MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rulesofthrw | 2025-04-20 14:41:08+00:00
First rule of interviewing- NEVER say bad things about past employers (or anything else, always be positive). Second rule of interviewing- ALWAYS say good things about past employers, or say nothing. Unless you are specifically asked about employer you prefer not to talk about- then ALWAYS say only good things about them. You talking bad things about past employment means you will also talk bad things about people you try to join. And it also potentially can backfire if recruiter figures you was actually the problem.

IMHO, if you do have negativity in you it will leak out later and make your situation worse. Better treat the core problem- which is you not being able to leave past where it belongs- in the past.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-20 14:41:10+00:00
They are not the same though. Equating both acts is disingenuous and at the very least distasteful. One is destruction of private property other is an attempt to overthrow the government and possibly murder politicians the mob does not agree with.

The closest equivalent would the a mob breaking into Tesla’s HQ while shouting stuff about hanging Musk.
by BalinKing | 2025-04-20 14:41:16+00:00
This is exactly the same for me—I grew up playing the piano for basically my entire childhood, but it was always a chore. I dropped it once I went to college and figured I'd never pick it up back up, but then I decided on a whim to learn a song I found online. But b/c now it's no longer just for the sake of lessons, it's become a hobby that I really enjoy in its own right (and indeed, all the forced practice growing up has greatly expanded the range of songs that I'm able to learn now).
by Loic | 2025-04-20 14:41:53+00:00
The current trend, at least in Germany, is that as soon as a kid says "I do not want anymore.", this is normal to stop. With that, the kids do not have the experience that it can be hard, but going through can bring something.

Resilience, capacity to go through ups and downs, etc. are things you train by being exposed to it. If your life is only fun and joy as kid, the day you are hit hard as an adult, you have no training.

But, this is my very personal point of view, education is very personal and very context specific, every family is different (country, culture, education, etc.) and in every family education is difficult from one kid to another. I am not trying to tell you how to educate your kids.
by dns_snek | 2025-04-20 14:42:34+00:00
> The ADHD self-diagnosis trend amongst adults also needs to stop. People are now ascribing any minor challenge in life to ADHD.

What do you mean by that, what specifically needs to stop? It's a "trend" that results from increased awareness about ADHD. This is massively helpful for people who have undiagnosed ADHD, but many people have sadly co-opted the term "ADHD" to describe any minor struggle, just like they did with OCD. This is a problem that sociologists might be able to tackle some day, but in most cases self-diagnosis is the first step to getting an actual diagnosis as an adult.

> Everyone procrastinates. Everyone forgets people’s names. Everyone has trouble focusing sometimes. It’s not ADHD, that’s called life.

Of course everyone does those things to some degree. It's ADHD when these and other challenges significantly affect multiple areas of your life, starting in childhood, and often including your private life.

> My worry is that by giving it a label, it lets people give in to negative behavior because “that’s just the way I am,” or “I’m neurodivergent.” But even people with severe emotional and behavioral challenges can navigate life. It’s not an excuse to be inconsiderate.

There a lot to unpack here. People with ADHD, autism, and many other disorders process information differently. It's a lot like interacting with someone from a very different cultural background, they might say something that you find rude, and you'll probably say something that they find rude.

Both of you are likely to be reasonably good people with good intentions but you'll probably end up offending each other sometimes, whether it's cultural or neurotype related.

The vast majority of people with ADHD and autism already try to fit into society that doesn't cater to them, e.g. by trying to strictly adhere to norms and expectations that are extremely difficult to adhere to due to cognitive differences inherent to these disorders (e.g. impulsivity with ADHD), because they disagree with these norms (think about petty laws you disagree with and break all the time), or perhaps just don't fully understand them.

This is called masking and it's often mentally and emotionally exhausting, frequently leading to severe burnout and depression which I think is quite a natural reaction when the rest of society constantly deems you to be "inconsiderate" or otherwise unacceptable even when you've been trying your best and don't have any bad intentions.

I think it's quite hypocritical and extremely inconsiderate to label people with ADHD or autism as "inconsiderate" without living a decade with their disorder.

Of course there are some people who will try to use their disorder (real or fake) to excuse their crappy behavior but that's in no way unique to ADHD. Worrying about whether people are using ADHD as an excuse for bad behavior makes as much sense as worrying about whether people in wheelchairs are faking it.
by LatteLazy | 2025-04-20 14:43:00+00:00
Isn’t this how risk works: you assess 1000 people to be at medium risk, 1 dies. Because medium risk means 1/1000? Kind of like lottery tickets all being a low chance of winning the jackpot, yet someone one usually does…

I don’t mean to talk down one travesty. But this is just stats meeting reality/human (mis)understanding of stats.
by Retr0id | 2025-04-20 14:43:08+00:00
They say coefficient b is determined via BLAKE3, but unless I'm missing it, they don't actually say how?

They also claim that the prime modulus was chosen "carefully", and enumerate its favourable properties, but do not elaborate on how it was chosen. Presumably they had some code that looped until they found a prime that gave them all the right properties, but it would be good if they shared that process.
by _1tan | 2025-04-20 14:43:09+00:00
Indeed I do. We run a SaaS in a regulated industry, mainly in Germany. To receive and transmit certain payloads we need to use dedicated TLS certificates from a government run PK infrastructure (Search for "Smart-Meter PKI" if you are curious).

We want to become a sub-CA of this PKI and while we are aware of the policies of this specific PKI, we think that from an engineering or IT ops standpoint we can learn much more from web PKI CAs.
by maccard | 2025-04-20 14:43:24+00:00
Using your example, tell a selective truth.

If you join a team as an IC and it’s a dumpster fire and clearly never going to ship, then “I joined expecting the project to be in a different stage of development. I gave it a shot but I’m looking for something <more mature/earlier in development>”. If your director is a raging ass, then “leadership want to take the product one way and Id rather go another “
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-20 14:43:49+00:00
Are you not familiar with any of the research linking high CO2 with harmed cognition and harmed alertness? It is manifest at as low as 800 ppm, certainly at 1000 ppm, and personally even at 600 ppm for me. There is good reason to want the preindustrial level that humans lived with for almost their entire history.
by mooreds | 2025-04-20 14:45:07+00:00
I had not used gemini before, so spent a fair bit of time yak shaving to get access to the right APIs and set up my Google project. (I have an OpenAPI key but it wasn't clear how to use that service.)

I changed it to use this line:

api_key=os.getenv("GEMINI_API_KEY", "your-api_key")

instead of the default project/location option.

and I changed it to use a different model:

model = os.getenv("GEMINI_MODEL", "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25")

I used the preview model because I got rate limited and the error message suggested it.

I used this on a few projects from my employer:

- https://github.com/prime-framework/prime-mvc a largish open source MVC java framework my company uses. I'm not overly familiar with this, though I've read a lot of code written in this framework.

- https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-quickstart-ruby-on-... a smaller example application I reviewed and am quite familiar with.

- https://github.com/fusionauth/fusionauth-jwt a JWT java library that I've used but not contributed to.

Overall thoughts:

Lots of exclamation points.

Thorough overview, including of some things that were not application specific (rails routing).

Great analogies. Seems to lean on them pretty heavily.

Didn't see any inaccuracies in the tutorials I reviewed.

Pretty amazing overall!
by mikerg87 | 2025-04-20 14:45:34+00:00
I have an Intel NUC from 2018. It has tpm 2.0, 16gb of ram but a cpu deemed too old. It’s faster than my sisters surface 2 laptop that I just upgraded for her that was released in the same year. I guess some cpus are more equal than others. The amount of e-waste from this blockage is going to be incredible.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-20 14:45:36+00:00
Assuming this wasn’t sarcasm: For many hobbies the parts come from all over the world. You can’t expect hobbyists in every country to set up manufacturing for every part.

Even if they did, the raw materials have to come from other countries. The machines probably come from other countries. Setting up little factories all over the world isn’t efficient so prices would be extremely high. Parts might be cheaper importing from other countries even with extreme tariffs.

It’s all just a mess of bad policy. We lose out when governments restrict our ability to make small, simple purchases from other countries without heavy cost overhead.
by bibinmohan | 2025-04-20 14:45:40+00:00
Thank you, this is something similar to what we have in mind.

And currently, as you told, we are focusing just on perishable bakery snacks, which only have 1 day life. And the credit period for that product is just 1 day. So with that, we are trying to capture 10 shops with in a month, who orders daily.
by trebligdivad | 2025-04-20 14:47:45+00:00
I'm using llama.cpp - built last night from head; to do image stuff you have to run a separate client they provide, with something like:

./build/bin/llama-gemma3-cli -m /discs/fast/ai/gemma-3-27b-it-q4_0.gguf --mmproj /discs/fast/ai/mmproj-model-f16-27B.gguf -p "Describe this image." --image ~/Downloads/surprise.png

Note the 2nd gguf in there - I'm not sure, but I think that's for encoding the image.
by cdavid | 2025-04-20 14:48:01+00:00
Given the context, I am assuming this is on the "behavioural" side of the IV (aka what most companies call culture fit). And I am assuming you are applying to "traditional" companies, that is companies that have a defined hiring process and are large enough. This includes all FAANG and what not.

My advice:

- write down the stories (use cases) before the actual IV - for each story, focus on what you learnt / succeeded - for the really negative ones, focus on the learning - for the other ones, focus on the outcomes, mentioning things that worked and maybe some things that did not work and how you did it

This is the part where you have to act the game and avoid being too transparent. Mentioning too much the negative will be seen as a red flag by most hiring managers or recruiters.
by bibinmohan | 2025-04-20 14:48:35+00:00
Thanks for this perspective — truly appreciate your honesty. You’re right in pointing out that my wife has been incredibly patient and supportive through all this. I’m lucky there.

And yes, Quadregal has indeed been my safety net all these years. I’ve always seen it as a fallback, not the main bet — but maybe I’ve been undervaluing the fact that it has delivered consistently. I guess I got caught up in chasing bigger “startup-style” wins and forgot that there’s real value (and freedom) in growing something that already works.

That said, I still feel there’s something powerful in Tillit’s core idea — but you’ve made me realize that I need to draw a line between ambition and recklessness. Maybe there’s a middle path: treat Tillit like a disciplined side venture (with clear boundaries), and double down on growing Quadregal with the same energy I pour into these “new” ideas.

Thanks again for the much-needed reminder Would love to hear how you’ve approached similar crossroads, if you’ve faced them.
by barbazoo | 2025-04-20 14:48:49+00:00
Who cares if it was created using AI. I’m not a good writer and I appreciate something cleaning up my language to make it more clear for my coworkers to understand.

On the other side of the table: As long as all the info I need is in there I don’t care. In an interview of all places. Do they want people to spend actual time writing the readme instead of having a person good at time management generate and review it?’
by vacuity | 2025-04-20 14:49:12+00:00
It's much easier to see flaws in others than ourselves. Introspection is a habit that must be developed, and it has layers. The average person is not rational (I would say no one is); it's because of education that we have "rational thinking". It's basically "right place, right time" but with the luck being systematized. Just hope that the people being sorta-rational are on the right track and elevate the tide.
by ericrallen | 2025-04-20 14:49:58+00:00
This is a bummer.

Went to Life and Trust in January and really enjoyed it. We were hoping to go back later this year. I only made it to Sleep No More once before it ended, and wish that I had gone a couple more times.

The Life and Trust space was wild and felt truly massive, and even the ambience and scale of the waiting area was fantastic and really felt like it transported you to a different place and time.

Was hoping to see it again and explore some of the storylines that I missed.

I compared the experience with someone and, other than a few key scenes where lots of characters intersect, we saw entirely different shows.

Admittedly, there were parts where too many people moving too slowly in tight spaces made parts of the journey frustrating and by the end I was a little worn out from climbing up and down so many flights of stairs over and over again, but those are the tradeoffs you accept going into it.

Seems like a hard business to keep alive and replicate success from one show to the next.
by furyofantares | 2025-04-20 14:50:17+00:00
I don't really think it's that people couldn't be bothered to read the tweet. It's that vibe coding is very good term but a niche activity. Meanwhile there's a much less niche activity that people would like a name for. I think if we want to save the term for the niche activity we'd need to invent a good one for the less niche activity.
by watwut | 2025-04-20 14:50:32+00:00
I specified factual, because anti-Trump blog post with opinions and theories without much facts do not get flagged. It is not that any anti Trump article is flagged, but the factual dry ones are more likely to be flagged.

I have seen maybe 1 pro Trump article being flagged. From what I have seen, they tend to be ignored rather then flagged.
by soared | 2025-04-20 14:51:50+00:00
Agreed 100%. People can effectively never decipher between genuine happiness (or positivity/etx) and faking it. I adopt a YouTuber/twitch streamer kind of mentality - the dumbest little things put a smile on my face and I am in general very happy. Recruiters and interviewers then like spending time with me, even though I’m 100% faking it.
by bibinmohan | 2025-04-20 14:52:47+00:00
I love the idea of keeping some powder dry — I think that’s a mindset I need to internalize more: pacing myself, staying sharp, and being ready when the right opportunity comes. But at the same time, I'm getting tired, failure after failure and words from my relatives and even from my wife. It's getting super hard. Still I want to move forward.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-20 14:53:14+00:00
Signal scales with exposure time, noise scales with the root of exposure time. So although the noise increases with time, the signal-noise ratio increases faster. When dealing with astronomy photos, you want to maximise SNR.

(This is a simplification, there are many types of noise including shot noise and thermal noise, but in general this is the rule of thumb you use)
by gruez | 2025-04-20 14:53:17+00:00
You don't even need to go off the grid to "opt out". Unless you granted location permissions to those apps, all the "locations" that the apps are sending are most certainly from geoip databases. That's technically a "location", but not what most people would think of when you say "everyone knows your location". Denying location permissions to random flashlight apps, disabling cross-app identifiers in ios/Android, and using a VPN will provide the same amount of anonymity.
by Magma7404 | 2025-04-20 14:54:03+00:00
> the 'boring' stuff parents and teachers are forcing us to learn will actually benefit us

My parents forced me to play the piano for more than 10 years because they were obsessed with the piano, and because they had a piano. I hated every second of doing that in order to please them, and I never got higher than beginner level because it was a torture for me. Being a beginner for 10 years should be considered as abuse and it messed me up big time, especially for my daily confidence.

30 years later, I still hate that fucking thing and I understand that they fucked up due to their delusion. They deny everything when we talk about it though.

Sometimes you have to listen to the kids and understand what they want do do, and accept it instead of feeding your Munchausen by proxy syndrome. All I wanted was a computer, even the cheapest computer ever would have been acceptable. Nowadays, I write C++ for a living and I still hate the piano. If only anyone listened to me back then... My hatred for that instrument is a mystery for some people, and some people think that "wisdom gained through experience is almost impossible."
by cherrycherry98 | 2025-04-20 14:54:03+00:00
My experience with DEI programs at Fortune 500 companies is as follows. At one, candidates got a special box ticked on the list if they met diversity criteria, where one is considered diverse if they're from what is considered an underrepresented group. HR uses it to pressure interviewers into being more lenient in their evaluations and guilt trip about how it's such a shame we're not be able to advance a diverse candidate. Conversely they love hearing when a diverse candidate does well "That's great they did well, and their diverse too!". It all feeds into this subtle culture shift that tries to encourage discrimination without being overtly illegal. At another they decided that management pay would be tied to advancing diversity in the workplace.

I hear all these arguments about how DEI is misrepresented, it's all about making sure everyone feels welcome at the workplace and people aren't discriminated against for their appearance, name, background, etc. It's about introducing diversity of thought to challenge the status quo and avoid group think (good luck expressing any moderately conservative opinion at any of these places though). It's also marketed as making the workforce better reflect the customer base so as to create better products for all. I am completely supportive of those aspirations and feel that DEI programs have done more harm than good in advancing them.

Many people quietly become upset when they see the comparatively mild practices like I have described. They start to wonder if they're going to be targeted unfairly during the next round of layoffs so some manger can help to improve their team's diversity score. They wonder if it's going to be more difficult for them or their kids to get a job. They don't like how any criticism of these programs is silenced and/or dismissed as racism/sexism/fascism/etc. Resentment builds, our society becomes more polarized, extremist views become more palletable, and they take their frustrations out at the ballot box.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-04-20 14:54:23+00:00
Christus surréxit! - Surréxit vere, allelúja!

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! – Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!

Хрїсто́съ воскре́се! – Вои́стинꙋ воскре́се!

Christ is Risen! – Truly He is Risen!

Happy Easter!
by mppm | 2025-04-20 14:54:38+00:00
Very cool!

It would be cooler still if this technique could be used for future VR technology, creating full immersion by targeting all photoreceptors individually. But unfortunately... the optics of the eye does not actually allow individual cones to be fully isolated, as the spot size would be below the diffraction limit. They discuss this in Fig. 2 and the first section of the results.

Even with a wide-open pupil and perfect adaptive optics, there would be 19% bleedover to nearby cells in high-density areas, while what they achieve in practice is 67% bleedover in a lower-density (off-center) area. This is enough to produce new effects in color perception, but not enough to draw crisp color images on the retina. :(
by tisdadd | 2025-04-20 14:55:18+00:00
As it is Resurrection Sunday, and see this getting ready for church, wanted to say that I have a large library that is made up of mostly fiction and then Bible resources. I can say with confidence that, if you read the Bible it does not say that you can read only it. However, I will say that if those that proclaim Christ act more like Him, I think that most would be more happy to read it with the thought that it is true. Also, if it is not and people follow what were put as the greatest commandments, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and Love your neighbor as yourself then that would still only benefit society. Often people pick and choose bits and get some crazy thoughts because without the rest of the text in context you are just left with a con. Anyway,my heart was saddened to see people listing the greatest book in history as bad.
by dns_snek | 2025-04-20 14:56:18+00:00
> but I can't imagine wanting to feel that way all the time. I HATED being on Ritalin, made me feel like a zombie.

Those people most likely don't feel like zombies and just feel normal (or better). ADHD medication is extremely personal, some people feel normal, others feel better, and some feel terrible on any given medication.
by ralusek | 2025-04-20 14:56:44+00:00
I'm a gardening and landscaping enjoyer, but I am constantly confused about the bordering magical thinking surrounding dirt, among other aspects of growing things.

If you look at hydroponics/aeroponics, plants basically need water, light, and fertilizer (N (nitrogen) P (phosphorous) K (potassium), and a few trace minerals). It can be the most synthetic process you've ever seen, and the plants will grow amazingly well.

The other elements regarding soil health, etc, would be much better framed in another way, rather than as directly necessary for plant health. The benefits of maintaining a nice living soil is that it makes the environment self-sustaining. You could just dump synthetic fertilizer on the plant, with some soil additives to help retain the right amount of drainage/retention, and it would do completely fine. But without constant optimal inputs, the plants would die.

If you cultivate a nice soil, such that the plants own/surrounding detritus can be broken down effectively, such that the nutrients in the natural processes can be broken down and made available to the plant, and the otherwise nonoptimal soil texture characteristics could be brought to some positive characteristics by those same processes, then you can theoretically arrive at a point that requires very few additional inputs.