MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tantalor | 2025-11-10 16:09:20+00:00
I was floored when I found IRR.

I know my way around a spreadsheet, but I had no exposure to the financial functions. As I recall, I wanted to find the rate of return for a rental property I was selling. I thought it would be really complicated to compute. Not knowing anything about that, I asked Gemini for help, and it suggested using IRR. Five minutes later, I had my rate of return.

@ciju chasflow_dates -> cashflow_dates
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-10 16:09:24+00:00
** maybe edit of un-shame: ... is it?

* edit of shame: it's satire. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

> there is a certain sense in which Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as 'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA

That is an absolutely bananas read of Zuck's place in American culture.
by medstrom | 2025-11-10 16:09:35+00:00
Reminds me of "default to null":

> The mental motion of “I didn’t really parse that paragraph, but sure, whatever, I’ll take the author’s word for it” is, in my introspective experience, absolutely identical to “I didn’t really parse that paragraph because it was bot-generated and didn’t make any sense so I couldn’t possibly have parsed it”, except that in the first case, I assume that the error lies with me rather than the text. This is not a safe assumption in a post-GPT2 world. Instead of “default to humility” (assume that when you don’t understand a passage, the passage is true and you’re just missing something) the ideal mental action in a world full of bots is “default to null” (if you don’t understand a passage, assume you’re in the same epistemic state as if you’d never read it at all.)

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4AHXDwcGab5PhKhHT/humans-...
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-10 16:09:56+00:00
The era you experienced growing up can influence how you are when you get older quite a bit. The generation before the Great Depression tried to create a more progressive equitable world but of course that was eroded eventually. Everything goes in cycles and the next generation coming that experiences the fallout from all our recent excesses will be different as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era
by vbezhenar | 2025-11-10 16:10:17+00:00
XSLT was invented to transform one XML document to another XML document.

Browser can render XHTML which is also a valid XML.

So it's pretty natural to use XSLT to convert XML into XHTML which is rendered by browser. Of course you can do it on the server side, but client side support enables some interesting use-cases.
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-11-10 16:11:06+00:00
I recently started a local chess club, and did a quick search for software to use to allow us to manage the club, but couldn't find anything open-source/free.

I wanted something that would allow us to record members, games, etc., and also allow us to be assigned a local club rating. Anyway, after doing some searching and only finding paid software, I decided to just build something. That lead to https://openchessclub.org

You can check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenChessClub/openchessclub.

I plan on building a QR code generator that allows club members to check-in during meetings, which will then allow players to be matched, and some other features, although it is primarily aimed at smaller chess clubs, so don't know how far it'll go.
by code_for_monkey | 2025-11-10 16:11:08+00:00
> there is a certain sense in which Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as 'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA

Fucks sake... that is an absolutely bananas read of Zuck's place in American culture.
by GMoromisato | 2025-11-10 16:11:45+00:00
Speaking of uncertainty, I wish more people would accept their uncertainty with regards to the future of LLMs rather than dash off yet another cocksure article about how LLMs are {X}, and therefore {completely useless}|{world-changing}.

Quantity has a quality of its own. The first chess engine to beat Gary Kasparov wasn't fundamentally different than earlier ones--it just had a lot more compute power.

The original Google algorithm was trivial: rank web pages by incoming links--its superhuman power at giving us answers ("I'm feeling lucky") was/is entirely due to a massive trove of data.

And remember all the articles about how unreliable Wikipedia was? How can you trust something when anyone can edit a page? But again, the power of quantity--thousands or millions of eyeballs identifying errors--swamped any simple attacks.

Yes, LLMs are literally just matmul. How can anything useful, much less intelligent, emerge from multiplying numbers really fast? But then again, how can anything intelligent emerge from a wet mass of brain cells? After all, we're just meat. How can meat think?
by Shorel | 2025-11-10 16:11:56+00:00
You are correct in your appreciation.

Mixxx is best used with a DJ console, however for me it is also easily used as a player that automatically picks a song from some selected crates in Auto DJ mode.

So I'm in the mood for Salsa, I put that crate as the AutoDJ source.

Later I can change it to progressive rock, or 90's disco, and it will randomly pick songs from the selected crate or crates.

I can also do DJ things, like looping some sections or mashup some songs.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-10 16:12:08+00:00
> Is anyone really cocksure on the basis of LLM received knowledge?

Some people certainly seem to be. You see this a lot on webforums; someone spews a lot of confident superficially plausible-looking nonsense, then when someone points out that it is nonsense, they say they got it from a magic robot.

I think this is particularly common for non-tech people, who are more likely to believe that the magic robots are actually intelligent.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-10 16:12:10+00:00
Disclaimer: I'm making presumptions, since I haven't used the service. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't like the idea of a centralized system to flow all of my email accounts through. I think this would work better as a localized agent that runs against my account (more like an email reviewing system vs a centralized email monitor). That would be less of a privacy concern, in my opinion.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-10 16:12:11+00:00
Devils advocate here

I’m not agreeing, but I’m hard pressed to find another person that is from the millennial generation that has been a persistent “public figure” as long and persistently than Zuck. He has been persistently in the news more or less daily since 2006.

Can you name another millennial that has a wider and longer lasting notoriety?

Does that mean that people respect him, or think of him as an ideal person or whatever?

No

but that’s not what Zuckerberg is saying - he’s saying “well known”

I’m not sure I could name another millennial that is as well known globally for as long - maybe Ronaldo or Taylor Swift
by zzleeper | 2025-11-10 16:12:13+00:00
A lot of comments here about how diversity is great etc etc. Yes, but also a lot of people value consistency. Now that Win10 is gone and people are reluctant to use Win11, it would be a great opportunity to switch. Yet even I am still reluctant to switch entirely (after using Linux as my daily driver some years ago) due to the lack of UI/UX consistency (I have to use Ubuntu at work; have Mint in my jellyfin pc at home, and even between those there are a lot of annoying differences)
by eesmith | 2025-11-10 16:12:14+00:00
Earlier you wrote it was "because I was in totally the wrong gear going up a steep hill".

Now it's "Someone has messed with the fuel pump (before I owned it) and/or the throttle cable isn't adjusted properly."

Here's NJ's law:

> No person shall retrofit any diesel-powered vehicle with any device, smoke stack (i.e., hood stack or bed stack), or other equipment which enhances the vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions, or shall purposely release significant quantities of soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions into the air and onto roadways and other vehicles while operating the vehicle, colloquially referred to as "coal rolling."

Did you purposely release significant quantities of soot? According to your own words, that was not your intent.

Therefore under NJ law you were not rolling coal, even though the visible effect is the same. The law is based on your intent and purpose.
by showerst | 2025-11-10 16:12:16+00:00
Do we need more farmers, or for food to be more 'valued' in a monetary sense? The developed world is awash in affordable food. Even machine tools are incredibly cheap and accessible, the issues around those are related to where they're built and creating skilled labor to run them.

I work laughably far from anything that provides basic needs to anybody, but that's not because I don't value food, it's because our system is _incredibly_ successful at creating it so I can go do other stuff.

I do agree we have some huge policy issues to deal with around food affordability and skilled labor and supply chains, but I don't think it's because we've de-valued food production.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-10 16:12:50+00:00
Honestly, it just reminds me of 2000-2002 or so... Seemed to hit the coastal cities before here in Phoenix, but it got bad here right after 9/11 and I had trouble finding any work for close to a year. I was able to start working again for half what I was making before almost a year later... I'd done a handful of projects, but nothing solid at the time.

I spent most of my free time reading and learning as much as I could. I learned C# offline from "The Complete Reference" and the beta command line compiler as I didn't even have consistent internet access.

It was a rough, severely depressing time in my life. It absolutely sucks. Right now, I'm working under a contract role that I like, but zero benefits, which is a problem financially/medically. And the job market is rough (already took a 35% pay cut) just to keep working.

All I can suggest is stick to it, stay busy as much as you can and focus on work-adjacent hobby projects as much as you can. As others have pointed out, maybe try your hand at writing. There's always room for good technical writing out there, though it doesn't always pay the best, it can help your career and can be good for supplemental income.
by meindnoch | 2025-11-10 16:12:54+00:00
"Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass generated in their “myRyanair” app during check-in to board their Ryanair flight."

Why does it matter whether the boarding pass barcode is scanned from a printed paper vs a phone screen?
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-10 16:13:08+00:00
Completely agree. Among the reasons I no longer work for Google is that I could not escape the perception that they were the 800-lb gorilla in the room and deeply uncomfortable with taking on any responsibiliy given that circumstance.

When you are the biggest organization in a space, it's your space whether you feel qualified to lead or not. The right course of action is "get qualified, fast." The top-level leadership did not strike me as willing to shoulder that responsibility.

My personal preferred outcome to address the security concerns with XSLT would probably be to replace the native implementation with a JavaScript-sandboxed implementation in-browser. This wouldn't solve all issues (such an implementation would almost certainly be operating in a privileged state, so there would still be security concerns), but it would take all the "this library is living at a layer that does direct unchecked memory manipulation, with all the consequences therein" off the table. There is, still, a case to be made perhaps that if you're already doing that, the next logical step is to make the whole feature optional by jettisoning the sandboxed implementation into a JavaScript library.
by seec | 2025-11-10 16:13:21+00:00
Yes, this is a best virtue signaling or an idealistic point of view, in fact it may be some form of humble brag: "I am so good, that I don't need to keep leverage to advance my career".

The hilarious part is that clearly his approach doesn't work very well, since he admitted not getting a promotion.

Unless you are getting paid for it and it's part of the job description, I don't see why one would want to document his own process to get stuff done. Like the secret sauce is basically the reason to keep you around, if you give it for free, they can just swap you for a junior that will just have to copy your process. This is already what happens when you decide to leave and they give you someone to "train".

I know this type of person, because I used to be one. They have a very naive, idealistic view on the world and feel like they have to serve others before them even though basically everyone does the reverse (especially companies) and they feel shame or guilt if they would put themselves first.

The reality is that it is the only way that things work out for you in the long term, because nobody else than yourself is going to think about your interests first.

Having leverage to negotiate your position inside a company is basically a necessity, and it's not playing dirty, that's just how things works. If you give the good stuff for free, not only you undersell yourself, but you make everyone else look bad and have to work twice as hard.

The issues he had probably comes from his refusal to play the game with the same rules as everyone else, or even inability to see that there is a game in the first place.
by ezfe | 2025-11-10 16:13:25+00:00
Any app that you log into "links" anything in your profile to your phone, so of course it links this information.

I'm all for calling out bad privacy practice, like when a Weather app says it links your contact info. But an airline app inherently does this.

Did you know that Ryanair knows your name when you fly! They even know what city you're flying from.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-10 16:13:29+00:00
Also much more addicted to service economy with little survival and self sufficiency instincts.

Anecdotally, very briefly dated a 40 year old who claimed she only ever cooked boxed food; had never even baked or microwaved a potato. Her words!

They’re the Gizmodo and Ars Technica journalist crowd exploiting slave labor while bitching about social justice. The 1984 double speak is strong with them.

America is a passive investor society. Like Trump thinking factories will just appear because he wishes it, Millennials wish to be enriched without giving a shit about externalities.

I base this entirely off their actual effort on the ground. Their "thoughts and prayers" may be cranked to 11, but my lived experience is they're even more disconnected from obligation to themselves than Boomers and GenX who at least spent some part of their life solving their ground truth problems.

They prefer socialism (which I am not against) because they realize they're screwed as individuals, they need help. Many probably expect they'll be served by it, not serving it.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-10 16:13:30+00:00
> Now, almost 2 decades later, I rarely hear this stance and I see people relying on wikipedia as an authoritative source of truth. i.e, linking to wikipedia instead of the underlying sources.

That's a different scenario. You shouldn't _cite wikipedia in a paper_ (instead you should generally use its sources), but it's perfectly fine in most circumstances to link it in the course of an internet argument or whatever.
by chris_va | 2025-11-10 16:13:37+00:00
Out of curiosity, what happens when someone does not own a smartphone (or the battery is dead)? They just can't fly?

And, if their server flaky, does that mean all boarding will stop? If the agents can check people in manually, it seems like the small fraction of people using a paper boarding pass can't be adding much extra cost. If they are saving cost by removing that flow, presumably they are giving up redundancy. Given the quality of airline software, I predict they will see a mass outage within a year.
by mesrik | 2025-11-10 16:13:47+00:00
Sure it is, if you have installation disks. Those are bog std ISO9660 with rock ridge -overlay extension. Which is just hidden file on CD top directory, which maps those silly uppercase ISO naming conventions with file version, and Linux should be able to mount them without problems.

I do not remember any more if those man files were preformatted and .Z compressed or were there the troff source files and "an" package also. Commercial unicen did have bad habit not to provide sources, so that could be the case.

But if someone have the CD:s then its not too hard to check I believe. Installation files could be packed somehow, like compressed and then cpio or tar inside. That's what I now think those would have been. But I can't remember for sure, its's bit over 25 years when I did work HP-UX last time.

And if I remember correctly HP did ship some printed manuals also with CD's. I have some kind of memory seeing some disks like that, but I never used those. We had paper manuals back then and which were then sent to customer as part of our product. Nor have I any idea which format those documents or whole document CD's would be. Postscript or PDF if we would be lucky, but it could be some proprietary format in worst case.
by cjs_ac | 2025-11-10 16:13:53+00:00
The most striking thing about this exchange for me is how abstract it is: until the last email from Clegg, there's no reference to any of Facebook/Meta's products. It sounds more like political strategists trying to find out how to appeal to Millennials, but by pandering to Millennials' pre-existing political views rather than trying to push a political view.
by hamdingers | 2025-11-10 16:14:06+00:00
> Millennials remain our most active users.

Even in back in 2019 I have a hard time believing this was true. As a millennial, my facebook feed was overtaken by my parents generation in the early 2010s and the handful of peers I know who still use it regularly use it to communicate with that generation.

Maybe he's counting Instagram usage as part of Facebook?
by krypdoh | 2025-11-10 16:14:20+00:00
LED Scrolling Stock Ticker App for Windows called TCKR.

https://github.com/krypdoh/TCKR

I have been vibe coding it on and off for a few weeks and I'm quite happy with how it turned out as I could never find one that did what I was looking for.

I would love feedback and of course any bug reports. :)
by drivebyhooting | 2025-11-10 16:14:25+00:00
Facebook and instagram are a disease. Time and again Meta’s properties have been shown to be detrimental to children’s (and adults’) mental health. Even by Meta’s own research!

The whole thing stinks of the same foul reek as big tobacco. When their reckoning comes we will wonder how we could have let one megalomaniac’s scam go so far.

> They trust me. Dumb fucks.

> Zuck aut nihil.

He never changed.
by jesse__ | 2025-11-10 16:14:36+00:00
> Awesome, looking forward to use this

Stoked to have another user!

> What was the hardest part of this project?

Fuck.. that's a hard question. I'm almost always trying to push at least one of three boundaries; voxel engine techniques, engine performance, my mechanical programming skill. Trying to push those boundaries, often in tandem or tridem, is always hard. Different jobs are often hard for different reasons, but overall it's been a difficult project for most of it's existence. That said, doing hard projects is what I enjoy, and it's a great feeling when you sit down to, for example, optimize something, and end up making it 20x faster!

> What motivated you to attempt creating this?

It started out as a learning exercise; a safe space where I could just 'fuck around and find out'. When I started, I never expected to spend nearly as much time on it as I have.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-10 16:14:52+00:00
> "significantly" is 50%, but still nowhere near 1 channel per network even if all networks cooperated.

5Ghz has 500Mhz worth of total bandwidth, while 6Ghz has (in US/CA, and hopefully in EU eventually) 1200Mhz. That's over double.

6Ghz has more 160Mhz channels (7) than 5Ghz has 80Mhz channels (6).
by ra0x3 | 2025-11-10 16:14:53+00:00
True, but I think the point I'm trying to make is that when it comes to deploying (what are more often than not) web services, getting to the point with systemd where it "just works" requires more pain than I'd like - especially with regard to production deployments (reading logs, checking service status, wondering why my env vars aren't being read, etc).

If at the time when I was cutting my teeth on systemd, I had access to something more lightweight and "do one thing well", I think I would've gotten a lot more sleep :)
by matt-p | 2025-11-10 16:14:54+00:00
India has 15% fixed broadband penetration. So let's say you've got a town of 100K households. You can;

A) give the richest 15K of them absolutely no faster WiFi whatsoever because 5GHZ will not be congested at all for them (so there is no problem to solve really)

OR

B) you can have the mobile carrier install a 6Ghz base station on every other telecoms/power pole in town and offer up terabits of mobile data capacity available to everyone throughout the town.

What's the most efficient use?
by chrisweekly | 2025-11-10 16:15:08+00:00
> "Versioning is a concept where each version lives in non-intersecting time intervals."

Is it? Node.js publishes "Current", "LTS" and "Maintenance" versions, and there's always a reasonable time interval during which consumers typically upgrade from eg Maintenance to newer LTS or even Current. From the publishing side, that's very similar to "expand and contract", in temporarily expanding what's supported to include Current, and dropping support for oldest versions leaving Maintenance. It's continuous instead of ad hoc, and there are more than 2 versions involved, but the principle is basically the same (at least if you squint).

Though I guess if you're talking strictly about schema management strategies, then yeah, "versioning" might be very different from "expand contract", as you noted.
by latexr | 2025-11-10 16:15:55+00:00
r/Millennials has a relevant list of Millennial celebrities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1g1gw7v/famous...

Zuckerberg thinks he’s more well-known than Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Scarlett Johansson, Adele, Lady Gaga, Cristiano Ronaldo, Beyoncé…
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-11-10 16:15:58+00:00
Do these dweebs ever let up on huffing their own farts? I can only hope that the actual measurements of their declining platform influence and use are true and we see FB peter out at some point. Sadly, it'll be replaced by something even more banal, but at least Zuck will fade away, here's hoping Thiel does as well.
by dijit | 2025-11-10 16:16:21+00:00
ehhhh, lets be real. I’m a dyed in the wool meat eating junk eater.

But, a lot of how we produce food today is not humane or sustainable, and a lot of the food itself is so poor in nutrition that it leaves us unhealthy and unbalanced.

This isn’t a lecture, just an observation, I am guilty of eating (almost exclusively) poor quality, over processed, mass produced foods.

But realistically speaking, if we solve the worlds hunger, what should be left is the pursuit of art and science.

Not whatever we seem to be doing with Excel; how can that be more valuable than feeding and healing humanity?