MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-13 10:23:42+00:00
I've had multiple proton accounts and can vouch for (pure anecdote of course) two of those working fine despite me forgetting to use them completely for at least four years. So not sure how true what you say is. These are both free accounts btw.

The amount of hate that Proton gets here for the above still ambiguous situation (and in many other comment threads) is bizarre and oddly hive-minded.. The company is far from perfect but compared to the overtly parasitical openly done deep scanning of your email content and utter disregard for any responsiveness to user complaints from any major American tech company's email service, Proton is positively saintly by comparison. Id' suggest growing and regularly watering a bit of perspective.

EDIT: I see a number of comments about Proton's "jankiness" and service unreliability here too. I haven't experienced any of that either on desktop or mobile.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-13 10:24:43+00:00
This is not how nuclear works. Nuclear sets a low price that corresponds to its cost, then lets more expensive marginal energy sources set the final price. Nuclear can by the way be modulated +20%\-20%, which makes it quite flexible in real condition. See https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energ... as a proof - nuclear generation in France can go from 25GW to 45GW during a day.

New small modular reactors promise great improvements, as they can be pre-built in factories, require limited maintenance, lower risk, and as a result much lower cost per MW.

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...
by mcdeltat | 2025-09-13 10:25:33+00:00
There's probably a general positive correlation between knowing a lot of specific algorithms/techniques (i.e. as tested by LC) and being a great developer. HOWEVER I think the scenario of a real world job is far more a subset of that.

Firstly these questions you get like 30 mins to do, which is small compared to the time variance introduced by knowing or not knowing the required algorithm. If you know it you'll be done in like 10 mins with a perfect answer. Whereas if you don't know you could easily spend 30 mins figuring it out and fail. So while on average people passed by LC may be good engineers, in any one scenario it's likely you reject a good engineer because the variance is large. And then it's easy to see why people get upset, because yeah it feels dodgy to be rejected when you happen to not know some obscure algorithm off the top of your head. The process could be fairer.

Secondly, as many say, the actual job is rarely this technical stuff under such time pressure. Knowing algorithms or not means basically nothing when the job is like debugging CI errors for half your day.
by jongjong | 2025-09-13 10:25:37+00:00
My Leetcode ability is unpredictable. I either ace the test or I can't finish it in time. The only way to make outcomes predictable is practice, but I have too much agency and not enough time for that.

Leetcode requires a very different set of skills from software engineering. Software engineering isn't so much about solving puzzles as it is about making good decisions. It's about knowing what's important and knowing where the boundaries are. It's about anticipating problems in their broadest form; creating just the right amount of flexibility and allowing the solution to solidify as your understanding of the problem deepens.
by throw101010 | 2025-09-13 10:26:40+00:00
In a way I see these algorithms as segregstionist, their goal is ultimately to isolate certain groups and perniciously expose them only to the rage inducing bad aspects of the other group(s) to generate more posts/likes/comment.

Segregation applied to public spaces should indeed be banned, when these platforms become so huge, they become a defacto public square that you can hardly avoid effectively without missing a good share of the conversations that need to happen in public for a healthy flow of information, so I would not see an issue with law makers to regulate this... obviously as long as it's applied fairly.

The issue is that currently even platforms that are getting regulate, for even more concerning aspect (national security, undue foreign influence on fair elections) like Tiktok seem to be exempt of the law itself and the US Congress seem unable to get the laws they voted in a bipartisan manner enforced... the only reason I see is that a certain tangerine tinted individual sees it as a tool to control the American discourse in his favor, and thus refuses to enforce the law. So these concerns about healthy public spaces are taking the backseat for now.
by gnatolf | 2025-09-13 10:27:05+00:00
'recyclable' is such a vague term. E.g. radiation-affected typically easily recycled materials are very hard to deal with (think e.g. pipe steel from power plants) and are effectively non-recyclable, instead of close to 100% recyclable, as their non-contaminated counterparts.

Opposed to that, battery recycling is mostly hard to deal with in terms of economics, and admittedly the chemistry involved is complex, but at least from a technical point of view, plenty of solutions are available - and the tech is coming in relatively quickly now that the demand is there (remember, first generation EVs are just now getting closer to EOL).

It's slightly amusing that recycling of a wind turbine is treated as if it was a big deal - yes the laminated rotor parts can't be part of circular economies, but the total material amount of this laughably small. All the metal components are very easily recycled.
by lazide | 2025-09-13 10:27:50+00:00
That is not a UX issue, that is blatant immigration fraud my man.

The reason they are required to readvertise is because the visa they are on is for jobs that cannot be filled by a local, so if the job can actually be filled by a local, that person should lose the visa and have to leave (or find another job that supports them being here).

That isn’t a technicality, except the prior admins allowed it to be.

Does that suck for the person on the visa? Yeah. But guess what, it also sucks for the unemployed locals.

So either the gov’t actively throws locals under the bus, or follows the rules.

When everything is going up and to the right, or no one can see why they’re struggling, it’s easy to gloss over these ‘small details’. But they’re not so small in reality, eh?
by tialaramex | 2025-09-13 10:27:53+00:00
To be clear: Rust does not have linear types. Rust has affine types. An affine Goose can't destroyed more than once. However zero isn't more than one. A linear Goose must be destroyed exactly once. Austral would be an example of a language with linear types.

In C++ if we destroy this Goose twice, probably everything catches on fire, whoops.

In Rust or Austral if we attempt to destroy this Goose twice the code doesn't compile. No executable for you until you stop destroying the Goose twice.

In C++ or Rust if we forget to destroy the Goose, the Goose-destroying code never runs. Hope that wasn't important.

In Austral if we forget to destroy the Goose, the code doesn't compile. No executable for you until you ensure the Goose is destroyed.
by thrance | 2025-09-13 10:29:20+00:00
> Capitalism can both create and break hierarchies.

No, Capitalism can only reinforce hierarchies. Its core tenet is accumulation of capital, and thus power.

> corruption and incompetence are a great way to reach that goal.

Corruption is what happens when the capitalist class gets powerful enough to bend the rules. Incompetence is what happens when they figure out they can put a puppet in place and order him to bend the rules faster for them.
by EForEndeavour | 2025-09-13 10:29:33+00:00
Could you share your source? The USA only became a net exporter of total energy in 2019, ten years after the end of George W Bush's administration, and remains a net importer of crude oil: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-...

The United States has been an annual net exporter of natural gas since 2016, 7 years after the end of George W's administration: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/imports-and-...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-13 10:32:16+00:00
> AI makes you feel 20% more productive but in reality makes you 19% slower. How many more billions are we going to waste on this?

Adderall is similar. It makes people feel a lot more productive, but research on its effectiveness[0] seems to show that, at best, we get only a mild improvement in productivity, and marked deterioration of cognitive abilities.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6165228/
by Eikon | 2025-09-13 10:32:33+00:00
Even though I don’t buy that LLMs are going to replace developers and quite agree with what is said, this is more of a critique of LLMs as English-to-code translators. LLMs are very useful for many other things.

Researching concepts, for one, has become so much easier, especially for things where you don’t know anything yet and would have a hard time to even formulate a search engine query.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-13 10:32:47+00:00
How does this compare to employment bonds of today?

At least I know of likes of Infy, TCS etc doing this (in the home country) — making freshers sign bonds for 2-3 years and if you want to leave within that period the only way is to pay a good amount irrespective of whether you didn’t receive a salary raise or didn’t get the opportunities which were good good for you. If you don’t pay the bond — they won’t usually drag you to a court (they send legal notices for sure) but they will also not issue you an experience certificate.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-13 10:32:57+00:00
The statistics are low because many places banned cyclists from sidewalks? Purely speed-wise, being hit by a car at 50kmh while riding a bike at 25kmh is similar to being hit by a cyclist going at 25kmh while being static on a sidewalk. Why are cyclists concerned about cars but I should just think "trust the stats bro" when the 5th cyclist going at full speed came past me on a narrow sidewalk? France banned shared e-scooters after many scathing accidents, including deaths and people being crippled. I remember a professional pianist who get her hand broken this way and had to stop her career.[0]

But I guess she's just a statistic, right? Pedestrians, out of the way!

[0] https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/blessee-par-une-trottinett...
by jijijijij | 2025-09-13 10:33:34+00:00
Well, I've been there. I've seen/heard why someone would have been detained. Although, of course, it didn't happen right next to me, but there were plenty of slogans and shouts completely unrelated to the current genocide, calling for the dissolution of the state of Israel.

See, I don't want to justify the police action. They are assholes. But, for "solidarity" with queer causes, I'd expect people maybe not to push every button, so they can paint themselves as the suppressed of the suppressed, effectively making queer voices unheard.
by ukblewis | 2025-09-13 10:33:42+00:00
I would have thought the solution to drought and water shortages would be to desalinate and reduce water wasted in order to fix the problem. Using a “mix of technologies” is ignoring the problem and trying to work around it instead of fixing it. And given that clearly having extra capacity that you don’t need at any given point in time just in case things go wrong is likely extremely expensive, I don’t really see the incentive. Frankly, even a really simple stupid question: what do you do with solar and/or wind power when it is dark and/or not windy? In other words, those solutions would still not be sufficient to replace nuclear during heat and drought, instead, you would need storage, which could store power from any source, but fixing the root causes of issues with nuclear power would seem more rational to me
by thepryz | 2025-09-13 10:34:18+00:00
Modern political commentators and influencers are strategic about who they will engage with and how they engage.

You can see this with Ben Shapiro when he walked out of an interview with conservative BBC host, Andrew Neil. Shapiro was unprepared for a real challenge and his go-to of speaking fast, gish galloping, and calling out the “radical left views” of his opponent didn’t work because the host was a conservative.

https://youtu.be/6VixqvOcK8E?si=GX9TcG7gOgUQH3Bo

If you want a someone who would be an effective counter, look to Mehdi Hasan of Zeteo.
by KoolKat23 | 2025-09-13 10:34:42+00:00
I guess the main thing should be, there should be a lot more transparency with this whole thing. We should know who is behind it and vote them out.

This whole Commission Grouping thing is smoke and mirrors, there are representatives of our governments facilitating this, we should know who they are, they should not be able to just stay anonymous. It should all be public when a vote is taken.

It's ripe for abuse such as corruption, they've been forced them to open up a bit but it's clearly not enough.

Usually it's the representatives themselves that propose laws (the ones we directly vote for). The commission could be viewed as a sort of potential trojan horse, in that it can make these proposals and yet it's inner workings are not fully transparent. With it's usual "government" work secrecy can be a good thing (trade negotiations etc.), when it comes to it drafting laws that should be transparent. Perhaps they should even look at splitting these things out but that also has a host of issues.
by martini333 | 2025-09-13 10:35:09+00:00
I agree.

I use LLM to do things like brainstorm, explaining programming concepts and debug. I will not use it to write code. The output is not good enough, and I feel dumber.

I only see the worst of my programming collegues coding with AI. And the results are actual trash. They have no actual understanding of the code "they" are writing, and they have no idea how to actually debug what "they" made, if LLM is not helpful. I can smell the technical debt.
by xg15 | 2025-09-13 10:35:10+00:00
OK, but this doesn't really answer the question. If setTimeout() could be abused by creating a busy loop, why couldn't the same be done with postTask()?

Or in other words, why is the "protect web devs from themselves" camp ok with only "securing" one API but not the other?

As for "put up interventions to nudge devs to use the right APIs": What ever happened to "paving the cowpaths"? Wasn't that the big idea in WHATWG circles originally? So if web devs are familiar with setTimeout() and tend to use it for all kinds of things, why not improve that API instead of trying to coax devs into using a new one?
by atoav | 2025-09-13 10:35:24+00:00
I think there is something to be said about the value of the amateur. About not treating everything as a entrepreneurial side project where everything is sacrificed to the financial gods and you make the same choices as everybody else, because everything else would be a risk. Amateurs do things for the heck of it. They don't need it to be polished, they just love what they are doing and want to share that love. If you ever thought about doing anything, a blog, a band, a podcast, a youtube channel, a forum, a new type of thing for which a name has to be found: Do now, think about polish later (if at all).

Places like forums are great, but I don't even think it is strictly necessary need to make one (unless there is a niché that you care for which hasn't been covered). Maybe it is already enough to pick one that exists and to actively participate in it. I remember reading threads where I went like: "Man, these people are really, really into that topic, this is great!"
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-13 10:35:49+00:00
I like how Math Academy does it:

- each lesson or review or quiz has a target number of XP

- if you do it perfectly, you get the target XP plus 2

- if you do it almost perfectly, you get the target XP

- if you do poorly, you get fewer XP, and can even get negative XP

This last eliminates any incentive to guess or rush (at least in the cases I've directly observed).
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-13 10:35:52+00:00
Half the American tech landscape is either running toward Trumps bed or bending right down and making all the right mating signals in hopes of some interest, but a few pro-republican comments from the Proton CEO should be held as immediately and deeply suspect of this company being a honeypot?

People of all kinds can say certain positive things about the Republican Party for different reasons in specific contexts and not be fanatics you know. That's how using actual reasoning and nuanced discourse works in the world of not throwing your brain in the garbage through ideological rigidity.
by jongjong | 2025-09-13 10:36:50+00:00
TBH I think the time it takes the agent to code is best spent thinking about the problem. This is where I see the real value of LLMs. They can free you up to think more about architecture and high level concepts.

Fast decision-making is terrible for software development. You can't make good decisions unless you have a complete understanding of all reasonable alternatives. There's no way that someone who is juggling 4 LLMs at the same time has the capacity to consider all reasonable alternatives when they make technical decisions.

IMO, considering all reasonable alternatives (and especially identifying the optimal approach) is a creative process, not a calculation. Creative processes cannot be rushed. People who rush into technical decisions tend to go for naive solutions; they don't give themselves the space to have real lightbulb moments.

Deep focus is good but great ideas arise out of synthesis. When I feel like I finally understand a problem deeply, I like to sleep on it.

One of my greatest pleasures is going to bed with a problem running through my head and then waking up with a simple, creative solution which saves you a ton of work.

I hate work. Work sucks. I try to minimize the amount of time I spend working; the best way to achieve that is by staring into space.

I've solved complex problems in a few days with a couple of thousand lines of code which took some other developers, more intelligent than myself, months and 20K+ lines of code to solve.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-13 10:37:10+00:00
How do we resolve the observable tension here with the fact that self-driving cars are operating right now, relatively successfully, in ten or so major American cities?

Not a billion dollar business yet, maybe, but 300 cars generating five or six figures revenue per year each isn't far off.

(And I say this as someone who is skeptical that totally autonomous cars worldwide will ever be a thing, but you can get to £10Bn far, far before that point. Become the dominant mode of transport in just ONE major American city and you're most of the way there).
by close04 | 2025-09-13 10:37:32+00:00
The average Chinese who’s seen China progress by leaps and bounds continuously over the past 40 years probably wants this to keep up. So why change something that’s working?

It only sucks for the people who oppose the ruling party, the dissidents, which is true under any authoritarian government. But most people just go along, this is why such governments can exist. If you grew up barely able to afford a bike and now can afford to drive modern EVs through your modern city, it’s hard to argue the appeal of having it even better.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-13 10:37:39+00:00
I’m quite sure that there’s a ton more research on it. The drug’s been around for decades. Lots of time for plenty of studies.

If legitimate research had found it to be drastically better, that study would definitely have been published in a big way.

Unscientifically, I personally know quite a number of folks that sincerely believed that they couldn’t function without it, but have since learned that they do far better on their own. I haven’t met a single one that actually had their productivity decline (after an adjustment period, of course), after giving up Adderall. In fact, I know several, that have had their careers really take off, after giving it up.
by flomo | 2025-09-13 10:37:41+00:00
Just curious exactly what neighborhood and how long did you live there? (duboce triangle, a long time)

I know a bunch of people who live/d out there, they take muni downtown but mostly have a car. Perhaps you could regal in tales of your car-free lifestyle in the Sunset, but i'm not seeing it. Weiner wants condos out there and he does not give a shit about your bus ride.
by ur-whale | 2025-09-13 10:38:00+00:00
I agree that most natural languages are a very poor tool to write code specification in.

Specifically, natural language is:

- ambiguous (LLMs solve this to a certain extent) - extremely verbose - doesn't lend itself well to refactoring - the same thing can be expressed in way too many different ways, which leads to instability in specs -> code -> specs -> code -> specs loops (and these are essential to do incremental work)

Having something at our disposal that you can write code specs in, that is as easy as natural language yet, more concise, easy to learn and most of all not so anal/rigid as typical code languages are would be fantastic.

Maybe LLMs can be sued to design such a thing ?
by demirbey05 | 2025-09-13 10:39:44+00:00
I started fully coding with Claude Code. It's not just vibe coding, but rather AI-assisted coding. I've noticed there's a considerable decrease in my understanding of the whole codebase, even though I'm the only one who has been coding this codebase for 2 years. I'm struggling to answer my colleagues' questions.

I am not defending we should drop AI, but we should really measure its effects and take actions accordingly. It's more than just getting more productivity.
by AstralStorm | 2025-09-13 10:39:51+00:00
But a system with a perfect memory and sufficient search space would be great at it. This is precisely where the stochastic database, even a huge Markov model would work great.

Only the hard wordplays maybe would pose a problem, and statistically you can only go so hard on these before human players start lagging too.

Remembering a ton of facts is something the computer would be excellent at...
by metalman | 2025-09-13 10:40:13+00:00
right, been glancing at this thread, and what occured to me is that blue light from LED's having a bleaching effect, specificly on yellow(cebum) organic compounds, then implys that it's not just(famously) hard on our eyes, it's frying them, and possibly worse. I certainly mind a brite screen, and keep it at the minimum level, except when in sunlight or useing my phone to show family and customers things. There are other effects to mass use of high powere LED's, where seagulls are flying around in downtown Halifax, NS in.the middle of the night, which I see now, but never happened with the old mercury vapour street lighting, which was it's own kind of wierd, in that it's bright yellow light from a distance, but makes everything under them monocromatic.IE: something in.the LED light wakes birds up.
by sillyfluke | 2025-09-13 10:40:40+00:00
Glad you're counting decades now. Spain was fascist until 1975 against the will of its people by being propped up by the US/West because of the Cold War. The party that the fascists stamped out in the 30s is the party that is government now. You're arguing in bad faith by trying to connect their current stance on Israel to a dictatorship they didn't elect or choose half a century ago. Greece had a military dictatorship til 1974 and East Germany was ruled by the Soviet Union till 1989.

Israel is not synonymous with Jews no matter how much you wish it to be so.

>PM gives a speech and laments that too bad they don't have nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have nuked Israel

The exact quote is:

"Spain does not have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers or large oil reserves. We alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn't mean we are going to stop trying."

He is claiming that in order to be able stop an ethnofascist state that itself has nukes and is committing war crimes in real time, a country would have to be a global superpower. And since Spain is not a global superpower, Spain "alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive".