == 0) { total += arr[i]; }

}

return total;
by vova_hn | 2025-08-01 14:22:29+00:00
It seems that most people in the comments dislike live coding interviews as candidates, so I feel that I should offer an alternative point of view.

I actually like live coding much more than any other type of interview. There are a few reasons for this.

First, I don’t really know what to say to many of the standard interview questions.

“Give an example of a challenging task you had to do in your previous job.”

Eh, I don’t remember? I probably will remember and draw on my experience if a similar task comes up. But right off the bat? No idea.

“A question about some obscure feature of X,” where X can be a programming language, library, framework, etc.

What’s the point of this question? If I need to use that feature, I’ll check the docs. I’m very good at quickly skimming through the docs and finding what I need.

“Do you have experience with <the exact software stack that we use>?”

Maybe not, but I understand the underlying concepts and I’m good at reading the docs.

Second reason is, of course, that I tend to perform much better in live coding interviews than in any other type. I get better offers, more positive feedback, and interviewers clearly feel much more confident in my abilities.
by saurik | 2025-08-01 14:22:38+00:00
I agree with you on how websites should work (particularly so on the micropayments front); but, I don't agree that it is impossible to solve... I just think things are going to get a LOT worse on the ownership and freedom front: they will push a Web Integrity style DRM and further roll out signed secure boot, at which point the same attention monitoring solution that already exists and already works in self-driving cars to ensure the human driver is watching the road can use the now-ubiquitous front-facing meeting/selfie camera to ensure there is a human watching the ads.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-01 14:23:17+00:00
LEO is indeed exempt (which is a great thing given that it's getting quite crowded up there). But we could easily break geostationary orbits from being viable, as they don't decay from atmospheric drag.

In the ISS decommission report that evaluated different retirement plans [1] for the ISS, the suggestion to park the ISS in a higher orbit was evaluated but dismissed because raising its orbit out of LEO would increase collision risk to >4 years lifetime, and raising it further requires too much fuel.

ISS is currenrly in the higher end of LEO, meaning most debri decay away slowly. But higher orbits are already hazardous, and our space development is still very small-scale in those orbits. "loiter around for years" is already at 5 years. And that's with a relatively small amount of development and short history. If we want to do space in anther 100 year without inch-thick steel armour on our rockets that leave earth, we need some regulation around this.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/faqs-the-international-space-station-tr...