MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rossng | 2025-08-01 15:59:27+00:00
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by barrystaes | 2025-08-01 15:59:31+00:00
I use it to design functional parts for 3D printing at home, very solid 3d design software that works on any internet connected device. Can easily open/see/edit parameters quickly on a phone or tablet even, to address a design flaw.

Workflow in a nutshell:

- Start a sketch on a plane, use toolbar circle, draw, type dimensions, close sketch.

- Click the rectangle you made and use toolbar extrude.

- Click the resulting object (bottom left) and export as STL / 3MF file.

It is parametric design:

- Discover your oops. Go back to sketch or extrude, edit dimension, entire design updates by magic.

- Dimensions can be changed into a quickly editable #variablesYouName by typing # basically.

Documentation is short and to the point. Same for most videos that explain how to accomplish something specific. Love it.
by Rayhem | 2025-08-01 15:59:49+00:00
Sure. If your monsters have health, then their health is going to need updating pretty much by definition. Option 1 would be to make each entity responsible for updating itself with an overloaded `update` function in sort of a "classical OOP" fashion:

for(auto &entity: entities) { entity.update(); }

You're then responsible for weaving the health changes into your update (or getting it from your parent). Weird stuff can happen if one entity updates before another, too: you likely want all of the health updates to occur after all of the damaging events. So now this update function has to register a deferred health update to occur down the line.

Option 2 with something like an Entity-Component-System design would have a "Health" system that handles health updates across the board.

for(auto &damageEntity: entitiesThatDoDamage) { damageEntity.registerDamage(); } for(auto &healthEntity: entitiesWithHealth) { healthEntity.updateHealth(); }

Neither of these options is strictly better than the other. Option 1 is good if you need a lot of bespoke logic for health updates (dragons update differently from humans which are different from vehicles etc.). Option 2 is better if everyone has `newHealth = oldHealth - damage`. Things are generally more similar than they are different, so you end up changing all values of a single "kind" (structures-of-arrays) more often.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-01 15:59:50+00:00
That's what I've always done. I used TurboTax a few times back when it first came out. At that time it was a standalone program that you bought on a CD. It ran on your computer and it generated forms that you printed and mailed in. No internet required, your data never left your computer.

Once it became a "cloud" platform I didn't trust Intuit to keep my data private or not to use it for their own purposes. Ever since then I've done my taxes on paper. It's not difficult for someone with W2 and even self-employment income. For a more complicated situation it could be, but at that point you probably have an accountant anyway.
by encom | 2025-08-01 15:59:54+00:00
Hyperbole is my middle name, but I just find it repulsive that CloudFlare breaks the chain of trust, and somehow everybody is just okay with that. I'm not saying it makes HTTPS pointless, but we've moved from end-to-end encryption to trust-me-bro. Is CloudFlare malicious? Probably not - at least not right now. But I think my browser should warn me that my connection is not E2E secure, because it's not.
by sltkr | 2025-08-01 16:00:00+00:00
While you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), official guidance is to use support libraries that are at least as new as the targetSdkLevel, so if you follow that recommendation you still have to update.

Also, I try to at least do the bare minimum level of testing the app still works after rebuilding by launching the app in the emulator once (I don't usually have a phone that runs the newest API level), which means downloading at least a new emulator image.

In practice it's just easier to update the entire platform.
by neogodless | 2025-08-01 16:00:13+00:00
Relevant (in my opinion) threads in recent days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736967 Fast (catherinejue.com)

1500+ points, 400+ comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748934 Slow (michaelnotebook.com)

800+ points, 200+ comments
by MeaningfulAI | 2025-08-01 16:00:20+00:00
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by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-01 16:00:26+00:00
Police in the states steal more than all thieves combined. (The only other category which also steals more than burglars are employers through wage theft.) And that is just based off very incomplete data as we lack transparency into most civil forfeiture at the local municipality level.

The money also does not go back into public service use. It's often funneled into items such as F-350 trucks for personal use, commemorative Super Bowl badges, or premium salmon-jerky dogfood (actual recent examples from Georgia).
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-08-01 16:00:45+00:00
It's a nasty little tool that became huge during the 1980's cut-all-budgets-but-war-on-drugs era.

The public LOVED it because it was used to nail all those drug kingpins... (remember all the ferraris and speedboats the undercover cops had on Miami Vice. It wasn't fiction)
by jmyeet | 2025-08-01 16:00:59+00:00
The real lesson here is you can use mental gymnastics to interpret the constitution any way you want. As such, judges are inherently political actors.

Civil asset forfeiture should be a direct and obvious breach of the Fourth Amendment, specificially "unreasonable search and seizure" but no, the law has contorted civil asset forfeiture to be OK because money is property and property has no constitutional rights.

The police exist to protect the wealthy and their property. The police as an institution began as slave catchers (ie returning slaves, being "property", to their owners). Even the FBI has its origin in the Mann Act [1], also known as the White Slave Traffic Act. Basically, it was anti-misagenation.

More generally, if you look at any important course case, mainly Supreme Court precedents, just look at a decision with the lens of how the wealthy will benefit and you'll be able to prodict the outcome with at least a 90% accuracy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-01 16:01:15+00:00
And it is a violation of the 4th Amendment for it to even exist in the first place.

The fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

They're being sneaky and skirting around it by charging objects with crimes, but everyone knows that is such bullshit that it's the kind of stupid fuckery that would have been pulled in the Spanish Inquisition.
by philjohn | 2025-08-01 16:01:22+00:00
> unless they get everyone on the planet to subscribe to their $200/month plan.

that would be a monthly recurring revenue of 200 x 7bn = $1,400,000,000,000 or $1.4tn a month, $16.8tn per year!

I think they've be valued a bit higher than $300bn if that were the case.
by kubectl_h | 2025-08-01 16:01:31+00:00
Exactly, it's hard to dismiss the broad penetration of ChatGPT in the general population. I was an AI skeptic/luddite until almost exactly a year ago when, in a span of a month or so, I had three different friends/family members who work in various administrative jobs tell me that they all used ChatGPT surreptitiously at work to get things done. Now a year later I don't know many people that don't use it at least occasionally. The ones that don't are older and I'm confident eventually they'll be using it like crazy to annoy me.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-01 16:01:51+00:00
(2017)

Related:

Guinness World Record for longest line-of-sight photograph https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...

Longest Lines of Sight on Earth (2017) (336 points, 155 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861075 (https://archive.is/xYvBm)
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-01 16:01:57+00:00
1. From what I've read, the majority of the alleged behaviors happened outside the UK (Germany and USA from a quick glance).

2. It's unclear to me that any of the behavior alleged to have happened in the US (where the accusers reside) is considered criminal behavior in the US. The usual remediation in the US for sexual harassment is civil, so there are no authorities to contact.
by jhanschoo | 2025-08-01 16:02:05+00:00
A lemma like this is common for well-known results https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/fc728c...

The one immediately before (`gcd_mul_dvd_mul_gcd`) is also well-known but uses a style closer to forward proof.

The very well-known ones `gcd_assoc` at the start oof this file are even more extreme and directly supply the proof term without tactics.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-08-01 16:02:35+00:00
One big difference there is that for the vast majority of people, they can get the vast majority of their music or video content from that single service (or at worst a small number of them).

But for reading news articles, there's a LOT of diversification. It's nowhere near one-stop shopping. In fact, a responsible reader ought to want to diversify points of view to avoid bubbles.

Of course, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of an industry consortium allowing a reader to pay into a single pool and read content from many sources, with payment distributed in some equitable manner.
by robomex | 2025-08-01 16:02:37+00:00
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by seanwilson | 2025-08-01 16:02:40+00:00
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by bevr1337 | 2025-08-01 16:02:53+00:00
Podunk people are indigenous to present-day Connecticut. The Podunk were thought to live far away, so living in Podunk grew to mean living in a remote, uninteresting place.

Originally, it may not have been used kindly. I wonder if Podunk could be thought of as an Americanization of the Roman's barbarians. (The others.)
by protimewaster | 2025-08-01 16:02:58+00:00
I've had some thoughts in a similar vein, but I was thinking from a privacy perspective. The Google and Apple arguments for the walled gardens basically boil down to "You can't trust other stores to protect your privacy and security", but the obvious counter-argument to that is that other stores may actually be able to focus more on privacy and security than the walled gardens do.

Apple and Google inevitably have limited privacy protections, because they'd probably run off Meta and a bunch of other really popular / in-demand apps and cut into their own bottom-line if they really cracked down. In contrast, a third party store may be more free to only host apps that are more privacy-oriented or have been security audited, etc.
by kelsonreiss | 2025-08-01 16:03:12+00:00
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by esbranson | 2025-08-01 16:03:21+00:00
It's a holdover from Europe, which means most countries in the world have a form of it. Mexico, that socialist, gun-control utopia, is probably the best example. If another country besides the US ever gets something like PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) from the 1980s, they would have a clue.

Ignorance is bliss, but the US is probably still better.
by dllthomas | 2025-08-01 16:03:23+00:00
I use tmux (or screen) as a bag for holding context. I set an environment variable before spawning it, and then key a lot of things in my .bashrc off that environment variable so I get context-specific functions/aliases/vars/etc, and keep them when I open a new window in an existing tmux. The single best part of this is separate histories for my development vs system administration vs whatever, although the rest is still quite useful.
by alphazard | 2025-08-01 16:04:11+00:00
Live coding works extremely well as part of a more comprehensive interview process. You have to make the question very easy to account for nerves. Done well, it should weed out the worst candidates, while accidentally letting some no-hires through, but never dropping a good candidate. If you make the question resemble anything like actual work, then you will be dropping good candidates. It's the wrong format for that.

A live coding exercise should be like 15 minutes of time at the start of an interview. If it goes well, tell the candidate they did great, and then get to the real interview. If it doesn't go well, you can cut the interview short, and thank the candidate for their time. There's no point in talking to someone about a programming role if they can't program. e.g. basic control flow in a language of their choosing.

People who can't program will sneak through your hiring funnel and into contact with your engineers. It's a question of rates, not absolutes. The cost of not catching them quickly can be 1000s of dollars in engineer time.
by dvvalia | 2025-08-01 16:04:11+00:00
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by jruohonen | 2025-08-01 16:04:20+00:00
The vibe physics was a new one to me, but, on a second thought, it was probably only a matter of time.

He also has some good points about those cursed post-* scholars; as it turned out, they were kind of right all along. Who would've guessed?

Ref.:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=baudrillard
by eawgewag | 2025-08-01 16:04:38+00:00
Here's my hot take -- interviewing sucks because it's hard to fire people.

At every place I've worked at, spanning a whole spectrum of places (Google, Discord, tiny, huge), its been a truth universally acknowledged that interviewing is a garbage metric full of false negatives. But we'd all rather put candidates through the gauntlet than the whole team through the firing gauntlet.

Make it easier to fire and interviews will be less insane.
by SvenL | 2025-08-01 16:04:43+00:00
Yes, if people think that society is defined by people owning houses and stock, then yes, society might be already collapsed. But I think this is not really what society is about.

To this extend, if AI takes all the jobs, people would be able to still be alive. Call me sci-fi romantic, but this is basically Star Trek. And they have still a society where everybody can pursue their interests regardless of income because computer and robots taking care of basic needs.

I think society has nothing to do with money, sharing and caring is more important. And every individual in a society can contribute to this, regardless of wealth.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-01 16:04:47+00:00
I used to be afraid of job interviews then I discovered Bob Firestone and started looking at it like a pickup artist.

I am good at whiteboard coding but I am also good at compensating for what I don’t know and even bluffing. In a data science interview they asked me about “regularization” which I didn’t recognize but when they defined it I could describe many different approaches to regularization I had used in projects. For a long time it seemed that any question in an interview could be answered answered with “look it up in the hashtable” or “look it up in the literature”
by dvvalia | 2025-08-01 16:04:57+00:00
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by metalman | 2025-08-01 16:05:53+00:00
wrong. NK as an example has the capacity to design and deliver and deploy load after load after load of small rusty ball bearings into random low earth orbits, leaving existing geo syncronous satelites as the only platforms operating in earths orbit, SK, Japan, France, etc ,etc, etc,....russia, china,.......many large industrial companies(mitsu, hiundi, various name shify US companies)..... can just shut the whole thing down long before any emperor starts issueing edicts from orbit. this is the classic example of where the "defence" is orders of magnitude easier and cheaper than the "offence"