skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently unplugged my dryer and stopped using it, but for a dumb reason: I moved it for cleaning, the dryer vent detached itself, and there's not enough space to reattach it without moving the washing machine.

Previously I was already line-drying over half of my clothes. Dryers add additional wear, can shrink or deform items, and a lot of my clothing is synthetic or wool. The cost savings was a bonus, since the dryer is already there and fed by gas. There's a drying rack in the corner of my home that just never goes away. Some items come out rough like towels, and things that need ironing with a dryer need even more ironing when line dried. But it's rare that I need an article of clothing that can't wait overnight to be line-dried.
It's not whataboutism. If the claim is that google's actions with manifest v3 is "abusing its market position to their own benefit", but Apple did the same thing when it didn't stand to benefit from it, then it severely undermines that claim.

Sure, it doesn't rule out google was secretly intending on doing it, only internal memos or whatever can prove that definitively. But at the same time, to immediately conclude that google was "abusing its market position", you would have to be maximally uncharitable to google. That's a sad way to see the world. Take for instance, the flak that google got for banning third party cookies. If this is done by anyone else (eg. Firefox), this would be seen as a good thing. However, cynics have opposed this on the basis that such change would disadvantage third party ad networks more than google, thus google was "abusing its market position to their own benefit" and therefore the change was bad.
My experience with bullying as the occasional victim is that bullying is mostly a social phenomenon. The bully itself was rarely the problem, he was just the enforcer of conformity for the group. And as such he was really popular.
Wasn't she just searching google via safari anyway? I do find that popup really annoying though.
Replace the light beacons on radio towers with a line of sight laser triangulation system.
The linked PDF (2012) is the grant final report.

> VPRI closed because [the] STEPS [grant] ended and because Alan had to retire at some point. HARC and/or CDG Labs continued the work, but then closed as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26608495 (2021)
No. You don't want someone who believes in vaccine passports and lockdowns running your browser if you truly value an open and free internet with roadblocks to tracking, fingerprinting etc.

No CEO or developer is going to respect to software/hardware users if they believe that user should also use health verification software to go about public spaces. These are incompatible philosophies.
This sort of program is always such a huge waste of time. The way progress is made is not by carefully studying all the ways something is currently done and then thinking "maybe we make it graphical". This is the sort of thing that happens when there is too much grant money available and no ideas, so they just put 20 mediocre grad students to work. That is just never going to produce anything that is going to resemble in any way what programming will actually look like when it is 'reinvented'.

Let me guess, they published a bunch of papers, did a bunch of experiments like "lets do X but gui" "what if you didn't have to learn syntax" and then nobody ever did anything with any of the work because it was a total dead end.

Look at how progress has moved in the past. It wasn't from some deliberate process. Generally technology improves in some way, and a person with early access to that advance just immediately applies it to some problem.

The instant computers got powerful enough, someone invented assembly.

The instant computers got powerful enough, they invented lisp and C. There wasn't even a gap of a year in most cases from some new capability being available and someone applying it. There wasn't some grand plan, it was just someone playing with a powerful new capability and using it for something.

This happens across all of human activity. The Wright brothers weren't special geniuses, they happened to be working on kites when engines with just enough power/weight ratio became available to keep a kite in the air on it's own power, and they slapped one of those engines on a kite. If they hadn't done it someone else would have done it a month later because once the technology was available, the innovation was obvious.

You don't make leaps from paying grad students to play around with "how can we make programming better", you get it from all of a sudden an AI can just generate code.
Belgian here: I'm moving away from US products and services, wherever possible. My close contacts are doing the same. And have you seen the Canadians? They are at another level!

Also, buying US military equipment will definitely need to be reconsidered, if you look at how fast your position can switch. Tesla and Starlink, good luck getting any new orders outside of US.

This is not some temporary one off, this is party moving away from US products (good luck getting us back once we found a good replacement), and party the idea that US can turn on you with a single stupid election.

This damage will take a long time to recover from. We really consider this a friends betrayal.
Perhaps but I have my doubts. With new jobs receiving as much as hundreds of applicants on a single posting, a university degree can significantly help in whittling down the list.

Potential employers can (and do) verify your educational background such as a degree from an accredited university. Even if you had a certificate from a "legitimate code camp" (though I'd argue they're about as valuable as an online TEFL cert) - they have no way to verify it.
O man, good times.
I remember soldering RAM chips "piggyback" style, then upgrading to 64K of RAM, and adding 8 special-purpose ROMs (from utilities to a spreadsheet program). I even installed a color video board— all of this inside the Acorn Atom itself (which was a keyboard-style computer, similar to the C64).

The Atom also brought together a community of hardware and software enthusiasts through Atom Computer Clubs. These clubs were doing amazing things, including the development of Z80 co-processors and even running CP/M. While Acorn moved on from the Atom to the BBC Microcomputer, the clubs kept the Atom alive well beyond its prime.

It’s fascinating to look back and realize that the same team behind the Atom went on to create the ARM processor, which, interestingly, shares a striking similarity in its instruction set with the 6502.
Why is this flagged? Seems like a reasonable take and not obviously spammy to me. Maybe overly optimistic about AI progress, but that’s debatable.
How should free webmail work?
I'm going to assume you don't have children. A bunch of towels? Sure no problem, clothes line every time. A giant load of small people clothes? That's a half hour hang job minimum
Walmart raising alarms as well:

https://www.thestreet.com/retail/walmart-ceo-sounds-alarm-on...

Car loan delinquencies at record level:
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/07/car-loan-payment-delinquenc...
Unfortunately I got banned on BS.
Making sure you can play the video tomorrow in case Youtube arbitrarily decides it no longer likes it or the account related to it get blocked by some automated algorithm without any recourse for the author, etc.
>There are multiple users in this thread stating that the label is a corporate entity designed to maximize profit and that it thus cannot "feel" anything.

The issue is the surrounding system and the corporate environment are what raise people to be this way and filter out those who are too sentimental. I don’t think a good majority of the people working there will ever feel bad because they’ve been raised not to feel bad and given an ideology that makes all that work in their head.
I reject the premise that people can be sorted into bullies and non-bullies.

It's amusing/frustrating that such a premise is taken seriously.
Trumpian foreign policy isn't new. It's an "America First" ideology that goes back to Andrew Jackson. Arguably it goes back to George Washington, and his famous resignation speech.

Playing nice with foreign empires, economic protectionism, domestic military action, an "all or nothing" attitude towards foreign wars, taking chunks of our neighbors back yards, etc.

This isn't new at all. It's exactly what FDR had to overcome to build the American Empire.
Michael Jordan famously said "Republicans buy sneakers too". This guy doesn't care about any of this and he's still the right guy to steer Tesla in the correct direction? Mind boggling.
Productivity as a macroeconomic measure (which is what is being discussed here) is just a measure of wages.
Declaring a variable in a loop or if statement is supported since C99: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99

Also in Java: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/for-loop-java-important-points...
> Anyone can stop using gmail at any time

True, and applies to many other things as well. Anyone claiming otherwise is shirking responsibility for their own actions. Every single sibling comment here suffers from this.

Arguments in the form of "other people do it, so I must also" are unpersuasive and pathetic.
What’s wrong with V8? Had only pleasant interactions with it so far (maybe compiling takes long, can’t tell, whole webkit is a nightmare in that regard)
I don’t dispute anything you’re saying, I just don’t understand what frame of reference any leader or policymaker at that time could have used to do anything differently. What country at that time was some paragon of social justice or progressivism? I think the US founding fathers did pretty well for their time, when most countries in the world were part of empires, or were monarchies.

People are more socially progressive now because of the passage of time, and the accumulation of sociopolitical observances it allowed. The average person now is only less of a brute because of the cultural training they’ve experienced, but it’s not something to be taken for granted.

In general, there are very few people (sages) who are more moral, ethical or curious than the average person of their own time. Often times their behavior makes them look like a loser or a weirdo to their contemporaries or society.
I've played around with Gnu Radio, and even though I've been able to do some very sophisticated things with GRC, I also realize just how little I really know. Part of that is that the math makes my head spin. I'd be lost without those blocks doing a lot of the work for me.
Why? It’s perfect - I can keep sweets and some sharp items away from kids behind a passcode.

What’s actually weird is you can’t disable/block Netflix. Kids didn’t quite figure out they can just have unfettered screen time in car just yet tho.

I’ll just add that adding second screen in back nowadays is bonkers. In my circle most of kids have 0 screen time. Screen is an antithesis of clean and quiet car.

As for rate of improvement - Tesla maybe got 1 or 2 decent new features over last 2 years of my ownership. My list of ideas when I bought it was about 20.
The Innocent (McEwan novel)

> The novel takes place in 1955–56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 Operation Gold, to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to tap phone lines of the Soviet High Command. Leonard Marnham is a 25-year-old Englishman who sets up and repairs the tape recorders used in the tunnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocent_(McEwan_novel)
Quite the opposite (and sadly, still. American). I'm just so frustrated how I'm 10 years into this career and the interview process feels more random than ever. I can apply to 100 job and interview for 10 that all fall through. Then I can just go to a bar and trip into an opportunity I wasn't fully expecting. What does that say about the interview process?

>No HR doesn't investigate candidates or do background checks before you interview

An HR screen isn't a background check. It's "can you talk about your roles and provlems solved like you actually did it. A good HR screen should make sure they aren't blatantly lying

>that would be very expensive and silly.

Let's both not pretend the interview proces is in any way optimized for any metric. You have often non-tech roles create a description for a tech role (leading to famous blunders like "have and jave script is the same") . You have an increasing amount of rounds of interviews to go through for a job that may not exist or may already be reserved. And more and more of the parts are being outsourced, leading to power quality candidates. All that before throwing a reckless reliance of AI on everything.

The most optimal hiring is to focus on high quality hires brought in as fast as possible. Or not to hire if you don't need to hire. But we're not really running on sensible business practices these days.
Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :)
They lost about 1.5x the value of Volkswagen today (so far). Crazy how (over)valued this company was/is.
little ones, especially the first few years, are the exception rather than the norm. My sister has kids. They don’t blow out their diapers at 10 years old. :-)

dryers definitely are great when they have frequent accidents! agree with that 100%
Not in the context of my question. You are welcome to start your own comment thread.
Meet Bob.

Bob is the world’s worst market timer.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
This happened to me so I just switched over to Adblock Plus.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblock-plus-free-a...

AddBlock is still available. I was wondering if there is some issue with the extension itself that it got flagged? Maybe an update to the codebase would make the extension installe-able again?
For years I've been reading commentators tell me that QE completely and permanently changed the nature of valuations in US markets. Now, perhaps, we'll finally get to see whether that's actually true or not.

If they're right, no sweat. If they're wrong, a recession will trigger a substantial downward revaluation of assets. For a picture of what that might look like, I suggest reading John Hussman's market commentaries, available free online.
I'm German, but thanks for the insightful comment. Once your cloths rack doesn't just contain beach towels and boxershorts you might appreciate the utility of a dryer.
Three jobs all with floating schedules and zero guaranteed hours of work in a week.
I use it to archive things that might disappear from Youtube (mostly news-type footage).
Given current models can accomplish this task quite successfully and cheaply, I'd say that if/when that happens it would be a failure of the user (or the provider) for not routing the request to the smaller, cheaper model.

Similar to how it would be the failure of the user/provider if someone thought it was too expensive to order food in, but the reason they thought that was they were looking at the cost of chartering a helicopter form the restaurant to their house.
>Should there be new RPN calculators to replace the TI-84?

I'm not sure I really understand your question, TI-84 (and all other TI models) don't use RPN. You can run a program to allow RPN input you want, since most of the higher TIs are programmable. I believe some of HPs current lineup have a limited RPN mode available and SwissMicro makes some new RPN calculators.

>I took an exam today where only TI calculators were available.

That's common as they are the ones used to teach math classes and are vetted to prevent cheating on standardized tests.

>I felt I was caught between some older models where the TI interface was not quite worked out.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

>And I don't see much progress then trying my daughter's TI-84.

Nor this.
I get uBlock origin whenever apps open a browser view that uses my default android browser (Firefox) e.g. when I click links in the reddit app.
>is the site just experiencing an outage due to an over-worked and understaffed team who were told to move fast and break things?

Doubt it. If anything they've shown to be a phenomenal team. I would believe the cyberattack claim.
Was just about to write this. Glad I'm not alone.
If you're talking about element blocking, that's still doable in manifest v3 with injected css elements. That's how it was done in manifest v2.
A decade? What do you consider your start point here? Minsky wrote his NN thesis in 1954.
So they really want to get broken up due to shady advertising deals. :-)
It does, it's just called profiles. And they have a setting to always launch sthe profile selector on start.
Wait a minute... The S&P 500 just started spiking back up about 20 minutes ago. It's still down 2.46% for the day -- but that's a much smaller number than the drops reported this morning.

Maybe the real question is: What have we learned from the last 150 minutes?
Given that the likes of workspace and zoho were born out of Microsofts monopoly. I guess you should.
For now. Advertisers now know ways to bypass all blockers for Chrome.
YouTube has been playing a cat and mouse game, disabling some accounts until disabled, randomly re-enabling them. I personally think it's so when people talk about issues like this - people say "Well, it's been ok on my end". But it's definitely some kind of A/B testing.
So if we have to go with your observation, the bully is the leader of a group. Such a person is rarely alone in life, and it would follow with the article. To live with yourself as a bully, you need a complicit group. If the group becomes aware of you, you kind of need a new group to believe you.

A group can be just two people. The bully exists because there is another that allows the group to exist (allows the abusive dynamic to exist). If the group stops existing, the bully stops existing, unless they find another group that allows it.

The bully by themselves (to be truly alone) would feel uncomfortable because their life is centered around extreme group dynamics.
I was bullied and have 3 kids. Living well is the best revenge.
it looks like a variation of Stone soup story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
Buy a world index that's not over-weighted on the US or spread your money around region indices. Keep dollar-cost averaging. Stop believing you'll get more than 3-4% yearly returns above inflation. My only real strategy change as a European was to move my money to European ETF providers away from Vanguard and BlackRock because at this point you never know what the US government is going to cook up next, and to weigh more on Europe and Emerging Markets.
Ask HN: How to find intellectually challenging work?
Hi fellow HN-ers,

After working (mostly) as a backend developer since 2013, I was recently burned (or bored?) out a bit, quit my job and went on a sabbatical for half a year. Now I need to start looking for a new job. However, I'm not sure how to find something that feels more meaningful and intellectually stimulating to me.

I enjoy programming and also maths, but I found most of the jobs I had before not intellectually challenging in the ways that mattered to me. I'm someone who really likes doing deep dives into a topic and thinking carefully about problems and to me it feels as if the industry isn't rewarding that most of the time - instead, you have to work with 20 different technologies, most of which you barely understand and you never get enough time to really become an expert in anything, and requirements are changing so often that designing an overall architecture of your system seems like an exercise in futility (and is often ridiculed, maybe rightfully so given the constraints).

The best job I had was when I worked on a mathematical problem solver for two years. It was something I have never done before or since, it was very challenging (and rewarding), given that it was something very few other people were doing, and I had a great team full of very smart people. Unfortunately, we were all let go in the end. I'm still not sure whether that was just a once in a lifetime opportunity or whether there is a change that I could find something similarly challenging (and off the beaten track).

When I quit, my boss told me that I would maybe be happier in an R&D type of job. I'm just not sure how to find such jobs, given that I don't have a PhD in anything (I merely have a BSc in mathematics and a MA in a totally unrelated field). Another idea of mine would be to look for a job in a typed FP language (like Haskell, Scala, etc.), as I feel that the engineering culture could be a better fit (and I do enjoy type systems and FP languages), but I guess these jobs are also few and far between (I'm also in Europe with no intention to relocate, which might affect the number of open positions significantly).

I'm aware that I'm in a privileged position as a developer, and of course, if push comes to shove I'll just take a "regular" dev job (and maybe work on an attitude adjustment?). But I feel as if I should at least try to see what's out there.

I'm looking for opinions of people who have felt similarly. What did you end up doing?
Yes? How is that a problem? If you're interested in learning the RISC-V ISA, which is what I gathered from OP's post, the specific CPU doesn't matter much.
>i think you should keep in mind that both parties have very smart people in them that care about the country and are trying to do the right thing.

I think this is an absurd claim that is not supported by the facts. DOGE staff are young Elon sycophants[1] that have openly and explicitly supported eugenic policies[2]. There is no reason to believe that they are trying to do the right thing.

1. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engin...

2. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-...
That's fair! While understandably it isn't probably a top priority, I'd highly encourage checking out https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/maplibre . It can be nearly free to directly hit a single planet pmtile file, especially with cdn in front, and slightly more to put up a server in front of it (imo, not needed).

Anyway, awesome site regardless, and OSM tiles are fine if not abusing their hosting (this isn't I'm sure).
What a sad thing to read. Loosing. What will remain of the internet if even IA is destroyed the rich?
What stands out to me is the example of the State of Michigan using AI to detect unemployment fraud. The problem was that 93% of the fraud was completely wrong and ruined people's lives with criminal convictions.

This is eerily similar to what happened in the UK post office scandal where falsely convicted post masters committed suicide. https://apnews.com/article/britain-post-office-scandal-convi...

This is what drives me crazy about "agile" and the "move fast and break things" attitude in technology. You are literally killing people.
It's easy to block ads on an entire system DNS level, instead of using browser plugins.
I think K8S distributions like K3S make this way simpler. If you’re wanting to run distributed object storage on bare metal the you’re in store for a lot of complexity, with or without k8s.

I’ve ran 3 server k3s instances on bare metal and they work very well with little maintenance. I didn’t do anything special, and while it’s more complex than some ansible scripts and haproxy, I think the breadth of tooling makes it worth it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085
There’s a lot that sucks about publishing in security and privacy. But wow this article makes me super grateful that we are still allowed to write attack papers and critique famous works.