MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-23 16:48:08+00:00
> I have seen people requested on the spot to join a meeting interview where the candidate is already on the room.

Such kinds of interviews of course exist, but they often rather serve the purpose of chatting so that one can see whether the candidate gets on well with the future colleagues.

"Improvised" programming interviews are, of course, often a bad idea, but nevertheless these may also serve a purpose: do some more open-ended discussions about programming topics the candidate likes so that the colleagues/company can see whether they would profit from this kind of knowledge.
by dcminter | 2025-10-23 16:48:46+00:00
It requires that it offer the opportunity for an interesting discussion in the view of those checking the /new page at the time that it's posted.

This ticks several boxes - the desire to archive technical literature, sympathy for an achieveable goal, and nostalgia for the magazines of yesteryear.

The element of serendipity is part of the appeal for me; for example if OP had posted at a different hour, it might have sunk without trace.
by kragen | 2025-10-23 16:48:52+00:00
This is basic math, not advanced math. If you don't know it, don't worry, you can learn it pretty quickly. Maybe watch some 3Blue1Brown videos and do some textbook exercises and/or game programming. Git gud. There is no royal road to radio modulation.

I learned that subtraction was the same as adding a negative number sometime around second grade, and I learned (then forgot) the trigonometric angle-sum identities in tenth grade. And that was even with the handicap of having to attend school in the US.

And, just above the text you're complaining about, he even provides a straightforward geometric proof of the angle-sum identity! So you don't even have to know it to read the article! You just have to know what a cosine is! I learned what a cosine was in eighth grade because I wanted to program a game where objects would fly across the screen at a constant velocity but a varying angle. You can learn it too!

He's not, like, invoking the convolution theorem or anything in those quotes. Although he does get into it a bit.

I think that, if you know the convolution theorem and Euler's formula, things like the production of sum and difference frequencies from the multiplication of sinusoids start to seem obvious rather than sort of random. When I was in high school they seemed sort of random. My uncle had tried to explain Euler's formula to me, along with the Taylor expansions for sine, cosine, and the exponential, but I hadn't really understood, because I didn't have the background knowledge to appreciate them then.
by the_gastropod | 2025-10-23 16:48:54+00:00
The Senate heavily favors rural voters. The House is supposed to be representative, but favors rural voters thanks to gerrymandering and the cap on congressional representatives (Nebraska should have less than 1 rep in a truly representative institution, for example). Then you’ve got the presidency itself, where the electoral college favors rural voters. And the courts, which reflect the will of the president in cooperation with the senate, so also heavily biased toward rural voters.

There’s a reason the U.S. is the only modern democracy with a system like this. Almost any other country you’re likely to want to live in has a parliamentary system.
by bluescrn | 2025-10-23 16:49:54+00:00
The problem with these games was that you tended to lose all your upgrades if you die, and later levels were essentially unplayable if you lost all those upgrades. So you really only had one life.

And you'd quickly figure out a fairly optimal upgrade sequence and stick to it.

Still, I enjoyed them back then too. X-Out was another one, with a particularly interesting shop/ship configuration system for its time.
by krapp | 2025-10-23 16:50:09+00:00
But to be entirely human is to be corrupted by original sin, doomed to judgement and eternal separation from God.

To be entirely divine is to be equal to God, untouched by sin and incorruptible.

These two states cannot coexist within the doctrine itself. Jesus cannot be entirely human and entirely divine any more than matter can be antimatter.

>He could die in the same way the bush could burn in front of Moses without becoming a burnt object.

But that makes it not entirely a bush, or else not entirely a fire. Something other than "a burning bush" is going on there. It looks like that, but it cannot be that.

If Jesus' soul wasn't corrupted by sin like any other mortal human then he wasn't entirely human. If Jesus was entirely human, he cannot also be divine, since God cannot coexist with sin. If Jesus can be both, then original sin is not an immutable transgression and the persistent state of evil and God's eternal judgement are simply arbitrary, and God can make exceptions whenever He likes.

Which is the actual answer because there are instances in the Bible of humans who just ascend to Heaven because God liked them, despite that supposedly being existentially impossible. God simply sometimes bends the rules, He just won't do so for you or I.

Assuming one wants to take all of this seriously and assume the Bible has univocality and try to interpret mythology with logic, which to me always seems like a bad idea.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-23 16:50:22+00:00
Even before Trump, the US had a standing policy of threatening severe retaliation against anyone who tries to enforce international law against US citizens-- this isn't just an informal policy, it's a specific law passed by Congress. And the scope has only gotten broader since then.

The whole concept of "international law" is polite fiction anyway, the reality has always been "the strong do what they can, the weak endure what they must".
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-23 16:50:55+00:00
The problem is not that there's not good experiences now, it's that the lingering bad aftertaste of the bad tracking and overly rough experiences (eg rollercoaster) causes. Nausea is a powerful influence and can really contaminate an experience and cause a really negative lingering association. This is also why we advise people to stop immediately when they feel it to get their VR legs. If they go too long the barrier to put the headset back on is too great.

But these days VR tracking is pretty great so it only happens to people who are seriously sensitive now. Especially when teleport motion is used.
by dbspin | 2025-10-23 16:50:59+00:00
So the solution to AI slop and spam is end of anonymity and total state control of the internet? Talk about the cure being worse than the disease.

The issues with todays internet stem specifically from the centralisation of power in the hands of Google, Apple and the social networks.

Bad search results? Blame Google's monopoly incentivising them intentionally making their results worse.

Difficulty promoting or finding events? Blame Facebooks real revenue model - preventing one to many communications by default and charging for exceptions.

AI overrun with slop? Blame OpenAI and Facebook, both of whom are actively promoting and profiting from the creation of slop.

Automated traffic slowing down sites? It's often the AI companies indexing and reindexing hundreds of times.

Spam? Not a huge issue for anyone that I'm aware of.

The closed internet platforms are the problem. Forcing them to relinquish control over handsets, data and our interpersonal connections is the solution. It will be legislative, or it will be torches to the data centres, likely both. But it is coming.
by onethought | 2025-10-23 16:51:11+00:00
If you flicked the switch and made voting mandatory. Then you'd find the extreme views on both sides would vanish as everyone would rush to please the middle (the VAST majority of the population).

You can't make statements like "you got out voted" when you actually mean "a few more people from your side turned out and voted, but actually likely the majority of the population doesn't agree with you".

You could argue that apathy is a vote in and of itself, but then you aren't a representative democracy.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-10-23 16:51:24+00:00
I regularly go to BL and had planned to go in the next couple of weeks, except I just got an email suggesting a strike might mean there are limited facilities available from Monday for a couple of weeks.

That said, I'm happy to go and try and pull those copies (it's sometimes hard to get physical copies), and send the OP scans of his contributions (if they're in there!), when I go in mid-late November.

OP - if this is a useful help to you, let me know and we'll find a way to connect!
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-23 16:52:24+00:00
I completely disagree.

> The issues with todays internet stem specifically from the centralisation of power in the hands of Google and the social networks.

> Bad search results? Blame Google's monopoly incentivising them intentionally making their results worse.

> Difficulty promoting or finding events? Blame Facebooks real revenue model - preventing one to many communications by default and charging for exceptions.

You're misdiagnosing what happened here. These aren't diseases. These are symptoms that the more open internet, that we had in the early 2000s, completely failed at scale. The disease was the predictable failure of an open system to self-moderate, the symptoms the centralization that followed. You're mistaking effect for cause.

People started using Google, because it was the only tool good enough at digging through manure. Facebook started charging for mass communication, because otherwise, everyone has an excuse why they need to use it. Cloudflare became popular, because the internet didn't care when 40% of traffic was bots, half of them malicious, before AI was even on the scene. And so on.

The open system failed, and was becoming unusable. Big Tech arrived offering proprietary solutions as CPR. They didn't cause the death.
by iamdamian | 2025-10-23 16:52:47+00:00
Claude Code has an elegant solution to the problem you mention, without trying to cram everything into a single nested pane (which feels wrong to me).

In Claude Code, when you edit a file independent from the agent, it automatically notices and says something like "I see you've made a change. Let me take a look."

I wish Gemini CLI would've taken a similar approach, since it seems to fit better with a CLI and its associated Unix philosophy.
by inejge | 2025-10-23 16:52:49+00:00
> how close the world came to missing out on The Internet

Monday-morning-quarterbacking is an unproductive pastime, but I don't think it was very close, on account of the Internet side having developed a bunch of useful (if a bit ramshackle) protocols and applications much faster than the ISO team, because the specs were freely available (not to mention written in a much more understandable manner). I still rue the day the IETF dropped the "distribution of this memo is unlimited" phrase from the RFC preambles. Yeah I understand that it originally had more to do with classification than general availability, but it described the ethos perfectly.

It's not all roses and we're paying for the freewheeling approach to this day in some cases, cf. email spam and BGP hijacking. But it gave results and provided unstoppable momentum.
by jrowen | 2025-10-23 16:53:20+00:00
It's just that the price tag is so well hidden that ordinary users really believe this.

And if they die believing that, what price did they really pay? I don't think the difference mostly comes down to a lack of knowledge or understanding, but more a difference of care or assigned value. There are a lot of smart people on HN, but with that often comes exaggerated anxieties and paranoias. If most people don't give a crap about giving their data to Google or allowing the big bad advertisements to penetrate their feeble minds or whatever, vociferously beating that drum just amounts to old-man-yelling-at-cloud-esque FUD.

Things 'barely even registering to most people' is not as strong a position as you may think it is.

I understand that logically that is neither here nor there, it was more just an expression of exasperation. It's kind of like how I'm equally blown away by how much energy some people put into anti-abortion laws. It's like, ok, everyone can have their opinions, and there's plenty of reasonable discussion to be had, but to put so much negative energy into something that's like, is this really the battle that's worth this much outrage right now? There are literally genocides and violent deportations going on around us. Google are not the bad guys.

Also, I don't use any kind of ad blocker. There are definitely lots of ad-infested unusable experiences out there but Google products are generally among the classiest and most unobtrusive.
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-23 16:53:25+00:00
Of course not, but US imperialism is a bipartisan issue, what Trump does is remove the pretense that makes liberals sleep better at night. I think it's good that they removed it, let's get rid of all the lies and hypocrisy. Nothing material changes, it just makes it harder for democrats to pretend it's about something other than violent neocolonialism and might is right foreign policy they have been complicit in for decades.
by toast0 | 2025-10-23 16:53:35+00:00
Why does $1T seem unreasonable? You can check the auction results, and from my quick look at a couple recent auctions, combined with knowledge that the auctions are routine and regularly scheduled, the number seems plausible.

It's not really $1T sold though, $1T would be the net sales, as many bonds and bills would have matured in the same period. Gross sales is much more than $1T, but I'm not going to dig through to find those numbers.

You could maybe discount some of the issuance as internal borrowing/lending/savings, but if you want to treat programs as independent, then the interactions between programs and the general budget are real enough.
by Fernicia | 2025-10-23 16:53:40+00:00
> use VC money to subsidize cost until all competitors are bankrupt then hike prices to recoup

Can you give some examples of this happening in real life?

None of the examples I can think of where people criticised the companies for operating unprofitably, such as Amazon retail or Uber, were able to corner their markets.

Harvey Normans, Targets, Argos's, Walmarts, all still exist and compete with Amazon retail. Most towns still operate normal taxis services, Lyft, FreeNow, Bolt, all compete with Uber.

VC funding subsidising pricing, albeit temporarily, is still good for consumers. It doesn't seem to imply higher eventual prices. The opposite seems true, in fact.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-23 16:53:44+00:00
I mean, once again, I’m not really complaining about the book. It’s fairly mathy, sure, but so what. I also actually welcome that it’s a coherent book rather than a bunch of papers in a trenchcoat or a menagerie of neat things people have thought of (*cough* Paxos variants).

It’s rather that it’s a bit unusual in that it’s a coherent book whose prerequisites (on top of an old-timey compilers course, say) I don’t think actually exist in book form (I’d love to be proven wrong, as that’s likely what I need to read). The introductory part does make it self-contained in a sense, but it’s more like those grad-level maths books that include a definitions chapter or three: technically you don’t need to know any of that stuff beforehand, true, but in reality if it does more for you than just fill a few gaps and fix terminology, then you’re not going to have a good time with the rest. Again, just my experience, I don’t know if that’s what you were going for.

If there was a criticism implied in my initial comment, it’s that I think that the kind of person that goes looking for literature recommendations in this thread isn’t going to have a good time with it, either; so at the very least they should know what they’re signing up for. But I don’t think you’re really disagreeing with that part?..
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-23 16:54:10+00:00
Tried "high blood pressure" which has to be one of the most common concerns and got weird results. It started talking about ethnicity (not something you change in an intervention) and how Hispanics had a really high 145 diastolic and Blacks had a really low 144 diastolic (makes no sense) but didn't say anything to the effect that "if your are in ethnic group A you should try intervention B".

There's a short list of supplements which seem to help blood pressure such as dark chocolate, garlic, magnesium, L-citrulline, nitrates and it didn't mention one. Not killing examine.com just yet.
by wiether | 2025-10-23 16:54:11+00:00
I'm actually already avoiding this issue but for another reason: hackers will scan subdomains matching known products with known vulnerabilities, so hosting a Wordpress behind "wordpress.domain.tld" will get you way more ill-intentioned requests than "tbyehl.domain.tld".

Thus if I started hosting my Immich instance, I would probably put it behind "pxl.domain.tld" or something like that.

Not a garantee to pass the Google purity test, but, according to some reports, it would avoid raising some redflags.
by darksaints | 2025-10-23 16:54:19+00:00
They don't care about the spending. They yammer about it as a way of shifting funds towards things they care about, like the military or their new gestapo or buying votes from their disaffected constituents, but they've never given a shit about the deficit, and have never done anything to stop it.

The closest they ever came to actually caring about government was with Musk who went in and actually started (illegally) ripping shit out. But the things he ripped out were inconsequential things that conservatives didn't like, and he didn't even make a dent in the actual budget. All of the things that Musk got rid of were congressionally appropriated and could have easily been congressionally (i.e. legally) de-appropriated accordingly and it supposedly would be easy for them to do with majority control over the house, senate, executive, and judiciary...but they didn't do it, because they don't actually want to cut the budget.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-23 16:55:02+00:00
It's often frowned upon but yes. Porn is a very strong usecase where VR offers substantial improvement over existing tech. If it wasn't such a taboo these things would be flying off the shelves. It really feels like you are there especially when you get a toy that can synchronise to the video.

Flight and racing sims are another one but they are obviously a lot more niche.
by sunshine-o | 2025-10-23 16:55:19+00:00
Changpeng Zhao pled guilty for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and not complying with anti-money laundering requirements.

That also happened to a lot of big banks over and over again.

Three days ago one of the biggest was found guilty for helping Sudan’s government commit genocide by providing banking services that violated American sanctions [0]. Sounds worst.

Binance is a casino for millennial and gen Z and like casinos is used by criminal to launder money.

Should Changpeng Zhao be pardoned? I don't know, I don't care he is a small fish.

Should BNP CEO serves prison time? probably.

- [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bnp-paribas-shares-fall-us-17...
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-23 16:55:36+00:00
As individuals, at any given time, some things are in our control (we can do) and some things aren't (we can't do). If we focus our attention on taking positive action on things within our control in contrast to things outside our control, we will experience more success, personally subjective progress, and better mental well-being.

Being able to tell what is within or outside ones on control isn't trivial and takes practice. Also, what's within our control (what we are able to do) changes over time.

Each individual example can involve subjectivity, but this meta-pattern is an objective truth of agents living in a complex universe.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-23 16:55:41+00:00
A random plug for https://hamstudy.org/

The US ham test question pools are fully public. Your test will be a mixture of questions from the pool. HamStudy basically lets you churn the question pool, and then will offer explainer text / references to back up each question and correct answer.

I went on a vacation and used their phone app any time I was standing in a line. You can set it to just keep spinning through the questions, with a bias towards ones you're getting wrong.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-10-23 16:55:43+00:00
The president has a mob of violent supporters, and Congress is terrified for their lives to take a stand against the president. When Republicans in congress have gone against Trump even in the smallest way, all he has to do is tweet something negative about them, and they are inundated with hundreds of death threats against their families [1]. Unless they can coordinate enough to rebel all together with loyalists somehow not finding out first, taking a stand would be suicide.

As a much lesser, but still serious point- Trump individually has so much power within the party he can get anyone removed from the party itself with a word, and effectively take away all of their campaign funding. He personally decides who is allowed to run or not run for office in the Republican party.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/republicans-...
by dcminter | 2025-10-23 16:56:09+00:00
Ant had the ability to write build scripts. It's part of what made Ant such a terrible build tool and IMO it's what makes Gradle such a terrible build tool.

Maven's requirement that you write plugins meant that you had to have a decent understanding of the conventions that Maven brought to the table before you could inflict some monster on the world.

In Gradle you can do something quick to get your idea working how ever terrible it is and however much it defies convention or breaks the expectations of anyone coming to the project later on.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-23 16:56:12+00:00
Hashes are not excessively long unless you choose to make it so. They might be opaque/random if you want, or they might not. "Remove all special characters and keep only the first 5 characters with space padding" is a string hash function. "Keep only the first 5 vowels with space padding" is a string hash function.

Here's a friendly AI generated hash function to give you an opaque 13 digit number if you're into that:

echo -n "$URL" | sha1sum | awk '{print $1}' | xxd -r -p | od -An -t u8 | tr -d ' \n' | cut -c1-13

For example, for https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/denis-diderot/the-indiscre... you get the ID 4897562473051.

It looks like their ebook sources are all published in git repos online, so you could check out the repos, get the timestamp of the initial commits, and do a monotonic ID on that if you wanted. You could also contribute the change back to them if you think it's something others would benefit from.
by aaronblohowiak | 2025-10-23 16:56:44+00:00
to add on to that, it is that the resolution is the same regardless of the order in which the nodes get the information that led to the conflict so there is no "out of sync". your resolution strategy could involve considering the potential conflict unresolved until a resolution element is created (but then you have to figure out what to do if you get more than one of those.. its conflicts all the way down!)
by sgarland | 2025-10-23 16:56:49+00:00
> For more senior roles I look to make sure they can then communicate that understanding to a team, and then drive consensus around some approach.

This is why I’m stuck at Senior lol. I can craft incredibly deep technical documents on why X is the preferred path, but when inevitably someone else counters with soft points like DX, I fall down. No, I don’t care that the optimal solution requires you to read documentation and understand it, instead of using whatever you’re used to. If you wanted to use that, why did you ask me to do a deep-dive into the problem?