MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pvaldes | 2025-08-18 21:09:35+00:00
> You're allowed to do whatever it takes to save your life.

Not. Individuals and countries work in a different way. Humanitarian International laws are not optative if you want to be accepted by the international community. The "convenience" of assassinating journalists, physicians or nurses routinely is not debatable.

The new generations breastfeed with videogames and blockbusters forget sometimes that war has rules and laws. Created for the benefit of ALL parts involved. To follow this laws is good for you. Ignore them at your own risk.

Israel in my stupid opinion should erase this silly smirks on TV, show some humility and stop pretending that they live in an alternate reality. Their bad choices and reckless behaviour had destroyed lots of sympathy all around the planet, and this is not wise.

Not if you still want tourism. Not specially when you depend on a protector that is driving directly towards an economical recession; and could find more and more difficult to justify the need to allocate precious resources to support you, while their own citizens struggle to survive.

They should work hard to rebuild the broken relationships. Smiling because you bought the big politicians only works while they remain in power. European politicians are slowly waking up to the fact that supporting a genocide is expensive and a fast path to the unemployment queue. The people is really furious about this.
by jsight | 2025-08-18 21:09:52+00:00
I'm not shocked. It reminds me a bit of the way some people talk about their personal investing. They'll talk about wins (often exaggerated) and leave out the travails and failures. Next think you know, your friend is telling you about their new day trading plan. :)

Unfortunately, the same thing is playing out here. Nobody likes being the guy that points out the gains are incremental when everyone is bragging about their 100x gains.

And everyone in the management side starts getting, understandably, afraid that their company will miss out on these magical gains.

It is all a recipe for wild overspending on the wrong things.
by simianwords | 2025-08-18 21:09:57+00:00
Sure and I think solving inequality must be weighed along with increasing prosperity. Both have to be considered because often increasing one means increasing other - increasing taxes too much and there are no incentives to work and prosperity reduces. We need to find the right balance between both.

I do acknowledge that inequality can have unforeseen consequences and worth talking about and tackling today but only by considering the right tradeoffs.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-08-18 21:10:10+00:00
> We only distance ourself from Canada and encourage Canada to do more trade with the EU and China; how does that help America?

I mean Canada doesn't really have the choice to do that. They are too dependent on America to really do much but just accept whatever we say. Maybe they can start reorienting themselves for a future in 10-20 years where they can meaningfully ramp up EU/China trade but for now they just accept whatever the USA says.

It's like when the last election was all "elbows up" then it turned out they had folded instantly and just hid it from their population.
by mellosouls | 2025-08-18 21:10:11+00:00
See Widnall's overview here which discusses some of the ground that crosses over with what has come to be known as backpropagation:

The Minimum-Time Thrust-Vector Control Law in the Apollo Lunar-Module Autopilot (1970)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147466701...
by bear8642 | 2025-08-18 21:10:14+00:00
>Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what `.split(None)` would do?

Reading the docs [0] it seems `.split(None)` returns an array of the indivual characters without whitespace - so something like [c in list(s) if not whitespace(c)]

[0] https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=...
by rfmoz | 2025-08-18 21:10:15+00:00
Systemd had the momentum to unify nearly all the init distribution process and it did it, but without aligned with the right unix approach, the evolved versions confirm that, getting more and more from the reliying Linux distribution.

Broad view betweeen BSD ecosystem offers that this wasn’t a good way. I still want to see a good alternative from that point of view…
Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers
by tbird24 | 2025-08-18 21:10:39+00:00
I'm Taylor, I spent about a year as a Fractional Head of Product. It was my first time not in a full-time W2 role, and I quickly learned that the hardest part of the job wasn't doing the Product work (I was a PM for 10+ years), it was finding good clients to work with.

So I built Fractional Jobs.

The goal is to help more people break out of W2 life and into their own independent careers by helping them find great clients to work with.

We find and vet the clients, and then engineers can request intros to any that seem like a good fit. We'll make the intro assuming the client opts in after seeing your profile.

We have 9 open engineering roles right now: - 2x Fractional CTO - 2x AI engineers - 3x full-stack - 1x staff frontend - 1x mobile
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-18 21:10:39+00:00
> MCAS automatically trims the horizontal stabilizer nose-down if it detects a high angle of attack

I remember when I first heard about the MCAS issue and thought "Why didn't the pilots just pull up?" and someone explained to me that MCAS worked by trimming, and it would trim nose-down so hard that even with full elevation to try to nose back up, it wasn't enough to overcome the extreme amount of nose-down from the trim.

And since pilots weren't trained on the new MCAS system, they weren't aware that the trim would have been automatically moved.
by birdfood | 2025-08-18 21:10:50+00:00
I work with python and typescript (occasionally c++) for my day job. I love getting to ship complete vertical slices of functionality. But I’m tired of all the faffing about. I’m sick of reinventing wheels and integrating with paid services that should be part of a frame work (e.g. auth). And writing the same types 3 times (pydantic, orm, front end)… I just want to focus on my product’s raison d'etre.

And I feel like I’ve found that with Rails. In my free time I’ve recently chosen Rails to build apps for myself. I’m aware that there’s a productivity bias in new projects but so far everything I’ve needed my app to do has come out of the box with Rails (e.g. object storage). If you’ll pardon the pun, I feel like I have these guard rails that prevent me from going off on tangents and keep me focussed on the product.

And I’ve got the app hosted! This is a first for me and I’ve been a dev for 15 years. I feel like a lot of the complexity of web dev is tamed with this framework and that I’m on a very well trodden path.
by pier25 | 2025-08-18 21:11:07+00:00
> Right now VC FOMO is the only thing stopping all that from blowing up

That was probably 2-3 years ago.

I'd be surprised if VCs hadn't already figured out they're in a bubble. They're probably playing a game of chicken to see who will remain to capture the actually profitable use cases.

There's also a number of lawsuits going on against AI companies regarding piracy and copyright. It's already an established fact in the courts that these companies have downloaded ebooks, music, videos, and images illegally to train their models.
by mike_d | 2025-08-18 21:11:43+00:00
> But when the Texas legislature gets involved, it's typically to build a political franchise by creating government power than can be used arbitrarily against a fixed asset.

When I saw that it only applies to datacenters using more than 75 MW, my first thought was who are they writing the rule around?

I imagine we will see things like "xAI Under 75 MW Datacenter III, LLC", "xAI Under 75 MW Datacenter IV, LLC", etc.
by jandrese | 2025-08-18 21:12:02+00:00
CEOs are just salivating at the prospect of firing most of their staff and replacing them with AIs. And then you have hype men at these AI companies blowing a burning coal mine of smoke up their asses. And every month the products become even more expensive for even more incremental gains. The hype is unsustainable.

How many "we will have AGI by X/X/201X" predictions have we blown past already?
by Lammy | 2025-08-18 21:12:45+00:00
> Carrier tracking isn't precise as GPS tracking via the phone.

Not any more. 5G changes this now that the location spying is baked into the cell tech itself. The base stations are literally steering the beam to follow you in order to achieve such high bandwidth. See “5G NR Positioning Enhancements in 3GPP Release-18” (2024): https://arxiv.org/html/2401.17594v1

“New radio (NR) positioning in the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 18 (Rel-18) enables 5G-advanced networks to achieve ultra-high accuracy positioning without dependence on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)”

“Release 18 (Rel-18) NR pushes the boundaries even further, unlocking the potential for applications in 5G-Advanced networks that demand ultra-high positioning accuracy – down to centimeter-level (cm-level)” (emphasis mine)
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-18 21:13:01+00:00
Trade secrets never expire and sharing them is a crime, so currently people can take them to their grave and the government will have their backs in doing so. A single person's secret is also unlikely to matter much next to the potential of global corporations' secrets, and the nature of corporations is that they are made of people who have little reason not to take an offer with a competitor after they've learned the necessary secrets to do their job. Hence, don't protect those corporations unless they offer something in return (explicitly divulging them/contributing to the common knowledgebase). Without that protection, knowledge can more naturally spread.

The fair compensation they should be offered is time limited protection. Otherwise it should simply be legal for any of their employees to spread that knowledge. Giving unlimited protection to not divulge knowledge is counter to the entire point of "IP" law.

"The" Coca-Cola formula would have lost its patent restrictions a century ago. It's still unshared. Why exactly should we continue to grant any legal protection from an employee sharing it?
by ra0x3 | 2025-08-18 21:13:08+00:00
Brandon. He was a traditionally trained SWE (CS) but didn't have crazy FAANG names on his resume. Very humble, soft spoken guy. Could write code twice as fast as you, that was 2x easier to understand/grok, and would run 5x more effecciently than yours. Knew the stack all the way from the web layer to the CPU cache level. To this day I think about how he was thee definition of a "10x engineer".
by pixl97 | 2025-08-18 21:13:18+00:00
And, the .com bomb killed some companies and slowed down spending for a bit. It did not kill the internet, and now companies like Amazon(.com) are absolutely enormous.

Some people think the GenAI bomb is going to kill GenAI, I think it's just going to weed out those with too high of expenses and no way to evolve the compute to be cheaper over time.
by zrobotics | 2025-08-18 21:13:42+00:00
I rebuilt the engine in my 1961 truck 3 years ago, the bores were worn enough it was noticeably down on power. I can't easily track MPG in it for a precise number (no working odometer), but the mileage increase was significant enough to notice a difference at the gas pump, I'd estimate a 4-5mpg improvement. This would be an extreme case though, I really don't know how that engine even still had enough compression to start. The ring end-gap was slightly over 1/8" (0.128"), spec is 0.016", so on the extreme end of engine wear.

To get back to EVs though, I'm not really sure they will last any longer than current ICE cars. Engine reliability has gotten good enough that a worn engine normally isn't the reason a car gets taken off the road. IME the main killer is either body rust or just too many small parts being worn out to where it isn't cost effective to keep repairing. Suspension parts will wear faster on an EV, since they're heavier than equivalent size ICE cars. I've driven a lot of mechanic specials over the years, and of the 7 cars I've sold to salvage yards only 2 were due to engine issues, the rest were either body rust making them unsafe or just too many things wearing out.
by rebeling | 2025-08-18 21:14:16+00:00
Hyperclay is really cool. I love the idea of making edits persist right in the DOM. I hacked on something in a similar spirit called Dominique https://rebeling.github.io/dominique/?edit=1 no backend/frontend separation, just “one-end.” It’s more about playful editing with AI support (click anywhere and change text/structure instantly), whereas Hyperclay goes deeper with persistence and versioning. Fun to see, thanks for sharing!
by jacquesm | 2025-08-18 21:14:57+00:00
I spent a small fortune on a record collection. Then the record format was abandoned and it was all CDs. I spent a small fortune re-buying that same record collection, insofar as the records were even available as CDs. Then we went all digital (yes, I know CDs were already digital) and it became MP3s. So I ripped my CD collection and assigned them to a box in my attic. I will not be spending money on spotify or whatever other service to listen to stuff that I already have.

Movies... I spent a small fortune on a movie collection. Then I moved countries and to my surprise found that my movies wouldn't play anymore. So I ripped the DVDs to digital media and played them using open source software. This saved a small fortune and was more convenient as well. I think I still have the DVDs.

I spent a large fortune on books. Thousands of them. Typically read once, a much smaller number read multiple times. So I gave away my books, except for a few hundred that I still keep. I support the authors that I like by buying their books but I read on screens not on paper because my eyesight sucks and on screens I can set the font to whatever I want rather than to what the publisher thought was optimal.

There is no way the media companies are going to guilt trip me over any of this, besides that I read both Janis Ian and Courtney Love's pieces on the recording industry.

Copyright is great, it has enabled lots of people to earn a living creating content. But it has also become a weapon in an ever more absurd war between consumers and middle men, the producers caught in some uncomfortable position in the background.

What's interesting is that the middlemen brought this all on themselves: they equated buying a physical copy of a production with licensing IP, but the general public didn't think that way at all: they bought a book, they bought a record, they bought a movie. And passing on what you've bought when you no longer need it was and still is such an ingrained part of our culture that it felt really weird to have restrictions placed on what you could do with stuff you bought and paid for. So when the format changed from physical to nothing (bits) plenty of people felt that this was not quite what we had agreed to, after all we were paying for the medium as much as we were paying for the content so how come we paid the same or even more as before? And now we paid and got something that we could no longer share with others. No way to easily pass that e-book to someone else (talk about malicious compliance), no way to send the song you just paid for through Spotify or iTunes to someone else to let them hear it after you are done with it. You don't own the medium any more so therefore you own nothing at all.

And those publishers and movie producers are all laughing to the bank whilst doing nothing at all except for playing bank.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-08-18 21:15:20+00:00
I mean the Republican part is now the party of the poor and working class while the Democrats are the educated and rich. As in who votes for them not necessarily who they pay lip service too. For example the Democrats still deeply message on them being the party of the working class even as the working class no longer votes for them.

They literally flipped inside the last decade.
by keerthiko | 2025-08-18 21:15:28+00:00
You should never expect to have rights to anyone's server API endpoints, esp outside of their TOS, which is basically what trying to build your own front-end independent of youtube.com is. However, with most browsers, you have all the rights to build extensions that hide divs and change styling and add new elements with data that's already loaded (as long as you're not calling API endpoints that aren't called by the site's source though, you run into the same problems again) which would accomplish everything you were trying to do.
by ebiester | 2025-08-18 21:15:35+00:00
I would say a bit more like 1997. I was young but kept thinking, "That which is good is not novel, and that which is novel isn't good." That said, we had the giant crash, but based on the dow jones the low in 2002 was the same as August 1998 but you can really look at the lost decade as to the true impact of the bubble.

The question isn't if there will be a crash - there will - but there are always crashes. And there are always recoveries. It's all about "how long." And what happens to the companies that blow the money and then find out they can't fire all their white collar workers?

(Or, what happens if they find out they can?)
by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-18 21:15:58+00:00
Well, at least AI is going to be better than the blockchain hype. No one knew what “blockchain” was, how it worked, or what could be used for.

I had a very hard time explaining once you put something in the chain, you can’t easily pull it back out. If you wanted to verify documents, all you have to do is put a hash in a database table. Which we already had.

It has exactly one purpose: prevent any single entity from controlling the contents. That includes governments, business executives, lawyers, judges, and hackers. The only good thing is every single piece of data can be pulled out into a different data structure once you realize your mistake.

Note, I’m greatly oversimplifying all the details and I’m not referring to cryptocurrency.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-18 21:16:20+00:00
> Is your position that anyone who's not tech savvy enough to constantly fight the onslaught of shady business practices and dark patterns that most tech companies throw at them is not worthy of their friends' trust?

Trust is a function of character and competence. Not understanding how your technology may be compromising you is, within the scope of keeping secrets, a fracture of competence.

I can’t repair a car. My friends would be correct in not trusting me to go under their cars’ hoods unsupervised. Similarly, a friend or colleague who cannot be trusted to understand the device they’re using cannot be trusted with matters of confidence in that context.
by mistercheph | 2025-08-18 21:16:52+00:00
Zoom out, annas archive and every incarnation of the shadow library that exists is like the library of alexandria, in 150 years the copyright holders of the hour will be meaningless, nobody will care who got monetized or whatever, the point will be that a small number of vigilantes preserved human knowledge for posterity, and not even a half-second of thought will be given to the "crimes" that were involved in doing so.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-18 21:17:14+00:00
> You should be asking why aren't most books available in a DRM free format?

Because most people don't care! I wish they did, because I'm like you, I do care about owning DRM free media! I buy videos game from GOG wherever possible, and audiobooks from a combination of downpour.com and libro.fm. Guess what most people do? They buy games on Steam and audiobooks on Audible.

Audible is the one that really breaks my heart! Games and movies I understand, because the DRM free sources have such narrow selections, but I can find just about any audiobook I want on either Downpour or libro.fm; every once in a while I'll come across an audible exclusive, but it doesn't happen frequently. And yet, everybody uses Audible!

And, sure, there are known ways to strip Audible DRM, but with DRM free stores so readily accessible, why wouldn't you use those?
by oulipo | 2025-08-18 21:17:22+00:00
I really like VoiceInk!

For the Whispering dev: would it be possible to set "right shift" as a toggle? also do it like VoiceInk which is:

- either short right shift press -> then it starts, and short right shift press again to stop - or "long right shift press" (eg when at pressed at least for 0.5s) -> then it starts and just waits for you to release right shift to stop

it's quite convenient

another really cool stuff would be to have the same "mini-recorder" which pops-up on screen like VoiceInk when you record, and once you're done it would display the current transcript, and any of your "transformation" actions, and let you choose which one (or multiple) you want to apply, each time pasting the result in the clipboard
by taeric | 2025-08-18 21:17:24+00:00
My main caveat here, is that often the person starting a select knows what they want to select before they know where to select it from. To that end, having autocomplete for the sources of columns is far far more useful than autocomplete for columns from a source.

I will also hazard a guess that the total number of columns most people would need autocomplete for are rather limited? Such that you can almost certainly just tab complete for all columns, if that is what you really want/need. The few of us that are working with large databases probably have a set of views that should encompass most of what we would reasonably be able to get from the database in a query.
Show HN: Quick Candidate – College/ new grad job search focused on transparency
by prestonkelly | 2025-08-18 21:17:52+00:00
What are you all running into with your job search? Companies and/or candidates, how can I simplify this process?

Is there something job search platforms aren't doing that you'd love to see? I've added in features to Quick Candidate like sending denial emails to all applicants if the job is "deactivated", users are notified when their resume status changes, candidate limits that are shown to the user once the # of applicants is above a certain threshold. I've added some interesting, to say the least, ideas below of things that users might want.

Examples:

Applying to jobs in batches? Apply to all Software Engineering jobs

Having the ability to book time with the company? Are companies going to dedicate that much, if any time? Probably not, but maybe smaller companies can outline something like Tuesday 12–1pm every week to meet with potential candidates.

Companies must submit a status update before moving to the next candidate?

Pre-approval process before you're able to apply. Fill out your resume on the site; if the job you're trying to apply for doesn't match, you can't apply (or the job won't be shown).
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-18 21:17:53+00:00
AAA games are, largely, quite bad in quality these days. Unfortunately, the desire to make a quality product (from the people who actually make the games) is overruled by the desire to maximize profit (from the people who pay their salaries). Indie games are still great, but I barely even bother to glance at AAA stuff any more.
by scottjg | 2025-08-18 21:18:24+00:00
runway construction is only part of the story, i think. in May, there was a number of complete ATC meltdowns causing ground stops. if you look at the stats, the majority of delays at newark in May are attributed to ATC.

personally, i was on a flight in May from SFO to EWR and my flight flew 2h30m towards Newark, then back to SFO when EWR stopped accepting landings: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/united-flight-that-was...

granted this was an especially egregious situation and not the norm, but it feels like these types of issues are on the rise based on my anecdotal experience. there were a number of full ground stops at newark due to ATC in the weeks after this. it was national news.