MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bruce511 | 2025-09-21 05:46:52+00:00
You're supposing that the salary cost is the only cost. That's not how it works.

Firstly, are you offering this assistant Paid Time Off? Paid Sick Time? Are you making social security contributions? Health care contributions? Or do they need to do that?

You're happy with 10 hours per week. So say 3 to 5 pm? Or would some of the tasks be time-of-day dependent? Would you be happy

By the time you're paying a living wage, and all the extras are added in, it's costing more like 25 to 30k a year. Maybe some folk can afford that, but I'm guessing most can't.

But what fo randos on the internet know? Find 3 mates. Pony up some cash. Hire a person. When it's working, find 4 more randos and hire another. This is how businesses start...
by pagutierrezn | 2025-09-21 05:48:37+00:00
AI is filling "narrow" gaps. In the case of seniors these are:

-techs they understand but still not master. AI aids with implementation details only experts knowb about

- No time for long coding tasks. It aids with fast implementations and automatic tests.

- No time for learning techs that adress well understood problems. Ai helps with quick intros, fast demos and solver of learners' misunderstandings

In essence, in seniors it impacts productivity

In the case of juniors AI fills the gaps too. But these are different from seniors' and AI does not excell in them because gaps are wider and broader

- Understand the problems of the business domain. AI helps but not that much.

- Understand how the organization works. AI is not very helpful here.

- Learn the techs to be used. AI helps but it doesn't know how to guide a junior in a specific organisational context and specific business domain.

In essence it helps, but not that much because the gaps are wider and more difficult to fill
by sebtron | 2025-09-21 05:50:52+00:00
> “It turns out the most predictive out of all the factors we measured was how quickly gamers could mentally rotate things and overcome the Simon effect. The faster they were, the less likely they were to invert. People who said they sometimes inverted were by far the slowest on these tasks.” So does this mean non-inverters are better gamers? No, says Corbett. “Though they tended to be faster, they didn’t get the correct answer more than inverters who were actually slightly more accurate.”

> In short, gamers think they are an inverter or a non-inverter because of how they were first exposed to game controls. Someone who played a lot of flight sims in the 1980s may have unconsciously taught themselves to invert and now they consider that their innate preference; alternatively a gamer who grew up in the 2000s, when non-inverted controls became prevalent may think they are naturally a non-inverter. However, cognitive tests suggest otherwise. It’s much more likely that you invert or don’t invert due to how your brain perceives objects in 3D space.

Or maybe it is the opposite: playing frequently with (non-)inverted controls makes you better at the kind of games they made the subjects play in this test. This article does a very poor job convincing me that their thesis is correct.

My personal experience is that I never played a 3D game with a controller until a couple of years ago (I am 31). Always keyboars and mouse now. When I started, my girlfriend asked me if I preferred normal controls. I was equally terrible with either, so we stuck to whatever she prefers (both axes inverted). I have a very hard time believing that this is not just a matter of practice.
by UltraSane | 2025-09-21 05:51:15+00:00
Mao Zedong was an idiot who badly damaged China. Democracy requires the freedom to create new political parties and for anyone to run in honest elections. The fact that the CCP is the only political party allowed in China proves it isn't democratic by definition.

The US is absolutely not the gold standard for democracy. In fact the GOP's goal seems to be to become a single party dictatorship much like the CCP is.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-09-21 05:52:29+00:00
Some of the juniors I work with frequently point to AI output as a source without any verification. One crazy example was using it to do simple arithmetic, which they then took as correct (and it was wrong).

This is all a pretty well-trodden debate at this point though. AI works as a Copilot which you monitor and verify and task with specific things, it does not work as a pilot. It's not about junior or senior, it's about whether you want to use this thing to do your homework/write your essay/write your code for you or whether you use it as an assistant/tutor, and whether you are able to verify its output or not.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-21 05:53:03+00:00
It is basically Modula-2 (in features) revamped with C syntax, and with compile time execution support.

It is the route of what would have happened if Modula-2 or Object Pascal had won the industry mindshare instead of C.

I think it comes too late, we know better nowadays, so it doesn't really offer anything new.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-21 05:53:15+00:00
It’s interesting to do the calculation for one’s own work.

It’s obviously going to be flawed unless it’s a very basic job. The peripheral costs are the devil. Eg: Stationary, payroll costs, uniform, software licences, swipe cards, coffee, water, rent.

However mine is an awful lot higher than the CEOs (as a percentage, not in dollars).
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-21 05:53:35+00:00
That's a cool thing to have, and I'm glad you found the analogy helpful, but I hope you understand the CI DAG you're talking about is not making anything more stable. It is just to cache build jobs. To make things more stable (what the post is referring to) you need a separate mechanism; in a monorepo w/CI, that's gating the merge on test results (which doesn't require a DAG). (And actually, if you skip tests in a monorepo, you are likely to eventually miss systemic bugs)
by zarzavat | 2025-09-21 05:55:17+00:00
If you search back HN history to the beginnings of AI coding in 2021 you will find people observing that AI is bad for juniors because they can't distinguish between good and bad completions. There is no surprise, it's always been this way.

Edit interesting thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27678424

Edit: an example of the kind of comment I was talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27677690
by gonzobonzo | 2025-09-21 05:56:07+00:00
This always confused me. You have a bottle of glue sold by company X. Then you have 87 different people "buying" the glue in bulk, having it sent to Amazon, and selling it on Amazon as if it comes from their store:

Buying option 1: Company X glue from store A. Buying option 2: Company X glue from store B. Buying option 3: Company X glue from store C. ...etc.

But then Amazon says, "actually, these are all the exact same bottles of glue, so we'll thrown them all into the same bin, and no matter what "store" the people buy them from, we'll just grab them out and send them to the customer.

Now even without counterfeits, this is weird. What exactly is the point of store A, B, C, etc.? Company X sends the bottles to Amazon, they get put in one big pile, you buy them on Amazon, and Amazon takes them out of that one big pile and sends them to you.

The only thing purpose of the "stores" when you co-mingle inventory seems to be:

1. Plausible deniability for counterfeits. Hey, they told us they bought it from company X, we had no way of knowing they didn't.

2. Getting money from people trying to get rich quick in the marketplace. Some people will try all sorts of cuts to boost their Amazon sales in the hope that it will pay off later.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-21 05:56:51+00:00
I hadn't heard of Slate Star Codex, I'll check this out.

Not taking it personally at all!

I'm a life-long chronic insomniac, which is how I got into this.

My first reaction wasn't "I'm going to solve this problem", it was

1) is this slow-wave enhancement even real 2) will anyone believe it 3) who is it for? How do we prove it?

I had some confidence in slow-wave enhancement because Philips did a bunch of research in this space and tried to launch a product and failed.

But the researchers that worked with Philips were at University of Sydney (where we work) and Melbourne, so I had access to some of the top researchers in the world.

Also, one of the first researchers I spoke to said he was amazed by the technology, but then I discovered he secretly hated it. He didn't make excuses for why it wouldn't work. He said it did, but made excuses for why we couldn't do it. Why it wasn't safe (which has been proven wrong). That made me go "wow! This guy could have said it doesn't work, but he didn't. He said it works, but we don't know the impact on respiratory function, immune function, etc etc. " That was a powerful moment for me.

Then I spoke to some local VCs and med investors I know, thinking, I'm going to need funding, will they just ignore us? One said "this is exactly the sort of thing he looks for". Then they ghosted us, but I sold my other start-up and we funded this :)

Lastly, the who is it for....this is the one Philips really struggled with. I think it's the biggest challenge for us.

You mentioned your insomnia. We're not an insomnia device. But everyone hears "better sleep" and thinks fall asleep faster, sleep longer. That is a difficult pattern to break out of.

I still have insomnia. I'll tell you what is not the cure...bootstrapping a neurotech hardware start-up! :)

My belief is that if we stay true and honest about our capabilities, focus on the people we can help, and change the story about sleep.

From that base, we can look to continue to expand and help others.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-21 05:58:42+00:00
To embrace a stereotype, there are two types of people in the kitchen: Tool enthusiasts and food enthusiasts.

The tool enthusiast has beautiful Japanese steel knives treated as family heirlooms; the knives are sent out for professional sharpening once or twice a year.

The food enthusiast has a pile of fibrox knives and a chef's choice electric sharpener. The knives go through the sharpener once a month and the dishwasher daily; the knives get replaced every decade or two.

The tool enthusiast's knives are pretty, but the food enthusiast's knives always pass the paper test.

Nobody has ever complemented me "wow, this meal was prepared with such pretty knives!"
by rashunain | 2025-09-21 05:58:46+00:00
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by leakycap | 2025-09-21 05:59:47+00:00
No, the lawsuit could be over with any sufficient legal ruling, whether it is worded nicely or not.

I'd like more actions instead of spicy language.

Sanctions against the legal teams involved in b.s. legal motions, for example. It's not about scolding. He and his team don't seem to care about being scolded, even with big mean judge words.
by buu700 | 2025-09-21 06:00:39+00:00
I think you probably can't go too wrong just searching for 600D aramid + the name of your phone and picking one from a seller with good reviews, but the specific one I have is this: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805920169643.html.

Before that, I was using this one from Thinborne: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHLF8FD7. For all intents and purposes, they're functionally identical. I slightly preferred the style of the AliExpress one (camera glass cover + no logo), but the main reason I went for AliExpress when I needed a replacement was that it was half the price of the Thinborne. (The AliExpress one has since gone up ~$10, but the Thinborne one doesn't appear to be available at all anymore.)
by EasyMark | 2025-09-21 06:01:09+00:00
Everything they sell is related to ending privacy, promoting surveillance, and support of slow frog boil fascism to replace democracy in the west and as a means to enriching Thiel and the other owners of Palantir; how can you not single it out as Evil Corp? As least google and facebook aren't directly aimed at bringing fascism to the fore. They're mostly just doing what they can within their realms that causes general chaos without any concern about the social damage they do; Palantir is planned obsolescence of privacy and democracy
by ksec | 2025-09-21 06:01:26+00:00
I wish they could do a 2 port version. During holiday I tend to charge both my Phone and Battery pack at the same time over night. Unless All Hotels around the world start doing integrated GaN 30 to 40W charging port as standard I will still need to bring my own USB-C Adaptor.

Even the same 60W max, 30W per port is enough to charge both to full in 2-3 hours.
by glimshe | 2025-09-21 06:01:32+00:00
I know literally dozens of people who would come even for an entry level job. I occasionally work as a volunteer assisting foreigners who want to work in the US tech industry.

Also, anecdotally, a friend just immigrated from Scandinavia to the US 3 months ago. He's loving it and has no plans to go back despite the political situation.

Most people are fairly isolated from the day-to-day political show. Life keeps going more or less the same across different presidents.
by fastball | 2025-09-21 06:01:40+00:00
If someone was murdered and the cops had some reason to believe the perp was white and spoke English natively, I'd have zero issues with being pulled in for questioning on nothing but the fact that I match those features (even though I have no priors or anything else that would otherwise indicate me a good suspect).

The order was stayed because the lower court made a massive overreach they have no business making. There are many lower courts, there is only one SCOTUS. SCOTUS does not have the bandwidth to hear all the cases on the merits docket if lower courts keep overreaching.

Your options are either this or somehow forcing SCOTUS to process the merits cases much faster, which people would also complain about ("justice can't be rushed!"). But of course the complaints only ever come when the decision is one you disagree with. When things are expedited in your favor, people tend to have no problem with that.
by mikae1 | 2025-09-21 06:05:19+00:00
Žižek in 2011:

“I think today the world is asking for a real alternative. Would you like to live in a world where the only alternative is either anglo-saxon neoliberalism or Chinese-Singaporean capitalism with Asian values? I claim if we do nothing we will gradually approach a kind of a new type of authoritarian society. Here I see the world historical importance of what is happening today in China. Until now there was one good argument for capitalism: sooner or later it brought a demand for democracy … What I’m afraid of is, with this capitalism with Asian values, we get a capitalism much more efficient and dynamic than our western capitalism. But I don’t share the hope of my liberal friends – give them ten years [and there will be] another Tiananmen Square demonstration – no, the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/11/11/slavoj-zizek-a...
by summis | 2025-09-21 06:05:50+00:00
Europa Clipper mission was launched Oct. 14, 2024 and arrives to Jupiter in April 2030. Jupyter Icy Moon Explorer (juice) was launched Apr. 14, 2023 and arrives to Jupyter in July 2031. I admire people behind these space missions - lots of work for a reward that one must wait for so many years.
by kijin | 2025-09-21 06:06:35+00:00
For modern Linux servers with large amounts of RAM, my rule of thumb is between 1/8 and 1/32 of RAM, depending on what the machine is for.

For example, one of my database servers has 128GB of RAM and 8GB of swap. It tends to stabilize around 108GB of RAM and 5GB of swap usage under normal load, so I know that a 4GB swap would have been less than optimal. A larger swap would have been a waste as well.
by nine_k | 2025-09-21 06:07:01+00:00
Rather, Gnome stopped supporting ALSA directly around 2007, and Firefox did the same in 2017. Yes, you could use alternatives like JACK or sndio. The point was that a new Gnome broke the reliance on ALSA, as a user, you had to migrate off ALSA which you likely had used for a decade before. Naturally, most users migrated to the best-supported option, the distro's default, which was Pulse Audio both on Fedora and Debian.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-21 06:07:04+00:00
My official title is "Software Engineer", in the last five years I have..

1. Stood up and managed my own Kubernetes clusters for my team

2. Docker, just so so much Docker

3. Developed CI/CD pipelines

4. Done more integration and integration testing then I care to think about

5. Written god knows how many requirements and produced and endless stream of diagrams and graphs for systems engineering teams

6. Don't a bunch of random IT crap because our infrastructure team can't be bothered

7. Wrote some code once in a while
by nerdponx | 2025-09-21 06:08:55+00:00
It doesn't help that container images typically require you to "opt in" to sharing a cache with the host system. Docker even has a special file mount type for it. I find that people on average don't have a lot of interest in making such things work, they see that it's not available right in front of them and shrug and say "oh well" because ultimately it doesn't hurt them much.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-09-21 06:09:48+00:00
Happy to say I walked into a Best Buy last week because I needed a replacement mouse right now. I am really glad they survived.

I cancelled Prime because I wasn't getting any value anymore. Non-Prime customers are treated like second class citizens. Amazon has really gone downhill lately. Customer service is terrible. Not just the counterfeiting, but the website UX has become steadily worse. Archive order was recently removed without warning as was the ability to view itemized invoices. Yes, really. Before anyone says otherwise, "View Invoice" now redirects to your Order Details page, absent any additional detail.

I switched most of my shopping to Walmart. I get free next day or two-day shipping for orders of $35 or more, where Amazon will ship the same in 5-6 days now that I am non-Prime scum.
by schiffern | 2025-09-21 06:10:50+00:00
Amusingly, the study found the exact opposite!

Participants who consumed alcohol had significantly better observer-ratings for their Dutch language, specifically better pronunciation, compared with those who did not consume alcohol. However, alcohol had no effect on self-ratings of Dutch language skills.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269881117735687
by saaaaaam | 2025-09-21 06:10:51+00:00
Slice thinner and cleaner with less effort. For example the bread slicing ability — I’d love to be able to cut really thin slices of brioche to drape over things or toast. It would also be fun to play with what it might let you do that a regular knife just can’t. I don’t see this as an alternative to a regular knife, but as a different tool that would elevate garnishing.
by Panzerschrek | 2025-09-21 06:11:00+00:00
As I understand having 10000 players in some area isn't a big problem. Processing players isn't that hard. It seems for me to be much harder to simulate the world around players - flowing water, growing trees/crops, redstone circuits, pistons, mobs. In the worst case players may be located very far from each other, so it's needed to simulate up 10000 world regions. Can this server really do this? Or not really? Or maybe it has very limited world size.
by glimshe | 2025-09-21 06:12:42+00:00
I'd love if more people on HN could read your post. As someone who's spent more than half of his life overseas in an ultra high density city, I wouldn't trade my quiet American suburb by a glamorous city with perfect public transportation anywhere in the world. It was great when I was single and cared about meeting girls and partying, but no more.

To each their own, right?
by leakycap | 2025-09-21 06:13:09+00:00
> I followed all the items to a T, including standing when everyone went back to sitting [...] When the axe came, it was me who was let go first.

It doesn't sound like you were rewarded for your dissent from the group behavior, like standing up in a meeting (which is weird if everyone else is seated).

If you choose to act differently than "everyone" else (which can seem unusual, like you can't read the room), you're dissenting. You say something about being in line or out of line, but from your comment I don't know what you think you were doing.

Why did you choose to dissent from the team by being obliviously obedient and following rules "to the T" rather than going along with the team?
by sieve | 2025-09-21 06:13:17+00:00
I have had serious issues with Amazon these last two-three months which has resulted in my moving a majority of my purchases to a different online retailer.

I bought some ASSIMIL language-learning books being sold by a (known) POD firm. But I got some random (or so I thought) POD crap instead of the books I had ordered. I returned them and tried it again a month later (after confirming with customer care that I will get what I see in the listing) to see that the exact same books were sent again.

When I compared the ISBN numbers, I found that the books I had ordered were the older 978 series which can be reduced to the 10-digit version while the ones they were sending were the newer 979 series with only the check digit differing. I had to call them 15-20 times before I got my money back because they would repeatedly set up a return pickup, not do it and then claim that I have cancelled it. The books are still lying with me. They haven't bothered to collect.

They have routinely sabotaged multiple other deliveries by not visiting my house and providing bogus "OTP not provided/unable to contact" updates.

The absolute worst thing that happened was with some books I bought from a small publisher that they, unfortunately, sent by Amazon Shipping. One month and multiple calls/emails later to complain about Amazon's bogus delivery attempts, they completely ghosted me and the publisher had to RTO the books back. I talked to the publisher and they said they cannot afford to be out of pocket on shipping, so I paid them INR 1,000 to cover their expenses for the unnecessary two legs of shipping.

I have now decided that I am dealing with absolute scoundrels who do not value their customer's time and plan my purchases accordingly.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-09-21 06:14:35+00:00
AI produces code that often looks really good, at a pace quicker than you can read it.

It can be really, really hard to tell when what it's producing is a bag of ** and it's leading you down the garden path. I've been a dev for 20 years (which isn't to imply I'm any good at it yet) and it's not uncommon I'll find myself leaning on the AI a bit too hard and then you realise you've lost a day to a pattern that wasn't right, or an API it hallucinated, in the first place.

It basically feels like I'm being gaslit constantly, even though I've changed my tools to some that feel like they work better with AIs. I expect it's difficult for junior devs to cope with that and keep up with senior devs, who normally would have offloaded tasks to them instead of AI.
by benbayard | 2025-09-21 06:15:29+00:00
I think it’s a really cool product. I would happily own one. The problem I have with it is that $400 is a LOT for a chef knife. A great knife and an awesome sharpener can be easily had for $150, or $250 if you get a top of the line sharpener. That knife will last you a lifetime. How long will this knife last? What happens when the battery runs out of lifespan. What about when the motor dies? If this was closer to $250, I’d be much more likely to buy it.