MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-28 23:40:51+00:00
Probably much sooner than 50 years, but yeah. If you mean filthy rich I think that takes a combination of work skill and luck that's hard for most people to achieve.

That being said, you don't need to be filthy rich to live a good life. There's the perspective that it's all mindset of course, but barring that you don't need to be filthy rich to go see F1 races for example. I've been to some when I was nearly broke. Obviously no Grand Prix grandstands but it's still achievable for the average person.
by ajs1998 | 2025-11-28 23:41:45+00:00
Remote work is great (for the reasons you gave and more) and saying it "sucks" made me roll my eyes, and it's reductive in the same way as saying office work "sucks." I wouldn't have had a job if in-office was the only option. It certainly didn't suck for me.

Being bad at problem solving with people far away is just another problem you can solve with practice. Same as being bad at problem solving even when help is right next to you.
by hitekker | 2025-11-28 23:42:28+00:00
I think the difference is honesty, in moderation.

dang strikes me as a more honest moderator than pushcx. I haven't seen dang play games with history, or worse, his own memory. Even if I disagree with his opinions, or question his judgement, I have a sense that dang tries to be honest. Which is not by the "transparency" of a gigantic wall-of-text or countless rules, tools and nuance.

dang stays on topic and is focused on HN's mission; he doesn't comment as he likes. Whereas your average discord & reddit moderator freely delivers strong, half-true opinions or announces lofty standards. They then forget what they say, do different from what they say, try to justify what they did or didn't do, and become, unknowingly, less than honest.

I don't mean to give a panegyric here. Half my trust is because dang is paid to moderate. He's a professional. The money makes dang's motivation more straightforward, whereas other moderators don't get paid so they look for part of their wage in the control they exert over others. It's natural, if perverted, motivation that conflicts directly with their self-story, which the moderator resolves by with even more story-telling.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-28 23:43:54+00:00
The roots of the renaissance were established much, much earlier in Islamic Spain. It is essentially forgotten history (and largely systematically erased history, at that)

Track down a copy of Bettany Hughes’ “When The Moors Ruled In Europe”. I think it is on Youtube. It is long but exceptionally clearly presented.

Put simply, were it not for the Reconquista, what we understand as the renaissance would be very clearly perceived as Islamic in origin.

And maybe don’t trust ChatGPT to do anything but regurgitate the prevailing interpretation of history, which was, in fact, reshaped radically by Catholic propaganda.
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-28 23:44:23+00:00
"As noted in section 3.5.2, the CPU module on units 4167 and 4122 did not incorporate EDAC, nor was it required by the aircraft manufacturer’s specification"

It was apparently added in a later HW revision

"The LTN-101 ADIRU’s CPU module was later redesigned to reduce costs and to include error detection and correction (EDAC). EDAC is used for detecting and correcting single-bit errors in RAM chips to give protection from single event effects (SEEs, see section 3.6.6). This change was a significant redesign and resulted in a new CPU module part number (466871-01). The EDAC was performed by a new ASIC, and all of the RAM chips used on the CPU module were replaced with a different chip.13"

https://www.atsb.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/3532398/ao...
by brailsafe | 2025-11-28 23:45:01+00:00
That's why I qualified puritanical and liberal with matters of degree, rather than being diametrically opposed. Having a large scope liberal attitude towards sex enables my inward facing, relatively puritan(ical) disposition to be a choice rather than mandatory and I don't care to demand that of others. I could very well be someone else with a different strict set of moral standards for me and my immediates with a slightly different scope and still be liberal. It seems to me that only when one weaponizes it does it become puritanical and illiberal; you want the same strict moral guidelines for everyone else that you impose on yourself.
by abhi_telnyx | 2025-11-28 23:45:16+00:00
We saw many teams prototyping with Retell and then running into the same issues once they tried to scale: variable latency, limited visibility into call failures, and telephony behavior that depends on whichever carrier sits underneath Retell.

Multi-step flows also get hard to maintain because everything lives in one prompt tree.

We built a way to import Retell agents into Telnyx so teams can test the same logic on a different infrastructure. You connect your Retell account, pull your agents, and Telnyx converts them into native assistants. Multi-prompt agents get split into separate components with clear handoff logic.

Most teams who try this mainly want to compare latency, barge-in behavior, and debugging visibility. Since Telnyx runs telephony, STT, LLMs, and TTS in the same PoP, the audio loop stays short, which tends to matter once real callers get involved.

If anyone here has experience moving voice agents between platforms or running into infra bottlenecks in Retell, I would be interested in hearing what problems you saw.
by mystraline | 2025-11-28 23:45:49+00:00
Calling public school fascist is likely a exaggeration. But isn't good either.

Public schools are highly authoritarian. Students have low/no rights and are at the behest of administration.

Student's property is routinely confiscated/stolen due to some "rules".

School rules are capriciously applied, including nonsensical rules.

Schools claim parentis in loco, but take no responsibility to the 'Lord of the Flies' bullying situation either. Many times, bullies get away with it.

0 tolerance policies are 0 thought policies.

Students are compelled to attend school on threat of jail for them and parents. And somehow even as "substitute parents", they're not even required to feed them?!

Much of the contracting companies serving public schools also serve the prison industry, for largely the same reasons.

For a country that leans towards a democratic republic, the schools teach for first 12 years an authoritarian dictatorship. Doesnt seem healthy at all for a society.
by tom_ | 2025-11-28 23:45:53+00:00
Boiled new potatoes. Use 150-200 g per person. Place in a saucepan, and pour just-boiled water on top to well cover them. (I always tip a bit of salt in, but I think it's just superstition on my part.) Apply max heat with your gas hob to bring back to a boil, then put a lid on, and simmer on min heat for 20-25 minutes.

Test for doneness by eye (if the skin has broken, they're probably done - possibly even slightly overdone, but it won't be a huge problem) and fork (when done, the fork will easily go in, with consistent minimal resistance, but actually they're typically ok to eat after 25 minutes even if they don't quite pass the fork test).

Serve immediately. Or allow to cool and eat later. Or then put in the fridge once cooled and eat cold even later. But whatever you do, don't add anything else (salt, butter, other seasoning, etc.) until you've eaten at least one without.
by anonzzzies | 2025-11-28 23:45:54+00:00
Or work with a random programmer at a random company for a bit. We had to do some audit/estimate for a company with huge tech issues (race conditions causing data corruption, huge slowdowns with just small usage spikes etc) costing them clients/money. The company runs around $50m/year or so selling software to enterprises. Anyway; software backend written with Java/Spring, deployed/updated on EC2 manually, no automated tests (zilch). Frontends with Vaadin. Almost no processes are used, just Jira + tasks and then 'start at the top every morning'. No one knows sql anymore (Hibernate), no one knows html/js (Vaadin) and, even though most people are senior and there since the beginning, no-one has done anything high level on the job in the past 20 years or so. They have just been inside this 'ecosystem' writing code and it works. Old Java with some modern updates just to satisfy the compiler/linter (but not fully understanding why that nonsense is needed). None of the core seniors I interviewed touches computers outside of work, they had 0 tech courses since working there etc. They are all 9-5 code producing robots. I want to bet they can mostly/all be replaced today by Claude Code, of which existence, of course, they are not aware (they did chatgpt but not Codex or Copilot). We have since found so many issues in the code. Yeah, I do feel very much uplifted about my own skills after encounters like this, and these are by no means rare, i would rather say; extremely common.

Unlike OP though, I cannot be as open about these companies as we would definitely not have any clients left after.
by oskarkk | 2025-11-28 23:47:21+00:00
And in the end, 90% of people will throw it in the trash with everything else. I'm actually in the other 10%, but I live in the middle of a big city where I have electronic waste container like 300m away.

Btw, that's an awful website. I like simple minimalistic websites, but some people confuse "simple" with "give literally 0 fucks about the reader" and then I have 50-word long lines to read on my 32" monitor. Just put something like {max-width: 1200px; margin: 0 auto;} on the body at least.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-28 23:47:27+00:00
An uncrewed payload of 30 tons to some far off distance over the course of 100 years is the answer to how it's not really possible to colonize space?

No paper plan dependent on "pulsed nuclear propulsion" ie blowing up nukes under your ass, is anything other than pop scifi.

"Pulsed nuclear propulsion" as Project Orion described itself is an insane pie in the sky imagined idea, and itself might not be possible, and yet Daedalus and Longshot both expect orders of magnitude improvements over that?

Oh, and the hundreds of tons of propellant for this magic drive has to be mined from jupiter or something.
by bdangubic | 2025-11-28 23:47:29+00:00
fantastic comment! I disagree on two fronts:

- we are far removed from “early adopter” stages at this point

- “eventually all that will smooth out…” is assuming that this is eventually going to be some magic that just works - if this actually happens both early and late adopters will be unemployed.

it is not magic, it is unlikely to ever be magic. but from my personal perspective and many others I read - if you spend time (I am now just over 1,200 hours spent, I bill it so I track it :) ) it will pay dividends (and also will feel like magic ocassionally)
by Kerrick | 2025-11-28 23:48:04+00:00
> made me roll my eyes, and it's reductive in the same way as saying office work "sucks."

Yes, "remote work sucks" is reductive, but I elaborated beyond the heading. Also, I wouldn't disagree with "office work sucks." Remote work simply has its warts, too.

> just another problem you can solve with practice

Perhaps, but practice alone clearly isn't enough. I've been working remotely since 2020 and it hasn't gotten more enjoyable. I would love to solve that problem, though. I read Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried in the past, but that was written a long time ago. I've added more recent works (Effective Remote Work by James Stanier and The Async-First Playbook by Sumeet Gayathri Moghe) to my reading list.
by araes | 2025-11-28 23:48:10+00:00
CGMthrowaway has an interesting comment on the other thread about this subject, that it's likely not solar radiation. "failing solid state relay or contactor on the shared avionics power bus" [1] Related to the previous 2008 incident on Qantas 72 that had similar characteristics.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083560

> On the Qantas 72 flight (2008), the ATSB report showed the same power spike that upset the ADIRU also left tidy 1-word corruptions in the flight data recorder. Those aligned with the clock cycle, shared the same amplitude and were confined to single ARINC words. That is pretty much exactly the signature of a failing solid state relay or contactor on the shared avionics power bus (upstream of both FDR and fly by wire). > Radation-driven bit flips would be Poisson distributed in time and energy. So that is one way to find out
by simonw | 2025-11-28 23:48:47+00:00
It's a shame EmbeddingGemma is under the shonky Gemma license. I'll be honest: I don't remember what was shonky about it, but that in itself is a problem because now I have to care about, read and maybe even get legal advice before I build anything interesting on top of it!

(Just took a look and it has the problem that it forbids certain "restricted uses" that are listed in another document which it says it "is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement" - in other words Google could at any point in the future decide that the thing you are building is now a restricted use and ban you from continuing to use Gemma.)
by einpoklum | 2025-11-28 23:49:23+00:00
> Can they do without Microsoft, however? Can they work without Office, Outlook, Teams and OneDrive?

FOSS to the rescue:

* LibreOffice, instead of MS Office.

* Thunderbird, instead of Outlook (even though I don't like the direction Thunderbird has been going).

* NextCloud, instead of one drive (and there are other alternatives, more FOSS-friendly or less so)

* Matrix/IRC client plus Jitsi, instead of Teams.

and they will do just fine - on Windows or on Linux.
by treetalker | 2025-11-28 23:50:21+00:00
My understanding is that an extremely OTM put on a clear, strongly held thesis would be Burry-like, and many people would be able to do so.

But Taleb's point is that (non-insiders) cannot accurately predict regarding individual securities (hence derivatives), but can identify over-/under-priced OTM options — and that, trading these systematically, one can suffer many repeated "small" losses that become outweighed by the Big One that eventually (yet unpredictably) hits, thus generating overall positive expected value. But, as I further understand Taleb, most people don't have the huge capital that enables such a strategy, and that doctors, lawyers, dentists, etc., are better off making money by plying their professional services and perhaps investing in index funds and the like.
by jsight | 2025-11-28 23:50:38+00:00
Every time that I read this about remote work, all I can think is how much I miss IRC and the culture that came from it.

We were doing remote work effectively decades ago. Don't have hallway conversations to fix bugs? Easy, just post your problems on the team chat and someone (often one of several people) would love to drop by to help.

I'm not sure exactly all of the forces that have led to this changing so much, but I'm certain that merely blaming "remote work" isn't it.

Somehow we were better at using remote tools while literally in the same office than some teams are at using them now while fully remote.
by striking | 2025-11-28 23:51:00+00:00
I was as curious as you were. Turns out there are only so many popular threaded discussion sites in the vein of HN on the Internet, so an educated guess is all it takes.

Without making judgment on the actions of any involved party, I do wonder why the author would choose to bring up this incident and submit it as part of a story to a site where there is a significant overlap in readership.
by tonyarkles | 2025-11-28 23:51:29+00:00
> What it made most intimate was not just the softness of her body but also the care she took for the movements, knowing that it would help.

100% that was a big part of it too for me. It was the care and attention that was going into it, plus the element of trust that goes into giving someone consent to inflict sharp but short-lived pain.

I’d actually be really curious on the physiotherapy side of it whether there is actually a combination of intimacy and professionalism happening on the other side of it. I’ve done physio with people who did not give me warm and fuzzies at all, and with people who, like for you, left me with that nice oxytocin sense of satisfaction. I wonder if the people who left me with that feeling are good at what they do because they have some added degree of empathy or mirror neurons or whatever that makes them feel good when they treat their patients softly and intentionally.
by karlgkk | 2025-11-28 23:51:35+00:00
Culture war? Lines drawn? Ridiculous.

People are allowed to build a community that they want to be a part of, and certain rules and base lines for how they expect other people to engage. It’s called “freedom of association”.

What really offends me is the consumer entitlement that people have that make them think that they should be allowed to participate in any community however they see fit.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-28 23:51:38+00:00
A ten-year-old iPad isn’t going to do anything remotely modern, but it’s still just fine for reading books, assuming you have some way to get them onto it. If I were to cobble together a small homepage (weather, reminders, what have you) on an internal server and deliver with unencrypted http, it would do that too.
by karlgkk | 2025-11-28 23:53:04+00:00
I don’t know your particular political affiliations. But it also doesn’t matter. Being asked to leave is not being gaslit. Being asked to leave is not abusive. This Weaponized therapy speak is exhausting.

It’s called “freedom of association”. Again, they built a community for themselves. They don’t need to cater to people like you or me if they don’t want to.

And they’re not.

You’re not owed or entitled to some sort of clear moderation guideline. You’re not owed or entitled to having a good experience on that website.

It sounds like it’s not for you, and that’s OK
by sodapopcan | 2025-11-28 23:53:39+00:00
Like the post overall, but the last section is a bit weird for "confessions" as it's all HIGHLY subjective. For example, I worked at a company where no one worked from home and we paired 100% of the time. When COVID hit, we started pairing over Tuple and I found it to be a superior experience to pairing in person (Tuple's drawing and attention drawing tools are far more accurate than my finger, I can use my own keyboard the odd time I want to control my pair's computer, and there are no office distractions of other pairs in the same room are benefits that come to mind). I continued to enjoy (and prefer) it for the 1.5 years I stayed after lockdown.
by karlgkk | 2025-11-28 23:54:41+00:00
Being told to leave is not abuse. Being told to leave is not gaslighting. Being told it's vibes based moderation is not gaslighting. Using weaponized therapy speak is annoying, by the way.

Anyways, they are very much saying to you, I don’t like you and now I would like you to leave.

And to answer your second question, if you ran such a community, I probably wouldn’t participate! Easy!
by Kerrick | 2025-11-28 23:55:28+00:00
> Somehow we were better at using remote tools while literally in the same office than some teams are at using them now while fully remote.

I couldn't agree more. I pushed to get the place I worked for to use Slack when it first launched, moving us off AIM (ha!). Our use of Slack when we shared an office in the twenty-teens was so much better than the use I've seen of Slack/competitors on fully-remote teams.

I wonder if it's because the failure mode was, as you said, to "drop by." Now the failure mode is... just failure.
by asdfman123 | 2025-11-28 23:55:35+00:00
No, big tech engineers are highly motivated. There's lots of money, good management, and plenty of incentive. (I'm a Google engineer myself).

The problem I observe is a fairly universal one: management doesn't care about good code, it cares about results.

It's generally hard for anyone without specific experience with a codebase to tell what you're doing with it. Management can't evaluate the value of maintenance work, so it doesn't value it at all.

People who ship sloppy code get promoted.
by sfpotter | 2025-11-28 23:55:45+00:00
I've read a few of this guys posts now and have consistently been rubbed the wrong way by them. I think I know why now. It's not that he's wrong. His analysis is reasonable and straightforward. I think it's that the basis for his analysis is ultimately a form of nihilism, coming from someone who (maybe?) used to be an idealist but was burnt by a bad experience and must now explain why believing in anything is misguided.

My instinct after reading this article is to pull back a bit and ask some larger questions. Why is it necessary for big tech companies to act this way? Why does bad code bother engineers so much? Are they actually misguided for feeling like bad code is a catastrophe, or is it really the fault of the broader economic sphere we all inhabit? Is it actually maturity to reconcile ourselves to drift powerlessly as faceless and titanic forces sculpt our reality? So many possible questions.
by karlgkk | 2025-11-28 23:56:18+00:00
I see you’re attacking the way I delivered my message.

Yes, you can criticize them. But at the end of the day, it’s their community. And if you’re not fitting in there, there are many others.

At some point in the last decade or so, people have begun to think that they’re entitled to participate or be welcome in every community the way that they want to.

At the end of the day, a community like lobsters is run by people who want to hang out with other people they find interesting or on the same plane as them

The moderators are not required to cater to you
by xinghaohuang | 2025-11-28 23:56:34+00:00
OP here!

I built this because I was getting tired of my RAG contexts getting clogged with HTML tags, invisible characters, and excessive whitespace from web scrapers.

It's a zero-dependency (well, almost) library designed to sit between your data source and your prompt construction.

Key features: * Standardizes whitespace and strips HTML. * Smart truncation (middle-out) to fit context windows. * PII redaction for privacy. * A "TokenPacker" to manage budget across multiple inputs (coming soon).

Fun fact: I just renamed it from "prompt-groomer" to "prompt-refiner" yesterday based on Reddit feedback (long story, lesson learned about naming!).

Benchmarks show it adds <3ms latency for typical 10k token contexts, which is negligible compared to the 20%+ token savings.

Happy to answer any questions!
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-28 23:56:45+00:00
> I'd go further and say you're not a senior if your code isn't good you shouldn't be a senior.

You say that until you are tasked with doing impossible - three lines, all perpendicular, five green, two anti-green, seven in ten or more dimensions, any color; while customer only uses purple lines.

Last guy that worked on it committed seppuku. Rest of team is in mental ward. Your only team member is guy that programmed his entire life in PHP, and doesn't know backend's language. Just teach him.

Documentation, is spread between Jira, wiki, Markdown, ftp server and some napkins.

CI stands for continuous Indians. You send code to India, where a team will assemble it. It may take anywhere between a few minutes or few hours. But it beats GitHub actions. Make sure to inspect artifacts, the Indian team has a habit to add some of their ""bug fixes"" covertly.

But you gotta finish it by Thursday. Good luck.
by a-dub | 2025-11-28 23:57:09+00:00
i wonder how definitive that is and how well they were able to reproduce the issue under controlled conditions and how strong the evidence is that there was particularly strong solar radiation in play. it would probably be a good thing if they published technical details for investigations like this that impact public safety.

i believe it could be solar radiation, but i also believe that solar radiation could be a catch-all for unexplained phenomena.