MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobofan | 2025-09-15 13:52:50+00:00
I'm one of you.

I'm about the highest tier of package manager nerd you'll find out there, but despite all that, I've been struggling to create/run/manage venvs out there for ages. Always afraid of installing a pip package or some piece of python-based software (that might muck up Python versions).

I've been semi-friendly with Poetry already, but mostly because it was the best thing around at the time, and a step in the right direction.

uv has truely been a game changer. Try it out!
by betaby | 2025-09-15 13:52:51+00:00
From wikipedia

"In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels (/e/ or /i/) it is pronounced as a voiceless palatal fricative [ç], as in German ich or like some pronunciations of "h" in English words like hew and human. In front of low or back vowels (/a/, /o/ or /u/) and consonants, it is pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative ([x]), as in German ach or Spanish j. This distinction corresponds to the ich-Laut and ach-Laut of German."
by DHPersonal | 2025-09-15 13:52:55+00:00
Before I used GitHub and got used to its interface I felt that the majority of repositories used as public-facing websites were the most confusing way to get releases. Why is the source code that seems to need some sort of tool or program to use sitting next to the installation program? Do I need all that extra stuff or can I just use the exe/app? Why is there not a page with a “download here” button that’s as plain and simple as other closed-source programs?
by rtkwe | 2025-09-15 13:53:17+00:00
It's really really not. Cloudflare has the appropriate method to contact the owner of a domain behind it's anonymization: https://domaincontact.cloudflareregistrar.com/bobdahacker.co...

DMCA is NOT a contact form. Part of the process is an attestation that you are the owner of a copyright and the content is infringing on that copyright, lying on that is perjury (even though I've never seen it enforced, perjury in general is rarely enforced). The convenience of DMCA as a contact and takedown form does not legitimize it's use as one.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-15 13:53:28+00:00
Storing energy from the summer for the winter is a really inefficient way to do it. It's much better to massively over-provision the solar so you have enough energy - on average - for the winter. Then you only need a couple of week's worth of storage to account for extended cloudy periods.

Much cheaper, and you get a ton of extra free power in the summer. The only downside is a typical house roof doesn't have enough space. But a typical house doesn't have enough space for a 1 MWh battery either so...
by Bender | 2025-09-15 13:54:03+00:00
You think we're supposed to eat flour or sausage or arugula or lentils?

We are not. The dumb grazing animals are supposed to eat the various forms of grass. Their guts and stomachs are designed to convert those to energy correctly. Humans since time immemorial have eaten mostly vegetables and meats when they can catch them. Only recently did we start poisoning ourselves for the profits.
by pxoe | 2025-09-15 13:54:06+00:00
It may seem like it's "convenient", but whatsapp is truly a nightmare when you try to move it literally anywhere in any way. Huge backups, needing to transfer phone numbers, having to restore from backups, having and moving those backups in the first place, the way it's designed in that regard is the most inconvenient for a platform that doesn't even necessarily provide more security or anything for that to be worth it at all, particularly for people who don't even seek that kind of security or even know about it and just use it for "texting and stuff". Not to defend that or say that it isn't just a convenient excuse (it can be for sure), but just to say that whatsapp is possibly the most annoying app in that regard. It's such a pain in the ass I'd rather store all of that in the cloud. (Which ironically whatsapp pretty much just does anyway if it backs up to google drive, it just makes it the most inconvenient it could be)
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 13:54:16+00:00
The only pay question I can answer is how realistic getting the promised bonus is. I've worked in places where there was a bonus plan that could pay nice, but in practice we got $200 one year, nothing the next, and then it ended. I've worked in places where on a bad year the bonus was $15000 (after taxes and 401k deduction) and it went up in good years. I can't tell you what your pay will be, I know your grade so I could look up the range but I don't remember it (even for my grade I don't remember)

What you really should be asking is what the company is like to work for. Is there set/expected working hours (can you accept those hours). How often are there lunches that in practice are mandatory? Do people really play ping-pong or are the tables just for show / after work. Is there a dress code? How much notice is required for vacations. Will they tell you that you can't take vacation at times, and if so when. What do they expect you to do that isn't in your job description (that is as a programmer are you also expected to talk to customers). What is the dress code. Anything else that might affect your ability to work there.

There are also questions they are not legally allowed to ask (family status, disability not relevant to the job...). However you might want to reveal that you are/have one of those things so they they will pass you over now (they can always find an excuse once they know they won't hire you) if they care instead of latter. Hopefully this never comes up (or if it does they turn out not to care and so hire you anyway) but depending on your situation you might decide it is better to reveal it now rather than dealing with them finding out later. This is food for thought, not something I think is needed.
by Svip | 2025-09-15 13:54:27+00:00
> Tall buildings are banned in Denmark so its actually surprisingly imposing.

False. Buildings higher than 5 stories require municipal council approval (whereas normally it's a functional approval, not a political one), but that's only in Copenhagen. Other municipal councils do not have the same restrictions, and there are plenty of examples of tall buildings in Denmark.

The restriction in Copenhagen is historical, due to the fires that consumed the city; so to increase fire safety, buildings were height restricted. That most of Denmark otherwise don't have a lot of tall buildings is primarily due to a lack of demand.
by runjake | 2025-09-15 13:54:48+00:00
I know a number of white males who would disagree with you, myself included.

All it takes is a single, major non-routine event to learn that lesson.

The system is really broken for everyone and the incentives are really skewed away from healthcare.

It was the first time I realized that people are existentially truly on their own and despite its claims, “the system” truly isn’t there for them.
by foofoo12 | 2025-09-15 13:54:51+00:00
> Email about an upcoming charge is automatically sent a couple of days in advance

I'm talking about additional email. 24 hours before the transaction. With the subject "You'll be charged $10 for renewal in 24 hours".

This email will hit a lot harder. Most people's inbox is full of transactional email, as per recent post here on HN.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-15 13:55:26+00:00
An App Store is the last place I would go to install a desktop app on either Windows or MacOS. It’s astonishing how marginal the Microsoft Store is on Windows.

For years I had a machine on which the metadata database for the store would get corrupted within a month or so between a major update. I’d argue with Microsoft support to provide a recipe to reset this database (obviously possible because the update would fix it temporarily) but I was always told to make a new account —- but why am I going to mess up my installations of a lot of software that I use every day for the sake of some software I don’t use?

At work we have managed Windows desktops, since I’m a dev they did something so I can be an administrator, I can do everything but (1) edit group policies, and (2) use the Microsoft store. The only thing on the store I want is WSL2 but hey I can always ask Copilot how to do anything I know how to do in bash using Powershell.
by greenavocado | 2025-09-15 13:55:29+00:00
US hospital waiting rooms are filled with poor people btw.

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/your-patient-rights/emergency...

You have rights in an emergency room under EMTALA Doctor talking to a patient

You have these protections:

1. An appropriate medical screening exam to check for an emergency medical condition, and if you have one,

2. Treatment until your emergency medical condition is stabilized, or

3. An appropriate transfer to another hospital if you need it The law that gives everyone in the U.S. these protections is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, also known as "EMTALA." This law helps prevent any hospital emergency department that receives Medicare funds (which includes most U.S. hospitals) from refusing to treat patients.
by edent | 2025-09-15 13:55:29+00:00
(Author here) My roof is full on both sides. There simply isn't any more room.

I do say:

> As solar panels increase in efficiency, it might be more sensible to replace the panels on my roof, or add some onto a shed.

Even in the darkest days of winter, they still generate something (unless they're physically covered in snow) - but they'd need to be 20x as efficient to power my typical winter usage.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 13:55:38+00:00
> Sounds like they need an OSHA raid. Maybe the NLRB too

They did. On multiple occasions under both Biden and Trump. But Hyundai would always shield their liability by creating a shell contracting/consulting firm to hire labor. If one got popped, another one would be spun up.

Heck, it took the DoJ almost 3 years to begin the prosecution against Hyundai and it's partners for using child labor in their Mississippi factory becuase of political interference.

The issue is Hyundai is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, and "Make American Shipbuilding Great Again" has been a key Biden and Trump policy.

The Japanese shipbuilders chose to invest in Philippines and India over the US because they knew they'd face similar scrutiny over labor practices. Korean companies on the other hand decided to roll the dice.

> If Hyundai can do that, any American company could do it too.

Yet none of them who are working on peer projects to Hyundai-LG's did.

There are dozens of battery gigafactory projects in the US thanks to rhe IRA, but Hyundai-LG's are the only ones with a persistent pattern of labor abuse [0].

> needs to be addressed by putting the labor in chains

I am not disagreeing with you on that point. I am saying supporting that and then jumping to defend Hyundai-LG for breaking the law as well is hypocrisy

> maybe a team sent to Hyundai corporate to crack some heads (figuratively)

They are in South Korea, not the US. Furthermore, Hyundai consistently uses contracting/consulting firms to shield against liability, which was a major reason it took 3 years just to reach a point where the DoJ could begin prosecuting Hyundai for child labor in their MS factories

[0] - https://labornotes.org/2025/09/georgia-battery-plant-raid-sp...
by MadVikingGod | 2025-09-15 13:55:49+00:00
Think of irrationality as a form of infinite precision, such that no matter how many numbers you write down it’s always an approximation because there is always a more precise form. Now think of the number of sides as increasing your precision. Meaning there is an n such that every approximation after will read 3.14… and another for 3.141….
by alluro2 | 2025-09-15 13:56:19+00:00
This "it's only right that we, the humble and fair politicians, are exempt from this forceful control we're exerting over everyone" aspect of ChatControl is beyond ridiculous.

I'm not usually of a "revolutionist" kind in the slightest, but, when you combine this small example to a lot of things currently happening across Europe and the US - it does increasingly seem like people in power are less and less wary of heavy and serious responsibility their positions hold to the people, and are more and more brazen when it comes to trying to isolate themselves from scrutiny over their self-profiting endeavours.

Historically, there were somewhat regular "correction" events happening somewhere sufficiently close, that made sure that responsibility is stuck in politician's minds for longer into the future, but it's been a long time since.

Edit: My comment is partially fueled by everything that's currently happening in Serbia (grand-scale systemic corruption), but I do think you can see similar movement in much more orderly countries in Europe as well, and all this is unconnected to ChatControl, but I see it as a small ripple from the same source.

I also dare say that current state of affairs in US has emboldened such people everywhere.

Nepal is probably not felt as close enough to have an effect.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-15 13:56:31+00:00
Yes. Search for CO meter on Amazon, many of which are portable enough to be placed in a backpack. I used to have one, but its battery leaked which damaged it. These days there are disposable lithium batteries and also models with a built-in rechargeable battery. There are also some that measure both CO and CO2, and it's good to measure both. An example is B0CRQZNPLV.

Note that some these meters can alarm, and sometimes alarms can be false, so if you don't want one that alarms, then find that one.

Note that there is nothing much that one can do while in flight except take pictures, videos, complain loudly, change seats from back to front, threaten to sue, maybe use the oxygen mask if lucky, and take down information of other passengers, all before fainting.
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-15 13:56:31+00:00
The end game for these policies is, sadly, eminently viable. You’d have to treat your citizenship as if they were corporate employees: all phones under mobile-device-management, all laptops locked down and monitored by kernel level “agents”, and all network traffic running through traffic analysis. Say goodbye to any kind of home made computing devices or operating systems that don’t meet audit approval.

You could nudge this sort of thing into play by starting with e-commerce. No online shopping unless you’re using a Trusted OS. Ratchet up to cat videos and TV shows. Ratchet again to Trusted News. You’re most of the way there!

The “you can’t outlaw math!” crowd are kind of right but that argument assumes free and unencumbered end user devices, which, as crazy as it sounds, might not be a given in the particularly awful dystopian futures available to us right now.
by euclidinspace | 2025-09-15 13:56:53+00:00
I don't think that a prompt can be a valuable object, similar to how code used to be. Unless Mira Murati is successful at scaling her approach to deterministic inference, a prompt is fragile and transient. And even if she is successful, LLM updates make a prompt much less useful over longer time horizons.

I think that the only useful objects to keep right now are DSPy programs together with well-crafted examples, with examples being the most valuable because they are transferable across models and architectures.

I also noticed several people in the thread comparing coding assistants to junior programmers. I disagree. The only parallel is that they will do what you tell them to. Otherwise, a coding assistant can hold an entire codebase in context, reason across patterns, and generate boilerplate faster than any human. That capability has no human analogue. And unlike a junior, they have no agency, so the comparison breaks down on multiple fronts.
by alexjplant | 2025-09-15 13:57:09+00:00
I wondered why my university made us use C90 for Systems Programming class (circa 2010) until I took Compilers. This quirk specifically stood out to me when considering code generation from an AST - it's a lot easier to simply allocate all required memory at the top of a stack frame when you have the variable declarations at the top of the function.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-09-15 13:57:24+00:00
> Also the sizing of the text in the chart and how it is displayed in your page is tightly coupled and requires some forethought.

I used to make a lot of charts with R/ggplot and the big disadvantage is, as you mentioned, the sizing of elements, especially text. So I wrote a small function that would output the chart in different sizes and a tiny bit of JS to switch between them at different breakpoints. It worked pretty well I think, the text was legible on all devices, though I still had to check that it looks fine and elements aren't suddenly overlapping or anything.

Another advantage of SVGs is that they can have some interactivity. You can add tooltips, hovers, animation and more. I used ggiraph for that: https://ardata.fr/ggiraph-book/intro.html
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-15 13:57:26+00:00
> The Amish do not live an 1800 lifestyle. For example, if someone is sick and needs to go to the hospital, they use a phone to call an ambulance to take them there.

The Amish are very deliberate about what changes they incorporate into their communities. Each community also sets their own rules, so it's poor practice to generalize.

(For example, their attitudes towards electricity are quite complicated and I don't think I could do it justice in a quick post.)
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 13:58:50+00:00
the average user should be here: https://windirstat.net/download.html

but for both, the first instruction is just plain download. i think the average user can handle that. the others are alternatives for users that are familiar with them. i don't see the problem.

what could be changed is to add a message like: "if you don't know which one is right for you, you probably want this one:" followed by a link to the win-x64 version
by jncfhnb | 2025-09-15 13:59:20+00:00
> Correlation does not equal causation. Variation in genetics in a group can realistically be a factor as well. Three probable possibilities here: Only environment, Only genetics, both genetics and environment. Common sense says it's both genetics and environment.

Common sense says nothing about the weight of these factors nor does it say anything about “genetics” being archetypally delineated by race. Genetics for sure plays a role in intelligence.

You are appealing to non cognizance as a premise to support your biases. But that’s… dumb.

You are welcome to point to specific studies if you wish but the general consensus is that there is no statistical evidence of what you’re claiming to be obvious.

Most studies that attempt to normalize against socio cultural features recognize that it’s basically impossible to do. That’s why the best available premise is that since we broadly observe huge gains in population intelligence based on economic development within racial groups; it is most likely that economic and cultural differences occupy the lions share of any observable difference between racial groups currently as they’re all in different places.
by indigo945 | 2025-09-15 13:59:31+00:00
> But one of my hobbies is “oppositional reading” – deliberately interpreting

> novels counter to the obvious / intended reading. And it’s not so clear to me

> that the Culture is all it is cracked up to be.

It's not clear to me that reading the Culture series as an "ambiguous" utopia is counter to the intended reading. There is a multitude of instances in the books that show clearly the downsides of living in a utopia where every possible want is met. The drudgery and boredom of living in a "perfect" world is a constant theme throughout the stories. In one tale, the entire crew of a spaceship deliberately infect themselves with the common cold just to feel something. In another story, people turn off their safeguards and go rafting on a lava stream, causing themselves intense pain and even dying, only so they can finally experience some real excitement.

> In Excession, it’s explained that Minds do rarely drift far enough to go rogue

> and are destroyed by the Culture. In other words, these superhuman minds have

> not solved alignment, and they cannot/will not inspect each other to determine

> misalignment before malicious action is taken.

The Culture doesn't even seem very interested in dealing with minds that do go rogue. In the same novel - Excession -, the GSV Grey Area openly violates Culture ethics, and nobody (or noship) seems to feel compelled to do anything about it.
by tecleandor | 2025-09-15 13:59:49+00:00
But then we have to write the pseudocode anyway (that cannot be corrected by my IDE, so I don't know if I have pseudomistakes [sorry for the pun]), the LLM 'transpile' (that's not understood at all), and you have to review the C code anyway, so you have to know eBPF code really well.

Would that represent a time advantage?
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 14:00:29+00:00
> Is that what actually happened

Yes. Manufacturing speicifc news agencies have reported on this [0].

Korean and American unions have united to condemn the ICE raids [1], but that doesn't absolve Hyundai-LG for committing labor and immigration abuse.

> It seems grossly inefficient to me to send workers on B1s to pour cement.

It is WAY cheaper than paying the right insurance and US construction salairies ($20k-40k in SK versus $70k-90k in the Georgia).

> It's not just salaries though is it? There's hotels/accommodation, flights, per diems

That's at most $10k post-tax. Paying $70k-90k means also paying around an additional 0.25-0.5x in employer contributions depending on the state in the US.

By bringing in labor from Korea, they are being paid in Won, covered by insurance IN Korea (not the US), and all workman's comp has been paid IN Korea (not the US).

> so there'd be some language friction

Yep, but most of management and the chain in-between in Hyundai (and most Korean companies) are always Koreans or Korean diaspora. This has been a major friction in Vietnam and India as well, where Korean companies like Hyundai-Kia and Samsung would segregate Korean nationals and Korean origin personnel from locals (eg. Separate canteens, separate accommodations, separate per diems) even if they were doing the same work at the same level.

Samsung's chip design office in Gurgaon is notorious for this.

> which you edited later to remove)

I can't reply, so I'm in the process of replying via edits. I accidentally deleted it during the editing process

[0] - https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/georgia-hyundai-jobsi...

[1] - https://uaw.org/kmwu-and-uaw-joint-statement-we-stand-united...
by basfo | 2025-09-15 14:00:49+00:00
In my experience, LLM-generated code is only as good (or as bad) as the software engineering skills of the “vibe coder.” A seasoned engineer will not only craft clear, detailed prompts that specify how something should be implemented, but will also review the AI’s output on the fly, correcting major derailments—things like: “Don’t create a new function for that; just modify X to add support for this case.” They’ll even do an initial review of the code before opening a PR.

The real problem arises when non-technical people use an LLM to generate a full project from scratch. The code may work, but it’s often unmaintainable. These people sometimes believe they’re geniuses and view software engineers as blockers, dismissing their concerns as mere technical “mumbo jumbo.”