MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NewsaHackO | 2025-05-01 20:30:52+00:00
A lot of people are very entitled. They think that an open-source project gives the right to make request/demand of the project. Even if they are willing to write the contribution themselves, they still think they have the right to have their pull request accepted. They forget that 1) it may be outside the scope of the project, and 2) the project owners are going to be the ones that have to actually maintain the code they commit. Crazy stuff.
by robomex | 2025-05-01 20:31:10+00:00
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by llm_nerd | 2025-05-01 20:31:17+00:00
>Has Damore ever contributed anything to the industry?

It seems you've contrived a strawman that unless you know what they've done specifically in open source, they don't matter. I assure you that almost no one agrees with you.

This and the other post of yours about Damore are super weird, and you seem incredibly bitter about the guy. Weird stuff.

Damore's appearance in this piece is bizarre. He was an SWE at Google that made speculations about diversity targets, not realizing, courtesy of being the spectrum, that it was a massive taboo. For this guy to lump him in with Andreeson and Zuckerberg in his bizarre ageism screed is absolutely bizarre, and makes it seem like it was some LLM generation or something.
by topherPedersen | 2025-05-01 20:31:48+00:00
I saw a Waymo stop at a crosswalk last night in the dark where there was a person standing there waiting to cross that I don't think I would have seen. The person was not standing out in the road, they were standing there patiently waiting to make sure the car actually stopped since it was dark. I was really impressed! I don't think I'm a reckless or impatient driver, but I think the Waymo's are probably better at driving than I am. I know I prefer the Waymos to the human drivers I typically see on the road.
by riskable | 2025-05-01 20:32:08+00:00
Fast forward ten years from NOW:

* Windows itself takes 10 minutes to boot because it's preloading a hundred Office libraries/extensions like Mac OS 7.

* Microsoft Office apps have returned to being incredibly slow to open—because they decided that the added speed of preloading just gave them more leeway to add bloat.

* Microsoft has acquired several AI startups that use different models and provide several high-RAM, GPU-hogging apps. To work around the slowness they have worked with hardware vendors to include multiple GPUs on each actual GPU card. They don't communicate directly with each other though... That feature is only enabled for the "Enterprise" series of GPUs that cost $50,000 each.

* Microsoft Office now automatically use AI prediction for everything. Including the data (not just the formulas) in your Excel spreadsheets. But it gets it wrong so often that people wish they could turn that feature off. They can't, though, because they didn't pay for the "Enterprise" version of Windows or Office (have to have both in order to truly disable the AI).

* AI is now actively watching all inbound and outbound traffic on every PC, increasing base latency a hundredfold. Microsoft claims this allows them to catch viruses, scammers, and bad state actors faster.
by michaelt | 2025-05-01 20:32:16+00:00
> One of the more incredible (and disturbingly frequent) objections I have heard is: "But is that what you’ll pay support folks?" I continue to find this question offensive, but I no longer find it surprising: the specific dismissal of support roles reveals a widespread and corrosive devaluation of those closest to customers.

The easy way to "pay everyone the same amount" when you sorta don't want to is to outsource everything you don't want to pay the same amount for.

Don't want to pay $200k to your receptionists and cleaners? Rent a serviced office and you get their services without them appearing on your payroll.
by dimgl | 2025-05-01 20:32:46+00:00
I love these kinds of comments. It reminds me of the Reddit threads of people complaining about bugs on Cyberpunk 2077's release, only for people to reply with "I played the game, I didn't run into any bugs! What bugs are you talking about?" Meanwhile a quick Google/YouTube search reveals entire montages devoted purely to bugs.

Here are Windows Forum threads talking about each of the problems I've mentioned, with thousands of people saying "I have the same question":

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/snippi...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/unwanted-...
Show HN: Indilingo – Learn Indian Languages with AI
by Jaygala223 | 2025-05-01 20:33:48+00:00
Indilingo is an AI powered language learning app built for learning Indian languages like Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, etc.

We launched Indilingo on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/indilingo) and Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.indilingo) today and we'd for you to try it out and give us feedback.

Thank you
by boulos | 2025-05-01 20:35:10+00:00
As others have said, the sales compensation model is fundamentally a low base and then a percentage of the sale. I think Ben Horowitz had an early blog post about not trying to innovate on sales compensation models, and having seen a few attempts at "innovation" at Google Cloud, I agree. It's almost never worth the complexity.

You can figure out various sliding scales, maybe even caps (but adjusting the scale is more rational), but I think flat pay is basically anathema to being a salesperson.

Edit: found it, though it isn't from as long ago as I remembered. https://a16z.com/why-must-you-pay-sales-people-commissions/
by bri3d | 2025-05-01 20:35:24+00:00
> I hope the whole hiring process gets blown up.

I can't see how the fake-candidate epidemic blows the hiring process up in anything but a candidate-hostile direction.

With the open hiring market becoming more inefficient, companies will move more towards hiring through networking and vetted sources (select college job boards etc.) rather than the open market. In situations where they evaluate candidates from open market listings, companies will now have invasive proof-of-identity red tape earlier and earlier in the funnel (for example, background checks prior to application rather than offer in places where that's legal). Plus, look forward to overly clever hiring panels introducing annoying "trap" questions and weird hoops like this article alluded to - I hope you're ready to review local restaurants and pick up random stuff in the room during your interview!
by Balgair | 2025-05-01 20:35:26+00:00
Okay, every other commenter here is talking about how baseball is the national pastime. And, I think you understand that.

I'll rephrase the question a bit here: How could any idiot white male raised in the US in the last 120 years possibly not know about baseball?

What I think was happening was that the US GIs would ask the infiltrating German about current baseball. Not Ty Cobb stuff, but Ted Williams stuff.

Also, for the non-baseball fans here, you have to remember that there were only 16 (28) teams back then [0], essentially no trading of players, and no interleague play. So for your team, you really had to know the core 8 players and a few pitchers. Adding in the other 7 teams gets you to ~80 or so (maximum) and they would reappear on the exact same teams year after year. And there really wasn't any other sports worth mentioning in 1943 [1]. Cognitively, it's a lot less than today.

Also, the Germans wouldn't have access to the information about the 'current-ish' state of the game. It was mostly in newspapers back then, and with the war, getting information from the sports pages out of St. Louis wasn't happening.

Same as it ever was, sports is the lingua franca of the US.

[0] 8 in MLB-NL and 8 in MLB-AL, 6 in NL-NL and 6 in NL-AL (yes, the Negro leagues are the major league, but black GIs weren't on the front lines where Germans would be infiltrating (yes, it's more complicated than this simple comment))

[1] The NFL was pretty nascent still.
by dboreham | 2025-05-01 20:35:37+00:00
Neurotransmitters are just "global variables" to the GPU. What the variable does or means is trained. Probably trained in the context of "I/O" signals. E.g. if the chemical also speeds up heart rate or breathing then that becomes part of the training data set. So Dopamine can potentially "do" different things in different examples of the same animal, if environmental training data is sufficiently different.
by bhaney | 2025-05-01 20:35:38+00:00
Do you have more advice for finding land to buy other than using ebay?

I've been looking for a while for a few acres of unimproved/secluded/wooded land within an hour or two drive away from me here in Kansas, mostly just for bushcrafting or tooling around. The only place I really know to check is Zillow, and while there are a few listings in my distance range, they're typically upwards of $10k/acre. I just checked ebay and saw parcels priced much closer to what I'd expect for unimproved land out in the middle of nowhere, but I couldn't find any in my middle of nowhere, just several states away.

I'm pretty sure there's tons of completely unused land all over the place here that people would be willing to get rid of for cheap, but I have no idea how to find those people. I've considered just going to every small town within an hour of me and posting a "will buy" ad on whatever bulletin boards I'm allowed to post stuff on, but for now I'm still holding out hope that there's a better way. Tips?
by sjs382 | 2025-05-01 20:35:49+00:00
> From the outset, something felt off about this candidate. During their initial call with our recruiter, they joined under a different name from the one on their resume, and quickly changed it. Even more suspicious, the candidate occasionally switched between voices, indicating that they were being coached through the interview in real time.

> Before this interview, industry partners had tipped us off that North Korean hackers were actively applying for jobs at crypto companies. We received a list of email addresses linked to the hacker group, and one of them matched the email the candidate used to apply to Kraken.

Unless you were working in conjunction with law enforcement (with some guarantee re: the security of customer assets), it should have ended there. Going further may have piqued your interest, but...

> Instead of tipping off the applicant, our security and recruitment teams strategically advanced them through our rigorous recruitment process – not to hire, but to study their approach.

... you likely gave them more actionable data than they gave you.

This behavior was reckless, amateurish and I'd be pulling out my assets right away if someone acting as a custodian to my finances acted like this.
by Symbiote | 2025-05-01 20:35:58+00:00
These comparisons between countries are always difficult.

Each place is adapted to the geography.

In Europe, the coal or ore may well be loaded onto a barge. The rivers here follow some useful routes, and the continent is surrounded by sea on three sides.

The USA doesn't have such convenient waterways.

Similarly, a container ship will make multiple stops around Europe, so there's less need to have a huge freight railway from Greece to the Netherlands.
by throw0101b | 2025-05-01 20:36:03+00:00
> You're still gambling

Is running a plumbing business gambling? Is opening and running a restaurant gambling? (Sure there's risk in running a business but risk is not the same as gambling.)

Because owning stock is basically owning a slice of a business. Owning a unit of a S&P 500 ETF or mutual fund is owning a slice of five hundred businesses.
by jcranmer | 2025-05-01 20:36:16+00:00
The volume of the Great Lakes, per Wolfram Alpha [1], makes a sphere ~22 miles in diameter. The Great Lakes is ~20% of the world's surface fresh water.

Your number of 35 million cubic kilometers includes the Antarctic ice sheet, but the definition of "fresh surface water" sounds to me like it intends to exclude the ice sheets from the list.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28volume+of+great+lake...
by Nevermark | 2025-05-01 20:36:44+00:00
Corporate models seek to grow exponentially, with hit and miss results. Not sure where there are any signs of that stopping.

More widely:

Businesses, economies, and natural ecosystems, are all full of both exponential drivers and limitations. Since the first life form.

It isn’t a model that is going away. Or that can go away. Unless there are no new opportunities for new things, which seems unlikely anytime soon, there will always be new pockets of exponential growth.
by rayiner | 2025-05-01 20:36:52+00:00
You’re missing the forest for the trees. The Buchanan wing of the GOP overthrew the Bush/Cheney establishment, and salted the earth so a Bush or Cheney couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Texas/Wyoming.

Many of the GOP Senators are holdovers from that discredited prior regime. They cower in front of Trump because the base trusts Trump far more than it trusts the party establishment. And that’s not because Trump has magic powers, but because the Bush/Cheney era was utterly disastrous and about half the GOP has turned hard against libertarianism in trade and immigration.

The fact that Senators are afraid to cross Trump is a good thing. It means they are being responsive to their voters. If it wasn’t for that, they’d already be talking about TPP 2.0 and amnesty again.
by theoryofx | 2025-05-01 20:36:53+00:00
"this is in keeping with the way enterprise sales is done more or less everywhere..."

For non-sales roles you're doing things very differently than (most) everywhere else, which is why it seems like a compromise to give in to an 'industry standard' model for enterprise sales.

The fact that sales is quantifiable doesn't explain why sales people get instantly rewarded with cash comp (+ equity) while everyone else on the team might wait years for a potential liquidity event.

The real explanation for why sales people get paid so well is that some really good sales people sold the idea of a highly favorable 'industry standard' model for enterprise sales.
by traceroute66 | 2025-05-01 20:37:40+00:00
Joint announcement, hot off the press.

Key paragraphs:

To align expectations and reinforce open governance, Synadia has agreed to assign its two NATS trademark registrations to the Linux Foundation. These steps further secure the project’s neutral stewardship for the future. The NATS project’s infrastructure and assets–including the NATS.io domain name and GitHub repositories–will continue to be held by CNCF, ensuring long-term stability and ongoing open source development under the Apache-2.0 license Like all members of the community, Synadia is also free to pursue its own commercial interests by building on top of the open source NATS project. As with any open source codebase, if Synadia chooses to fork the NATS server code for a proprietary offering in the future, it will do so under a new name.
by nyeah | 2025-05-01 20:38:02+00:00
Yes. If you do a diffraction experiment where a particle scatters off a lattice of atoms, but leaves no trace of which atom it interacted with, then you see a diffraction pattern that corresponds to the superposition of all the possibilities. If you do a modified experiment where the particle leaves one atom in a different state, then you see a different result, which corresponds to scattering off of just one atom, not the whole lattice.

It doesn't matter whether you actually go and check on the atom, though. What matters is whether there's something you could check on.
by jessriedel | 2025-05-01 20:38:13+00:00
> I used an Uber on the way here and the car was dirtier

To be fair, the fact that Waymos are fancy clean Jaguars is kind of ancillary to the main technology. The tech is currently expensive, so they are targeting the luxury market, which you can also get on Uber if you select a black car or whatever. The people willing to pay for that are less likely to make messes, and the drivers put more effort into frequent cleanings.

Once the tech becomes cheap, expect the car quality and cleanliness to go down. Robocars do have some intrinsic advantages in that it's easier to set up a standard daily cleaning process, but they will still accumulate more garbage and stains when they are used by a broader cross section of the population and only cleaned during charging to reduce costs. (Of course, cheaper and more widely accessible tech is good for everyone; if you want a immaculate leather seats cleaned three times a day, you'll generally be able to pay for it.)
by chris_va | 2025-05-01 20:38:14+00:00
Health insurance generally has a fixed profit margin (state legislation). They have little incentive to reduce cost because then the entire pie shrinks. A nice example of where well meaning legislation can completely backfire.

Of course, passing costs to all insurance companies is really the same as passing it to all people paying insurance premiums, at which point you can just use tax money to get the same effect. At which point, it's probably easier to regulate it and have the cost passed to everyone buying a car.
Ask HN: How do you gather feedback from your users?
by willsmith72 | 2025-05-01 20:38:23+00:00
Obviously nothing beats a conversation with your users, but how else do you gather feedback from them? I've seen some websites with little widgets in the bottom right, some occasional popups, or some products trying by email outreach. What do you think? What's the best user-friendly way to gather more insights?
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-05-01 20:38:26+00:00
I also distinctly remember having a late afternoon sit to think very hard about my future, with a conclusion of 'this is just about the end of childhood, it's time to start becoming an adult with some hard responsibilities' result. I was 12 or 13, and there was absolutely no pretext for doing that. For a long time, I assumed many people had this direct kind of enlightenment, but now I think the opposite. So I'm not the same person I used to be due to simply having the drive to change for the better and correct my bad assumptions.
by bcantrill | 2025-05-01 20:38:35+00:00
One important detail: their comp model is different -- but the hiring model is the same. And that has yielded a deeply thoughtful and customer-centric sales team. We are very mindful of go-to-market anti-patterns![0]

[0] https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/uncrating-the-oxide-rack...
by throw0101b | 2025-05-01 20:39:15+00:00
> How would you convince people that they aren't gambling when investing in stocks?

How about:

> But in a casino the longer you play, the higher your chances of walking away a loser since the house has the edge.

> The stock market is the opposite of a casino. The longer you play, the higher your odds of success in terms of experiencing positive returns on your capital.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/05/the-stock-market-is...

* https://www.cfainstitute.org/insights/articles/investing-vs-...
by atoav | 2025-05-01 20:39:17+00:00
The argument for the high wages was always the "big responsibilty" the manegerial class has to bear. IMO to hold them personally liable is the absolite bare minimum, they already for the money for it. In reality CEO processes are often among the line: "You earned 10 Millions in boni for illegal behavior? Here is a 100K fine!"

A simple tradesperson is also personally responsible when they fuck up their job despite better knowledge. So if those can go to jail for the consequences of their dealings why shouldn't a CEO where the consequences are potentially of a scale several magnitudes higher? Wasn't personal responsibility in everybodies mouths, or is that only important when we talk about poor people?
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-01 20:39:27+00:00
The funniest interview I had, in a similar sneaky question, were the HR guy asked "so you wrote city X, I am also living here, whereabouts do you live?" and I turned the laptop and showed through my window a very unique skyscraper and a super marker right across my flat, and the guy recognized my building because his gf lived in the same building (had more than 100 flats), and we both had a laugh about it. (I got the job later but after having 2-3 more rounds of domain-specific interviews) Those days the "AI" was not around so I wouldn't be able to fake that even if I wanted.

EDIT: I also had interviews with Credit Suisse some years back (decade or so), they wanted me to speak to some people in the US and London, but didn't allow the video conference from home, but they asked me which major city in Europe I was in, so they book some meeting room in their own offices or some WeWork facility in case I was somewhere where they wouldn't have offices.
by 47282847 | 2025-05-01 20:40:02+00:00
You could equally well turn the question around: why are they driving you crazy? They’re just socialized differently. You cannot change other people, you can only change yourself. Meaning, if it bothers you, why not develop strategies that work to have meaningful interactions with both “askers“ and “non-askers“. It’s on you to grow, if you want to, as much as it is on the other to grow, if they want to.

It’s not them that “drive you crazy“, it’s you yourself driving you crazy because you lack a strategy outside of assigning responsibility to the other to change. They don’t do it to personally offend you.

If somebody doesn’t ask, it doesn’t mean they’re not interested in you. If somebody doesn’t share without being asked, it doesn’t mean they’re not up for sharing. It’s really that simple.