MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2026-02-02 16:11:34+00:00
Valid-sounding argument, but ultimately irrelevant in the medium term. In fact, converting civilian traffic to EVs makes it a lot easier to ration fuel for military uses in emergencies.

It's been an issue since WW2 that there's very little oil on the European continent. That's why Germany planned to seize Azerbaijan in the first place.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-02 16:11:38+00:00
Which is hilarious, but when I'm driving on the freeway and trying to add milk to my grocery list or add a navigation stop at the hardware store (no idea if these are things you can actually do, I'm just using what feel like plausible use cases for a car voice assistant) I wouldn't want the additipnal distraction of the voice assistant being funny.
by jon_north | 2026-02-02 16:11:40+00:00
Location: USA

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Willing to relocate: Maybe

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by c0nsumer | 2026-02-02 16:11:41+00:00
Small world!

You're welcome.

Yeah, give borg a look. It's just faster to back up, faster to delete old backups, and just easier to do restores because so long as you have the appropriate credentials you can list the archive from any machine.

I think there's still a place/use for --link-dst and hardlinks, but as a backup system I think borg does it better.

For reference: https://nuxx.net/blog/2019/11/10/using-borg-for-backing-up-n...
by jerluc | 2026-02-02 16:11:48+00:00
Station A | Staff Software Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-time

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by ra7 | 2026-02-02 16:11:52+00:00
Yes, it provides external validation for the valuation. Otherwise, Alphabet can simply "self value" Waymo at a funny amount like $1T.

There's also a strategic partnership angle in these rounds. For example, Magna and Autonation were early investors in Waymo. Magna operates Waymo's factory in Arizona to upfit their vehicles with sensors, Autonation (the huge dealership/service network) is the maintenance partner.

In general, the Alphabet playbook is that projects "graduate" out of Google X, and are expected to operate as a standalone company, including being responsible for raising funds.
by avsm | 2026-02-02 16:12:02+00:00
We do now though, with OxCaml! The local stack allocation mode puts in quite a strong constraint on the shape of the allocations that are possible.

On my TODO list next is to hook up the various O(x)Caml memory profiling tools: we have statmemprof which does statistical sampling, and then the runtime events buffer, and (hopefully) stack activity in OxCaml's case from the compiler.

This provides a pretty good automation loop for a performance optimising coding agent: it can choose between heap vs local, or copy vs reference, or fixed layout (for SIMD) vs fragmentation (for multicore NUMA) dependingo on the tasks at hand.

Some references:
- Statmemprof in OCaml : https://tarides.com/blog/2025-03-06-feature-parity-series-st...
- "The saga of multicore OCaml" by Ron Minsky about how Jane Street viewed performance optimisation from the launch of OCaml 5.0 to where they are today with OxCaml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGSPpk1IB0
by re-thc | 2026-02-02 16:12:23+00:00
> You don't go to coffee shops and probably don't care for coffee if you're talking about instant coffee.

Who says I don't? What I do has nothing to do with the market.

> Why even speak at all on this subject that you are not familiar with?

You're not familiar with it. Living in your own world is not being familiar. The market is huge. Again what you and I do is NOT the market.

> Not every thought that enters your mind needs to be written out.

Exactly. I can go to coffee shops but still acknowledge other things exist. Unlike your reply.
by spyckie2 | 2026-02-02 16:12:27+00:00
This is why you are not the finance guy.

My finance people care about the cents, a ROI of 7% is average but at 8.5% and now you are a world class asset of that inventory type. That’s sometimes the difference of a few hundred k out of 20m but they would not take the deal if it is slightly over due to their risk appetite.

The 3b external either matters a ton to fit their risk models OR they are doing a favor to an outside party. Probably a bit of both.
by jayd16 | 2026-02-02 16:12:33+00:00
I mostly work in games where Xcode is an all too common chore to pick up from time to time because Apple changed the rules on something or other to get an iOS build out. Usually I find that xcode isn't helpful at all in solving these problems. You need to dig through guis because it will not just trivially point you to the text file like VS or Jetbrains would.

It's certainly not a pleasant treat to pick the short straw.

Beyond that, I work with plenty of folks who have dabbled in xcode for mobile or on the side and it's just not seen in that great a light.

Meanwhile, I find that people who love xcode are all in and don't really give alternatives a chance at all (because when you have to use xcode, there isn't an alternative).

Even in this comment chain, we're rejecting other's opinions outright instead of talking about killer features xcode has that others fail at.
by godelski | 2026-02-02 16:12:42+00:00
> Compare this to Vim where, if it's the first time you're opening it, you are forced to kill the process because

Because you can't read

I'm serious. Open a blank file by typing `vim` into the terminal. Don't press anything, just look at the screen.

I'm sorry, but reading docs, or just reading, shouldn't be considered a significant barrier to entry.
by shuysman | 2026-02-02 16:13:06+00:00
Location: Bozeman, MT, USA

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by MHM5000 | 2026-02-02 16:13:07+00:00
Location: Tehran, Iran

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by Spooky23 | 2026-02-02 16:13:20+00:00
The problem with Republicans is that the core public platform is pure identity nonsense. The people voting for them are voting for that stuff and usually don’t understand their own interests.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the country. GOP policy blew up farming in the 80s, but doubling down on stupid culture war shit in the 90s flipped the farmers. The democratic parties concluded the juice of a contested small voter base wasnt worth the squeeze.

The same rug pull is in play here. Lots of Catholics are on the MAGA train because of their supposed deep convictions. The anti-immigrant Cuban and Mexicans will be the first to hit the “find out” phase.
by pdntspa | 2026-02-02 16:13:46+00:00
Dude I'm tired. Tired of having to learn some stupid new UI paradigm just because.

I really really wish there was ONE standard orthodoxy with regards to UI and how programs work and how we get around them.

Instead we have these clowns constantly inventing new ones. I love learning things and tweaking things but I have limited bandwidth and I am so over micromanaging my PC

For the record I know and love vi. But as I get older I find myself yearning more for the cathedral than the bazaar
by pauldipietro | 2026-02-02 16:13:55+00:00
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I am a product generalist/developer with many years of experience working on developer tools in various capacities spanning product management, design, and code. As such, I am open to any variety of roles that will allow me to use my varied background, especially given the market. I am unable to relocate, but in addition to remote roles I'm open to local positions and hybrid roles in NYC. Contract roles are also amenable.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-02-02 16:13:59+00:00
To be fair, Github Copilot has followed the same arc as Cursor, from AI-enhanced editor with smart autocomplete, to more of an IDE that now supports agentic "vibe coding" and "vibe editing" as well.

I do agree that conceptually there is a big difference between an editor, even with smart autocomplete, and an agentic coding tool, as typified by Claude Code and other CLI tools, where there is no editor necessarily involved at all.
by Caspar_Zinn | 2026-02-02 16:14:29+00:00
AIDAR | Hamburg, Germany | REMOTE-FRIENDLY | Core Team | Full-time

We’re building AI-powered tools for artist discovery, helping music professionals find emerging artists that actually fit their taste and vision.

Looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer/ Data Scientist to take ownership across backend, data, and product features, working closely with the founders.

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by andrewflnr | 2026-02-02 16:14:29+00:00
Oh really? If you, too, were being sarcastic, you have no business raising "my replies ended in question marks" as a defense, because you weren't actually asking a question, you were making a claim, and the question mark is purely decorative. That is also bad faith discussion. Which is really the core problem with the whole "just asking questions" thing, you start with ambiguous question marks, and retreat to whichever meaning is tactically expedient when challenged.

Meanwhile, I have no problem admitting that my question mark was decorative, and acknowledging my claim that you are engaging in bad faith discussion.
by palmotea | 2026-02-02 16:14:36+00:00
> Looking at the Russo-Ukrainian war, battery-powered drones seem to be more important than tanks right now.

I kinda wonder if that's temporary, until defensive countermeasures catch up (like something like a CIWS for a tank, but smaller and with a shotgun).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
by cf100clunk | 2026-02-02 16:15:08+00:00
Indigneous peoples of the Arctic have seen this disregard for them play out, over and over:

Particularly concerning was the focus on Greenland’s efforts to extract mineral
wealth or create defence positions, said Obed. “That’s the scariest part of the
rhetoric that has been circulating,” he said. “I did believe we were beyond this
central premise that if Indigenous peoples do not improve our land based on the
criteria of imperialist actors, that somehow we do not have self-determination.
The decisions that are made about our land and what we want for it are ours
alone.”

-- Natan Obed, President of Canada’s national Inuit organisation, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/02/indigenous-vie...
by consumer451 | 2026-02-02 16:15:15+00:00
My understanding is that wind turbine + PV + battery storage has a cycle where you buy once every twenty years, or more. So you buy once, and have twenty years to figure out the next buy cycle, geopolitical cycles and all.

On the fossil fuel side, you need to buy many times per year, every year. Each one of those buy events is an opportunity for an external party for stop your economy.

The renewable buy cycle is harder for an external party to interrupt.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-02 16:15:33+00:00
>“I assumed Republicans would be for this: business, deregulation,”

AI Data Centers are different than other plants. They provide very little in employment in the region. The few high-paying jobs that may exist can be located in other countries. All that is needed is building maintenance, and that can be contracted out, so no permanent work for the area.

All the Data Center does is use resources, electricity/water, without giving anything back to the community except discounted property tax. The residences, they only see higher utility costs for themselves.

So no wonder people are fighting back.
by zacksd | 2026-02-02 16:15:36+00:00
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by mikewarot | 2026-02-02 16:15:37+00:00
I use Termux to host my 11/780 VAX/VMS system on my cheap ass Motorola phone, thanks to SimH.

Beware of one thing, though... if you upgrade Termux, or remove/reinstall, you lose everything inside that "linux" system. I lost my first VAX setup that way. 8(
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-02 16:15:38+00:00
So this doesn’t describe “anyone you know”, yet the official “Young Republicans” association is bragging about their support for Nazis with the Republican Vice President dismissing it and Republicans across the country deifying a dead racist podcaster? And the elected Republican President accused a whole group of people of “eating pets” - and Republicans still overwhelming support this. Yet “no one you know” is like this?
by xhkkffbf | 2026-02-02 16:15:48+00:00
Very little daily benefit? I think they have to agree that the magic of applications like Waze or Google Docs or OpenAI don't magically happen without some data center somewhere. It's like people complaining about the smell of hog farms but insisting on eating pork.

Maybe it's better to just say that they're shouldering more of the burden?
by bluGill | 2026-02-02 16:15:50+00:00
Everyone with any military training has been laughing at how bad Russia was using their tanks, thus allowing them to be destroyed. Losing some tanks in battle is a given, but it is generally believed that if Russia was using tanks according to the Soviet doctrine they knew well they would not have lost near as many - as proof of that Thesis, Ukraine has been using the Soviet doctrine and not lost nearly as many tanks. (Ukraine lacks enough artillery to apply the Soviet doctrine of war which is why they are using drones - they have now developed new styles of fighting that uses the drones they have, but tanks are still an important part of war)
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-02 16:15:50+00:00
Because a wordle-in-one is meaningless. It doesn't mean you're any good at Wordle, the way a hole-in-one suggests you're good at golf. It definitely doesn't mean that you're a "Genius" as the game puts it, because you were operating with zero information and didn't employ any skill or intuition. It just means you burned some luck points on something that doesn't matter.
by aketchum | 2026-02-02 16:15:55+00:00
VIVA Finance | Atlanta, GA (In Person)| Back-end Software Engineer

Target Experience Level: 2-4 years of professional software experience

VIVA is a Fintech Startup based in Atlanta, GA with the mission to build a more inclusive financial system. VIVA offers unsecured personal loans to customers who have traditionally been excluded and taken advantage of by legacy financial institutions. The VIVA difference is to underwrite heavily on employment history and set up repayments through voluntary direct deposit payments from the borrower's paycheck. Our interest rates are less than 1/3 of the rates our customers are able to get from other financing options.

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Send an introduction to our hiring manger (alexa@viva-finance.com) with a resume and we will be in touch!
by PurpleRamen | 2026-02-02 16:16:00+00:00
Which polls? Political elections? Professional polls from experts? Or some random poll on the streets from some TV-Station or influencer? People also answer very different depending on the prospected outcome, thus the "seriousness" of their answer.

> This is high enough that i.e. in USA it would definitely be popular enough to pass an amendment to civil rights to guarantee execution even if the freedom from jeopardy to death penalty had been prior enshrined.

And legal system in Singapore works like USA? This seems like a strange claim.
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by archerabi | 2026-02-02 16:16:47+00:00
ASBL | Mobile Engineers, Engineering managers | Hyderabad, India | ONSITE | 35-100L INR We're a fast-growing, profitable real estate company in India, using technology to solve deeply complex problems in the construction and real estate space. Our mission is to build high-quality homes and deliver them on time—a massive challenge in this industry. Your code directly impacts everything from our supply chain and project management to the final home-buying experience for families. We're looking for product-minded engineers who want to own problems end-to-end in a high-impact environment. We use cursor and are AI first.
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