MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by specialist | 2025-08-01 13:19:48+00:00
We (government) does debt forgiveness all the time. For very practical reasons. Can't some of the cheddar be redirected from the 0.1% to the rest of us?

A $400k home is probably a starter home. Owners are probably a young couple (millennials). They probably want to have kids.

Forgiving 100k of their debt means they (and their kids) will have a fair chance at success. Earning more money. Saving more. Paying more taxes (over their life times).
by sintezcs | 2025-08-01 13:20:06+00:00
What’s wrong with it if they studied the codeGPT solution well enough to explain it, answer the questions about corner cases and suggest improvements? Won’t it be a good indicator of the candidates skills? ChatGPT is one of the daily tools nowadays, we should not ban it, but the one using it should be able to understand and explain the code, and his logic, and explain how he architected the solution and how the LlM assisted him, and where it worked well and where not so good.
by em-bee | 2025-08-01 13:20:13+00:00
i tried using kitty a year ago. i was not impressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478732

kovid is talking about how tmux gets in the way of terminals adding new features. i agree with that, but what about the features that tmux offers that i have yet to see in any gui terminal. (multiple sessions. the ability to connect to the same session from multiple terminals. scriptability, including sending characters into a terminal. splitting windows into multiple panes...)

can kitty do any of those? if you want to add features to the terminal, then you have to content that tmux does as well, and maybe tmux features are more interesting to me than kittys. so if you want to win me over, then you have to actually implement some of the features of tmux that i use.

(watching the interview, it looks like kitty does indeed implement some of tmux features, because interestingly the interviewer asks just the right questions. but i need to look for a more comprehensive introduction to see how kitty can replace tmux locally.)
by xrisk | 2025-08-01 13:20:32+00:00
It’s for (often implicit) communities to decide; communities whose members share a certain set of norms.

Further, legality does not imply correctness.

For example, it’s probably legal to call somebody a transphobic slur in many parts of the world but to suggest that trans people shouldn’t attempt to avoid or “cancel” such people is ridiculous.

And if you sincerely think that the only acceptable action to take is make a petition to change the law, I would suggest you go out and touch some grass. The law doesn’t work that way.
by cbeach | 2025-08-01 13:20:36+00:00
If the women in question had gone to the actual courts, rather than the Scala community, they might have had an opportunity to see justice (assuming their allegations are true). But because they chose to make very public accusations that were widely circulated, they have now denied themselves the opportunity to use the legal system, because they have prejudiced the process.

I don't know if they'd consider this a problem, though, given the life-destroying outcome meted out by the Scala community may actually exceed the punishment the legal system would have deemed appropriate.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-08-01 13:20:56+00:00
Once in an interview I asked someone to go to the whiteboard for a coding exercise and her body language showed an enthusiasm and fearlessness that in hindsight I realized I'd never seen before. She practically sprung up out of the chair.

Most people, even the good ones, show a little hesitance when starting. Which isn't really necessary, most people do fine. I'm not trying to get them to fail, I'm trying to get them to succeed. I want to see if they're smart and understand the problem and the direction of a solution. Not if they miss any semicolons or don't recall some arcane data structure.

She was one of the best hires I made. Coding interviews can also measure attitude and confidence.
by rkomorn | 2025-08-01 13:21:04+00:00
> I could only imagine it in a place that only serves tourists and foreigners.

Maybe not "only", but yes, they're typically Americanized brunch places, or other "trendy" places. And some of those places have good food worth eating.

It's still a pretty rare thing, fortunately. Something less offensive that I'm running into more often is to be asked if we want to leave a tip. And more common still are PoS systems that give you the option on checkout.

Probably not the thread to digress into what's happening to dining in Lisbon (eg the rameniffication of everything) but it's definitely bringing in a more tip-forward mindset.
by plemer | 2025-08-01 13:21:51+00:00
Allowing people to speak out against overt genocide committed by a foreign government = anti-semitism. Isn’t that self-evident? /s

Tbh, this standard argument is itself anti-Jewish as it implies this behavior is inherent to being Jewish, which of course is grotesque and inaccurate.

* Jewish /= Zionist

* Zionist /= Imperialist

* Imperialist /= Genocidal

What we have really imo is an extreme colonist policy that is only superficially Jewish. That doesn’t absolve Jews in Israel supporting it, it rather absolves all those who don’t and makes genocidal colonists take responsibility for their own actions.

Also, genocide is bad.
by Peritract | 2025-08-01 13:21:52+00:00
I don't think it is fair to call #metoo an overcorrection. An overcorrection would imply the pendulum swung too far in the other direction, and it just didn't.

There was one high-profile trial, of a man who was definitely guilty. A bunch of other accused people faced zero consequences. In total, the #metoo movement raised awareness and was dwarfed by its own backlash.

An overcorrection would be what people fear-monger about: men arrested for innocently holding doors open, etc. None of that happened.
by praptak | 2025-08-01 13:21:54+00:00
Maybe both sides are telling the truth. I mean that this fragment:

"It was like reading a fiction about me concocted from benign fragments of reality, transplanted into new context to make them sound abominable."

makes it sound like the accusations weren't based on totally made up facts. It was rather a biased (is the author's view) interpretation thereof.
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-01 13:22:35+00:00
to me, dark patterns were not the means, but the goals: the cognitive patterns that are established and reinforced after all the methods have been successfully applied.

[hop]

when all those little spikes compound while you ingest global and national news and those backpacking friends from Russia, Ukraine and Cambodia come home ^^, for example ...

[hop]

and we thought Machiavelli et al wrote so we could understand, when they really just established patterns that could be matched with little effort
by rf15 | 2025-08-01 13:22:36+00:00
This entire argument has been had for so many years now.

- Norway Problem -> YAML 1.2

- YAML 1.2 not the default -> get or build a better parser that can be configured to use 1.2 rules by default

YAML is an okay format, yes it's not the best, but the amount of time people spend complaining...
by padolsey | 2025-08-01 13:23:00+00:00
> Some companies genuinely care about this. Some even mention it in their job descriptions. They want candidates who perform well under pressure.

Who are these self-important employers?? I mean, outside of Ops and live incident response, are there really that many software engineer roles that require someone to perform well under pressure? It seems a false and egotistic narrative. If you need a software builder to perform under pressure then you've got systemic issues of a type not solved with software. You need better management or better work practices.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-01 13:23:11+00:00
The context of this discussion is a university doing what it needs to gain access to money from the federal government.

>approximately everyone has rolled over

I did not say anything about not criticizing the winner. An "elite" can criticize all they want, but for day to day actions, when the opposing side has all 3 branches of government, willingly given to them by the majority of the population, I can't blame someone for not sacrificing themselves.

My point is this isn't some small group of radicals that weaseled their way in, this is more than half the "country" (if you can call it that), seeing the first term and really his whole life, and saying we want more of this chaos.

Edit: Yes, I know the nominal votes do not add up to half the voters, but practically, if you are to bet on the level of support you would get from opposing the winner, surely you are going to assume the non voters will be fine with however you are treated by the winner, especially this winner with his well known track record.

Effectively, I would expect support of far less than half of my fellow citizens. If you can't be bothered to vote, you're definitely not going to be bothered to do anything more.
by sokoloff | 2025-08-01 13:23:12+00:00
The $10K roof is noticeable precisely because it's an outlier that pulls the average up towards the 1-2% per year range for all but the least expensive houses.

If houses really consumed 5-10% of the purchase price on average per year, people wouldn't worry or talk so much about roof replacements; they'd be just other drops in the bucket.
by Pxtl | 2025-08-01 13:23:13+00:00
> My legal action continued for more than a year after this, as I looked for opportunities to conclude it without incurring unaffordable costs, or revealing to my opponents that I was in financial trouble. The risk of default lingered over me. We reached a settlement in my favor in early 2024, avoiding an expensive court hearing by a few days. However, this compromise meant that I missed the chance for my case to be scrutinized in court.

So from the outside we have no way of knowing who is telling the truth.
by inoffensivename | 2025-08-01 13:23:30+00:00
I was a young teen when the world wide web became a thing, my Dad to gave me a copy of the camel book. I used Perl to write everything... A message board, a stats website for a MUD I was playing on, basically anything I could think of to drop in that cgi-bin directory.

All of my code was garbage of course, but it was an incredible amount of fun, a very valuable learning experience.

I miss those days, but that probably has less to do than the programming language and more to do with the carefree days. :-)
by rkangel | 2025-08-01 13:23:54+00:00
Two reasons:

I don't use a tiling WM, and tmux[1] does an excellent job at the tiling features.

I do the majority of my work physically at a Linux (Fedora) desktop, but I also work from home SSH'd to that desktop. Being able to just attach to the same session and pick up where I left off, with all the same shell management, is great.

[1] I used tmux for years, but have very recently switched to Zellij. I find the pane navigation to be much smoother (and more discoverable).
by ben_w | 2025-08-01 13:24:11+00:00
Sure, there's also two such places in the UK.

Thing is, I do find myself missing the one I spent nearly a decade living in, because such networks are self-sorting and I didn't realise how rare it was until I failed to find it again after leaving.

(Still, Berlin is doing me good in almost all other aspects besides being able to accidentally find I've moved right around the corner from the same pub frequented by the author of PuTTY and a co-author of the proof that Magic The Gathering is Turing-complete and one of the Debian project leaders (seriously, all three went to the same pub, and I didn't know before I moved to Cambridge the first time back in 2007)).
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-08-01 13:24:24+00:00
I disagree - we have a general principle around the world that a democratically elected "leader" is the result of the votes from the population and thus should be recognised at representing those people. The problem is when democracy is subverted with various methods such as gerrymandering districts, making it harder for some demographics to vote, removing voter registrations of certain demographics, misrepresentation of facts by the mainstream media etc.

It is a real problem with countries declaring "democratic elections" which are mere shams of democracy.
by hibikir | 2025-08-01 13:24:33+00:00
Absolutely. Some of my favorite coworkers would never pass a modern, top company interview which I can pass, and not because they are worse in general, but due to stress management. When I am working in one of those that has no hiring shortcuts, I just can't recommend them, because they will fail. In a small enough company, I can say "hire this person sight unseen, and if they aren't good, it's 100% on me", and then they are successful. My time working with them is far more valuable at skill matching than any interview.... but that's not how we do things in most places, because the fear that people will recommend the otherwise incompetent is high, and for good reason. There would have to be consequences for recommending a bad candidate like that.

Now, that doesn't mean that stress management cannot be part of the job: I've worked in the hellish places where an on-call rotation meant at least 4 calls off-hours, and some which needed resolutions in 10 minutes or less from the pagerduty call. Someone with bad stress response is not going to be doing great at that kind of live diagnosing, with possibly many millions for the company on the line. But the number of positions like that, where you are a cross between a developer and an ER doctor are much less common than places that have none of those demands, yet give you a series of leetcode mediums and hards. They might as well be testing for height, or how much you can bench press. It filters, but it does not help.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-08-01 13:25:01+00:00
> I can't imagine there are many other opportunities to steal $61m with the only punishment when you're caught is having to pay it back.

There was a very famous viral video of a woman stealing offering to just pay for the goods when she was caught, but we all understood why that was a ridiculous idea. Maybe she was just an Amazon VP, so she didn't know any better
by rahimnathwani | 2025-08-01 13:25:08+00:00
I expect most people here are (like me) admirers of Terence Tao, and fans of his work.

But, if UCLA is indeed an institution that routinely violate civil rights law, would we still want our taxes to fund it?

For those objecting to any reduction in federal funding, is this because:

A) You believe UCLA complies with civil rights law (perhaps with small, isolated exceptions that are driven not by policy but by rogue employees), OR

B) You believe there should be enforcement of the law, but it should take a different form, OR

C) Something else?

I live in California, and have some interest in state agencies operating within the law, and for the benefit of all.

UCLA, where Terence Tao works, is part of the University of California system (a state school). Like other UC campuses, UCLA receives substantial federal funding.

There are good reasons to believe that UCLA has, for many years, engaged in racial discrimination in both hiring and admissions. But the issue is whether anyone with legal standing can actually take the school to court and win.

IANAL but my understanding is as follows. If an individual were to sue the school, they would need to be an individual student who had applied and been rejected. But any court case would take years. It is likely that, part way through that process, that individual student would have graduated from another college, and no longer be seeking undergraduate admissions. Thus they would lack standing and the case would be dismissed as moot.

That's why in SFFA vs. Harvard, the plaintiff was a membership organization. As Harvard was continuing to discriminate, there were always new members to join the organization who did individually have standing, even as some of the existing members lost standing.

In any civil suit over admissions policies, UCLA holds two major advantages over individual complainants:

- Vast resources: UCLA has deep pockets with which to pay lawyers.

- High stakes: UCLA has a lot to lose.

But the folks who are injured are recent high school graduates:

- Limited financial means: When you were 18yo, could you have scraped together money to pay lawyers? Most 18yo kids wouldn't even have the money to pay the court filing fee.

- Minimal personal upside: By the time any case progresses, these students have already enrolled elsewhere. Transferring to UCLA mid-degree, even if they win, would be disruptive and often undesirable.

UCLA is currently being sued by a membership organization. In a couple of weeks, they will file their response to this complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.95...

One of the people who initiated the lawsuit is Richard Sander, a professor at UCLA: https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/richard-h-sand...

Some folks don't like this: https://dailybruin.com/2025/04/21/ucla-law-students-lead-pro...
by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-01 13:25:09+00:00
Fighting the instinct to judge is really important.

Both my father and I have excellent “gut feelings” to the point that “I hate being right” is the family motto.

It would be so easy to believe I’m always right in my judgement of people. But I’m extremely wrong at least 5% of the time.

If nothing else, that 5% helps me learn to read people better. If I didn’t reserve judgment, that 5% would quickly become 50%.
by sensanaty | 2025-08-01 13:25:22+00:00
I recall an article on HN quite a while ago about one of those property management companies/websites in the Bay Area. The article was detailing that, while the majority of people looking to rent out their properties were individuals and not the ultra wealthy, the app "encouraged" price-fixing, including things such as keeping a certain % of lots vacant on purpose in order to drive up prices artificially. I put encouraged in quotes because it turned out that a prerequisite of managing your properties through this application was actually complying with the price fixing, on an app-wide scale of all its users.

So despite it making no financial sense on an individual, house-by-house level, what happened in practice is that the market itself got strangled by this collusion and despite the existence of many empty houses available for either purchase or rent, you ended up with a non-negligible amount of these places not ending up in the market organically and as such driving up the costs for everyone. The property owners win big with this scheme of course, and the way things were setup you'd be a fool to go against the grain and try outcompete on cheaper housing, since you can't beat an entire market getting strangled.

So yes, "the rich" aren't that stupid, they just so happen to have systems that make these sort of moves profitable.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-01 13:25:29+00:00
The real story here is the way Zionism has so deeply and intensely and succesffully managed to tie Jewishness to Israel-iness.

And so many people who are rightfully proud of their Jewish ethnicity and cultural identification -- a rich and beautiful culture that has had absolutely outsized contributions to art, science, culture in the west, with a history of being persecuted and mistreated by said "west" -- have become defacto "citizens-abroad" and advocates for Israeli positions in all things.

That combined with a deep and historical distrust of Islam in western culture...

It's the same story here in Canada. How deep the bank account for this blank cheque is, I don't know.

I should say that as a left wing critic of what happens in the middle east under Israel's banner, I am also deeply uncomfortable with some of the anti-Semitic tinge some forms of the protest take. It's a conundrum.

It is absolutely important to make it clear the criticism is of the actions of Israel, and not "Jews"
by jjmarr | 2025-08-01 13:25:32+00:00
Cancellation is never about justice. It's always about status.

Many rapists and abusers do not face social ostracism because they contribute more than they take away.

Many people are ostracized because they do not contribute enough in proportion to accusations.

Justice is the idea we can ignore social status, but this is only ensured by due process, because following a consistent set of rules removes status from the equation.
by chaz6 | 2025-08-01 13:25:43+00:00
I swapped my edgerouter lite (ERLite-3) to an Alta Labs Route10 recently after moving to an ISP that uses PPPoE. Unfortunately the Cavium silicon inside the ERL cannot do hardware offloading for ipv6+vlan+pppoe concurrently, so I had to find a new router. The Route10 is a nice piece of kit, but the software is still very immature, and absolutely requires a controller to manage. I really wish that I could run VyOS on it, but for now it does the job and will probably be absolutely fine for 99% of people.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 13:25:46+00:00
The gready sleazeballs who like the "tipping" system (mostly, restaurant owners) would prefer to pay all their employees $0 and have all diners/customers/etc pay 100% of the wages out of guilt.

While 10% was customary in the first half of the 20th century, the standard tip gradually increased to 15% by the 1980s.

In 2025 it's not uncommon to see little shortcut buttons for 20, 25, 30%. You can see where this is going. They want us to tip 50% and they pay $0, even though restaurant menu prices are one of the things that has experienced more inflation than other things.
by DanielVZ | 2025-08-01 13:25:50+00:00
I used to do tech screening in my previous job and not only it measured stress, it was awfully biased against older people. We lost so many senior people that I really wished I could work with because they weren’t used to jumping through the hoops and loops of leet code questions (in my country leetcoding is fairly new). Then there were other younger candidates that were pretty mid but knew all the answers to leet code and design questions and ended up getting the job.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-01 13:26:02+00:00
Measuring stress tolerance is an important when hiring.

A good employer takes care of their worker even if they have problems, but they also want to weed out as much of them before hiring. The value of worker is not revealed when they are at their best. Fragile workers with anxiety perform well only small amount of time.

Live interviews are generally excellent at revealing how individuals perform when placed outside their comfort zone. If you perform well in a live interview, be it for coding or any other skill, you are likely to perform even better reality.
by mil22 | 2025-08-01 13:26:08+00:00
Ultimately, this reflects just terribly on the Scala community and every individual who signed the open letter, including Brian Clapper himself and over 300 others. You can read the full list of names here: https://scala-open-letter.github.io/

Having been in a similar situation myself as a teenager, it is truly abhorrent how quickly people are willing to jump to conclusions against someone based on the most limited information, and without giving the accused any chance to tell their side of the story or defend themselves. Not even a single one of my so-called friends asked me what happened, and almost all of them disappeared from my life permanently.

What I learned from the experience was that none of the people who jumped on the cancel bandwagon had ever been worth even a second of my time. It was their loss, and I became much more careful about who I choose as friends after that.

I can certainly say that if I encounter any of the 300+ individuals listed in the letter in my personal or professional lives, I will be giving them a very wide berth indeed.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-01 13:26:26+00:00
Honestly it’s rare, it’s not normal. But it’s also so scary I just won’t risk it, however small the risk. You can’t tell which strangers are crazy.

My wife, on the other hand, is the parent who will go over and play with all the children while the parents are on their phones. But she’s a woman, so it’s different.