MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nine_k | 2025-12-01 19:44:55+00:00
Location: New York City, NY, USA

Remote: Yes, as is hybrid. Have a long experience working in distributed teams.

Willing to relocate: No (family, kids).

Technologies: Backend: Typescript, Express.js, Next.js; Python, FastAPI, Django, SQLAlchemy, pytest; SQL, Postgres, SQLite, MySQL, even Oracle; Redis; AWS, Docker, Linux, git, CI/CD, some Kubernetes, some Terraform, etc. Frontend: Typescript, Javascript, React, HTML5, CSS3. Code review, mentoring. Product work. Tech lead experience.

Résumé/CV: https://dmitry.cheryasov.info/resume/with-intro/

Email: in the resume.

I'm an experienced software engineer, looking for a hands-on senior software engineer / tech lead position, backend-leaning, with significant frontend skills. I worked at companies of all kinds, from seed-stage startups to literal FAANG.

I always end up working in close interaction with product people, stakeholders, and (if lucky enough) prospective users. I'm used to working cross-functionally and cross-team, improving communication, coordinating work of several teams to build and operate the thing which the business needs. I prefer building the right thing without haste, but know how to prioritize shipping the most impactful changes sooner.

I value autonomy and high impact. I built things from a nebulous idea to a final implementation and production launch. I evolved large existing systems, including frontend, backend, and databases.

I'm glad to communicate with people, to mentor fellow engineers when appropriate, to coordinate work, but I'm not trying to become a full-time people manager. My north star is people like John Carmack or Rob Pike.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-01 19:44:56+00:00
A few years ago when I started WFH full-time I attempted to make "healthy" noodle bowls using Indomie ramen as a base. Indomie packets are smaller than Top Ramen, so they have less carbs / salt. I'd stir fry the noodles with a bunch of veggies like shredded cabbage, onions, and peppers, and toss in some protein (leftover chicken, cubed tofu, etc). Seemed pretty healthy!

Until my blood sugar (A1C) and blood pressure numbers started climbing...
by debbiedowner | 2025-12-01 19:44:59+00:00
Why do you say rent control reduces the incentive to build more housing?

To me it seems the opposite: Rent control means supply goes down, so available building & land prices go up. These prices going up means an opportunity for builders who are good businessmen because they are going to make a margin on their investment, the bigger the investment the bigger upside.

Another intuition is with rent control it's hard to extract new value from an old building, so that also incentivizes tearing it down and squeezing more units into the land.

In SF, rent control exists on all buildings built before 1979. It appears to me that people who prioritize new builds pay a huge premium for them. I think this particular rule also incentivizes tearing pre 1979 structures down, vs the no rent control newer buildings can continue to have growth in the value extracted from them.
by silentguy | 2025-12-01 19:45:07+00:00
This is the response I received.

>Thanks for your email. In our online FAQ for the DEGURBA methodology (https://population.un.org/wup/faqs), you'll see:

Does DEGURBA combine too many cities into a single conurbation?

In countries where population data were only available at relatively coarse resolution and densities are generally high, these estimates may include conurbation that are too large. For example, the DEGURBA-defined city that includes Hajipur in India appears to aggregate multiple distinct cities and towns. Using finer grained population data or even better a population grid based on a geo-coded census may lead to this conurbation shrinking and turning into a multitude of individual cities and towns.

The following online portal provides you more details: https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/raster.php - Based on this methodology, Hajipur corresponds to the whole red urban centre combining multiple contiguous urban units. If you zoom on the interactive map you'll see the name of smaller urban places included. For the most recent periods, the initial units of analysis for the population grid were the 5,967 Sub-districts/Tehsils/Cercles of the 2011 census of India projected using the 2001-2011 censuses. Population distribution is downscaled using estimates of building volume from the GHSL, which you can see here: https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/visualisati...

You can see that Patna is the larger/closest urban area, but it is not physically connected to the rest of the urban area due to the river in between. SO Patna appears as distinct urban area.
by fringol__ | 2025-12-01 19:45:10+00:00
It is very straightforward to show that sex is defined by gametes.

Imagine a biologist discovers a new sexually reproducing species. She does not yet know whether it is hermaphroditic or gonochoric, nor, if gonochoric, which individuals are female and which are male.

What does she investigate to find out?

She examines gamete production: which gonads produce small, motile gametes and which produce large, nutritive ones. That is the criterion that has defined "female" and "male" across all sexually reproducing organisms for well over a century of modern biology.

Everything else - chromosomes, hormones, genitalia, secondary characteristics - are species-specific downstream mechanisms that evolved to achieve that single binary outcome. They are not the definition itself.

I did ask a version of this earlier in my first reply to you, but I think its significance may have been missed. Anyone with a solid grounding in biology should recognise immediately that gametes are the root criterion. No other answer makes sense.
by wcfrobert | 2025-12-01 19:45:16+00:00
> I’ve never seen a team fail because they chose Ruby. I have seen them fail because they chose complexity. Because they chose indecision. Because they chose “seriousness” over momentum. Ruby just needed to stay out of the way so people could focus on the real work.

I am entirely indifferent to the topic of Ruby, but this sentence really resonated with me. I'll take momentum over premature optimization for scale any day of the week.
by valdezm | 2025-12-01 19:45:21+00:00
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc. -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com

Building startups (based in San Francisco) @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markavaldez_ai-activity-73922...

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Email: hello@valdezm.com
by rdsedmundo-cv | 2025-12-01 19:45:25+00:00
Foundation Source | Remote (US, Canada) | Full-time We're expanding our team and looking for passionate individuals to join us in building innovative solutions for philanthropy in the DAF team (we provide the technology that runs the Charityvest DAF). Our current openings include:

Senior Software Engineer, Back-end, DAFs: Design and implement core products for our Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) offerings, using a modern fully serverless event-driven architecture in AWS with TypeScript and Postgres.

Senior Software Engineer, Front-end, DAFs: Craft exceptional, high-performing user interfaces for our DAF platform, using modern React 18+ and Next.js 14+ features.

If you're passionate about fintech and making a meaningful impact in the world of charitable giving, we'd love to hear from you.

Feel free to email me your CV and I'd be happy to share more details: edmundo+hn [at] charityvest [dot] org
by keepamovin | 2025-12-01 19:46:05+00:00
Yes! It's a fascinating conundrum. The giant megalithic "bricks" perfectly fitted and "moulded". Amazing craftsmenship. Entirely possible a forgotten technology was utilized by humans, or by something "before us". Antoher technological Earth-based civlization that wasn't "human" but the only traces of which remain are their megalithcs -- spooky, almost as if they knew they had to leave a stone legacy!
by bastard_op | 2025-12-01 19:46:12+00:00
Mostly the fact that GrapheneOS only works on Google Pixel hardware currently and vendor unlock status. It's the only available phone hardware that provides full bootloader unlock capabilities AND suitable security protections baked into the secure enclave and boot process, including things like rate limiting in hardware like password cracking attempts via external brute-force input means, lockdown of usb ports until boot unlocked with a pin, etc. Their website spells out all the reasons.

Other phone makers could if they wanted to do the same, but do not as an active choice, or at least somebody's choice above them.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 19:46:21+00:00
> Are there philosophical problems that have definite answers

Great question.

Within philosophical and epistemological frameworks, I could ask questions such as, "Can there be a square circle?"

Well, no, these two concepts have conflicting properties. A mathematician might think this a solved problem, but philosophy underpins our concept of concepts. Many philosophers spend a great deal arguing what is is.

For Plato, geometrical entities like circles and squares have distinct, perfect Forms. Forms have fixed essences, so a thing cannot participate in contradictory Forms at once.

Aristotle's law of noncontradiction says the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject in the same respect.

Theophrastus developed hypothetical syllogisms and refined Aristotle’s logic by distinguishing logical impossibilities from physical impossibilities.

Kant calls it an analytic contradiction, false by virtue of the concepts involved.

A mathematician takes these things for granted when working with equalities, logic and axioms, but they stand on philosophical roots. Mathematics assumes the consistency of concepts, but the question of why some concepts are consistent while others are impossible is a philosophical one. It's not a coincidence that so many ancient Greek mathematicians were also philosophers.
by FerretFred | 2025-12-01 19:46:29+00:00
I went by the definition:

misanthropic /mĭs″ən-thrŏp′ĭk, mĭz″-/ adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.

Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.

Hating or disliking mankind.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
by runjake | 2025-12-01 19:46:44+00:00
In case English isn't your primary language, "more or less" means "approximately", not "exactly". Sorry about that.

Microsoft's tagline is "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere"

If you visit https://www.apple.com/os/macos/ , Apple touts Apple Intelligence (AI), connecting devices, cloud to increase productivity and, this time a direct quote, "accelerate your workflows". This is more or less the same tagline as Microsoft is pitching.

Somewhat humorously, Apple doesn't seem to mention their agent, Siri on the page at all, but it's being reported a revamped Siri is coming in 2026.
by epistasis | 2025-12-01 19:46:53+00:00
Rent control also switches the class politics, as people who are paying far below market rate for housing become like landlords and homeowners: getting free imputed rent.

People have been knocking down doors to build in SF for decades, but do not because regulatory capture by homeowners, landlords, and those with below-market rents are happy to keep out new people.

Where and when housing gets built in the US is not merely a market driven decision: you also need to get local permission to build.
by Gys | 2025-12-01 19:46:54+00:00
> Facts: there's abundance of testimony that would secure conviction in court regarding abductions, encounters (of variosu "kinds"), and "multi-sensor data".

'testimony' as in 'statements from people' should not nearly be enough to convince a court. Pretty sure there are also many testimonies that confirm the existence of trolls, elf's, the devil, reincarnation, angels, big foot, Loch Ness monster, etc.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-01 19:47:27+00:00
> Apple didn't leave China and neither it will leave India. India can and will survive without Apple

They can both survive without each other. But neither is going to break the arrangement without a lot of pain. They have mutual leverage with each other, and that becomes particularly material when one stops treating India as a monolith.

> India can and will survive without Apple. Though having it in the country would be good for optics

Most people aren't content with merely surviving.
by Kelteseth | 2025-12-01 19:47:41+00:00
I didn't find any context for your claim so here is some reddit comment:

So it’s true 3,300 people were arrested for posts online. What they don’t tell you are the statistics or context. The actual law for these arrests covers EVERYTHING online. These arrests include those arrested for terrorism (if the planning/act of terror includes any online communication in the UK), threats of violence, racist abuse, hate speech and unwanted communication (including sending unsolicited sexual photos to strangers). It also includes spreading false information that could cause harm or affect an ingoing investigation.

If you look at convictions, only 137 people were actually sentenced in 2024.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebunkThis/comments/1mmux6r/comment...
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-12-01 19:47:52+00:00
I doubt much will change.

Your location is already known to your mobile operator, to your phone OS manufacturer, to various social media services, and more, including the government/law enforcement on request (maybe, or they have permanent access, who knows).

Any time you buy stuff with a debit/credit card, the details of that transaction is known to your bank, your card provider, tax authorities, including where you bought stuff, and by request, authorities

Money that goes into your bank account is also known by your bank (obviously), by tax authorities, and by request, authorities.

Your ISP knows who you talk to, and can easily log metadata about which sites you visit, even if you use a secure DNS, and in most countries, authorities can request (metadata) logging from your ISP, which you'll never even notice.

During COVID, health authorities started analyzing sewage to estimate how much the virus had spread in various communities, and some places they were down to street level accuracy. Obviously that gets a lot more diffuse on Manhattan than some rural city with 400 people in it, but you pretty much can't fart without anyone knowing it.

We are already under constant surveillance, whether we like it or not. I don't mind as much as long as it's used retroactively, but the ChatControl proposition would be proactive instead. It would scan your texts and report if it found something "suspicious", with the caveat that you as a user don't know what's suspicious today (or tomorrow). The list isn't public, and you wouldn't get notified that someone had called an adult, not until someone comes knocking on your door.

Their plan is/was to use AI, and we all know that ChatGPT never gets confused about anything, so that sounds like a great and ultra consistent plan. Most things require context. I might be angry because some kids gave me hard time, and write "fuck all children" to someone, but the anger isn't evident in the message, only the literal message, which I agree might be interpreted as something else (deliberately). This would then (probably) result in a notification for human review, a task that would fall to the operator of said service, so now Meta, Google or whomever has a legal justification for reading my messages looking for context, and I can't see any way that could go wrong. The other option was for law enforcement to read the messages, and while they're probably a bit more trustworthy in terms of privacy, I doubt we want to staff up our law enforcement offices by a factor 10 to read peoples messages.

The list could also be updated behind your back, so for totalitarian wannabe regimes, it could be used to pinpoint exactly who is organizing all those darned protests.
by bluGill | 2025-12-01 19:48:17+00:00
This might make Trump happy, but more importantly it makes the military happy. No military leader with any intelligence is happy with so much critical for war supply chain being in China or Taiwan - the two are showing signs of going to war with each other in the future. (it may not happen, but there are enough signs military and political leaders should worry). Military leaders are not just the US, leaders in Europe are happy too - they may not trust the US but the US is still at least a second option (and Trump is 79: he is statistically unlikely to live much longer)
by torginus | 2025-12-01 19:48:22+00:00
The cost of building housing is generally labor + materials + land, of which the first 2 are generally don't have runaway costs as they are not an investment category.

Land is something the government can help with if they choose to do so.

The rent is tied to the price of the apt, and since housing has become and investment category, has increased exponentially.

By controlling rent, you control real estate prices as well, as investors will find it a less attractive asset.

In a free market economy, the cost of things should be controlled by a market equilibrium, so building shouldn't cost more to buy than it is profitable to build tem.

But supply is often restricted by artificial means, meaning prices go up, that's where rent control comes in.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but saying not having rent control while clamping down on construction isn't true to the spirit of the free market.
by cipheredStones | 2025-12-01 19:48:34+00:00
Location: Portland, Oregon

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Backend engineering - databases (SQL and NoSQL), APIs, making complex systems work together. I know Typescript / Javascript and Ruby, but happy to learn other languages.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d0s3bj143o1rab1vrpgyj/Sam-Lie...

Email: samliebow [at] gmail [dot] com

I'm a backend engineer with ~7 years of experience, most recently in the Risk division at Stripe for 3.5 years. On my teams, I've been known for making myself an expert on complex code and data, for being an excellent debugger and reviewer, for improving efficiency (on my last team, I took our core cron job's runtime from 8 hours to 15 minutes), and for working to invest in technical foundations.

I'm especially interested in complex technical problems, working with data and databases, and gaining new skills.
by soyzamudio | 2025-12-01 19:48:42+00:00
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by keepamovin | 2025-12-01 19:48:44+00:00
That's a good point. However, if we consider "spice" required to navigate the paths between the stars...still, in seriousness...I think the informational field can pull consciousness to our location. Test: you are standing in a field, and suddenly you "feel" someone looking at you. You turn around. A girl on a hill. This reflex is universal, even sniper training emplores "don't stare at target, they will know!". A smaller part of the general pattern: consciousness can sense itself across time/space. So, "they" probably know "we" are here easily.
by transcriptase | 2025-12-01 19:49:29+00:00
I get this too. I’ve had it apologize for repeating something verbatim, then proceed to do it again word for word despite my asking for clarification or pointing out that it’s incorrect and not actually searching the web like I requested. Over and over and over until some bit flips and it finally actually gives the information requested.

The example that stands out most clearly is that I asked it how to turn the fog lights on in my rental vehicle by giving it the exact year, make, model, etc. For 6-8 replies in a row it gave the exact same answer about it being a (non-existent) button on the dash. Then finally something clicked, it searched the Internet, and accurately said that it was a twistable collar midway down the turn signal stalk.
by goku12 | 2025-12-01 19:49:36+00:00
That was Mozilla's stance. Google was thoroughly hostile towards it. They closed the original issue citing a lack of interest among users, despite the users themselves complaining loudly against it. The only thing I'm not sure about is why they decided to reopen it. They may have decided that they didn't need this much bad PR. Or someone inside may have been annoyed by it just as much as we are.

PS: I'm a bit too sleepy to search for the original discussion. Apologies for not linking it here.
by khaki54 | 2025-12-01 19:49:50+00:00
If you've ever looked at the admin panel of even a minor league, single page Wordpress site you'd probably recognize it as a major risk for any organization instantly. So many of the plugins look like spaghetti, with most you're trusting some random name to not be malicious. Unsurprisingly there are 60,000 CVE related to WP. I get that we all use a dozen node packages that we can't reasonably verify, but WP seems so much more wild west than that. I guess i's fine if you are a low value target, but a commercial CMS is not terribly expensive, and should be mandatory for any government org.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-12-01 19:50:09+00:00
A Liberty GB spokesman said: "Mr Weston was standing on the steps of Winchester Guildhall, addressing the passers-by in the street with a megaphone.

"He quoted an excerpt about Islam from the book The River War by Winston Churchill.

"Reportedly, a woman came out of the Guildhall and asked Mr Weston if he had the authorisation to make this speech.

"When he answered that he didn't, she told him: 'It's disgusting', and then called the police.

"Six or seven officers arrived. They talked with the people standing nearby, asking questions about what had happened.

"The police had a long discussion with Mr Weston, lasting about 40 minutes.

"At about 3pm he was arrested. They searched him, put him in a police van and took him away."