MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmccarthy | 2025-10-01 20:00:54+00:00
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by com2kid | 2025-10-01 20:01:21+00:00
> "In 2050, I'll be getting emails from high school students about research opportunities, because the average college will require 2 publications to get in and will cost $500k."

From my general understanding, those are already the numbers for elite colleges.

I hear complaints about kids that have published research, have started local charities, and have completed most of an undergrad degree already, that they are still getting rejected from top colleges.
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by hairypitts | 2025-10-01 20:01:33+00:00
Autism is not atypical but normal evolutionary marker for higher intelligence: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/9/msaf189/8245036

"Story mode" thinkers should be considered atypical, detached from reality, IMO. Coworkers convinced the political prison of job culture is just and honorific, for example.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-01 20:01:42+00:00
It's a little easier to read if you translate different types of production to CO2 per kWh:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...

But as you say, the US is more wasteful with energy, which can make it seem better if you look only at absolute levels of the clean energy, and really bad if you look at absolute levels of the dirtier energy.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-01 20:01:59+00:00
I went and lived overseas in Asia for a while, and at this point back in America, I keep thinking of comparisons to Mao's "Great Leap Forward".

Directly equating them remains hyperbole due to the death-toll, but... it's not a joke anymore, or at least not a funny one.

____

[Edit] In brief, a disastrous attempt in 1958-1962 to quickly force China into an industrial powerhouse, with a lot of weird autocratic commands. It backfired with a severe economic recession, the killing/exile of subject matter experts, officials lying about how well it was going to avoid being punished, and tens of millions of peasants dying from famine.
by all2 | 2025-10-01 20:02:01+00:00
I discovered the above implementation about the time I finished reading through the paper. I need to go back through and finish taking notes.

I think there might be room to add `any` and `all` guards that take many guards as arguments.

The other thing I've been pondering is the apparent similarity between ASTs and the sort of graph a statechart forms. If we compress state and chart into a single object, now you have states that can have parents and children (the semantics of what is an active state would vary with your node type, IE compound or parallel). Then your edges would the transitions between nodes.

The semantics of the whole thing starts to look vaguely like there's a programming language that could emerge if the intermediate representation is hammered out well enough.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:02:25+00:00
Context matters. Democrats want to compromise on not slashing Healthcare. I don't see a point in my interest why I'd disagree, therefore the GOP is being unreasonable.

You can even call it a selfish standpoint if you want. But if you're working class I fail to see why you'd game the democrats here. The Healthcare premiums hurt red states more anyway.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-10-01 20:02:34+00:00
> What if they say my talking overstimulates them and I must write everything down.

The goal is to resolve the problem, not to bow to every person's whim. How many accommodations are they making for you that you are unaware of?

You can't be responsible to manage a person's disorder. You can, however, actively try to help. The most important distinction here is how you frame your participation.

One of the best ways to help is to explicitly say that you want to help and compromise, but have clear boundaries you are unwilling to cross. The default assumption, that you are unwilling to help simply because you find it inconvenient to do so, is usually accurate. It takes effort to disprove that assumption, but that proof can relieve a lot of stress.

What you have done in the comment I responded to, has had quite the opposite effect. I understand it wasn't likely your intention, but your communication implied that you are generally unwilling to make an accommodation until you personally believe it is necessary. That implication is an insurmountable boundary that every ADHD/ASD person is intimately familiar with. You are the only one in a position to move that boundary.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-01 20:02:44+00:00
> I nearly cut an interview short once when I saw someone right click copy right click paste

I like to live in the terminal, but I still sometimes do that. There are multiple clipboards, so using the mouse might sometimes do something different and sometimes I'm just tired and want to use my hands in a different position. And if I selected with the mouse its not much more effort than stopping the selection. You press down left for the selection, move for selection, at the end roll the finger over to the right mouse button without lifting, continue moving so the pointer goes over the rollover and lift the finger again once the pointer is over the copy action. This is the same amount of finger lift than just stopping the selection. Then pressing one or two keys on the keyboard are two finger movements more.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-01 20:02:47+00:00
In 2014 Russia decided to attack Ukraine because its political ambitions had been thwarted.

A pro-Russian politician took existing EU integration plans and went "fuck that, we love Russia" instead and Ukrainians particularly in the West of the country turned out on the streets in a huge protest. In the aftermath, with Ukraine now definitively not in Russia's sphere of control, Putin ordered seizure of the eastern parts of Ukraine.

Four years earlier doesn't make sense, Russia has plans that are expected to work out in their favour, and Putin is less secure in 2010 than he is today, invading a neighbour looks very ambitious in 2010.

Moving the more recent part of the invasion - which starts with trying to seize Kyiv - forward by four years maybe makes more sense, but that compresses a lot of timeline.
by ramon156 | 2025-10-01 20:02:52+00:00
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by toast0 | 2025-10-01 20:03:07+00:00
> Well, you gonna pay for building gas power plants that never run? Customers will need to pay for gas power plants that cover the entire electricity need

Paying for the plant but not having to pay for it to run most of the time is probably cheaper than having it running most of the time.

Maybe there's opportunities for net metering for customers with backup generators. At the right price per kWH, I would run my generator and feed into the grid... personally, my fuel cost is likely too high for that to make sense very often, but I think there's likely some hidden capacity there with the right incentives.
by sunshine-o | 2025-10-01 20:03:50+00:00
This is really great.

There are so many cool use cases for those ESP32 type devices beyond IoT.

Something I was thinking about it turning them into password managers or TOTP tokens. You would just need to be able to run an SSH server on it and have access to basic crypto. Apache NuttX is probably the best candidate for that.

Then you would just need to turn them on or turn the wifi on when needed.
by lokimedes | 2025-10-01 20:04:04+00:00
Only when it’s dark, overcast, winter or really cold. Otherwise it’s mainly due to the extreme overcapacity required to handle distributed unreliable energy sources as well as an increasing fleet of electric cars, stressing every last kilometer of the grid. And windmills, a reliance on methane gas as gap-filling and a few other issues. (Sorry, I know snarking is frowned upon on HN - but we choose this collective delusion over the hellish, yet stable, Cherenkov light of nuclear)
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-01 20:04:32+00:00
Thanks for your reply! Good point re: browser but I guess that's where my excitement about the possibilities lies: I wouldn't mind an extremely under-resourced device. RSS feeds and text content could be sent (and wouldn't require specialized rendering), vector maps and points of interest or transit info could be super minimal in terms of bandwidth/rendering requirements, etc.

I think that I want a 5G tty qwerty terminal..? :-)

aka https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii for maps, etc.

> and you're not easily going to get 4G/5G support

Sorry, what do you mean by that? In the sense of 4G not being that supported vs 3G? As in the chips aren't available? Or 4G service is hard to find..?

Cheers
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-01 20:04:48+00:00
Hard to tell. We could devaluate. That would help with both the debt situation and our exports. The UK is not doing that bad at all.

That’s a risky bet but I personally prefer that to the current situation. I would honestly be ok with staying in the union if we could exit the euro while staying but I don’t think it’s possible.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-01 20:05:37+00:00
Regarding #1, when people ask what is the best skill I acquired during my career, I always answer that it was "learning how to do well in interviews".

For a very long time it was the only thing I focused. Quite often the job itself is pretty easy, getting in is the hard part.

In the past couple of years I let it slide a bit because keeping yourself sharp for interviews is sort of a pain in the ass, but I promised nyself that 2026 I'm back at it
by runako | 2025-10-01 20:05:39+00:00
Normally yes. However, it's worth noting that the last major economic legislation passed by the prior administration took effect over 3 years ago. Further, there is not a reading of that law that would predict a negative overall effect on hiring.

However, tariffs have been extensively studied in a number of countries around the world. What we are observing in the labor market is more or less what economists would predict given the magnitude of the tax increase and the uncertainty around its application.

Further, data[1] shows a rapid deterioration in the labor market corresponding to the initial tariff announcement.

1 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS
by mariocesar | 2025-10-01 20:06:23+00:00
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by VHRanger | 2025-10-01 20:06:33+00:00
Having had personal experience with this problem, there is actually a simple but difficult solution to your problem:

Focus in the effect if the person's action on you, and set hard boundaries for yourself.

Note that boundaries are in this specific form:

"If you do X in Y situation, I will do Z"

The consequence to the instigating person (the Z part) is important. The person you described likely has a deficit in empathy, so feedback on actions has to happen to modify behavior.

Note that I'm not saying to hit back. Consequences are generally best when withdrawing something of value than adding something of negative value.

For example: "If we're watching a movie and you are physically rowdy, you will have to leave the living room and entertain yourself in your room".

Focua on how things affect you, and what actions you can take in response to boundary breaking behavior. Then be ruthlessly firm and consistent about it.
by wingworks | 2025-10-01 20:06:43+00:00
I like the bit about the rattling hvac or whatever. Years ago before I knew I was on the spectrum, the A/C system in the office I worked at was noisy (to me), and barely worked in the summer. Nobody seemed to notice or care.

The noise was distracting to me so to complained, after a long while they eventually got someone in... but they just put in a really noisy fan in the office close'ish to our desk. They didn't fix it the extra fan did nothing, it couldn't pull more air then it was given.. obv.. so then I had even more noise and the A/C system still didn't work.

I gave up trying to get it improved, and worked with headphones most of the time. No one else finds it an issue.

At the end of the day when staying late and the A/C systems turns off, I can feel a huge load lifted of my shoulders, and I can think much clearer.

Also the lights are horrible, if I'm working alone in the weekend I'll leave them off, it's so much nicer, less harsh. But again I seem the only one who noticed and is affected by it.

I eventually got so burnt out, crashed and quit... have been unemployed for... many many years now. Hard to say why I couldn't another job. I think maybe PTSD of my (first) and last experience, along with intense anxiety to just start. (interviewing is a painful experience, not only do I have to answer and ask questions, but need to fake eye contact, make small talk etc, all to get a job I'll probably have to bail out of.

I've tried to do some self-employed stuff, but nothing has given much income. (living with parents, I feel terrible about it, but no idea how to escape my living hell)
by encloser | 2025-10-01 20:06:50+00:00
> It would be a mistake to insist that all of those spreadsheets should have started life as something else, just in case maintenance should someday become necessary.

The problem corporate IT/Dev folks face isn't that an idea started as a low-code tool, but rather that the low-code solution is often dumped on them with no budget or desire to improve it to be more reliable and maintainable.

At least until something fails... and usually in dramatic fashion that then wakes leadership up to the idea that maybe we should invest more into this critical business process. If the company didn't go under in the meantime.
by doublerabbit | 2025-10-01 20:06:58+00:00
I've removed the statement because your right and wrote in haste. It is anecdotal and self-bias but Nigel Farage being the leader of the UK is next level dystopian-bleak.

Someone who pushed for Brexit, supports Hard Euroscepticism (yet has an European wife) running a party promoting that human-made climate change isn't a thing, want "illegal" immigrants thrown out of the UK, removal from Europe's Convention of Human Rights is a party I don't want to imagine being in power.

With regards to my online activities, I am already supposedly a terrorist for using Tor.
by drdaeman | 2025-10-01 20:07:12+00:00
> This is exactly how Russia built its surveillance state. It began with the quiet centralization of telecommunications data, followed by the rollout of SORM, which gave the government mass interception and geolocation powers, and ended with the targeted use of those capabilities against political opponents, journalists, and civil society. Immigrants, ethnic minorities, and marginalized groups were the first targets—people with little power to resist.

While I agree with the overall premise, but to best of my awareness (and I worked at an ISP in Russia in '00s) those statements are not entirely accurate.

SORM is Russia's Room 641A, except that it's legislated and all done in the open. It started way before telecom consolidation (which started mid-'00s, when large enterprises with strong government ties started to absorb smaller companies) and initially crept in slowly. At first smaller telcos were able to step around the requirements and just promise to cooperate "if something" (essentially, looking up flow logs and/or running tcpdump after being served a proper warrant).

AFAIK, SORM's first targets were mostly CSAM distributors and people who leaned towards neo-nazi views to various extents. That's how it was legitimized in the eyes of those who knew about it: look, FSB is going against pedophiles and nazis, yay! Don't know about journalists or minorities.

Shit started to hit the fan with mid-2010s rapid acceleration towards authoritarianism, when mandatory censorship and drastic expansion of online surveillance became a law.

And mass/non-targeted phone tracking is a relatively modern development in Russia, mostly post-pandemics.
by jfengel | 2025-10-01 20:07:14+00:00
That's generally true. Presidents are routinely credited and blamed for things outside of their control, including things done by their predecessors. It's something you have to accept with the job.

In this case, though, the President is taking actions designed to have quick effects. Presidents (of both parties) generally try not to do anything radical. (They promise to, then blame inaction on Congress.) This President is actually fulfilling his campaign promises, for once.

So I think he will deserve a higher fraction of the credit and blame that he would have gotten anyway. The lag is shorter because he's bypassing the usual process for change, and is able to make much more radical changes with shorter term returns.
by ryanyl | 2025-10-01 20:07:33+00:00
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by nostrademons | 2025-10-01 20:07:44+00:00
I feel like this view suffers from https://xkcd.com/605/. The future is not a linear progression from the present; as linear (or exponential!) extrapolations become progressively more absurd, they get replaced by qualitatively different systems that fit peoples' needs as they exist now.

I have young kids. I don't worry too much about how they're going to afford college education or get a job or afford to retire, because I don't believe college or jobs or retirement will exist in the form it does today. They'll be replaced by systems that actually work in the world that they'll grow up in. My job is to help them survive, and ideally to keep them fed and clothed and housed in the meantime. I'm training them to be adaptable, to think and act for themselves, and to have a good grounding in fundamental skills like reading/writing/rithmetic that I don't think will go anywhere. But the specifics of today's world will definitely be going away, because today's world doesn't work.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:07:47+00:00
By what metric? Show statistics, not your personal feelings.

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/explore/public_figu...

I'll even ask Gemini if that's your authority on matters. 8 don't see any metric where your statement is sound.
by vishkk | 2025-10-01 20:08:01+00:00
Whatever it was — a lie, the truth, or, most likely, their mix­ture — that caused me to make such a decision, I am im­mensely grateful to it for what appears to have been my first free act. It was an instinctive act, a walkout. Reason had very little to do with it. I know that, because I've been walk­ing out ever since, with increasing frequency. And not necessarily on account of boredom or of feeling a trap gaping; I've been walking out of perfect setups no less often than out of dreadful ones. However modest the place you happen to occupy, if it has the slightest mark of decency, you can be sure that someday somebody will walk in and claim it for himself or, what is worse, suggest that you share it. Then you either have to fight for that place or leave it. I happened to prefer the latter. Not at all because I couldn't fight, but rather out of sheer disgust with myself: managing to pick something that attracts others denotes a certain vulgarity in your choice. It doesn't matter at all that you came across the place first. It is even worse to get somewhere first, for those who follow will always have a stronger appetite than your partially satisfied one. - Joseph Brodsky
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-01 20:08:18+00:00
Imagine if people used Emacs the way they use Spreadsheets. "Hey I made a way to simplify our workflow, it has forms, buttons, gizmos we need" then you go to their desk, and its some custom Elisp abomination. I have to imagine this is how most people who hate spreadsheets see them. It still works, but it's a quirky solution.

Also I remember Row Zero the demo on your home page was impressive. You guys were S3 engineers too, good to know your project took off. :)
by Terr_ | 2025-10-01 20:08:29+00:00
> but have trouble articulating

I imagine that's because it's not really a technical problem, but an issue with how the whole organization (mis)handles complexity, and we collectively [1] still struggle to model/name a lot of those problems.

[1] Yeah yeah, I see you there in the back, you excited cyberneticist bubbling with enthusiasm to share... but I mean as a practical widespread matter.