MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0x000saleh | 2025-12-02 21:47:52+00:00
hi, tbh the amount of information was amazing and overall design that highlighted important parts of information is also on point. however i had just overview right now its best resource if you dont know where to start some thing. one problem i feel developers face is like me i am developer with 2 years of exp. we don't know higher level road map, say after developing backend system for 2 years it feels like dead-end (maybe changing company will help i guess) we dont know should we start with devops, system design thats some thing missing everywhere. well i would love to contribute in this project if this is possible. also last but not least i loved calculators that you added in sections.Your site is Already Bookmarked in my browser loved it.
by andersmurphy | 2025-12-02 21:48:01+00:00
PRAGMA synchronous="normal" is fine if you are in WAL mode. The database cannot be corrupted by power loss unlike in journal mode.

> The synchronous=NORMAL setting provides the best balance between performance and safety for most applications running in WAL mode. You lose durability across power lose with synchronous NORMAL in WAL mode, but that is not important for most applications. Transactions are still atomic, consistent, and isolated, which are the most important characteristics in most use cases.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-02 21:48:18+00:00
If only there was some sensible way for 25M children to be given a financial head start that wasn't Michael Dell directly funding it.

See his total net worth and the YTD increase: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/michael-s-de.... Google/ChatGPT his 2019 (pre-covid) net worth (I'll save you the trouble): $27B. It doesn't matter if it's super accurate because we all know the multiple is probably pretty accurate given what's transpired.

And before you go calling me a wealth hater, I just wish the US wasn't such a wealth lover. Just a bit less emphasis on people getting rich and a bit more emphasis on getting our shit together so that the government can fund savings accounts for kids and while they're at it teach them some basic understanding of investment/budgeting.
by jcynix | 2025-12-02 21:48:19+00:00
I'll second Max Richter's Sleep. Timeline by Edith Progue might interest you too. The later is my favorite xcalm down" CD even before Max Richter's, when I'm too restless to sleep.

And maybe Glitch (music) might be of interest as a starting point, especially the "Clicks & Cuts Series" which gave me a lot of pointers to interesting niche artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicks_%26_Cuts_Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_%28music%29
by addaon | 2025-12-02 21:48:31+00:00
I've worked on or adjacent to one of the kernels you mention, and multiple RTOS's, across twenty years. The onboarding process has been the same as other non-OS software projects I've been involved in. I've never been in an environment where formal training is used. Instead, the new hire is encouraged to read the code, read documentation (when available -- and update it while reading it), ask questions, and take on some smaller tickets; and direct mentorship from a more senior engineer is the main tool for getting them up to speed.
by codyb | 2025-12-02 21:48:32+00:00
I'm not even really advocating for or against the copyright position.

I also think you're missing my point a bit. Just cause you study lots of works and create an original creation which borrows influences isn't the same thing as requiring use of a copyrighted piece of work.

It's pretty silly to suggest I was implying artists have no influences cause I classified works without any copyrighted material as original.

My point was more... just cause a bunch of copyrighted work becomes available does not necessarily imply creators and artists lives will be substantially different or better off.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-02 21:48:49+00:00
You can shuffle the steps around, but generally, the steps are where they are for a reason.

You don't teach an AI reasoning until you teach it instruction following. And RL in particular is expensive and inefficient, so it benefits from a solid SFT foundation.

Still, nothing really stops you from doing more SFT after reasoning RL, or mixing some SFT into pre-training, or even, madness warning, doing some reasoning RL in pre-training. Nothing but your own sanity and your compute budget. There are some benefits to this kind of mixed approach. And for research? Out-of-order is often "good enough".
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by inglor_cz | 2025-12-02 21:49:08+00:00
This could teach a lot of kids at least some financial literacy, which is valuable in any situation or tax regime.

Personally, I would have loved to have some money on such an investment account as a kid, and I would nerd out on its development, discuss it with friends etc. Knowing that everyone around me has the same account would also make it less taboo to discuss money in general.
by jimbokun | 2025-12-02 21:49:24+00:00
Century, yes.

Past 50 years...meh.

I've been alive slightly longer than that. And can't say life today is definitively better than 50 years ago in the USA.

It was the tail end of one income affording a house and groceries for a family. So to afford the same things, for many families requires almost double the labor.

A lot of new medical treatments, less smoking and drinking, overall longer life spans. But more recently increases to longevity have plateaued, and an epic of obesity has mitigated a lot of the health care improvements. And the astronomical increases in health care costs means improvements to health care capabilities are not available to a lot of people, at least not without greatly reducing their standard of living elsewhere.

College and university costs have grown exponentially, with no discernible increase in the quality of learning.

Housing prices far outpacing inflation of other goods and services.

Fewer intact families, less in person interactions, and the heroin like addictiveness of screens, have ushered in an epidemic of mental illness that might be unprecedented.

Now AI scaring the shit out of everyone, that no matter how hard you study, how disciplined and responsible you are, there's a good chance you will not be gainfully employed.

I frankly think the quality of life in the world I grew up in is better than the one my kids have today.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-02 21:49:44+00:00
I suppose so, but that takes decades of change. I don't see any solution right now though which is what matters to many.

As an aside, every thread I see here has a comment by you lol, that's some good effort but maybe take a break from such strenuous commenting, I say this sincerely as I also used to get into all these back and forths on HN and then realized, much of the time, it's a waste of my own time.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-02 21:49:46+00:00
having dealt with a few people who just copy/pasted Stackoverflow I really feel that using an LLM is an improvement.

That is at least for the people who don't understand what they're doing, the LLM tends to come out with something I can at least turn into something useful.

It might be reversed though for people who know what they're doing. IF they know what they're doing they might theoretically be able to put together some stackoverflow results that make sense, and build something up from that better than what gets generated from LLM (I am not asserting this would happen, and thinking it might be the case)

However I don't know as I've never known anyone who knew what they were doing who also just copy/pasted some stackoverflow or delegated to LLM significantly.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-02 21:49:49+00:00
> I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc.

I feel like an important step for a language is when people outside of the mainline language culture start using it in anger. In that respect, Zig has very much "made it."

That said, if I were to put on my cynical hat, I do wonder how much of that Anthropic money will be donated to the Zig Software Foundation itself. After all, throwing money at maintaining and promoting the language that powers a critical part of their infrastructure seems like a mutually beneficial arrangement.
by bluGill | 2025-12-02 21:49:51+00:00
There is the question - will they be worth the upgrade? Either because they are that much faster, or that much more energy efficient. (and also assuming you can get them, unobtainium is worth that what you have).

Also a nod to the other reply that suggests they will wear out in 5 years. I cannot comment on if that is correct but it is a valid worry.
by tshaddox | 2025-12-02 21:50:11+00:00
Isn't that still "acqui-hiring" according to common usage of the term?

Sometimes people use the term to mean that the buyer only wants some/all of the employees and will abandon or shut down the acquired company's product, which presumably isn't the case here.

But more often I see "acqui-hire" used to refer to any acquisition where the expertise of the acquired company are the main reason to the acquisition (rather than, say, an existing revenue stream), and the buyer intends to keep the existing team dynamics.
by clueless | 2025-12-02 21:50:42+00:00
exactly, based on this:

There is a political benefit for Trump and fellow Republicans. The accounts will become available in the midst of a midterm election, providing money to millions of voters — and a campaign talking point to GOP candidates — at a critical time politically. The $1,000 deposits are slated to end just after the 2028 presidential election.

They are obviously trying to buy the vote, so they can keep benefiting from the various tax breaks this admin is giving the wealthy...
by dfawcus | 2025-12-02 21:50:47+00:00
They're not gone yet. They have to pass legislation to achieve the scrapping.

So we still have the ability to make our views known. Write to MPs in the first instance. Basically, they need to be informed that this is a bright red line.

However, I suspect it'll take a mass demo in London to really drive the point home.

Only 110k at the UTK rally? I'd hope a demo in opposition to this proposal would completely choke up London.
by itsanaccount | 2025-12-02 21:50:53+00:00
As someone formerly a member of the the Center for Inquiry and still a believer in its mission, I understand what you're saying.

I would still point you to, there is something to this. And theres not been any whistleblower mention of anything "visiting." What they report aligns with the most probable scenario that the things we're seeing are automated Von Neumann probes, most likely sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and they've probably been here a long time.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-02 21:51:27+00:00
> Now you're being nitpicky. Take the vesting period of the sign on bonus, divide the bonus amount by that and add it to the regular salary and you get the effective salary

These aren't the same things and nobody negotating and acquisition or acqhihire converts in this way. (I've done both.)

> Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Your anecdote is little more than a scare story. It can be summarized as: if you don't let us cashout this time, we'll hold this against you in some undefined future

It's a personal anecdote. There shouldn't be any uncertainty about what I personally believe. I've literally negotiated acquihires. If you're getting a multimillion dollar payout, you shouldn't be particularly concerned about your standing in the next founding team unless you're a serial entrepreneur.

Broader online comment, invoking FUD seems like shorthand for objecting to something without knowing (or wanting to say) why.
by antonvs | 2025-12-02 21:51:46+00:00
> > runtime-unsafe

> That's not a thing.

Yes, it is. See all the work on the subject of "make illegal states unrepresentable". Search for that phrase, it's originally from Yaron Minsky at Jane Street Capital, but it's mainly a pithy characterization of a common goal for languages with strong type systems, like Rust, Haskell, or the ML family. Another way this is expressed is as "static debugging" - the idea that you can debug a significant proportion of a program's bugs statically, using the type system.

That's what I'm referring to here. If it's unfamiliar to you, it will likely take some time to get used to, because it's a significantly different paradigm from the common approach of debugging by running programs, encountering runtime errors, and trying to resolve them. But, instead of getting indignant and objecting to what I'm saying, consider that there might be something for you to learn here.

> You always need to check for errors. seccomp could be blocking your syscalls. Hard drives break such that reads return error.

What do you believe the relevance of this is? You need to check for errors that can't be checked for at compile time. That doesn't mean we should abandon the idea of checking for errors at compile time, or improving the scope of issues that we can detect at compile time.

Errors that are prevented at compile time cannot occur at runtime in principle, and that's an extremely powerful invariant in software development, one that any serious software developer should be aware of, and be able to take advantage of.

Type systems allow you to prove properties of programs that otherwise would need to be debugged and tested at runtime, but to take advantage of that, the types need to be designed appropriately.

> If your type system does not allow you to "bring your own fd (to be managed)", then it's not fit for purpose for the kind of problems Rust aims to solve.

This is a failure of imagination, nothing more. An appropriate type schema for this domain will be able to handle the requirements of the domain.
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by crystal_revenge | 2025-12-02 21:52:00+00:00
I love R, but how can you make that claim when R uses three distinct object-oriented systems all at the same time? R might seem stable only because it carries along with it 50 years of history of programming languages (part of it's charm, where else can you see the generic function approach to OOP in a language that's still evolving?)

Finally, as someone who wrote a lot of R pre-tidyverse, I've seen the entire ecosystem radically change over my career.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-02 21:52:02+00:00
I haven't for many years [1], but I think the current state of the art is stuff like webflow, silex, pinegrow. None of them _really_ let you directly open, say, django's template files and hack on them though, so there's still a gap where you've got a designer periodically exporting from a visual tool and then their changes having to be ported into the template representation. Obviously it's easy if all they touched was the CSS, but less obvious if markup is involved.

Honestly seems like there's a bit of a gap here. Would be an interesting case for copilot tbh— here, take the old export and the new export, and make me a PR applying those changes to the templates in this repo.

[1]: I was briefly an intern at a web shop in the late 00s and it was one guy doing Dreamweaver and the rest of us coding PHP around the assets it produced.
by Ethee | 2025-12-02 21:52:03+00:00
Correct, a quote from the linked wiki article: "Dodge is often misread or mistaught as setting a legal rule of shareholder wealth maximization. This was not and is not the law. Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and directors, not a legal mandate. The business judgment rule [which was also upheld in this decision] protects many decisions that deviate from this standard. This is one reading of Dodge. If this is all the case is about, however, it isn't that interesting." — M. Todd Henderson
by IncreasePosts | 2025-12-02 21:52:12+00:00
High income individuals already pay a majority of personal taxes in America. And American governments get about $10T(or $29k per citizen) to play with each year between federal, state, and local.

Exactly how much money is needed to create this society you're imagining? America has more than enough money (IMHO), we just suffer from cost issues, and if you just throw more money at a situation where you have cost issues, you are just burning the money.
by water-data-dude | 2025-12-02 21:52:16+00:00
Is/was copy/pasting from Stackoverflow considered harmful? You have a problem, you do a web search and you find someone who asked the same question on SO, and there's often a solution.

You might be specifically talking about people who copy/paste without understanding, but I think it's still OK-ish to do that, since you can't make an entire [whatever you're coding up] by copy/pasting snippets from SO like you're cutting words out of a magazine for a ransom note. There's still thought involved, so it's more like training wheels that you eventually outgrow as you get more understanding.
by adventured | 2025-12-02 21:52:20+00:00
I'll give you a basic example where it saved me a ton of time to vibe code instead of doing it myself, and I believe it would hold true for anyone.

Creating ~50 different types of calculators in JavaScript. Gemini can bang out in seconds what would take me far longer (and it's reasonable at basic tailwind style front-end design to boot). A large amount of work smashed down to a couple of days of cumulative instruction + testing in my spare time. It takes far long to think of how I want something to function in this example than it does for Gemini to successfully produce it. This is a use case scenario where something like Gemini 3 is exceptionally capable, and far exceeds the capability requirements needed to produce a decent outcome.

Do I want my next operating system vibe coded by Gemini 3? Of course not. Can it knock out front-end JavaScript tasks trivially? Yes, and far faster than any human could ever do it. Classic situation of using a tool for things it's particularly well suited.

Here's another one. An SM-24 Geophone + Raspberry PI 5 + ADC board. Hey Gemini / GPT, I need to build bin files from the raw voltage figures + timestamps, then using flask I need a web viewer + conversion on the geophone velocity figures for displacement and acceleration. Properly instructed, they'll create a highly functional version of that with some adjustments/iteration in 15-30 minutes. I basically had them recreate REW RTA mode for my geophone velocity data, and there's no way a person could do it nearly as fast. It requires some checking and iteration, and that's assumed in the comparison.
by tartoran | 2025-12-02 21:52:56+00:00
I don't have the same experience as you with FF and nothing like losing what I type ever happened to me. That would indeed be nasty bug and make it very unreliable/untrustworthy. It's possible you have something corrupted? Try a reinstall or try on a new machine and see if you can replicate the bug? I'm not 100% with Firefox but it's really the least bad option to me. I found, for example, quite irritating how FF was playing shenanigans with the new tab/homepage settings, eagerly recommending things I never asked for but luckily I was able to disable that. So far FF is quiet, not obnoxious and working.
by najarvg | 2025-12-02 21:52:58+00:00
If you add in the 1000$ that treasury plans to invest starting next year, that is $1250 compounded at 5% annually after 18 years to $3008.27. It's probably still not a "head start" given that inflation is assumed to nominally rise at 2.5 to 3.5% annually and will take a bite out of what the real value is worth in 18 years. Good intentions but misplaced as others have stated. Investing in other ways to provide upward economic mobility will provide much better ROI for the society than allowing most of the wealth to accrue to a handful of people
by wat10000 | 2025-12-02 21:53:08+00:00
That doesn't require anything nefarious. The parties can and do change their platforms and candidates to adapt to the electorate. If a party starts finding a way to win more votes, the other party will adjust to win them back.

It's like how prices at different gas stations tend to be within a few percent of each other. It's not conspiracy, just competition.
by greenpizza13 | 2025-12-02 21:53:29+00:00
The thesis of "What is Intelligence" is based around intelligence being just that.

> Intelligence is the ability to model, predict, and influence one’s future; it can evolve in relation to other intelligences to create a larger symbiotic intelligence.

The book is worth a read. But I don't believe it limits the type of intelligence we have to humans, by definition. Then again, I'm only halfway through the book :).

[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049955/what-is-intelligence/]
by harmmonica | 2025-12-02 21:53:42+00:00
No, it should not all be socialized and centralized. Think things are running smoothly in the US at the moment? I wish it were the case that Michael Dell would have to consider whether the deployment of that kind of capital is a layup for him or if it requires some major sacrifice on his part. And, yes, it's better that he does it than not, but I won't pat him on the back too hard given the math.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-02 21:53:51+00:00
Is this your post on Reddit as well? https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1pcdsn9/...

I am/was a contractor and I still get a bunch of requests on LinkedIn from recruiters, so it's not that, it must be your resume or something similar. For me I have all the latest buzzwords, as I work as a full stack dev, so React, Node, TypeScript, even AI now, etc. That seems to get me through recruiter searches. I also put down my LLC I've been using for the last several years and haven't seen any sort of discrimination on that.
by jmward01 | 2025-12-02 21:53:52+00:00
Philanthropy at the personal level is good. People need to interact with their city and know their neighbors and their issues. Mega donations at the national level are really just end-runs around our democracy. We need to figure it out as a society, not have a rich person come in and say 'I have money and this is how I want society to work'. Even if I agree with you, I don't really want any individual to have that much power over that many people. We need to constantly find ways as a society of encouraging individual voices and reducing the power of money as a voice.
by piskov | 2025-12-02 21:54:10+00:00
Genuine question: why js?

Why not something like c#: native, fast, crossplatform, strongly-typed, great tooling, supports both scripting (ie single file-based) and compiled to a binary with no dependency whatsoever (nativeAOT), great errors and error stacks, list goes on.

All great for AI to recover during its iterations of generating something useful.

Genuinely perplexed.