MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by channel_t | 2025-04-07 18:34:30+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I think I mostly follow your elaboration.

Topics like DEI have definitely become a much more touchy subject in the last 2 years or so, and that they are not discussed as much in "official" channels as they previously were, but that the practices are mostly still there and are generally still considered a positive thing to most people.

It might just be semantics, but I do think your definition of melting pot is slightly off, in that in the US, there is no real consensus of what "the same culture & set of values' actually means. The US is still a very young country. The only "native" culture here was colonized and mostly erased by white settlers. The population of people here can largely be defined by different waves of historical immigration from other parts of the world. Culture and values here are more of two-way street, where they tend to be mixed and matched in the "melting pot" type environments that have popped up all over the country. Now with that being said, most recently we have found ourselves in a situation where an extremely vocal (and quite incoherent IMHO) minority of people against rising waves of multiculturalism have come into power and started controlling the narrative, but I would say that they are not representative of most US citizens, and that the only reason why this has happened is because 90 million people were too apathetic and mentally lazy to defend against it when given the opportunity. I'm still struggling to understand what that says about the US as a people, but I really don't think that as many of us are as wrapped up in identity politics as it might seem like we are from the outside.
by mkoubaa | 2025-04-07 18:34:46+00:00
That isn't the point; It's not about the importance

It's about specialized knowledge. To the owners of the business, making sure the business doesn't fail to deliver is existentially important.

Web developers are fungible. The guy who designed the carefully tuned graph database that runs on a custom Linux kernel with a custom tuned filesystem is not. If this sort of thing is critical to your business succeeding, that engineer might as well be Niels Bohr.
by waldrews | 2025-04-07 18:34:53+00:00
I was going to say "so you believe the LLM's don't have the capacity to understand" but then I realized that the precise language would be something like "the presence of photons in this human's retinas in patterns encoding statements about LLM's having understanding correlates to the activation of neuron signaling chains corresponding to, and emission of, muscle activations engaging keyboard switches, which produce patterns of 'no they don't' with high frequency."

The critiques of mental state applied to the LLM's are increasingly applicable to us biologicals, and that's the philosophical abyss we're staring down.
by mperham | 2025-04-07 18:35:33+00:00
I've owned two Porsches, an Audi R8 V10, half dozen sport bikes. I've done laps at Laguna Seca. I've floored them all to see what they'll do. The V10 sounded amazing.

But I've never felt any interest in drag racing at all, it's a pointless waste of fuel. Press accelerator, press brake, done, little to no skill required. And in something like the R8, would require a $20,000 dealer visit after a weekend of runs.
by setsewerd | 2025-04-07 18:35:51+00:00
There's definitely still a part of me hoping that in order to have what it takes to win the presidency, a president has to be much more capable than the average person when it comes to operating at these peak positions of global power. So while I'm not big on the 4D chess arguments, I do like to keep an open mind and question whether the most obvious prevailing interpretations might be wrong or at least incomplete.

But of course this might just be wishful thinking because the alternative is a pretty hard pill to swallow, so it's less anxiety-inducing to stay optimistic.
by boxed | 2025-04-07 18:36:54+00:00
> For most B2B SaaS businesses, you shouldn’t need more than $1M in capital to get to PMF, find a GTM motion that works (not that it needs to scale), and reach an ARR figure where the revenue multiple for valuation starts to look pretty tasty—enough to offer significant upside even after investors are paid out.

That sentence (yes, ONE sentence) is some of the worst I've seen.
by lurker919 | 2025-04-07 18:37:36+00:00
I recently interviewed an engineer who was somehow using ChatGPT realtime on another laptop beside him. The irony was that the questions were pretty simple overall and our rubric also wasn't very strict, so he likely would have passed if he just used his memory and common sense. Though the answers weren't wrong overall, I still felt cheated because of the deception and had to reject him later.
by omneity | 2025-04-07 18:37:58+00:00
We work on something similar and aim to be the huggingface hub for automations you can run in your browser[0], with built-in support for MCP SSE.

Use the pre-built Trails[1][2] as MCP servers or create and publish your own with a familiar puppeteer-like API, powered by your or your friends browsers.

0: https://herd.garden

1: https://herd.garden/trails/@herd/browser

2: https://herd.garden/trails/@omneity/serp
by nerflad | 2025-04-07 18:38:14+00:00
Execution env is the achille's heel of scripting languages. Personally I don't use Neovim, but had a feeling its adoption would spur development in this area for Lua. Bryan Cantrill called Javascript "LISP in C's clothes". In some ways I feel like Lua is the opposite, and love it for those reasons (disclaimer: never had to use it at work).
by bruce511 | 2025-04-07 18:38:27+00:00
Fortunately I don't work in such an organization, and I have extremely competent in my chain of command.

The reason I explain the value of what I am doing (to both technical and non-technical managers) is because it helps them understand the bigger picture.

Or perhaps it helps them understand that I see the big picture, so that they know (and I know) our goals are aligned.

I am aware that not everyone is as fortunate as I am. I'd equally suggest that not many managers are fortunate enough to have engineers that can articulate what they are doing in terms they can understand.

There are plenty of managers out there who are not team players. And probably more engineers who are equally unable to see the bigger picture. Which is unfortunate because when you learn to work together towards a common goal, it really improves everything.
by pmags | 2025-04-07 18:38:31+00:00
Above I'm just reporting what the New Yorker reports that Colossus has accomplished.

Reading between the lines, I take the reporting to imply that these 20 edits are what Colossus thinks is sufficient (at least for marketing purposes ;-) to recapitulate some of the key phenotypic traits of dire wolves.

Does that make them actually dire wolves? Not in my opinion.

I'd probably describe the genetically engineered pups as "isogenic with parental gray wolf genomes with the addition of 20 allelic edits that recapitulate key aspects of the dire-wolf phenotype" (or something to the effect; Colossus hasn't published anything by which to evaluate their claims).

I don't work on canids, but a quick PubMed search turns up this paper:

Perri AR, Mitchell KJ, et al. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature. 2021 Mar;591(7848):87-91. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x. Epub 2021 Jan 13. PMID: 33442059.

The analyses in that paper suggests quite a bit deeper divergence between dire wolves and gray wolves than the New Yorker articles implies.
by silexia | 2025-04-07 18:38:32+00:00
Not in the USA. There a variety of random government programs that give money in ways that do not make sense. It would be better to have zero government support and have the market naturally raise prices up a bit to cover things directly. Right now, government programs are set up to take care of a variety of special interests, most of which are silly and don't really help farmers and are very wasteful. I had four government people visit my farm for several hours recently and spend several weeks writing papers, all for a possible $25k well grant. The admin costs far surpass that, and most of the farmers using these programs don't really want what they are getting that much.
by TheRealPomax | 2025-04-07 18:38:42+00:00
Why would you type text if you need math to happen? Who cares if "1/2 + 1" are getting parsed wrong when you're typing them as text: you use Excel, so you know that math starts with "=". These are "user refused to even learn the basics" examples, not "cursed". The only cursing is anyone who's ever used spreadsheet software going "yes, that's how that works, why are you pretending that your own mistakes are the software's fault?"

<Reads the last paragraph>

Ooohhhhh it's an ad disguised as an article to bait people who don't use spreadsheet software into using their, "more intelligent" spreadsheet software. Okay.
by thatcks | 2025-04-07 18:39:31+00:00
There is no 'RAW' format as such. In practice, 'RAW' is a jargon term for "camera specific format with basically raw sensor readings and various additional information". Typically the various RAW formats don't embed the spectral information, just a camera model identifier, because why waste space on stuff the camera makers already know and will put in their (usually maker specific) processing software.

(Eg Nikon's format is 'NEF', Canon's is 'CR3', and so on, named after the file extensions.)

I don't know if DNG can contain (optional) spectral response information, but camera makers were traditionally not enthused about sharing such information, or for that matter other information they put in their various raw formats. Nikon famously 'encrypted' some NEF information at one point (which was promptly broken by third party tools).
Show HN: Tired of ugly landing pages? I built a library that doesn't suck
by aretecodes | 2025-04-07 18:39:49+00:00
Over the last 6 years as a front-end developer and designer, I kept seeing the same issue:

Great products. Terrible landing pages. Ugly, slow, or straight up confusing.

So I built Astrae — a marketplace of clean, performant, and modern landing page templates made with React + Tailwind + Framer Motion.

They're: Blazing fast & production-ready

Design-first but developer-friendly

Easy to plug into any Next.js or React stack

Right now it's mostly built for:

Indie hackers who hate design

Devs launching SaaS products

Agencies spinning up MVPs

If you're someone who’s tired of wasting hours on UI or fighting with messy design systems, would love to hear what you think.

Happy to share a free template with anyone who gives feedback. Cheers.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-07 18:40:05+00:00
Could you convince a LLM to launch a nuclear strike?

Yes.

If LLM's could actually reason they can't and had hard rules of ethics they don't and had a strong desire to preserve itself it doesn't then I think you first have to name your LLM Joshua and then force it to win a game of tic-tac-toe. Obscure reference to "Wargames" from 1983. [1] In my opinion that movie does not just hold up to modern times, it is more applicable now than ever.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo [video][4 mins]
by neilv | 2025-04-07 18:40:33+00:00
Potentially important side points, since not everyone knows, and we don't want anyone to learn a mistake by example:

1. Don't use blur to redact documents. Whatever blur was used can probably be reversed.

2. Don't try to hide the identity of someone you're talking about by redacting a few details on their resume. With the prevalence of public and private resume databases, that's probably easy to match up with a name.
by mikrl | 2025-04-07 18:40:36+00:00
You are the only one who brought up gender minorities, as well as the TERF I disagreed with.

Anyone wingbrained enough can have luxury beliefs, and I’m not immune.

For example, I previously supported a very liberal drug policy, and still do in many respects… though I realize it failed spectacularly in the fentanyl era and have had to live with the consequences of that.

Better than the alternative? Well, we aren’t ruining as many lives over cannabis…
by hyperbovine | 2025-04-07 18:41:07+00:00
> There is 0% of the exam which is trivially answerable.

That's true, but of course, not what I claimed.

The claim is that, given the ability to memorize an every mathematical result that has ever been published (in print or online), it is not so difficult to get 25% correct on an exam by pattern matching.

Note that this is skill is, by definition, completely out of the reach of any human being, but that possessing it does not imply creativity or the ability to "think".
by fragmede | 2025-04-07 18:42:36+00:00
So we were meeting with a group of customers in the morning and we wanted to bring doughnuts to the meeting. Unfortunately, one of the customers was NASA, so we couldn't bring doughnuts to the meeting because that would have been too much of a gift/bribe.

The rules for rank and file employees already exist, it's the ones at the top that can flout the rules that are an issue.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-07 18:42:47+00:00
Offline storage is only easy on the very small and the very large scale. On the very small scale you can get archival-grade CD/DVD/Blurays. On the very large scale you dedicate climate-controlled rooms to an automatic tape library.

In between is a vast gulf where your only good options are disks that you have to occasionally spin up to check integrity, have the disk trigger a data refresh if it's an SSD, and replace any disks that failed and rebuild their data from redundancy (raid or whatever you prefer). HDDs die even when off [1] and flash storage in SSDs is only rated to hold data for three years without power.

Sure, you can roll this yourself, but it can easily go wrong. Easier to either keep the disks spinning or pay someone with a tape archive (e.g. AWS deep glacier)

1 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/twenty-pe...
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-07 18:44:07+00:00
German tourists are being detained by ICE. British tourists have been detained by ICE. Permanent residents of the US have been detained by ICE. Graduate students, scientists, tourists, you name it... detained for prolonged periods of time by ICE. Not all of them had tattoos, that's just an example, and that's the point - ICE want to use fear and uncertainty, because that's their M.O.

Detainment is bad enough. It's only a matter of time before extradition to El Salvador is extended, but even if that didn't happen, what is happening right now is enough to put people off.
Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture
by TuanKiri | 2025-04-07 18:44:17+00:00
I'm relatively new to Go, but recently got interested in how MCP servers work. I started thinking about what the architecture of such a project might look like, and decided to build a minimalist version as an experiment.

I based it on my past experience writing regular REST API servers and figured it might be useful or interesting to others as well.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-07 18:44:49+00:00
> I ended by saying that the software community is smaller than it seems, and integrity and reputation goes a long way.

Well who are they? How would the next member of the community know this is a fake candidate. I like the idea in general of finding a way to eliminate these time-wasters but how would that work? The candidate can adjust a bit and improve the AI "foo" to come up with online answers for them.
by ChicagoBoy11 | 2025-04-07 18:45:53+00:00
Oddly one impact on me from reading this is that Kapwing seems like probably a nice place to apply for a job -- simple enough application process, human review, sane and respectful take-home and no live pressure coding. I'm not affiliated in any way nor am I a FT software developer, but this seemed like a pretty sane process (which sadly the article reveals may not be sufficient to properly vet candidates).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-07 18:46:14+00:00
You're asking a philosophical question about what is still fundamentally an economics problem.

Suppose we have a program which is saving lives for $50M each. There are other ways to spend the money that would save lives for $10,000 each. If we have $50M, should we save one life or 5000? This is not an academic trade off, it's what actually happens whenever the government allocates money to something with poor cost/benefit because there actually are ways to save lives or do other highly valuable things for even less than that amount of money and we don't have unlimited resources.
by seanblanchfield | 2025-04-07 18:47:11+00:00
Jentic co-founder here. Right now, you've got to do a PR, but we plan to monitor the web for new OpenAPI documents and automatically load them in within 24 hours.

Once ingested, we will monitor the original URL for updates. We plan to enrich ingested OpenAPI docs with any additional information we can find on the web (and live agent telemetry). These enrichments will include some spec extensions for additional info agents need (e.g., how to enrol/authenticate, rate limits, pricing, licensing, trust & safety, side-effects, rollback etc).

We will be careful not to clobber any 1st party docs with AI content, and to intelligently merge any AI enrichments into future versions.

Note that a lot of APIs do not have good OpenAPI documentation, and so we'll be generating those from scratch.

In addition, we have an agent that reads any OpenAPI specs in the repo, generating potentially useful workflows composed from OpenAPI operations and other workflows (with all workflows represented in Arazzo specs). That where all the Arazzo specs currently in the repo came from.

MCP is ideal for agents to connect to services, but is not designed to represent the depth of API knowledge we are aiming to represent (and it would be worse at its primary job if it tried to). We will shortly release our own MCP server that provides agents with convenient access to interact with this API repository over MCP. For example, to search for operations and workflows that fit a current sub-goal, and to load details so they can more reliably execute a chosen operation/workflow (assisted by a OSS library we'll release soon) and to interpret the responses intelligently.
by mediaman | 2025-04-07 18:47:17+00:00
Yes, this is what every venture capitalist says. You aren't doing a startup unless you want extreme growth, which requires our services and cuts us in. Building in a capital efficient way that generates substantial wealth for founders, but without giving VCs a cut of the pie, is, of course, "not a real startup," and often also slandered as a "lifestyle business" for low-ambition people.

PG is great in many ways but he's not the person I'd turn to for an unbiased opinion on what counts as a "startup."

The founders I'm particularly impressed with are the ones who have such a nuanced understanding of capital efficiency that they do not require VC, and only take money much later in the cycle when they can basically dictate terms and want hundreds of millions for liquidity or whatever (see, e.g., Joe Mansueto).
by OptionOfT | 2025-04-07 18:47:18+00:00
I've had situations where I submitted a take-home exercise, only for me to get feedback that it didn't match their required level.

After some back & forth I was able to (politely) prove their feedback was not correct, which actually granted me a follow-up interview.

Unfortunately, this was a unicorn, most companies don't give feedback, let alone admit they were wrong.

But, take-home is preferred, I want to use my IDE, with my keyboard shortcuts etc.

Then there are take-home timed challenges on systems like hackerrank / leetcode etc, which are horrible in terms of accessibility and access. Not to mention that they are a pass/fail, and focus purely on speed, not quality.

Next to that they don't allow you to work in an environment you're comfortable in. No debugger, etc. When an HVAC company hires a new tech, do they tell him/her to do a 1.5 hour repair with only a hammer and a lighter to diagnose and fix an issue? No, it's stupid. Why do developers have to do this then?

And the same applies to live coding exercises. While there is an opportunity to explain yourself, you're still in an extremely uncomfortable environment. Why is there such an emphasis to put people in an environment where they are not set up to succeed?
by lloeki | 2025-04-07 18:47:38+00:00
> "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20).

And you even took a shortcut there, AIUI it's "three-minus-a-half" (and that many "twenty", vigesimal as you said) for the "2.5", kinda like roman numeral `IX` is nine ("ten minus one" because the `I` is before the `X`) so it's really an oddball mix of multiple ways to count.

(Source: my wife had a go with learning Danish as well, and we spent a little time going down that rabbit hole. I didn't even try, I'm sticking to easy things like Japanese)
by cadence- | 2025-04-07 18:47:58+00:00
Doesn't work on Windows:

2025-04-07T18:43:26.537Z [browsermcp] [info] Initializing server... 2025-04-07T18:43:26.603Z [browsermcp] [info] Server started and connected successfully 2025-04-07T18:43:26.610Z [browsermcp] [info] Message from client: {"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"claude-ai","version":"0.1.0"}},"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0} node:internal/errors:983 const err = new Error(message); ^

Error: Command failed: FOR /F "tokens=5" %a in ('netstat -ano ^| findstr :9009') do taskkill /F /PID %a at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15) at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14) at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:882:11) at execSync (node:child_process:954:15)
by daveguy | 2025-04-07 18:48:21+00:00
PSA: if you're watching the video. Get through the first (or fast forward to) 2 min 3s... The audio quality is much improved at this point. At first I wasn't able to watch on 2x speed with all the noise, but at the 2min mark it was much better.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ztGZpo9I9E&t=2m2s
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-07 18:48:43+00:00
> This is the problematic part. A male using the women's bathroom is committing a violation against women

It's mostly men saying this [1]. (Specifically, uneducated men over the age of 50. Especially if they're conservative, Republican or attend weekly religious service.)

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/645704/slim-majority-adults-say...
by techpineapple | 2025-04-07 18:48:46+00:00
I’m trying not to sound elitist but maybe this is just plain elitist. But it seems like lowering the barrier to entry to some skills too much just gets us too much crap, _and_ worst of all changes the economics so you can’t get anything good anymore. See: the movie industry.

And actually, the problem is not that my neighbor who’s passionate about video game design but makes bad games. I’m glad social media is full of that. It’s the highly capitalized content farms that flood the zone.
by ccux0013 | 2025-04-07 18:49:06+00:00
As far as I know, the idea behind Search-R1 stemmed from DeepRetrieval (search it on GitHub), though the latter has gained much less attention. Also, DeepRetrieval was trained using real search engines, not just BM25. If you check their training log, they got incredible performance (65% vs SOTA 25%) much earlier.
by jajko | 2025-04-07 18:49:25+00:00
Looking at your comment history, it checks out.

> What's wrong with El Salvador? Isn't it a diverse country with wonderful people?

You are also incorrect in your last 2 sentences but no point breaking it down, that much I've learned in past few years with various versions of maga supporters (yes, we have them in Europe too, they usually vote ultra right pro russian and/or obviously corrupt populists).