skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this rather comical picture where developers finally get to experience what it is like to have someone write software for you. You get sort of what you asked for but it is obviously wrong to even the most novice user. You then change the requirements and get something entirely different but equally wrong or worse... and a new invoice. hahaha It gets more funny the more I think about it.
I think you now have to pay for education if you come from outside the EU, at least in France. It is still cheaper than the US because it is massively subsidized by the working class. A person coming to EU only for free /cheap education is not welcomed.
I've been the TL for a team of effectively 5 new grads before. Effectively all of my time was spent teaching them how to solve problems, fixing (preventing) bugs in their code from getting committed, and writing boilerplate, or infra code that would never be listed on whatever a story point is. But constrained their responsabilities into a format and structure that would play well with each other's so they would stop constantly rewriting each other's code every other week.

I enjoy teaching so that was a much more enjoyable way for me to spend my day, than drinking caffeine and cranking code the rest of the team couldn't understand. I joined that team because they were constantly missing deadlines. When I left that team they were finally ahead of schedule, but much more importantly they had a code base they all understood. That wouldn't have been true if I'd just written all the code myself. I like to tell myself I could have gotten the team ahead of schedule as a solo endeavor writing 80% of the code myself. But true or not, when I left I would have no confidence the team could continue without me.

Could I have spent more time writing code? Probably, but what delivered the most businesses value? I was hired as a glorified software engineer but instead of delivering code, I delivered a team that could produce code. Their manager was *never* gonna do that. So should I have prioritized doing what my job title said? Or doing what's in the best interests of the long term mission? Every situation is gonna be different, if teaching is soul crushing for you, or more importantly, the team refuses to be taught, I would suggest just deliver code. In this case, everyone wanted to learn, so that was the easiest path forward.
That is literally any economic model that assumes capitalism as the underlying system.

Morality and ethics are just a way to hurt profits.
Personally, I’ve only ever been on three dates my entire life — all of them with women I met on Hinge while I was active on it last year. None went past the first date. When my account was new, I got more matches than I could reasonably handle. But that slowly changed into a trickle, and eventually no matches for months on end. I had lots of motivation to meet someone in the beginning; now I begrudgingly feel resigned to my reality. Who knows, maybe it could’ve been a different story if I was a bit taller, went to a different school, or was a different ethnicity. But there isn’t much I can do about those things. In the meantime, I’m just trying to keep in shape and take care of myself in ways that I can.
The paper uses the proper term "most recent common ancestor" (commonly abbreviated MRCA) which specifically means the most recent individual from which all individuals of a set (such as "all humans") are genetically descended from (i.e. if you traced everyone's lineage at least one branch up the tree would always hit this person, not that this person was the only source of genetic information from that time).
> an analysis published in August by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests the debunking messages posted by medical experts on TikTok are more effective if overlaid with high-tempo music.

Everybody know the best place to preach your ideas to your friends is on the dance floor of a jungle rave
Show HN: SettleFast – the easiest way to split group expenses, no headaches
Hey HN,

I built SettleFast (https://settlefast.io) after getting frustrated with how existing expense-splitting apps work. Most impose arbitrary limits or push you into recurring subscriptions just to manage group payments. I wanted something more straightforward.

SettleFast is a lightweight web app that makes it easy to track shared expenses and simplify debt calculations. No forced app downloads, no complex onboarding—just create a group, add expenses, and let the algorithm optimize repayments. If you need more flexibility, there’s a one-time upgrade instead of a monthly subscription.

Would love to hear your thoughts—especially if you’ve built or used similar tools before!
> But changing human nature is a tough task.

It is up to each of us to self-reflect and then make the effort to self-evolve. The key to this is doing so for the benefit/happiness of others.

> There are dark fiction stories about societies with forced honesty

Of course. a) It's fiction, b) We must choose to be honest and then make the effort to both know the truth and manifest the truth in not just what we say but what we do.

And, everyone should know that the worst lies are those we tell ourselves, thus the deeeeeep wisdom of "Know thyself." It is the essential foundation for aiming the compass towards a better path.
Pentagon is next.
The ACA may very well not be long for this world.
But, but BUT credit card fraud divisions make heavy use of these "hockey-sticks" in K-means.
At first, sure. But then, with all the service packs it became all but unusable on the computers on which it came preinstalled and used to run fine.
> I do have an option to attend at my country of birth, in Eastern Europe, for much cheaper but I don't think it's easy to transfer that outside of the EU.

Even if that is the case, which it might not be, you'll still receive the skills and experience you are after. Personally, I say go for it, however of course adding moving on top of any situation may constitute a dramatic increase in leverage, so. Know your personal tolerances and work sustainably!
Sesame Street was highlighted in the 2024 Festivus Report (PAGE 33) from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REP...
If only someone had warned us...
If you need long options because you are running out of letters, time for a rewrite :)
My favorite way of describing biology comes from another HN comment:

> It’s more like a vibrating causal cloud than a chain of causality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38898335
Yes actually robotics is still in its infancy, it needs machine learning advances to become anything like the generalized problem solving worker that farms need, especially small family farms.

Source: I have worked on both robots and small farms.
Or the people working under this administration for CBP and ICE are "Working Towards the Führer"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw#%2522Working_Towar...
This sounds like a great safeguard, for an administration that respects laws & precedent. Which we don't have right now.
> Multiple processes are involved, giving meaning to a byte stream.

Maybe in the case of Erlang, but that's a fairly unique case. Smalltalk[1], and by extension Objective-C, do not pass messages across processes.

Languages don't normally concern themselves with that kind of thing at all. You can build distributed computing on top of languages (pretty much any language), but that's not a trait of the language and way beyond the topic at hand.

[1] Which is what matters most as OO was literally defined by the design of Smalltalk.
Just use strong typing and mutexes. This isn't rocket science.
Is this about a fake site pushing false data ? Seems so, hopefully it is blocked by cloudflare, proving they can do something useful :)
The author's name, "Diksha", means initiation into a system of knowledge or insight. Your comment shows, ironically, that you have a crucial insight that the author lacks; the real diksha here is conveyed by reading your comment.
Lately I’ve done a lot of asking Copilot to do things like write a Provider for a ContainerRequestContext in JAX-RS which turned out the same as if I wrote it myself but I would have spent more time looking up things in the documentation.

I had a bunch of accessibility-related tickets that were mostly about adding aria-attributes to React code involving mainly MUI components and got good answers off the bat with the code changes made but going back and forth with it we found other improvements to make to the markup beyond what was originally asked for.
> Banning actors from screen and stage will happen next year...

bold of you to give it until next year
I don't know where you are located but Massachusetts has free community college for adults 25 years old and older: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/free-community-college.
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Yup, this is gonna be like autopilots and aeroplanes all over again.

It's a shame that we'll invest so much money and compute into this, and continue to ignore all the ergonomics research that could help.
Copyright can be a good or bad thing, it doesn't stop businesses from arguing fair/transformative use, and winning in many cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Show HN: TextaVibe, Receive music link at specific time and day, based on moods
My thought why I'm building this: https://textavibe.com/blog/adding-music-to-daily-routine

I'm looking for people who is interested in my product, TextaVibe.
It's a service that sends email at specific time and day.

I was building this for my own use, however I thought it could help someone who needs it.

Now I've opened a waitlist to find people who are interested!
Feel free to ask me anything.

Cheers!
Just thinking outside the normal options, you could try to apply for PhD programs.

They typically pay doctoral students, albeit not very much (~$30-40k), which could lessen the financial burden. With a little creativity in your application, you could certainly write a convincing case for why 8 years of software engineering is superior to an undergraduate degree.

Also, I would very strongly encourage you to take one or more intro classes on the side before you jump in full time. It’s critical that you don’t delude yourself about what you’re actually getting into before you fully commit.
My understanding is that metricizing like this is a tangible way for managers to defend "underperforming" team members to upper management. Your manager can always say you're a valuable member of the team and that will certainly go quite a way, but it's even more powerful if your manager can say, XYZ is an I valuable team member, if you need evidence of that, they provide a lot of value in supportive roles like on these tickets. [Listing tickets].
What rights you think you should have has nothing to do with the law.
> I'd have to do it in person and it would be hard to balance with a full time job and I would need to work to just pay for life

This is true. Don’t compromise. To get the value of a degree you need to be studying full time for something like 8-9 months of a year for 3-4 years.

To make the community college idea concrete, the first 2 years of engineering are fairly standard. Take these and then transfer:

- calculus (2 semesters)
- chemistry and labs (3 semesters)
- physics and labs (3 semesters)
- engineering stats (1 semester)
- intro sequence in your field (circuits or statics/dynamics, 2 semesters)

Bonus if they have differential equations or linear algebra, but they usually don’t.

Get a requirements list for your major from the state school. Know every course. Make sure every class transfers from community college. They should have it in writing which courses are equivalent. Don’t trust that the counselor will get it right for you. Don’t take any course that doesn’t explicitly have an equivalent course number.
I haven't used Swift since that addition, but last time I used it Swift had removed messages passing (unless you revert back to @objc mode). A look at actors does not suggest that message passing is back. What did I miss?
Honest Question: Are there any metrics around developer productivity that actually work? Reading stories like this and others over the years I've come to the conclusion that you simply can't measure developers productivity on a granular level, it's just about the final product. However, I would love to be proven wrong.
"Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders" - https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/immigration-crackdo...
I think my frustration with the people willing to send their data is that there's the "ideal world" where sequencing your DNA shouldn't lead to things like your government or insurance provider using your genetics against you.

And I'm frustrated because I haven't trusted my government or these companies to be responsible with that data even before it was glaringly obvious they wouldn't. So now here we are in the "I told you so" phase, and it just sucks how much of this data is already out there, ripe for misuse. And now it's just too late.
Yeah, having a community of people that love each other and can learn about one person's relative over here who might be a good match for another person's relative over there is a nice way to facilitate such networking.

Of course, those kinds of situations depend on the goodness of those doing the matchmaking, i.e. there must be no money changing hands (to coerce anyone), and the happiness of the potential couple must be the primary goal.

Getting one's selfish motives out of any interaction is a root problem in the human world, especially in many old-world cultures where women's rights don't count for shit. The sooner those old cultures are reformed, the better.

Girl Power!
Thunder: a Minimalist Back End Framework in Go
Tim would do well in these times of LLMs. They can write code faster than anybody but also need more guiding and coaching than anybody. They don't learn anything no matter how much we call it machine learning. These days what we most need is a Tim of Tims - somebody who coaches software engineers into becoming Tim.
I feel you. I am 43 and have two kids and already have a masters but not in CS. I want to go back because even though I am working in industry for quite some time, their a foundational gaps I have since I learned things on the fly.
Very little time between work and life to do so, and at the end of the day, really have a hard time justifying cost when I’ve got so much experience already…
The author said they don't have to pay $80k because degrees in their home country are cheaper.

The author could work part time for less money.

They are not giving themselves permission.
Those Famous Emacs Users
That doesn't work with automated metrics, whomever is assigned the work item gets all the points.
There's a simple litmus test for these sort of nearish future dystopias - how long before you have an 'AI plumber' or an 'AI electrician'? I'm not just listing random skilled trades, but listing jobs that are extremely complex, 100% context sensitive in a way that just doesn't generalize well, requires a mixture of high dexterity and high strength, and a million other things. To say nothing of the numerous [oft extremely expensive] task specific tools you also need.

And those are only two of the jobs for maintaining households. If those two things aren't automated, we're not having these 'robo households' - period. Instead I think the future holds mostly the present - glorified clappers [1] and ad-tech masquerading as some sort of something that mostly does a mediocre to awful job of whatever it's supposed to be, Alexa.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTNuJXi6UUk
My taste in music is apparently so varied, that if I want to keep the "daily" Spotify list as I want them, I have to limit myself in variation in what I listen to, otherwise they will get too mixed up and I will not enjoy them anymore.
So I use other peoples recommendations or music review sites instead to find new music/bands/artists.
I tried the spotify AI dj service a couple of times, but it has not been a good experience, when it tries to push in a new direction it has never really gotten it right for me.
Damn. Now that I read this I realize why my current team feels like nothing gets done and the reason is the team has no Tim.
Speed Up DB Queries Like a Pro
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The good news?
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Achieving Great Privacy with Safari
And it so totally rugged against tarnished contacts, unlike copper or brass contact.

Would recommend.
After he leaves, anything is possible for the brand.

VW was literally founded by the national labour organization of the literal Nazi Party, it was offered to the Ford motor company in 1948 for free (they turned it down). Yet VW was shipping to the US in 1949 (albeit sold a total of 2 that year) and reached a million sales (in total, I think, not US) around a decade after the end of the actual war — all the horrors were still very much in living memory at that point.

But I said "brand". The company itself may be screwed, as my understanding is that Tesla Inc has debts of around USD 13.62 billion[0] plus whatever is going on with the various claims I've heard but cannot verify about Musk using Tesla stock as collateral for loans[1]. If the Market cap was realistic, the loans wouldn't be a big deal, but I think the share price (and hence market cap) is off by a factor of around 15-20[2], and that Musk personally has enough of a Steve-Jobs-like Reality Distortion Bubble to hold it at that ratio for a while yet. If I'm right, the current market cap of ~USD 780 billion should be closer to 30-60 billion — and Wikipedia says that he used more than the high end of that to secure a personal loan to buy Twitter[3].

[0] https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/total-debt/#:~:text=Tot...

[1] https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/21772866617914

[2] the P/E ratio only makes sense if you assume growth that was already implausible even if there wasn't excellent competition from China or a brewing trade war or that current White House policy is to cut spending and kick out workers both independently at a scale likely to cause a recession in the USA; if the US does actually go to war with China like some of the (currently) rumours are saying they're thinking about, that's 21.4% of Tesla's market by dollars.

[3] "$6.25 billion in bank loans to Musk personally, secured by $62.5 billion of his Tesla stock" - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Acquisition_of_Tw...
Anecdote begins on page 16.
Customer satisfaction is priced in: the customer is still satisfied enough to keep paying, by their own free will.

Entities like corporations aren't conscious and have no morality. They often discover and apply such things much like the biological evolution discovers and applies things. The closest proxy to morality that affects corporations is law; I assume here a completely legal, free interaction where the customer is not even held by an imperfect, monopoly-dominated market, like suburban internet access, or, well, sports events broadcasting.
I read about a guy getting iraquibacter from desert dust in Egypt and getting treated with phage therapy by his wife. Needless to say I'll avoid Egypt.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/health/phage-superbug-killer-...
What country are you in now?

The difference between mechanical and electrical engineering is huge. Why do you want to do either? In your last paragraph you are also considering computer science.

You need to decide which degree you actually want and why. What will you be able to do with a degree that you can't do now?

I can only speak for the US but I would look at college curriculums and look at the actual classes you need to take. Many public universities in the US have partnerships with community colleges where you can take many general education classes from the first 2 years and get the credits to transfer.

I have an electrical engineering degree and there were labs in some classes but others had none.

Maybe when you get to that point you can work part time or with flexible hours and go to those classes during the day a few times a week and work during the night.

All of this means you are going to have a big change in your life. That could be cheaper housing, cheaper vacations, less time for a personal life, etc.
Africa's fertility rate is rapidly reducing as well, should be 2.6 by 2050.
There are plenty of juicy tidbits of info in your genetics that an insurance company would be very interested in having to not have to pay you when you need them, info that wouldn't be in a blood panel.
OP is originally from the EU.
Without a BS or a master’s degree it will be hard to get into a PhD program.
'Mystery population' ancestors gave 20% of our genes, boosting our brain
More generally beats better. That’s the continual lesson from data intensive workloads. More compute, more data, more bandwidth.

The part that I’ve been scratching my head at is whether we see a retreat from aspects of this due to the high costs associated with it. For cpu based workloads this was a workable solution, since the price has been reducing. gpus have generally scaled pricing as a constant of available flops, and the current hardware approach equates to pouring in power to achieve better results.
The "Nietzsche Thesis": Why we don't care about truth
Volvo recreates unusual road incidents with AI for safer ADAS features
This isn't such an off topic discussion -- dealing with health issues certainly does lead to discussing health insurance.
Disagree. Go's style may not be GNU style, but it's consistent in the Go community. GNU style is not All That and a Bag of Chips.
While a number measuring productivity may not work, I read the GP as simply recording contributions.

I like that approach. Now you can not only have peer recommendations, but also tangible records.
Optimizing Django by not being silly
The "unsolved problem" for nuclear is doing it time- and cost- competitively with solar.
autoconf itself doesn't need xz, but in Nixpkgs xz is part of the stdenv, meaning essentially every package has a build-time dependency on xz.

For the case of xz not using the upstream-generated configure would probably be doable with some effort but doing the same for glibc, gcc, gnumake etc. would be much more difficult.
I don't know how you're confused enough to read this as some kind of libertarian bend, but I'm not interested in the genre of political fantasy libertarianism exists in. I'm talking about the reality of the current administration, & how it's never been a good idea to send this trove of highly personal data to a private corporation with a profit motive.

It's kind of the opposite of a libertarian dream.
Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs
Not at all.

They had identified a global health issue and a potential source without necessarily knowing all the details. Banning pork seemed reasonnable if they couldn't make sure people don't get sick after eating it.
Why is it unacceptable? And wouldn't the time/productivity loss from on-boarding an entirely new team completely outweigh the time/productivity loss of the 100% pairing with a Tim?
Agree on silly games, but this is simply acknowledging others' contributions. I think this should be encouraged in general, metrics or not
Enough to shut down by ordering that the local providers stop providing service to Cloudflare; likely not enough to sue Cloudflare proper.

Not a big difference for the customers in Italy.
> As a species we have to return to more local life where we grow up knowing those around us

This only works if the local people accept you. I know many LGBT people who aren’t accepted by those around them. Personally, I left everyone I grew up around because I couldn’t find friends or work.