MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-29 12:16:39+00:00
US appliances using single-phase power work between 208V and 240V so they work on both residential and commercial electrical systems.

Line-to-line voltage on a three-phase 208V system is 208V, line-to-line on 240V single-phase system is 240V.

Most commercial lighting products are rated for 120V-277V so they work on both residential and commercial (480/277V line-to-neutral single phase voltage is 277V)
by aeve890 | 2025-09-29 12:16:41+00:00
>but it’s also just part of life.

Yeah? Who said that? Any selfish person can say the same about anything. "Yeah my dog shat your lawn but that's just part of life. Deal with it". What's part of life is different for everyone.

>I get annoyed when people smoke in public or pointlessly honk horns at night.

Yeah that's annoying, but neither the smoke or the honk are records of your private life published without consent on the internet, forever. So apples and oranges.
by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 | 2025-09-29 12:18:20+00:00
Sounds about right.

These kids have been on camera since they were in the womb. The delivery had a pro videographer. Parents had baby monitors with a video feed, later a nanny cam. Schools had cameras in the classrooms and busses from before first grade. Higher grades onwards all their peers had smartphones and social media accounts.

Some middle aged dude who doesn't want to be on video makes no sense to them, like that weird uncle of yours who in 2010 had no phone or email address.
by DustinKlent | 2025-09-29 12:18:42+00:00
It depends on which application you're using. Applications like "RooCode", which is a free extension for VSCode, have several "modes" which allow the user to create an outline of the project using an "architect" LLM, followed by coding the project with a "Coding" LLM, followed by debugging the project with a "Debugging" LLM if there are bugs. There's also an LLM that answers questions about the project. Only the coding and the debugging LLMs do actual coding but you can set it so you have to approve each change it makes.
by squishington | 2025-09-29 12:19:50+00:00
My feeling is there are often factors which are not captured in job market statistics, which is why it's important to listen to the experience of grads seeking jobs. When I graduated in 2018, it took me a whole year to land a job (graduated with first class honours in electronics engineering in Australia, with 7 months overseas experience working for a chip design company in germany and a research scholarship at university). I came across job interviewers who had very irrational approaches to hiring, which I suspect was partly because they had too many applicants and were overworked processing them. One medical hardware company turned me down because they said I was overqualified and would get bored and quit. Overqualified as a grad. What a joke. I just needed a job before the next round of grads came out and left me forever shut out of my future field. It was a massive shock to my system as I had done nothing but work hard for years to get top marks and industry experience, and it still wasn't satisfactory (also building projects to showcase in interviews). I feel for new grads.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-29 12:20:09+00:00
If it's private then it's up to the owner.

And they may very well have decided that more customers want to take and share videos, than there are customers who are bothered by it.

And nobody is talking about monetizing content here. There's no profit. If there were, that would be a different conversation obviously. But the post did not bring that up.
by virgilp | 2025-09-29 12:20:37+00:00
Add "to most developers" for context and you'll probably get exactly what original claim meant.

It's not a non-statement. Rich Hickey explains it well, readability is not about the subjective factors, it's mostly about the objective ones (how many things are intertwined? the code that you can read & consider in isolation is readable. The code that behaves differently depending on global state, makes implicit assumptions about other parts of the system, etc - is unreadable/less readable - with readability decreasing with number of dependencies).
by parsimo2010 | 2025-09-29 12:20:54+00:00
I don’t know about the UK, but in the USA the idea of “if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces” is pretty regularly upheld in courts. You don’t have an expectation of privacy in a public space.

You might have some recourse if another person’s video singles you out, but just being one of the several people in an airsoft video, where your face is partially obscured anyway, isn’t much of a legal standing.
by Ravus | 2025-09-29 12:21:37+00:00
Exponential curves happen when a quantity's growth rate is a linear function of its own value. In practice they're all going to be logistic, but you can ignore that as long as you're far away from the cap of whatever factor limits growth.

So what are the things that could cause "AI growth" (for some suitable definition of it) to be correlated with AI? The plausible ones I see are: - growing AI capabilities spur additional AI capex - AI could be used to develop better AIs

The first one rings true, but is most definitely hitting the limit since US capex into the sector definitely cannot grow 100-fold (and probably cannot grow 4-fold either).

The second one is, to my knowledge, not really a thing.

So unless AI can start improving itself or there is a self-feeding mechanism that I have missed, we're near the logistic fun phase.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-29 12:22:12+00:00
Disappointing but i don't see any foul play from google like the headline kind of insinuates. Anyway their product support is notoriously fickle so why would you expect anything more of them. TLDR a policy change at google made the authors hobby more difficult or impossible because he didn't make any contingencies. Specifically they deleted political ad history for the EU.
by adapteva | 2025-09-29 12:22:48+00:00
I am sorry you that's how it looks...can't argue with feelings, We did everything we could to give credit. Open source SW should be a stack and every project needs a proper name as a reference. I do find the statement a bit ironic though, b/c 99% of Yosys users don't know that 99% of the logic synthesis sauce in Yosys is done by ABC.

https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/wildebeest
by dimatura | 2025-09-29 12:22:57+00:00
Depends on who is doing the "careers valuing" and how closely they're looking. At a coarse level, especially for jobs in industry, venue is a pretty simple (but obviously imperfect) indicator for quality. If you've managed to publish one or more papers at the most selective venues (esp. as main author), then I would assume there's a decent chance you are good at research, even if I don't know anything about the subfield you work on. As a further indicator, the number of citations is also a noisy but easy to check proxy for "impact".

But for academic or other high-level research jobs, whoever is doing the valuing is going to look at a lot more than just the venue.
by DustinKlent | 2025-09-29 12:23:33+00:00
Why should we assume that LLMs would be stagnant at current levels when, so far, they haven't stopped improving? I remember when simply using Copilot to just auto-complete 1 line of code was a groundbreaking unimaginable advancement. That was only a few years ago. New and improved models are being released nearly every week. The open-source models are nearly as advanced as the closed source models (if you have the hardware to run them at full capacity).
by muzani | 2025-09-29 12:23:33+00:00
Joel is my favorite essay writer. His writing has established so many norms that cargo culted to hell. It's nice to paste the original articles to a whole new generation.

People know they should do coding tests in interviews, but not how they're designed to find smart and get things done.

People know they should code clean, but not how it only needs to be clean enough to spot dangers.

Some companies are paying super high prices for interns, and then don't try to integrate them into their recruiting funnel.
by squigz | 2025-09-29 12:23:38+00:00
> There's also a big difference in my mind between, "You might be filmed on occassion" and, "A recording of this goes up on youtube every single week".

And there's such a focus on the law and expectation of privacy in public places in these comments. There's a huge difference between someone complaining about being recorded in a small hobby community and complaining about being filmed on a public street.
by rs186 | 2025-09-29 12:23:45+00:00
> well, if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces

That's the correct answer. End of the story.

It is our consensus of what "public space" means and one can do with it (which varies depending on where you are) that forms a lot of our social norms and society. It is why hang drying clothes is acceptable/normal in many parts of the world but not in the US. It is why people are expected to wear at least some clothes. It is why you can take photos of random people, including kids, without their/their parents' consent in the US in public space.

If you think you are so special to never show up in a photo, don't be in the public in the first, or wear a mask, a hat plus sunglasses or something else. Celebrities have been doing this for forever.
Big Time Burnout
by coneonthefloor | 2025-09-29 12:24:26+00:00
I am totally burnt out.

I am a “software engineer” I am great at making things and solving problems with code. I love to code. I am an expert in my domain.

But I am employed to sit in meetings. Where my voice doesn’t matter. I am one dev to 6 middle managers with various lofty titles. They do not respect me. I am the bottom wrung of the ladder. But I am also the only member of the team who delivers anything. Without me the “developer” the product doesn’t exist. They hate me for this. So they lock me down. My computer is near unusable in its locked down monitored state. I have to ask permission to do the simplest things. They don’t want me thinking or being productive. Now they have me writing “prompts” so a robot can make me redundant. My confidence is zero, my skillset unappreciated.

It’s time to start again, find a new way to provide for my family.

The software engineering career that I loved has burnt out.
by waterbadger | 2025-09-29 12:25:08+00:00
The Trinity consists of three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.

Philosophically we are able to understand that God must exist without even requiring theological revelation. And we are actually able to derive that the Trinity must exist too.

The Father, the first person of God (who is pure actualization) would have a thought of Himself and the thought would be so perfect and complete that it would be actualized into the second person of the Trinity, the Son. Then the Son and the Father love eachother and make such a perfect gift of themselves to eachother that this combined gift of love becomes a third person in the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. So once a God exists as philosophically He must, we also can reason He must exist as a Trinity although the thought might not occur to us without theological revelation.

Catholicism is Judaism! It is the continuation and fulfillment of the covenant God made with Abraham. The Old Testament and the many, many very specific Jewish prophecies of Jesus that are fulfilled in the New Testament are part of the Catholic faith.

Catholicism is correct because Jesus founded a church with the 12 apostles as the first bishops and the succession of bishops from the 12 apostles has never been broken in the catholic church. Normal people like Martin Luther or Calvin or Joseph Smith do not have the authority to start valid religions on their own especially since Jesus (who is God) has already created the religion He wants us to follow and has been very clear that it is the way God wants us to worship Him.

People inevitably will reject the call to be obedient to God because of pride and various other influences. If you read the New Testament Jesus predicts that many people will reject the church as many people rejected Him.

The church is very intellectually rich. If you engage with it in good faith and an open mind you have the smartest people of the past two thousand years who have devoted their lives to thinking about and answering any questions you might have in much greater detail than I can certainly. The saints are the most inspirational role models I can imagine, learning about them is a joy. And I can’t emphasize enough, the fruits of engaging with the church in good faith and asking God to help you are very, very real and literally the antidote to 99% of the problems that modern people are suffering from.

Unfortunately I don’t know if all of this stuff is even on the radar of people in the tech sphere so I hope some people have their curiousity sparked and learn more! It’s a fun hobby even if you are just interested in diving deeper into history.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-29 12:25:26+00:00
Wow, an exponential trendline, I guess billions of years of evolution can just give up and go home cause we have rigged the game my friends. At this rate we will create an AI which can do a task 10 years long! And then soon after that 100 years long! And that's that. Humans will be kept as pets because that's all we will be good for QED
by jacobgorm | 2025-09-29 12:25:36+00:00
Also, Xen's main clame to fame was that para-virtualization allowed it to host Linux and *BSD VMs at close to zero overhead, but at time what everyone was looking for was a way to host Windows VMs, which is where all the pain points and the money was. CPUs were evolving to support this use-case, making para-virtualization less important, and Xen had to evolve quite quickly to include QEMU in the mix, leaving a bit of convoluted mess initially, and causing a lot of friction during the attempts to get merged into the Linux kernel. On top, the Xen management tool-stack had been written by happy amateurs in Python and Twisted, before any of those technologies where near ready for production use, with massive slowness and unfixable memory leaks as results. KVM provided a fresh take built with the benefits of hindsight, got merged into Linux on the first attempt, and gained the backing of Redhat, and the rest is more of less history.
by Taikonerd | 2025-09-29 12:26:05+00:00
I was worried about explainability, too. If the classifier just spat out "INNOCENT" or "GUILTY," it would be useless -- the legal reasoning has to be part of the output.

Looking at the paper, the classifier definitely does output its reasoning:

"The legal issue at hand is whether the 50/50 royalty split in the 1961 contract binds only pre-existing affiliates or if it also includes affiliates that come into being after the agreement..."
by pron | 2025-09-29 12:26:49+00:00
The Arab conquest of the Middle East and North Africa (which is not the same as the Islamisation in East Asia) indeed wasn't as horrendous as the Spanish conquest of Central and South America, but it wasn't entirely peaceful, either, and even in Latin America today there are millions of native Mayan speakers.

Of course, Arab colonialism (Arabisation), European colonialism - of both the settler and non-settler type - and Zionist settler-colonialism are all distinct phenomena, with some important similarities and some important differences. Even the violent struggle between settler-colonial forces and colonial forces are very different between, say, America and Israel.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-29 12:27:48+00:00
Proponents of mutual aid networks aren't trying to "replace the state". I'm not sure which anarchist ideas are supposed to accomplish that (if any): as I understand, different philosophies have different views on that. "Provided the existing society doesn't fight back" was a reference to the repeated criminalisation of Food Not Bombs.

I say "even" because afaik Marxists don't seek to destroy the state: they believe the destruction of the state is inevitable (dialectics!), and seek instead to win battles in the class war – my "even" applied to the "withering away of the state" idea, not to Friedrich Engels himself. (I'm not familiar with all of his ideas.) Marxism–Leninism is the "the Bolsheviks were right all along" belief system, but is quite different to classic Marxism.

In the real world I don't think we'll ever have a group, region, or territory governed by any pure ideology, so I agree that a state of anarchy, or a classic communist society, would never happen in real life. That doesn't mean it's worthless to think about the ideas, any more than it's worthless to talk about uniform point masses on a frictionless inclined plane.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-09-29 12:28:19+00:00
PrivacyBadger adjusts what it blocks over time vs seeing it track you. It did start blocking Google Fonts for me, and I had to manually re-enable it because I wanted it.

I forget which level of blocking it was applying; some cookies it just keeps from being cross-site, it isolates them. Others it blocks entirely. You can easily adjust which it is doing for any given cookie.

I think it's true that if you have uBlock Origin you probably don't need this though, that seems likely. I don't run uBlock Origin.
by Sayrus | 2025-09-29 12:28:19+00:00
To people interested in archiving this, it's still in the 7 days time history in BigQuery Public Dataset:

For instance:

SELECT country FROM `bigquery-public-data.google_political_ads.geo_spend` FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 6 DAY) GROUP BY country;
by gms7777 | 2025-09-29 12:28:39+00:00
I’m currently wedding planning and regularly visit a wedding planning forum. I was left flabbergasted the other day when someone posted if it would be ok to ask guests to not post pictures of the couple on social media. They’re ok with guests posting pictures of themselves or of the venue and decor, they just don’t really want pictures of the bride and groom.

The response ranged from “you can ask but you can’t prevent people from posting” to “it’d be rude and inconsiderate to even ask”. One person even argued that it would be rude and other people would judge them if they went to a wedding and didn’t have a picture of the bride and groom.

I don’t think I ever felt the generational divide as acutely as in reading those responses, and I’m not even that old, I had social media when I was in high school.
by sebstefan | 2025-09-29 12:29:09+00:00
>I could, I suppose, ask each person that I see with a camera “would you mind not including me in anything you upload, please?”. And, since everyone with whom I’ve spoken at games, so far anyway, has been perfectly pleasant and friendly

I must be living in a parallel universe of airsoft players. I can't possibly imagine anyone in that space changing their ways because somebody kindly asked them to
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-29 12:29:14+00:00
It's a legally grey area. In most countries, you can't really stop people from shooting video and photos in public spaces. But you can do something about publishing the material. Most stock photography websites and similar websites will insist on permission from identifiable individuals in photos or videos for this reason. And a lot of conferences or fairs will give notice of the fact that there will be photos and videos taken at such events (thus clearly marking them as public events). I've seen that here in Germany at least.

And this is a sensitive topic here. Some people here get upset if you point a camera at them and will aggressively demand that you delete their photo. I've seen that happen a few times (not to me). Some people really get pissed off over this here and they tend to known their rights. So good luck arguing otherwise.

If you look at the rules here, they are quite sensible. You can't just publish photos or videos with recognizable people in them unless it's clearly a public event (like a demonstration, concert, etc.). Taking the photos is mostly OK (up to a point). And there's an exemption for private photos. But you can't just publish photos with people recognizably in them unless falls under the narrow set of exceptions to that rule.

Photos of people actually count as personally identifiable information under GDPR. So, people can object to that being stored by companies, ask for it to be removed, and companies need valid reasons for storing such photos.

In this case, the person is in the UK where people simply have less protections against this. Which is something the tabloid press there tends to abuse by trying to get photos of famous people in private / embarrassing situations by all means possible. That would be a lot less legal in Germany and expose you to lawsuits if you were to do that. The German tabloid press has a rich history of that happening.
by zokier | 2025-09-29 12:29:31+00:00
It is funny how insular and US centric many of the comments here are. In fact many countries do have legislation requiring consent in many scenarios for photographing or publishing photos. And it turns out that it is not actually very problematic.

Wikimedia has some examples, but I'm sure it is not comprehensive: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...
by Hilift | 2025-09-29 12:29:31+00:00
> By far the largest Express sort facilities are in Memphis ...

I once worked for well known company with a large presence in Memphis. Our mostly empty parking lot was a mobile location for the city's new network of gunshot detectors. In Memphis I would guess 80% of residents carry firearms for protection.

https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/a/aos009983-memphis-poli...
by Simulacra | 2025-09-29 12:29:41+00:00
I agree with the author, and it Reminds me of people who video at the gym. I think it goes to a deeper issue in our society: people love taking video of other people, and then put them on the internet, which always runs the risk of being turned into a meme, etc.

I lament that this guy may have to wear a mask, And I wish more venues had no photography or video. The last thing I wanted to go to the gym and working out, and I accidentally glance over at someone, who videotaped it, and then put me on the internet with some caption..
by sigwinch | 2025-09-29 12:29:53+00:00
Well, his post and Loomer’s seminal post are bait. They get what they want if we react as if they’re telling the truth. It’s their first impulse to lie.

Don’t fall for the faux outrage. It took him 15 minutes or more to type all that out, and the people commenting here think much faster than him and Loomer. It’s gonna look casual.
by cess11 | 2025-09-29 12:30:02+00:00
"But the ad archives were introduced 7 years ago for a reason - in no small part because of the chaos of the Brexit and Trump 2016 votes, and our own advocacy here in Ireland about interference in the 2018 8th amendment referendum.

They were introduced to allow for scrutiny of campaigns, and also to provide a historical record so we could go back and look at what had been promised, and what had been spent, and to see if this lined up with what happened later.

This erasure of our political past feels dangerous, for scrutiny, for accountability, for shared memory, for enforcement of our rules - for our democracy."

It's a rather reasonable demand that they should keep a record of the political campaigns and psyops they make their dough from, at least if nuking Alphabet from orbit is not an option.
by brna-2 | 2025-09-29 12:30:18+00:00
I was really thinking of imposing a framework where people know someones preference even when looking at the videos later. I would be fine even if there is no fine, if someone found me on one of your photos and say - look a lanyard, what a jerk for putting that online, without any additional consequence. EU came into my mind because of the existing GDPR and as a platform where this could be propagated. No I would generally not want anyone to go to jail even it the footage wracks my life somehow, but I would want a mechanism to broadcast my preference to the recording world.