MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw1111221 | 2025-11-15 02:26:09+00:00
Well that's good, since Go was specifically designed for juniors.

From Rob Pike himself: "It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical."

However, the main design goal was to reduce build times at Google. This is why unused dependencies are a compile time error.

https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#TOC_6.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-11-15 02:27:07+00:00
There were times I took a dial up terminal home. Before that in university, we had to punch our own card decks.

I didn't need to be at the office to write programs. All I need is a pad of paper (with maybe a few manuals) and a nice place where I can concentrate without interruptions.
by jaredhallen | 2025-11-15 02:27:09+00:00
That only makes sense if you have the opportunity to make more money than you'd be paying the mechanic with the time you spent fixing the car. I'd venture to say that's true less often than not. Even if you day job makes more per hour than you're saving by repairing the car, it doesn't necessarily mean you can just choose to book more hours on the job. To make it more concrete, let's use the given example. Let's say the repair is $300 in parts, and $700 in labor. Let's call the shop rate $100/hour, to be conservative. So in order for it to make sense for me financially, I have to a) have a job that makes at least $100/hour and b) have the choice to work an extra 7 hours.
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-15 02:29:15+00:00
> This is a goal, not a claim.

Whose goal? Seriously. My claim is that liberalism is contradictory because it does not contain a class analysis. It uses the language of true equality but it cannot guarantee it.

>This is a complete non sequitur, and is nothing like classical liberal thought.

Did you read the article? The vein here is that liberalism, the official ideology of capital, is what is used to engage with analyzing other peoples lives. They use the tennets of liberalism to judge what others make of themselves. They use the myth of free markets, they use the myth of equality under law, they use the myth of economic freedom, they use the myth of liberty and justice for all. People who thrive or support the status quo idealize the material conditions in the world. That reasoning gets passed onto the poor. It is essentially an ideology of the rich.
by prmph | 2025-11-15 02:30:12+00:00
It's not so much the absolute amount you have, but rather your situation in comparison with your country men.

Yes, I know what 3rd-world poverty looks like, but, in a sense health care is more accessible to poor people in 3rd-world countries than in some advanced countries (e.g., US). Also, the morale-destroying aspect of poverty hits harder in advanced countries, because people assume you're poor because of what TFA talks about: being lazy, dumb, etc.

Poverty exists people think it ought to, that's the simple reason it exists. People think a world where some deemed unworthy have to experience crushing poverty is a more meaningful world, that's it. Certainly there is absolutely no reason that any person has to go to bed hungry, as a lot more food is produced in the world than is needed.
by solomonthewise | 2025-11-15 02:30:29+00:00
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by komali2 | 2025-11-15 02:30:44+00:00
Whenever I watch a video about American military nutrition, the only takeaway I have is "are these people incompetent?"

Sailors in the USA navy get fat after their first deployment, common knowledge. Why? Because half the time their food is frozen chicken nuggets, frozen tater tots, etc, chucked into the oven, served bulk at mess.

2025's most well funded army, that's the best they came up with? Why not just freeze non deep fried chicken breast? Why not use lentils for carbs? Why not fast-freeze dry vegetables?

In any case I don't see the relevance for schools. Hire a chief lunch lady who has the same job a head chef does - find the local produce and dairy and fish and meat, plan meals and portions, organize supply, and direct meals.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-15 02:31:11+00:00
This is not advancing a novel argument or creating of a new piece of content, this is about a factual claim about the world. How is it different from According to Google or According to Wikipedia or According to this scientific paper? It's saying this information is 3rd party sourced and I'm open to being corrected if you can point out the flaws in this way of gathering facts from the world.
by alkyon | 2025-11-15 02:31:39+00:00
It only makes sense to compare GDP between countries on PPP basis. Otherwise you don't account for currency rate fluctuations and difference in averge price level.

IMF figures for 2025:

87% GDP per capita PPP, 50% nominal GDP per capita

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
by tock | 2025-11-15 02:32:01+00:00
> So what do you do?

We should be discussing strategies to tackle this. Not just go "oh lets just accept it".

Just how many people have 100B+? Do you see them trying to interfere in governance and elections? Maybe we can have annual wealth taxes. Just like property taxes. There are many ways to tackle this. That's what we should be discussing. Not just giving up. Absurd wealth inequality will cause societal collapse.

> This is basically the core fight between capitalism (private ownership of the means of production) and communism (government control of the means of production).

No it isn't. It's taxation. Does the presence of property taxes and inheritance taxes make the west a communist region? Communism is the govt "owning" a company. Some rich guy selling his shares on the stock market to pay his taxes doesn't mean the govt owns the company.
by hashim | 2025-11-15 02:33:30+00:00
It's convenient that your knowledge of what "started" begins on October 7th and all the events of history prior since 1948 never happened, or you just don't care they did. Average Westerner knowledge of Western history, I understand.

Yes, they have consistently toppled governments, meddled in the affairs of other countries, and enabled and funded colonalism and imperialism wherever they went. Although the good news is that Israel is and will be the last true Western colonial state. Also, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just forgot the wars they themselves started, like Iraq over the lie that was WMD and the small matter of 500,000 dead Iraqis - I can assure you the Western governments involved have not condemned it, but they did give Blair a Nobel Peace Prize, so that's something.

Your last sentence is laughable and too historically ignorant to bother responding to, but since its AI-generated I thankfully don't need to give it that courtesy.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-15 02:33:44+00:00
> and you will find that there are more English words than the other language. It is now clear that there exist English words that don't correspond to a single word in the other language.

You're forgetting about synonyms. The common adage that English has the largest vocabulary stems from the fact that it often has multiple words for the same thing. Sofa, couch. Autumn, fall. Etc etc. Other languages generally don't do this. I've never heard anyone suggest that English has words for more concepts.
by tom_ | 2025-11-15 02:34:07+00:00
I don't disagree about the chat UX. The chat vs channel distinction was not at all clear when I started using Teams, at least not to me, and actually not to any of my colleagues either, and it was a large part of why we quickly started using Slack at that place. It wasn't until I did some work with a client that had long gone full Microsoft that I encountered somebody that had an idea of what was going on.

(In fact, it's not really that complicated. If you squint right, it might even be more useful than what Slack gives you! But something about the UI just didn't make it remotely obvious.)

Anyway, even if the text chat isn't awesome, for video calls, we never had a problem, and it scales pretty well with number of participants.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-15 02:34:13+00:00
> Understanding poverty starts with empathy.

Yes, but understanding the other mindset you're referring to requires some empathy too.

There are three paths to poverty: by birth, by bad luck, and by some definition of choice. No one chooses to be poor, of course, but we all have that school friend or a distant relative who consistently made bad decisions (drugs, gambling, skipping school, excess spending, terrible relationship choices, etc) and ended up in a bad spot more or less as a consequence of that.

Individuals who think that all poor people only have themselves to blame are bozos, but pretending that no one ever bears personal responsibility for poverty is wrong too. If we're "schooling" someone who has a personal story like that, we're not going to make them see the light.

A better position is to say that yes, sometimes people mess up, but it's good for the society as a whole to improve the outcomes for "at-fault" crowd too. This requires tailoring the solutions, because not everything can be solved with cash.
by nerdponx | 2025-11-15 02:34:29+00:00
A charitable interpretaion is that it's because they all got big and popular because they disrupted their respective markets with new technology. I'd agree with Tesla (legitimately new car technology) and Uber (lots of innovation behind the scenes to make it work), but not Robinhood. Airbnb is in there too and I think it's more questionable than Uber.
by dlubarov | 2025-11-15 02:35:05+00:00
> They released the hostages

The deal included remains of deceased hostages, most of which were not released at the agreed 48 hour point.

> they probably died from explosive that were already lying around

The source behind this theory seemed to be a tweet claiming "I’m told by a source familiar", and another tweet which was explicitly speculating ("most likely due to an explosive device ..."). No evidence was offered.

> While the Palestinians have treated their hostages as well as they could even when Gaza was starving

A UN envoy found "clear and convincing information that some [hostages] have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence including rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment".

Evyatar David also appeared to be the most severely malnourished adult in Gaza, while being forced to dig his own grave.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-15 02:35:17+00:00
Oh wow, so it's already been 16 years since Google steamrolled the Go! language, which had existed a decade before Go and had every right to the name. This was when they were still pretending "do no evil" was their brand.

There may be no honor amongst thieves but there is honor amongst langdevs, and when they did Go! dirty, Google made clear which one they are.

Status changed to Unfortunate

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047478
by krapp | 2025-11-15 02:35:18+00:00
>Hire a chief lunch lady who has the same job a head chef does - find the local produce and dairy and fish and meat, plan meals and portions, organize supply, and direct meals.

Who's going to pay for all of that? Not the American taxpayer, who would consider it theft and waste, and not the poor kids who actually need school lunches, and probably not their parents.

You'll wind up with a Macdonald's kiosk in every school cafeteria, and vending machines full of Monster energy drinks.
by komali2 | 2025-11-15 02:36:01+00:00
We'd have more since it was a higher paying job. Man districts lack enough drivers resulting in longer routes, which takes time away from the kids to have a life outside school.

Also we'd have happier kids and drivers which is great. The driver is part of the social worker aspect of a school, breaking up post school fights or noticing if a kid gets out to walk into a dangerously degraded housing situation. Would be nice to have very well paid, well trained people doing that job.
by simoncion | 2025-11-15 02:36:29+00:00
> try Nushell now!

So, I'm curious. What's the Nushell reimplementation of the 'crash-dump.awk' script at the end of the "Awk in 20 Minutes" article on ferd.ca ? Do note that "I simply won't deal with weirdly-structured data." isn't an option.
by ravi-delia | 2025-11-15 02:36:56+00:00
Propellant is still used for rotation control. Reaction wheels can "saturate" if they compensate for rotation more in one direction than the other on net, so propellant is needed to get them back down. Ion engines, generally speaking, do not use background dust. They still carry propellant, they just eject it electromagnetically. An photon engine, basically just a laser pointed backwards, uses pure electricity to produce thrust. But of course the numbers all work out, since photons have momentum. They're extremely weak though, even lasers of staggering power produce very little force. There's no way you could put one on a satellite
by AuryGlenz | 2025-11-15 02:37:54+00:00
Why?

My mom drove school bus. It allowed her to work a part time job and stay at home with us kids when we were young. The drivers seemed split between people like her and older people that probably already had the right license, and it was a nice part time job for them too.

I don’t disagree we should have better teachers by paying them more to widen the potential pool but that would need to go hand in hand with actually being able to fire poor performers.
by davidsainez | 2025-11-15 02:39:13+00:00
Sure, we are still closer to alchemy than materials science, but its still early days. But consider this blogpost that was on the front page today: https://www.levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-ml-vs-1-month-of-prompt.... The table on the bottom shows a generally steady increase in performance just by iterating on prompts. It feels like we are on the path to true engineering.
by latchkey | 2025-11-15 02:40:14+00:00
As CEO of an AMD NeoCloud for the past 2 years, it is so nice to hear all this and also see the turn around. It is what I bet my business on from the start and I can concur with what George is saying 100%.

The out of box experience can be a bit rough around the edges on bleeding edge stuff, but it isn't anything near as bad as it used to be. For example, a month ago nanochat wasn't working well and now it is. The important thing is that people now care enough to make it work.

At the end of the day, AI does need viable options. Having a monopoly on all AI hardware and software might be a good thing for share holders, but isn't a good thing for what is looking like a fundamental technology, akin to the internet.
by amypetrik8 | 2025-11-15 02:41:58+00:00
as for lyme disease - doxycycline works well

anon's herbals have SOME clinical evidence generally : https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2956313/

It's important to demarcate flavors of medicine at play here:

- MD "allopathic medicine" this is what we all consider normal medicine. They have hardcore requirements for clinical evidence.

- ND "naturopathic medicine" is a fully government licensed form of medicine (in certain places such as pacific northwest). They generally have less hardcore requirements for evidence, but do use evidence nonetheless, sometimes pre-clinical. All this recent interest in "senolytics"... a lot of what exists such as quercetin or fisetin, those are herbals, the ND's domain. And these have preclinical evidence against cancer. SOME are pretty cool and scientific people, of course, some are crazy hippie dippies what with the mushrooms and the healing crystals

- leeches "humoral medicine". This is an ancient and non-empirical form of medicine based on primarily the works of Roman physician Galen but bears similarities to medicines in other nations like China - "hot" and "cold" disease states vs hot & cold food, four humors, one of which is blood. If the disease is "too much humoral blood" the treatment is then the leech to lower that blood. This is very much distinct from the ND (at least I hope)
by hashim | 2025-11-15 02:42:13+00:00
Europeans are people, then and now, whose families have lived in European lands for hundreds of years, but believe they have the biblical right to "return" to a land they have no connection to and "settle on" (steal) the land and houses of Palestinians whose families have lived in those lands for almost a thousand years. This is common sense, and you know full well you would never entertain such a claim from a holy book of any other religion. No amount of semantic games and moving the goalposts changes this fact, or the fact that most "returning" Israelis were European Jews who changed their names to conceal that fact.
by ekr____ | 2025-11-15 02:42:19+00:00
Not quite.

The name was changed from SSL to TLS as part of the adoption in IETF. I imagine different people had different motivations, but in part it was a signal that it was going to be controlled by IETF rather than Netscape.

As far as compatibility goes, TLS is backward compatible with SSLv3 [0] in that the client can send a ClientHello that is acceptable to both SSLv3 and TLS servers and the server can select the version to use.

Re: the version number, we're now on TLS 1.3, so I guess that would be SSLv7.

[0] The situation is more complicated with SSLv2, which had a different ClientHello format.
by krackers | 2025-11-15 02:42:48+00:00
Every time a model is about to be released, there are a bunch of these hype accounts that spin up. I don't know they get paid or they spring up organically to farm engagement. Last time there was such hype for a model was "strawberry" (o1) then gpt-5, and both turned out to be meaningful improvements but nowhere near the hype.

I don't doubt though that new models will be very good at frontend webdev. In fact this is explicitly one of the recent lmarena tasks so all the labs have probably been optimizing for it.
by nestorD | 2025-11-15 02:43:47+00:00
I started with a UI that sounded like it was built along the same lines as yours, which had the advantage of letting me enforce a pipeline and exhaustivity of search (I don't want the 10 most promising documents, I want all of them).

But I realized I was not using it much because it was that big and inflexible (plus I keep wanting to stamp out all the bugs, which I do not have the time to do on a hobby project). So I ended up extracting it into MCPs (equipped to do full-text search and download OCR from the various databases I care about) and AGENTS.md files (defining pipelines, as well as patterns for both searching behavior and reporting of results). I also put together a sub-agent for translation (cutting away all tools besides reading and writing files, and giving it some document-specific contextual information).

That lets me use Claude Code and Codex CLI (which, anecdotally, I have found to be the better of the two for that kind of work; it seems to deal better with longer inputs produced by searches) as the driver, telling them what I am researching and maybe how I would structure the search, then letting them run in the background before checking their report and steering the search based on that.

It is not perfect (if a search surfaces 300 promising documents, it will not check all of them, and it often misunderstands things due to lacking further context), but I now find myself reaching for it regularly, and I polish out problems one at a time. The next goal is to add more data sources and to maybe unify things further.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-15 02:44:39+00:00
> health care is more accessible to poor people in 3rd-world countries than in some advanced countries (e.g., US).

Do you seriously believe it's even remotely comparable? In 3rd-world countries even basic healthcare is totally inaccessible unless someone in your family is at the top level of government. If you're a worker or in a worker family even glasses are probably almost impossible to get.
by throw234234234 | 2025-11-15 02:44:50+00:00
Sad thing is that it works, and more than it works, it gives you an advantage over the people who actually do the right thing.

If you can work it out as you go and get away with it by definition you become the "first mover" over someone who only sells once they have the full capability. The incentive is there to do the wrong thing to win in the market as a whole.
by foobarian | 2025-11-15 02:45:12+00:00
> you can just buy the thing you need

Ah but if only it were so simple. In my woodworking shop, in pretty much every project I end up using odd scraps for either temporary scaffolding or jigs or what have you that would be difficult to buy. You would have to go out of your way to buy a large board, and cut it up intentionally. Even then you would not have as rich a set of scraps. Actually the value is not in the material itself but in the variety of the shapes.
by encroach | 2025-11-15 02:45:12+00:00
Is CS your passion? Stick with it. The job market isn't as good as it used to be, but it isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I am also pursuing a CS degree and I asked the same question here 6 months ago. Since then, this is what I've learned:

* Its likely that the slowing of the tech job market wasn't caused by AI, but by a change in the tax code (Section 174) and higher interest rates (companies over-hired during the pandemic when funding was abundant).

* LLMs may or may not increase developer productivity [1], and they definitely cannot replace software engineers entirely (and I don't think they ever will - but it depends who you ask)

* Anecdotally, finding a summer internship wasn't easy for me, but it also wasn't any harder than it was for my peers in other programs (engineering, finance, etc.). Job hunting is a skill that I think many people in CS don't have because it used to be easy.

* I used an agentic IDE extensively to code for my on-campus research job. I still enjoyed the job a lot, and even as an rookie developer, I still felt I played a very valuable role in my job that LLMs could not replace.

[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
by novavex | 2025-11-15 02:45:37+00:00
Additional anecdata, and also a woman:

I do this for any or all of the following reasons:

* (culture) it is polite to leave something for the next person

* (I have roommates) I don't want to be the last person who finished something. I would be obliged to replace it.

For the typical girl thing, I haven't seen this behavior in real life with my family members or friends. I have heard of the concept on social media.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-15 02:45:51+00:00
I was just listening to him in an interview with Bari Weiss, and I was curious because I fucking hate the free press but I always think it’s worth giving things a fair shake and trying to explore why I hate a them.

And it is interesting that, this man is deeply conservative, and while I love his philosophy around community and nature when I think about applying it to myself, but his view of the world seems to boil down to “the world would be fixed some authoritarianic person or group told people what to do” (and had the power to enforce it).

And it’s very hard for me to listen to anyone’s philosophy that revolves around the idea that the problem with the world is not enough people with power telling other people what to do.

I also can’t get over the fact that like the rise of right-wing authortiarianism is inherently linked to technology used to enforce it, which he is also attempting to decry?