MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nradov | 2025-04-16 15:32:01+00:00
Employees have always been responsible for managing their own career growth and always will be. How can it be otherwise? It would be foolish for an employee to let someone else handle career growth for them as their interests aren't aligned (or even known). If you want help with career growth then find a mentor, don't rely on your manager.

Managers should facilitate training to improve employee productivity and help prepare them for a promotion. But that isn't really the same as career growth.
by drakenot | 2025-04-16 15:32:01+00:00
The cost of inference[0] for the same quality has been dropping by nearly 10x year over year. I’m not sure when that trend will slow down, but there’s still been a lot of low-hanging fruit around algorithmic efficiency.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1gpr2p4/llms_co...
by jordanpg | 2025-04-16 15:32:03+00:00
OP, please grapple with this.

This is precisely why Ted Cruz, etc. go on TV and read out the titles of silly-sounding research about beehives and condoms. Because they know that most Americans have no sense of very low-N statistics. A few examples out of hundreds of thousands proves the point!

Of course it doesn't.

Do you understand that? If so, then why are you casually throwing around those talking points that are contributing to the destruction of scientific infrastructure and human livelihoods? This isn't a game.
by callc | 2025-04-16 15:32:08+00:00
Extremely likely, yes. In this case, since it was an unknown unknown at the time, the LLM nicely explaining that this class of algorithms exists was nice, then I could immediately switch to Wikipedia to learn more (and be sure of the underlying information)

I think of LLMs as an autocomplete of the web plus hallucinations. Sometimes it’s faster to use the LLM initially rather than scour through a bunch of sites first.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-16 15:32:22+00:00
Fair enough, my bad. Here you go:

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/fire-statement-use-di...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/07/massachusetts-institute...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/harvard-diversity-stat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/diversity-statements-u...

https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/diversity-statements-are-g...
by srameshc | 2025-04-16 15:34:18+00:00
From their terms of service : When you use Paid Services, including, for example, the paid quota of the Gemini API, Google doesn't use your prompts (including associated system instructions, cached content, and files such as images, videos, or documents) or responses to improve our products, and will process your prompts and responses in accordance with the Data Processing Addendum for Products Where Google is a Data Processor. For Paid Services, Google logs prompts and responses for a limited period of time, solely for the purpose of detecting violations of the Prohibited Use Policy and any required legal or regulatory disclosures. This data may be stored transiently or cached in any country in which Google or its agents maintain facilities.
by mikepurvis | 2025-04-16 15:34:22+00:00
I don't think anyone assumes that gentle parenting is supposed to be being a pushover, and it's certainly not presented that way by its proponents. But my observation is that it seems to ultimately end up as that, given enough time— and sure enough:

- https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/parenting-is-not-a-f...

- https://lawliberty.org/the-case-against-gentle-parenting/

- https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-harsh-realm...

- https://anniethenanny.ca/why-gentle-parenting-often-results-...

In my limited experience, it's those who most loudly advocate for gentle parenting by name who are falling into these traps, burning themselves out and not properly holding boundaries. Those who have found a sustainable balance of being an emotional safe space while enforcing boundaries and retaining parental authority tend not to use the language of GP, and if pressed will say something vague like it "has some good ideas that they found helpful" but that they don't see themselves as being all-in on it.

At the end of the day I expect there's some no true scotsman stuff going on, where the believers will stay convinced that anyone for whom it isn't working is simply doing it wrong.
by mattmaroon | 2025-04-16 15:34:45+00:00
Various levels of our government under the last president prosecuted a former president for “crimes” they would not have prosecuted him for if he had not been a politician. While I despise Trump, that was lawfare, and far worse than deporting a non-citizen (though that is troubling).

So where’s the danger again? Were you worried then?

It’s all framing. You’re being primed by biased media to see everything Trump does as a hostile takeover and while I don’t agree with many of those things, if you keep an open mind and try to talk to intelligent Trump fans (which does require a fair amount of filtering, but they do exist) you can see the alternate frame.

And that’s sort of what this original article is about, right? That was my point, the comment to which I was responding was a “toddler” getting frustrated by other people being toddlers. It’s toddlers all the way down.

The first thing you should do, when you encounter a toddler, is to be really careful to ask whether you too are one. We all are most of the time and with loads of self-examination, we can occasionally overcome it.
by epolanski | 2025-04-16 15:35:05+00:00
> We just don't want to employ people

I don't think it's a matter of willingness, but simple global geo economics.

There's places where producing A, whatever A is, is economically more efficient for countless reasons (energy prices, logistics, talent, bureaucracy, cost of labor, etc).

That's not gonna change with whatever investment you want or tariff you put.

But the thing I find more absurd, of all, is that I'd expect HN users to be aware that USA has thrived in the sector economy while offloading things that made more sense to be done elsewhere.

I'd expect HN users to understand that the very positive trade balances like Japan's, Italy's or Germany's run are meaningless and don't make your country richer.

Yet I'm surrounded by users ideologically rushing into some delusional autarchic dystopia of fixing american manufacturing for the sake of it.
by sunshine-o | 2025-04-16 15:35:07+00:00
Those are still very experimental and Reticulum is definitely a research project. So I don't mind them exploring different designs and ideas.

I believe the most important is to keep an option to be able to setup gateways between the different networks and if possible the messaging systems.

Like for example yggdrasil, tor, I2P dn42 and the clearnet are interconnected. What is really cool.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-16 15:35:49+00:00
> "Most avid users," I believe I said. You seem to exclude yourself from the category, so it isn't surprising you should have a perspective other than that I seek to describe.

I was an avid user and I read your post correctly the first time. Most users did not browse both platforms. Most avid users did not browse both platforms.

> Or we could try to have a conversation about it, I suppose.

I don’t see the point when you’ve already admitted that you do not feel inclined to provide any evidence (anecdotal or otherwise) to support your claim.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-04-16 15:35:51+00:00
Tyres were just an example I plucked out of my arse, I wasn't suggesting they were important.

>They’re an environmental nightmare and very, very thin margins.

Which is an argument for consuming less tyres. It doesn't really have much to do with where you make them other than perhaps it is better to make them in a country with stronger environmental regulations.
by jerf | 2025-04-16 15:36:32+00:00
It's not a literal point, it's an observation of how far we've come. A single texture blows away 2600 and NES games in size quite handily. The emulation effort for either is a sneeze compared to what we pour into a single frame nowadays. Compared to modern stuff they're both just primitive beyond primitive as far as a modern kid is concerned.

And as for your second paragraph, it has that thing I don't understand that so many people seem to have in their brains that if you explain why a thing is true, it is no longer true. I do not understand it. Explaining why they haven't moved on does not suddenly make it so they have moved on. They haven't moved on. Best of luck to them but I doubt it's going to work very well as a strategy in 2025 any more than it did in the 1980s.
by alpha_squared | 2025-04-16 15:37:00+00:00
Sorry, but this is a very misguided take. He tried to do all the same things his first term, but enough people around him kept him in check. Now, he explicitly got "yes" folks around him and purged the career folks who'd uphold the Constitution. He's emboldened like a child who just learned they can command the world to do their bidding without restraint.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-16 15:37:33+00:00
Remember that bit about billions of dollars every quarter in free cash flow? That's after spending on things like 'recruiting' and 'building another 50MW data center' kinds of expenses. If you're a startup, recruiting costs are an annoyingly big chunk of your burn, if you're Google, not so much.

Another big thing at Google was data science, or "Using data to win arguments" as a prominent Google engineer once wrote. I would not be surprised that someone has code that assesses the cost of replacing people where they figure out "current pay package of existing engineer" - "recruiting costs" + "new pay package" and the manage the list of people who are now 'replacable' because that number has gone in favor of replacement.

I was pitched a project to work on when I was there called "find and expert" or something which was designed to identify individuals who were 'experts' and relied on by the organization. Reasonable thing right? Know who your experts are. But the folks putting this together were also associated with People Operations trying to replace people. It didn't take too much effort to connect the dots on that. Was it evil? Yes? No? Kind of? It was more like "we want a company where everyone is easily replaceable without risk to the company." That certainly plays well with the shareholders. Felt a bit like the Borg trying to integrate ones technical distinctiveness into the collective.

It has always been a career limiter of mine that I care about the people more than I care about the company.
by ar_lan | 2025-04-16 15:37:46+00:00
> It’s not superpower, because it’s not the local people who are so smart. It’s only small percentile of imported skills.

This is the entire basis of the US, excluding Native Americans. I'm first-gen American, have only ever lived here and wholly identify as an American. My story is super common here - and its not that many generations back that most Americans were European/African/Asian as a whole. So I don't exactly understand what you mean - the power did consolidate here with the mixture of many brilliant minds across the globe, and largely has remained until a recent President has decimated our reputation.
by csa | 2025-04-16 15:38:01+00:00
> When it comes down to childhood abuse, I wonder how many people would opt for an AI parent if they were able to in the future.

As someone who has done a lot of research on child and adult development, I think AI as it exists now probably has the potential to do a better job than humans at many/most parenting tasks that it can do other than showing love (and that can go down some weird paths quickly with humans or AI).

Certain life skills, executive functioning, conflict resolution, curiosity, creativity, empathy — these are all things that I think AI (with the right prompts) can do better than most human parents.

Note that I’m referring to parents writ large rather than the almost certainly above-average quality of parents with which HNers have direct or indirect experience.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-16 15:38:08+00:00
These statements are performative bullshit, and everyone who writes one knows it.

> Basically these are statements where you note that you support teaching all kids

Do you really feel today's university professors need to write an essay saying they support teaching everyone?

> will make efforts to be inclusive and ensure your class has an inclusive environment

Again, say someone is teaching calculus, what does this exactly mean?

It's absolutely makes sense to me that a university has policies in place to ensure classrooms are inclusive and that discrimination does not occur. But these statements are nonsense.
by taeric | 2025-04-16 15:38:15+00:00
Would love to see a list on both sides. It is easy to win an argument when you get to gesture at evidence without being specific.

For your question, the difference is if a government spend succeeds, it should lead to more things that the people can do. If a private company succeeds, it largely funds just the company.

And, ideally, it should be fine that both the government/nation gets benefits while rewarding successful contractors. Nothing wrong with that.

This is hilariously viewable with Musk. People love to point out how he risked so much on Tesla. Ignoring all of the capital that the government risked in the same venture.
by hcknwscommenter | 2025-04-16 15:38:25+00:00
This entire post is so wrong, it is difficult to know where to start. The first sentence about taxes is wrong. The second statement is an entirely unsupported opinion. The final statement miscategorized "cost centers" as some sort of federal investment? As for "clear path", the road US exceptionalism is paved with the gold derived from sensible investments in R&D and tech advancement. There was no clear path to paying back our investment in the federal highway system, but it did pay back indeed. There was no clear path to paying back our investments in basic physics, chemistry, and biology, but it did pay back indeed.
by mgkimsal | 2025-04-16 15:39:04+00:00
Separate note...

I don't know when "AI Pro" became bundled with the "all products pack" but I don't think it was there last year. I've been paying for it separately for a bit now, but a couple days ago I noticed 2 licenses showing up in the 'AI Assistant' tab. Was able to just cancel the monthly one, and use the one from 'all products pack'. May look to upgrade again when the Junie stuff becomes available in the other IDEs.
by gus_massa | 2025-04-16 15:39:14+00:00
Clicky video without the tracking https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7123095...

Link to the repo of the program in the notebook https://github.com/lamroger/artisan-websocket-bluedot

> applying some object detection to the beans to get the average color

Do you have a technical write up? Is the object detection method explained in the repository? I think a slightly more technical artice would get more traction here. But don't forget to include the video!
by notpushkin | 2025-04-16 15:39:55+00:00
I’m not sure it’s targeted towards those not familiar with Ruby... though yeah, at least mentioning it’s a templating engine would make it a lot easier to grasp.

(ERB is, I think, “embedded Ruby”, and it functions basically like old school PHP: you just insert pieces of Ruby code wrapped by <% .. %> or <%= .. %>: https://github.com/ruby/erb#recognized-tags)
by kraptv | 2025-04-16 15:39:59+00:00
On a slightly related note, Internet Archive archivist and notable speaker Jason Scott (@textfiles) shared to his Twitter followers Juicy the Emissary's "Attention K-Mart Choppers" - an enjoyable remix from this collection. He linked to the Medium article here: https://medium.com/micro-chop/traveling-back-in-time-with-ju...
by duped | 2025-04-16 15:40:10+00:00
> I don't want to make a little money every day, I want to make a fuckton of money all at once

- Russ Hanneman

The thing that distinguishes a startup from a small business is that the goal is growth - not being "great and stable." That said, I've worked at startups for years and I would not agree that good startups are "ego driven." They may seem that way on the outside if you take LinkedIn posts at face value or only read blog posts by people trying to hack it through publicity. They often have more understanding of the business reality of the markets they're trying to enter (or create) than anyone else, the value they add is by saying "fuck that" to a particular set of assumptions everyone else in the market might live by.

Sometimes that set of assumptions can't be discarded, but if it can and the startup is right, the backers stand to make a fuckton of money all at once.
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 15:40:19+00:00
> I don’t see the point [of trying to have a conversation] when you’ve already admitted that you do not feel inclined to provide any evidence...

I would feel badly about that if you showed any interest in adhering to the higher standard you espouse, or indeed to any standard: you're an "avid user" now, but "I saw plenty of content from Tumblr in 2014 despite not actively using it," you said upthread just a little while ago.

Unless we mean you to say you were "avid" but only on 4chan, I'm not sure how this is intended to be taken, but that doesn't actually matter because I'm speaking of what I have observed among a cohort in which you have, I repeat, affirmatively disclaimed membership, rendering your observations of your own behavior moot in this context.

It's no fun bullshitting when only one party involved realizes that's what they're doing.
by steveklabnik | 2025-04-16 15:40:27+00:00
Ah, yeah I slightly misunderstood, no worries :)

> the pub visibility qualifiers like pub(crate) seems extraneous

I feel this way too, but some people seem to use them.

> which is the choice to include stack unwinding in thread panics. It seems at odds with the systems programming principle usecase for Rust.

In what way?
by danaris | 2025-04-16 15:40:32+00:00
There seems to be a lot of hay being made over whether Trump is

- deliberately following Project 2025 to the letter, or

- completely ignorant of Project 2025 and not doing what it says

...when it seems very likely that the truth is somewhere between.

Trump himself is doing things the way he always does: in a mixture of long-standing bigotry and idiocy, his own whims, and whatever someone said to him 10 minutes ago (or he saw on Fox & Friends, or whatever).

His administration is heavily populated with people who either helped write Project 2025 or are close with those who did.

DOGE is only loosely connected with the latter, and it's DOGE that has been instrumental in wrecking federal agencies—and while that destruction largely aligns with Project 2025's goals, it's not clear to me that they're specifically following its playbook. Rather, I think they're doing things their own way with high-level guidance from the people who care about Project 2025. It's very possible that their goals could end up conflicting, depending on what Musk wants.

Edit to add: It's also true that Trump said he knew nothing about Project 2025. Whether or not this is true, he said it during the campaign, when Project 2025 had just been widely reported on as a negative thing. I don't think we can read much into Trump's campaign statements intended to publicly distance himself from something he sees as unpopular.
by lokimedes | 2025-04-16 15:41:10+00:00
Nice to see this posted here.

With the changing world order, I have been studying what happened in and after WWII to learn how science helped shift the center of power from Europe to the US. We Europeans have very little knowledge of exactly how to take the big bets that has served the US militarily and economically since then.

Here’s some of my (slightly rambling) notes from reading the Endless Frontier with this aim:

https://skaersoe.com/2025/03/19/lessons-from-vannevar-bush-o...

Currently I’m looking for like minded people to communicate the gap: https://frontier.ngo/
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-16 15:41:15+00:00
I assumed this was always the case.

I also assume any non local llm is storing data. Don't tell it anything you wouldn't tell a co worker or post publicly on Facebook.

Good: How do I download a file in Rust?

Bad: How do I minimize alimony payments in my divorce?

If you need security run Ollama locally. Regardless of what they claim "mistakes" happen.
by antirez | 2025-04-16 15:41:18+00:00
Thank you, tptacek. I was able to verify, thanks to the Internet Archive caching of "pg" for the post of 3 years ago, that the entries are quite similar in the case of "pg". Consider that it captures just the statistical patterns in very common words, so you are not likely to see users that you believe are "similar" to yourself. Notably: montrose may likely be a really be a secondary account of PG, and was also found as a cross reference in the original work of three years ago.

Also note that vector similarity is not reciprocal, one thing can have a top scoring item, but such item may have much more items nearer, like in the 2D space when you have a cluster of points and a point nearby but a bit far apart.

Unfortunately I don't think this technique works very well for actual duplicated accounts discovery because often times people post just a few comments in fake accounts. So there is not enough data, if not for the exception where one consistently uses another account to cover their identity.

EDIT: at the end of the post I added the visual representations of pg and montrose.
by peeters | 2025-04-16 15:41:27+00:00
I mean it's no less useful than a more precise, but less certain estimate. It means you either need to do some work to improve your certainty (e.g. in the case of this quiz, allow spending more than 10 minutes or allow research) or prepare for the possibility that it's 700 days.

Edit: And by the way given a large enough view, estimates like this can still be valuable, because when you add these estimates together the resulting probability distribution narrows considerably. e.g. at just 10 tasks of this size, you get a 95% CI of 245~460 per task. At 20, 225~430 per task.

Note that this is obviously reductive as there's no way an estimate of 5-700 would imply a normal distribution centred at 352.5, it would be more like a logarithmic distribution where the mean is around 10 days. And additionally, this treats each task as independent...i.e. one estimate being at the high end wouldn't mean another one would be as well.
by dcow | 2025-04-16 15:42:18+00:00
No, I’m saying I’ve seen reasonbly minded experts in a field disagree over things-generally-considered-facts. I’ve seen social impetus and context shape the understanding of where to draw the line between fact and opinion. I do not believe there is an objective answer. I fundamentally believe Anthropic’s explanation is rooted in real phenomena and not just a self serving statement to explain AI hallucination in a positive quasi-intellectual light.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-16 15:42:26+00:00
Prior to the Warner / Tramiel sale, though, Atari management showed a stunning lack of foresight re: the lifecycle of their console platforms. If I recall properly, I've heard Al Alcorn (and / or perhaps Joe Decuir) talk about how the technical people pitched VCS as a short-lived platform, but management kept the product going far beyond its intended lifetime.

The 5200 was released in 1982, built on 1979 technology. The Famicom was released in Japan in 1983 but didn't make it to the United States until 1986. If Atari had made better controller decisions with the 5200, and perhaps included 2600 compatibility, I think Nintendo would have had a much harder row to hoe when they came to the US.

Then again, if Atari had taken Nintendo's offer to distribute the NES in the US...

(Some people write speculative fiction about world wars having different outcomes. My "The Man in the High Castle" is to wonder about what the world would have been like if Jack Tramiel hadn't been forced out of Commodore, if the Amiga went to Atari, etc.)