MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zipy124 | 2025-09-19 17:20:47+00:00
Median pay for a dev in London is about £60-65k(a out $87,000). This isn't that high given the cost of living in the city, with your average shared flat with a few roommates going at about £1k a month nowadays. Add in that you'll be hitting the marginal tax rate of 40% plus 9% student loan tax and about 8% national insurance (ok income under 4k a month) and you don't end up with that much to live on.

The average university grad would be better off in law/finance/medicine by income in London. This isn't to stay the top software Devs don't get paid a lot, but it's a minority compared to the legions of high paid people in finance in London and the surrounding industries.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-19 17:20:53+00:00
https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690

This was the original issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28712821

HN thread. Plus lots of Twitter nonsense at the time.

The heat's died down now that COVID is over, changing politics worldwide, etc...
by nomel | 2025-09-19 17:20:55+00:00
Depends on your definition of minor. As is, you cannot use magnetic north to navigate, alone, in the east and west of North America. It's 20 degrees off in Oregon, and nearly 40 in northern Alaska. This is something you quickly learn in boy scouts, by getting lost in the woods, if you live on the coast.

But, considering it takes 1,000 to 10,000 years to flip, nobody involved in this will be surprised when they look at their compass. They'll have remembered their local correction from when they were children.
by wcchandler | 2025-09-19 17:20:59+00:00
I was just exploring Pi’s and AI hats, so this post is appreciatively timely.

I’m finally at the point where I can dedicate time for building an AI with a specific use case in mind. I play competitive paintball and would like to utilize AI for a handful of things. Specifically hit detections in video streams. Pi’s were my natural choice simply because of low cost of entry and wide range of supported products to get a PoV running. I even thought about reaching out to Jeff and asking his input.

This post didn’t change my direction too much, but it did help level set some realistic expectations. So thanks for sharing.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-19 17:21:36+00:00
Regarding coleocanths... we have no data on how much drift has happened in their DNA. Our only real data is that they are morphologically very similar to their ancestors over a long range.

Your last sentence correctly points out the frailty of our definition of "species". However, this is not the only time our data has confounded our artificial, if often useful, definition of species boundaries.
by elzbardico | 2025-09-19 17:21:39+00:00
Man. This is so genial, exactly because you've gone the extra mile to make it look real. I've seen similar projects, but using an LCD, or a remote, or that had a software menu with a remote, and this always rob the experience a bit. This is fantastic product, even if was not made to be sold, and it was one of thing.
by godelski | 2025-09-19 17:21:48+00:00
Sure, but look at the average person. The average person has all the world's knowledge at their fingertips. The access is there. But do people use it? Or do they use it in that way? How many people just scan a wiki article looking to mic drop on someone else instead of trying to understand what they meant or what the material is actually about? Has something similar to that occurred in this thread?

"Can" is a critical word in your comment.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-19 17:21:49+00:00
In the US legal system in general, the interests of the government are not trump cards. If the law says that the government should pay you $1000, it doesn't matter whether the public or the government feel they have an interest in paying you, nor whether some executive official thinks the original purpose of that law is served by paying you.

In this case, the law does give the executive some discretion to decide based on their priorities whether they really owe you $1000, but the plaintiffs argue the NSF has exceeded that discretion.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-19 17:22:22+00:00
I’m well aware of all these hotkeys. The issue is I’m using the mouse with my browser, scrolling clicking etc. Reading gives me an idea so I click on my terminal that’s always open. This is the best time to open a tab imho, and have been doing it for decades.

Thankfully there are a dozen terminals to choose from that don’t make konsole’s minor mistakes. (Although chances are they made others.)
by DevKoala | 2025-09-19 17:24:03+00:00
Ugh. Just build man, stop with the excuses.

I’ve been there, looking for pennies in the couch to be able to afford a burger while I waited for my next contract gig deposit. Even if your project doesn’t become the next big thing, you’ll end up with something to show in your resume. That will open tons of doors.
by firefax | 2025-09-19 17:24:26+00:00
>I installed the MDM software after I picked it up.

I'd be more weirded out by MDM than a company that had a small HQ office for HR and legal.

I agree that once remote, it should be remote -- absent being needed to do a deposition none of this "all hands" crap -- but having that physical office is good so if things go off the rails ala the 1995 action thriller "The Net" you have someplace to show up at and ask some pointed questions ;-)
by somenameforme | 2025-09-19 17:25:13+00:00
You don't need to throw money at people. When we first moved abroad we ended up in this exact situation with quite a lot of belongings that we mostly just wanted to get rid of. We posted on Craig's List (maybe Facebook would be the goto now a days?) and literally within 30 minutes there were people there with professional moving gear clearing with us and then organizing/moving everything out that we didn't want.

They regaled us with a tale of how they just got to the city and were looking forward to being able to furnish/populate their house, but it was obvious that they were just grabbing and selling everything as a career. No harm no foul though, as we just wanted stuff cleared out and it certainly ended up 'in circulation' for folks that could use it.
by anthonysarkis | 2025-09-19 17:26:12+00:00
Sharing Zen: runs multiple Code CLI instances for peaceful parallel task execution.

Zen allows you to:

+ Run multiple headless Claude Code CLI instances simultaneously. + Calm unified results (status, time, token usage) + Relax "5-hour limit reached" lockout fears with easy token budget limits + Get more value out of your Claude MAX subscription with scheduling features. (--run-at "2am") + Learn more about how Claude Code uses tools and other inner workings Control usage and budget for groups of work or per command

https://github.com/netra-systems/zen
by dashundchen | 2025-09-19 17:26:17+00:00
There were no riots, you don't get stabbed or shot just for existing in these cities. What planet are you living on?

Violent crime has been dropping for years in almost every major liberal city in America. Are there still random incidents? There always will be, but fun violence rates are actually higher in many rural and GOP led states than in major cities.

You need to get a grip and disconnect yourself from the propaganda the fascists are feeding you. The military does not belong in US cities.
by kllrnohj | 2025-09-19 17:26:38+00:00
> Like if you have a large media library, you need to push maybe 10MB/s,

For just streaming a 4k bluray you need more than 10MB/s, Ultra HD bluray tops out at 144 Mbit/s. Not to mention if that system is being hit by something else at the same time (backup jobs, etc...).

Is the 128GB of RAM just hardware porn? Eh, maybe, probably. But if you want 8+ bays for a decent sized NAS then you're already quickly into price points at which point these used servers are significantly cheaper, and 128GB of RAM adds very little to the cost so why not.
by hipjiveguy | 2025-09-19 17:26:50+00:00
Agree - basically tech that can see what people do, is creepy. and as you suggest - others can engage, but we don't control that.

Currently, it's somewhat obvious, but what happens when the tech is totally invisible?

That day is coming very soon, within a decade, max, and you have to imagine every thing you ever do, in any place - even in the dark, is recorded.

Arthur C Clarke, and Stephen Baxter wrote a book about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days

Well worth reading, imho, but it does explicitely ignore the concept of a higher presence, which is noteworthy
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-19 17:26:56+00:00
I've kind of become numb to the annoying JavaScript trademark situation. But yeah, it's bonkers. I agree, let's do something. So, if this fails, let's rename JavaScript to WebScript or BrowserScript or something. Nobody can say those aren't generic. And remember, the laughably unpronounceable, caps-lock-enabled, comedy gold that was "ECMAscript" almost caught on for a hot minute. (Can you believe it? We were this close to walking the halls of our big techs and startups and mumbling about "egg-muh-script".) The biggest hurdle will be getting Google to change the name. Google, famously, carefully avoids interacting with the public. I don't know what kind of infohazard they are afraid of contacting from us, but we have to break through that barrier somehow. We may have to resort to standing on the side of the road on the 101 with a sign that says "No more war! Save the dolphins! Accept the JavaScript(TM)-to-WebScript rename now!".
by dismalaf | 2025-09-19 17:27:39+00:00
A very ironic example is that Americans moving to Mexico is seen as bad, whereas Mexicans moving to the US is seen as necessary by the left...

In Canada here, we have land acknowledgements and it's politically correct to say we stole the land and should give it back to the natives. Then when native Europeans want to keep their land, it's white supremacy...

It's a very obvious double standard.
by fragmede | 2025-09-19 17:28:02+00:00
Having control of "The Algorithm" is putting it vaguely. The two things are making sure everyone sees a certain video, like how China did with the factory videos taking down luxury brands. The other is filtering out things entirely, eg Epstein or Luigi Mangione. The worst is that they'll learn from the CCP, which is to let people air their frustrations, just don't let them get organized.
by tromp | 2025-09-19 17:28:17+00:00
The first 5 values are FAR easier to determine, since there's only 1 lambda term of at most 5 bits:-)

And the next few unknown values, BBλ(37).. BBλ(39) will be easier to determine too since the search space is smaller and no so-called cryptids have been identified yet (terms whose halting behaviour is closely related to unsolved math problems).

But if the effort that is being applied to researching BB(6) and BB(7), is applied to researching BBλ(37) and beyond, then we expect to run into similar difficulties of having more and more unsolved terms which do not lead to a normal form in any reasonable number of steps and also defy known techniques for proving them to lack a normal form.

There's some hope though that we'll be able to identify BBλ(49) before identifying BB(7). And while the former is known to exceed Graham's Number, the latter is only conjectured to do so, and I made a large bet with the people conjecturing it saying it won't be proven within 10 years.
by ieuanking | 2025-09-19 17:28:24+00:00
I've built a similar platform with searching access to arXiv and Semantic Scholar; the only difference is that our agents can highlight text in the paper down to the line level. In our testing, Gemini struggles compared to Sonnet four or Opus 4. We found that without agentic highlighting, there wasn't much difference in output quality or utility (meaning, references saved, generating with citation, or even quote gathering is still hard without actual PDF interactivity). I'd love your feedback on https://www.ubik.studio (use academic search)
by alphazard | 2025-09-19 17:28:27+00:00
> I'm very sympathetic to the kinds of explorations he does

Yes, and I think there is a success criterion that most people are not considering, which is: success as a less complicated explanation for the same phenomenon.

When people ask for new testable predictions as the only way a new theory can be successful, they are revealing that they don't consider parsimonious explanations to be a scientific goal.

Stephen's work with hypergraphs shows a lot of promise as a simple theory that implies other successful theories of physics. It focuses on emergent phenomenon that exhibit "pockets of computational reproducibility". The behavior of those pockets can then be predicted with tools in the physics canon like Riemannian geometry or complex numbers.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-19 17:28:32+00:00
That's an interesting observation and I think it comes down to immigration policy. I haven't actually looked into it but I've heard that Japan basically doesn't allow for long-term immigration, except probably in exceptional cases like PhDs.

Where EU countries (I know this excludes the UK but it didn't for a long time) allow easy long-term immigration by EU policy. Even with Brexit, I don't think that culture of easy immigration is going to just up and disappear. So having a culture and/or policy of easy immigration alongside "well, actually, not those guys" where "those guys" includes anybody who's not already culturally/ethnically part of the nation is, minimally, counter-productive and perhaps a bit hypocritical.
by teknofobi | 2025-09-19 17:28:37+00:00
Problem with package managers are they are quite expensive to run, so hard to manage in an otherwise open source ecosystem. There was some controversy around NPM before the GitHub acquisition https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-cofounder-laurie-voss-re..., which I guess is the exact problem a non-profit such as RubyCentral tried to solve.

I would GitHub would be quite well-positioned to set up infrastructure around a fork of RubyGems if things fall apart.
by throw10920 | 2025-09-19 17:28:48+00:00
And here we have a double demonstration of both stupid and malicious.

> If economy grows by roughly even percentage each year same should be true about government budgets

Stupid. For the purposes of this discussion, the government exists to provide services. The cost of those services, in general, decreases with economic productivity.

> Otherwise you just leave money on the table for billionaires to scoop up and sit on.

Both stupid and malicious. Mind-bogglingly stupid, because that profit isn't just captured by the wealthy, but by all economic classes. Malicious, because you'd rather sabotage the economy than let some people take excess profits based on their wealth alone.
by conradev | 2025-09-19 17:29:11+00:00
A 10-frame hiccup is actually more of a hang (a single >50ms freeze) than consistent frame dropping (i.e. scrolling at 30fps)

but I agree, the hangs in the latest operating systems are brutal. Feels a little half-baked. macOS Tahoe is much worse than Sequoia on this by far. I’m hoping that the later releases (26.1, etc) make the situation better.
by bdangubic | 2025-09-19 17:29:22+00:00
Love this question so I looked up my credit card statement I just got yesterday (I use one CC for everything)

- $375 coffee

- $752 Amazon

- $124 various streaming subscriptions

- $37 apple in-app payments (not mine :) )

- $427 food outside (restaurants etc)

- $472 home depot / lowes
by csa | 2025-09-19 17:29:32+00:00
> And the whole pear in the recipe situation was also hilarious

The fact that the pear was in the recipe, or that the AI didn’t handle that situation around the pear well?

Asian pears are a common ingredient in beef marinades/sauces in Korea. It adds sweetness and (iirc) helps tenderize the meat when in a marinade.
by dcminter | 2025-09-19 17:29:54+00:00
> I enjoy the camaraderie of being around others who feel that way too.

But... they're still there. They're a little diluted, but I've not yet worked somewhere where I had no like-minded tinkerers amongst my colleagues. I don't think I'd want to, but it just hasn't come up.

> As to cool projects, sure. They're fun, interesting and creative, but perhaps not part of (a very vague, admittedly) "something bigger", like "the open source movement" was back in the day.

But the free software movement dates back to the early 80s, not the 2000s that we're talking about. Open source itself was being seen as a dilution of the principles of free software in the late 90s/early 2000s. More to the point, free and open source software is still very much here - we're absolutely surrounded by it.

> mainframes and such were definitely an era where the power was more with the large companies

It's oscillated. DEC used to be the zippy young upstart snapping at IBM's heels you know. Microsoft didn't start out big and evil; nor did Google if it comes to that. Put not thy faith in shiny new companies for they shall surely betray thee once they devour the opposition... :D
by munificent | 2025-09-19 17:29:59+00:00
> a lot of the time spent on routine things like fetching water, lighting fires and prepping food. I would spend hours each day on prepping the dinner from scratch

I think about this a lot when it comes to AI automation for coding.

Yes, it's nice if an AI can speed up the sort of semi-mindless parts of programming. But I strongly suspect that I need those spans of time for my mind to do the background processing necessary for the actual intellectually challenging parts of the job.

I've written two books and anyone who has done that will telling that writing is exhausting. It's an act that is almost purely intellectual with very little menial labor. And it is so utterly draining that it's hard to do for more than a couple of hours a day.

I don't relish programming turning into that. I like the easy refactoring and bug fixing tasks because they provide a respite between periods of very deep thinking while still keeping me mostly focused on the overall problem domain. I suspect I would be an overall worse engineer if I lost those.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-19 17:30:01+00:00
No we don't even have to be that subtle any more just call it a gratuity and the supreme courts says it's AOK to give obvious bribes so long as no one provably said "I'll give you $X dollars for Y action". It's painful how blatantly the highest court in the land has been captured by the same people giving these bribes.
by hintymad | 2025-09-19 17:30:22+00:00
I don't doubt the concern or the observation of the author. I'm not sure if the phenomena observed by the author is any different, statistically, from before. If I look back, it was always a small percentage of people, driven by their innate curiosity, who moonlighted their way to great discoveries. If anything is different, we have more people working in the tech industry, and naturally the concentration of curious and driven people gets diluted. Consequently, one may not observe the same intensity or prevalence of curiosity in her daily life.
by tomnipotent | 2025-09-19 17:30:28+00:00
Absolutely hostile. OP was talking to a human, not a company, on an issue they have no personal stake in in a forum that values decorum and engaging with the best interpretation of an argument.

I see accusations and statements, not questions and discovery. Folks seem too busy grabbing their pitchfork to engage in an honest conversation on shitty enterprise sales tactics.

People keep throwing out words like extortion and racketeering but clearly have zero idea what those words mean.

> Did they came with new calculation based on costs? No.

A regular review process flagged an account that it shouldn't have, and it was included in some low-level employees day-to-day. To try and act like this was some malicious planned attempt at extortion is an exhaustively stupid position to argue for, it has no legs other than to satisfy some dark urge.

It's a challenge to get a team of developers to adhere internal processes just affecting one team, imagine how hard it is to manage processes spanning managers, directors, and senior executives when those processes are a decade old.

It's absolutely naive to think the C-level executives of a company with 3,000 people are going to hear about an issue like this within 48 hours of it happening. But sure let's keep coming up with conspiracies to satisfy everyone's desire to virtue signal and show off how much they hate the cruel evil business.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-19 17:30:32+00:00
English (and latin for that matter) is written/read left to right because that is more convenient for the overwhelming majority of the population that is right handed when using easily smudged waxed tablets, wet ink, etc, etc.

Likewise, maps are traditionally "north up" because most of the population lives north of the equator so that's where most maps hailed from and if you're north of the equator having a "north up" map makes celestial navigation slightly easier.
by queenkjuul | 2025-09-19 17:30:50+00:00
Most games won't work right if you force 1080i (which you can do using OPL) but the light gun will work with component signals just use the green plug as has been mentioned.

Gran Turismo 4 will output 1080i correctly, I've done that before, but the internal horizonal resolution is very low, so i actually prefer to play in 480p on my LCD, ymmv

There's Pelican brand wireless light guns NOS on eBay that work with both PS1 and PS2 games that I've so far had good luck with
by badlibrarian | 2025-09-19 17:31:23+00:00
> I think the majority of infringing was uploaded by the labels themselves

In this case Brewster and his friend personally uploaded 400,000 records to the archive and then made them available for unlimited download. Not just rare stuff, but Frank Sinatra records and the best selling single of all time.

Archiving is cool (and supposedly their charter) but they ignored the Music Modernization Act which made what they claim they were trying to do legal, including unlimited downloads. They blogged about how great it was, how it made old things effectively Fair Use for libraries, then ignored it.

Why? They wanted to get paid for distributing other people's stuff without permission. That's not cool, especially at the scale they were operating. As with the book lawsuit, they were asked nicely to remove certain items and picked an impossible to win fight instead. And lost again.

The reason to find fault with IA is that these actions and decisions put the whole operation at risk. Their recent financials show negative three million dollars in total assets and they're already running on a shoestring. No datacenter, just hard drives sitting out in a building with no air conditioning.

It's ok to love a thing, the spirit behind a thing, yet also admit that it's being run into the ground by unqualified people making terrible decisions.
by yorwba | 2025-09-19 17:32:52+00:00
If by "they" you mean DeepSeek, they're not saying this, since you might not actually be able to rent a cluster of 512 H800s wired together with high-bandwidth interconnects at that GPU-hour price point. If you rent smaller groups of GPUs piecemeal in different locations and try to transfer weight updates between them over the internet, it'll kill your throughput.
by tomnipotent | 2025-09-19 17:33:02+00:00
So in other words you've never worked at a large org, or been in a leadership position over hundreds of people. So rather than acknowledge that things like this can happen, you'd rather jump to the least charitable conclusion. Clearly the Slack senior leadership sat in a dark room smoking cigars while laughing evil about all the cash they were going to get raising the bills on non-profits. Got it. That explains 0 other non-profits that have had this issue and gone public.