MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JeffsCarbide | 2026-03-03 01:11:35+00:00
Location: Chennai,India
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Technologies: math + Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, pandas, HDBSCAN, R, Haskell, SQL, Lean, Isabelle, LaTeX, Docker, Linux, Git
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Email: jeffdoesmath@gmail.com

Hey! I'm Jeff and I have designed antennas, worked with formal verification tools (Lean, Isabelle), and consulted as an algorithms and data consulting engineer (for antenna verification) since my teens. My friends often complain that I'm the kind of person who considers "let ε > 0" a perfectly reasonable way to start a conversation. I'm currently seeking remote math research, data science or ML ops opportunities.
by lmariscal | 2026-03-03 01:11:50+00:00
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by vor_ | 2026-03-03 01:11:54+00:00
> Also - study the code of the likes of Carmack. Consider that he produced the likes of the quake engines in only a couple of years. Reflect long and hard on the raw simplicity of a lot of that code.

There's a tendency to ascribe the entirety of id's technology to Carmack. Michael Abrash, as one example, was a major factor.
by toast0 | 2026-03-03 01:12:32+00:00
If you adopt permanent DST, the there's a 1 hour difference between the current clock and the future clock for 4 months, and nothing for 8 months. If you adopt permanent ST, the difference between the current clock and future clock is 1 hour for 8 months and nothing for 4 months.

It's a 4 month-hour difference over the year, instead of an 8 month-hour difference.

Personally, I'd prefer standard time, but having all days be 86400 seconds is a pretty great improvement over status quo. I find what most people really would like to change is the amount of time with sunlight in the winter, especially the more north they live... but changing the clock doesn't change the number of hours of sunlight; Vancouver, BC just doesn't have much sunlight in the winter.
by wmf | 2026-03-03 01:13:23+00:00
Bitcoin has lost almost half its value.

Bitcoin has lost half its value (or more) several times in its history.

What took so long?

This time it's dead for sure.

The answer is that crypto was held aloft for months by a period of euphoria that followed the extraordinary support the industry gained in the Trump administration.

So what caused the booms in 2013, 2017, and 2021?

Crypto is pointless but this article shows all the signs of being written by tourists.
by martythemaniak | 2026-03-03 01:13:44+00:00
"apolitical" simply means "the boss's politics", nothing more. When a CEO tells you to keep politics out of the workplace, he means do not disagree with him. A worker talking about his kids being bullied for being nerds is not political, a worker talking about his kids being bullied because of gender issues... Keep those politics out of the workplace.

Same here. There's politics you can freely discuss - Canada being a "police state" and "mistreating" "protestors", European hate speech laws etc. Perfectly fine and apolitical! Talk about something a little too uncomfortable for Americans and all of sudden, hey! Keep those politics out!
by notnullorvoid | 2026-03-03 01:16:12+00:00
Not hard, visualize the locations on the globe and a pie with 24 slices. If you start work at 12, and you want to know when someone 2 slices West will start you add 2 to get 14. 2 slice East of you, subtract 2 to get 10.

Better than guessing what timezone the region picked when it spans multiple natural time zones, and whether they do or don't have time changes.
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by PrateekJ17 | 2026-03-03 01:16:26+00:00
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by ddtaylor | 2026-03-03 01:16:44+00:00
I assumed it did something like that, but I honestly don't even know what it actually does, because the moment it gets loaded or anything like that the phone locks up and has to be manually reset using an obscure power button combination.

To add insult to injury it re-installs the app if you remove it and re-enables the app if you disable it. This is done by the carrier/mfg specific application which cannot be removed.
by al_borland | 2026-03-03 01:16:44+00:00
I saw people trading the macro for the micro, focusing on family and those close to them. That is a small areas where they can make things better. Focusing on giving children a good childhood and teaching them well, will do more than filling them with the anxiety they’d pickup from a news obsessed parent who is too stressed out to play a game. This is the most positive thing most people can do for the world.
by patsanjuan | 2026-03-03 01:17:31+00:00
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, Ca
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript, React, Typescript, Node.js, Python, GraphQL, Java
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uLrnF1NAW6UDU_jSmEwLWoPDUUZYss0O/edit
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by kelnos | 2026-03-03 01:17:42+00:00
Right, you used to be able to do that with Facebook, too (haven't been on there in forever, don't know the current state), but, right, it would reset to the usual slop after a little while.

This sort of garbage is just yet another reason why I don't want to be on these platforms. "Oh, you prefer it this way? No, fuck you, we know better as to what you want."

> my friends have long since stopped making regular posts on Instagram, it's more common to use stories.

Ugh. I don't know what my friends have been doing these days on Instagram, but the last thing I want to spend my day doing is watching short-form video clips posted by my friends. The photo stream (yes, with occasional short videos), was wonderful.
by protocolture | 2026-03-03 01:17:44+00:00
>“But everything is political” is a cop-out

I mean, even if not everything is political, almost everything tech spaces deal with is political. Usually, removing politics is the cop out, to try and bend compliance to whatever the null hypothesis political ramifications are of any particular technology. "Dont make this political" when discussing like, the ability to monitor office workers, is just an appeal to the politics of the people who gain from monitoring office workers. Therfore "“But everything is political” is a cop-out" is a cop-out
by nanobuilds | 2026-03-03 01:18:21+00:00
The long term goal might indeed be unrecognizable designs. Perhaps augmented reality contact lens. It will take a long time but people tend to slowly get used to giving more and more of their privacy away. Mojo Vision made a prototype of this. It's more the display but you can imagine the camera being somewhere else and streaming to the lens in an unobstructed way.
by lynndotpy | 2026-03-03 01:18:31+00:00
The problem isn't that MacOS doesn't work, it's that MacOS doesn't work _and_ you can't fix the things that don't work.

You can anticipate "the linux brigade" because it works well for many of us.

This isn't to say there _aren't_ problems. Bluetooth, audio, etc. working all depend on having the luck that someone wrote good drivers for the device you want to install Linux on. When you do have a problem, you don't have the benefit of having many people on your same configuration like you do with Apple. You might find yourself troubleshooting as the only person with your specific combo of dongle, mobo, cpu, distro, and kernel.

I've been on Linux since 2009 and MacOS since 2021. I've never had a bluetooth problem with Linux but I've had a ton on MacOS (but that might just be airpods).

The nice thing about Linux is that you have control over all your problems. On MacOS, if you have a solvable problem, the solution is often either "Pray that Apple fixes it in the next release" or "The fix for that costs $10 per month and it'll clog up your app switcher". On Linux, if you have a solvable problem, the solution is often "go into the settings for your distribution" or "install this tweak tool" or "find someone who had it before on a support forum and follow their steps".

It's not unreasonable that someone who is fed up with unsolvable problems on MacOS would find Linux more appealing. It's not a naive mindset, it's just how things are.
by orwin | 2026-03-03 01:18:44+00:00
The Shah son doesn't have the local support his father had. Part of the diaspora like him enough, but the clans that brought him to power are way less aligned with the British ans US than they use to be.

On the other hand, exchanging an anti-US dictator for a US-aligned dictator is probably a lot better for the average citizen because your country won't be embargoed anymore, you just have to accept US oil companies on your territory.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-03 01:19:08+00:00
Yes I can just print out directions on Mapquest before I leave home, tell people to page me and I will call them back from the nearest pay phone, carry around my Walkman and my Polaroid camera with me.

Have you ever thought that with 80% of web traffic coming from mobile, you might be the outlier?

What next? The old Slashdot meme “I haven’t watched TV in 20 years. Do people still watch TV?”
by mattnewton | 2026-03-03 01:20:18+00:00
This article asserts a lot without backing it up. I've been convinced to take political actions as the result of thoughtful discussions with coworkers over lunch for example; even if that's rare acting like it's impossible ignores that work is a large part of our lives and political discussion matters.

I agree with the author that it can take up too much space, but the argument here seems to be that because of that failure mode we must throw the baby out with the bathwater and implicitly assume the politics you infer of your boss.
by itopaloglu83 | 2026-03-03 01:20:25+00:00
Death by a thousand cuts.

Yes, things like small bugs and abnormal user experiences accumulate and over time the OS and other apps become inconsistent.

As heavy users who are generally by profession spend a lot more time with a Mac, they tend to experience more issues, and things that used to work for decades start to crumble. It all works if you’re acting like working on glass pieces, but that’s not what computers are made for.

You’re supposed to use it extensively and get more efficient over time without a glassy UI and other broken systems pulling you down at every turn.

It’s not about using a system for 10 minutes to visit a website with Chrome, but instead spending days programming things, having a normal life, and still having the very simple file discovery features working.

There’s no reason for a computer to be this choppy and slow (in things like context switching etc.) unless something else is going on in the background.
by rafabulsing | 2026-03-03 01:20:46+00:00
Totally agreed. That one silly gesture is the one thing still keeping me with Motorola, it really has become second nature. It's almost bizarre how I immediately do it as soon as I'm in any kind of darkness. I had to spend a couple of months with a phone from another brand and it was actually really annoying not having that!

That said, the software on my current phone has become bad enough (lack of updates only a couple of years after release, auto installing of bloatware every so often) that I had vowed that my next phone would not be a Motorola, probably I was going for a Samsung (Pixels are too expensive where I live).

But this announcement might just be the thing that keeps me on the Moto train. I'm really hoping this works out.
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-03 01:21:28+00:00
I actually don't regret going in and turning "show dead" on so I could see it. Knowing that someone is considered a lolcow is legitimately useful information.

It might no be polite, you might not like it, but it is useful data to people who prefer their truths entirely unfettered by nosy busybodies who call themselves "moderators".
by Uptrenda | 2026-03-03 01:21:29+00:00
I think the idea is that if an API (or anything really) is using a flexible cryptographic model then it would be possible to string together any system for use in any cryptographic scheme.

For example: you could write the cryptographic equivalent of "if user deposits $100 into this bank account then allow them to redeem these crypto-currencies"

This would mean making systems broadly compatible. Anyone could envision new use-cases for pre-existing systems and be able to extend them without having to modify the existing system. But the challenge of this is (1) designing a simple, fast cryptographic stack (2) widespread adoption.
by gerdesj | 2026-03-03 01:21:42+00:00
Surely your laptop has a mic on it and probably a camera. It also has blueteeth, wifi and stuff. Your phone has much the same and can act as a proxy to whatever is missing on your laptop and vice versa. Obviously, getting your laptop to fit under or within your "lap" is a bit of an ask!

Things like KDE Connect provide a direct bridge and a bit of imagination does the rest.

If your laptop isn't cutting the mustard then ditch it ...

... Oh your phone has a tiny screen and a shit mic and speakers, unless you stick it in your ear?

Horses for courses.
by monero-xmr | 2026-03-03 01:21:51+00:00
This is partly what demolished DEI and the stifling woke culture. Feeling like you couldn’t say how you really felt, even at a party or a bar, finally made a critical mass of people say “fuck this” and let it rip. The Overton window of acceptable dialog has been shifted so insanely far from where it was 5 years ago it’s head spinning
by averynicepen | 2026-03-03 01:22:57+00:00
You wanna know why this article is great? I can't quote it. There isn't a single, gold nugget line in this post that can be copy pasted into any possible form of short form content, without it losing some important aspect of the original message. Every idea is presented in conjunction with important supporting details that, if you take the time to digest it, you will finally get it. Why we recoil at AI generated content. Why code quality IS product quality. What "craftsmanship" argument is actually about. And like 12 other nuanced ideas we've all heard before, but may not have fully understood. I have nothing but immense praise for the author.

Don't skim this one.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-03-03 01:23:06+00:00
Canada has an educated population, large online presence, and many folks operate within both the US/Canada under dual citizenship. One can find them in every field from medicine to high energy physics.

If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment.

Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were always functionally ignorant about the collateral costs of arbitrary technology policy changes. Evey village usually has at least one idiot. =3
by crazygringo | 2026-03-03 01:24:02+00:00
> because I have the apparently weird belief that noon should be at noon

But why? Because it's not even in standard time, except for around 1/60th of a time zone at best, if you're rounding to the minute.

If solar noon jumps from being at 11:35 in standard time, to at 12:35 under DST, at your coordinates, what does that matter?

Noon was at noon before the railroads. But ever since time zones were invented, that's no longer been the case.

Digits on a clock are just a number. If you care about when solar noon is, just memorize it.
by favorited | 2026-03-03 01:24:06+00:00
It's not difficult to determine where different languages are used – you can run `symbols -noDemangling BINARY | grep _Z`, where BINARY is a path to any binary, and see how many symbols use Itanium C++ name mangling. You'll see it sprinkled in enough places to get an idea of which parts of the system use it more than others.

Of course, parts of the Objective-C runtime are written in Objective-C++, so someone more pedantic than I might claim that fact alone counts as it being "used heavily."
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-03 01:24:11+00:00
Indeed, it is my opinion. It's not in the minority so much as it runs counter to what lobbyists with vested interests have loudly promoted. Most people haven't given the matter much thought and don't have an opinion on it (let alone an informed one).

"Morons" was an overly dramatic way of putting it but it is very clearly the technically deficient choice as will be apparent to anyone who bothers to consult the history books. The US already attempted permanent DST in 1974 but quickly repealed it. Russia similarly tried it out from 2011 to 2014 before switching to permanent standard time instead. The UK also tried it at one point before abandoning it. Mexico might have tried it for the longest, from 1996 until 2022 when they too switched to permanent standard time. (Actually I'm unclear why Mexico gave it up. They're far enough south that the difference between the two shouldn't be particularly impactful.)

The correct answer here is obvious. (This being HN I guess personal political rants aren't really the thing to do so I should at least link to some actual literature on the topic. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10....)
by parl_match | 2026-03-03 01:25:42+00:00
> Many technical spaces have become extremely partisan, and this has lowered their utility for all parties.

I make a space. I make it for me and my friends. It grows. And then people like this come knocking at my door, make a huge mess, and then whine when they get excluded. Many such cases, a tale as old as time. Ask me how I know.
by itopaloglu83 | 2026-03-03 01:25:44+00:00
I think they think of time capsule as a done deal. It doesn’t bring any extra money for them, and even though it’s broken, it exist to a point that when they’re selling a Mac they can say that it comes with a backup software as well. Just like a shady landlord tells you that the apartment facing a wall has a nice window.

I don’t know what these engineers are doing at Apple, but it surely isn’t making the ecosystem better, they’re just chasing hypes and shinny useless UI changes.
by rcxdude | 2026-03-03 01:26:24+00:00
Yeah, but TSG paid in 213 million and is (at max, assuming there are no creditors to pay, which seems unlikely) getting 33 million out. That's them cutting their losses, not making a profit. They could be getting about 15% of their money back instead of zero, but either way they aren't winning here, just losing slightly less hard than everyone else (though it sounds like the founders made out pretty well). (and realistically, it was probably obviously a very risky bet if the company was not able to get a better deal: these kinds of deals are generally a sign that things are already bad and getting worse, and someone is hoping to try to pull something from the wreckage: the deal obviously meant that if brewdog did manage to turn things around, the value would largely be sucked up by the preferred investors).
by mattnewton | 2026-03-03 01:26:26+00:00
Is this really a driving factor for people? If I anticipate tasks that I can't wait to get back to a good work environment to do, I'll bring my laptop and tether on my phone. It's a fantastically more productive setup than trying to ssh in via a phone keyboard or even write a long email. 1 inch extra on the phone screen diagonal won't move the needle there for me.
by actionfromafar | 2026-03-03 01:26:49+00:00
I wonder how much connect there is between those in charge of hardware and those in charge of working software. It would be one thing if the software had a design direction, we all hated it, but it was implemented to its logical conclusion and pure stupid bugs weren't left to linger for years. That would be a matter of difference in taste and vision.

But I wonder if they have the ability to execute... anything, anymore. It's starting to look a little like Windows, which in a totally shameless and burlesque fashion has 3 or 4 design paradigms at the same time, jumbled together in a big stew.
by arin-s | 2026-03-03 01:27:08+00:00
Location: Sydney, Australia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, within Australia
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React,, Tailwind, SQL, C#, C/C++
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S4ZEmXcPYpTPcMh2NAKJ3JWxKzhNWiXb
Email: sarkisianarin@gmail.com

Summary:
Built a C++/TypeScript project that attracted 90,000+ users and reached the front page of Hacker News, as well as a freelance track record of designing responsive, serverless web solutions for business clients.
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-03-03 01:27:32+00:00
Well, it doesn't make sense to treat a local branch of a foreign company like a foreign company for tariff reasons -- one role of tariffs is to encourage local branches.

For example, Toyota builds cars in the USA; and rigorously controls how Toyota USA builds cars in the USA. That's actually kind of the point -- from an industrial policy standpoint, it is valuable and useful if companies bring their technology and approaches here and administer them with their knowhow.

Regarding government contracts, it could probably come down to some percentage of ownership or the way control is administered; but many defense companies are publicly traded and that means they can be owned in part by foreign entities (people or corporations).
by camillomiller | 2026-03-03 01:27:48+00:00
This is terrible.
This is nerds having a tantrum because they can’t just play with their tech toys without having to behave like adults.
That ship has sailed. Your nerdy toys are not just the pure intellectual pursuits, and puzzles, and enigmas devoid of effects on reality you would like them to be.
If you don’t recognize that your penchant for solving software and hardware problems is used by the owner class to promote concentration of wealth and gain power, then you will stay forever a useful
idiot to their cause.
Demanding that tech discussion should stay apolitical nowadays only serves the purpose of the powerful billionaires that control you.
by wlesieutre | 2026-03-03 01:28:00+00:00
I think that's it exactly. Hopefully we're not looking forward to "phone that's too big, and unfolds to be even more too big."

I can see a large unfolded phone being desirable if it had a stylus and I could use it like a small notebook, but just as a "watch Netflix bigger for $2000" device, no.

Especially if it has the worst camera of all of the phone models like the Air does.