MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stouset | 2025-04-04 04:48:48+00:00
I’ll play devil’s advocate.

Following Ben’s videos and building the 8-bit CPU is the first thing that ever helped me “get” electronics and circuitry.

Honestly, way more than half of the fun has been in finding the design flaws and designing fixes for them as well as improving and expanding the design itself.

I have learned so much by going down rabbit holes. The original clock design assumes a make-before-break switch but the one shipped with the kit is the opposite, and this can put one of the flip flops into an invalid state. I switched to CMOS chips and learned why you shouldn’t drive loads like LEDs directly from digital outputs, and dove into the easiest way to power 8 LEDs off 8 IC outs without a mess of transistors. I followed another person’s expansion to a full 8-bit instruction register and a more featureful ALU (with my own changes of course). I worked to minimize power consumption. I’ve learned how to use an oscilloscope. I’ve improved upon nearly every module, and built and rebuilt them all a handful of times.

None of this has any real benefit for the CPU. It will never run anything more than toy programs. But that wasn’t ever the point.

All the flaws in the original design have been perfect as launching points for learning more and more.
by achierius | 2025-04-04 04:48:49+00:00
But every time, it doesn't have to happen yet. And when you're talking about the potential deaths of millions, or billions, why be the one who spawns the seed of destruction in their own home country? Why not give human brotherhood a chance? People have, and do, hold back. You notice the times they don't, and the few who don't -- you forget the many, many more who do refrain from doing what's wrong.

"We have to nuke the Russians, if we don't do it first, they will"

"We have to clone humans, if we don't do it, someone else will"

"We have to annex Antarctica, if we don't do it, someone else will"
by davorak | 2025-04-04 04:48:56+00:00
It is a different argument, but they do not contradict one another and they(edit) does single out Anduril in the original post:

> It has nothing to do with Anduril's business (which is a separate discussion) and everything to do with insulting a community they're dependent on.

so it seems like it was always somewhat specific to Anduril and the claimed behavior of Anduril. Though I do not know what the insult that Anduril committed against the community.
by divtiwari | 2025-04-04 04:49:17+00:00
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by mellosouls | 2025-04-04 04:49:30+00:00
Wording in the final post [1] fwiw:

...the Steering Committee is banning Anduril from recruiting on Discourse. We will leave this specific thread up and locked (to record this decision), but the moderation team has been instructed to remove future Anduril job posts on Discourse.

[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/anduril-industries-electromagn...
by qu4z-2 | 2025-04-04 04:49:53+00:00
You don't understand why someone who uses Firefox specifically because of its stance on privacy would be upset that the ToS are being updated to be "basically [the] same language as Chrome's"? Chrome, as in Google, the biggest name in tracking and ad-tech?

I haven't used Chrome since whenever they started logging you into the browser when you logged into GMail, and I'm sure most complaints about negative changes in Firefox come from long-standing Firefox users.
by theamk | 2025-04-04 04:50:15+00:00
I've had to dig internet archive to see original post [0], but I don't see anything particular inflammatory there? Pretty standard job description, and being in the "Jobs" section is right on-topic.

The only potentially objectable part is this one:

> Yes, Anduril is an American defense technology company. We build weapons systems for the United States and its allies.

but I feel it's a useful good warning, given that a lot of people don't want to work on weapons, and it does not go overboard by saying it's the best or anything like this.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250403111805/https://discourse...
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-04 04:50:38+00:00
To oversimplify and only pick one aspect:

If you have this ansible:

- package: state: present name: - foo - bar - baz

and remove baz from the list, baz will still be installed. If you have this NixOS config:

packages = with pkgs; [ foo bar baz ]

and remove baz, you will no longer have baz installed[0]. Or put differently, ansible is never comprehensive, nix is[1]. Of course, ansible is a lot easier IMHO so choose your tradeoffs.

[0] I mean, insofar as packages are ever "installed" in nix. But for our purposes using that word is fine.

[1] Generally. Like, nothing prevents you from creating a python virtualenv or dropping config files around or coloring outside the lines in other ways, but using the system in the straightforward idiomatic way does leave you with everything encoded in a single config.
by internetter | 2025-04-04 04:50:44+00:00
> With all due respect, Anduril already knows how the NixOS forum feels about them. The purpose of this listing is to insult and inflame the community. In politics we call this bear-baiting.

Is there a history posted somewhere of Anduril's history with Nix? I feel like there is context I'm missing

edit: https://save-nix-together.org/ & https://lwn.net/Articles/970824/.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-04 04:50:54+00:00
> Oh boy, this absolutely does not work for chess at high levels.

Magnus himself said this. If he were to cheat, he'd only get 1-2 moves per game, and sometimes not even the moves explicitly, but merely the notion that "there is a very good / critical move in this position". That would be statistically impossible to accurately detect.
by Barrin92 | 2025-04-04 04:50:58+00:00
>still those new players cannot recruit a broader base of folks.

to be fair this comment from the thread after the author clarified that non-citizens can apply sums the situation up:

"Would you be willing to assist the United States in an invasion/annexation of Greenland? As a Danish citizen, I think it would be slightly counterproductive to work for a company that may potentially invade me in the coming future."

I would actually sleep better if the PR damage is big enough so that the recruitment base shrinks until the risk of invading a free and democratic ally is off the table
by bruce511 | 2025-04-04 04:51:07+00:00
That's the point the parent made. Elections are suitable for political officers.

Once you start electing other jobs, like judges or plumbers, then you get whoever you elected, rather than necessarily a person able to do the job.

In other words, getting elected is a specific skill set. Doing the job is a different skill set. In most fields those skill sets do not overlap.

Even in govt the overlap is marginal. Which is why some elected officials are pretty useless at actually "governing".

To my American friends all I can say is "you voted for this".
by lelanthran | 2025-04-04 04:51:34+00:00
> Freedom of speech necessarily implies that a group of people might team up and loudly announce that the people they don't agree with are incorrect and immoral and should be ignored or even ostracized. That's the price of freedom of speech, and it's a fair price.

Sure, agreed. But groups and institutions taking even a dime of tax money should not get to place a thumb on the scales of those arguments. US universities, in particular, chose a side and then silenced all opposing viewpoints.

It was inevitable that the silenced would eventually mobilise, and they did. And now the group has to abandon their arguments about allowing "punching up" and instead pontificate on "free speech".

Myself (and many others) argued over the last decade and more that the pendulum always swings back, so lets be a little less extreme in the left/right argument. I, on this site, got labeled a non-thinking right-winger apologist for pointing out that the mainstream views on transgender for minors does not match the views that the powers-that-be were pushing.

You can't push for normalising the silencing of views for well over a decade without you yourself eventually falling victim to the same normalisation.
by internetter | 2025-04-04 04:51:37+00:00
Original post as follows (edit: I have no affiliation with this company, I am just reposting what they wrote):

Anduril Industries is hiring NixOS engineers to work on electromagnetic warfare products. This is a unique opportunity to use Nix at a large scale in an embedded setting. Anduril has adopted Nix at large and we use IOG’s generously maintained Haskell.nix project to build all of our Haskell code and ship it to thousands of customer assets across the globe. If you have Nix/NixOS/Nixpkgs experience and are interested in any of:

Embedded Linux Cross compilation Haskell Radio systems Enterprise CI/CD FPGAs please do drop me a line at travis@anduril.com, as well as submitting your application to our online portal here: Job Application for Embedded NixOS Engineer, EW at Anduril Industries . To tackle a few common questions:

Yes, Anduril is an American defense technology company. We build weapons systems for the United States and its allies. This is an on-site role at Anduril headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. Our team is building software for hardware products, so physical presence in our RF lab is often required throughout the course of software development and testing. Remote work would only be considered for candidates with something extraordinary to offer to our team. I’d be happy to answer any other questions in the thread below.
by saturn8601 | 2025-04-04 04:51:46+00:00
>If anyone has the nerve to actually develop and deploy artificial wombs, it is China. And the resulting kids will be simply pushed onto young people to raise - an authoritarian country won't have to ask anyone.

We will have to take that info as it comes. I was working off the info we have today. Their birth rate (as well as the birth rate of most of the world) is horrendous. This was a problem they should have started tackling 20-30 years ago.
by MgB2 | 2025-04-04 04:51:49+00:00
The prompt didn't exactly describe Indiana Jones though. It left a lot of freedom for the model to make the "archeologist" e.g. female, Asian, put them in a different time period, have them wear a different kind of hat etc.

It didn't though, it just spat out what is basically a 1:1 copy of some Indiana Jones promo shoot. No where did the prompt ask for it to look like Harrison Ford.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-04-04 04:52:47+00:00
Not to mention the article is a bit disgenuous because they only focus on inference on the consumer side (thus also helping to drive up demand for training?)

Author is prof at EPFL

I find his other article on generative bio LLMs more interesting

https://substack.com/home/post/p-159626430

>Remarkably, Evo 2 wasn’t even trained on human variant data - only on the standard human reference genome. Yet it can still infer which mutations are harmful in humans, because it seems to have learned the evolutionary constraints on genomic sequences.
by 1attice | 2025-04-04 04:52:55+00:00
Difficult to summarize, but the short answer is: immutability, reproducibility, and reversibility (i.e. you can revert/de-revert almost any change instantly).

It's on another level, as compared to Ubuntu, but it's also much more intrinsically demanding.

And lately it has unfortunately become a culture war battleground.
by Vegenoid | 2025-04-04 04:53:31+00:00
The idea being that you wield so much more power than your enemies, and have so much knowledge of their movements, that they are not an actual threat to you, and their knowledge of this prevents them from actually committing violence? And that force can be used to stop them from committing violence before they actually get the chance to hurt you?

I'm not trying to pull a gotcha, I'm legitimately curious to see if that is an inaccurate framing.

edit: my comment no longer makes sense after the parent comment was edited, the original talked about how after being on both sides, they've seen how tech can be an effective deterrent
by dchuk | 2025-04-04 04:54:29+00:00
While I don’t disagree that Microsoft isn’t necessarily the most innovative, Apple is absolutely the most successful example of “first mover advantage” not actually being an advantage, and second movers can often be the actual winners. Literally every product they have launched in the last few decades has had the category already defined, they just came in with so much more polish and elegance (and sharp marketing) that they just repeatedly obliterate and take over the category as if they invented it.

I’ll never forget when they dedicated a minute or two in a keynote a few years ago to how they improved the volume indicator visual overlay in iOS to be less obtrusive like they talked to god himself to figure this out, when Android had that style for years…it was brilliant marketing.

I say all of this as a die hard Apple guy.
by stuehieyr | 2025-04-04 04:54:31+00:00
Hi HN, This is a purely experimental cryptographic research project.

CHAOSENCRYPT explores prime-based chaotic keystream generation, semantic structure leakage, dynamic HMAC seeding, and emergent entropy phenomena (like Chaotic Structural Echo, CSE).

It's not a production-ready cipher, and it's definitely not recommended for real-world security.

I’m posting here to invite feedback, criticism, and discussion. I'm especially interested in cryptanalysis, chaos theory intersections, and semantic structure studies. Feel free to tear it apart — I’d love to improve through feedback!
by kristopolous | 2025-04-04 04:54:57+00:00
WSL2 is pretty nice as is powershell. Also I haven't done windows development in years but I miss windbg - still don't have anything like it on linux. Also you probably use vscode and people like typescript. playwright and omniparse are pretty useful as well.

And unlike with a lot of companies, they often continue to invest and move their acquisitions forward, such as github.

Microsoft 2025 isn't the same bastard from 1992.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-04-04 04:55:05+00:00
I am not trying to derail. I am just pointing out the fact that you have no convincing evidence to claim what you are stating.

To me it reads as, "MKULTRA had elements that were universally recognized as being ethically unsound, so we can't talk about it in a neutral light at all".

I think this is a terrible dichomatic way of thinking that supplants neutral interpretation.

Furthermore, I think an appeal to the reputation of the source of information equates to an ad hominem attack and presents no substantive argument against said information.
by achierius | 2025-04-04 04:56:42+00:00
Humans have shown time and time again that they are able to self-organize globally.

Nuclear deterrence -- human cloning -- bioweapon proliferation -- Antarctic neutrality -- the list goes on.

> How successful do you think that political organization is going to be in slowing China's progress?

I wish people would stop with this tired war-mongering. China was not the one who opened up this can of worms. China has never been the one pushing the edge of capabilities. Before Sam Altman decided to give ChatGPT to the world, they were actively cracking down on software companies (in favor of hardware & "concrete" production).

We, the US, are the ones who chose to do this. We started the race. We put the world, all of humanity, on this path.

> Do you honestly think that would make a lick of difference?

I don't know, it depends. Perhaps we're lucky and the timelines are slow enough that 20-30% of the population loses their jobs before things become unrecoverable. Tech companies used to warn people not to wear their badges in public in San Francisco -- and that was what, 2020? Would you really want to work at "Human Replacer, Inc." when that means walking out and about among a population who you know hates you, viscerally? Or if we make it to 2028 in the same condition. The Bonus Army was bad enough -- how confident are you that the government would stand their ground, keep letting these labs advance capabilities, when their electoral necks were on the line?

This defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The people have the power to make things happen, and rhetoric like this is the most powerful thing holding them back.
by 9rx | 2025-04-04 04:56:56+00:00
> That's completely different than working on an assembly line.

Manufacturing isn't defined by the assembly line, of course. Good data is hard to find, so take from it what you will, but the internet loosely suggests that only around 30% of manufacturing jobs are on the assembly line or adjacent to an assembly line. Anecdotal observation aligns with that, so I expect it is in the right ballpark.

> I don't think I've ever heard it

It is not so much the hot topic it once was, but when manufacturing was really in its decline you would frequently see in the news interviews with former manufacturing labour expressing such things as they lamented no longer being able to work in the industry.

It may not be sipping margaritas on the beach enjoyment, but on the spectrum it is unsurprising that many find it to be more enjoyable than other types of jobs. For as bad as you can imagine the assembly line to be, there is undoubtedly someone doing a job that is far worse.

> That's an ignorant, condescending description of assembly line work.

If these kinds of feelings are flooding your head, you have not considered the statement logically. That is not in good faith. Rationally, where do you find error in the statement?

> American companies can't find enough people with those skills as it is; there is no need for more of those jobs.

There is definitely an information problem. Manufacturing by and large happens in small town/rural areas (70% of it, according to the BLS), while people by and large live in large urban areas. The urban dwellers exclaim "Where are the jobs???" and the rural dwellers exclaim "Where are the workers???" It is a fascinating disconnect – something we see outside of manufacturing too.

You are right that this isn't apt to fix that problem. However, it is important to remember that the people calling for this aren't running complex mathematical models to ensure that moving manufacturing to the USA will be better for the world or whatever you think should be driving. They are simply in the mindset of: "I think I want to work in manufacturing. Give me that!" It is not a solution with well-considered grounding. It is an attempt to appease emotions.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-04-04 04:57:31+00:00
Why do ppl keep saying quote search doesn't work? Totally gives more focused results for the quoted item than not. As does something like "site:"

You can share in some other related recent anecdotal gripe threads:

Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563915

I don't think I can trust Google as my search engine anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517828
by bcrosby95 | 2025-04-04 04:57:56+00:00
Wealth inequality. Increases in productivity are going to the top, not the worker. It's also why social security is going broke. It could be funded if you remove the cap. Removing the cap wouldn't be necessary if there weren't such a wealth inequality problem.

The ultra wealthy are hoarding wealth then telling the rest of us we can't afford things we've afforded for over 50 years.
by brookst | 2025-04-04 04:59:03+00:00
Cage created art that transcends music and you are rightfully noting that it is not that impressive when judged solely on musical merit.

It’s like saying a dodecahedron isn’t that impressive when viewed sitting on a 2D plane because it’s just a triangke and there are more interesting 2D shapes. True, but so reductive it’s tautological.
by snowwrestler | 2025-04-04 05:00:14+00:00
This is the opposite of how people have thought about creativity for centuries, though.

The most creative person is someone who generates original, compelling work with no prompting at all. A very creative person will give you something amazing and compelling from a very small prompt. A so-so creative person will require more specific direction to produce something good. All the way down to the new intern who need paragraphs of specs and multiple rounds of revision to produce something usable. Which is about where the multi-billion-dollar AI seems to be?
by a-dub | 2025-04-04 05:01:15+00:00
it would be interesting to perturb the CoT context window in ways that change the sequences but preserve the meaning mid-inference.

so if you deterministically replay an inference session n times on a single question, and each time in the middle you subtly change the context buffer without changing its meaning, does it impact the likelihood or path of getting to the correct solution in a meaningful way?
by finnjohnsen2 | 2025-04-04 05:01:32+00:00
I remember exactly that moment I first saw a Windows 95 bootup.

First the new _animated_ boot splash with the ms-logo, then the elegant start up piano sound, the amazing new start button with a menu with so perfectly organized applications, settings and a run input. It was like stepping into the future.

Windows 3.11 and dos 6.22 was normal yesterday, it worked, was cool and had all the stuff I loved to do - but after this day they felt dated and ancient.

Such moments are rare. Microsoft rocked so hard
by barrell | 2025-04-04 05:01:35+00:00
I would not say it is “very good” at that. Maybe it’s “capable,” but my (ample) experience has been the opposite. I have found the more exact I describe a solution, the less likely it is to succeed. And the more of a solution it has come up with, the less likely it is to change its mind about things.

Every since ~4o models, there seems to be a pretty decent chance that you ask it to change something specific and it says it will and it spits out line for line identical code to what you just asked it to change.

I have had some really cool success with AI finding optimizations in my code, but only when specifically asked, and even then I just read the response as theory and go write it myself, often in 1-15% the LoC as the LLM