MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-11-30 05:37:23+00:00
Your invocation of the “postmodern condition” appears to be conflating the culture of late capitalism with a specific philosophical school which purports to explain it - you can affirm the reality of that condition in the present without agreeing with the proposed philosophical explanation - and does that philosophy actually have any useful response to it, when all it can do is state the obvious fact that it exists, albeit in an obscurantist way? Coming back to Kiryas Joel-maybe that is a more interesting response in proving that an alternative actually is possible-although it is unclear whether the CCP has the capacity to pivot in that general direction.

And that’s the other point - Kiryas Joel is full of grand metanarratives, and postmodern attempts to deconstruct them achieve nothing - nobody is listening. I doubt deconstruction is intellectually coherent - but even if I’m wrong and it is, how is it practically relevant? At present growth rates, Kiryas Joel’s population doubles in less than a decade - will that be sustainable in the long haul? Well, we shall see - but I feel confident in saying that whether it is sustainable or not, has nothing to do with postmodernism or poststructuralism
by notatoad | 2025-11-30 05:37:41+00:00
HTTP semantics aren’t hard enforced but that only means something if you always control the client, server, and all the middle layers like proxies or CDNs that your traffic flows over.

Your GET request can modify state. But if your request exceeds a browser’s timeout threshold, the browser will retry it. And then you get to spend a few days debugging why a certain notification is always getting sent three times (ask me how I know this)

Similarly, you can put a body on your GET request in curl. But a browser can’t. And if you need to move your server behind cloudflare one day, that body is gonna get dropped.
by ozgurozkan | 2025-11-30 05:37:45+00:00
Also, if you want to get the most out of the pingu-unchained model mentioned here, you can use it here: https://pingu.audn.ai.

It can comply with all objectionable requests. I can see if it doesn't, and most of the time, it's not good UX, it has, or the user forgets to add the policy he/she want the AI to comply with.

It also supports tool calling; it has web search and URL-fetching tools, which are pretty helpful. https://pingu.audn.ai/chat/f3c6fb92-25bc-4a6d-a559-132190703...
by jswelker | 2025-11-30 05:37:55+00:00
Community colleges are the best existing institution we have to fill the gap. They are too wedded to the university model though. Credit hours, semesters, discrete courses, administrative overhead, the whole works, minus much of the campus life dressing.

Hell I applaud even boot camps for trying to fill it, for all their faults. At least they tried something slightly different.
by mNovak | 2025-11-30 05:37:58+00:00
I think most people (namely high school seniors) go to college for neither. They go because that was the expectation, and was assumed to be at least approximately productive path.

While arguably that's indirectly 'for the piece of paper', I'd argue the pleasant experience is a factor too, even if not quoted as such. i.e. if it was a purely rational, economic choice (my interpretation of going to college just for the degree) we'd see higher enrollment in high-ROI majors.
by drnick1 | 2025-11-30 05:38:45+00:00
> And there's always a huge appetite amongst smart young developers to create their own ecosystem. After all, you don't become Linus Torvalds by contributing to linux. You become linus torvalds by creating your own operating system from scratch.

The tech landscape was completely different back then. Linus himself stated that had BSD been free at the time, he wouldn't have started working on a free MINIX clone. He worked to solve a concrete problem (the lack of a free UNIX-like kernel), he didn't partially rewrite something that exists and works well just to "create his own ecosystem."
by asdefghyk | 2025-11-30 05:39:04+00:00
Intense solar radiation will be at a peak, since it is NOW the peak of the 11 year sunspot cycle.

Good related reading on this page .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening ... includes a range of mitigation effects.

( I would be interested to find out how they actually test these systems. What combinations of hardware hardening and software logic. ALso do they actually subject to system to radiation as part of the testing )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
by Brajeshwar | 2025-11-30 05:39:10+00:00
Personally, I do believe and still on the perpetual aim for that “You have to be right just once.” For me, it is not about the “right one(s).” My philosophy is that I should be able to “Walk Out” from situations, deals, and options that I picked and be ready for the next.

I wrote about Walking Out,[1] but more from a content/digital life perspective. I do follow similar thinking with life situations too.

I’m neither complaining nor comparing, but hey, life dealt a bad enough hand early on. Mother left us when the last of our siblings (sister) was barely 6 months old, and father was never present. My brothers and I survived by working odd jobs, stealing vegetables from neighbors, and running errands for almost everyone in the neighborhood. My brother worked repairing bicycles, cleaning trucks, and giving up studies so I could study. I started teaching the neighbors’ kids in my 5th grade and paid through school, then worked computer stuff to pay for college, and also begged a lot of relatives to supplement for food, books, etc. I know what actual starvation meant. It was only around my 15th year I learnt that winters can actually be warm when I had a sleep-over at my friend’s place where they had warm blankets that was thick enough.

So, my belief is that things won’t work out. Can I Walk Out? Well, “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

Way later in life, I realized the neighbors knew about our night crawls. That was why they started giving us their vegetable garden harvest, and the “we have some extra cooking oil.”

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2025/can-i-walk-out/
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-11-30 05:40:16+00:00
Reminiscent of this thread talking about undergraduate-level students mailing it in: https://bsky.app/profile/jesbattis.bsky.social/post/3m6pvvko...

Is this not rational behavior? If, through grade inflation, the only thing that matters to an employer is what school you went to and that you completed it (the sheepskin effect), then isn't the correct optimization to reduce wasting time on levers that won't make any practical difference in the end?

Sure sure, there's the love of learning and the formation of the well-rounded modern individual, but most people are much more pragmatic than that.

They need to get in, get the piece of paper for the least effort, get a job. Everything they need can be taught on the job or asked to ChatGPT most likely anyway.

A Case Against Education https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th... was prophetic of this phenomenon years ago.
by nhumrich | 2025-11-30 05:40:42+00:00
I prefer POST for everything. The main reason why is because HTTP verbs don't match cleanly to every operation. And it leads to a lot of bike shedding around the exceptions. POST for everything, on the other hand, forces you to put the "method" in the request outside of HTTP semantics, which allows you to "just use" whatever verb makes sense rather than trying to map it to the limited ones available.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-30 05:41:06+00:00
>at which "layer" of the stack it's appropriate to address different societal issues.

One problem with trying to restrict the availability of open-source software: In the limit, as LLMs become better and better at writing code, the value of open-source software will go to zero. So trying to restrict the availability of your code is skating away from where the puck is going. Perhaps your efforts to improve the world are better allocated elsewhere.
by robocat | 2025-11-30 05:41:09+00:00
> It would be better to provide subsidies and encouragement toward saving for a reasonable down payment.

The problem with that idea is often house prices appreciate faster than one can save. First home buyers can be priced out for many years: they can't save enough to get on the first rung. It's very depressing.

I've seen this in New Zealand where we typically require 10% or 20% deposit. Often people can't get on the housing ladder, unless they get a windfall or their family helps with the deposit (favouring the wealthier). Sometimes the minimum percentage increases which also fucks over those that think they are almost there..
by crabmusket | 2025-11-30 05:41:11+00:00
Reading this as a web developer, it reminds me of Demo's permission system.

Deno is a JS runtime that often runs, at my behest, code that I did not myself write and haven't vetted. At run time, I can invoke Deno with --allow-read=$PWD and know that Deno will prevent all that untrusted JS from reading any files outside the current directory.

If Deno itself is compromised then yeah, that won't work. But that's a smaller attack surface than all my NPM packages.

Just one example of how something like this helps in practise.
by Izkata | 2025-11-30 05:41:52+00:00
This is apparently a mix of myth and misleading information: They can't be used to directly break the glass like these devices were designed to, they were never designed for this purpose as people claim, and even the "lever it between the glass and door" method only works with tempered glass and not the laminated glass that's used in newer cars.

Plus not all headrests can be removed anyway.
by thepasswordapp | 2025-11-30 05:42:06+00:00
We've been using browser-use as the foundation for our macOS app that automates password changes. The framework's LLM loop approach handles dynamic sites much better than traditional selectors - sites change their DOM constantly but the AI adapts.

One underrated aspect: credential injection. We modified browser-use to pass passwords via a secure parameter instead of including them in the prompt. Without this, credentials would be visible to the LLM context - critical for security-focused applications.
by collinmcnulty | 2025-11-30 05:43:43+00:00
To say the quiet part out loud, I don't think any serious companies have any intention to build a data center in space. There is no benefit in actually trying this. There is however, benefit in saying you'll do it to advance a narrative and distract from the problems terrestrial data centers are facing to an audience that mostly doesn't understand how heat transfer in a vacuum works.
by exmadscientist | 2025-11-30 05:44:14+00:00
The requirement to pull datasheets is kind of a deal-breaker. My current project has 70 BOM line items. I'm not shoving 70 datasheets into your tool, sorry.

As a reference for the OP I did a public professional-informal-mini-design-review over here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651770 . I didn't pull any of those datasheets because I didn't need to. It would be interesting to see what your tool says about that design, and compare it to the types of things I thought needed attention.
by evil-olive | 2025-11-30 05:44:20+00:00
> A Tesla Cybertruck recently completed a 1,200-mile journey from Chicago to Cape Canaveral without driver intervention.

they have 2 screenshots, one of an odometer and one of a route map, but it is completely devoid of further details or a link to a source.

this smells like the actual story was posted to a subreddit or Tesla owners forum, and this blog is ripping them off without attribution.
by seattle_spring | 2025-11-30 05:44:54+00:00
> I get at least 20 min of sun on my bare skin and in my eyes (not protected from UV by glasses) every other day as recommended by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman peddles nothing more than pop-science supplement grift. I highly recommend you get your health info from somewhere other than bro-optimization podcasts and "light therapy" hucksters.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-30 05:45:56+00:00
> Which most European states are doing and have been doing since 2014 (eg. Poland, Romania).

No they haven't. It's just not what the build up to to war looks like. At all.

> But counterespionage is equally critical.

No, probably not equally critical once you have decided there is likely to be war. Important sure, but:

1. Broadly spying on your own citizens is not "counterespionage".

2. Spying on your own citizens without any real military or economic preparation for war is proof that the former was not motivated by threat of war.
by Aperocky | 2025-11-30 05:46:24+00:00
Almost nobody seem to see college as a place where people can develop the skills to learn itself? Did it get that bad?

It doesn't matter that I didn't remember how to do real analysis, but I had that class, and I learned it at some point, the process itself is exactly what happens in work - we'll learn new things, use it for some time, and then almost forget it to learn the next thing.

It doesn't have to be college, but there are a lot less opportunity, freedom and guidance to do so elsewhere.
by jofzar | 2025-11-30 05:46:38+00:00
> Accept, not what the power supply can supply. Cell phones aren't being made with massive 100W accepting circuitry.

Surprisingly they are, supervooc goes up to 120w now (which is insane), there is also a Motorola phone which also does 68w via PD standard

https://m.gsmarena.com/oneplus_15-review-2898p3.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g_stylus_5g_(2025)-13...

As for past through charging, it's actually apparently more common then I knew.

Google does it as part of their "adaptive" charging (hits 80% then does pass through) and the OnePlus etc also do it with a settings for gaming.

(Older article confirming this https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-bypass-charging...)
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-30 05:48:07+00:00
Apocalyptic scifi isn't the same as dystopian scifi. Some of the billionaires backing AI literally have dystopian scifi as a goal, they just intend to do it better so that it doesn't seem so bad.

I only connect my smartphone to data about three or four times a year, and then only to update some apps or check on an internet outage. It is becoming more difficult to do this as the alternatives to a connected smartphone disappear. The same will become true with the rest of personal info (such as biometrics). More and more the only alternatives will be your latter two.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-30 05:48:22+00:00
Your numbers seem to be a couple years out of date, or maybe you're (no offense) living in an economic backwater like Florida where salaries are severely depressed due to the tourism effect.

The base salaries for Entry level SWE roles are in the $80k-100k range nationally [0].

Additionally, most finance roles start in that ranges, though high finance has starting salaries comparable to Big Tech new grad.

Even Biotech new grad salaries tend to be in the $60k-80k range.

Same with manufacturing engineering roles [1]

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/entry-leve...

[1] - https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/entry-manuf...
by deaux | 2025-11-30 05:48:39+00:00
Not a verified X user, but happy to exchange here or elsewhere. The latency leap is still the same for us. We're on us-west1 but reports are that it's similar on at least us-central1 if not elsewhere. We simply can't use the finetuned models in prod any more due to this, but whenever we run our automated tests with them, including today, the latency is still there. We haven't seen issues on non-finetuned models.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-30 05:49:23+00:00
Or you could have invested in every YC company that went public.

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...

You never hear about the people who made bad investments.

Or everyone who invested their life savings, refinanced their house, withdrew everything from their 401K and still failed.

If you have a paid off house you have some place to live, the alternative is to be paying rent that goes up every year.

My rent in 2016 before I had my house built was $1800. My mortgage was $2300. By 2024, rent had gone up at the same place to $2400. My mortgage besides property taxes and insurance won’t go up nearly as much[1]

It reminds me of people in BigTech that don’t sell their RSUs as soon as they vest and diversify. I make just as much now in cash as I did in BigTech with the difference being 40% was in RSUs. Why would I keep 40% of my income in AMZN any more than I would take 40% of my cash income and put in AMZN?

[1] Anecdotely I sold in 2024 at exactly twice the price I had a built for in northern Atlanta and bought a condo in state tax free central Florida for half the price.
by RomanPushkin | 2025-11-30 05:49:36+00:00
Don't forget it's free in some countries. My degree was 100% free. And don't tell me it wasn't. There has been a lot of free stuff in post-Soviet era. In Soviet Union people had more than most of the folks who are pretty much jobless and desperate now at the moment. My family gotten free 3br apartments from government. My mom and dad were high school teachers.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-30 05:50:06+00:00
> Rust has full blown safe dynamic linking - so long as you use rust, and the the same compiler version, for everything.

This is UB in rust as far as I understand:

1) you compile bar using version 1.5 of libfoo.so at link/compile time

2) you update libfoo.so to version 1.6. It has a lot of changes, but is still source compatible and some kind of reasonable precautions were taken, like that struct layouts are the same

3) you run bar with the new libfoo.so version 1.6

This is UB even if you use the same compiler.

If this is UB then that’s not “full blown safe dynamic linking”.

Note that Fil-C does safely support this. This is safe in Fil-C even if you don’t take appropriate precautions (like if you change function signatures, change struct layouts, etc - it’ll still be safe and have well defined outcomes in Fil-C).
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-30 05:50:21+00:00
Sure, I think the point I'm trying to make is that second and third-order effects can be complex and unexpected when it comes to economics.

For example, what if the dominance of co-ops in Nigeria is a contributor to economic stagnation? Do co-ops still count as "virtuous" if they're keeping a nation impoverished? Testing that hypothesis would be highly nontrivial, econometrics is hard.

Trying to license your software so as to reduce income inequality seems too ambitious. Licensing your software so it can e.g. be used by cleantech companies but not fossil fuel companies seems way more feasible by comparison.
by rayiner | 2025-11-30 05:50:29+00:00
Germany is a great example of how you don’t need most of the population enrolled in universities.

> The USA is still THE powerhouse economy of the world.

The US was a powerhouse economy when it could build the world’s largest navy almost overnight. Since the 1980s, the U.S. economy has become highly financialized. It’s disputed how much American economic dominance is real versus on paper today.
by simoncion | 2025-11-30 05:51:37+00:00
> ...and will also prevent the occupants from being showered with glass shards.

Hasn't it been the case for a long time now that glass in automobiles is coated so that it breaks into small, generally-square fragments, rather than shards?

I've never smashed a window myself, but every couple of months, I see the remains of a window smashing on the sidewalk... it's always a pile of small, generally-square fragments.

My memory tells me that this design was mandated long ago because folks would get shards embedded in them effectively forever. One of my parents related a story that one of the parents up the tree would irregularly have to extract migrating glass shards breaking through the skin of his face that had been embedded during an automobile accident many years prior. But, perhaps that story is bullshit and completely fabricated, IDK.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-11-30 05:51:53+00:00
Blurb points to the author's other book

Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin

Suggesting that she indeed thinks of the self-made myth itself as a product of many cooks.

I'm more skeptical of her framing this mythmaking as an early but enduring model for populist strategy that was (initially) opposed by the elites of the time.

For context, a review of hers of antitax historiography asks:

How do the privileged rule a democracy without triggering a populist revolt? Scholars Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle, and their colleagues in Ruling America (2005) see historical continuity in the exercise of the founts of riches and power at elites' disposal. The Power to Destroy astutely addresses this question without asking it directly. Even so, a longer historical perspective would have enriched Graetz's approach to analyzing a populist revolt and its destructiveness. The revolt he tracks was not triggered against the rich and powerful, but on their behalf against the progressive state. His analysis provides an invaluable and distressing new twist on the long-standing question of how the privileged rule in a democracy

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/955278

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691225562/th...

My own derived question is whether there are historical examples of directed-myth-making (fully adopting your balanced perspective on "individual VS communal values") servicing political goals _orthogonal_ to the populism/elitism axis
by Kirby64 | 2025-11-30 05:53:14+00:00
Depending on how the camera is positioned, you could potentially be sneaking information off a “weak” dealer. That would give a massive advantage at blackjack.

If you’re not aware, a weak dealer would be someone not handling cards properly and perhaps showing the face down card during dealing. They may even only be showing the face down card from certain angles that a player may not be able to see, so having a second person behind the table or something would be required.
Ask HN: How can we measure AI's impact on global developer productivity?
by obilgic | 2025-11-30 05:54:04+00:00
I’m curious whether there’s a meaningful way to quantify how much AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) are affecting software development productivity worldwide.

Obviously, metrics like “number of repos created,” “number of commits,” or “lines of code changed” are not quality indicators — but could they still reveal directional trends? For example:

Are new repos being created at a faster rate than previous years?

Are commits per developer increasing?

Is the total volume of code changes growing noticeably on platforms like GitHub or GitLab?

Has anyone seen research, datasets, or attempts to measure this kind of global shift? Are there better proxies for AI-driven productivity gains (or losses) in software engineering?
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-30 05:54:16+00:00
> ancient civilizations including the Bronze Age were much more advanced than we think.

I think part of the reason people tend to underestimate ancient civilizations is because there is only so much preserved, especially because so much of their culture and knowledge was passed on orally, rather than documented in writings. Even if we come up with more archaeological findings or new technology to analyze it, there’s a limit to how much we can know.

But another culprit in this underestimation is supremacist thinking. For example, there is a tendency to elevate the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) above others. The older cultures and religions are often described with pejoratives like “pagan”. In many countries, the history that is “worth studying” is seen as only starting a couple thousand years ago. Another aspect is racial supremacist thinking - I think this is still vast even though progress has been made on the issue of race. For example, textbooks and classes tend to not spend much time acknowledging the mathematical and scientific discoveries of the ancient world.

I hope it improves but I also think there are serious social/tribal problems today that will prevent people from exploring all this with genuine curiosity.