MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sippeangelo | 2025-09-29 16:06:26+00:00
Really interesting to get some perspective on how Avalanche worked before I joined the Stockholm tools team, right around as JC4 was being wrapped up. The few peeks I got at the Python editor code gave me nightmares and I was very happy to work in the C++ and Qt version instead.

I think "crunch culture" in gamedev will always be its downfall. Especially in double-A studios that seem to end up with over ambitious projects where with scope creep and lack of direction, the sunk cost ends up too great to steer away from. Either you release what you've got, or throw it all away.
by Wonnk13 | 2025-09-29 16:07:03+00:00
nothing more than a n=1 anecdote, but I'm noticeably more depressed when my wife is in the office and I don't go in to a coworking space and/or do something with my friends after work.

Even as an introvert I can easily see if I didn't have a partner and access to friends and socialization I'd be significantly more likely to kill myself.

Before my mother started joining more retiree clubs I could literally see on her face how much more weathered and haggard she was. The isolation was physically visible on her face.
by andrewla | 2025-09-29 16:07:03+00:00
I think there is at least something of a middle ground for almost-but-not-quite-public spaces and events. In this case the author is talking about airsoft games; it seems totally reasonable for the venue or organizer to enact policies, whether "no cameras allowed" or "purple helmet means don't show / blur this person".

In fully public spaces I think we're pretty much out of luck, though I do think that laser/lidar-based countermeasures should be legal.
by boxed | 2025-09-29 16:07:36+00:00
> for loop

The language matters a lot here too:

> For instance, map and filter typically involve pure functions, which are easier to reason about, and they avoid an entire class of off-by-one iterator bugs.

That's not how "for loops" work in many programming languages! Python being the most obvious, and by some measures the largest programming language of all.
by wolfram74 | 2025-09-29 16:07:46+00:00
I'm juggling a baby approaching lunch time at the moment, so I can't go into too much depth on this paper[0] I found 40 seconds ago, but the conclusion seems to think that solar panel EROIE in siwtzerland is somewhere between 7 and 10, which as a proxy for carbon intensity, /probably/ means it will actually result in net carbon reduction.

[0]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
by arandr0x | 2025-09-29 16:07:54+00:00
Honest question: for women, are there any churches or other religious or spiritual traditions that do not limit them or afford them a second-class status relative to other members? (This can be in terms of church elders/leadership positions or just importance in activities, speeches giving women good role models, etc). For instance Catholic traditions usually provide quite a few female role models (not least Mary) but heavily sideline women in actual church operations, whereas Protestant traditions have more equitable leadership ranks, but don't give as much space to women who are not in leadership. I am not clueful enough to discuss other traditions sadly.
by alerighi | 2025-09-29 16:08:04+00:00
I don't thing Google will enforce this verification as an option that cannot be disabled. Not because they care about open-source, but because there are contexts where Android is used where the device doesn't have an internet connection to contact Google services to verify apps that are installed by whatever deployment method is used. I talk about all the industrial contexts where the devices (terminals that operators use) doesn't connect to the internet but to a local network that is only used to communicate internally with the server the application is using.

By the way, if that is truly implemented and not bypassable using some methods such as some developer option, I think that I will return to running a custom ROM (hoping that they would not start restricting also the possibility to unlock the bootloader, fortunately that is up to the manufacturer and you would still find phones with unlockable bootloader, or just get an older phone).
by jerf | 2025-09-29 16:08:12+00:00
"this is not typically how even a confident, prepared, solid developer approaches coding problems, so they can be poorly prepared for this style of interview. The result is you don't get an accurate representation of the individual."

It may not be how you approach coding problems but it tends to accurately reflect how people program in real life, so I don't think it's all that much of a stretch to ask people to show it in an interview. Nobody gets an assignment to write a scalable, testable, blah blah blah 100 pages of requirements project and just sits down and writes it linearly from start to finish. Everything is incrementally developed.

"it takes an awful lot of the interviewer's time to prepare,"

Perhaps in general, but not for me past the first couple of times. However, that's because I do strongly agree with...

"You need a very strong technical resource to deliver this style of interview"

Yes, definitely.

However I don't believe there's a way around this. I don't believe you can get high-quality results for technical hiring from any possible "interview" you can hand to a non-technical programmer.

Moreover I don't even know why people think this is or should be possible. Other than the popular "I want it therefore it should be possible" argument, which the universe doesn't particularly respect. I wouldn't expect that even armed with a prepared formal interview that I could interview an industrial chemist, oil rig engineer, or a plumber. There still seems to be a certain amount of residual contempt for programming in some circles and that includes the idea that a non-programmer should be expected to be able to interview a programmer at anything more than a super-basic level. No, programming is at this point as technical as any other career out there. It really wasn't 30 years ago, but it is now, where the basic standard for the simplest possible project now encompasses a suite of technologies and competencies just to get started and the complexity goes up from there.

Also, while a senior engineer perhaps shouldn't be doing full time interviewing, interviewing is extremely high value work. It determines the course of the entire team for years at a time. The interviews I did years ago still determine the course of my day-to-day activity. Huge impact.
by dessimus | 2025-09-29 16:08:24+00:00
The graph confused me for a moment, but then realized the graph is showing the winter with SNOW on the ground, not the general case. So in the winter the vertical panels produce more power than tilted panels in very specific conditions and depending on how often that occurs, it may make up for the loss in efficiency during other times of the year. I'm guessing the vertical panels gain some advantage of the sun reflecting off the snow and into the vertical panel that the tilted panels do not, especially when the sun is at low angles to the horizon.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-29 16:08:39+00:00
When I asked, it was based on my use of Arduino IDE where one writes higher level code that then gets compiled into machine code. I had a project where I was using multiple sensors where I could not store each of their responses in memory to write to a log in one shot. Instead, I had to write to the log after reading each sensor directly and releasing the memory at the end of each loop. I was originally hoping to do more analysis with the data onboard the Arduino, but in hindsight, that was a pretty dumb idea. The sensing platform should do just that. Do the analysis in post.
by flipnotyk | 2025-09-29 16:08:51+00:00
Not every church is associated with a large international community. My girlfriend is an avid churchgoer and her church has 46 members I believe. They aren't Catholic and not associated with a broader group. They're called "Primitive Methodist" so I guess there's a broader denominational link to other churches, but they don't get orders from anyplace above them or anything.

It sounds nice to someone like me who doesn't do any organized religious stuff, because the money and things donated there go back to their little community or for maintaining the building and things like that. I see firsthand how that kind of church drastically helps her have a sense of community in an increasingly digital-first world.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-29 16:08:58+00:00
The "AI" slop description of the map mentions:

Heavy lines traverse the map, notably from Iraq (Kirkuk) to the Mediterranean (Tripoli, Haifa) ...

I can see the pipeline from Kirkuk to Tripoli on the map, but the pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa is hallucinated and not on the map. Or perhaps the description is stolen from elsewhere rather than based on the map itself.
by mothballed | 2025-09-29 16:09:15+00:00
By design courts aren't held accountable by the people. Especially federal ones (aware this is a state court here, though).

SCOTUS for instance, who might hear the case, are nominated by government executives, not the people. They have zero incentive to do anything other than to garner favors from the government. That is why you walk away with insane judgements like Wickard v Filburn.

Of course, you could argue the seizure is an 8th amendment violation. Then you would take note you can go to jail for 10 years for not paying a $5 tax for any other weapon as defined by the NFA, and starting next year you can go to jail for a decade for not paying a $0 tax.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-29 16:09:24+00:00
I agree. There has been over-reach, especially between 2005 and 2016. The Robin Hood airport incident is a good example. But I'm not convinced we're sliding into authoritarianism. Or at least, if we are sliding into authoritarianism then it's more likely because of restrictions on protest (e.g. Serious Disruption Prevention Orders) rather than policing of social media.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-29 16:09:45+00:00
I think the issue is "available to the whole world". "Back in the day" people would take photos or even videos (remember camcorders?) and it wasn't a big deal because well, only that person would have it and maybe show it to some friends or family (or give you a copy).

But now it means archived for the whole world to see, potentially forever. 30 years from now, someone might dig it up.

So it's not so much about the photography (which as someone pointed out, might be allowed in public places), it's about posting the photos/videos into a potentially eternal public archive.
by jimkleiber | 2025-09-29 16:09:56+00:00
I think so much of it is our fear of dealing with conflicts and running away. Mindfulness, if it helps us have the courage to talk with people, apologize, forgive, and reconcile relationships with ourselves and others, can probably be super helpful. However, I think a lot of it has us actually move farther away from others, retreating into ourselves and then yeah, if you need someone to take you to the hospital, the relationships aren't there or aren't so immediate to help with that.

I think I feel you and I hope that if something like that were to happen, you would have people willing to offer and give that help and you'd be willing to ask for and receive that help.
by Hilift | 2025-09-29 16:10:04+00:00
Hard to believe Churchill was one of the early developers of that field. Fascinating history.

"In 1913, shortly before World War I, APOC managers negotiated with a new customer, Winston Churchill, who was then First Lord of the Admiralty. Churchill, as a part of a three-year expansion program, sought to modernise Britain's Royal Navy by abandoning the use of coal-fired steamships and adopting oil as fuel..."

"Persian popular opposition to the D'Arcy oil concession and royalty terms whereby Persia only received 16% of net profits was widespread."

"By the end of April 1933, a new agreement was finally forged. The concession area was reduced by three-quarters. Persia was guaranteed a fixed royalty of four shillings per ton, which protected it against fluctuations in oil prices. At the same time, it would receive 20 percent of the company's worldwide profits that were actually distributed to shareholders above a certain minimum sum. In addition, a minimum annual payment of £750,000, irrespective of other developments, was guaranteed."

"Truman and US ambassador to Iran Henry F. Grady opposed intervention in Iran but needed Britain's support for the Korean War."

"BP was incorporated in London in 1954 as a holding company called Iranian Oil Participants Ltd (IOP).[41][42] The founding members of IOP included British Petroleum (40%), Gulf Oil (8%), Royal Dutch Shell (14%), and Compagnie Française des Pétroles (now TotalEnergies SE, 6%). The four Aramco partners — Standard Oil of California (SoCal, later Chevron), Standard Oil of New Jersey (later Exxon), Standard Oil Co. of New York (later Mobil), and Texaco – each held an 8% stake in the holding company.[41][43] In addition, these companies paid Anglo-Iranian about $90 million for their 60 percent share in the consortium, and a further $500 million, paid out of a ten cent per barrel royalty. The Shah signed the agreement on 29 October 1954, and oil flowed from Abadan the next day. Within a few months each of the American companies contributed 1 percent to Iricon, a consortium made up of nine independent American companies, which included Phillips, Richfield, Standard of Ohio, and Ashland."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company
by nashashmi | 2025-09-29 16:11:11+00:00
Gibson Greeting Cards (1982) by Wesray Capital, Bought for $80M (only $1M in equity), sold for $220M within 18 months

Hilton Hotels (2007) by Blackstone Group, Despite the 2008 crisis, refinanced and sold with a $14B profit

Safeway (1986) by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Restructured, sold underperforming stores, returned to profitability

HCA Healthcare (2006) by KKR & Bain Capital, Strong cash flow supported debt; remained stable and profitable

Dell Technologies (2013), Silver Lake Partners, Went private, streamlined operations, and rebounded strongly

RJR Nabisco (1989) by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Iconic LBO; despite controversy, generated $53M profit
by deepsun | 2025-09-29 16:12:08+00:00
Not really, other European countries also have the "don't participate if you don't want to be filmed" mentality.

E.g. author says:

> But then I’ve seen the same at (private) conference

I've been to many such conferences, and they all make it very clear that all the photos can be taken and used in advertising by anyone, both in agreements as well as entrance banners. Same as in US.
by supermatt | 2025-09-29 16:12:23+00:00
I was surprised to find the leaf has actually supported bidirectional charging since its initial release, hence the choice as they are crazy inexpensive.

I’m assuming would need a bit more hardware to coordinate when and how fast it should charge and the feed into the grid, so it wouldn’t try and charge from the grid (only the solar) and it wouldn’t feed more than is permitted into the grid.
by wantering | 2025-09-29 16:12:59+00:00
Features • Supports batch conversion, can process multiple files simultaneously

• Completely processed in browser, protecting your privacy and security

• Supports HEIC/HEIF format conversion (iPhone photo format)

• Supports modern formats: AVIF, WebP and other efficient compression formats

• Adjustable output quality and dimensions

• Shows compression ratio and file size comparison

• Single file maximum support 100MB
by manoDev | 2025-09-29 16:13:03+00:00
I use AI as a pairing buddy who can lookup APIs and algorithms very quickly, or as a very smart text editor that understands refactoring, DRY, etc. but I still decide the architecture and write the tests. Works well for me.

Apparently what the article talks against is using it like software factory - give it a prompt of what you want and when it gets it wrong, iterate on the prompt.

I understand why this can be a waste of time: if programming is a specification problem [1], just shifting from programming language to natural language doesn’t solve it.

1. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-29 16:13:05+00:00
Sturgeon's Law applies to everything. I'd say about 1 in 1000 submitted articles are interesting and far less than that for user posts. If pressed, I'd probably say that the rise of LLM being used to cheat in education, job interviews, and the workplace is probably the most recent thing I learned of value from HN.

I think HN is more useful to me as a way of gauging the zeitgeist of the industry and its workers and as a way of practicing writing in a more formal tone than most online messaging.
by al_borland | 2025-09-29 16:13:15+00:00
Exactly. Many of the statistically more dangerous things are either chronic issues (obesity) or inherently in public (driving). Choking, a heart attack, etc are acute issues happening in private, which is where the fear lies. Some of those acute issues could be made more likely by the chronic issue, but not always. And if the chronic issues are known, a person can proactively get tests to hopefully avoid an acute issue. My dad just had a quadruple bypass, identified as a need based on a proactive calcium scan, rather than waiting for a heart attack.
by ThrownOffGame | 2025-09-29 16:13:32+00:00
You may need to define your terms more precisely.

By “Blighty” are you referring to Great Britain, or a town in NSW, population 326? That seems to be a vast difference!

And I am at a loss to imagine security guards checking invitations at a church door and giving heave-ho to the unworthy. What particular denominations have you polled on this? How many different types of ceremonies have you crashed?
by ryandrake | 2025-09-29 16:14:11+00:00
There can be a halfway solution that helps: A professional software engineering license that signifies an extremely basic, barebones level of skill. Companies would still need to interview candidates, but they wouldn't have to do FizzBuzz or "write a for loop" types of interviews with candidates who literally cannot write code at all. It wouldn't guarantee the person was an expert in inverting binary trees, but it would at least represent a minimal knowledge and skill bar that one would expect any software engineer to meet.
by Jenk | 2025-09-29 16:14:17+00:00
You may be interested in the Glove80[0]. I moved from the Moonlander to it for the very same reason. I have since moved on to a very small form-factor (Pteron36, which has just 36 keys) as I my hands started to tire from reaching for the keys on the perimeter so chopped right down.

Or get the soldering iron out and build one of the many kits available[1]

[0]: https://moergo.com

[1]: https://golem.hu/board/list/low-profile
by doofkoof | 2025-09-29 16:14:38+00:00
I wondered about a situation similar to this for the King of the Hill reboot. Seemingly almost every episode contains exuberant praise for Saudi Arabia. Hank would mention how it felt more America than Texas, and how much he loved Saudi Arabia over and over. I haven't seen any public information about Saudi funding being involved, so maybe this is all baseless.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-29 16:14:40+00:00
Ah, the joys of having a fully split up KDE3 in Gentoo, enabling you to install just the parts you wanted to. So sexy. Sigh...

Regarding Mandriva/Mandrake, I'm remembering that as having the cleanest /etc with just the relevant information in its config files, generated by the installer. And not copy/pasted crap like it was common on Debian, then. PC-LinuxOS took that approach, too. But RPM, nay!

As to learning effect, I'm doubtful.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ would be more appropriate for the foundations.

With Gentoo, you're just learning their abstractions, as flexible as they may be.

Which one could nowadays do in any virtual machine, as time and motivation permits.

Because suspendable on demand. Continue later.

Then trying that thing on real iron, and maybe replacing the virtualization host with it, when it passed the smoke test :-)

Which applies to both, LFS & Gentoo.
by oasisbob | 2025-09-29 16:15:18+00:00
The big giveaways for me are overused idiomatic phrasing, and being unable to progress through a thesis and just circling the same idea over and over.

The "this isn't just a _____, it's a (adjective of magnitude) _____, _____, and ______" form is one of the most egregious I see everywhere.
by 2lup382_ | 2025-09-29 16:15:30+00:00
I just ate bacon

now my fingers are greasy

as i type this

Line 1

5 / 5

i(1) just(1) ate(1) bacon(2)

Line 2

7 / 7

now(1) my(1) fingers(2) are(1) greasy(2)

Line 3

5 / 5

as(1) i(1) type(2) this(1)

I might have greasy fingers but that ain't right
by spoiler | 2025-09-29 16:16:00+00:00
I agree with what you say, but I still think people should push back on this. It shouldn't be convenient for governments to abuse their citizens.

However, a bad actor (depends on how well funded/connected they are) would still have a harder time getting information.

As for the KYC thing, right now it's mostly to ensure you're not funding terrorist/criminal enterprises (at least it was the case for one of my previous companies). The data isn't just readily available to any political party who asks for it (I guess most companies will comply under certain conditions, but the legal friction is the point I think).
by wry_discontent | 2025-09-29 16:16:41+00:00
The only ergo keyboard I've ever enjoyed is the ZSA Voyager.

I tried the Kinesis, the Ergodox, and the Moonlander, but something about them didn't quite suit me. I think they all had similarly oversized thumb clusters, which I found very uncomfortable.

My current setup is the Voyager with homerow mods, which is super comfortable and I manage to mostly avoid typos.

edit: I should also say I'm an avid Emacs user.
by borroka | 2025-09-29 16:16:42+00:00
The comment is fairly condescending, and I don't think it is up to the standards of HN.

Of course, you may like whatever you want, but if you compare Pink Floyd and Zeppelin to the current landscape, I don't think we find an equivalent quality and vision today. And not because current musicians (outside the playback- and autotune-heavy artists of today) are bad, but because of the hanging fruit I was referring to.

Movies today? Books? I am not finding great quality, but it is possible that, compared to others, I have a more refined palate.
by hosh | 2025-09-29 16:16:44+00:00
I think the line of thinking you want to explore has more to do with how we perceive beauty and elegance. That has been the subject of philosophers all over in our recorded history, and I doubt a single article will be able to cover this.

Christopher Alexander studied this deeply for building architecture, and his ideas had influenced many thinkers of software architecture; Alexander asserts that there is a thing to objective beauty. Alexander’s keynote to the OOPSLA conference is worth reading, as is Roy Fielding’s dissertation. The “values” mentioned in this article is organized as “architectural properties” in Fielding’s dissertation.
by scottlamb | 2025-09-29 16:16:49+00:00
I think you're right that TLS doesn't explain the difference shown above, but for completeness: TLS 1.3 can reduce the round trips from 3 to 2 on session resumption. [1] Depending on your Internet connection, that could be a lot more than milliseconds. I don't think `curl` uses it by default though.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/
by ARandumGuy | 2025-09-29 16:16:55+00:00
IIRC Musk wanted to get an LBO, but wasn't able to find anyone willing to loan the money.

Keep in mind that a LBO is actually a good deal for the bank, because if the purchased company goes bankrupt, the bank can recoup their investment by liquidating the company.

However, that only works if there are assets to liquidate. This can include physical assets, valuable IPs, or favorable lease agreements. In other words, anything that someone else would want to purchase.

Twitter, being a website, doesn't have a whole lot of assets they could sell. Which meant that other collateral was required for Musk to secure financing.