MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orwin | 2025-10-02 09:41:05+00:00
I have no hindsight about the US president, but i know about what happened in France, and let me tell you, alcohol was never the issue.

While it seems our president use less coke that he did in 2018-2019 (to be clear, the only instance where i have heard a direct testimony is during the filming of the presidential new year vows of 2019, but a lot of people speculated about his coke habits until 2021), he do use a lot of more legal stimulants, at least during international trips. Age does not mesh well with this kind of stimulants, that can accelerate mental fatigue.

One of my pet theory is that Biden's "decline" was actually caused by drug overuse, and my guess is that he should be a bit more "here" now that he was a year ago.

The fact that Trump don't seems to work a lot and goes rest/golf often is actually a good thing in my opinion, because it will limit his needs for stimulants.
by justupvoting | 2025-10-02 09:41:08+00:00
The point is that everyone is doomed (even if you imagine we can survive the civilization-murdering tools we've cobbled up, we can't outrun physics), but that even at our most vulnerable, since the book occurs during a period directly after Armageddon, it is possible for some goodness in us to persist.

I don't want to spoil, but the optimism isn't for the characters, it's for we the reader, and the species.

The thimble of fire joins the wider flame. Goodness survives even there, and even then.
by whstl | 2025-10-02 09:41:46+00:00
I completely disagree. I am currently working on a large C++ project with modules and the developer experience is amazing.

As always, the problems are always with 3rd party libraries that require special handling when compiling, but that was always the case.

We could have off-the-shelf tooling as good as Cargo etc today, if it weren't for those special cases. Myself I just use a simple script.
by OskarS | 2025-10-02 09:42:46+00:00
I would argue that you have a moral and ethical responsibility to say no when your manager asks you to do something illegal, even if it does cost you your job. The law is the law, and there is no excuse for breaking it. Your manager is certainly culpable, but if you act against the law, you are culpable as well.

The exception is if you fear literal physical violence against you or others, or are being blackmailed or something, then of course you are being coerced and have no choice. But "losing your job" does not rise to that kind of coercion, in my opinion.

Not saying it's easy, it's a horrible situation to be put in and I have huge amounts of sympathy for a person who has to experience this. No one is perfect and act with faultless ethics at all times. But hard or not, it is your duty as a citizen not to violate the law.
by usrnm | 2025-10-02 09:43:12+00:00
> and the compiler gives a warning/error about the redefinition

That's if a macro conflicts with another macro, the real fun begins when a macro conflicts with something else in your code, and suddenly a piece of your code gets transparently replaced with something completely different. Granted, in most cases the result won't compile and you'll just spend some time scratching your head and staring at bizarre error messages, but one day you might get especially lucky and it will compile. Good luck debugging that.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-02 09:43:18+00:00
What I’m arguing against is the form of the argument you’re making when you say:

> If the data here is correct and inflammation is a better indicator of heart disease than cholesterol levels, it should raise questions whether cholesterol levels are correlative rather than causal.

But, as with the asbestos and smoking example, I don’t think an argument with this structure is valid. What I’m arguing against is your claim that the existence of one exposure/outcome relationship with a stronger association entails casting doubt on other exposures’ relationship with the same outcome.

Does that make sense, and do you have a good argument as to why we should believe that it casts doubt?
by comrade1234 | 2025-10-02 09:44:30+00:00
I was working with someone on a large government project. At the beginning I told him that we cannot pad our hours at the end of the year to run the contract out and then make up for it with extra hours in the next year like we do with business clients because it is illegal and further because it's a $1M+ contract could lead to prison.

Of course I found out that he was going into our billing software and adding hours to me. I had to talk to a lawyer and he recommended I report it to the gao. I compromised by quitting and reporting it to the liaison on the project (a professor). It was very stressful because if I hadn't reported it he could say that I reported those hours, not him, and I could have ended up in prison.

I think the liaison just buried it in the end.
by anovikov | 2025-10-02 09:44:55+00:00
Sadly, there's nowhere to run from the US really, unless you already hit FIRE (or simply retired which after a certain age, is the same thing). Incomes elsewhere pretty much suck and benefits they might offer (such as lower crime, free healthcare or childcare) are not important/not perceived as important, by men.

Bringing in a woman to marry to, might be a viable option though.
by cebert | 2025-10-02 09:50:10+00:00
Some people overestimate the impact that brief exposure to certain concepts has on children. For example, I watched shows like Captain Planet as a kid, which promoted causes like environmentalism. I wasn’t consciously aware of the viewpoints being presented, and they definitely didn’t turn me into an activist as a child. Young children are primarily drawn to entertainment and often don’t engage with complex ideas or deeper messages at that age.

I have to imagine that most children don’t even realize that same sex couples are in a relationship or a character is trans while watching shows.
by latexr | 2025-10-02 09:50:44+00:00
Unrelated, but I noticed this in your two comments and it seems to be something you do frequently—you’re using the wrong side of the quotation character as the apostrophe. You’re using ‘ but it should be ’. See the difference: I‘ll VS I’ll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_single_quotation_mark
by pjc50 | 2025-10-02 09:50:50+00:00
This is similar to the "rare earth tailings" phenomenon, isn't it. A mine is built to extract one metal, the most profitable at that time, and everything else unextracted ends up in mine tailings or refinery slag. But, in addition to truly worthless silicates, that "waste" includes a bunch of other metals at low purity which may eventually be economic to extract.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-02 09:51:10+00:00
I have promised to resign (and fully would have) when asked to implement something that would put customer security and privacy at risk, when such concerns were in their infancy; more than half a lifetime ago but in the dot com era when I had actual value. Our client, a very large organisation, became aware I had an ethical concern my own bosses didn’t share, listened to me and changed their policies to eliminate my concern.

People who work in the Valley for fifty, a hundred times more than the poorest in their own country often do not seem to feel the same way anymore.

This is not a question of abstract ethics, but a question of simple professional integrity. If the thing is bad and risks harms, you don’t do it.

It’s part of why I work for myself now; it’s not difficult to spot people who do not have a strong sense of ethics and simply not work for them. I work in a couple of fields where there are many non-ethical players, and can do so with a clear conscience.
by anaisbetts | 2025-10-02 09:51:20+00:00
> Maybe I'm missing the takeaway from the driving decisions.

I think the point is that for autistic people, a lot of things in their day-to-day life that randomly happen and can't be controlled for, can be the equivalent of just, random people walking by and punching you in the arm all day.

Each individual punch might not hurt, and describing the incident to a neurotypical person is probably met with "Eh, that doesn't sound that bad". An entire day's worth leaves you with a pretty sore arm though.
by mdp2021 | 2025-10-02 09:52:49+00:00
Of possible interest:

"60 Minutes" re-published a 2018 interview about Tom Mangelsen with Jane Goodall:

https://youtu.be/QSxvy0lKJTM

Also, the "Speech for History" last year:

https://youtu.be/_qnWuPHJwy4
by overscore | 2025-10-02 09:53:01+00:00
> I would argue that you have a moral and ethical responsibility to say no when your manager asks you to do something illegal, even if it does cost you your job.

When your access to food, housing, heating and healthcare for your family are dependent on your income, you may find yourself facing very difficult decisions. Most parents will risk whatever legal ramifications to care for their kids and that's inherent moral and ethical, even if the downstream outcome is not. That is because it is the socioeconomic system rather than the individual who is acting immorally.

> The law is the law, and there is no excuse for breaking it.

This is an infantile view. The law is a framework and there are lots of circumstances where breaking it is not only excusable, it's the only moral action.
by sonar_un | 2025-10-02 09:53:13+00:00
For me Immich has been good, but not great. I keep going back to nextcloud photos if I really want to do any work, like sharing images and file management.

I really don’t get having all of your images in a a library and not in a file structure. Immich can look at your external libraries but it can’t really do anything with them. I can’t injest, say my iPhone photos and then later categorize them and move them to the folder structure for more secure and stable long-term storage. I’ve wanted to like Immich and what they are doing, but I am fearful that they won’t be around forever and I will have just another wandering database of my images that I can’t really move to another platform when inevitably comes along.
by metalman | 2025-10-02 09:53:31+00:00
Who is kidding who? Just watch a film of a single cell critter, approach something and one , go yum! and engulf it or two go ahhhhhhhh!, and run away I believe the full technical explanation for that goes, mumble,mumble,chemical receptors something, mumble mumble.Humans are sensitive to certain chemicals in the parts per billion, and your finger can detect surface roughness down to 1/1000'th of an inch, thats the standard issue, exceptional indivuals with training will perform significantly better.
Show HN: Persify–AI-powered personalization order workflow for marketplace
by customall | 2025-10-02 09:53:54+00:00
Hi HN,

We built Persify, a SaaS app to help Etsy and Amazon sellers handle personalized orders more efficiently.

The pain point: personalization usually means manually reading customer notes, editing artwork, and generating print files—slow, error-prone, and hard to scale.

With Persify, sellers can:

Safely sync orders from Etsy & Amazon

Use AI to extract personalization details from customer notes

Automatically generate print-ready files

Send files directly to fulfillment partners (currently Printway, Dreamship, more to come)

We’d love feedback from this community on:

How we can improve the AI extraction workflow

What integrations or features would be most useful for sellers

Any advice for scaling SaaS in the e-commerce tools space

We’re early but excited to learn from your thoughts!
by grafmax | 2025-10-02 09:57:14+00:00
In Victorian England farmers were being displaced through the enclosure movement. Common land was privatized. The old way of life (farming) was taken away from them by the upper class. An economy shifting to factory labor was also a factor - farming lost its sustainability for most poor farmers in the new economy. Farming was hard and becoming harder. Factories were horrific. The notion that people simply chose factories because their old way of life was available to them and factories were just “better” is an oversimplification.
by LightBug1 | 2025-10-02 09:58:02+00:00
Raises hand for another n=1 that I'm currently going through. My point being, it doesn't matter than you can get hold of someone because the bureaucracy is kafkaesque.

WTF has happened to Google?

We're a supplier being onboarded. We've been in on-boarding hell for about 2 months now.

We've completed the job and are still being passed around teams in order to get paid.

As an aside, one of the scourges of modern business is Ariba. Google use Ariba along with many other large organisations and it SUCKS.

It feels like using Ariba forces big companies to map their bureaucracy around its structure rather than the other way around ... which means people getting bounced from team to team while different queries are raised and some random person somewhere raises another query, etc etc ... and even the internal staff struggle to make things happen.

Whatever happens, it feels like the bureaucratic structure and use of Ariba has imprisoned staff at Google. They can't get beyond their own system now.

The process was a real eye-opener as to what goes on when a firm becomes huge.

In my experience, once a company implements Ariba, it's over and they're just cash-cowing it.

The savings they make in automation are costs passed on to the consumer or supplier in the hassle factor of getting things done. I want to say "Never again", but that's not entirely my choice.

/rant
by notahacker | 2025-10-02 09:58:33+00:00
> Saying "This meeting is a bit unstructured and i feel if would be more productive to write out an agenda" is not breaking a mask or being an ass, it's focusing on getting shit done for everyone.

But in many cases, it will absolutely be interpreted as being an ass, and autistic people are less adept at spotting those contexts and communicating in ways which don't look like they're being an ass (also, autistic people are probably more likely to be irritated by the agenda of the rest of the meeting or next meeting being to discuss agendas...)

I agree with your wider point that everyone masks to some degree, but its obviously less consequential to non-junior neurotypical people in familiar environments who can reasonably accurately predict how everyone will react to them choosing to take the mask off and hint what they really think about the meeting. Sure, a lot of other stuff like requesting to talk in a quieter environment is usually something straightforward any reasonable person will accommodate, but it's not surprising people concerned that making too many requests perceived as "weird" might harm their career and not really sure what's "weird" or not default to just trying to avoid them.
by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2025-10-02 09:58:44+00:00
Hahah, I slipped down that rabbit hole about 2 years ago. We needed network access for testing devices on one of our production lines, but the manufacture did not allow wifi at the time. So we ended up tunneling over UART to access internal APIs on the device. It worked fairly well, and was even able to load more complex customer facing react based UIs.
by radarsat1 | 2025-10-02 10:01:27+00:00
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Remote: Yes; hybrid preferred but fully remote also possible Willing to relocate: Eventually (see below) Résumé/CV: https://sinclairs.gitlab.io/cv/sinclair_cv2025.pdf Email: radarsat1 [@] gmail

My background is in audio and haptics with a shift towards machine learning 10 years ago. I have worked as researcher or senior SWE on various topics including computer vision (medical, automated driving) and my latest achievement is leading a small text-to-speech startup as chief technical officer, which was a great experience in leadership, as well as the ins and outs of deployment and productization. I also gained skills in cloud infrastructure and API development. Unfortunately despite technical successes we didn't achieve funding, so I am on the lookout for new opportunities and open to working on similar or new topics. I love solving problems that require interesting algorithms and messy data. Lately diving into LLMs and agentic systems to understand how to mold these powerful systems into useful components of real products. So, generally I am open to ideas: all this Gen AI stuff is fascinating and I'd love to work more with it, but if I ended up working on vision or audio again I'd also be a very happy camper.

Regarding relocation, I am very close to achieving EU long term residency so while I'd be happy to relocate within Europe it would make a lot of sense for me to stay in the Netherlands for 1 more year and get this done, rather than start over again in a different country. On the other hand if I am presented with an amazing opportunity maybe it would make sense, so let's discuss it!
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-02 10:02:06+00:00
>> you can actually contact real humans as a workspace customer easily.

This is only relative to the experience when you're a free google account user. Compared to alternatives like Fastmail contacting support - and actually getting a successful resolution - is still very difficult. I finally switched our org after many years when Google announced yet another price increase (nominally for things I don't want or need) and I really wish we'd gone sooner.
by cess11 | 2025-10-02 10:02:20+00:00
Right, saying outright that Thoreau was wrong and also that pretty much every famous person who took him to heart was wrong too is a rather strong position to take and likely very, very hard to defend.

Or, for a more obscure example, that Antigone should just have said 'yes daddy' and left it at that with the play ending somewhere in the initial conversation with Ismene.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-02 10:02:22+00:00
> Quite a bit of idiomatic and safe (yes that does exist) C++ doesn't "translate" well to Rust without large amounts of rearchitecting.

How? If you're writing modern safe-ish (still very unsafe though) C++, then you're going to be avoiding shared mutability and using lots of smart pointers which translate straightforwardly to Rust.
by dvcoolarun | 2025-10-02 10:02:41+00:00
I built this: https://github.com/dvcoolarun/web2pdf — a CLI tool for converting web pages to PDFs, recently open-sourced after adding several new features. (Might be useful!)

Not related to the thread, but if anyone is looking to hire a developer or knows of opportunities, I was recently let go and am actively searching. Any leads or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Sample PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n7M1TKOptSsYiibrbvV_Yojx53T...
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-10-02 10:02:42+00:00
Do you trust 'jump to definition'. Obviously it depends on the language server, but it's best effort. I'm often frustrated when it doesn't work, because I broke the code in some way. Or it jumps to a specific definition, but there are multiple. If I was as quick at opening and reading files as claude code, I'd prefer grep with context around the searched term.
by dan-robertson | 2025-10-02 10:04:35+00:00
I think it’s a pretty common choice when you want compression in a new format or protocol. It works better for compressing chunks of your data rather than large files where you want to maintain some kind of index or random access. Similarly, if you have many chunks then you can parallelise decompression (I’m not sure any kind of parallelism support should have been built in to the zstd format, though it is useful for command line uses).

A big problem for some people is that Java support is hard as it isn’t portable so eg making a Java web server compress its responses with are isn’t so easy.
by baobun | 2025-10-02 10:05:55+00:00
If you are to be found in violation by DAO jury vote, you will be blocked from all private torrent trackers and usenet groups (we just have to make sure all of them mods are onboard mkay), with threat of ban for repeat offenders.

You may also find your support tickets everywhere languishing and x months of CAPTCHA-hell on every website.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-10-02 10:06:02+00:00
> In your world, is there such a thing as a bad employer?

Yes. My employer has gone all in on the AI bandwagon. To achieve this, they lay off around 10% of the workforce every February to free up capital for whichever AI fad they wish to pursue that FY, all the while spouting the usual bullshit about being a "family".

I could make a lot more money elsewhere working 12 month fixed term contracts, with possible extensions, than I do as a "permanent" employee doing effectively the same thing.
by n4r9 | 2025-10-02 10:06:09+00:00
> Critics circulated a clip from the “Dead End: Paranormal Park” in which Barney Guttman, the series’ protagonist, comes out to his friend Norma as transgender. “I’m trans, Norma,” Barney says. “Being here, it’s like a whole new place. I can just be Barney, and I can choose if and when I tell people.” The character says he has “never been happier” and says it is important to “live your life without apology.” Libs of TikTok shared the clip and accused the show of pushing “pro-transgender” on “7-YEAR-OLDS.”

Wow. Replace "transgender" with "homosexual" and you get the homophobia of the late 20th Century. Are some people really so afraid of their kids learning that some people are happy being transgender?
by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-02 10:06:43+00:00
My mind was blown when claude randomly called adb/logcat on my device connected via usb & running my android app, ingesting the real time log streams to debug the application in real time. Mind boggling moment for me. All because it can call "simple" tools/cli application and use their outputs. This has motivated me to adjust some of my own cli applications & tools to have better input, outputs and documentation, so that claude can figure them out out and call them when needed. It will unlock so many interesting workflows, chaining things together (but in a clever way).
by OskarS | 2025-10-02 10:08:26+00:00
We're not talking about living in a totalitarian state and breaking the law by aiding the resistance here. The cases in the article is like committing financial fraud or faking customer data. And then, yeah, I do think there is no excuse for going along with it, you have a duty as a member of society not to do such things, even if it costs your your job. It's not easy, and as I said I have enormous sympathy for a person in this position, but there is a clear right thing to do, and you have an obligation to act accordingly.
by theasisa | 2025-10-02 10:08:44+00:00
I am AuDHD and this is 80% my experience. I saw this post in the morning pondering if I call in sick or work because of insomnia and being unable to have the energy.

I commute to work by train and even though I have great headphones and listen to music on Spotify some mornings it just crackles in my ears. The audio is fine, but I'm extra sensitive sometimes.

At the office people are sometimes very loud. They are excited and having fun but when it goes over my sensory limit (which varies a lot) I become unable to do anything. Ears crackling with headphones means I can't shut their noise out either. And we're supposed to be social at the office but they talk about stuff I don't know what to say about.

When I get home I am beyond exhausted. Can't sleep because of anxiety or adrenaline or something. I just zombie out streaming series or movies while reading Hacker News, Reddit or Bluesky. I promise myself I'll go to sleep early but if I do I can't fall asleep until 2-4am. If I stay up until 1am I have better chance of falling asleep faster.

Weekends are spent catching up with sleep, wanting to tidy up and do side projects as well as gaming but most times I spend half the day in bed and then stay up gaming or something because it is my time and I want to do the fun stuff. Rince and repeat unless I get lucky and catch 10 to 12 hours of sleep.

I'm a 47 year old female principal engineer. I feel like I'm just drifting through the days and months. But I do live my work, the people and challenges. I just wish I could deal with everything better.

Thanks for making this game.