MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-09-21 19:33:06+00:00
Plenty of commenters have been making that case in plenty of threads on this site.

p.s. Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by dan-robertson | 2025-09-21 19:33:25+00:00
I’m not sure that’s true. It’s true in the sense of being around where the mode is for the distribution of incomes over 100k, but people (I know) tend to not like boasting about money, either out of humility or some expectation that they might be taken advantage of for revealing a high income, so they may be happy to understate it. I don’t think 100k is elite enough anymore (most programmers in the US, managers at some fast food stores, etc) for the difference between 100k and 500+ be an insignificantly polite downgrade.
by encelo | 2025-09-21 19:33:30+00:00
I've just published the Dev Update 22 of my open-source cross platform 2D engine, covering progress from January to August 2025.

Some of the highlights:

- Introspective Sort: Render queues can now be safely sorted with thousands of commands, thanks to this hybrid algorithm that uses quicksort, heapsort, and insertion sort.

- Wet Paper: I have polished the Global Game Jam 2025 game with menus, shaders, crossfades, and joystick vibration. It also inspired new engine improvements like easier input detection.

- Job System: The multi-threaded job system is now stabilized, with user semaphores for worker synchronization and a topology-aware thread pinning strategy.

- Crashpad Integration: Support for this modern and cross-platform crash reporting solution has been added, together with easy debug info extraction.

- Array Class Improvements: Fixed a subtle insertion bug and enabled storing of non-copyable/non-movable objects with new tag-dispatching logic.

- Quality-of-Life Updates: Run-time environment variables for configuration, minor engine fixes, and updated CI runners.
by j45 | 2025-09-21 19:33:36+00:00
Because it's early.

Seniors can figure out how to make it work and help set it up for juniors.

Traditionally in tech there has been an age bias against experience over time and maybe that's balancing out and both juniors and seniors will learn and have things to contribute in their own way.

My key advice to juniors: play and build constantly. Try out anything that interests you and follow along on youtube. This is how a lot of seniors are able to show they're quite flexible in their thinking and learning and it's not about one tech, or language, or framework or following what others do.

Juniors already have transferrable skills, will have way more, and can learn even faster if they want to partner with seniors, who generally would love to have more people to go put a dent in things.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-09-21 19:33:40+00:00
I think the significance of the Epistola Posterior only really emerged decades after it was written, when the bitter Newton–Leibniz priority controversy erupted. It served as Newton’s key evidence, by revealing that he had the main ideas well before Leibniz’s first publications (1684). The letter bolstered the Royal Society’s eventual judgment favoring Newton’s independent discovery.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-21 19:33:56+00:00
Oh come on. Plenty of us here never had any form of direct mentorship at work or otherwise. It's not unusual when you pick up the trade as a hobby in your teens, and in terms of programming and technical skills (which is what we're discussing here), you stopped being a junior before getting your first job.

Myself, I learned from many folks on IRC and ol' phpBB boards, and I helped others on IRC and said phpBB boards in return; almost all of that was before graduating. That, and books, lots of books, and even more time spent just reading code online and writing my own. None of that hardly qualifies as "mentoring".
by jopicornell | 2025-09-21 19:33:57+00:00
That makes LaLiga look as if they were the victims, but they are not. They don't want to notify Cloudflare nor have done it any time since they started blocking it. LaLiga says that this blockings affects "hundreds" of people, and that they a rightful by doing that. Truth is, they are abusing their power and the spanish legal system to do whatever they want, as usual.

Cloudflare is not ignoring LaLiga and they are open to collaborate, but LaLiga refuses to do so, and are battling legally over it.
by RobRivera | 2025-09-21 19:33:59+00:00
I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention.

Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.
by oofbey | 2025-09-21 19:34:40+00:00
Language constantly evolves. So it’s a little unfair to say anybody is trying to change a definition. In specific professional contexts, definitions are necessarily much more precise. Because in these contexts definitions have consequences. But in general dialogue being pedantic and sticking to a strict definition generally just makes you an ass.

In psychiatry trauma has long been defined much more narrowly than just acute stress. Specifically exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence. So not just any acute stress but stress associated with real life violence. That’s the DSM definition of trauma for PTSD and you’ll sometimes find nitpicky professionals sticking to this narrow definition. But it’s not how most people use the word.
by EasyMark | 2025-09-21 19:34:45+00:00
>In the US we have this thing called free speech

that expression is carrying a lot of water these days. Although libel laws in England are pretty tyrannical in a different way than the current rise of fascism and attempts to use government to hush dissent against the Trump regime . The current FCC chairman and Pam Bondi are trying to silence critics of Trump, VP is saying that trans people speaking out should be committed to insane asylums
by gljiva | 2025-09-21 19:34:51+00:00
On the contrary: terrorism is the way to make the west make a symbolic political gesture AGAINST you.

Their terrorism looks a bit less barbaric than what Hamas did, but the scale on which it's perpetrated is much larger and the dead babies don't care how it looked when they died.

Hamas barbaric terrorist attack shouldn't give carte blanche for an even worse response
by malfist | 2025-09-21 19:34:55+00:00
> This is a simple misunderstanding/semantic issue. We aren't trying to misrepresent anything, we (and some others in the research community) interpret parametric as "being composed of primitives with parameters". We have an internal representation we don't expose to users, and we convert that to a B-Rep STEP file which we do expose.

No officer I wasn't speeding, I have an internal definition of velocity that you don't have access too and it doesn't say I was speeding
by spott | 2025-09-21 19:35:17+00:00
Edge geometry only matters after the initial cut. BESS measures how much force it takes for the knife to cut a calibrated thread.

Carbide size maybe? But mostly I think it changes toothiness (so slicing, not push cutting). Also, I think that affects how hard or easy it is to get a given edge, but not how good the edge (as measured by BESS) can actually be.
by zarzavat | 2025-09-21 19:35:24+00:00
After having used Claude for a couple of months it's really nowhere close.

We are at the level of the original Waymo cars where they had to have a person behind the wheel ready to take the controls, just in case it inexplicably decided to drive off a bridge.

As Claude's safety driver I have to intervene in perhaps 25-50% of tasks. Some days I don't even open Claude because I'm working on a part of the codebase that has to be just so and I know Claude would mess it up.

The moat is real. I don't have any illusions that one day Claude will catch up but that's at least 5 years away.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-21 19:35:32+00:00
Except this violence will absolutely be preceded extensive operations by the giant existing police and national guard presence that knows the neighborhoods like the backs of their hand. They would put a giant dent in that well before a single shot was fired. Would that absolutely be the case if we invaded, say, Canada? Quite likely. The US government has so much existing control on US soil that I'd eat my hat if any US city lasted a week in active conflict.
by throw10920 | 2025-09-21 19:35:45+00:00
> Not every idea is worthy of rational and moral consideration

Sure they are. If you can't justify your beliefs (or rejection of other beliefs) rationally from some set of principles or axoims, you can't claim that they're valid or that anyone else should abide by (or even respect) them.

Maybe the premises are something that you or others disagree with (e.g. to take one that we probably both disagree with: human value is predicated on intelligence), but if you can't argue from some set of premises, your beliefs are meaningless and invalid (and, almost always, inconsistent and hypocritical).

> sometimes it is not weakness to reject even a proposition, simply humanity and a recognition of the underlying motive

Can you read minds to discern motives? If not, then this is a false assertion.
by dyauspitr | 2025-09-21 19:36:05+00:00
If this is a guy and he says things like a platonic snuggling with a lesbian made him feel good, then it’s an automatic disqualification. I can’t look up to this person. Being staunchly leftist, as a man, I hate this and the exact opposite of what I want a man to represent. You can ask any follow up questions you want but the baseline assumption is someone that acts like this is an automatic, baseline, fundamental opposite of a role model.

We desperately need a centrist party that is contemporarily “sexist” to pull men back from the brink. Honestly, thought most feminists are going to recoil from this paradigm, this is way better than the alternative where we essentially lose the men (of all races) to the far right void.
by cma | 2025-09-21 19:36:40+00:00
It may not be binding, without a treaty ratified by Congress, like the Iran nuclear deal under Obama, but which parts are illegal?

If only the non-binding is the issue, I believe the supreme court has in the past few decades ruled treaties ratified by congress aren't binding either despite what the constitution says and that congress can undo them by not implementing them or something.
by crawfordcomeaux | 2025-09-21 19:36:48+00:00
The idea that you can draw a line between stress and trauma is an attempt to generalize something experienced on a personal level.

That's not how to handle any complex system with accuracy and effectiveness.

Therapy doesn't address systemic oppression, which does lead to more incidents resulting in PTSD & is a generator of CPTSD (which isn't just for edge cases, but for recurrent stressor that don't allow the body time to recover from past events).

Western therapy is failing. The therapists attending to what's going on are speaking out and some are abandoning their practices because they realize they've been co-opted in systemic harm.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-21 19:36:48+00:00
Having looked at the paper, I don't much like their testing methodology: calorimetry is really hard (a general theme of cold-fusion 'research'), and they don't really seem to have calibrated their test setup, just calculated a theoretical value. This makes me highly skeptical of claims of COP, which can be highly sensitive to small differences in heat flows.
by munificent | 2025-09-21 19:37:24+00:00
A trick I learned a few years ago that has made writing like this and the entire web much more useful to me is this: Instead of asking myself "is this piece overall correct?", I ask myself "what can I take away from this piece that is useful to me?" Instead of striving to come to some sort of overall conclusion about a written work, I just treat it as a potential source of nuggets that I can choose to keep and use.

Do I agree with the overall premise that capitalism is an unbridled source of trauma and that a pre-capitalistic world was better? No, that's obviously silly leftist absolutism. Yes, being forced to work in a coal mine is traumatic. But watching your kid die of starvation because you don't have fertilizer is too. So what? No one cares what conclusion I come to about the author's worldview.

What I think this article does a good job of is pointing out that our modern physical and cultural environment, which is largely a product of capitalism, is structured in a way that creates new traumas that we aren't well-equipped to deal with.

I think of widespread psychological drug use as a social warning light, flashing to tell us that we aren't living right in some way. That doesn't mean we should throw out the entire capitalist baby with the bathwater. But if you don't think something is seriously off about the world today, maybe this article that help open your eyes to that.
by gausswho | 2025-09-21 19:37:33+00:00
Since LaLiga has no qualms with blocking Cloudflare IP's that could be used for emergency services. A cautionary tale:

In 2025, Optus suffered a network outage that prevented emergency calls (triple-0 in Australia) for nearly 14 hours. During this period, four people died, including an eight-week-old baby. The outage was reportedly caused by a botched firewall upgrade that affected up to 600 households in South Australia alone.

https://7news.com.au/news/optus-deaths-firewall-upgrade-repo...
by juliansimioni | 2025-09-21 19:37:50+00:00
I think it's more than unwilling, we're straight up unable. Not in principle, but because it's a coordination problem.

Think of how many parents now want their kids not to have a smartphone or social media. There's genuine, well researched evidence that this would be good. But there's also real harm to kids who see all their friends with iPhones and Instagram. It might sound silly to us but it's definitely real feeling to the kids.

A lot of the parents who let their kids use smartphones and social media probably could be easily convinced that it's a bad idea, they just don't know. Or they don't know how bad it is, and so something else, like displaying status via a nice phone, they value more highly.

But until we can reach critical mass, and fight the (not insignificant, and quite intentional) momentum to use social media, it will be hard.
by hilios | 2025-09-21 19:37:59+00:00
>France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. Here’s how they did it, and how the world can follow their lead today.

Today France takes more than a decade to build a single reactor (Flamanville 3) and the debts incurred nationalizing EDF, are now causing serious concerns about the whole nation defaulting. As clean and safe as nuclear power might be, I think the world will be fine not following that example.
by yorwba | 2025-09-21 19:38:03+00:00
The ramp up feels rather slow. For 3000 words, a binary search should take less than 12 steps to find the right level. Maybe it's because you add 5 new words each time, turning those 12 steps into 60 words instead?

Also, I'm confused that you say you would need a bigger corpus for more words, since your readme says that you use the OpenSubtitles data from OPUS. Their 2024 release has tens of millions of sentences for each language, which surely should be enough for tens of thousands of unique words?
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-21 19:38:20+00:00
>In this case, the Detours code used by DXGI is unable to support the current PAC-enabled function prologues in the current version of Windows 11 ARM64

Surely microsoft could avoid patching this on arm in the first place though right? As in whatever gating they use should make sure it’s not on arm.
by somethingreen | 2025-09-21 19:38:28+00:00
AI was supposed to replace juniors and then climb up the ladder with each new release, eventually leaving any work only for the creme of the crop. Which would make the current generation of software engineers the last, but who cares - stocks go up.

Now apparently we've switched to pairing poor kids with an agreeable digital moron that reads and types real fast and expecting them to somehow get good at the job. Stocks still go up, so I guess we'll be doing this for a while.
by pron | 2025-09-21 19:38:42+00:00
> hardly questionable its adoption in the industry at scale.

Really? It's heavily marketed, yet after 10+ years it's struggling to achieve even a 2% market penetration. I mean, I don't think anyone sees it as the next Fortran, C, C++, Java, Python, JS, TS, C#, Ruby, or PHP, but even Go's adoption is much higher. The numbers still look more "let's give it a shot" than "this is the future", and at its rather advanced age, that looks questionable to me. Successful technological products, even programming languages, are usually adopted much more quickly.

> Naturally someone might prove me wrong by releasing that one framework or product that makes writing Zig code unavoidable.

I have no idea if Zig will ever become successful. I mean, if Rust is struggling so badly despite the head start and hype, I don't think the chances are great. It's just that as someone who still does quite a bit of low-level programming every now and again, I find Zig a truly innovative and interesting language. I wouldn't bet on it, or on Rust for that matter, from a pure, disinterested, market numbers or historical trends point of view.
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-21 19:38:51+00:00
Once again, the minor concern and discussion of trans participation in sports is a wedge issue used largely by conservatives to rile up people and keep them from voting for liberal parties (in the US). This is undeniable IMO. Perhaps it is a liberal failure to discuss the sports issue more, since doing so would disarm the disingenuousness of the "I only care about sports" excuse of conservatives.
by EasyMark | 2025-09-21 19:40:08+00:00
Disney can fire people anytime they like if that person isn't meeting company/contractual obligations. What is illegal and that doesn't seem to matter to the current regime is that the FCC chair is saying that major media outlets better watch their step if he (read Trump) doesn't like what they're saying, or they will lose their licenses (implied). Similar things are going on with Pam Bondi going after critics of Trump rather than doing her sworn duty of following the law and upholding the Constitution.
by analog31 | 2025-09-21 19:40:12+00:00
Heat loss due to resistive heating of the thermoelectric elements is a factor.

I do some work using TECs for cooling optical sensors. Most of the industry has settled on a very small range of materials, such as BiTe, meaning that we're probably at a plateau until a more efficient material comes along. Some of my applications are battery powered, and cooling consumes a fair portion of the total power budget, so a more efficient cooler would be welcome.

Also, TECs are mechanically delicate. There's a laundry list of needs such as being able to form the material into the desired shapes, and make a good mechanical and electrical connection to it, which is usually done with some kind of low melting solder.
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by mamunaso | 2025-09-21 19:40:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a simple "AI Story Generator app" to help users create stories, books, novels, or short creative writing pieces with the help of AI.

Features: - AI-powered story generation - Choose genres like fantasy, horror, romance, or sci-fi - Generate stories based on custom prompts - Export and share easily

Why I built it: I noticed many people (especially casual writers and students) struggle with writer’s block or just want to play with creative storytelling. This app tries to make that easier and more fun.

I’d love feedback from the HN community: - Which features would make an AI story app more valuable for you? - Any suggestions for improving the user experience? - Would you prefer more control (plot structure, characters) or more
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-21 19:40:28+00:00
Trading $10K of 150K means you really need to earn $13k - $15K pre tax. That’s most of our travel budget that’s not offset by rental income (see below).

For grocery shopping, if I actually did work outside of the home, it would be a simple matter of using Instacart and drive up to the grocery store after work to pick up the groceries. Occasionally, if I’m out, my wife will order groceries and I will swing by and pick them up.

Meal prep? Before we moved, we had a friend who was a professional chef and we would occasionally pay her to do meal prep. I’m sure we could find someone here.

Housecleaning? There are plenty of services you can call.

The only other errands I run on a regular basis are haircuts, manicures and pedicures (something that. Lot of men don’t do) and doctors appointments.

Funny enough though, I live in a unit of a condotel that we own (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp).

It is a 2/2 with a full kitchen, living room and washer dryer, everything came with it. We pay $800 a month for the HOA that covers everything - electric, water, minor maintenance, internet, part of the insurance, someone comes in every other day to change the trash.

When we decide to leave for an extended period of time, the property management company rents it out and we get half the income - we just pack up our stuff in suitcases.

When we are here, we can schedule a full cleaning for $80.

My wife hasn’t worked since 2020 - I “retired her”. She has her passion projects that keeps her busy and brings in some pocket money for her. But it does help when it comes to things like going to get the car fixed, following up with various things, doing some of the arrangements for our crazy traveling schedule etc. and she does 100% of the cooking which we don’t do that much.
by patanegra | 2025-09-21 19:41:14+00:00
When you are a talented child born into a bad family, your success is to go from £1 to £10M.

If you are a talented child born to a millionaire, your success is to go from £10M to £1bn.

If you are a dumb child born to a millionaire, you go from £10M to £1.

You probably assume that people with the same skills should have the same absolute outcomes. I don't. There shouldn't be glass ceilings for talented ones, so a son of a carpenter has a right to become a billionaire, or earn a Nobel Prize in science, or apply his talents in any field. But I don't think there exists any socioeconomic system that would deliver more equitable results and had more pros than cons, especially compared to the current system.