MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dpifke | 2025-04-02 20:25:48+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

"Agendas" are often ideological battlegrounds. I flag comments, even those I agree with, that I recognize from experience are going to lead to the same tired, off-topic debates and flame wars.

Lately, I've also been maintaining a personal uBlock Origin filter list to hide certain prolific rule breakers. I would love if HN had an equivalent built-in "killfile"[0] functionality for auto-hiding submissions and comments. (This has been suggested to the admins, and was seemingly received favorably, but I'm sure it's a matter of resources.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
by jmclnx | 2025-04-02 20:25:51+00:00
>The acts of forcing people to submit more identification and then putting that personal information in databases actually introduces new risks.

That is all well and good, but with all the big breaches we have had it really does not matter. Your info is out there already if you ever applied for a loan due to that large credit agency breach(s). I forgot the name of the companies, but that alone was probably enough. Then tack on that the various Health Insurance breaches, Real ID is a non-issue at this point.

Now of course we have DOGE mining Social Security Data, so here we are.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-02 20:26:26+00:00
I agree with you. People really overcomplicate this.

From wiktionary:

""" Agent (plural agents)

- One who exerts power, or has the power to act.

- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.

- [various more specific definitions for real estate, biology, etc]

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”). """

An agent is simply someone or something that does something, usually for someone else. An AI agent is thus an AI that does something, usually for someone else. An AI assistant could be an AI agent, or it could be a glorified chatbot who merely offers you spoken or written word, possibly after reacting to real-world information (but not itself modifying it)
by richardw | 2025-04-02 20:26:34+00:00
Now the task of an adversary is to simply enable the backdoor rather than create it from scratch. The people using Signal for this are doing it on their own devices, so now you have multiple problems.

Eg how to get non technical people to know when they’re using the civilian version.

Alternative crazy universe: Just use the tech that was created for the government and does all the right things.
by joquarky | 2025-04-02 20:26:49+00:00
> Why would you crawl the web interface when the data is so readily available in a even better format?

Have you seen the lack of experience that is getting through the hiring process lately? It feels like 80% of the people onboarding are only able to code to pre-existing patterns without an ability to think outside the box.

I'm just bitter because I have 25 years of experience and can't even get a damn interview no matter how low I go on salary expectations. I obviously have difficulty in the soft skills department, but companies who need real work to get done reliably used to value technical skills over social skills.
by nailer | 2025-04-02 20:27:05+00:00
> If you post (by way of example only, please observe the use-mention distinction here) a polite version of "ads are good and adblockers are stealing", and get a massive pile of downvotes...

Sure, I imagine the grandparent poster means arguing something like "limiting access for extensons is good because they're often used to steal financial assets". Old extensions are sold, or cracked and updated to inclue malware.
by _the_inflator | 2025-04-02 20:27:33+00:00
Bring up dates and times if you want to wreak havoc on any AI. :D

Developers around the world's most beloved topic, how to handle date and time correctly, is still a topic of great misunderstanding. AI and AI agents are no different from that. LLM seems to help a little, but only if you know what you are doing, as it usually needs to be the case.

Some things won't change so fast; at one point or another, data must match certain building blocks.
by bnanoser | 2025-04-02 20:27:37+00:00
This is really interesting. Could you use it even on teams that aren’t using AI to generate code? It seems like it could help clarify intent for any kind of team. How different is it from well commented code? Or could it be used to add comments to old, poorly documented code? Could the AI ever infer intent so developers don’t have to document it - they just have to validate that Good correctly inferred their intent?
by Beijinger | 2025-04-02 20:28:37+00:00
The f. up an order from me. I needed the stuff since I moved to a new place. Canceled it without ever telling me. Customer service told me to reorder with the fastest shipment and I will be "reimbursed". I did order again with fast shipment. Obviously I was not reimbursed and they called it a "misunderstanding". I still have the chats. Would be an easy win in small claims court. But for 40 USD? Not worth the time.
by hermitShell | 2025-04-02 20:29:17+00:00
If you can believe Jeffry Sachs and RFK Jr., the expansion of NATO was a way to start the war, not a result.

And the objective was to pillage the country of Ukraine to the benefit of those in power, Europe gets to loan them money to rebuild, American corporations get to buy up the farmland.

If you can believe them.
by 9rx | 2025-04-02 20:29:18+00:00
> The presidents oath to his office for one, the constitution, the rule of law

You cannot be obligated to the inanimate. It would be fair to say that these things are symbols representing people, who you can be obligated to, but that brings us back to trying to figure out who those people are.

> the citizens of the United States.

Like, as in the citizens that voted for him? His entire campaign was ran on the promise of going off to do as he pleases, so there there was no such obligation established there.

Not everyone voted for him, to be sure, but they are primarily the group that wishes there was that obligation. They have not (to this point) established the obligation.

> Let's separate that from enforcement mechanisms.

You can't, really. Without motivation, there is no obligation. While that motivation can come from within or, say, social pressure, the president already has those satisfied. He doesn't care personally and anyone else he might want to impress supports him. That only leaves those who are willing to exert a compelling force, and that doesn't appear to exist.

Let's not confuse want of obligation with obligation. I assert that you are obligated to make me lunch each day! But we both know it's not happening. That is not how obligation works.
by gottabecreative | 2025-04-02 20:29:20+00:00
Deutsche Börse | Kotlin Software Engineer | Onsite/hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic

Hi, at Deutsche Börse, we’re re-building an energy market from the ground up, and we’re looking for a Kotlin developer to join our team. Or someone willing to accept challenge as a Kotlin dev.

Our solution is based around Kotlin Flow and the Raft protocol. This isn’t your typical backend role. There's no Spring, no dependency injection, just pure programming. We take inspiration from the Agile Manifesto with touch of XP. We put big emphasis on close collaboration in our Prague office and don't do Scrum. We put big emphasis on automation which means no manual testers.

If this sounds interesting, feel free to reach out to me at matej-hiring@vasilevski.cz for more details. Here’s the full job description: https://careers.deutsche-boerse.com/offer/kotlin-jvm-develop... Looking forward to hearing from you!
by bee_rider | 2025-04-02 20:30:05+00:00
This is not really mysterious or anything, though, right? They allow bending of the rules for stuff that is not likely to devolve into a big stupid political flame war, because, like, pick your battles.

Also I’d expect there to be some annoying edge cases if they tried to ban that sort of discussion. I mean, Kilmer is not a tech person. But tech people die sometimes too. Arguably discussing their life as people is outside the scope of the site. Maybe we shouldn’t have had a conversation about how great a guy Mr. Moolenaar was and just discussed the technical aspects of his life’s work. But, come on, that’d not really be a human way of responding to somebody’s death, right?

If we’re going to have these sort of lightly rule breaking threads, then I don’t think it is necessary to ask the mods to adjudicate exactly who’s technical enough to warrant one. It’s a fuzzy spectrum anyway, we have tech people, tech policy people, STEM outreach people, tech YouTube influencers, celebrities that played beloved nerd characters.
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-02 20:30:15+00:00
Completely understandable, it's just... it's just not in the cards. A large part of UNIX ecosystem has not, historically, been kind to this view. Remember autotools/autoconf, makefiles with DESTDIR, and all that similar jazz? People genuinely proposed that stuff as the solution for the management of ambient dependencies. And it takes just one slip up of "shelling out" (hopefully it's actually "forking off", not literally shelling out) for all kinds of funny business re-appearing again — and don't even start on the /lib and .so management.
by john_the_writer | 2025-04-02 20:30:16+00:00
Yeah.. I'm starting a LIT-RPG style blog for my personal growth. Skills/attributes tied to personal goals. Spirit as it relates to learning guitar (for instance), Mana as it relates to tech skills.

Right now it's all a flat index.html and simple.css hosted on github pages, but I'll get a site eventually. Writing a blog is part of my goals to become a profitable author. (Creativity ~= blogging, sketching, animation)
by frainfreeze | 2025-04-02 20:30:42+00:00
Another sailor you might find interesting is Evi Nemeth, Author of the excellent UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (more of a bible than a handbook, I recommend getting it to everyone); "Since her retirement, Nemeth has traded mountains for oceans and has sailed from Florida to the Caribbean via the Mediterranean, West Africa, and Brazil on her 40-foot sailboat named Wonderland. She is now in Trinidad in the West Indies and expects to transit the Panama Canal to the Pacific next year. Her son, Laszlo, lives in Boulder."
by Beijinger | 2025-04-02 20:30:46+00:00
As far as I understand, this is wrong.

"The European Union (EU) cannot directly veto Amazon's acquisition of TikTok's U.S. operations, as the EU's jurisdiction is limited to transactions that impact the European market. However, if TikTok has significant operations or revenue in Europe, the EU could review the deal under its merger control and foreign investment regulations, such as the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). This applies to acquisitions involving companies with an EU turnover exceeding €500 million and substantial foreign financial contributions"
by troupo | 2025-04-02 20:31:02+00:00
> it seems that people stopped buying green and purple cars and are buying black, white, and silver instead, with red/burgundy varying somewhat over time.

Because buying anything not in the standard white/black/corporate gray is easily an extra thousand euros on top of the car price. Red is still sometimes offered as standard color.

Just checked. I drive a Mazda CX-30. In Sweden literally anything that is not white is 500 to 1000 euro extra: https://www.mazda.se/bygg-din-mazda/MAZDA%20CX-30/5WGN/# skip to Exteriörlack (exterior color).
by freedomben | 2025-04-02 20:31:12+00:00
Of course there are some people like that, but if what you say were true I would expect to see wages go up significantly under the Blue Team and then fall back to low levels under the Red Team, yet that doesn't tend to happen. My whole life it's been consistently true that government salaries are much lower, but some people take them because they offer a lot of stability, great benefits, and often a pretty easy/laidback job compared to private industry.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-02 20:32:33+00:00
When was anyone naive enough to think their company cared about them?

On the other hand, why should a company keep people around that they don’t need?

And the last point, speaking more about Microsoft/Amazon/Google, if you have worked for either company for any length of time, there is no excuse for you not to have a nice nest egg to tide you over especially considering the severance amounts they give you.

You might be forced to sully yourself and become an “enterprise developer” and make around what most of the 2.8 million developers in the US.

And yes, I did a bid at Amazon and within three years, I paid off some debt, saved a chunk of change, got my 3.5 months severance package and found another job quickly that was my target compensation (not enterprise dev).
by thebosz | 2025-04-02 20:32:54+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | United States

Location: Vancouver, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to discussion

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Web Developer-centric things

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/165fbWB_769XWZjFQTbDu6tenP2W...

Email: nathankerr@gmail.com

Web developer for over 10 years with an emphasis on leading front-end development using React, Typescript, etc.

Very quick learner and have passing interest in most computer things.

Particularly love solving complex problems using simple solutions.

Authorized to work in US without sponsorship.
by Arathorn | 2025-04-02 20:33:04+00:00
The new authentication server (MAS) is at https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-authentication-service (AGPLv3) and entirely self-hostable - e.g. https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm for the brand new official helm charts from Element, or https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo for a very quick and dirty docker-compose setup i threw together.

MAS provides backwards compatibility for the old Matrix auth APIs for existing Matrix clients, so they do not need to be modified to keep working. However, to get the most out of all the new auth features (2FA, MFA, QR login etc. etc.) then clients will need to be upgraded to speak OIDC natively. Element X for instance is already OIDC-native.

https://areweoidcyet.com has more details.
by thebosz | 2025-04-02 20:33:15+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | United States

Location: Vancouver, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to discussion

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Web Developer-centric things

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/165fbWB_769XWZjFQTbDu6tenP2W...

Email: nathankerr@gmail.com

Web developer for over 10 years with an emphasis on leading front-end development using React, Typescript, etc.

Very quick learner and have passing interest in most computer things.

Particularly love solving complex problems using simple solutions.

Authorized to work in US without sponsorship.
by layer8 | 2025-04-02 20:33:32+00:00
For me the difference is that moderation by moderators is (usually) guided by some content policy, and one can disagree about the biases of the specific content policy, or disagree about applying a content policy based on topics and themes at all (as opposed to based on mere style and civility). With user actions, there is no predefined content policy, it’s just how the set of users who happen to read the specific thread or comment happen to feel.

Personally, I’d prefer no up-/downvoting and flagging at all (or flagging only to alert moderators), and purely chronological threading. But I also think that active moderation and crowd-sourced ranking mechanics are two different things.
by malcolmgreaves | 2025-04-02 20:33:41+00:00
Of course! Is this actually news though? They also did things like this before: they paid for a patent on drop out regularization. Math isn’t patentable, but a corporation will turn as many screws as it needs to make money.

A for-profit company doing research is always in the interest of improving the bottom line. I’ve always read papers from corporate labs with a big grain of salt. They won’t publish something that puts them in a negative light. They have an incentive to exaggerate and bend the truth. A companying publishing something is always marketing.

This is why it’s vital to have academics and non-profit foundations leading the frontier of research. It’s why the White House illegally pulling congressionally appropriated funding for universities is such an utter tragedy (and extreme national embarrassment). Everyone has their bias and their agenda they’re trying to advance, but publicly funded research is the better option when compared to for-profit corporate research.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-04-02 20:34:03+00:00
Doesn't pass the smell test for me. The most obvious answer is probably the correct one and IMO the most obvious situation would be:

Jeffrey Goldberg's number was absolutely in Mike Waltz' phone because Mike Waltz was one of his sources.

Mike Waltz accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat either due to a misclick or (more likely, IMO) being dumb enough to use a conflicting contact id label for multiple people and being careless when forming the list.

Not being able to admit to being a Goldberg source for political reasons, he (Waltz) made up some insane story about the number being 'sucked into his phone' and having never talked to Goldberg.

Additionally, I'd assume (based on being the most obvious solution) that Trump et al fully realize Waltz was both responsible for this screwup and would like to fire him for it but view firing him as giving "the libs" a win and have stubbornly kept him on despite not really wanting to (less because of his screwup and more because of who he accidentally added).
by rayiner | 2025-04-02 20:34:25+00:00
There was no “US Court order.”

This is exactly what I was complaining about when I said the article omits key information. Here is a better one: https://www.wmar2news.com/infocus/family-of-alleged-gang-mem...

He went before an immigration judge (which is not a real judge, but rather an employee of the DOJ) who determined that he was deportable due to gang ties. He then appealed to the Board of Immigration appeals, which is not a real court but an agency within the DOJ. The BIA affirmed the immigration judge.

He wasn’t eligible for asylum, so the immigration judge said he could be deported anywhere but El Salvador. There was no violation of a “court order,” just a mix-up within the executive branch about where an illegal alien could be deported to.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-04-02 20:34:32+00:00
You dont.

Working: You make a living getting a job where people pay you to do something.

Volunteering Donating your time to do something that others may find interesting or appreciate. Yoo do it because you can and or you want to and or feel it as a duty or calling.

If you are serving meals to the homeless, it is a really bad way to get paid.

These days the common approach seems to put out some decent project. if you get traction and people get involved and like it, you create a pro version that is not open source, then you chance the open source license of the "core / basic" version and then profit.
by ninininino | 2025-04-02 20:34:39+00:00
The problem with just using that definition is that drawing the line of what it means to have "the power to act" or to "act for, or in the place of, another" is subjective.

Most would agree that a system or automation that could receive the instruction "do my entire job for me" and proceed to physically embody a bio-clone of me, walk to my office, impersonate me 40hrs a week, and keep my pay check coming in while I play MMOs would satisfy the definition.

Most would also agree that a computer terminal receiving the command "git push origin main" doesn't qualify as an AI "agent". But in a very loose sense it does do the thing your definition says. It does some git work for me on behalf of me. So we'd argue about what exactly an AI is. Are we just using it as a stand-in for ML model enabled software agents now? Or for LLM+multi-modal transformer enabled models/systems?

Now pick 1000 points in between those two ends of the spectrum and you're gonna find that there is not a single cut-off where some see the transition from "Is an AI Agent" to "Is not an AI agent".

Is an LLM that can take my request to find me a movie showing for the new Transformer movie next Thursday night, buy the ticket, and add it to my calendar an AI agent? Or is that just voice-activated/human-language as input Zapier/IFTT? Is that just a regular ChatGPT prompt with an integration to my Fandango account and GCal?

Or would it need to monitor movie releases and as new movies come out, ask me pro-actively if I want it to go ahead and find time in my GCal and buy a ticket pro-actively?

Or does it need to be a software agent that is run by a movie studio and proactively posts content online to try to spread marketing for that movie ahead of its release?

Does it need to be a long-running software process instantiated (birthed) to a docker pod, given a single goal ("make the Transformers movie more profitable, focusing on marketing"), and then doing all the rest of the planning, execution, etc. itself?

Defining that cut-off is the hard part, or what definition gives us a useful way to determine that cut-off. I'd argue your dictionary definition doesn't really do it.
by rafram | 2025-04-02 20:34:44+00:00
> And by making Real ID a requirement for travel within the country, the American government is effectively creating an “internal passport” of the sort that oppressive regimes (including North Korea) use to limit their people’s freedom of movement, and to create distinct classes of citizens.

That's some serious hyperbole. A requirement to board a plane != "a requirement for travel within the country."
by balderdash | 2025-04-02 20:34:53+00:00
Putting race aside for a moment - I completely agree, my experience (though not a huge sample set) is that most officers get to your car expecting confrontation, and when they don’t get it end up just issuing a warning / writing a less severe ticket. Given that it’s easy to get out of a ticket afterwards, why argue it on the side of the road?