MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaron695 | 2025-05-02 03:11:52+00:00
I think what might work is people coming together around this LLM like a God.

Similar to Rod of Iron Ministries (The Church of the AR-15) Taking what is says, fine tuning it, testing it, feeding back in and mostly waiting as LLMs improve.

LLMs will never be smarter than humans, but they can be a meeting place where people congregate to work on goals and worship.

Like QAnon, that's where the collective IQ and power comes from, something to believe in. At the micro level this is also mostly how LLMs are used in practical ways.

If you look to the Middle East there is a lot of work on rockets but a limited community working together.
by theamk | 2025-05-02 03:12:05+00:00
If that describes you, I advice you to look at other jobs ASAP.

I've seen what you describe in Amazon - high pressure, constant thread of being fired, stress, no work/life balance, etc...

Many other jobs are different. Sure, things are inefficient, but the expectations are not very high either. You come in, do your 7 hours of work (or don't even come in if you are remote), and go home. It's pretty hard to get fired, so as long as you are putting a nominal effort, you'd be fine.

Some people are trying to get a promotion, or are just full of energy - they may work very hard, skip work/life balance and stress out. But it's all optional, if you are happy with your initial salary, you don't have to do it.

(The major annoyance with this is if you are trying to actually get things done, like ship a product, there are just _so many_ people around who seem to work very slowly, and that cannot be relied on to deliver things in time... but this is all in your head, you only stress out about this if you choose to)
by brookst | 2025-05-02 03:12:45+00:00
Not GP, but to me it is also disappointing because it’s just the old “if seatbelts don’t prevent car accidents, why wear them?” argument.

On the one hand you have systems where anyone at any company in the value chain can inspect your data ad hoc , with no auditing or notification.

On the other hand, you have systems that prevent casual security / privacy violations but could still be subverted by a state actor or the company that has the root of trust.

Neither is perfect. But it’s cynical and nihilistic to profess to see no difference.

Risk reduction should be celebrated. Those who see no value in it come across as zealots.
by Enginerrrd | 2025-05-02 03:12:49+00:00
I've always thought there should be a way to use the browser like a condom. It should obfuscate all the things that make a user uniquely identifiable. Mouse movement/clicks/typing cadence should be randomized and sanitized a bit. And no website should have any authority whatsoever to identify your extensions or other tabs, or even whether or not your tab is open. And it certainly shouldn't allow a website to overrule your right click functionality, or zoom, or other accessibility features.
by steveklabnik | 2025-05-02 03:13:48+00:00
1. I don't work on that side of things, but yeah, that's my understanding. We did discuss if we were going to try and do the flat scheme, but I believe we made the decision to be more traditional before we ended up putting up the job descriptions.

2. I can't answer that, as I don't work on that, but maybe someone else will read the thread and chime in. Sorry about that!
by rubyn00bie | 2025-05-02 03:14:19+00:00
Really good sales people know the literal dollar value of their work. They often times have large networks, existing relationships, and know how to use them to make money. Every really good sales person I’ve ever known gives literally no shits about what anyone tells them because they’re closing. They know it’s their relationships more than anything pulling in the cash. When you’re closing deals for millions upon millions of dollars, if you aren’t getting paid enough there’s a competitor out there willing to do so to buy your relationships.

If engineers knew the literal dollar value they provided they, and could prove it, we’d likely be more motivated by money as well.

Addendum/Edit: I still think the best job ever is selling commercial aircraft. Close a deal on a fleet of 747s? You’d probably make a lot of CEOs blush with that pay day.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 03:15:04+00:00
Nothing too fancy. I'm not going to dox myself, I like to (pretend to) keep this account anonymous so I'm not going to drop my dotfiles (though I am pretty proud of them). But I don't do anything too fancy. vim, neomutt, spotify-player, yazi, and tdf for pdfs (not still mixed about this one). I'll also maybe play around with a few for random tools but I usually don't use more than these.

Day to day I'm listening to music, reading emails, internet, and writing programs with vim (half my time I'm ssh'd into other machines anyways. I do ML research). So I got pretty much everything covered except Slack and Signal
by bbkane | 2025-05-02 03:15:25+00:00
Look into https://logdy.dev . I've played around with it a little bit, but really putting some work into learning it and integrating it with OTEL traces is my next side project.

Another alternative is https://openobserve.ai/ . It needs to run as a daemon to ingest logs (instead of opening a file), but it has a really nice UI.
by brookst | 2025-05-02 03:16:21+00:00
We’re into “can’t prove a negative” territory here. Yes, the scheme is explained in detail, yes it conforms to cryptographic norms, yes real people work on it and some of us know some of them..

..but how can FB prove it isn’t all a smokescreen, and requests are printed out and faxed to evil people? They can’t, of course, and some people like to demand proof of the negative as a way of implying wrongdoing in a “just asking questions” manner.
by akomtu | 2025-05-02 03:17:00+00:00
Imagine a fake engineer who read books about engineering as scifi, and thanks to his superhuman memory, he's mastered the engineer-speak so well that he sounds more engineery than top engineers in the world. Except that he has no clue about engineering and to him it's the same as literature or prose. Now he's tasked with designing a bridge. He pauses for a second and starts speaking, in his usual polished style: "sure, let me design a bridge for you." And while he's talking, he's starring at you with his perfect blank face expression, for his mind is blank as well.

Think of the absurdity of trying to understand the Pi number by looking at its first billion digits and trying to predict the next digit. And think of what it takes to advance from memorizing digits of such numbers and predicting continuation with astrology-style logic to understanding the math behind the digits of Pi.
by meander_water | 2025-05-02 03:17:03+00:00
I think the pain points will be mostly for enterprise customers who want to integrate servers into their auth systems.

For example, say you have a JIRA self hosted instance with SSO to entra id. You can't just install an MCP server off the shelf because authZ and resources are tightly coupled and implementation specific. It would be much easier if the server only handled providing resources, and authZ was offloaded to a provider of your choosing.
by naikrovek | 2025-05-02 03:17:30+00:00
That is probably the correct measure. If “The Promise of Computing” is ever to come true, people must never wait on computers when interacting with them.

Waiting is ok when it comes to sending batches of data to be transformed or rendered or processed or whatever. I’m talking about synchronous stuff; when I push a key on my keyboard the computer should be done with what I told it to do before I finish pushing the button all the way down. Anything less is me waiting on the computer and that slows the user down.

Businesses should be foaming at the mouth about performance; every second spent by a user waiting on a computer to do work locally, multiplied by the number of users who wait, multiplied by the number of times this happens per day, multiplied by the number of work days in a year… it’s not a small amount of money lost. Every more efficient piece of code means lighter devices are needed by users. Lambda is billed by CPU and RAM usage, and inefficient code there directly translates into higher bills. But everyone still writes code which stores a Boolean value as a 32-bit integer, and where all numbers are always 8-bytes wide.

What. The. Fuck.

People already go on smoke breaks and long lunches and come in late and leave early; do we want them waiting on their computers all of the time, too? Apparently so, because I’ve never once heard anyone complain to a vendor that their software is so slow that it’s costing money, but almost all of those vendor products are that slow.

I’m old enough that I’m almost completely sick of the industry I once loved.

Software developers used to be people who really wanted to write software, and wanted to write it well. Now, it’s just a stepping stone on the way to a few VP positions at a dozen failed startups and thousands of needlessly optimistic posts on LinkedIn. There’s almost no craft here anymore. Businessmen have taken everything good about this career and flushed it down the toilet and turned teams into very unhappy machines. And if you don’t pretend you’re happy, you’re “not a good fit” anymore and you’re fired. All because you want to do your job well and it’s been made too difficult to reliably do anything well.
by g-b-r | 2025-05-02 03:18:28+00:00
I don't recall a browser that didn't let you disable third-party cookies; given how long ago cookies were introduced, I could have forgotten about it, but I'm at least sure that Mozilla always supported it.

Firefox, especially in the first versions, permitted much less control on cookies than Mozilla did, but I think it still always allowed disabling third party cookies.
by leshenka | 2025-05-02 03:18:50+00:00
Lots of documents have to be styled in a very particular way. These rules aren’t laws of physics, they’re made by humans to make other people’s lives more miserable than it’s necessary

Absolute most of the time what is offered by markdown is enough.

When doing my thesis I was asking myself “is it really that important to use 16pt font or 14pt one or this is a made up rule because someone said so many years ago”
by alxjrvs | 2025-05-02 03:19:01+00:00
> Right now if I step out into the street, I can flag a taxi, I can buy a coffee. In each case these are direct peer to peer transactions, where the price is agreed between us based on what we both want out of the exchange

I agree that we can do this. I do not agree that this is, strictly speaking, capitalism.

Capitalism =/= the exchange of goods, services, and capital.

Capitalism is the system that says the people who own the property constituting the critical infrastructure of an organization - the "Means of Production" - should get to make all the rules. That's it.

If I own a big beef machine that turns cows into hamburgers, it doesn't matter that I need 50 people to run it and 200 people to box and ship and sell the patties, the fact that I am the person who had enough money to buy the big beef machine means that my word is law, period. If I don't like the way they touch my big beef machine, they go away. If they don't like how unsafe the big beef machine is, too bad. Doesn't matter how much I sell the patties for - I decide how much I pay you, and I keep the rest (not exactly peer-to-peer). I own the big beef machine, so my say goes.

I agree with you that trade will exist until the end of time, and has existed since the first time Ook had something that Grog wanted and Grog decided it was too much energy to kill Ook over it.

When I say I am "Anti-capitalist", I mean (among other things) that I do not believe Capitalism specifically is the best (most productive, least ethically repulsive) means by which to engage in trade.

None of these opinions relate to trade or even the concept of capital itself, but rather the means by which we organize it.

To the original quote: It is hard to imagine the end of capitalism, because people believe capitalism is a natural facet of human nature. It is not; it is a big beef machine.
by jaggederest | 2025-05-02 03:20:24+00:00
I can't speak for the poster above, but someone over the years explained the rise of nationalist movements as largely being based on creating a sense of self worth in people who feel marginalized. It's an emotional reaction to troubling times that puts reassurance ahead of rational behavior, as explicitly rejected in many anti-enlightenment writers.

So, being charitable with the OP, I can see how you might say that conservatives in the US believe that the US's declining status in manufacturing created a world in which "a hard working guy can't get ahead any more because everything is made in China", and thus a perception that in order to create equity and dignity we have to return to internal self reliance, ala juche or autarky.
by svieira | 2025-05-02 03:20:32+00:00
As nwalters also points out, this isn't the same at all. System A and System A' both from Source Α are not the same as System A (Source Α) and System B (Source Β).

Which you know, because you say "you can also use CORS to interact with a truly third party site". But now, I invite you to go the rest of the way - what if the third party site isn't Project Gutenburg but `goodreads.com/my-reading-lists`? That is, what if the information that you want to pull into System A from System B should only be available to you and not to anyone on the net?
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-02 03:20:45+00:00
> Today, in 2025, a full decade after 4K became standard, the way various DE/WMs handle scaling is embarrassing.

Generally, I agree, but Qt (KDE) is the standout to me, primarily because it is "commercial first, and open source second" in my mind. Do you have HiDPI scaling issues with Qt apps?
by repiret | 2025-05-02 03:21:05+00:00
> Unfortunately no one bothers to install the 6-15/6-20 plugs

Almost no one, but I had a 6-15R put in my kitchen. Then I imported a 3kW tea kettle from the UK, lopped off the plug, and put on a 6-15P. And now my wife doesn’t have to wait very long for her hot water.
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by amrocha | 2025-05-02 03:22:46+00:00
You’re living in theoretical fantasy land.

Yeah, it’d be great if everything was open source and everyone was happy.

But that’s not really what happens. Redis and Elastic are popular exactly because there’s entire companies behind it constantly maintaining it, securing it, and adding features.

If you want use open source software at your job that’s a hard requirement. No, you can’t use “MySillyKeyValueCache” that Timmy develops in his free time with no security or compatibility concerns.

Companies cost money to run. Google and AWS exploit open source work for profit, and don’t contribute back enough to ensure its support. This is what you should be really mad about. The internet giants are literally killing open source.

If they have their way you’ll be stuck with their proprietary software. In practice AWS is already there.
by brookst | 2025-05-02 03:23:05+00:00
Not GP, but I think I see what they mean.

Trump and his base are very focused on “respect”; remember all the lies about Obama’s “apology tour” (or was that Biden? Or both?)

All the bluster, all the talk of “America being respected again”, which anyone who travels internationally knows is 100% the opposite of reality, all the classic strongman politics. The creepy looming over Hilary in the debate.

All of it is a wildly misplaced sense of machismo, like being a dangerous asshole someone commands respect.

Which is ultimately what that crowd wants; they want to behave badly and still be respected.

My take, anyway.
by singlepaynews | 2025-05-02 03:23:42+00:00
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Heavy preference for in-office roles in Seattle. In my experience the 10-minute call is still king for mutual evaluation, so here's my Calendly: https://calendly.com/dougla/conversation
by creer | 2025-05-02 03:24:05+00:00
One big difference in favor of the software is your "after you've confirmed there is no one in the left/right adjacent lane or close enough behind you." The car has been looking in every direction the whole ride. The car already knows what there is to know about all the neighbours. A huge advantage over the human driver.

I feel also that the car having a far better experience of its kinematics / dynamics / features is also a huge advantage - see the good old drifting parallel parking videos.

After that there is the concern about computing reaction time. Can it get stuck hesitating? Clearly the cars hesitate a lot in generally safe places. But we have seen some videos already of a Waymo very smoothly dodging someone running out from in between cars (they were already tracked), and someone mentioned a scooter incident. Hopefully we'll see more videos of emergency responses.

Another comment mentions "r/waymo or r/selfdrivingcars for lots of videos of Waymos avoiding objects."
by whimsicalism | 2025-05-02 03:24:59+00:00
> 404 Media found numerous U.S. government contracts that mention TeleMessage specifically. One for around $90,000 from December 2024 says “Telemessage (a Smarsh Co.) Licenses for Text Message Archiving, & WhatsApp and Signal Licenses.”

A blatant AGPL violation, no? Were they using Signal in the Biden admin or do these contracts get setup in prep for the new team?
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by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-05-02 03:26:39+00:00
I don't really understand this article. The authors don't seem interested in the details of either capitalism or standards development organizations. Just because they're nonprofit doesn't mean they're outside of the market economy! (ANSI must have forgotten about their purported commitment to "information sharing for free or nearly free" when they started charging $2500 for the complete 2023 SQL standard.)
by somenameforme | 2025-05-02 03:28:01+00:00
sorcerer-mar: "read more closely. Nowhere does Loper Bright say there was any conflict with the Constitution."

Loper Bright: "Chevron deference also violates our Constitution’s separation of powers."

sorcerer-mar: "This is proof of my point."

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NPC logic in its purest form.
by chongli | 2025-05-02 03:28:20+00:00
It’s an interesting question: is it possible for JavaScript to be turing complete, able to read/write the DOM, and somehow prevent fingerprinting / tracking?

Yes, of course: restrict its network access. If JS can't phone home, it can't track you. This obviously lets you continue to write apps that play in a DOM sandbox (such as games) without network access.

You could also have an API whereby users can allow the JS application to connect to a server of the user's choosing. If that API works similarly to an open/save dialog (controlled entirely by the browser) then the app developer has no control over which servers the user connects to, thus cannot track the user unless they deliberately choose to connect to the developer's server.

This is of course how desktop apps worked back in the day. An FTP client couldn't track you. You could connect to whatever FTP server you wanted to. Only the server you chose to connect to has any ability to log your activity.
by cryptonector | 2025-05-02 03:28:28+00:00
For a startup Oxide's compensation model is fine. Eventually it won't be, and that's fine too. Eventually Oxide will get past the early startup phase and mature as a business, and then it will need a much more traditional compensation model in order to acquire and retain talent because new-hires then will not have gotten on at the ground floor. Compensation is a business tool.
by us-merul | 2025-05-02 03:29:26+00:00
I think this is an exciting opportunity at the intersection of bioinformatics, data science, and data engineering. I emailed my application, with the beginning of the last name matching the last 5 letters of this username. I'm wondering if your platform for omics analysis, which is species-specific [0], could also identify commonalities across species, like with the recently released TranscriptFormer [1]? Also, I think your platform is really useful for understanding the "native language of biology", which I think is covered well in an article I came across recently as well [2].

[0] https://epistemic.ai/platform.html [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650731v1 [2] https://decodingbiology.substack.com/p/machine-learning-the-...
by pjmlp | 2025-05-02 03:33:33+00:00
Not really, however like those factory workers in modern factories, what is left on future software factories other than supervision and maintenance of robots?

Only a few selected ones will get to work on the robots themselves.

This is already here in some fashion, many consulting projects nowadays are plugging SaaS products, with a couple of tiny microservices if not done via some integration tooling as well.

Tooling that is now getting AI flavoured so that the integrations can eventually be done automatically as well.
by hedora | 2025-05-02 03:34:39+00:00
Yeah, but what if the company has 36,500 age based discount tiers (or has heard of binary search)?

I don’t see how revealing the result of a less than comparison can be considered zero knowledge, but then I also don’t understand the difference between Google exchanging actionable confidential facts about you for money and them selling your personal information, so what do I know?