MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by olyjohn | 2025-10-01 18:35:09+00:00
The car is registered to some entity. If I stopped my car in the middle of the intersection and left it, they would tow the car and send me a fine in the mail, even if I wasn't in the car. This bullshit about not being able to ticket someone is pure stupidity. Cops ticket cars without a driver in them all the time. Someone had to go out and put the car on the road, someone has the ability to control it, and someone owns it. This whole wall-e mentality of "can't do it, computer said so" is insane.
by handsclean | 2025-10-01 18:35:12+00:00
The author presents two options: think you’re above politics, or practice it. I admit that, when I was younger, I did believe the first for a while, but what it progressed to was an option C: accept that politics, in some form, is necessary and affects me, then choose to spend as much of my life as possible on other things. If politics is necessary then boy is farming necessary, yet I’m not a farmer. Medicine is necessary, yet I’m not a doctor; defense is necessary, yet I’m not a soldier. These jobs are entrusted to others. We live in a highly specialized society, with which comes the gift of being free to choose beautiful things to feed our limited life energy to, and the curse of being ineffectual in any area we sacrifice little for. Because we’ll be consistently outperformed by those who give more to that area, and less to every other endeavor and principle.

Sometimes, in both workplaces and countries, we enter a state in which we’re forced to feed more of ourselves to the beast. The state’s name is desperation. It’s a tragic state, like reversion to a society in which we spend all our time finding food. People in such a state can’t create science or art.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-01 18:35:17+00:00
I feel lucky that I was growing in my craft when StackOverflow was still a good place to ask questions. A few poorly asked questions and you see how much back and forth is needed to tease details out or often you just don't get adequate answers. Provide plenty of context. Explain what you've tried and explicitly what isn't working about it. Reference specific error messages or numbers. It got to the point where I was researching in order to form a good question which often led to finding my own answer.

The place I'm at now is one of the worst I've ever experienced for being asked questions. No one has time or energy to write out a thoughtful question with context. It's always "let's hop on a call and discuss." No. I don't want to hop on a call with you while you fumble to even articulate the problem. Write things down first so you actually understand the problem and a specific ask for me. Multiple times on a current project one of my colleagues was trying to troubleshoot an Azure service. I'd give him something to try or look into and his response was always a simple "didn't work". Didn't matter how many times I prompted him to be more specific. "What didn't work? Are you seeing error messages? Did anything change?" It's like pulling teeth and is a source of a lot of frustration.
by sfink | 2025-10-01 18:35:18+00:00
Oh wow, I was just feeling grateful that I don't have misophonia, but then you had to mention chewing noises. I had that for decades. It wasn't all the time, but it didn't have to be loud or open-mouth or anything. It would just switch on and I couldn't hear or think about anything else. I daydreamed doing violent things to make the person stop, even when I logically knew it wasn't even slightly loud or unusual or ill-intentioned.

It almost never happens anymore, thankfully. Once every other month or so.

(Note that I am not autistic, or at least undiagnosed and my guess is that I wouldn't be. I just have some fairly mild autistic tendencies. I have a toe on the spectrum, or something. Those tendencies have a pretty dramatic impact on my life, but I think in a mostly neurotypical way -- we boring people can have similar problems too!)
by entropyie | 2025-10-01 18:35:55+00:00
For those who hated the unmaintainable mega spreadsheet of death, MS Access was actually a quite decent solution. It allowed you to sprinkle some structure and maintainability onto a spreadsheet without losing the accessibility and ease of development. You could whip up really functional UIs without much coding knowledge. 20 years later and I still don't know what the replacement for Access is in today's world...
by munificent | 2025-10-01 18:35:59+00:00
> Without contracts, either specified in documentation or as static guarantees, it is hard or impossible to build robust programs.

Right. I think a big part of this is expectation management. Julia lets you compose unrelated libraries much more freely than most other languages do. That's very powerful, but if you come into it expecting all of those compositions to magically work, I think you just have an unrealistic expectation.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to code reuse and Conway's Law can't be entirely avoided.

> I love Game Programming Patterns, by the way! Laughed out loud when I first saw the back cover.

:D
by CaioFer | 2025-10-01 18:36:01+00:00
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by jfengel | 2025-10-01 18:36:05+00:00
The correct answer is probably "buy foreign currency".

A sneakier answer is probably "short stuff". That will probably get you creamed.

What everyone is going to do is "get as much of that free money as you can, and worry about the rest later". At the end they'll make a ton of profit but be sad that they didn't predict the market peak, so it will feel like a loss.
by senordevnyc | 2025-10-01 18:36:25+00:00
Yes, some kids these days pick the autism label when they probably shouldn't, but that does NOT mean you get to shit on actually disabled people

You shouldn't shit on anyone, but you do raise a good point: how do you know who the actually disabled people are?

If some people who claim autism offer as evidence experiences that almost all neurotypical folks can relate to, people are going to be skeptical. You can call them bigoted assholes, but you're unlikely to shame anyone into suspending their skepticism.
by victornomad | 2025-10-01 18:36:25+00:00
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by bombcar | 2025-10-01 18:36:26+00:00
> When the strip ran, the Jane Goodall Institute was not amused, promptly drafting a cease and desist letter. Larson maintained he had no ill will towards Doctor Goodall. At the time of the controversy, Goodall had been out of the country, but saw the cartoon for herself when she returned–and loved it. Goodall instructed the institute to drop the issue. In the aftermath, Goodall reached out to Larson, and the two became friends; Larson even licensed the cartoon to the Institute to produce a t-shirt that was then used to raise funds. Goodall even went so far as to write a preface for one of The Far Side’s collected editions.

Good(all?) on her, it's nice to see leaders both have a sense of humor and actually lead.
by smorac | 2025-10-01 18:36:35+00:00
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by shagie | 2025-10-01 18:36:47+00:00
shagie@MacM1 ~ % docker run -it openjdk:latest jshell Unable to find image 'openjdk:latest' locally latest: Pulling from library/openjdk ... Status: Downloaded newer image for openjdk:latest Oct 01, 2025 6:23:46 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run INFO: Created user preferences directory. | Welcome to JShell -- Version 18.0.2.1 | For an introduction type: /help intro jshell> 0.1 + 0.2 > 0.3 $1 ==> true jshell>

This has been around since JDK 9. https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/jshell/introductio...

That said, changing how you think about programming... even with jshell I still think Java in classes and methods (and trying to pull in larger frameworks is not as trivial as java.lang packages). However, I think Groovy (and a good bit of Scala) in a script writing style.

jshell itself is likely more useful for teaching than for development - especially once you've got a sufficiently complex project and the ide integration becomes more valuable than the immediate feedback.

Still, something to play with and one of the lesser known features of Java.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-10-01 18:36:59+00:00
Disclaimer: numbers are from memory

> china

China imports only 21% of it's soy from america. Down from 40% 5y back.

America consistently exports only half of its soy output. The other half is all used domestically.

To be clear, almost all soy in the world is used for animal feed, not for humans to consume. My exact knowledge of poultry is limited, but I believe broiler chickens are made possible (3kg in 50 days) only because of a diet consisting of a certain kind of corn and certain kind of soy.

> We can start planting other things

American farms and the entire supply chain is pretty hardwired to corn and soy, for the same reasons punjab/haryana farms are hardwired to rice (even tho it's arid land, rice isn't even native, thus uses up groundwater too fast).

Government-set/subsidized price floors, insurance, storage programs specifically for 4 program crops, of which one was corn, and to which soy was a later addition. India has the same thing for rice etc.

Soy/corn rotation also caused extreme lock-in, since soy leaves a lot of nitrogen in the soil after harvest, and corn needs a lot of nitrogen.

There are many other factors, but essentially, the entire farm supply chain is locked in to corn/soy in most American farmland similar to how most punjab/haryana supply chain is stuck in rice/wheat alternation and resulting farmland/aquifer overuse.

In america too corn soy are not native. And the excess nitrogen goes down the rivers and causes hypoxia in the gulf of (mexico|america). Very symmetric problem.

It's extremely expensive to get them to grow anything different. For starters, removing the price floors and such is electoral suicide. Most of the farmers (that remain) depend on these things heavily. You can complete the rest...

More random stats: 40% of us corn goes to animal feed, 40% goes to ethanol (for blending with petrol among other things), and the rest is other stuff.

Even more: 70% of soy goes to animal feed, primarily broiler chicken, 15% goes to oil. Margarine, processed crap, lots of fried goods, all use this. I think you can even make plastic with it. I forgot what the other 15% was... And the people actually eating tofu, soy milk, etc are a tiny percentage and don't even register.
by ionwake | 2025-10-01 18:36:59+00:00
I disagree with the OP.

This is my rebuttal about the nuance of being an employee.

An engineer avoids "politics" - as a vital protection mechanism against getting himself fired.

Often autistic ( my case ), technical, hard working, constantly exposed to poor decisions, lies, manipulations. The one thing the engineer can hold sacred is the technical truth. It is his one true avatar. To align himself with that, but not SPEAK FOR IT. To let his actions , the code, the technical implementation speak for him. IF a poor technical decision was pushed by higher ups, then accept it and implement. After all that is why there are 3 layers of management between him and the leadership who came up or approved the idea without him. The engineer stands for his work and his agreed role. The fruits of the companys efforts and failings become apparent through that. Why would a lowly paid engineer put his neck on the line to disagree with management and potentially embarrass someone? or worse?

It's as if the blog post and people who agree with it held positions, that relied on scheming, and "alighnment" to survive.

I think many good points are made, however Ive always felt that for the same reasons I stayed out of "office politics" I would also struggle to hire my own team which could handle working together for the greater good of the company. The only solution I thought of was some sort of "fair" share dispensation.

tl:dr; OPs opinion "could sound" in parts, like upper management blaming the code monkey for not being aggressive enough in the board meeting, where about 4 tiers of middle management stood in there with him, secretly 2 are having an affair in the toilets, 1 is someones nephew who doesnt work, another is terrified of being replaced by his underlings, none know anything about the project specs, ready to PIP him for speaking up and making them look slightly incompetent, or perhaps wondering outloud why a poor decision was being floated which was clearly some machination involving the powers that be to co-exist with other nebulous contracts and corporate entities. A terrible decision that would cost the company millions in the long term, but which would enable the current c-suite to look good before departing to other roles ala yahoo. If Ive offended some upper manager, Im sorry.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-01 18:37:30+00:00
The water will indeed cool down when you put the pasta in. Using a lid can help with this though and bring it back to boiling quicker. I usually don't bother with this. And the pasta will still absorb water if it's close to boiling instead of boiling. And since I check visually and by tasting whether it is done it's not that big of a deal. Stirring is part of that. I do that in any case to make sure things don't stick to the bottom.

Anyway, that's just my process. There is no wrong or right here. And you brought up a fair point of the pasta cooling down the water. My mode with this is that a lot of Italian nonnas wouldn't have a lot of fancy kitchen equipment anyway. Like fancy timers or even a clock. A lot of Italian recipes is primarily about good ingredients and celebrating those. Not about tools, techniques, or Michelin star nonsense. So, I try not to overthink it. If it tastes good, I'm happy.
by vidarh | 2025-10-01 18:37:41+00:00
It's popular because most of us had never heard about it until a few years ago, and for a lot of us a whole lifetime of experiences suddenly made sense.

I always wondered why people would talk metaphorically (because I assumed they must do, because clearly you don't see things that aren't there other than while dreaming... or so I thought) about images of people they knew fading, or forgetting what they looked like.

And then suddenly I was told it wasn't metaphorical.

And then a few years later I had my one experience of seeing vivid imagery outside of a dream.

It also keeps coming up because people get all weirded out at the thought that this is a thing, and start insisting the distinction isn't real.

But having experienced both: Imagining things without visuals and with is nothing alike.

And I knew that before the experience I mentioned too, because images while dreaming is also wildly different from how I imagine things while awake.
by hiroeee | 2025-10-01 18:37:58+00:00
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by ajross | 2025-10-01 18:38:02+00:00
The fed exists through its charter by Congress in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Clearly congress gets to define organs of government by law, no one seriously tries to make a 10th amendment case that Congress can't define organs of government.

The argument here is about independence. Can Congress define an organ of government (part of the executive branch as commonly understood) such that the president doesn't have the ability to directly administer it? Or is the president the head of all executive authority?

Similarly no one doubts that the intent of Congress was to do so here. And almost everyone thinks this has been a good thing, as macroeconomic policy can and has done terrible things in the hands of political actors in the past.

But the constitution is silent, thus the case.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 18:38:16+00:00
PCSK9 inhibitors don't universally lower hsCRP ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4876179/ ) but do lower adverse cardiovascular events https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779348/

MR studies looking at genetics show a decrease in cardiovascular events with lower LDL/Lp(a) levels independent of other factors such as hsCRP

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23083789/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1604304 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article%3Fid%3D10.137...

Lp(a), another plaque depositing particle also has been shown in MR to be an independent risk factor for CVD events regardless of hsCRP

https://europepmc.org/article/med/20032323 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5483508/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1109034
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-01 18:38:17+00:00
I feel like this article is partially proving the opposite of its headline. The chart shows that interpreting images is still the activity that takes up the most time. If that can be done more accurately and faster by AI, it will at some level reduce the demand for radiologists. Each of them will have more free time and that adds up to a reduced amount of staff needed at many facilities. That said I can see a more effective version of radiology also increasing demand for it as a way to diagnose, which would add to demand for radiologists.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-01 18:38:34+00:00
> The FTC is a government agency whereas the Fed is not

Someone should tell the Federal Reserve Board of Governors that they aren’t a government agency:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/who-...

“The Federal Reserve System includes

· The Board of Governors, a federal agency located in Washington, D.C."
by nwah1 | 2025-10-01 18:38:37+00:00
The 19th century was a wild time. Everything was a science back then. That's why communists speak of the "immortal science of Marxist-Leninism." Marx literally said he was performing science, but that wasn't seen as an absurdity because that is how everyone spoke.

It wasn't until the mid-20th century when people started to get more serious about defining science. Philosophers started critiquing it in the early 20th century like the Vienna Circle and Popper, and eventually the definition of what constitutes science was narrowed down to one that was defined as a particular sort of empiricism.

That, too, has its own problems.
by dfjfklei | 2025-10-01 18:38:47+00:00
When has employment politics ever meant "leveling up in soft skills"?

Employment politics has always meant: brown nosing, throwing vulnerable people under the bus, posturing, taking credit for other people's contributions, blaming other people for your failures, and on and on.

Or to use the language of TFA, "iNfLUeNcE".
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-10-01 18:38:57+00:00
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by Awesomedonut | 2025-10-01 18:39:01+00:00
Their anime vid gen is really, really impressive. The results I've seen aren't /good/ from an industry-standard (nothing compared to the likes of the Demon Slayer movie I watched in theatres recently), but I legitimately couldn't tell that it was AI-generated. Massive step up from Sora 1 and other vid gen models.

Here's to hoping that the industry will adapt to have it aid animators for in-betweening and other things that supplement production. Anime studios are infamously terrible with overworking their employees, so I legitimately see benefits coming from this tool if devs can get it to function as proper frame interpolation (where animators do the keyframes themselves and the model in-betweens).