MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by impossiblefork | 2025-04-15 20:59:22+00:00
In reality though, Harvard actually educates perfectly ordinary physicians, engineers, etc., and I assume that the vast majority of their output consists of relatively ordinary people.

What people need isn't leaders, but the capacity for decentralised self-organisation.

Their decision to make education into finding or creating leaders is, I think, a terrible mistake and socially dangerous, and in a way exclusionary. If they are truly successful and are able to notice natural leaders and bring them into their institutions that might well channel the capacity of ordinary people away from decentralised self-organisation and into a pure elite society.

You can try, but I think it'll be hellish.
by imgabe | 2025-04-15 21:00:18+00:00
How does anyone know anything? Why even vet candidates at all? Let’s just assign professorships completely randomly then. We’ll have high school dropouts who can’t explain the quadratic formula teach differential equations at Harvard.

I’m sure they would do just as good of a job. Because nobody could ever possibly objectively tell whether someone with a PhD in math is going to be better at teaching and researching math than a high school dropout, right?
by dale_glass | 2025-04-15 21:00:46+00:00
> I don't believe you are paying for Sourcehut hosting, so why do you care?

I theoretically could, and it's posted here I imagine to discuss the linked post. So I am.

> For that matter, "This has been part of our terms of service since they were originally written in 2018"

The "No AI" bit seems to show up only in late 2024. Which I'd regard as an extremely unwelcome development had I been paying.

> I don't expect hosts to be neutral to the maximum possible extent. I exercise my freedom of association to select hosts which are more aligned to my beliefs.

Likewise. In my case it's my belief is that when you pay somebody, it's to get things done your way. So for instance I'd be a lot more pleased with a setting.
by kergonath | 2025-04-15 21:00:51+00:00
They were not applied. Tomorrow, they can be 30% or 5.36%. If your only goal was depending on a fluke and a brain fart of a senile old man 10 years after Brexit was voted, then I don’t need to tell you how poorly thought out it was. If that is your measure of success, then Russia and Belarus welcome you.
by notahacker | 2025-04-15 21:00:55+00:00
Moreover they're designed to be contracts with the explicit intention of enabling trustless exchange without third party oversight, under the belief that the code can replace a legal system

unlike actual contracts, which are written with the expectation that disputes may occur and be resolved by arbitrators and a legal system (who will probably rule that a poorly drafted clause 2b doesn't in fact grant you the right to take all the other customers' money)
by fullstop | 2025-04-15 21:01:00+00:00
AT&T leaked information, as did the US Attorney's Office, when they released PDFs with redacted information. To redact, they changed the background of the text to match the color of the text. You could still copy and paste the text block to reveal the original contents.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/at-38t-leaks-sensiti...
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 21:01:22+00:00
>But if I cooy verbatim hokusai ocean waves, it's mehhhhhhhh >I'm a ripoff loser and should be punished for doing it

You are totally free to copy that painting in whatever way you want. There is literally zero intellectual property attached to it. This isn't a hypothetical, it is the law right now. Nobody can stop you painting a replica and selling it, as long as you disclose that it is a replica. It is in the public domain and there will be no punishment.
by tcholewik | 2025-04-15 21:01:43+00:00
10 microns is about the size of cells that make up wood shaving. And those traditional hand planners used in this competition existed for couple thousand years now with very few changes(most recent on being the chip breaker brought to japan about 200 years ago). I might be repeating stuff for the article but I read this one long ago so no longer sure if it includes this. Lol
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-15 21:01:49+00:00
I was laid off from a startup last year and sent out 187 applications over two months. Zero interviews. It was demoralizing until I changed how I approached job hunting. I started sharing small projects, coding tips, and lessons on LinkedIn and GitHub, and people started reaching out. Then I started talking to old coworkers, joined tech groups, and helped with open source. Most interviews came from these chats, not job boards. I moved from being just another resume to being a known and helpful human, even if only to 5–10 people. That was enough.

The system may be broken, but you can still stand out by being real, relevant, and visible. It worked for me; I hope it helps someone else, too.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-04-15 21:01:56+00:00
illusion of choice is extremely effective on c-suite as well. I recommend it for engineers trying to push changes up corporate ladders. Give them three options, the one nobody should ever do, the compromise solution, and the "whale" option. Just like product pricing.

For very young toddlers distraction is also extremely effective but it stops working at some point. Not sure about how effective it is on c-suite someone will have to do some testing.
by vorpalhex | 2025-04-15 21:02:26+00:00
This is factually correct but potentially misleading. It does not require a criminal act nor a criminal trial to deport someone.

If you take a public stance - on social media, on recorded speeches in public, whatever - that supports an FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization), you can be deported. This includes Hamas (but it has to be Hamas, not Palestine. "Free Palestine" - fine. Posting martyrdom photos of terrorists, calling for the killing of Jews or the destruction of Israel, giving out Hamas propaganda, etc - not fine.)

Prior to citizenship, you can't be imprisoned for your speech but you can be denied citizenship or a visa for it. That may mean - as is often the case - you may be facing a prison sentence in your home country. If you say, rape a 14 year old, flee to the US and declare asylum, and then get deported because you were still actively involved with an FTO or engaged in other crimes, then you get to go back home and to the prison sentence you were originally going to face before fleeing.
by punna1s | 2025-04-15 21:02:49+00:00
I built a multi-agent AI system that optimizes resumes for applicant tracking systems (ATS) using specialized agents for document analysis, job description parsing, and content enhancement.

Unlike existing tools that just match keywords, our system: - Uses contextual understanding to recognize semantic meaning in experiences - Maintains the user's authentic voice while optimizing - Provides industry-specific optimizations for different career fields - Shows before/after comparisons with visual transformation mapping

Demo available at: https://resume-agent-xuci.onrender.com ,just upload a resume and job description to see it in action.

Tech stack: React frontend, Python backend with specialized NLP models for each agent. The system achieves an 82% improvement in interview rates based on our beta testing.

I'd appreciate feedback on the agent architecture, UI, and optimization effectiveness. This is an early-stage project, and I'm especially interested in hearing from recruiters and hiring managers.
by Hizonner | 2025-04-15 21:03:00+00:00
> Non-citizens may or may not actually legally merit due process

Even the current Trump-enabling Supreme Court just affirmed that they get due process. They restricted the judicial vehicle for that to habeas corpus, which sucks because the person being grabbed has to actively request it... but they were clear that there had to be actual, meaningful access to habeas.

At an absolute minimum, the claim that somebody's a non-citizen to begin with is something that has to be proven at a habeas hearing.

... and permanent residents, at least, are statutorily entitled to have the government show cause before removing them. It can be pretty shitty half-assed cause. And it can be shown in a shitty half-assed administrative immigration "court". But it has to be shown. And if it's not shown properly, that can be appealed to a real court.
by weakplayer9 | 2025-04-15 21:03:06+00:00
Hi HN, I'm an engineering graduate and I’ve built a tool called iTensor – a browser-based calculator for general relativity that computes things like Christoffel symbols, Ricci and Einstein tensors from user-defined metrics.

It was originally my thesis project and I've continued developing it solo. It now has its own documentation site (docs) and an early backend for heavier symbolic/numerical computation, but I haven't been able to host it due to financial constraints.

If you find this kind of tool interesting or valuable, I’ve added a Ko-fi link to the docs site for support. I’d also love feedback on performance ideas, hosting tips, or collaboration. Thanks!
by bob1029 | 2025-04-15 21:03:13+00:00
I've been able to get managed code to BSOD my machine by simply having a lot of thread instances that are aggressively communicating with each other (i.e., via Channel<T>). It's probably more of a hardware thing than a software thing. My Spotify fails to keep the audio buffer filled when I've got it fully saturated. I feel like the kernel occasionally panics when something doesn't resolve fast enough with regard to threads across core complexes.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-04-15 21:03:21+00:00
So it sort of looks like a DSL for a variant of ThreadLocal that gives you an idea of the lifeline of variable instead of just being global. Apparently with virtual threads they are expecting an increase in the number of running (virtual) threads several orders of magnitude larger than what was previously seen and that with ThreadLocals would just be too much.

So the have added this:

> ScopedVaule.where(CONTEXT, context).run(() -> Application.handle(request, response));

Which stores the object referenced by `context` to the ScopedValue container `CONTEXT` ^ for the duration of the thread running `Application.handle(request,response)`.

Not really sexy, but I understand how you might really benefit if you are processing lots of data, but for most enterprise CRUD apps this seems inapplicable.

^ I think this a "monad"? I'm not a functional programmer.
by hyperpape | 2025-04-15 21:03:44+00:00
> suspending threads in your own process is kind of necessary for e.g. many GC algorithms

I think this is typically done by having the compiler/runtime insert safepoints, which cooperatively yield at specified points to allow the GC to run without mutator threads being active. Done correctly, this shouldn't be subject to the problem the original post highlighted, because it doesn't rely on the OS's ability to suspend threads when they aren't expecting it.
by Alupis | 2025-04-15 21:03:47+00:00
I still don't understand your point.

Some people, who happen to be employed at a FAANG corp, have recently decided to protect their smart device during a border crossing, and this is cause for alarm?

What exactly is on their smart device they are afraid CBP might be interested in? Why did they not protect their device before? Why now? Are there occurrences of FAANG employees having their devices taken during border crossings? For what purpose?

Unless you have something definitive, this sounds like some alarmist individuals deciding to take their own personal security to the level that was already recommended of them.
by jasonhong | 2025-04-15 21:04:59+00:00
First, it's highly unclear a priori which scientific discoveries will pay off. The discoverer of Green Fluorescent Protein was denied funding, with others eventually winning the Nobel Prize for it. Same for mRNA vaccines, most recently featured in COVID-19 vaccine, which also recently won a Nobel Prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3

Second, while there are always improvements to be made, the system as is (or was) worked pretty well in practice without knowing what the expected ROI was. The PageRank algorithm which led to Google was funded in part by an NSF grant on Digital Libraries. The ROI on that single invention just from taxes, jobs, and increased productivity likely exceeds NSF's annual budget. DataBricks and Duolingo are also based in part on NSF research.

Yeah, the system is imperfect, as all human-oriented systems are, but for the most part it works pretty well in practice and has been a linchpin in the US economic growth and national security.
by Loughla | 2025-04-15 21:05:22+00:00
There was a time that if you weren't on 4chan, you missed everything good. I remember staying awake for 20 hours tracking one thread. If you left it was gone forever and you genuinely missed out. 2004-5 area.

That being said, I haven't been back since 2014? It was always pretty heavily influenced by b and pol, but it got really bad the two years before Trump 1. Alt right bullshit took over completely.

It astounds me that people think 4 Chan is a place for deviants, but Twitter is fine. Twitter is 10,000x worse.
by tanjtanjtanj | 2025-04-15 21:05:24+00:00
If Photos is recent then Google search was recent when Photos was released!

It’s a decade old and that’s only if we don’t count what it was before it was spun into its own product, google’s more recent integrations spun as “releases” non withstanding.

YouTube INCREASING creator support? That’s news to me and every other YouTube creator. Creator support peaked around the time Photos released, nearly a decade ago and has only gotten worse since (although if we were to graph it, it would certainly have peaks and valleys).
by o11c | 2025-04-15 21:05:30+00:00
There are up to 7 components in a triple, but not all are used at once, the general format is:

<machine>-<vendor>-<kernel>-<libc?><abi?><fabi?>

But there's also <obj>, see below.

Note that there are both canonical and non-canonical triples in use. Canonical triples are output by `config.guess` or `config.sub`; non-canonical triples are input to `config.sub` and used as prefixes for commands.

The <machine> field (1st) is what you're running on, and on some systems it includes a version number of sorts. Most 64-bit vs 32-bit differences go here, except if the runtime differs from what is natural (commonly "32-bit pointers even though the CPU is in 64-bit mode"), which goes in <abi> instead. Historically, "arm" and "mips" have been a mess here, but that has largely been fixed, in large part as a side-effect of Debian multiarch (whose triples only have to differ from GNU triples in that they canonicalize i[34567]86 to i386, but you should use dpkg-architecture to do the conversion for sanity).

The <vendor> field (2nd) is not very useful these days. It defaults to "unknown" but as of a few years ago "pc" is used instead on x86 (this means that the canonical triple can change, but this hasn't been catastrophic since you should almost always use the non-canonical triple except when pattern-matching, and when pattern-matching you should usually ignore this field anyway).

The <kernel> field (3rd) is pretty obvious when it's called that, but it's often called <os> instead since "linux" is an oddity for regularly having a <libc> component that differs. On many systems it includes version data (again, Linux is the oddity for having a stable syscall API/ABI). One notable exception: if a GNU userland is used on BSD/Solaris system, a "k" is prepended. "none" is often used for freestanding/embedded compilation, but see <obj>.

The <libc> field (main part of the 4th) is usually absent on non-Linux systems, but mandatory for "linux". If it is absent, the dash after the kernel is usually removed, except if there are ABI components. Note that "gnu" can be both a kernel (Hurd) and a libc (glibc). Android uses "android" here, so maybe <libc> is a bit of a misnomer (it's not "bionic") - maybe <userland>?

<abi>, if present, means you aren't doing the historical default for the platform specified by the main fields. Other than "eabi" for ARM, most of this is for "use 32-bit pointers but 64-bit registers".

<fabi> can be "hf" for 32-bit ARM systems that actually support floats in hardware. I don't think I've seen anything else, though I admit the main reason I separately document this from <abi> is because of how Debian's architecture puts it elsewhere.

<obj> is the object file format, usually "aout", "coff", or "elf". It can be appended to the kernel field (but before the kernel version number), or replace it if "none", or it can go in the <abi> field.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-04-15 21:05:55+00:00
Sorry if you're already aware, but in case not: The weird huge gap around the edge of cubical doors in pubic toilets is specific to the US. (For those that don't know, it's literally 1 or 2 cm.) In Europe you just get a toilet door that shuts properly and there's no slit to reconstruct.

I remember my first visit to a toilet in the plush US office of a finance company and thinking WTF are they doing with their toilet cubicle? I only found out later that it's common there.
by const_cast | 2025-04-15 21:06:07+00:00
America's empire isn't really built on blantant colonialism (although we do that, too). It's built on "planting" US favorable governments all around the world.

I mean, we have half of Africa shooting themselves in the foot over and over for our own benefit. And every time it looks like an African nation is going to do something about it, some counter-military force appears out of nowhere (with US arms?) and some important political heads are assassinated.

This isn't a conspiracy theory, either. The destabilization of world governments done by our government to our benefit is well recorded.
by Shog9 | 2025-04-15 21:06:25+00:00
Which is possibly the bigger deal. Every time I shop at a specialty provider I end up frustrated by their lack of clarity around shipping costs - many will actually force you to go through the entire order process before giving you a shipping estimate, complete with collecting contact information.

Makes it very tedious to price-shop.

I will actually go out of my way to search for some suppliers on Amazon, eBay, Walmart, even Tictok before dealing with buying directly, just so I can rule them out if they're gonna pull a "$10 + $60 s&h" trick.

And... Again, this isn't new; pretty sure Ronco was doing this on TV before the Web.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-04-15 21:06:29+00:00
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

idk if there's much I can do here. Carole is a respected scientist. So is Steven. Carole is a fellow of this institute as a result of having to find new patrons because of her cancellation, not the other way around. Your understanding of the situation re sex and gender is completely incorrect.
by jeffbee | 2025-04-15 21:06:31+00:00
See, you're a very poorly-informed person. Dean Preston's SF manse and his two gigantic North Bay estates are owned by the Goosby Family Trust, his wife's legacy real estate empire. The avowed purpose of Goosby Family LLC is "REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT" you can look it up yourself on the Sec. State's website.

Class solidarity with a guy who moved directly from undergraduate school to living in a $3 million Nob Hill apartment is, as the online socialists love to say in that incredibly irritating way, "a bad look".

Edited to add: I will be disengaging from this thread because it's so bizarre that I, advancing a Marxist materialist analysis, am being accused of aligning with fascists, while you, licking the boots of a millionaire who owns a REIT, cast yourself as a socialist. I will actually lose my mind.
by bananalychee | 2025-04-15 21:07:02+00:00
The pompous tone of your comment exemplifies what actually makes most social media platforms awful, which is how people act on them. Inconsistent moderation is everywhere, and most people getting banned from X absolutely deserve it. If you posted something like this on 4chan, people would quickly tell you to get off your high horse (in more vulgar terms). The nice thing about an anonymous message board is that without a name or upvote count attached to your name, you don't get positive reinforcement for putting on a show of moral superiority, and struggle sessions via petty call-outs or pile-ons are not a thing beyond the lifetime of a thread. And on the other side of the same coin, people are not afraid of damaging their reputation by being uncouth, which helps not take anything too seriously, and enables direct feedback instead of passive-aggressive behavior.
by vaxman | 2025-04-15 21:07:15+00:00
They didn't use StarLink?! ROFLMAO

I hope he doesn't think Trump is his boy and will keep DOJ off his back. The problem is that the institutional funds and market makers will not support this level of Watergate/Enron/WorldCom-like risk and Trump isn't going to become entangled in that (since it means the corporate death penalty as far as public equity and access to bank capital is concerned).

BUT the Report is from a super controversial NGO that has long been targeted by Republicans and may soon be DOGEd, so it could be filled with speculation, half-truths, innuendo and lies.

Still...They didn't use StarLink?! I mean, is that not the greatest evidence you could ever hope for of an obvious NSA backdoor in StarLink? They were willing to risk obscure premises-based (bandwidth) monitoring over holding a mini-dish out the window for a few seconds..Too much! I feel like I owe someone $20 for a ticket.
by arrosenberg | 2025-04-15 21:07:22+00:00
> But can they raise taxes?

Sure, but the math doesn't work out. Vermont and California have both tried in various forms.

> EU also has freedom of movement, blah blah blah

They also coordinated the laws between the member countries. That's exactly what the federal government would need to do in this case, very good! The EU system doesn't work particularly well either, because it's loosely confederated. The US government has far more ability to coordinate the States.
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-15 21:08:01+00:00
I think it's a pretty immature and childish thing to get upset at the attendant in any case. Unacceptable behavior from adults, honestly.

They're doing their job same as I would in their place. Nothing either of us can do, and they really have no involvement in the first place. Blaming the attendant is what you'd do if you weren't emotionally mature enough to accept your own mistakes.
by bluGill | 2025-04-15 21:08:27+00:00
Vietnam is making moves in directions I want to encourage. Only God knows the future and he isn't talking. (there are some who will disagree with various parts of that statement, but they have offered no evidence that they get useful information on the future.

Vietnam has been at war with China in the recent past. Today China is claiming seas that the US and internal law both call Vietnam's territorial waters - though currently they are not at war. Thus even if Vietnam doesn't move in a good direction, just keeping them where they are (as opposed to supporting China) is useful if only because all indications today are China will start a war in the future. (again nobody knows if they will, but they are preparing as if they will)

Nothing prevents anyone from making moves 20 years from now that are bad. All we can do today is encourage those who seem to be moving for the better. We have no clue how things will turn out. Even when we make what in hindsight now looks like a bad decision, we have no idea how it would have been if we had done something different.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-04-15 21:08:51+00:00
Anyone had good luck using llms in a more advanced context?

I’ve tried simple things such as ‘explain general number field sieve giving simple numerical examples’ and had spectacular failures. The numerical examples give a few superficial runs of the sieve with a small number and then ‘well that didn’t work but imagine if it did…’. As in it can’t give functional numerical examples of well established theory. You can come up with examples yourself in 5mins of work. I can’t imagine it being at all useful in an even more advanced context.