MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ar-Curunir | 2025-08-06 20:50:50+00:00
> suppose you want Zig's "try" functionality with arbitrary payloads. Both functions need a compatible error type (a notable source of minor refactors bubbling into whole-project changes), or else you can accept a little more boilerplate and box everything with a library like `anyhow`. That's _fine_, but does it help you solve real problems? Opinions vary, but I think it mostly makes your life harder.

This is not true, you simply need to add a single new variant to the callers error type, and either a From impl or a manual conversion at the call site
by legitster | 2025-08-06 20:50:57+00:00
I personally don't frame it as an "us vs them" situation. If anything, I feel like homeless deserve the same dignity to make choices for themselves and have their choices respected. And we owe them better choices.

My point is even if you entirely self-motivated, it's still something you should support for selfish reasons.

That said, streets and parks are public spaces meant for the enjoyment of all. Public urban camping robs civic value and turns public property into private spaces. Excessive tolerance of it is a failure of policy, not actual policy.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-06 20:51:06+00:00
> First, when you have a renter, your payment is the "mortgage + tax liability + chunk of profit usually 25-50%"

You think landlords make 25 - 50% profit on a SFH rental unit? You're so comically wrong that there's no point in discussing the rest of this post (which is basically a list of every failed housing policy in existence).

Allow builders to build more units. It's that simple, which is part of the problem for some people.
by causeimyanni | 2025-08-06 20:51:07+00:00
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by riku_iki | 2025-08-06 20:51:13+00:00
> I wear thin shoes with no padding (barefoot style) so I couldn't even if I wanted to.

if your form is wrong, it totally could result of extra impact on knee. Its better to run with padding than do not run at all.

> It could be some kind of form issue, I guess.

few points to check:

* make sure you strike under your center of gravity and not in front of it

* even you don't do heel striking, make sure your feet is almost flat, this will engage bunch of muscles for impact ammortization.

* make sure you don't jump up and down, but more like your hips are floating forward in straight line
by rendall | 2025-08-06 20:51:25+00:00
In support of the Holocaust, we saw people attacking Jews as we do today. We saw the Arabs of Palestine allying with Nazis to smear and attack Jews, as we do today. As today, we had their Western enablers, such as yourself, accusing Jews - oops, I mean Zionists - of all kinds of horrible things. As today, we saw genuinely intelligent people agreeing with each other that Jews are just the worst.

The only difference between then and today is that Jews have an army. People like you hate that.
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-06 20:51:45+00:00
Because writing is, in many senses, exposing yourself, and at the very least you want the recognition for it (even if only in the form of a visit to the website, and maybe the interactions that can follow)? Maybe you want at least the prestige that comes with writing good content that took a lot of time to create. Maybe because you want to participate in a community with your stuff. Maybe other million reasons.

I know that medium, substack and the other "publication" platforms (like LinkedIn) are trying to commodify even the act of writing into purely a form or marketing (either for a product, or for your personal brand), but not everyone gave up just yet.
by yawaramin | 2025-08-06 20:52:05+00:00
> All of the versions need to align to pass `Regex` between yourself and your dependencies.

No, they don't. As the article explains, the resolution process will pick the version that is 'closest to the root' of the project.

> The second impact will be that your builds will be slow....you are working across your dependency tree to get everything aligned.

As mentioned earlier, no you're not. So there's nothing to support the claim that builds will be slower.

> You now need to work through the entire bubble up process before it becomes available to you.

No you don't, because as mentioned earlier, the version that is 'closest to root' will be picked. So you just specify the security fixed version as a direct dependency and you get it immediately.
by tss93 | 2025-08-06 20:52:18+00:00
Yea, I end up in greenhouse/level anyway, and then I am in the same ATS as 100+ more automatic CV's, and then I get a generic rejection

Also, it feels some companies are not even hiring for those roles, so the effort of manually applying is kinda useless.

Got ghosted after the automatic (now it seems it was automatic) test assignment. I spend like half day to make a Python script, analyse the data make a report... and then crickets
by gruez | 2025-08-06 20:53:16+00:00
>where he tries to work with a group of homeless people in Las Vegas to get them papers and the process is extremely difficult. Like bordering on impossible.

That seems like the worst case scenario though? I don't think homeless people should be disenfranchised, but at the same time it's unfair to pretend the typical experience of getting a voter id resembles whatever the TV show is depicting either.
by freshtake | 2025-08-06 20:53:21+00:00
I've used all of the popular coding agents, including Jules. The reality to me is that they can and should be used for certain kinds of low severity and low complexity tasks (documentation, writing tests, etc.). They should not be used for the opposite end of the spectrum.

There are many perspectives on coding agents because there are many different types of engineers, with different levels of experience.

In my interactions I've found that junior engineers overestimate or overuse the capabilities of these agents, while more senior engineers are better calibrated.

The biggest challenge I see is what to do in 5 years once a generation of fresh engineers never learned how compilers, operating systems, hardware, memory, etc actually work. Innovation almost always requires deep understanding of the fundamentals, and AI may erode our interest in learning these critical bits of knowledge.

What I see as a hiring manager is senior (perhaps older) engineers commanding higher comp, while junior engineers become increasingly less in demand.

Agents are here to stay, but I'd estimate your best engineering days are still ahead.
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by pelumi_peter | 2025-08-06 20:53:51+00:00
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by andrewla | 2025-08-06 20:54:30+00:00
While the idea of restoring SROs and other dormitory-style housing is a good idea to better serve the lower-cost end of housing, it is completely incompatible with modern ideas around tenant protection. For an SRO to work, you must be able to evict or remove unruly or uncooperative tenants to a degree that is far in excess of what is necessary for a regular apartment or for standalone housing, because by necessity the quarters are much closer. If a manager cannot evict an unruly tenant the entire SRO facility becomes uninhabitable.
by danaris | 2025-08-06 20:55:23+00:00
Right.

A housing unit that lets you stay there indefinitely, for free, in an apartment that you can have to yourself—but doesn't allow alcohol, or is sex-segregated, or where you're mandated to come out and work for a specified period every day, or even that gets regularly searched for drug paraphernalia, is not going to work for a lot of people.

Basically, housing for people like this needs to have, if anything, fewer restrictions on its use than housing for the general public. Give them the space to fuck up and to heal at their own pace, and not have to worry that those very normal kinds of problems will leave them worse off than before (eg, because if you're kicked out, your stuff gets confiscated—or even just because with these projects in place, there's less of a community of homeless people to support each other for those who still don't "fit").
by vkou | 2025-08-06 20:55:41+00:00
If you'd like to let them shit in your bathroom, or fund public bathrooms, you can be part of the solution.

> their habit from interfering with my safety and health

Needing to shit isn't a habit. If you weren't aware, its a basic life function, like eating and breathing.

Its telling that you're piggybacking that on to your complaints about drugs (and also ignoring the untreated/poorly treated mental illness and straight up poverty legs of the homeless tripod).
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-06 20:55:52+00:00
> still doing the same thing

The core issue, in my humble opinion, is that it's not doing the same thing. But from a thousand miles away it looks like that, because everyone uses 20% of functionality, but everyone in aggregate uses 100% of functionality.

> I think it's worth noting that one reason hardware rots is because software seems to become slower and slower while still doing the same thing it did 15 years ago.

I'd like to see some actual proof of (/thoughts on) this. Like if you didn't patch any security issues/bugs, or add any features, or fixed any dependencies, how is the code getting slower?

Like I understand some people care about performance, but I've seen many non-performant solutions (from Unity, to Photoshop to Rider, being prefered over custom C# engine, Paint, Notepad++) being used nearly universally, which leads me to believe there is more than one value in play.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-06 20:55:59+00:00
By "banning the use of homes as investment" I assume you mean renting them out.

You realize people live in those rental homes, correct?

Also, why is it desirable to force all renters to live in an apartment (assuming those are not banned, and people who are unwilling or unable to own their residence are not forced to wander the streets)?
by shortstuffsushi | 2025-08-06 20:56:02+00:00
I'm surprised I don't see any comments here to this effect yet: isn't this just AMP 2.0? Website authors don't want their content scraped and rehosted by a 3rd party, even when that 3rd party claims it's for their own benefit. We have a whole kerfuffle about this nearly a decade ago. The arguments for both sides don't appear to have changed.
by lrvick | 2025-08-06 20:56:45+00:00
There are several thousand expired email domains of maintainers right now on NPM alone, allowing you to easily take over their accounts if you wanted, arguably legally, for maybe $10. I bought the domain name of the sole maintainer of the NPM package "foreach", gaining control of their email address and likely password reset capabilities, just to prove this point and troll the press a bit, which worked better than I could have ever hoped. And yet, still not -enough- press because almost no one is doing anything about it yet.

With easily over a million published open source packages that exist, and it being -so- easy to take them over since almost no one uses hardware code signing or 2FA, and with well above 365 documented/discovered cases every year, (obviously not counting all the ones that are -not- discovered!) "every day" is a given.

If anything with LLM based pull request attacks spiking right now, I assume several malicious commits will be merged today. Most will look like accidents, hard to spot, and merged helpfully by bots that automatically merge commits to major distros. The floodgates are wide open.

"Sonatype logged over 245,032 malicious packages in open source projects available to public download in 2023, double the number seen from 2019 to 2022. In total, one in eight open source downloads poses a risk."

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/open-source-softw...
by pizzathyme | 2025-08-06 20:57:16+00:00
In my 6 jobs in my career from college internship to startups to Big Tech, I have never gotten a job from sending an application into a site. It's always been through (somehow) tracking down a person to speak to and get a referral.

I would recommend that here. There's no reason why Anthropic couldn't use your talents! See if you can find a friend-of-a-friend who is there, and then do a phonecall with them.
by belter | 2025-08-06 20:57:18+00:00
That is what happens when you are part of a cult and sycophants with PhDs in Economics, go unchallenged on CNBC, willing to lose their reputation of years just to indulge a convicted criminal.

Tim Cook already explained multiple times why Apple manufactures in China, it's not about low labor costs anymore (China stopped being the low-cost country years ago). It's about the sophisticated supply chain ecosystem and manufacturing expertise they've built up: https://youtu.be/_ng8xQ-SNGc?t=576

".. China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago and that low labor costs are NOT why Apple manufactures there..."
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-06 20:57:59+00:00
"HTTP vs HTTPS

It is possible to consult this wiki on port 80, that is to say using http:// instead of https://."

https://permacomputing.net/about/

"If you do not have access to git on your operating system, you can download a zip file that contains both the markdown source files and the generated HTML files, with the paths fixed. The zip file is generated once a week."

https://permacomputing.net/cloning/

http://permacomputing.net/permacomputing.net.zip

Would it be appropriate to include a digital signature, as is commonly found on mirrors

Thought experiment: If it was standard practice to offer a compressed archive then would websites still be hammered by unwanted crawlers

If answer is yes, then what if remove/deny access to online pages and only allow access to the compressed archive
by bmacho | 2025-08-06 20:58:00+00:00
> If you stop using your phone for anything other than communicating (yes, not just the loose "stop doomscrolling" advice) a lot of these will come naturally.

People before 2007 slept, exercised, ate well, socialized, reduced stress, learnt a language, played chess, meditated, avoided sugar, limited screen time, and reversed the entropy of the universe.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-06 20:58:09+00:00
I worked phone support for a while... I had a customer call about backing up their research paper they were working on (iomega, zip drive). After going back and forth for 20m or so, since the drive light wasn't on...

Me: "Would you be able to pull the computer out into the light so that you can check the connection with better lighting instead of the flashlight?"

Customer: "Not really, the power is out."

I worked on the iomega side, second level support, mostly Jazz and OS/2 calls, knew it was going to be a doozy when I got a non-warm zip customer. MCI operated support call center in Chandler, AZ... pretty sure that's where Safelight Auto Glass operates now.

Related: A buddy on the Compaq side of the call center got the infamous "broken cup holder" call. He could barely contain the laughter and popped up having to tell anyone at that moment about it.
by geysersam | 2025-08-06 20:58:12+00:00
Even if you assume perfect competition costs like tariffs can be passed back to producers.

Imagine a demand and a supply curve. From the perspective of a producer outside the country the tariff effectively shifts the demand curve, but doesn't affect supply. That's going to lead to a lower price at equilibrium.

Of course, from the perspective of the consumer it's the opposite situation, the supply curve shifts which leads to a higher price at equilibrium.

Both happen simultaneously, who pays most of the tariff depends on the elasticity of the supply and the demand
by yawaramin | 2025-08-06 20:59:13+00:00
> Transitive dependency conflicts would abound

They would be resolved by just picking the version 'closest to root', as explained in the article.

> Security updates are no longer in the hands of the app developers

It is, the app developers can just put in a direct dependency on the fixed version of L2. As mentioned earlier, this is the version that will be resolved for the project.

> When you update a direct dependency, your transitive dependencies may all change, making what you that was a small change into a big change.

This is the same even if you use a lockfile system. When you update dependencies you are explicitly updating the lockfile as well, so a bunch of transitive dependencies can change.
by keeda | 2025-08-06 20:59:44+00:00
Yes, self-reporting has biases and estimating tasks is still a fool's errand, which is why I noted that the estimates from these surveys matched the findings from other RTC studies.

However, what doesn't get discussed enough about the METR study is that there was a spike in overall idle time as they waited for the AI to finish. I haven't run the numbers so I don't know how much of the increased completion time it accounts for, but if your cognitive load drops almost to 0, it will of course feel like your work is sped up, even though calendar time has increased. I wonder if that is the more important finding of that paper.
by rs186 | 2025-08-06 20:59:45+00:00
When I saw the yellow background, I knew this is the website where I read the Unicode article [1]. Sure it is. With great pain I finished it.

I mean, just the fact that the background is yellow is a terrible UX decision. Not to mention that ridiculous "dark mode". No, it's not funny. It's stupid and distracting.

[1] https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
by devonkim | 2025-08-06 20:59:53+00:00
When I talked to people in shelters before that was literally the top reason they were there. Oftentimes it starts from car trouble or a health episode causing loss of income. Without friends or family that can take them in they go to a shelter if they can (those with pets oftentimes go directly to the streets or their cars). Many are able to find employment again soon but many don’t and a downward spiral begins quickly. Somewhere around 30-40% of Americans cannot afford an emergency $1000 expense and it’s probably only going to go higher.
by buu700 | 2025-08-06 20:59:55+00:00
You might be happy to know we replaced the food pyramid years over a decade ago. With MyPlate

No, not particularly. It's fine if you disagree with me, but MyPlate isn't similar to what I'm proposing.

are you a cattle rancher? There is oodles of research that saturated fat is bad for you. Full stop.

You're very confident about this. Are you a potato rancher? I've never personally seen a study which convincingly backed this claim up. What I have seen are plenty of bad studies which conflated "high-fat" with "high-calorie", or otherwise failed to isolate the effects of saturated fats.

Where's the long-term study showing that a diet with ~40%+ calories from non-UPF saturated fats, ~15% or fewer calories from carbohydrates, and an ample supply of green vegetables promotes atherosclerosis relative to a control diet with lower SFAs, higher carbs, and equal calories? Has this even been demonstrated in mice? Has reproducibility been demonstrated? Because I haven't seen it, and not for lack of trying.

But keto people love to talk about how it's all a conspiracy.

I never used the word "conspiracy". I don't doubt the government's policies in this area have been perfectly well-intentioned, but it's nevertheless a fact that we didn't have an obesity epidemic before the government began pushing guidelines that resemble the modern ones upon the 1977 conclusion of the McGovern committee.

If these guidelines and the studies used to justify them are so "obviously" great, it's funny how directly they correlate with the exact opposite of their intended effect.
by jlhawn | 2025-08-06 21:01:09+00:00
I mostly think economics education is fine... most high school graduates in the US come out with a good basic understanding of supply/demand and labor/capital basic inputs to businesses, etc. But that doesn't mean that people are prepared to talk about economics on a daily basis, especially when it comes to politics. People confuse personal finance and budgeting with economics in general and don't know how to correctly think about the difference between legal and economic incidence of taxes like tariffs on imports.

Do I think economics in higher education needs to change? no. But the base level of economics knowledge and principles are very lacking for the everyday person, to the detriment of society at large.
by godot | 2025-08-06 21:01:43+00:00
I don't have "the right answer" for you but I would just chime in that in the current job market, your best bet is your existing/previous network. Reach out to folks you previously worked with in past companies, especially those in tech leadership positions. With more and more AI applicants trust is weighed more than ever and existing relationships is a major leverage point now.

I don't know if this "should" be how it is but this is the reality based on what I observe now. Hopefully you have some relationships you can reach out to.
by cyberax | 2025-08-06 21:02:28+00:00
That is correct. An abstract spherical city in vacuum might be able to lower prices by building more. Or it's possible in a fantasy scenario where you suddenly drop a million housing units onto a city from orbit.

But cities don't exist in vacuum. And building new housing is always slow, so you can feasibly grow housing stock in a large city only by single-digit percentages YoY.
by netghost | 2025-08-06 21:02:36+00:00
It really depends on your use case. If you want people collaborating on a rich text document, Automerge or yjs are probably great.

If you want to have local first application data where a server is the authority, ElectricSQL is probably going to serve you best.

That said there are so many approaches out there right now, and they're all promising, but tricky.