skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Wow, that would make a great HN submission in its own right—though not anytime soon! one has to let the hivemind caches clear first.
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Depends. For certain fields the pay is great and there’s a dearth of candidates.

For other fields there is also a dearth of candidates but the pay falls short and you’ll be leaving tens of thousands of dollars on the table compared to what you could get with other languages.
I'm curious if there's any good resources on this, but I've noticed including the conversation context makes the responses drastically worse quality in my experience. It's gotten to a point whe
https://archive.ph/nnpYl
Could you please follow the site guidelines when posting to HN? They include:

"Please don't sneer"

and

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I need this combined with Excalidraw somehow and I would be so happy. There's something so viscerally satisfying about chalkboards, even virtual. Thanks for this! You did a phenomenal job on the chalk effect.
I'm kind of terrified of giving myself botulism (or some other illness), though I do live in NYC, so I don't think it would be too hard to buy fermented pickles if I wanted them...
Your instance of an employer screwing you has no relation to an audited publicly listed business that has to not only follow accounting standards and is subject to the SEC, but also cannot sell their product unless the price is approved by the state.
Ask HN: Which API would you recommend for market data?
I'm working on a Python-based web application, and would like (near) real-time data for things like ticker prices (current and historic) and options data (prices, greeks). For the historic data sets, up to just a few years is fine but I would eventually like to be able to pay more money to have access to the full historical data set.

I found marketdata.app that seems to meet my needs. I also found an API from Bloomberg, which would be nice to have just so I can use it as a marketing element (buy my app to get real-time insights from Bloomberg), unless there are other advantages I'm not aware of.
In a sense abstraction does. You stop learning the fundamentals of how something works. Long enough as time goes by no one knows how the fundamentals work and a company fails.
The Markdown of archives.
Billionaires are killing civilisation
Not all simplifications are abstractions. Not all
abstractions are simplifications. But the pursuit of simplification is usually what motivates an abstraction. I don’t think that abstractions kill software, or civilization for that matter, but ill begotten abstractions in the name of short win simplifications, puts a drag on the flexibility and agility and approachability of either.

Take syntactic sugar in just about any language. There’s usually a breaking point, where you can say the localized gain in simplification for this particular nuance is not worth how complex this tool (language) has become. People don’t make more mistakes in a syntax heavy language because of any particular element, but because using the tool well to solve complex problems just gets difficult (regardless of what a compiler might guarantee you).

I look at the complexity that async and coroutines adds to my experience when programming anything “threaded like” in Kotlin compared to how I deal with the same sorts of problems in Elixir/Erlang and it’s just night and day difference. Both have abstractions/simplifications to the age old problem of parallel/async computing, but one (the former) just multiplies simplicities to end up with something complex again and the other has an abstraction/simplification that Just Works(tm) and really is simple.
It would be still be art but no, you wouldn't be taken seriously.

To some extent succeeding at art is by definition succeeding in those circles, whether through politics, a chance patron or gallery owner fixating on you, raw unignorable talent, etc. A related definition is succeeding by sheer popularity and fame, like a Banksy, though he's succeeded in both ways. I don't think this insight undermines the art world wholesale, though it definitely suggests (correctly) that luck plays role, that not all great artists succeed, and that not all successful artists are great. Most games in life are like this.
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Re: Quebec hydro, I can’t think of an example of a crown corp or asset (see 407) being sold in Canada that has benefited the public with better quality at a lower price in the end. Privatization drives the need for shareholder profit to extract value more than efficiency so gains aren’t passed on. People contort themselves to think this isn’t the case… but the track record for power, automotive insurance, cellular service says otherwise… The only good argument I’ve ever seen of outside of pretending efficiency leads back to consumers is hidden externalities being covered by the government which is fair toy stability of a public service, averaging out costs for really isolated areas, and decent jobs with pensions is worth something too.
Yeah, the issue is more that the perceived complexity means I’m less interested in investing time to catch it all back up
This is all very well but surely all mathematicians/engineers/scientists (n that) have considered this both for themselves and had it mentioned when being taught in relevant subjects, or simply noticed.

Who on earth screws up writing rho with a p? Yes, I know that someone will but they need to write the symbol properly.

Zed and two? RLY? (Crossing your Z is a Germanic thing for me, which is why I do it - I grew up in W Germany). Despite that, you would be in no doubt if I wrote a 2 or Z, because I know how to use a fucking pen and I am able to write.

To be fair, I come from an age where cursive means something!

We are heading into an era where being able to use a pen or pencil will border on arcane skills. Calligraphy isn't hard nor is ensuring you get your message across.

Cross your zeros but leave your Os alone (or dot them if you like - I do sometimes). Cross your zeds if you like. Write Greek letters as they should be - a lower case rho starts from the bottom right and is written in a single stroke - it never looks like a "p".

x (eks) is two curves and not a diagonal cross. Multiplication is . or adjacency of symbols, however it might be x depending on context.

The given advice is don't slash the zero. I disagree. Phi is fatter than tall - its not hard to be precise, which I would hope a mathematician might manage.

In the end can you write or not? If not, use a keyboard. Nothing wrong with that per se ...
Ask HN: Browser scripts to keep yourself from getting distracted
What browser scripts do you use? E.g. GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey scripts.

Some scripts I have:

1. Redirect NYTimes home page to Today's Paper

if (window.location.href === "https://www.nytimes.com/") window.location.href = "https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper"

I read the NY Times but find myself getting distracted by the constantly updating home page.

2. Block sites (e.g. Twitter)

document.body.style.display = "none";

3. Turn off websites after 12am (to make me go to bed earlier)

(function() {
function turnOff() {
// 12am - 5am
const turnOn = 5;
const now = new Date();
const hours = now.getHours();
if (hours < turnOn) document.body.style.display = "none";
}
window.addEventListener('click', turnOff)
window.addEventListener('load', turnOff)
})();
It turns out that conspiracies are really hard to maintain the larger the network gets due to network effects. All it takes is one guy to run it, get different results and go “guys I’m noticing something weird” to start the ball rolling. As a proof point, look at what happened to the attack on ssh by way of a xz utils back door.
Given how important backwards compatibility is for C++, it's either take over a basically unused keyword or come up with something so weird that would never appear in existing code.

Java solved this by making var a reserved type, not a keyword, but I don't know if that's feasible for C++.
I wanted to build something like this, you managed to make the ux 10 times more awesome than I could have imagined, well done
I have checklists like this for packing for the office, going to the gym etc. Too easy to forget small but critical items.
I wonder if there is a mechanical thing that can launch a nuclear missile or fuck up X billion devices that rely on GPS…

mechanical shit was local, electronic shit is global, not comparable at all
why is this front page on HN
(I took out several dozen lines of whitespace from this post. Looks like the green graphic didn't come through.)
Who is saying he isn’t intelligent? And can’t smart people do bad things?
>Where in the world is it 50g CO2 to send an email (or 62Wh if we convert it back)? What in the world makes you think that a paper ticket, which is literally several grams of carbon and oxygen, has less of an impact?

I agree with you that the provided example is stupid, but I think there is an argument to be made that going digital can lead to more waste.

Take for example digital signage. All those signs, billboards, advertisements, and more that used to be just cardstock paper in ye olde days are now bright, huge LCD screens. I don't want to be the guy signing off on the electric bill, nor consider the geopolitiecological side of where the screens came from.
The Witness isn't revolutionary, but it is crafted with the care of someone who cares about the small details of 3D worlds. Besides being easily one of the deepest/broadest puzzle games of the decade, it is GORGEOUS, and filled to the brim with visual scenes that take your breath away.

To me it's something more akin to the iPod. "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." was absolutely a correct way to dismiss it as nothing revolutionary. And yet it's perfect well-rounded craftsmanship WAS revolutionary.

From what it seems, Blow is doing exactly the same thing with his next game too. And there's something admirable about that.

I say this as someone who disagrees with 80% of what he says, but VEHEMENTLY agree with the remaining 20.
Very interesting tool. Please rename to `AI Slop Detector` or similar.
Economic efficiency comes from accurate pricing.

If grid power is artificially expensive in urban areas, people will install solar panels and batteries in situations where it doesn't really make sense. And if grid power is artificially cheap in rural areas, people will not install solar panels and batteries in situations where it makes sense. Thus incorrect pricing leads to inefficient investments.

Many economists even argue that the most efficient form of subsidies is cash that can be used for any purpose. Instead of getting cheaper power in rural areas, you should simply receive $X/month for living there. But the assumptions needed to make that claim are a bit too restrictive for many real situations.
These "estimates" are often conveniently cherry-picked to support some agenda, on both sides of every political debate.

I've dug into a few like these and found that maybe they were valid 20 years ago, and nobody bothered to update the data point. Why? Because that would be inconvenient to their agenda.

One that particularly annoys me is some right-wing pundits that keep insisting that solar panels can't recoup the cost of the energy invested into making them.

That was true for the panels used to power portable calculators back in the 1980s! Some Ronald Reagan voters got this stuck in their brains and now they are unable to dislodge this factoid without surgical intervention.

If you stop and think about it for ten seconds, it would be obviously absurd that there are huge industrial-scale solar power plants springing up by the hundreds globally if they were making a financial loss by selling less power than it took to make the panels! Not to mention that in all forms of power generation (fossil, nuclear, or renewable) the Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EREI) is a key metric that industrialists have been seeking to optimise for over a century now.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946321, which was posted earlier and is currently on the frontpage thanks to the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
Building a big deep water harbour is a piece of cake compared to building a space elevator, and has been done for centuries, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Harbour.
There's nothing wrong with improving organizational reporting culture, but the "cutting accidents by 95%" claim seems highly dubious to me. If you take it from the opposite angle, how could a poor reporting culture alone cause twenty times more accidents?

I don't think it's reasonable to expect similar improvements as those claimed here in most settings, and indeed it would be dangerous to do so if it means compromising other safety measures. Much is made of the good reporting culture in civil aviation, for instance, but that only helps if every other aspect of civil aviation has safety regarded as a priority. Reporting culture won't help you when your Boeing 737 MAX 8 has just started an uncommanded nosedive!
Thanks for sharing this article.

I’ve been wanting to read about the political history of Venice including the office of Doge ever since I got addicted to Crusader King 2 many years ago but I never got around to reading about it. (I have since stopped playing that game haha)

I do find it fascinating that our world moved away from City States to Nation States. I believe the only truly independent City State in the modern world is Singapore. Sometimes I wonder why that is. It’s not clear why the Nation State would not only be the dominant political form but pretty much the only political form in the world. Just something I think about every now and then.
sometimes my Thinkpad Carbon X1 gen6 refuses to turn on until i disassemble it and disconnect the battery... about once a year.

it's rare enough to scare me for a moment each time that it has died on me...
Thanks. It seems that some UTF-8 characters are not accepted as part of the comment. Anyone who wants to see the rabbit should check the page source :)
A Visual Explanation of GPG Subkeys
Thanks! I've merged that thread hither since this one is currently on the front page.

(How is that possible, someone may ask? It's the SCP! - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)
Make this a Vision Pro app, please.
Well, as long as it's not as unreliable as LLMs.
This is a good solution. It interacts weirdly with programs that use native tabs (e.g. each Ghostty tab shows up as a separate window), but other than that, coming from other OSs, it works as you'd expect.

I tried getting used to the "macOS way", but this is just better.
> Reporting culture won't help you when your Boeing 737 MAX 8 has just started an uncommanded nosedive!

It should have helped by reporting this many, many times before said uncontrolled nosedive.
Apple was able to physically remove hardware support for 32 bit code and shrink the processor/use the die space for other purposes.

Also, when you have 32 bit and 64 bit code, you have to have 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the framework both in memory and on the disk.

This is especially problematic with iOS devices that don’t have swap.
> (Edit: In case I'm being obtuse, I at least think I agree that "investing" surplus in hiring and retaining great employees is a surplus-invested, and not a profit-taken.)

So the executive compensation packages that many people hate on then are just a mechanism to reduce the profits of the company. And it’s not clear to me that Apple saving up profits so they can make larger investments without taking out loans is a strategy we want to disincentivize either.

My point is that designing top-down incentives at market scale are very difficult and while attractive are basically the central failure of central planning. Even setting aside the challenge of figuring out how to word the incentives correctly in a way that maximizes gain and minimizes gaming of the system (basically impossible) in a political system you also have to get buy in from people who don’t see it your way which muddles your ideal solution regardless of you being right or wrong. I’m highlighting that’s how and why we have the current tax system - it’s many many people trying to tweak and optimize incentives and curtail problems over a long period of time.
Fun fact! Jackson Pollock, along with other abstract expressionists, was a CIA propaganda asset!

The CIA believed that abstract expressionism, with its unbound and individualistic style, could be associated with American freedoms, so they secretly funded the "Congress for Cultural Freedom", an anti-communist advocacy group that promoted American arts and culture, including abstract expressionism, through international art shows and publications.

Art or writings that touched on US racism (Pollock was contemporaneous with numerous lynchings) and imperialism (Guatemala, Iran, Greece, Korea) were, of course, passed over.

Ever since I learned this, I have lost all emotional appreciation for his works. While before they seemed free, now they seem cheap.
I think part of what makes an artist stand out in a medium like this is that they are able to stand out in a medium like this.

Going and seeing something like “the fountain” (Duchamp) is surely accompanied by many people remarking “I could have made that” and it could be true, but they didn’t. And that’s the difference.

To some degree that accessibility makes some of these things even more interesting.

I brought up a Dadaism piece on purpose. In fascism, one tool of the leaders was to declare some art pure and acceptable and some as “not art.” Dadaism was a rebuke of the idea: that authority can or cannot tell us what art is and isn’t.

Dadaism is intentionally absurdist. And it’s that quality that many would use to discredit it, is the very thing that makes it so powerful (to some).

Not saying that pollock is playing with absurdism, but saying that sometimes the things that make something “not art” or “not interesting” to one person are the things that elevate it to another.

Not sure if that’s what you were asking, but that’s a riff I was inspired to share.
No, that probably describes most of our species' existence.
IIRC my X13s has experimental right next to booting Linux, and I doubt any of the newer models are better. Honestly not a great sign even though Windows forced the use of UEFI.
Exactly. And I feel the same as you do: the Rust community can put it’s money where it’s mouth is and if nobody wants safe Linux or they can’t make it happen, then fine they can be happy to lose.
I love doing these exercises and would also love to see the math behind CO2e if anyone could provide a helpful link.

I’m also thinking about the carbon emissions that go into getting that piece of paper in your hand. The lost carbon capturing capacity of the felled tree, the machinery used to fell, transport and process it, the production of the chemicals used to process the pulp, and finally moving around the finished product. And probably quite a few steps I am missing. Maybe the cars everyone drives to work at the paper plant each day? I’m sure the amortized amount is still small for a tiny piece of paper, but it’s not nothing.
One reason I like Rust is it lets me replace a lot of high level Python stuff with faster and more correct code while also opening access a new world of low level C stuff I never had an opportunity to learn about, it’s been super fun to tinker with and I look forward to keep working with it!

Definitely good to broaden our horizons but also crucial to maintain focus…there is so much to learn, how can we balance the joy and productivity of software with the strategic imperative to build locally grown hardware?
My rho and p identical. My Z and 2 look fairly close. My students have actually told me to just stop using rho as a symbol.

I have probably filled 50-100 notebooks with just mathematical calculations. It's just that my handwriting is bad since childhood.
This is much needed on mac os. But why? Back in the day, mac os was supposed to "just work", and linux was for weirdos who had too much time and customized everything. But now, it's the opposite. Vanilla flavor ubuntu just works out of the box. And mac os needs tons of third party customization. Same with external monitors, on mac one needs 3rd party software for properly scaling the UI on a 4k monitor. That's core OS functionality, not something one should need an extension for.
My mom heard this statistic somewhere and now doesn't send email anymore, just WhatsApps :/
The idea is there are parts of California where life is heavily subsidised. Paying PG&E as a low fire risk community is a net transfer out. (How the Bay Area hasn’t done its own grid à la Santa Clara is wild.)
There is a good scifi "Jumping Off the Planet" by David gerrold about space elevators if you have not read it yet.
Thanks for the thought provoking take.
Added a quick screenshot! This is very much still in the early stages
The built in tasking was a real winner. It was years ahead of it's time.
Engineering Paper FTW (for the win):

https://www.amazon.com/Tops-Engineering-Computation-Punched-...

I assume most middle school teachers specify how papers should be organized in binders and labeled with names, dates, etc; but below was my method I developed halfway through college:

Top Margin use: left - name, center - class, right - date

One binder per semester; a divider for each class; handouts, tests, etc were hole-punched and placed with my notes in chronological order.

If my notes didn't make sense as I was copying down what the professor did, I would rewrite my notes later that day while figuring the problem-solving process out and making the notes/arithmetic easier to follow.

This method also applied to non-math-related classes.
Clicking changes the color of the paint. Not clicking would be pretty monochromatic and not very Pollock-y
Humans do tend to remember thoughts they had while speaking, thoughts that go beyond what they said. LLMs don’t have any memory of their internal states beyond what they output.

(Of course, chain-of-thought architectures can hide part of the output from the user, and you could declare that as internal processes that the LLM does “remember” in the further course if the chat.)
Elon should definitely pass a law that "deep fake" can't be used to refer to text. Otherwise what's he going to do with twitter?
> super smooth UX

I think typical front end developers (or the managers they report to) don't really know what smooth UX is. They keep reinventing things like scrolling.
I think many people write sloppy code blindly thinking they won’t have to worry about it again.
Network School 2025
I remember true-false questions on tests asking us to circle the word TRUE or FALSE, I guess to make that trick not work.
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> None. I was down-voted during the launch for saying that there won't be any meaningful support from Qualcomm and 6 months later

You were - and are - wrong. Qualcomm mainlined enough drivers for in the same window (past 6 months) so one can boot and install the latest Linux kernel on several Snapdragon X laptops from different OEMs. There are people running Fedora and an Ubuntu Experimental[1] builds. Its still rough, depending on ones device tree, the peripherals line microphone, webcam, and/or fan control may not work right now, but it's a platform that's actively being developed for.

1. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdrag...