MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jborden13 | 2025-09-02 18:01:10+00:00
Location: Telluride, CO

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* Open to fractional, advisory, or full-time roles.
by supportengineer | 2025-09-02 18:01:26+00:00
These keys eventually stop working, need a new battery, etc. Instead of the onus being on the customer to "pull" a new one of these keys, it would be better if you "push" them ( mail a new one proactively every January 1st, give a $20 one-time service credit for activating it, and $5 a month credit for continuing to use it )
by gen220 | 2025-09-02 18:01:51+00:00
As somebody who's written and maintained a good bit of Python in prod and recently a good amount of server-side typescript... this would be my answer.

I'd add one other aspect that we sort of take for granted these days, but affordable multi-threaded CPUs have really taken off in the last 10 years.

Not only does the stack based on green-threads "just work" without coloring your codebase with async/no-async, it allows you to scale a single compute instance gracefully to 1 instance with N vCPUs vs N pods of 2-vCPU instances.
by toast0 | 2025-09-02 18:02:00+00:00
My deed is for:

That portion of the Northeast quarter of Section X, Township Y North, Range Z East, W.M., in Blank County, Washington, described as follows: The Southwest quarter of the Southeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of said Section. Except for some bits that aren't relevant.

That's not in terms of lat/long per se, but the section and townships are effectively equivalent to lat/long. If the shoreline moves, my property doesn't. Technically everything is relative to this stone ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Stone
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-02 18:02:03+00:00
>Morally speaking, no. Practically speaking, it does. He would not have seen jail time.

It's literally exactly what Shkreli got 7 years for, even after repaying investors. If you defraud money from someone and put it back before they find out, it's still a crime. Fraud is about intent more than anything else, and they proved it for SBF.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-02 18:02:04+00:00
> once Israel started the genocide

Israel started the genocide not later than 1968. Pretending that the genocide is a novel phenomenon starting after the Oct. 7 attacks is a propaganda point actively pushed by those under the sway of Iranian propaganda that is designed to align with and subtly reinforce, among those not already aligned with the Palestinian cause, Israeli propaganda that what is described as genocide is a response to the Oct. 7 attacks, because Iran's interest is not in ending the genocide, but in ensuring that it continues while leveraging it for propaganda cover for its own geopolitical interests in the region.
by boznz | 2025-09-02 18:02:05+00:00
>Got banned by Uber or Amazon? Just create a new account.

use the same phone number, email address or credit card and they know you are the same person, use the same wifi spot or IP address with the same behaviour and they can intimate you are the same.. Even badly written data analysis can do this and a VPN from another country and different username wont convince any system with an ounce of sense.
by andretti1977 | 2025-09-02 18:02:30+00:00
My 2cents: Nextjs with page router was a very nice (and simple to learn but powerful) framework.

I have always developed backend apis in nodejs with express and used Nextjs for frontend only and just when I needed SSR.

Developing projects this way had always been a joy.

App router did change everything and destroyed the good reputation of Nextjs: it is hard to learn, to manage and does offer few concrete advantages
by andrewla | 2025-09-02 18:02:45+00:00
It's crazy that Linear Algebra is one of the deepest and most interesting areas of mathematics, with applications in almost every field of mathematics itself plus having practical applications in almost every quantitative field that uses math.

But it is SOOO boring to learn the basic mechanics. There's almost no way to sugar coat it either; you have to learn the basics of vectors and scalars and dot products and matrices and Gaussian elimination, all the while bored out of your skull, until you have the tools to really start to approach the interesting areas.

Even the "why does matrix multiplication look that way" is incredibly deep but practically impossible to motivate from other considerations. You just start with "well that's the way it is" and grind away until one day when you're looking at a chain of linear transformations you realize that everything clicks.

This "little book" seems to take a fairly standard approach, defining all the boring stuff and leading to Gaussian elimination. The other approach I've seen is to try to lead into it by talking about multi-linear functions and then deriving the notion of bases and matrices at the end. Or trying to start from an application like rotation or Markov chains.

It's funny because it's just a pedagogical nightmare to get students to care about any of this until one day two years later it all just makes sense.
by lovich | 2025-09-02 18:02:52+00:00
The following you everywhere is a major problem with these systems imo, mostly because it removed the equivalent of bankruptcy for your reputation.

If you had to move across the country to leave your bad name behind, you used to be able to. And just like bankruptcy you’d start with nothing so it wasn’t exactly easy but it was at least an option. Now what recourse do people have?
by shahindohan | 2025-09-02 18:02:56+00:00
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Only to USA :)

Technologies: .NET/C# (Azure, ASP.NET, WPF), React, Angular, Typescript, mssql/postgres(really any SQL DB)

Always willing to learn new things, but my area of comfort and expertise is .NET/C# and on the frontend side React.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahindohan

(Can share PDF version if someone is interested!)

Email: shahin.dohan/at/gmail

Cheers!
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-02 18:02:59+00:00
The website already has guarantees against phishing because those are enforced by the managers. What's prevented is the snooping case of taking an export and cloning it without the exporting manager being involved. This is essentially indistinguishable from many legitimate use cases like archival or access to deceased relatives' credentials, which users might want regardless of the website's preferences.
by bityard | 2025-09-02 18:03:53+00:00
I'll heartily agree with that but will point out that Jobs was absolutely famous for believing his opinion was the only correct one, micromanaging anything that caught his interest, and routinely chewing people in public out over unimportant details and simple mistakes. So, great sentiment, not a great example. :)

My favorite company I ever worked for was much like what you describe. The management attitude from top to bottom was, here's what we think we need to succeed in this market, tell us what you need to get it done and we will give you the freedom to do it. There was a culture of people fixing small but annoying bugs in between major feature work, prototyping ideas that would make all devs' lives easier, and strong communication within and between teams. You were never chastised for dropping everything to help someone else get unblocked. People were nice to each other and were even not afraid to engage in a little light humor now and again.

It was profitable even throughout the great recession but could only scale to a certain point. So the founders decided to get out at the top and sold it to another company that didn't know what to do with it and most of the good people left when the culture changed to more traditional top-down management.
by duxup | 2025-09-02 18:03:53+00:00
I wonder how this plays out.

As noted sometimes the staff can't eat it, heck sometimes you might not want to eat it. That has to happen pretty often.

I worked at a company with a particularly sensitive HR team who would host pizza parties now and then, but they'd only order "weird" pizzas and I guess they liked it, but they were quite miffed when people stopped coming / didn't want to eat some pizza with some kind of fake cheese and unrecognizable veggies.

They were really miffed when my boss ordered our team pizza on their pizza day too, suddenly very concerned about waste...
by matthiasl | 2025-09-02 18:04:01+00:00
> All the designs I know of have a pumped (active) cooling loop for the reactor, then a secondary loop where the coolant (typically water) evaporates and drives a turbine, [...] You don't want potentially radioactive water to interact with your turbine directly, makes it a nightmare to maintain

A "Boiling Water Reactor" (BWR) has the reactor and the turbine on the same cooling loop. The radioactivity in the water going through the turbine is not a "nightmare", it is a manageable trade-off.

Some major currently-operating BWRs are Leibstadt (Switzerland, 1.2 GWe), Oskarshamn (Sweden, 1.4 GW) and several dozen in the USA. Germany also had some, they were shut down a few years ago (e.g. Grundremmingen).

https://www.gevernova.com/nuclear/carbon-free-power/large-re...
by lacker | 2025-09-02 18:04:01+00:00
I'm confused, I feel like the two of you are expressing opposite opinions.

The comment you are responding to prefers green threads to be managed like goroutines, where the code looks synchronous, but really it's cooperative multitasking managed by the runtime, to explicit async/await.

But then you criticize "code that looks synchronous but is really async". So you prefer the explicit "async" keywords? What exactly is your preferred model here?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-02 18:04:15+00:00
> It's a shame that yet another project (bcachefs in Linux kernel) and now guix are getting ostracized out of mismanagement... on whoever's part,

I'm not even sure it's mismanagement, just incompatible approaches. Debian ships a coherent system, with a minimal (preferably one) versions of each library per version of the distro, and each version of the distro is maintained together for a fairly long time with as close as possible to only bug fixes as changes. And that's 100% valid in its own context. Guix apparently prefers rolling release. That's also 100% valid in its own context. But those two contexts don't mix well, through no fault of either party.

> although in all honestly, and this is a hot take mind you; guix should either be run on bare metal, to take advantage of its bootstrap-from-source, thus avoiding debian in the first place,

While I also see the appeal to going pure guix, the cross pollination is good for both projects, especially (IMHO) guix. This provided a gentler on-ramp to using guix at a smaller scale without the flying leap that is switching distros outright, and (per the article) the Debian maintainer(s?) have found reproducibility problems while doing their work which is quite valuable to guix.

> OR be running as guest, in some fantasical gnu hurd environment, thus forgoing linux.

Subhurds are really cool, but I would argue there are lots of practical uses that don't really need to go that far.
by vkou | 2025-09-02 18:04:26+00:00
None. The executive is above the law.

SCOTUS believe it's up to congress to try and convict him, and Republicans in Congress believe it's up to the courts to try and convict him. Neither will lift a finger to save you or the republic.

The legislature can at any point in time choose to convene a kangaroo court to punish him, but the Republican party has actively and deliberately emasculated itself when it comes to holding their Don accountable - for anything.
by fmnxl | 2025-09-02 18:04:28+00:00
Those "single authorities" you fear already exist in western countries, the mega-corporations that monopolise entire markets.

The western system creates an illusion of choice, which those in power have found ways to manipulate. It has become merely a convenient tool for them to exploit the rest of the population, while the "free market" and "democracy" keep them oblivious to it.

But whatever people like me say, it will be too hard for most of you to accept the reality.
by darthoctopus | 2025-09-02 18:04:35+00:00
Did you even read the article? Here is the situation in China:

> Here's what's actually happening. As of 2024, there's still no nationwide social credit score in China. Most private scoring systems have been shut down, and local government pilots have largely ended. It’s mainly a fragmented collection of regulatory compliance tools, mostly focused on financial behavior and business oversight. While well over 33 million businesses have been scored under corporate social credit systems, individual scoring remains limited to small pilot cities like Rongcheng. Even there, scoring systems have had "very limited impact" since they've never been elevated to provincial or national levels.

Compare that to the situation with, say, credit scores in the US --- wholly run by an oligopoly of three private companies, but fully ingrained into how personal finances work here. At least a publicly run credit score would be held accountable, however indirectly, to voters and the law; and its safety might be treated as a matter of national security, rather than having Equifax and Experian leaking data like clockwork.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-02 18:04:43+00:00
Not the GP, but: For Guix in general? That's easy to answer:

(1) Making things reproducible. That is one of the main reasons. And not only installed system packages. You can also use it to build reproducible projects you develop, if the dependencies are available on Guix.

(2) The other one is installing software, that your distribution doesn't have in standard repos.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-02 18:04:54+00:00
I never liked async in Python. I feel like it's a bad design pattern, a lot of borrowed from Twisted at the time. I always liked gevent/eventlet based approach and will likely always stick to using that. At the time Go and Elixir/Erlang had green threads (lightweight procs / goroutines) and in general I think that makes for a cleaner code base.
by cubefox | 2025-09-02 18:06:27+00:00
His view aligns both with a leading neuroscience explanation of the brain (predictive coding [1]) and with Active Inference / the Free Energy principle [2] from optimal control theory. A similar theory of intelligence, called H-JEPA (hierarchical joint embedding predictive architecture) [3] is also put forward by Yann LeCun, a major AI pioneer. Another AI pioneer, Jürgen Schmidhuber, subsequently criticized LeCun's theory, but not for being faulty, but for rehashing ideas published in several papers from the 1990s onward. [4]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle#Active_i...

3: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

4: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/lecun-rehash-1990-2022.html
by sn9 | 2025-09-02 18:06:28+00:00
I'm gonna push back and claim that learning calculus the traditional way is still worth doing.

Not only will you be even more capable of picking up solving things numerically, but you'll also have the prerequisites for studying physics or probability or machine learning or Knuth's Concrete Mathematics. It opens doors to new intellectual vistas.

Solving things analytically (when possible) also can reveal more about the nature of the problem than doing so numerically, and can give the same satisfaction as finding an elegant solution in code.

You can definitely go an entire programming career without ever using it, but if you ever do run into a problem it solves, having this tool available to you is only a benefit.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-02 18:07:07+00:00
The thing is, there's no system of government you can design which confers protection against "approximately half the population, including 2/3s of the highest court and a plain majority of the legislature, is in a personality cult to one guy who completely ignores the law". How could there be? Anyone can just ignore the law and then the people charged with enforcing it can ignore it too. This problem is extra-governmental and does not have governmental solutions.
by fruitworks | 2025-09-02 18:07:08+00:00
I think the solution is some sort of PoW gateway like people are setting up now. Or a micropayments system where each page request costs a fraction of a penny.

You could combine that with some sort of IPFS/Bittorrent like system where you allow others to rehost your static content, indexed by the merkle hash of the content. That would allow users to donate bandwidth.

I really don't like the idea that you can get out of this by surveiling user agents more or distinguishing between "good" and "bad" bots which is a massive social problem.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-09-02 18:07:11+00:00
asyncio has been designed to be as "plug and play" as it gets. I'd discourage it, but one could create async loops wherever one would need them, one separate thread per loop, and adapt the code base in a more granular fashion. Blocking through the GIL will persist, though.

For any new app that is mostly IO constraint I'd still encourage the use of asyncio from the beginning.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-09-02 18:07:25+00:00
> This argument was made in the context of moving out of the Apple ecosystem

Author here. Insert your favorite ecosystem in that people currently have. If you have a windows 11 computer you end up with Windows Hello passkeys for free. If you have a Chromebook then it will be something else.

Apple devices show up in low income households somewhat regularly where I live because of subsidized iPads for education.
by Jensson | 2025-09-02 18:07:41+00:00
> There are ample evidence of EU expanding authority beyond the original charter, from common market project into a political union with broad competences.

Right, EU will probably look like USA after 100-200 years, but it takes time to get there, and likely will take a civil war where they decide that member states are not allowed to leave the union like what happened in USA.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-02 18:07:45+00:00
There is generally no legal penalty for the US government, or individual government officials as a matter of policy rather than subordinate individuals going rogue, breaking the law; the remedy is generally just being ordered to stop breaking the law. There may occasionally be compensation to those injured, but even when that occurs it is distinct from a penalty.

Penalties for illegal policy, if they exist, are generally political and dependent on the electorate (or, in principle, Congress.)
by jononor | 2025-09-02 18:07:56+00:00
Uber market cap makes places it in the top100 in the world, whereas Lyft is around 1/25th of Uber in market cap, and not even top1000. I would consider that a success... That is basically as much winner-takes-it-all one can realistically get in a global market. Cases where the top is just 5x the runner up would still be very winner oriented.
by divan | 2025-09-02 18:08:01+00:00
You're not even wrong. In your words, a "general computation device" is the device that enables you to "live your life"? How does "being their only device" make it even "general computational"?

I have no idea what your definition of "general computational device" is, but it's very clearly different from mine.

In my worldview, "general computational device" is the piece of hardware specifically designed to run any program you want. Personal computers, desktop computers, servers, and mini-computers are examples of these.

Smartphones - with the exception of a few very niche devices – have never been any of this. They didn't start as "mini-PC", they grew out of telephony – a heavily regulated industry with strict standards around the usage of frequencies, and where compliance and billing matter more than ability to tinker. The ability to "run apps" was never even on the table in pre-iPhone era. iPhone, ofc, changed it by pioneering the app market, and it was locked in from the very beginning - for security and user experience reasons. We can argue whether that was a good decision or not, but that's the short history of smartphones never being a "general purpose computational device". Modern phones are heavily optimized, specialized devices for the "daily life" tasks - camera, navigation, calls, messaging, web browsing – that also have very limited and sandboxed capability to run apps in a way that the manufacturers allowed.

So no, phones are not "general computational devices" and have never been. I'm sorry that your worldview doesn't allow listening to other people's opinions. Debating is indeed very hard without it.
by arcticbull | 2025-09-02 18:08:11+00:00
In a centrally banked economy, retail and commercial banks create money when you take out loans. The government doesn't create money except during QE which only happened twice in the US, 2009-2014 and 2020-2021. That's why I was curious what you meant by "they." The Fed has been actively destroying money for the last 4 years.
by miggol | 2025-09-02 18:08:15+00:00
Love the idea but the thing is, if it's just one file then it's probably easy enough to work that contribution out of the repository.

It is quite fun to try and think of ways that this could work though. Perhaps a bot that code-paraphrases (paracodes?) every accepted PR. Or maybe there's some crypto magic you could do to make the only option a clean room rewrite.
by matt3D | 2025-09-02 18:08:49+00:00
I use OpenAI's batch mode for about 80% of my AI work at the moment, and one of the upsides is it reduces the frantic side of my AI work. When the response is immediate I feel like I can't catch a break.

I think once the sheen of Microsoft Copilot and the like wear off and people realise LLMs are really good at creating deterministic tools but not very good at being one, not only will the volume of LLM usage decline, but the urgency will too.
by toasterlovin | 2025-09-02 18:09:13+00:00
> Why do I need an Apple/Google account to use my bank account? I can't even log in from a web browser anymore.

What bank? I have relationships with various banks. I can log into all of them with a web browser.

> That's my entire original point.

All we can do is respond to what you write. If you want people to respond to what you're thinking, you have to write it down correctly first.
by contingencies | 2025-09-02 18:09:22+00:00
https://www.lifelineh2hsydney.org.au/love-books/2025-book-fa... Lifeline: turns out it's suicide prevention focused. https://www.lifeline.org.au/ Not sure why they have two websites.

A recent event raised $300K: https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/09/02/31...
by dang | 2025-09-02 18:09:30+00:00
Oh sorry, I totally missed that! Your use of quotation marks was just fine. I thought you were being snarky (as people sometimes do) and apologize for making the wrong assumption.

> Also you removed/downvoted my request that asked posters to identify regions they are hiring from

Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095800? I didn't remove or downvote it. I did detach it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095292 because it seemed to be a general comment that belonged at the top level, rather than a response to a particular job ad.