MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceoj | 2025-09-10 02:36:15+00:00
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE - WORLDWIDE

Remote: Yes. I have been working remotely with clients from USA, UK/EU, AUS/NZ for last 12+ years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Senior Ruby on Rails and React developer with 12 + years of experience with software development.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvnKGKM6T2yAtkMhShAyxJtS...

Email: skfix@outlook.com

I am Sunil, a Ruby on Rails specialist with super happy clients from all over the world. I am open to part-time, and full-time opportunities.
by ceoj | 2025-09-10 02:36:49+00:00
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE - WORLDWIDE

Remote: Yes. I have been working remotely with clients from USA, UK/EU, AUS/NZ for last 12+ years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Senior Ruby on Rails and React developer with 12 + years of experience with software development.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvnKGKM6T2yAtkMhShAyxJtS...

Email: skfix@outlook.com

I am Sunil, a Ruby on Rails specialist with super happy clients from all over the world. I am open to part-time, and full-time opportunities.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-09-10 02:36:56+00:00
You seriously think these 400+ farmers that attended this meeting got into trouble because they bought “new toys“?

There’s a monopoly in farming like there’s a monopoly in tech. And you think you can go into tech with some niche business and somehow become Google before Google buys you up? Well, that’s the goal, to just have a company to have a bigger person buy you up and then you go away with the money and everyone else suffers.

There’s an insane separation of wealth and you don’t see that as a/the problem? I’m serious with these questions.
by mercutio2 | 2025-09-10 02:37:32+00:00
I’ve never heard anyone say freshman physics is the hardest class in high school!

Memorize 6 equations, 15 terms of art, and be competent at super simple algebraic expressions and you’re done. Physics in US high schools is taught long before calculus and usually before trig, which is dumb, but they compensate by making the calculation requirements something 6th graders routinely do.

AP Calculus is even easier assuming you’ve taken trig and calculus, but I realize many Americans don’t. But freshman physics is… I generally say a waste of time it’s so easy.

What did your daughter find challenging?
by smlavine | 2025-09-10 02:37:41+00:00
Out of curiosity, how often do you use your bank's app? I don't have my bank's app on my phone. Pretty much nobody ever gives me paper checks, and all of my employers have strongly encouraged/required direct deposit as part of the usual onboarding process. If I want to check balance or move between checking/savings, I use their website. I have a debit card, and my (Android) phone has tap-to-pay built-in.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-10 02:38:34+00:00
There are some large dairy cooperatives in the US. I'm not sure how healthy they are as an outsider, in general I think agriculture is a good place for cooperatives.

It looks like Michigan's milk producer cooperative is selling in some partnership with India’s Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Limited (GCMMF).

https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/mmpa-to-make-milk-for-world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darigold
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-10 02:38:35+00:00
Actually, I think hand-coders will still be around in future generations. There are still people who hand sew, weave baskets, and blacksmith. You will still have people who code by hand.

Coding is at the stage of maturing from commodity to a craft. This generation will pass it on to the next generation, and so on.

As with all crafts, there will be a great demand for quality craftsmanship. And it will command a much higher price than whatever comes out of the factory.

I generally foresee most AI generated things becoming worthless. It’s basic supply and demand. When copycats and crop up overnight in droves, whats the differentiator? The value goes way down.

I believe that winning differentiator will be quality. Uniqueness. A level of craftsmanship that an LLM can’t copy without knowing the secret sauce.
by estearum | 2025-09-10 02:38:44+00:00
Yeah I can see how this leaves a bad taste. A few bullets I found interesting while looking into this:

1. It was repealed in (also the Biden admin's) IRA about a year later

2. The argument for special programs for racial minority farmers is that only 1% of COVID aid for farmers went to minority farmers, largely because such aid was dolled out based on existing holdings/historical output. Minority farmers have been excluded from USDA development programs for generations now, so their holdings/output left them unable to benefit from from the COVID aid

Altogether seems like a reasonable problem to try to solve, but not a good way to solve it, and it's good that it got repealed ~14 months later for a race-blind version of the same program.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-09-10 02:39:13+00:00
> I assume if you really want this data for military purposes

Typically we are using NGA 1m DTED for the terrain elevation data but I don't recall off the top of my head who usually supplies the imagery layers. We'll pull multiple map types from a WMS Server, including raster maps like FAA VFR mapsheets for our Area of Operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTED

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/faa-aviation-maps/
by bsimpson | 2025-09-10 02:39:36+00:00
At most tech companies, you can work 5 hours per week or 100 and your salary remains the same.

If they see you working 5 hours per week and don't think you're productive enough, they can fire you, but you aren't paid any more for working more hours. That's what "salaried" means. It's why you've never heard someone getting paid "time and a half" for working weekends in tech.
by pfraze | 2025-09-10 02:40:18+00:00
I'm pretty sure the private data model is going to be clearly defined by EOY, between the community group work and bluesky internal work. We also made sure that bookmarks will migrate cleanly to protocol private data when it lands, so no need for the tinfoil hat. Your other explanation is pretty close to the mark.

EDIT: also fwiw, I got my start in 2012 working on ssb and then in 2013 on dat, both of which were conceptualized as bittorrent variants. Atproto has a pretty clear lineage from that p2p work. You just can't do large scale social computing on user devices.
by luqtas | 2025-09-10 02:40:28+00:00
i don't think there are much but i made my research a decade ago after realizing i was having a good time with my smartphone compared to my e-reader

[1] suggests that LCD even increases processing speed compared to e-ink

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22762257/

[1] https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2338/3534

there's a study from Havard concluding "e-ink is 3 times better for eye health than LCD" but it feels rather dubious from the claims (blue light stressing more the retina... like i couldn't use a glass or apply a filter on my screen), light intensity (again...), in-vitro study and who funded the study (a great e-ink screen producer) -> https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsid.1191

i probably read hundred books since i sold my e-reader and moved to my smartphone. i really like having a single device. battery is fine. physical books with images still rocks but maybe becuse i don't have a tablet :)
by wtallis | 2025-09-10 02:40:33+00:00
The problem is that there's not even a hypothesis for how light reflecting off an e-ink display could be easier on the eyes than light emitted from an LCD, unless the LCD is using PWM dimming of the backlight and thus flickering. I've never seen a claim that e-ink displays are easier on the eyes get further than the most obvious question: have you tried e-ink and LCD at the same brightness and similar color temperature?
by Nursie | 2025-09-10 02:40:36+00:00
Not sure Gen X are in love with office work, the X'ers I know (and I am one) loooove working from home. We're at the stage in life where we've settled, got spacious-enough houses where we can dedicate some office space, and working from home gives us space to do stuff like a little home improvement in our lunch breaks, or be home for deliveries and tradespeople. Big win for me not having to commute several hours a day. I'm lucky enough to work for a place where there isn't an office to commute to, and I know I've got it good!

As usual though, I'm sure I'm not representative. I was sure it was my generation that was going to put an end to the pointless war on drugs and other such stupid bullshit, yet here we are at peak influence (ages 45-60 approx) and it turns out the people in power in my generation are no different to those who came before. The problem is the kind of people who climb the greasy poles of politics and business.

tl;dr - it ain't generational. Arseholes in charge are always the arseholes in charge.
by Animats | 2025-09-10 02:40:36+00:00
Interestingly, California agriculture works differently. Farmers grow many different crops. Fruits and vegetables are not subsidized the way the big field crops are. Vegetable farmers tend to grow more than one crop and often switch based on demand. (Amusingly, some who switched from tomatoes to pot are switching back.) The industry is much more demand driven.

The subsidy-driven end of farming views markets for their product as an entitlement. For dairy operators, that's almost a religious belief. World School Milk Day is September 24th. They're desperately fighting against oat milk and almond milk in schools.

Then came Trump's tariffs. One of the current messes involves canola oil. Canada exported canola oil to the US, until Trump put on a tariff. So canola oil exporters want to export to China. China, in turn, wants a cut in Canada's 100% tariff on electric cars, which looks like it will happen. This in turn will reduce US car exports to Canada.

The current administration is soft on white-collar crime. That's part of the Project 2025 plan, and it's being carried out by refocusing the US Department of Justice on "violent crime". (Which is mostly the business of local cops, since the federal government only has jurisdiction over crimes related to interstate commerce.)
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 02:41:08+00:00
> There are some large dairy cooperatives in the US

They don't tend to own processing infra, though that is slowly starting to change. And some of them line "Land o Lakes" are cooperatives in name only, and are very abusive to small farmers, because they can only process at 1k+ head sizes.

> It looks like Michigan's milk producer cooperative is selling in some partnership with India’s Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Limited (GCMMF)

Yep! Because India can't export Indian milk to the US without tariffs, and American cows are fed meat, so Amul decided to corner the vegetarian milk market by making the cooperative deal with MI.

Blume Ventures had a good write-up on this I need to find.
by coderatlarge | 2025-09-10 02:41:30+00:00
windbg used to offer scripting capabilities that teams could use to trigger validation of any number of internal data structures essentially at every breakpoint or watchpoint trigger. it was a tremendous way to detect subtle state corruption. and sharing scripts across teams was also a way to share knowledge of a complex binary that was often not encoded in asserts or other aspects of the codebase.
by hinkley | 2025-09-10 02:42:06+00:00
Just remember that you could be at risk for three kinds of cancer. Cancer is the thing that will get you if nothing else does.

And then there are the cancers that are truly unfair. That try to jump the line. Go after kids, mothers, professional athletes. If we can fix those, our relationship with cancer will change. Hope those are the ones we can fix first. Or best.
by dheera | 2025-09-10 02:43:09+00:00
What's even worse is that I have my browser set to block cookies on ALL sites by default and only enable them for a handful of sites that I login to.

This causes all the stupid GDPR popup sites to not "remember" my preferences because they ironically need to use a cookie to store the preference of declining cookies, so they appear again each time because my browser doesn't store that decline cookie between sessions.
by mercutio2 | 2025-09-10 02:43:13+00:00
I am so fascinated by the different worlds everyone lives in.

I haven’t watched a video hosted on YouTube in years. But I hate amateur video. I never watch anything that I can possibly get through reading.

So in my tiny corner of user space, it’s really as if YouTube doesn’t exist except as an annoying thing Google puts at the top of searches I have to scroll past, reminding me to configure this device to use a different search engine.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 02:43:13+00:00
Yeah, there's this whole YouTube genre of fairly unassuming farms showing off millions of dollars in the latest and greatest John Deere equipment and coming up with rationalizations about how it's going to pay for itself very soon.

But the bottom line is that there are fat years and lean years in agriculture, but if it gets really bad for a sufficient number of farmers, the government bails you out because the alternative - no food - is recognized as worse.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-10 02:44:41+00:00
Sure, but a lockfile with a hash doesn’t mean that next time it will fail if it tries to install a version of the package without that hash. If your package.json specifies a semver range then it’ll pull the latest minor or patch version (which is what happened in this case with e.g. duckdb@1.3.3) and ignore any hash differences if the version has changed. Hence why I say you need to go out of your way to specify an exact version in package.json and then the lock file will work as you might expect a “lock” file to work. (Back when I was an engineer and not a PM with deteriorating coding ability, I had to make a yarn plugin to pin each of our dependencies.)

The best way to manage JS dependencies is to pin them to exact versions and rely on renovate bot to update them. Then at least it’s your choice when your code changes. Ideally you can rebuild your project in a decade from now. But if that’s not possible then at least you should have a choice to accept or decline code changes in your dependencies. This is very hard to achieve by default in the JS ecosystem.
by bsimpson | 2025-09-10 02:44:46+00:00
He's also the one who called bullshit when Oracle tried to claim that Java's function signatures were so novel they should be eligible for copyright. (Generally, arts are copyrightable and engineering is not - there's a creativity requirement.)

They tried to say `rangeCheck(length, start, end)` was novel. He spat back that he'd written equivalent utility functions as a hobbyist hundreds of time!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-10 02:45:48+00:00
It's not a friendly invite that could turn into doing a thing together. "I'm going to do something you probably don't like in this many days, by myself." is not coordinating. It's too one-sided.

Replace going to the bar with telling me you're going to the grocery store, with no expectation that if I show up you'll talk to me.
by nirv | 2025-09-10 02:46:55+00:00
> It’s hard to believe that Mistral isn’t the right choice to invest €1.7B in for economic reasons.

Why? Cursor, essentially a VSCode fork, is valued at $10B. Perplexity AI, which, as far as I'm informed, doesn't have its own foundational models, boasts a market capitalisation of $20B, according to recent news. Yet Mistral sits at just a $14B.

Meanwhile, Mistral was at the forefront of the LLM take-off, developing foundational (very lean, performant and innovative at the time) models from scratch and releasing them openly. They set up an API service, integrated with businesses, building custom models and fine-tunes, and secured partnership agreements. They launched user-facing interface and mobile app which are on par with leading companies, kept pace with "reasoning" and "research" advancements; and, in short, built a solid, commercially viable portfolio. So why on earth should Mistral AI be valued lower? Let alone have its mere €1.7B investment questioned.

Edit: Apologies, I misread your quote and missed the "isn't" part.
by brg | 2025-09-10 02:47:05+00:00
In at least one case it wasn’t released by management because it was absurdly embarrassing. Productivity compared between 2019 and 2023 had statistics similar to the following; average yearly CLs decreased from approximately 70 to under 10, significant revisions pushed in comparable products changed from 26 to 4, meeting time increased by a multiple, email volume decreased similarity. All this with significant increases in seniority and pay among the average employee. Contrapositive scenarios argue that there is a huge opportunity cost to the tech efforts from WFH.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-10 02:47:13+00:00
> All "compilers" have multiple steps usually invoking other programs at some point: parsing, actual code transformation, linking, etc..., some also find packages, some rely on an external tool or long command line invocations.

There is no technical reason the compiler can do the job of build system, but they are typically separated because of separation of concerns. Rustc needs not be tightly coupled with Cargo---it just has to understand enough of package concepts (`--extern`) for the actual compilation, so they can be independently managed and evolve. Odin's would be the polar oppsite, while Zig's approach is somewhere in the middle (compiler-as-a-library).
by ehnto | 2025-09-10 02:47:44+00:00
Yes, the restaurant is not tracking me across the city, and it does not contain malware (although I guess you could get food poisoning).

It would be amorale if these services were not exploiting everyone they can, including the creators.

The better analogy would be, is it okay to walk out on a barber who is spying on your phone, coughing in your face, and won't stop trying to convince you to buy his buddies shampoo or vote for their political party.
by runako | 2025-09-10 02:48:12+00:00
Sure, it would be equally difficult to start a new company making non-niche[1] t-shirts or toilet paper or plastic cups or light bulbs today.

1 - "non-niche" a/k/a the undifferentiated "standard-quality" product in the middle of the niche. This is not about someone inventing a longer-lasting light bulb or stain-resistant t-shirt. The best analogue to farmers selling commodity soybeans is something closer to plastic food wrap or aluminum foil. Not a lot of small operators playing in or entering those spaces either.
by 9rx | 2025-09-10 02:48:14+00:00
> You seriously think these 400+ farmers that attended this meeting got into trouble because they bought “new toys“?

I'm just not sure how else you go from some of the most profitable years in agriculture history to bankruptcy in the span of a year or two. Vendor prices have not yet come back down in line with reality, nobody is going to question that, but, as they say, the cure for high prices is high prices. These temporary aberrations are par for the course. For what reason is there to believe that this time is different?

> There’s a monopoly in farming like there’s a monopoly in tech.

Yes, Nvidia looks quite similar in a lot of ways. But the pick and shovel makers have always been best positioned to take advantage of gold rushes. That isn't unusual.

> And you think you can go into tech with some niche business and somehow become Google before Google buys you up?

I'm not really sure how this applies in any way, but especially because you don't really have to compete for customers in commodities. A commodity implies that you have automatic customers. It is not like you have to try and convince users to use your product over Google's.
by stephen_g | 2025-09-10 02:48:32+00:00
It'd be a lot of trouble to interfere with the source, yes.

I think the release files is the place they could most easily tamper - generally they're stored on Github infra so the files could be changed, and the checksum on the download page also altered (or different files and different checksums provided to different people if targeted).

Unless the builds are totally reproducible it'd be tricky to catch.
by jbm | 2025-09-10 02:49:45+00:00
I think one of the more interesting stories about this that is being missed is the comments being left under videos related to this.

I legitimately don't know if they are bots (because the comments are all too similar) or if they are the just sneering Redditors en masse. I can certainly imagine both scenarios, although I'm going to guess it is more likely to be bots.

Two examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VYtabeCROY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_N3g986TiE
by jordansmithnz | 2025-09-10 02:50:15+00:00
I think the Air makes a lot more sense through the lens of a foldable iPhone.

Even for Apple, there are a significant amount of challenges in building a best-in-class foldable. Supply chain, manufacturing, hardware design, software. Apple is well known for planning ahead; breaking down problems by tackling some in an Air model first seems in line with how they operate.

The price difference really drives this home. It’s only $100 difference between a Pro and an Air. By the time you buy the perhaps-essential battery pack it’s the same price.

I don’t expect this model to continue more than a year or two, it’s a niche option only there to set the stage for a foldable that will take its place.
by JamisonM | 2025-09-10 02:50:37+00:00
Lots of farmers in my area owning equipment with fresh paint (well, plastic panels these days) that can't make land payments, or at least complaining about it. The ROI on new equipment is poor and when things were booming the farmers lost discipline and the manufacturers were happy to add features and cost - fun for everyone! Chickens are coming home to roost now for a lot of folks and some of them are sharpening their pencils and some of them are in denial - in my opinion.
by gleenn | 2025-09-10 02:50:41+00:00
You know, I forgot my razor and was on vacation in a very touristy place which only had expensive, "luxury" brands of everything just to pump up the price. So I got stuck buying one of those Mach 4's. I have to say, it was actually a very nice shave. I'm usually a total skeptic and this is obviously Mad did a great job with this commercial, but there is something to be said for that product. I haven't bothered paying the higher price for it in general, but I do kinda miss it.
by sgc | 2025-09-10 02:51:09+00:00
Most schools do biology > chemistry > physics, which is from funnest and easiest to most technical and hardest (plus digging in to the building blocks of the previous class). Physics first is very much throwing them in at the deep end of the pool when they have never taken a high school class at all. Frankly, I never got the details of the curriculum due to lack of printed materials. Parenting is not easy, and it's an art not a science. I got her a tutor instead of risking giving her the impression her grades were more important than her to me because I was pushing her too hard. Her tutor helped a lot and had plenty of materials to help out. So no, my kid's not dumb ;)
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by dawie | 2025-09-10 02:51:54+00:00
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