MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-21 20:30:43+00:00
> The tribunal heard all three had to tell their employers about the accusations made against them.

> The innocent woman was advised her children could not live with her alone until she was cleared, and the two men faced child protection referrals. The first male claimant was placed on restricted duties at work and the second had a job offer withdrawn.

> The three were never charged, and police later identified and prosecuted the actual offender who lived nearby.

> The tribunal did not find grounds for compensation or remedies for the three claimants, as the force had acted within the law and responded appropriately once the error was discovered.

I cannot believe that there is no compensation for the affected individuals. They lives were destroyed. Their employers were notified. They could not carry on their normal lives as parents. Its damage extends to the children of the defendants. Surely there should be massive compensation and also jail time for the false accusation - otherwise why would there be any incentive to do better?
by okanat | 2025-10-21 20:30:44+00:00
The cost of human labor? Maybe US-exceptionalism is peeking through?

In actually democratic countries the elections are done on holidays(Sunday) and the polling stations are in where you live.

It is your vote you silly. It is your democratic duty, right and responsibility to guard it if you don't trust the observers by becoming one. Everybody should be able to watch the process and the count!

Losing one day of revenue would not hurt. Especially on a holiday.
by ValdikSS | 2025-10-21 20:30:52+00:00
>As long as my phone is connected to wireguard KDEConnect does NOT see any other computer, apparently because it wont forward ICMP broadcast according to the internet.

It's a bug in the application.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507954 / https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507972
by 1313ed01 | 2025-10-21 20:31:12+00:00
I agree, but partly for that reason I use fossil for most of my hobby projects. It is less stressful to not have so many features outside of the ones I use, and to not even have to be tempted to rebase or otherwise rewrite history as that is not supported.

For work and all my older hobby projects still only use git and I used that for ages and know it quite well, but that does not mean I always feel like I need to use it instead of something simpler.

(It is also FUN to use some other tool and not just git year after year. Got to learn something new now and then.)
by Treegarden | 2025-10-21 20:31:20+00:00
Well, let’s assume you’re correct about all that. To me, it seems he was already quite rich before doing all the Trump-related things you mentioned. Those might have made him richer, but I’d suspect they didn’t move the needle much compared to his real profit centers (probably Starlink and Tesla). If anything, I’d argue those actions made him poorer by further damaging his reputation. And any “power grab” motives he may have had likely evaporated after his fallout with Trump. One current example is exactly what sparked this thread: the NASA Chief seemingly trying to impress Trump by attacking SpaceX.
by jimbokun | 2025-10-21 20:31:39+00:00
It’s simpler than that.

It’s more of a funeral, collective expression of grievance of a great, painful loss. An obituary for a glorious, short time in history where it was possible to combine a specific kind of intelligence, creativity, discipline, passion and values and be well compensated for it. A time when the ability to solve problems and solve them well had value. Not just being better at taking credit than other people.

It was wonderful.

I know you don’t care. So just go to some other forum where you don’t have to endure the whining of us who have lost something that was important to us.
by leptons | 2025-10-21 20:31:41+00:00
How is it a flaw!? Building datacenters in different regions come with very different costs, and different costs to run. Power doesn't cost exactly the same in different regions. Local construction services are not priced exactly the same everywhere. Insurance, staff salaries, etc, etc... it all adds up, and it's not the same costs everywhere. It only makes sense that it would cost different amounts for the services run in different regions. Not sure how you're missing these easy to realize facts of life.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-21 20:31:41+00:00
> How do you know those relationships are "sexually fulfilling"?

You either believe what people report, the clearly-stated position on erotic material of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (1), or you can just imagine in your head what you think other people’s sex lives are like and just believe whatever you come up with.

1. https://www.aasect.org/our-mission.html
by interroboink | 2025-10-21 20:31:47+00:00
It seems to me that someone like you, seen from the outside (e.g. from a code-reviewing colleague), simply appears to be getting more productive, with no drop in quality. Maybe some stylistic shifts.

I don't think anyone is complaining about that too much. I wonder how many people there are like you, where we don't get much data. If people don't complain about it, we generally don't hear about it, because they're just quietly moving on with their work.

Not to be confused with the AI hypesters who are loudly touting the benefits with dubious claims, of course (:
by Lanedo | 2025-10-21 20:32:11+00:00
I find JJ to make things much easier for me than Git:

- No staging needed, edit your commit directly in your working directory

- Rebasing is automatic, I regularly edit historic commits and the messages

- jj absorb will automatically split and merge hunks into related ancestry commits

- Defer conflict resolution; many conflicts are resolved later by splitting/squashing/moving commits/hunks further (possible only for first-class conflicts)

- No interactive rebase needed, since jj commands automatically rebase while editing historic commits, it feels like constantly living within an interactive rebase

- Easily refer to the same revision (change) across rebase commands by using a jj change_id, without scribbling down Git commit hashes that change across a rebase

- Easily undo (+redo) your last commands through the jj operation log without having to backup the entire git repo at each step

And jj-fzf (https://github.com/tim-janik/jj-fzf/) gives me every useful jj command with a single hotkey (e.g. Ctrl-P for push, Ctrl-N for a new commit with 1+ parents, Alt-B to edit bookmarks/tags, Alt-R to rebase, Alt-Z for undo, …) while browsing the log with commit+diff preview.
by keeda | 2025-10-21 20:32:24+00:00
You can spend as much time as you want on "configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments" and otherwise honing your craft, the business machine will still look at you as cogs.

May seem depressing, but the bright side is that you as an individual are then free to find joy in your work wherever you can find it... whether its in delivering high-quality code, or just collecting a paycheck.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-21 20:32:36+00:00
> if handyman work was paying $600/hr your fingers would un-clums themselves reaaaaaaly fast

I don't believe that. When it comes to motoric skills, including dancing etc., I am probably in the lowest quintile of the population.

Of course, I could become somewhat better by spending crazy amounts of time on training, but I would still be non-competitive even in comparison with an average person.

OTOH I am pretty good at writing prose/commentary, even though it is not a particulary lucrative activity, to the degree of being a fairly known author in Czechia. My tenth book is just out.

Talents are weird and seem to have mind of their own. I never planned to become an author, but something inside just wanted out. My first book was published just a few days shy of my 40th birthday, so not a "youthful experiment" by any means.
by Syntonicles | 2025-10-21 20:33:00+00:00
What?!

Thank you! I'm working on a robot with a very expensive slip ring, and need to send high fidelity data through it with shielding. I had no idea this was possible this will make things so much easier!

I found a related video you might find interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZvimEf6DFw

I'm currently studying group theory and SO3 rotations (quaternions & matrix groups) and I'm also curious about the connection. I still have a lot to learn but I wouldn't be surprised if the reset rotation is unique, if we abstract away variation.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-21 20:33:14+00:00
The trick is to automate for your own benefit and keep quiet. Automate your 8hr/day job down to as low as possible, and use the free time for entertainment or another job (where you ideally do the same).

The reward for good work is more work. If they company wanted to pay you more, they would've already done so. If the company wanted automation, they would put that as a job description and pay accordingly (or more likely outsource it and get a shitty result for 10x the price - despite never willing to pay you anywhere close to that even if you were to give them the fully working solution).
by president_zippy | 2025-10-21 20:33:20+00:00
My first instinct is that the Google interviewers were just so full of themselves that they think they're doing you a favor and would do it to anybody, regardless of gender.

If I were turned down for a job that involved writing FreeBSD kernel code and the hiring manager gave me a free book on FreeBSD kernel programming, I'd think they were cool people and try again in 18-24 months.

It's not the act of giving a a rejected candidate a textbook, the insult is that it was a supplemental text book for the very first CS class most undergrads take.

Going back to the interviewers, there are going to be jerks in any organization with more than 20 employees, but the fact that their culture sees this kind of patronizing behavior as "saving the world" and "making a difference" is a red flag for me.
by exdeejay_ | 2025-10-21 20:34:06+00:00
The first example in the "Sorting in Practice" section appears to be broken. The text makes it seem like the list should be sorted in-memory and then written to disk sorted, but the example un-sorts the list when it's written to disk.

Edit: the flush example (2nd one) in the recap section does the same thing, when the text says that the records are supposed to be written to the file in sorted order.
by kristopolous | 2025-10-21 20:34:10+00:00
Kind of. For a number of complex reasons SUVs are cheaper than sedans. I know with more stuff you think that would be more cost but things are complicated.

I mean look at Hyundai's ev line up. I drive a kona because it's the cheapest. The next most expensive car is the 5 and then their most expensive (up until recently) was also their smallest! The 6.

It's like twice the price and at the end of the day I just wanted to drive electric so I got the cheaper one.

But if the ioniq 2 had a US release I'd be on top of that real quick
by JohnFen | 2025-10-21 20:34:28+00:00
Although I buy very nearly all my produce at a farmer's market, I don't think that I'd use something like this.

> Among some concerns from non-customers is: not being able to touch/see/feel the produce in person.

This is the primary reason why. Another reason is that I buy produce basically on an as-needed basis, so ordering and waiting for delivery wouldn't really work well for me. All that said, in my area the farmers already have pretty good internet presences. Introducing a third party into the whole exchange seems like it would just add additional overhead and distance without bringing much in the way of real value.

Maybe, if I lived somewhere where it was more difficult to go to a farmer's market, this would be something of interest to me, though.
by themafia | 2025-10-21 20:34:42+00:00
> but manned missions are dictated by vanity

We were last on the moon in 1972. We haven't been back since. That's nothing even remotely like "vanity." I think there's a vanity involved in making this type of comment.

> and congressional pork

If the public wants it then it's not pork.

> more than scientific needs.

"Scientific needs" is not a well defined category. Those who proclaim to represent it while expecting it to hold a higher value than the will of the voters are misanthropic bullies.
by mulmen | 2025-10-21 20:34:52+00:00
He was also totally ok with slave labor. He was a voluntary Nazi party insider and SS member. He deliberately chose to participate in Hitler’s totalitarian regime to advance his own goals. This kind of behavior should be remembered and condemned.

He was a brilliant designer, engineer, and project leader but he is an extremely problematic person for the methods he was comfortable using to achieve his goals.
by kulahan | 2025-10-21 20:34:53+00:00
tl;dr Humans were first and most important, but if you're omnipotent and building an ant farm, it's logical to provide a nearly infinite number of things to interest and enrich your creations. If there are other creatures, and they're given a rational soul, they were also made aware of God's existence.

At the end of the day, the Catholics (at least) don't believe they were given full knowledge of the universe at some arbitrary point in the past. Instead, we were plopped into it and expected to explore and understand it. This will require us to occasionally update our teachings - just like how scientists need to update their teachings when they discover they didn't understand something before.

It's unbelievably obnoxious to simply assume everyone who doesn't scoff at religion simply isn't "smart enough". You clearly haven't taken much time to understand the topic if you can't come up with even one good argument. Even Richard Dawkins is able to connect with religious logic to a degree.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-10-21 20:35:05+00:00
It feels like this changed roughly in the last five years. That's about how long I've been using Emacs on Mac.

I'd mostly been using Sublime / Atom / Eclipse / Vim before that (and a long list of other IDEs and editors going back to Turbo Pascal 3.0 on IBM XTs). So perhaps I've not felt the same pain.

I'm glad I can use Emacs at work (on Macs) and at home (on Linux). The funny thing is it's been easier to get Emacs up and running on Mac than on Linux. To get the latest stable Emacs I had to pull the source and build it myself (Ubuntu repos had old versions). On Mac it was just finding the right cask in Homebrew.
by vict7 | 2025-10-21 20:35:11+00:00
I appreciate the discussion. Not entirely sure why you appear to be becoming somewhat incensed. I’ve been engaging in good faith.

I am aware of MAGA arguments and the continued expenditure of large amounts of money on other countries. I don’t think you have connected that well to inequality however.

I’m surprised that you treat the current way things are done in this country as monolithic. There are countless parameters to play with here… not just “what we have always done” and “throw all of that out and do everything different”.

> No it's not impossible to have a market the size of ours with less inequality.

Good, we agree on this.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-21 20:35:21+00:00
Take that writeup with a massive grain of salt. The author claims they spent 459 minutes on exercise 1.1, that exercise is this:

> Exercise 1.1: Below is a sequence of expressions. What is the result printed by the interpreter in response to each expression? Assume that the sequence is to be evaluated in the order in which it is presented.

There are then 12 simple expressions to evaluate. That is, it took them nearly 40 minutes for each expression.

Exercise 2.46 took them 535 minutes to implement. It wasn't even complex math, they needed to create a 2d-vector data type (their choice on implementation details) with a constructor, accessors, addition, subtraction, and scaling. That should not have taken 9 hours to complete (not by that point in the book at least).
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-21 20:35:36+00:00
Why would anyone reject this deal? It isn’t a “$1T pay” package. That is a deeply misleading summarization that makes it seem like that’s the guaranteed salary Musk would get. He would need to add $7.5 Trillion in new company value (above the existing $1 Trillion) to unlock that number of shares. That’s a great deal for investors. If Tesla’s value truly grew that way, all the other shareholders would be happy to have seen their own shares grow enormously in value. This is the same reason the previous pay package, which ended up being worth $54B, was justified and also voted in by shareholders twice - the company grew 20x under Musk’s leadership and shareholders were made a whole lot richer as a result.
by riknos314 | 2025-10-21 20:35:37+00:00
Each AWS service may choose different pipeline ordering based on the risks specific to their architecture.

In general:

You don't deploy to the largest region first because of the large blast radius.

You may not want to deploy to the largest region last because then if there's an issue that only shows up at that scale you may need to roll every single region back (divergent code across regions is generally avoided as much as possible).

A middle ground is to deploy to the largest region second or third.
by audunw | 2025-10-21 20:37:23+00:00
And? We still have yet to see whether full re-usability of the second stage is the best approach. The Neutron approach is really interesting, they can make the second stage incredibly light and cheap. Blue Origin claims the economics of a super-cheap disposable second stage, even for as one as large as theirs, is pretty much equal to a more expensive and heavier reusable second stage. (they're developing both in parallel to see where the chips land).
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-21 20:37:40+00:00
The key is to never let them know you're not working. Deliver the output they want. Whether you personally created that output or a machine is irrelevant.

Labor, just like any market relies on information asymmetry. Your company is in business because it manages to sell something at a higher price than the cost it incurs producing it. Your company will absolutely not give away its "secret sauce" to their customers so they can go off and do it themselves and stop paying.

You should act the same; if you have "secret sauce" that allows you to deliver the expected output quicker, enjoy the free time or put it to use elsewhere.
by xanderlewis | 2025-10-21 20:37:46+00:00
Is it really so painful to just think for yourself? For one sentence?

The answer to your question is that it rids the writer of their unique voice and replaces it with disingenuous slop.

Also, it's not a 'tool' if it does the entire job. A spellchecker is a tool; a pencil is a tool. A machine that writes for you (which is what happened here) is not a tool. It's a substitute.

There seem to be many falling for the fallacy of 'it's here to stay so you can't be unhappy about its use'.
by Havoc | 2025-10-21 20:38:20+00:00
The stats you posted paint a good picture of improving lives in real ways but they're only part of the picture - and not the deciding ones.

We all saw it with electricity - handing out more access isn't the hard part. Backing that with funding and capacity to deliver is.

Inequality, unemployment and debt/gdp are all on very alarming trajectories. Without a very sharp course adjustment (and soon) there are dark clouds ahead that could undo all the victories you list. Not sure if that makes it a decline, but if it were a car ride I'd say it's time to buy crash insurance
by allenrb | 2025-10-21 20:38:39+00:00
There is just so much wrong with this from start to finish. Here are a few things, by no means inclusive:

1. We’ve already beaten China to the moon by 56 years, 3 months, and some change. And counting.

2. Nothing based around SLS is remotely serious. The cost and timeline of doing anything with it are unreasonable. It is an absolute dead-end. The SpaceX Super Heavy has been more capable arguably as early as the second flight test and certainly now. They could have built a “dumb” second stage at any time, but aren’t that short-sighted.

3. Blue Origin? I’ve had high hopes for the guys for two decades now. Don’t hold your breath.

4. Anyone else? Really, really don’t hold your breath.

This whole “race to the moon, part II” is almost criminally stupid. Land on the moon when we can accomplish something there, not just to prove we haven’t lost our mojo since Apollo.
by okanat | 2025-10-21 20:38:53+00:00
You still have to securely distribute those machines. All of the things still apply. Actually you need even more security!

Printing paper is cheap. Shipping it is cheap. Checking it is cheap and obvious. Reprinting is cheap. You don't even need to ship them. Most of the cities are close to industrial areas which has big printers and paper mills.

Making stamps or buying pens is cheap. You validate ballots at the polling stations which is scalable and cheap. It is the members of public who validate it. You don't need to pay most of them. They are just local constituents! It is their vote!

You are not aware how far away you are from the point!
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-21 20:39:31+00:00
The real goal is to make Pete be the most effective outlandish Wag The Dog campaigner the earth will ever know. A complete ridiculous one man circus of irresponsive reckless bone headed violence.

(Tough time to try to put in a strong warhawk act, when Netinyahu is over there being such a yahoo about it!)
by elbasti | 2025-10-21 20:39:34+00:00
With all due respect, I don't think you understand what the "worst case" scenario looks like for global warming, and how close we are to that scenario. For reference, check out figure 1 in this nature article [1].

That has warming by 2300 as 8C in an "emissions continue current trends" path.

Here's chatgpt giving a picture of what 8C warming looks like. Speculative, hallucinations, caveat emptor, etc...but to give a sense of proportion this, last time the earth was 8C *cooler* than now, ice covered 25% of the planet:

> At +8°C, Earth is fundamentally transformed. Large parts of today’s populated zones—South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, southern Europe, the southern U.S.—are functionally uninhabitable for humans outdoors. Wet-bulb temperatures regularly exceed survivable limits. Agriculture collapses across the subtropics; even mechanized, climate-controlled farming is marginal. Most of the world’s food comes from high-latitude regions: a narrow band across northern Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia. Sea levels are dozens of meters higher, drowning coastal megacities; Miami, New York, Shanghai, and London are gone. Phoenix is lifeless desert. Seattle is coastal tundra, wetter but still survivable.

> Civilization persists only in fragments. Mass migration and resource wars have rewritten borders. Population is a fraction of 21st-century levels. Global trade, universities, and modern governance are mostly memories. Local, self-sufficient polities dominate. The United States as an institution likely dissolves or transforms beyond recognition—2 out of 10 chance of recognizable survival. Harvard or MIT survive, if at all, as digital archives or autonomous AI-driven knowledge systems—3 out of 10. The world would still have people and culture, but not civilization as we know it.

Edit: I would appreciate knowing why I'm getting downvoted when I added citations for *possible* warming paths (from nature!). Yes, the chatgpt explanation is speculative but I mean, look at the thread we're discussing.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-0121-5
by pbasista | 2025-10-21 20:40:19+00:00
> You can't fence off the sidewalk and claim that someone trespasses when they walk on it.

Perhaps a better analogy would be:

If you go out into a public space, you have to accept that by doing so you lose a certain portion of your privacy. You cannot expect that other people will agree to your "terms and conditions" before being allowed to talk to you. They will just talk to you if they so like.