MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by veber-alex | 2025-09-03 19:13:42+00:00
To continue with your metaphor what he did is basically say "My salary is great because I make more than that other guy". That doesn't mean anything.

The comparison to Rust is meaningless.

Each project has different demands and requirements from their infrastructure.

For example, Rust compiles all open-source crates on a regular basis to test for regressions.

You can't just point to Rust and say, "Look at that guy."

If you want to justify the expenses of your infrastructure you need to explain where the money goes.
by singh09_a | 2025-09-03 19:13:42+00:00
Location: Punjab, India

Remote: ok

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Solidity, Hardhat, Foundry, NextJS, ReactJS, Node.Js, Docker, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Python, AWS

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CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MQ5K3d2rV-IMlK2QdWki-U8ZkdE...
by leopoldj | 2025-09-03 19:15:02+00:00
There are two independent issues that bear discussion.

1. Should we be mandated to do something that while a good thing appears to infringe on personal freedom. Such as, mandate good diet, exercise, vaccine etc. People here have made very good points about why sometimes we have to forgo certain freedoms for the greater good. At the same time, we should not forget how some countries take this too far and become nanny states.

2. Are the Florida officials spreading misinformation and fear against vaccinations? Some of Dr. Ladapo's recommendations can certainly be viewed that way.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-03 19:15:20+00:00
The most noteworthy thing about it is that Tesla is conducting an experiment in building an AI marketing department. The presentation is slick in a pabulum kind of way. I've seen comments that it looks like AI slop. I think part of the master plan is replacing an increasingly restive gang of influencers with AI slop. Cheaper and even less concerned with its own credibility.
by exitb | 2025-09-03 19:16:05+00:00
"".join(map(lambda n: chr((n & 0o77) + 64), reversed([0o241, 0o124, 0o106, 0o217, 0o23, 0o217, 0o122, 0o103, 0o211, 0o315])))

This python one-liner roughly recovers the hidden string out of defined bytes.
by toast0 | 2025-09-03 19:16:17+00:00
> If you don't want people to pirate your music, your only path of recourse as a musician is to stop uploading digital copies of your work.

People have been recording concerts for decades. Often with a bit of help from the sound crew, which can probably be discouraged by musicians with enough influence, but if the only allowed way to hear a song is to attend a concert, lots of people would rather have a recording that a fan made and distributed.
by krig | 2025-09-03 19:16:22+00:00
Is that really the whole reason for this grudge? He gave you a bunch of comments to work from! I was expecting a lot less from your description.

I don't find it too hard to figure out what he meant - he doesn't want to you change the case style of procedure calls, but he _does_ want you to remove redundant namespacing as in the CURL prefix.

Maybe you could have looked at some other vendored libraries to see how they handled things like constant naming and other formatting?
by ksherlock | 2025-09-03 19:16:30+00:00
While the bullshit generator might think it's "Compatible with period assemblers for 6502 development", that's a weird-ass cross assembler. For my money, a commented disassembly like https://6502disassembly.com/a2-rom/Applesoft.html using a more standard assembler is easier to read. It's interesting to compare the two though.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-03 19:16:36+00:00
Can a bat answer the question of “what is it like to be a bat?” I mean, I guess they would have to be able to comprehend the idea of being, and then the idea that things might experience things in ways other than how they do. Bats don’t seem like very abstract thinkers.

I bet if we could communicate with crows, we might be able to make some progress. They seem cleverer.

Although, I’m not sure I could answer the question for “a human.”
by adityaathalye | 2025-09-03 19:16:43+00:00
The XTDB people did a bunch of interviews with people doing stuff in the temporal data systems universe.

Several are out on YouTube. One with Richard Snodgrass is yet to be published... waiting for that eagerly!

ref. topics and links to videos: https://github.com/orgs/xtdb/discussions/4419

"Decades in the making: Bitemporality in SQL, with Rob Squire" "As-Of joins and database architecture, with Arjun Narayan (co-founded Materialize)" "Building an identity service on XTDB, with Andrew Maddock (Foundry OS)" "Solving FinTech pains with Suresh Nageswaran (Senior Director, Grid Dynamics)" "A meeting with the one and only Richard T. Snodgrass." "Building a payments integration system on XTDB, with Edward Hughes"
by Lnerenbergdev | 2025-09-03 19:17:07+00:00
Location: Denver, USA

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I’m Lawson, a full-stack ML engineer with 4+ years of experience developing, testing and scaling LLM-driven systems into production. At PicnicHealth I developed infrastructure and owned fine-tuning cycles for LLMD, our large language model for structuring longitudinal medical records (https://arxiv.org/html/2410.12860v1), while also shipping patient-facing apps and on-call supporting microservice infra. Earlier projects include fine-tuning GPT-2 for CAD generation (openAI early adopter) and leading NASA-funded student engineering teams.

I'm looking for roles which will leverage my passion for understanding the relationship between data in and behavior out.
by brudgers | 2025-09-03 19:17:09+00:00
Congratulations on writing a book and getting it out in the world.

1. It took me two tries to realize there is more than the table of contents and find the Unlabeled links on the left. Just make the text in the TOC clickable.

2. Maybe text navigation didn't work the first time because I did not select the correct option on the popup about interaction. This is a distraction from reading irrespective of what I picked.

3. Advice: make the reading experience work like readers expect. There are conventions. Trying to be clever doesn't benefit your readers...and will annoy at least one of them.

4. Nobody likes popups. Nobody. Nobody.

Good luck.
by danialasif | 2025-09-03 19:17:54+00:00
I love that comic, and thank you for bringing it up because we are trying to avoid exactly that. We don't intend to be a system of record, we fully recognize that higher education has deep integrations with systems of record that contain complex business rules.

We intend to be an interoperable layer that sits on top of these systems, and allows users to not only surface valuable insights but also take actions within those systems in a secure and compliant way. You can think of it less as reporting and more as a “system of work” that leverages LLMs and agents to streamline the messy, cross-system tasks that slow people down today.
by jama211 | 2025-09-03 19:17:59+00:00
As a side note, as a developer I’ve never understood why other devs find updating tasks so hard. It’s super easy and makes you look good, and if I’d worked hard and not updated the ticket I can imagine that from my managers perspective it looks like I haven’t done much, that’s bad for me and I would get anxious and not want that. Should be simple, right?
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-03 19:18:21+00:00
It sounds like you haven't tried Jetbrains IDEs. I understand still preferring VsCode in that case, but I think you would be saying "I prefer VsCode" vs "I don't see a reason". A big con with JB is they are very slow. The upside is that they manage multi-file projects, refactoring, and introspection far better than VsCode.
Show HN: Trending rust NTP inspection CLI
by hsrp-enjoyer | 2025-09-03 19:19:49+00:00
Hi y’all,

Just came across a crate on crates.io that recently hit v1.0.0. It’s called rkik - basically a "dig for NTP". I hadn’t seen a tool like this in Rust before.

Looks pretty handy: it can query and compare NTP servers, output JSON for monitoring, and even run continuous checks. Seems to be getting some traction in the Rust community - might be worth a look if you’re into System administration, networking or DevOps.
by lovich | 2025-09-03 19:19:56+00:00
Respectfully, You are not putting in 40--45 hours a week if you are

>I’m 51 and I stay interview ready. My resume and my career documents are updated quarterly and I keep my network warm.

All of the extra bits of work you have to do outside of the 40-45 to stay "interview ready" count as work, youre just not getting paid.

Speak to other professional fields about the requirements they have for getting a job. Even in ones where there is an expectation of continuing education like for doctors, that is usually covered both in time and money by the employers of said doctors, not just something they are expected to moonlight on.

The other professions are even more agahst when they hear things like having to go through 10 round interviews or being grilled on the same set of college basics that dont get used in the day job, as a part of every single interview

At some point since the dotcom bubble, employers figured out a way to convince software engineers that since a bunch of nerds who were interested in this skillset as a hobby were doing it in their free time, the rest of us should be doing that too
by rasengan | 2025-09-03 19:20:00+00:00
VP.NET is the first VPN provider that you don't have to trust, but instead, can verify directly.

See the source, which is verifiable: https://github.com/vpdotnet/vpnetd-sgx

You can learn more here: https://vp.net/l/en-US/blog/Don%27t-Trust-Verify
by h4ch1 | 2025-09-03 19:20:41+00:00
I know this is for a non-technical admin, but I just wanted to give Zola [0] a shoutout.

I love the single binary approach, and it being so simple. Got my blog up and running in minutes with absolutely minimal configuration. Helps me focus on the writing rather than tinkering with the tool I think this coupled with Keystatic [1] could be a nifty little lightweight setup for most.

[0] https://github.com/getzola/zola

[1] https://keystatic.com/
by iLemming | 2025-09-03 19:20:52+00:00
The article basically talkes about "umwelt" (there is a link at the bottom) - "is the specific way in which organisms of a particular species perceive and experience the world, shaped by the capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems"

How it at all related to let's say programming?

Well, for example learning vim-navigation or Lisp or a language with an advanced type system (e.g. Haskell) can be umwelt-transformative.

Vim changes how you perceive text as a structured, navigable space. Lisp reveals code-as-data and makes you see programs as transformable structures. Haskell's type system creates new categories of thought about correctness, composition, and effects.

These aren't just new skills - they're new sensory-cognitive modalities. You literally cannot "unsee" monadic patterns or homoiconicity once internalized. They become part of your computational umwelt, shaping what problems you notice, what solutions seem natural, and even how you conceptualize everyday processes outside programming.

It's similar to how learning music theory changes how you hear songs, or how learning a tonal language might affect how you perceive pitch. The tools become part of your extended cognition, restructuring your problem-space perception.

When a Lisper says "code is data" they're not just stating a fact - they're describing a lived perceptual reality where parentheses dissolve into tree structures and programs become sculptable material. When a Haskeller mentions "following the types" they're describing an actual sensory-like experience of being guided through problem space by type constraints.

This creates a profound pedagogical challenge: you can explain the mechanics of monads endlessly, but until someone has that "aha" moment where they start thinking monadically, they don't really get it. It's like trying to explain color to someone who's never seen, or echolocation to someone without that sense. That's why who's never given a truthful and heartfelt attempt to understand Lisp, often never gets it.

The umwelt shift is precisely what makes these tools powerful - they're not just different syntax but different ways of being-in-computational-world. And like the bat's echolocation, once you're inside that experiential framework, it seems impossible that others can't "hear" the elegant shape of a well-typed program.

There are other umwelt-transforming examples, like: debugging with time-travel/reversible debuggers, using pure concatenative languages, logic programming - Datalog/Prolog, array programming, constraint solvers - SAT/SMT, etc.

The point I'm trying to make - don't try to "understand" the cons and pros of being a bat, try to "be a bat", that would allow you to see the world differently.
by triceratops | 2025-09-03 19:20:55+00:00
> Should we be mandated to do something that while a good thing appears to infringe on personal freedom

Depends on what it is, the effort it takes on the part of the individual, and how much the state needs to intrude on privacy to ensure compliance.

Traffic lights infringe on personal freedom. It doesn't take individuals much effort to stop at a red light and start again when it turns green. It's easy for the state to enforce.

Diet and exercise mandates are hard to comply with, hard to enforce. The immediate benefits are limited to the individual while the societal benefits are more diffuse.

Childhood vaccination requirements are more like traffic lights than diet and exercise mandates.

> Some of Dr. Ladapo's recommendations can certainly be viewed that way

That's a an awfully charitable way to say "quack moron grifter". He's compared vaccination requirements to slavery there's really no other words to describe him.
by NexusMethod | 2025-09-03 19:20:59+00:00
Although the author puts a disclaimer up front ("no expert") it is still astounding how wrong one can be (taking all his honest effort into account). It's not that he´s wrong "by choice", but if your priors are wrong there's just no other possible outcome.

He is using the right "words" or "concepts" (tetrachord, hexachord) but these words have been mutilated by "musicology" and "music theory" to the point that they don't have any "useful" meaning at all anymore. The tetrachords and hexachords he mentions just are no tetra-/hexachords. If this fundamental building block is wrong, everything else down the line has to be, too.

How do I know?

Well, a colleague of mine (fellow professor) has found the Bach manuscript and I have found the Coltrane manuscript where BOTH of them lay out the whole of "music theory" in half a page.

If the two greatest masters of music used the SAME system, it should be ok for you and me. Just stay away from all the crap coming out of "music theory" or "musicology" or YouTube videos or websites made by "experts" or "non-experts". They just don't know.

Instead take any piece of classical music (e.g. WTK 1) or any Coltrane improvisation (from 1960 on) and look for the smallest "building block" - WITHOUT any priors!

That's difficult, I know, but that separates the men from the boys. These priors are "scales" (there is no C-C seven-note scale), or "harmonies" (there is no "dominant", Bach wouldn't know what you were talking about, and Coltrane just used it to be able to communicate with the rest of the world), or wrong tetra- and hexachords.

So just LOOK at the page or transcription! No priors! Then it will become obvious to you, too, especially in Coltrane's later improvisations, e.g. Live at the Half Note, and Bach made it abundantly clear in the first two fugues of the WTK 1.

That's why he wrote it in the first place (read the title page).

It's there for all of us to see and understand and - much more importantly - to use!
by rozab | 2025-09-03 19:21:32+00:00
This study itself and also the media coverage of it are shockingly bad. I wrote a bunch about it at the time and I don't really want to do that again but here is the low down:

- This is not a longitudinal study. Each partipant did 4 20 minute sessions. It just happens that the total study took 4 months. - The paper does not imply long term harm of any kind, they just measured brain connectivity during the short tasks. - It is not surprising that when asked to use an LLM to write an essay, partipants don't remember it. They didn't write it. - It is not surprising they showed less brain activity. They were delegating the task to something else. They were asked to. - I think the authors of the paper deliberately attempted to obscure this. Q7 on p30 is "LLM group: If you copied from ChatGPT, was it copy/pasted, or did you edit it afterwards?" This has been removed from the results section entirely, and other parts of the results do not match the supposed methodology. - The whole paper is extremely sloppy, with grammar mistakes, inconsistencies, and nonsensical charts. Check out Figure 29...
by lovich | 2025-09-03 19:22:07+00:00
Im not sure I was clear

>They have to do it by proxy, though, ultimately. You can run away from their territory and be safe, until they think of an actual crime to accuse you of.

This is not true, they have their own private security forces, with guns, who will seize you on their property. Managing to run away from an organization's controlled territory to be safe from them, applies to public 0governments too
by wagwang | 2025-09-03 19:22:10+00:00
Can we just all admit there has basically been no real progress made to the mind-body problem. They all rest on metaphysical axioms of which no one has any proof of. Physicalism is about as plausible as solipsism.

Exhibit a

> Nagel begins by assuming that "conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon" present in many animals (particularly mammals), even though it is "difficult to say [...] what provides evidence of it".
by skissane | 2025-09-03 19:22:13+00:00
> Yeah, because nobody has ever posted a bare comment here about drop bears

You'd be surprised how many Australians have never heard of "drop bears". Because it is just an old joke about pranking foreigners, yes many people remember it, but also many have no clue what it is. It is one of those stereotypical Australianisms which tends to occupy more space in many non-Australian minds than in most Australian minds.

> or how "the front fell off".

I'm in my 40s, and I've lived in Australia my whole life, my father was born here, and my mother moved here when she was three years old... and I didn't know what this was, it sounded vaguely familiar but no idea what it meant. Then I look it up and discover it is a reference to an old Clarke and Dawe skit. I know who they are, I used to watch them on TV all the time when I was young (tweens/teens), but I have no memory of ever seeing this skit in particular. Again, likely one of those Australianisms which many non-Australians know, many Australians don't.

Your examples of Australianisms are the stereotypes a non-Australian would mention; we could talk instead about the Australianisms which many Australians use without even realising they are Australianisms: for example, "heaps of" – a recognised idiom in other major English dialects, but in very common use in Australian English, much rarer elsewhere. Or "capsicum", for "bell peppers"–the Latin scientific name everywhere, but the colloquial name only in a few countries–plus botanically the hot ones are capsicum too, but in Australian English (I believe New Zealand English and Indian English too) only the mild ones are "capsicums", the hot ones are "chilis". Or "peak body"–now we are talking bureaucratese not popular parlance–which essentially means the top national activist/lobbyist group for a given subject area, whether that's LGBT people or homelessness or financial advisors.
by foxyv | 2025-09-03 19:22:46+00:00
To be honest, the Apple watch isn't even in the same class as this watch. This is the kind of watch that people who are going to be traveling into the deep wilderness will wear instead of three other gadgets. It has a maximum battery life of 8 days, depth gauge, altimiter, barometer and a satellite communications module.

Edit: This would make a great watch for sailors to supplement an EPIRB.
by riedel | 2025-09-03 19:22:56+00:00
The problem to me is the OP using the ethical loaded definition of free in one's choice of licence and at the same time referring to the use of copyrighted material (that is clearly in a bit of a grey area) is at least strange. (And the attitude of the OP is clearly a bit popcorn time. )

I like the app because the official clients tend to suck. But I am also paying for a lot of music previously downloaded from the sites. The problem I see with such clients is that if they would become popular they trigger reactions that make the web typically less free in any sense. But there is definitely better ways to support artist than streaming subscriptions...
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-03 19:23:09+00:00
The new Commodore folks seem to be on friendly terms with Cloanto, so this MIT-licensed release from Microsoft is great news for them and I wonder if it was partly instigated by the Commodore developments. If only because, in principle, it saves everyone the effort and cost of having a difficult negotiation over something as silly as the purported IP value of those old BASIC ROMs.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-03 19:23:27+00:00
Dispatchable power is probably a more neutral term than generation. The reason battery is included in tools like this is that there is a rapidly growing, non-trivial amount of dispatchable battery power on grids. Anything that excludes that is kind of not giving you the full picture. And of course this is widely expected to vastly increase in amount of dispatchable GW over the next years. It's early days.

Dispatchable power is what matters if you are managing a grid. If you have lots of dispatchable power, you can deal with peaks and dips (both are valuable) in demand very rapidly and relatively cheaply. Long term, daily, and seasonal trends are fairly predictable. Even the weather is short term fairly predictable.

Battery adds a lot of predictability to grids. If you have hours to plan for it, you can bring online gas if needed (coal and nuclear are not typically kept around in a mothballed state for this). If it's seconds, you are screwed because that is non dispatchable power (you need to plan to have it and spend money to get it online). That's the gap batteries fill.

Anything with flywheels (gas, coal plants, etc.) needs time to (literally) spin up. And before that happens you first need to generate steam by boiling a large amount of cold water. Some gas plants can start relatively quickly but then run less efficiently. You can trade off dispatchability for efficiency. It means expending a lot of fuel just to get the thing started that otherwise delivers no power. They provide a lot of power once they are up and running but they are kind of useless when you need that power right away. And the more often you shut them down, the more you lose on spinning them up again.
by ihagen | 2025-09-03 19:23:54+00:00
The main problem with living under authoritarian rule is 1. the absenсe of control for the way where the country is going. 2. the value of human life is approaching zero. Today your life is pretty decent (unless you're some kind of minority (c)), but tomorrow you find yourself with a mobilization order because your country decides to start a war. And nobody cares about your surviving.