MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yongjik | 2025-11-04 04:58:03+00:00
The term could refer to either South Korea or Korea as a whole, depending on the context. As for your example, I think people would agree with (b) because when you're talking about populations people implicitly assume we're talking about a country.

On the other hand, people say "Korea's history reaches back thousands of years," and obviously here "Korea" means Korea as a whole (the country of South Korea wasn't founded until 1948!).

It gets extra confusing for Koreans because North Koreans use a different Korean word for "Korea" (either North Korea or Korea as a whole) - they are from two different historical names. So we can't even agree on how to call ourselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by sublinear | 2025-11-04 04:58:48+00:00
> there are plenty of companies with people who will make a good faith effort to do what makes sense ... I always like working for these companies

Everyone likes working for these companies, but this requires a mature work culture. The people with seniority have to be competent and experienced enough to distinguish good ideas and not abuse their position for personal gain.

In my experience these good places tend to be midsized companies. In contrast, just about any team you land in at a big tech company is going to be siloed off with one or more psychopaths at the helm who never "spent enough time in the trenches" to understand what healthy management looks like. The same is true at a startup. Those are workplaces mired in politics precisely because nobody in charge knows what good sense is and they do everything in their power to make sure anyone with a good idea is silenced or bullied out.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-11-04 04:59:34+00:00
Yes, I've seen the same things.

But; they don't learn. You can add stuff to their context, but they never get better at doing things, don't really understand feedback. An LLM given a task a thousand times will produce similar results a thousand times; it won't get better at it, or even quicker at it.

And you can't ask them to explain their thinking. If they are thinking, and I agree they might, they don't have any awareness of that process (like we do).

I think if we crack both of those then we'd be a lot closer to something I can recognise as actually thinking.
by tw1984 | 2025-11-04 04:59:51+00:00
interesting teardown, thanks.

for homelab application where extra space & power consumption is not a real concern, "temperature resistance" (tempco) is no longer relevant. you can get a constant temperature controller with +/- 0.01 degree range kind of spec for $65. verified using a reputable digital temperature sensor (outside the control loop) and the performance is pretty solid.
by amarant | 2025-11-04 05:00:12+00:00
Ah man, these are some awesome memories! Hot damn I liked these when I was a kid! I was first introduced to them on a LAN party. We would pass these kinds of things to eachother between CS 1.5 matches (VLC can play any file format!)

I remember towards the end of my lan party going days, these sick fights were finally outdone by the much more advanced Killer Bean.

Just a bean, trying to get some sleep.

Those were the days
by liffiton | 2025-11-04 05:00:14+00:00
I did this once with a diode when I was a baby electrical engineer in college. But of course you need some kind of measurement circuit. So somehow(???) I figured out I could wire a diode into one axis of my analog Gravis joystick--hooked up to my soundcard--and get a fairly accurate and stable measurement of temperature by poking the monostable multivibrator (pretty sure that's what it was called) in the soundcard that would trigger the time it took to drain a set amount of charge through the joystick's x-axis/now-diode.

Novices who don't have a clue nor know any better come up with the weirdest solutions. I have no clue whatsoever now what inspired me to even try something like that.
by iliaov | 2025-11-04 05:00:43+00:00
I agree, it's a sacrifice. Yes, I've traveled a lot. I'm an ex-executive.

I'm 53, two kids (one grown up), no pressure to build a family. On the other hand, even when I was younger, my family would not see me anyway (except weekends).

I frame it like this: I've got to do whatever it takes to take the startup through this most difficult period.
by abraae | 2025-11-04 05:01:01+00:00
I had the same experience. I was put in charge of a large ERP rewrite in C++. Being woefully unprepared we dived in and, based on the issues the existing C codes had, the first thing we built was a memory management framework - what I realized much later was basically garbage collection. It worked very well.

When Java came along its garbage collection blew my mind. I agree with the 4x factor.
by nynrathod | 2025-11-04 05:02:06+00:00
Saying safe will be too early, but design philosophy is no compromise with security and speed with easy syntax. It passed with 550+ test cases including unit test, memory stress, integration, circular dep, regresssion, valgrind memory leak, fuzz testing, also i added conservative limits max depth for recursion and data length for stability. Find here https://github.com/nynrathod/doolang/blob/main/src/limits.rs

Doolang not uses any traits like rust. Rust is great language, but its expose everything in syntax that is also great but as developer who want security+speed with fast development may found issue writing rust, that is main goal of doolang simlicity. I'm still figuring out further design principle of syntax to have less exposing syntax.

Doolang have auto memory management with reference counting. Just simple mut keyword introduced for mutating variable let mut data = "data"; no other syntax expose all handling automatic with rc and auto type define if not defined explicitly
by compumike | 2025-11-04 05:04:05+00:00
You can simulate a bunch of these (and edit too) in your browser in CircuitLab:

Diode half-wave rectifier https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/4da864/

Diode full-wave (bridge) rectifier https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/f6ex5x/

Diode turn-off time https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/fwr26m/

LED with resistor biasing https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/z79rqm/

Zener diode voltage reference https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/7f3ndq/

Charge Pump Voltage Doubler https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/24t6h3ypc4e5/

Diode Cascade Voltage Multiplier https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/mh9d8k/

(note: I wrote the simulation engine)
by oskarkk | 2025-11-04 05:04:14+00:00
You said:

> The only difference between this statement and "all politicians do this" is the politicians who are not confronted about bad behavior.

That means that in your view, phito's comment was essentially saying that "all politicians do this" (your words), unless they're not confronted. My point was that it's incorrect, because of "they will almost always say" in phito's comment - so the correct reading of that comment would be that almost all politicians do this when confronted, not all.
by b8 | 2025-11-04 05:06:12+00:00
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I'm eligible for a security clearance and willing to do government work. Already passed a FSP once, but was denied agency specific suitability.
by Sniffnoy | 2025-11-04 05:06:53+00:00
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf Email: harry.j.altman@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Harry Altman! I was the maintainer of Truffle Debugger (https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle/tree/develop/package...), a Solidity smart contract debugger, for 5 years. I eventually ended up writing my own decoding and encoding libraries to support it, as well as a bunch of other things.

I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)

I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).

I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire!
by iliaov | 2025-11-04 05:08:23+00:00
I'm super productive away in a hotel!! And not productive at home (everyone wants my attention).

Cost is important, but #1 is getting things done.

Training for 2 weeks - I keep it to 5 days, yes it is enough. They are already full stack (this is a full stack engineer job) pros. Obviously, they don't know everything - in that case I tell them: "Ask Claude/Claude Code; if Claude/Claude Code does not help you, ask me."

I give them a relatively small piece of work and see if they sink or swim situation. Some people step up. I want to work with these people.

I wish I could clone myself - and I now, I think I can, thanks to AI agents. Let me hack a clone agent right now.
by exoverito | 2025-11-04 05:08:46+00:00
Stunningly weak mentality. Not surprised to see it on display here, HN is polluted with broken dorks.

If you don't fight back you will be the victim of further abuse. If there's no countervailing force against sadistic psychopaths, they will continue their destructive behavior.

You should absolutely beat the shit out of bullies. To idly stand by out of some misguided slave morality, you permit their evil, and allow the world to become worse.
by mmooss | 2025-11-04 05:08:57+00:00
The article's non-critical acceptance of the propaganda, the Cultural Revolution, and communist ideological language is odd. The author is "associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University", so maybe they feel they can't be critical, but then why is MIT publishing it?

For example, there is a lot to unpack here:

In the winter of 1974, this same factory organized a symposium entitled “Learning the Dialectics of Nature by Doing: Independence, Self-Reliance—Toward the Development of Electronic Computers.” Some years later, a round table on “people’s computers” was translated into English and included in a reader edited by communications scholar Armand Mattelart, who cited it as the world’s first instance of a democratic political practice in the field of information technology.

Also, I'm not quite sure how "cybernetics" applies to most of the events in the article. Maybe in China it means intformation technology generally?
by iron_sage | 2025-11-04 05:09:13+00:00
What Trump is doing is far beyond stupid. Worse, it will not stop drug deaths in the USA. It is all theatrics, predation, and molestation. He can put on a show and slash, and screw, but will do NOTHING to deal with addiction. What will satisfy him is beating up on more people south of the U.S. border.

If you believe anything he says, I have a bridge to sell you. If you want to imagine the future, consider what Orwell wrote about that boot stamping a human face, forever...
by timenotwasted | 2025-11-04 05:09:24+00:00
There is not enough nuance here to really understand the friction that this would have created but I've found the more conducive environments that engage and value healthy debate are made up of individuals that have the "strong opinions loosely held" mindset. This, on the other hand, sounds like stubbornness and wearing everyone down but again a lot gets lost in the details so I'll opt to not jump to conclusions.
by barrell | 2025-11-04 05:10:06+00:00
That’s a fair point. It was originally “Those that work are always…” but I lost that preface in some refactoring.

I think it’s quite obvious though why Duolingo doesnt disprove any of my points. There was and is still no pleasant, multilingual, effective language learning app on the market. For the most part, you can choose one of those (and no, I do not consider Duolingo “multilingual” in the sense most polyglots need :) )
by malux85 | 2025-11-04 05:10:47+00:00
>You make $800 by paying OpenAI $200? Can you please explain how your the value put in is 5x and how I can start making $800 more a month?

I estimate that the addtional work I can do is worth that much. It doesn't matter that "I do it" or "The LLM does it" - Its both of us, but I'm responsible for the code (I always execute it, test it, and take responsibility for it). That's just my estimate. Also what a ridiculous phrasing, the intent of what I'm saying is "I would pay a lot more for this because I personally see the value in it" - that's a subjective judgement I'm making, I have no idea who you are, why would you assume thats a tranferrable objective measure that could simply be transferred to you? AI is a multiplier on the human that uses it, and the quality of the output is hugely dependent on the communication skill of the human, you using AI and me using AI will produce different results with 100% certainty, one will be better, it doesn't matter who, I'm saying, they will not be equal.

>But it’s not you doing the work. And by your own admission, anyone can eventually figure it out. So if anything you’ve lost traits and handed them to the Llm. As an employee you’re less entrenched and more replaceable.

So what? I'm results driven - the important thing is that the task gets done - it's not "ME" doing it OR the "LLM" doing it, it's Me AND the LLM. I'm still responsible if there's bugs in it, and I check it and make sure I understand it.

>As an employee you’re less entrenched and more replaceable.

I hate this attitute, this is an attitude of a very poor employee - It leads to gatekeeping and knowledge hoarding, and lots of other petty and defensive behaviour, and it what people think when they view the world from a point of scarcity. I argue the other way - the additional productivity and tasks that I get done with the assistance of the LLMS makes me a more valuable employee, so the business is incentivised to keep me more, there's always more to do, it's just we are now using chainsaws and not axes.
by barrell | 2025-11-04 05:11:35+00:00
I personally find it quite ugly and clunky. I feel like the interface is optimized for children, and the number of ads you have to tap through to get even a modicum of knowledge is quite clunky. The last time I used it I spent over 20 hours to partially learn almost 4 letters of the Arabic alphabet — I’d call that pretty clunky.

Objectively they have a good team, but I do not think it’s above crticism in either regard.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-04 05:13:04+00:00
> “Everyone’s talking about Rust.” There it was: a 50 million dollar decision made on hype, about to be green lit.

I've seen this with React. You might have a great website working with some solid MVC framework + good'ol jQuery or equivalent, but no, the whole thing has to be rewritten from scratch to be an SPA in React, to "keep up".
It Can Apply and Positive in Favor the Newton III Law on an Engine System Device
by monterrey | 2025-11-04 05:14:02+00:00
3rd Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at From of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic. / For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 2 Forces in 1 System.

RETRODYNAMIC Effect - Dextrogiro/Action => vs <= Levogiro/Reaction Phenomena Effect. / Rotor/RPM VS InFlow/Way. 3d Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at Front of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic.

"Changing rotation inside a mass makes it possible to change its inertial properties. It is the equation for a jet motion without rejection of any mass.” Albert Einstein.

The logic of creation of an inertial propulsion system is thus: Any motion is rotation ---- Rotation of a matter generates a space-time Torsion ---Torsion of space - time is described by Ricci torsion --- Ricci torsion is an inertial field-----the rest mass of any object is determined by its inertial field---- operating by fields and forces of inertia inside of mass we can create inertial propulsion system which moves according to the equation [m (t) dv/dt =-vdm/dt].

Newton's Third Law of Motion: III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It is the sum of both (two) Forces - one to other / Are two Forces in one system.

The formula of the Retrodinamic effect is a simple mathematical summation. What is Dextrogiro plus Levogiro, gives the result of the sum, of what is the total, which is the retrodynamic effect. But keeps doing Exponential.

http://stateoftheartnovelinflowtech.blogspot.com

https://padlet.com/gearturbine/un2slbar3s94
by kyledrake | 2025-11-04 05:16:03+00:00
Awesome project! I did a similar thing with the Myspace dragon hoard https://mydora.restorativland.org

"Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009.

The archived collection contains 490,273 songs, which represents a tiny fraction of tens of millions of songs that were destroyed, many of which had no copies and are lost forever."
State Ofthe Art Novel InFlow 1Gearturbine/Reaction 2Imploturbocompressor/Impulse
by monterrey | 2025-11-04 05:17:40+00:00
Featured Project Development - Latest InFlow Generation - State of the Art Novel Tech: ·1-Gearturbine, Reaction Turbine, Rotary-Turbo, ·2-Imploturbocompressor, Impulse Turbine, One Compression Step:

Wordpress Blog State of the Art Novel InFlow Gearturbine Imploturbocompressor:

http://stateoftheartnovelinflowtech.blogspot.com

https://padlet.com/gearturbine/un2slbar3s94

1-GEARTURBINE PROJECT, Reaction-Turbine System Type, Rotary-Turbo-InFlow Tech, Atypical InFlow Thermodynamic, Technology Proposal Submission, Novel Fueled Motor Engine Type:

·State of the art Innovative concept Top system Higher efficient percent.Power by bar, for Air-Planes, Sea-Boats, Land-Transport & Dynamic Power-Plant Generation.

-Have similar system of the Aeolipile Heron Steam device from Alexandria 10-70 AD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cPo9Lf44TE

-YouTube; Atypical New • GEARTURBINE / Retrodynamic = DextroRPM VS LevoInFlow + Ying Yang Thrust Way Type - Non Waste Looses

·:8-X/Y Thermodynamic CYCLE - Way Steps 1)1-Compression / bigger 2)2-Turbo 1 cold 3)2-Turbo 2 cold 4)2-Combustion - circular motion flames / opposites 5)2-Thrust - single turbo & planetary gears / ying yang 6)2-Turbo 2 hot 7)2-Turbo 1 hot 8)1-Turbine / bigger

-With Retrodynamic Dextrogiro => vs <= Levogiro Phenomenon Effect. / Rotor-RPM VS InFlow / front to front.

-Non waste parasitic looses for; friction, cooling, lubrication & combustion. Like a Free-Wheel.

-3 points of power thrust; 1-flow way, 2-gear, 3-turbine. *Patent; Dic. 1991 IMPI Mexico #197187.

·2-IMPLOTURBOCOMPRESSOR; Impulse-Turbine System Type, Implo-Ducted, One Moving Part System Excellence Design - The InFlow Interaction comes from Macro-Flow and goes to Micro-Flow by Implossion - Only One Compression Step; Inflow.

·“Excellence in Design" because is only one moving part. Only one unique compression step. Inflow and out flow at the same one system,

To see a Imploturbocompressor animation, is posible on a simple way, just to check the Hurricane Satellite view, and is the same implo inflow way nature.

Its prudent to mention that the curves and the inclinations of the blades of a rotating wing made of this invention, is conferred by its shape and function a structural rigidity.
by yazmi | 2025-11-04 05:19:46+00:00
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by theptip | 2025-11-04 05:20:47+00:00
> But; they don't learn

If we took your brain and perfectly digitized it on read-only hardware, would you expect to still “think”?

Do amnesiacs who are incapable of laying down long-term memories not think?

I personally believe that memory formation and learning are one of the biggest cruces for general intelligence, but I can easily imagine thinking occurring without memory. (Yes, this is potentially ethically very worrying.)
by danenania | 2025-11-04 05:21:19+00:00
I’m curious how people would suggest dealing with large self-contained features that can’t be merged to main until they are production-ready, and therefore might become quite large prior to a PR.

While it would be nice to ship this kind of thing in smaller iterative units, that doesn’t always make sense from a product perspective. Sometimes version 0 has bunch of requirements that are non-negotiable and simply need a lot of code to implement. Do you just ask for periodic reviews of the branch along the way?
by AngryData | 2025-11-04 05:21:45+00:00
I would say most American's sense of feet gets fuzzy after about 30, there are very few things that are standardized that size or bigger or that they have ever personally measured out. Yards might be more useful up to maybe 200 or 300 because they have all seen football fields though. After that for most people they go to miles or minutes of travel.

Some farmers might throw in a reference to an acre length that is referencing the 660 foot length of a standard acre (660 feet x 66 feet, or 1 furlong x 1 chain), which is just another way to say 1/8th of a mile.
by tw04 | 2025-11-04 05:21:53+00:00
Do you have an example of a large organization that deploys in the middle of the business day that hasn’t had a catastrophic failure? I dont think “deploying after hours” is a sign of lack of confidence in engineering, it’s just basic common sense not to disrupt the people paying your bills because it might be slightly less convenient for a small subsets of your employees.

People always point to Facebook but they literally constantly have issues, it’s just that nobody dies when the like button glitches on grandma’s feed.