MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danudey | 2025-10-01 21:42:45+00:00
If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan).

It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integration, Github's Copilot thing, some laptops now apparently - so that users who know what's going on get irritated and ones that don't get confused.
by spockz | 2025-10-01 21:42:46+00:00
The world/utopia as described in Star Trek is a world where there is no poverty and free electricity. You describe Starfleet. Obviously, the series do contain elitism. Joining Starfleet is seen as prestigious. And even on Earth there are slums during the time of the federation. So the “Utopia” is not complete. And Starfleet is necessary to protect the utopia from outside influences.

It is largely based on the premise of having copious amounts basically free energy, free food (through replicators), safety, and a wide open universe for settlers to join when they do not want to stay in the Federation. Basically, it is based on the absence of contention of resources. Until we have that, either through shrinking or expansions of habitat, we will retain conflict.
by fh973 | 2025-10-01 21:42:57+00:00
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by givehimagun | 2025-10-01 21:43:14+00:00
I just saw her two weeks ago taping her interview for Overheard with Evan Smith. She was in top notch form and had the audience at the edge of our seats and in tears at moments. I am glad I got to go -- but I am sad the world lost Jane.

https://video.austinpbs.org/video/jane-goodall-knw3gq/
by dietsche | 2025-10-01 21:44:07+00:00
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by echelon | 2025-10-01 21:44:18+00:00
I know first hand that this is not the case. At least in film/media.

- I've sold software to several mid-scale production firms. Folks that do everything from Netflix title sequence designs to pharmaceutical television ad spots. They're billing at less than a quarter of their previous rate and picking up more clients on account of AI. They're downsizing the folks that do not do VFX or editing.

- A neighbor of mine who is a filmmaker was laid off last week. If you've flown Delta, you've seen his in-flight videos. His former employer, who he has worked for for nearly a decade, is attracting clients that are hiring them for AI work. My neighbor was not attached to any of those efforts.

- Major ad firm WPP is laying people off. Some of this is the economic macro and decreased ad spend. Another of my neighbors works for them and they haven't had any major projects. She typically manages major F500 clients. They're not spending. Despite that, she says some of the inter-departmental woes are directly attributable to AI.

- I spoke with former members in SAG-AFTRA leadership (before Sean Astin came on board). They quit on account of AI. "The writing is on the wall", they said. Direct quote.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-10-01 21:44:19+00:00
This is why I try to not care too much.

Yes, I learn how to use AI for coding in case it doesn't advance much more. But if AI is really going to do what some people think, it doesn't matter if you learn to use it or not, whole swathes of jobs, including software developers, will be obsolete. If your business boils down to being a middle man for an LLM it's not long for this world.

What really matters is the rate of advancement.

And no, there won't be new jobs to replace them. This is less like industrialization, which created jobs before replacing old ones, and more like the automation that hollowed out whole communities and cities from the '70s to '00s. Services largely saved us from this, but I see no new sector to come and rescue us. And any re-orientation of the labor force to existing jobs will drive down those wages too.
by kieranmaine | 2025-10-01 21:44:49+00:00
Apologies, the 2029 figure was the annual install amount. Total estimated installed amount is 400 GWh. Solar Power Europe says "780 GWh by 2030 to fully support the transition".

From the page[1]:

> By 2029, the report anticipates a sixfold increase to nearly 120 GWh, driving total capacity to 400 GWh (EU-27: 334 GWh). However, this remains far below the levels required to meet flexibility needs in a renewable-driven energy system. According to our Mission Solar 2040 study, EU-27 BESS capacity must reach 780 GWh by 2030 to fully support the transition.

This is also only up to 2029. Battery prices are dropping and the amount of batteries being manufactured is increasing, so I don't agree the continued installation of solar is a big problem.

1. https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...
by ud0 | 2025-10-01 21:46:50+00:00
I don’t use Teamblind as often as I used to, but it played a huge role in my career growth. Coming from a developing country, it helped me level the playing field. Through the platform, I discovered FAANG(current employer for 6yrs now), Leetcode, structured ways to prepare for interviews, and even the fact that sign-on bonuses exist, something I had no idea about before.

Teamblind has been so impactful for me that I’m more than happy to pay for it. While there’s certainly noise on the platform, I’ve learned to focus on the insightful conversations and resources that matter. If you are in the US it might not be so useful, but for us outside, it is gold.

I've been on HN for way longer than Blind, but Blind had had the most impact in my career & I'm grateful for that.
by snicky | 2025-10-01 21:47:40+00:00
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by B-Con | 2025-10-01 21:47:53+00:00
Chat supports rooms with chat threads without autodisappear. Everyone is in various rooms for their local team, broader team, org, and cross functional stuff. The net effect is Slack-like.

There's also the ticket system. Sheets are commonly used by various PMs and TPMs for high level tracking, but IC eng stick with the tickets.

It works fine.
by StratusBen | 2025-10-01 21:48:48+00:00
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by Twey | 2025-10-01 21:48:57+00:00
In my opinion, the important advantage of category theory over set theory in (some!) computational contexts is that it allows you to generalize more easily. Generalizing from sets and functions to objects and morphisms lets you play around with instantiating those objects and morphisms with a variety of different beasts while maintaining the structure you've built up on top of them, and you can even use it to modularly build towers of functionality by layering one abstraction on top of another, even if you choose later to instantiate one of those layers with good old sets and functions. By contrast, it's hard to imagine treating something like async functions with plain old set theory: while there is of course a way to do it, you'd have to reason about several different layers of abstraction together to get all the way down to sets in one step.
by Symbiote | 2025-10-01 21:49:15+00:00
I have static, public IPs across 80 or so servers.

It gets set approximately once when the server's automated Ubuntu installation runs, and I never think about it.

> Where does the switch choice come into whether you DHCP?

Perhaps from home routers which include I've.

> Wth would you want public IPs.

Why wouldn't you? They have a firewall.
by arjie | 2025-10-01 21:49:54+00:00
Because we provide social housing for people? That seems hardly a sin. The limits published here seem reasonable https://www.sf.gov/reports--may-2024--income-and-rent-limits...

So a primary school teacher who is the sole breadwinner of a 4-person household will be eligible for housing support. That doesn't seem that outlandish. If anything it seems very much like a developed nation property. I grew up in the Third World: America is nothing like it. Even the ways it fails are not like the Third World.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-01 21:50:06+00:00
Microsoft enables self service trials and purchases on 365 tenants by default. Every new feature they deploy is on by default. This new personal account thing is also enabled by default.

Microsoft has been hostile to internal IT teams for a long time. They burned that bridge with me and my peers a long time ago. Unfortunately, MS knows it’s a captive audience and enterprises aren’t rushing to exit Microsoft anytime soon so they continue to get away with it.

MS hopes that users will start a trial for something, become reliant on it, then convince managers to override the IT teams and buy it. Just like how other SaaS products market to individual users instead of to IT departments.

It’s scummy.

No one should do business with Microsoft anymore at this point. That includes NPM, GitHub, VSCode too don’t forget. MS will get away with anything they want unless people push back and dump them.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-01 21:50:48+00:00
The median individual income in San Francisco in 2023 was 69,260 USD. The median household income (which may include income from more than one earner) was 141,446 USD.

Many people commute to San Francisco from other places in the Bay Area.

CoL isn't a concern that is unique to teachers. When discussing 'low pay' of a particular job, it's relevant to compare it with other jobs in the same location, which those same people might be able to get.

(Also - there is research (which I don't have time to dig up now) that shows public school teachers who leave teaching tend to earn the same or less in their new career.)
by minkzilla | 2025-10-01 21:50:54+00:00
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by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-01 21:51:00+00:00
> And the democrats regularly call the GOP and GOP supporters “Nazis”, “Hitlers”, “Fascists”, “trash”, “deplorables”, etc

My dude this is irrelevant to whether or not the dems are handing the president PR ammo. Try to stay on topic.

> they want certain people to continue to have access to the ACA packages

Whew, glad you added an italicized certain. Was totally confusing when I wrote it.

> holding the government funding hostage

Art of the deal, baby. Many such cases.
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-01 21:51:03+00:00
In the DSM-5, they merged several conditions into one diagnosis called Autism Spectrum Disorder. At the same time, they defined ASD as having levels 1, 2, and 3. Those levels are defined by how much support the individual needs. Level 1 is "requiring support", level 2 is "requiring substantial support", and level 3 is "requiring very substantial support". Asperger's diagnosis would generally correspond with Level 1 ASD.

That doesn't really help with the social side of describing it though.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-01 21:51:03+00:00
Probably. The problem is that scammers are very clever with demos e.g. there's always a battery hidden inside the free energy device and they won't let you take it apart. One can work around such obstacles with very carefully designed tests, but then the scammer makes up some excuse not to agree to those conditions so you have to go back and forth and it becomes so expensive to do the DD exercise that the investor cancels the project.

Some people might be able to make this kind of business work but I don't have the patience or the political skills for it.
by etiron | 2025-10-01 21:51:10+00:00
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by mcv | 2025-10-01 21:51:57+00:00
Let's have a look at those articles you linked, that are supposed to demonstrate left-wing bias in Wikipedia.

> https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/

This one is vague on specific instances of bias, but gets most concrete when it claims that Wikipedia treats treats 3 specific biased left-wing sources, Alternet, Counterpunch and Daily Kos, as more reliable than than the Daily Mail. But all three of those sites are red on Wikipedia's own Perennial Sources list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

But, claims the article, these three sites are linked to a lot on Wikipedia, and then links to https://archive.is/PWPNB for evidence, but the vast majority of those links are from Talk pages and User pages, not articles.

So this is incredibly misleading.

> https://www.allsides.com/blog/wikipedia-biased

This one is much better, and much more nuanced, but doesn't actually say that Wikipedia is biased in any way. It cites a lot of criticism, investigates it, but doesn't conclude there's actual bias.

The most concrete point of criticism seems to be that articles on socialism and communism don't list the atrocities of various communist regimes, but those atrocities receive plenty of attention on the pages of those regimes, and frequently have their own pages as well.

So no, I don't think you've made your case here.

> heavily biased propagandist sources like MSNBC, ABC, CNN, Al Jazeera, SPLC, ADL, the Atlantic

Those are incredibly mainstream sources. I'm sure they show some bias in some ways (I wouldn't trust Al Jazeera to be unbiased about Qatar, for example, but they're pretty good on other topics), but they're not exactly Fox News, which is an actual heavily biased propagandist source.

Your choice of words suggests you're the one that's biased.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-10-01 21:52:51+00:00
Maybe I just need to spend more time with Rust and deal with it, but I'm sad the industry desires to rally around it. Despite the specific subset of protections it aims to provide, I have always had issues with how ugly the language is.

To a lesser extent, I have a problem with the protections it doesn't provide and leads developers to think they're writing safe software that in specific cases, actually just promotes silent failure through invalid data, not crashing.

I'm impressed that the language is even uglier than bad C++, which is an accomplishment in violating the beauty of reading.

Edit:

No, I think complicated C++ is also distasteful, but equally, sometimes both are just simply necessary.

Annotating specific attributes of data flow is just a requirement for types of guarantees, but I wish they weren't always done inline. It incentivizes programming language authors to squeeze more out of columns, and as a result creates quirky reading that while is more featureful or does things that aren't even possible in other languages, makes for a less than aesthetic reading experience.

I think my opinions can be handwaved away here, but I just wish we as programmers found nicer ways to give these attributes to functions, variables, and parameters.

My account is throttled by Hacker News moderators. So, I can't participate any more here for the time being. Thank you for replying to my comments.

Just expressing some petty opinions, I don't mean to start a syntax flame bait war, sorry all.

Edit (for Ygg2): What you think is superficial is an entire portion of the art of software development. And your usage of FUD is incorrect. Disliking a painting, a song, or a book isn't FUD. It's just plain as day disinterest.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-10-01 21:53:12+00:00
Unfortunately not really, but we've found (and used in production for a year) that Claude 3.5 is perfectly capable of identifying anomalies or other points of interests in very large sets of time series data.

Think of 100-200K worth of tokens formatted like this:

<Entity1>-<Entity2> <Dimension> <ISO 8601 time> <value>

<Entity1>-<Entity2> <Dimension> <ISO 8601 time +1> <value>

<Entity1>-<Entity2> <Dimension> <ISO 8601 time +2> <value>

<Entity1>-<Entity2> <Dimension2> <ISO 8601 time> <value>

<Entity1>-<Entity2> <Dimension2> <ISO 8601 time +1> <value>

The only pre-filtering we do is eliminate "obviously non relevant" data, such as series where the value is completely flat the whole time, but this was done to add more data to the context, not because Claude struggled with it (it doesn't).
by tbhaxor | 2025-10-01 21:53:15+00:00
Hello World! I'll be participating this year as a maintainer for GoFSX (a flexible, extensible filesystem abstraction for Go inspired by PHP's Flysystem).

GoFSX (Go FileSystem eXtended) provides a unified API for local, S3, FTP, and GCS storage, with features like easy cross-adapter copy/move and robust file operations.

It's currently at version v0.3.x, and I'm looking for contributors to help mature it for its first v1.0.0 major release.

Areas to contribute:

- Implement the Azure Blob Storage adapter (it's next on the list!) - Bug fixes and improvements. - Add more tests and on Windows as well.
by busymom0 | 2025-10-01 21:53:18+00:00
I coach people for powerlifting and create their programs in Google Sheets. I even have functions setup for converting a given weight to their plate breakdowns (for example 455lb squat would be broken down as: bar, 4x45lb plates, 1x25lb plate). My athletes can enter their current one rep maxes and the sheet auto updates the numbers for each training session. They can record notes about how each set went, how many reps they got etc. and then I can review them. It's all super convenient.
by vidarh | 2025-10-01 21:53:27+00:00
What you describe makes it sound like you have aphantasia.

People who don't have aphantasia do report "actually seeing" things with various degrees of fidelity, in some (less common) cases clearly enough to "overlay" on objects with their eyes open.

When I had my experience I did "actually see things". Yes, I know they weren't there, but it looked as if they were, in high resolution, full colour, with motion.

EDIT: Also, people "imagine" things with other senses or without too, and people have or don't have inner monologues, or dialogues, in their own voice, or separate voices - the breadth of inner life is very significant.

For my part, I don't recall sounds either, but I "reproduce them" in inner monologue in my own voice roughly in proportion to my ability to reproduce them out loud, but others do recall sounds as they heard them, reporting various degrees of fidelity. The same for smells. Most assumptions about how people's internal life "must" be tends to fall apart once you ask enough people.

E.g. There are writers I know with no internal monologue or dialogue. I know others for whom writing is like listening in to characters acting out scenes and just transcribing it. In some cases watching them act out scenes and just describing them.