MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metadope | 2025-12-05 15:32:15+00:00
I will tell you the truth, and you will be safe, believe me, because I know what is true, from my personal experience.

This is the truth over which I can claim authority. My personal experience, that small portion of objective and infinite reality that became mine, once I'd perceived and diced my tiny slice, stored and explored and retrieved and believed. I know what's true, just ask, I'll tell.
by Fantastimaker | 2025-12-05 15:32:19+00:00
Just released the first update to my gridless spaceship building game "eXoSpace Combat Engineer".

No engine used, built using pure Rust with: - Rapier for fast physics - WGPU for cross-platform rendering - EGUI for the GUI

Although building a game without an engine usually is considered inefficient, my experience - as an experienced software engineer - is that it is quite doable with this stack.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2876200/eXoSpace_Combat_E... Full update blog: https://exospace-combat-engineer.com/blog/large-update-happy... Video: https://youtu.be/ASvQmla9On0
by FatherOfCurses | 2025-12-05 15:32:21+00:00
The problems GenX had to deal with was watching Boomers, who enjoyed all the benefits of post-WW2 expansion of infrastructure and social services, pull the rope ladder up behind them once they got well-paying jobs.

The 80's and 90's saw the beginning of the "fuck you, got mine" mentality that pervades all but the most egalitarian societies. Reagan and Thatcher deregulated and privatized everything, and as a result a select few made a mountain of money and destroyed the middle class. "Shareholder value" and mass layoffs became the order of the day way before the dot com bubble burst. GenX knew we'd never have it as good as our parents - we just didn't know how fucked we were going to end up.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-05 15:33:14+00:00
No, I mean small chunks that are actually merged instead of having a stack of them floating around.

A rebase before a merge can always happen, of course. But there are not stacked commits then it is just a standard rebase of your small chunk and that's it. And this will also have a shorter life than a stack so rebases will be rarer and simpler.
by indigodaddy | 2025-12-05 15:33:53+00:00
>> Netflix will, presuming this deal completes, be the owner of CNN/TNT/Discovery at al.

^^This isn’t accurate based on the multiple articles I’ve read, including this OP article. The entities they are acquiring are clearly laid out. Your statement is complete speculation at best, and plainly false and at odds with the current facts we know about the deal.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-05 15:34:08+00:00
I don't know how "German engineering" became a badge of honor. Probably from the people who continually roll new leases every 2 years.

Even 25 years ago working on German vehicles compared to the Japanese counter-parts was a harrowing endeavor.

Germans are excellent at making cool flashy features...that rely on 16 moving parts that cost $700 each, and need to remove the engine exhaust manifold to access one screw to release part #15.

They get a 10 for "Wow!" factor, a 0 for "well thought out", and a 10 for "extremely over complicated". Unsurprisingly this mindset has carried over into EVs now too.
by nrawe | 2025-12-05 15:34:35+00:00
Depends where you go, these two terms get used interchangeably (incorrectly IMO) and so there is some semantic drift.

If you were to read Julie Starr's "The Coaching Manual", or "The Coaching Habit", the definition is more or less what I outlined.

If you are familiar with the Leadership Continuum/Situational Leadership, the distinction from there becomes: tell/sell (mentoring), join/consult (coaching).
by michaelsmanley | 2025-12-05 15:34:36+00:00
"All art is ultimately about the creation of art," was the kind of reductive thinking that made me drop any pretense of continuing in academia after I finished my MFA. While I thought that was a marginally better stance than taken by the folks who insisted that all "texts" were fungible (which led to one student, when we were assigned to write a review of a short fiction collection published in the last year, instead wrote a scholarly paper covering his thesis chair's years-old volume of television criticism, which the professor accepted as equivalent), the whole discussion put me off literature for years and I scuttled back to programming, where at least when things didn't make sense there was some chance of fixing them.
by k310 | 2025-12-05 15:34:40+00:00
And Fresno, California has the highest total electricity costs in the U.S. (rates times usage) [0] [1]

> Fresno was No. 1 on the list, with the average household in the Central Valley city paying $3,123 annually for electricity.

By comparison, Durham, North Carolina: $1,422 a year.

[0] https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article305523851.html

https://archive.ph/oKRdO

[1] https://www.cashnetusa.com/blog/electric-rates-by-state/
by stronglikedan | 2025-12-05 15:35:12+00:00
> I am not sure what has happened over the decades regarding actually being proud of the work you produce.

Anecdotal, but I used to be proud of the work I produced, and then it got old and repetitive. However, as it was getting old, I was earning more. Now I'm in a place where if I were to quit and find something I could be proud of, I would have to accept a huge reduction in compensation. No thanks.

I'd rather have a much higher "just a paycheck" and find things to be proud of outside of work. Plus no one else cares anymore so why should I? Just pay me a lot and I'll keep showing up.
by jkmcf | 2025-12-05 15:35:22+00:00
I love to support creators, but I wish there was something common between free and significant subscription price so that I could show appreciation more readily.

Examples I would use without thinking for worthwhile-to-me content:

- "tip" options in the App Store - 10/year - 1/month

Similarly, I'm surprised these newsletter gatekeepers haven't implemented a tip jar where you put in $/year and it gets divided based on readership.

I know this has been tried in other ways, but I think Substack and Medium could make this work.
by pragma_x | 2025-12-05 15:35:24+00:00
That's the mother of all people-space problems in IT, right there.

To solve this, one can be an instrument for change. Network, band people together, evangelize better ways forward, all while not angering management by operating transparently.

Sometimes, that can work... up to a point. To broadcast real change, quickly, you really need anyone managing all the stakeholders to lead the charge and/or delegate a person or people to get it done. So the behavior of directors and VPs counts a lot for both the problem and the solution. It's not impossible to manage up into that state with a lot of talking and lobbying, but it's also not easy.

I'll add that technological transformation of the workplace is so hard to do, Amazon published a guide on how to do this for AWS. As a blueprint for doing this insanely hard task, I think it holds up as a way to implement just about any level of tech change. It also hammers home the idea that you need backing and buy-in from key players in the workforce before everyone else will follow. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/clo...
by Miraste | 2025-12-05 15:35:37+00:00
Computer and machine manufactured parts can be better, but it's a mistake to believe they always are. Take two contrasting examples.

In guitar manufacturing, CNC machines were a revolution. The quality of mid-range guitars improved massively, until there was little difference between them and the premium ones.

In furniture, modern manufacturing techniques drastically worsened the quality of everything. MDF and veneers are inherently worse than hand-crafted wood. The revolution here was making it cheaper.

CNC and other machining techniques raise the high bar for what's possible, and they have the potential to lower costs. That's it. They don't inherently improve quality, that's a factor of market forces.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-05 15:36:11+00:00
shows up in other medical research. eg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_paradox

i also recall hearing statistics as far back as 2010 that Hispanics tended to be more likely to get through US military basic training and have slightly lower rates of discharge during their first year of service (when a lot of bad behavior discharges start to happen)
by rob_c | 2025-12-05 15:36:16+00:00
If that's not obvious to you pray you're not over of them...

But in seriousness it's management failure to build up debt like that. Either self management, middle management or out of touch management. There's a reason that good managers are needed. And unfortunately most management is dealing with people and/or real-world, not a fixed in stone RFC or list of vendor requirements from legal.
by hennell | 2025-12-05 15:36:20+00:00
Less effectively too (depending how you travel). Most hotel rooms I'm there for a couple of days min, most normally a vacation week. I settle in, move the chair somewhere sensible, unpack clothes and charge, set up for the short term. Poster seems to be talking about very short lived instances where you can kill them at any time. I'm never able to leave a hotel room at a moments notice - that's where my stuff is...

Pets vs Cattle seems much more clear, cattle is there to be culled, you feed it, look after it, but you don't get attached. If the herd has a week member you kill it.

I'd be a heartless farmer, but that analogy radically improved my infrastructure.
by shlip | 2025-12-05 15:37:05+00:00
TLDR; Every chipmakers jumped the AI frenzy bandwagon and stopped producing regular chips.

> It shows industry efforts to meet voracious appetite for advanced chips — driven by Nvidia and tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Alibaba — created a dual bind: Chipmakers still can’t produce enough high-end semiconductors for the AI race, yet their tilt away from traditional memory products is choking supply to smartphones, PCs and consumer electronics. Some are now hurrying to course-correct.
by rolandog | 2025-12-05 15:37:16+00:00
Exactly. They're millions of times overrepresented in influence whereas they may have at most 1.5x (10x if we're being really generous) the skills of an average person.

In statistics, they'd be outliers and they'd be deleted from the dataset. In the news, it would be called bias. In a trampoline, they'd pierce the thing and drill down the ground; so, any outsized influence they have literally stamps out the life of a (trampoline) party.
by bsimpson | 2025-12-05 15:37:21+00:00
You know that meme of Jack Sparrow riding a sinking ship to shore?

That's how I imagined WBD. David Zaslav gets to transition from the leader of a reality show slophouse to one of the biggest power players in Hollywood, and all be has to do is let the slophouse sink and declare himself captain of the next ship.
by bobdvb | 2025-12-05 15:37:25+00:00
I've spent >20 years doing content security in various forms at various companies. Until recently I was directing the technology at a major streaming platform.

I can confirm that while there are serious issues with Widevine (and to a lesser extent PlayReady), the protection measures aren't totally ineffective. My work in improving security had measurable results saving significant amounts of money and reducing content leakage. One memorable time my colleague and I had a call with a big rights owner who tracks the piracy of their assets and they said "Can you tell us what you've been doing recently? Because the amount of piracy from your platform has dropped significantly."

Anti-piracy and content security is also a differentiator between platforms when bidding for content deals. Rights owners will absolutely give the best deals to the provider who provides more assurance and avoid platforms which are leaky buckets.

I know that doesn't fit the narrative, but until recently this was literally my job.
by basisword | 2025-12-05 15:37:48+00:00
Findings: In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months. Findings In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months
by orangebread | 2025-12-05 15:37:56+00:00
In my experience development has become too compartmentalized. This is why this game of telephone is so inefficient and frustrating just to implement basic features.

The rise of AI actually is also raising (from my observations) the engineer's role to be more of a product owner. I would highly suggest engineers learn basic UI/UX design principles and understand gherkin behavior scenarios as a way to outline or ideate features. It's not too hard to pick up if you've been a developer for awhile, but this is where we are headed.
by mrgoldenbrown | 2025-12-05 15:38:02+00:00
Digging weeds and their roots up one by one by hand out of cracks in concrete/asphalt is much slower than spraying. Also much more physically challenging, which is a metric I didn't care about when young and able bodies but nowadays is very relevant to me. I'm not saying roundup is good, but there are plenty of reasons for it to be appealing. I haven't tried the boiling water method yet, it seems like it'd be easier than digging but harder than spraying, unless perhaps one has a mobile, outdoor source of boiling water.
by pfdietz | 2025-12-05 15:38:17+00:00
There are, but there are also strong incentives for what amounts to fraud, on both sides. Glyphosate has become both highly politicized -- it's used as an argument against GMOs -- and subject to concerted and lucrative legal attack. At the same time, the patent is expired, so the motivation to continue to defend it has waned. If anything, herbicide producers would now benefit if a cheap, public domain chemical were illegitimately banned in favor of more expensive chemicals still under patent protection.

Even when supposedly honest scientists publish, it's often wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
by jmkd | 2025-12-05 15:38:18+00:00
You might be referring to the remnants of broadcast television. I'm referring to the screen-based productions capturing the eyeballs of tomorrow.

One serious strand of America's whip of many thongs is the inability or refusal to acknowledge the rise in power and influence elsewhere.

As Gandalf - the last remaining talkshow host - gets pulled off the bridge into the abyss, he looks up to see a motley brigade of multi-cultural hobbits dashing for the surface with their wits and wallets thankfully intact.

Please excuse my excruciating reimagining of your wild fantasy metaphor.
by wombat-man | 2025-12-05 15:38:34+00:00
I torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want them to keep renewing it.

I subscribe to ad-free versions of services so I don't really run into ads a lot unless I'm trying to watch something live on TV.
by chuckadams | 2025-12-05 15:38:49+00:00
State machines come to mind: a transition is just a function call. Unfortunately that's a general tail call, not always a recursive one, so no love from this library, and that's where "proper" TCO wins (or trampolines if $your_language lacks TCO)

Also it wouldn't help with Fibonacci, since while it's recursive, it's not tail-recursive (yes, it can be written that way, but I'm talking about the idiomatic naive definition).
by sebtron | 2025-12-05 15:39:09+00:00
> I get the impression this person is using RSS reader wrong. Or is there really a culture of people you are using RSS like a youtube-channel, consuming everything from beginning to end? For me the purpose of RSS is to get the newest headlines, choose the interesting articles and skip the rest. This means there is a limited list of items to check each day, and a finishing line.

Why would the author's use be the wrong one? And why should YouTube be different, in principle? (Maybe you are using YouTube wrong...)

I think at some point there was a shift in the way we consume online content, from "I'll read whatever is up now" to "I have my list of things to catch up with". RSS is older, so it is natural to connect it with the older way of consuming content. But there is no reason we can't do the same with YouTube channels, for example.
by mustafaiste | 2025-12-05 15:39:30+00:00
Why are we still using HEX and RGB for design work in 2025?

Both are device-dependent, non-perceptual color spaces created for old hardware. They don’t reflect how humans actually see color, and they make tasks like “adjust the color a bit” or “make this lighter” behave unpredictably.

Modern color spaces like OKLCH (and even LCH) give: predictable lightness changes perceptual uniformity more accurate contrast control easier palette generation fewer surprises when colors shift between devices

Browsers support OKLCH now, CSS supports it, and most modern tools are catching up. Yet most workflows still start with HEX → HSL → guessing.

What’s keeping teams, frameworks, and designers tied to HEX/RGB at this point? Legacy tools? Inertia? Lack of education? Curious to hear other people’s experiences.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-05 15:39:43+00:00
> I think this is what actually stops newcomers to start with Lisp and not Python

What stops newcomers is knee-jerk reactions about the (lack of) syntax, it's scary to see something that doesn't look like Algol, because everyone who does mainstream programming uses Algol-like languages.

Introduce lisp to anyone who knows programming since earlier, and 99% of them will have a adverse reaction to s-expressions, before they understand what's going on. Once they understand, it makes a lot of sense obviously, but not everyone even has that kind of open mindset where they could understand if they wanted to.
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-05 15:39:44+00:00
Netgear 5 port managed switch: $30 https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/easy-smart/g...

Ubiquiti 5 port managed switch: $30 https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-switching/products/u...

Netgear 24 port managed switch: $260 (with a 1 year subscription included!) https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/smart-cloud/...

Ubiquiti 24 port managed switch: $225 https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-switching/products/u...

Sorry, but what markup are you referring to?

I'm sure you can find price differences at different products & tiers, but quickly glancing around it sure doesn't look like Ubiquiti has any particular premium markup.

Regardless having a self-hosted, buy-it-and-own-it, non-business friendly product line absolutely has value. I loved my mikrotik switches when I was just messing around, but the single pane of glass, central management is not insignificant when time becomes a more precious resource and you just need it to work.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-12-05 15:39:44+00:00
I'm starting to see platevoltage's point. Yes it's additional information, but it is an indirect form of censorship.

Remove one more f-bomb and we'll give you that PG-13 rating you're wanting.

Food labels are easier to justify because they have a very tangible effect on one's health. But even those can be misleading in the end.

I say keep the food labels, but reconsider the movie ratings system. What if it went away? The studios and exhibitors would have to *tell us* who the movie is intended for. What's so hard about that? What is this magic benefit we're getting from a rating system?
by angiolillo | 2025-12-05 15:39:59+00:00
For many of the families I know it's less about the quality of movies than the cost and effort of going to the movies.

Going to the movies costs an extra hour for the round-trip to the theater, ~$40 for adult tickets, ~$60 for the kids (2h babysitter or movie tickets), ~$20 for concessions. Whereas watching at home on our 75" TV with homemade popcorn costs a tiny fraction of that, even including electricity and popcorn kernels and the amortized cost of the TV.

As nice as it can be to see a good movie in a theater, it's typically not so much better than watching at home that it's worth an extra hour and more than a hundred dollars.
by tim333 | 2025-12-05 15:40:06+00:00
Retail speculator here. Re 2 it's often quite easy to demo on thinly traded markets - I'm more familiar with crypto. Say the spread is 81.00 buy, 81.03 sell. Put in a limit buy at 81.00 and watch someone/something immediately outbid you ate 81.01. In the short term that kind of thing is done by algorithms but there are humans behind it and doing it too.

There's quite a lot of other game playing going on also.
by etamponi | 2025-12-05 15:40:18+00:00
Technical problems are generated by lack of knowledge. One type of lack of knowledge is interaction with people. You'll never know everything that another person wants to communicate to you because of several reasons.

But even in the case of magically fixing people problems - for example, if you are working on a solo project - you will still have technical debt because you will still have lack of knowledge. An abstraction that leaks. A test that doesn't cover all the edge cases. A "simple" function that was not indeed that simple.

The mistake you want to avoid at all costs is believing you don't have a knowledge gap. You will always have a knowledge gap. So plan accordingly, make sure you're ready when you will finally discover that gap.
by Retric | 2025-12-05 15:40:24+00:00
Telling a detailed story is different than telling a compelling story.

Andor isn’t as compelling as the original movie or significantly longer than the Harry Potter series of movies. Babylon 5 is probably the poster child for a long running space opera series with a planned story arch, but they added plenty of filler because you don’t actually need that much time.

If anything movies tend to be better than TV shows because of the time constraints rather than the budget.
by ashish_sharda | 2025-12-05 15:40:39+00:00
I built this to learn bipedal locomotion math (IK, ZMP) from first principles rather than using a black-box library. It runs at ~1kHz in PyBullet using optimized NumPy. Currently handling gait generation in sim; working on C++ bindings for hardware next. Feedback on the solver implementation is welcome!
by peterfirefly | 2025-12-05 15:40:41+00:00
Speed is a remarkably good proxy for fluency.

An excellent way to git gud at something is to do timed practice again and again. Aim for 100% correct answers AND for fast answers. Answers that took to long should be identified and practiced again (and maybe some of the theory should be re-read or read from another textbook).

Don't settle for 100% correct during practice.
by SatvikBeri | 2025-12-05 15:40:45+00:00
If it's been around for a while, look at the last year's worth of projects and estimate the total delay caused by the specific piece of tech debt. Go through old Jira tickets etc. and figure out which ones were affected.

You don't need to be anywhere close to exact, it's just helpful to know whether it costs more like 5 hours a year or 5 weeks a year. Then you can prioritize tech debt along with other projects.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-05 15:41:24+00:00
I love the header pic.

That describes so many projects that I've seen, over the years.

One of my first programming projects, was maintaining a 100KLoC+ FORTRAN IV email program, circa 1975.

No comments, no subroutines, short, inscrutable, variables, stepped on by dozens of junior programmers, and the big breadwinner for the company.

Joy.

It was probably the single biggest motivation for my uptight coding style, since. I never want to do to others, what was done to me[0].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/