MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by viraptor | 2025-05-13 05:20:08+00:00
I've seen worse tests. It's stupid, but it's weird how aggressive people seem about it now compared to this topic getting lots of attention in the industry over decades now. Even this year WSJ mentions astrology, numerology, graphology in business https://archive.is/ZvJKX

So why is this specific case something that seems to get people out with pitchforks? There are thousands of other cases and they should've been all laughed at until nobody proposes a personality test again. It's all bad and the attention on this one case makes me doubt people genuinely care about profiling and broken hiring in general. (Rather than joining the dei-bad bandwagon)
by wafadaar | 2025-05-13 05:20:24+00:00
It's been crazy how far Java (the language) has come in the past half-decade, while it seems like the tooling around the language has not improved at all.

Sure most developers have progressed from Maven to Gradle, but not having something like `npm` or `poetry/pip` certainly puts a damper on the developer experience for the language.

Even C# and the .NET ecosystem attempt to solve this with NuGet, I would say their experience is not as excellent as other languages but still its a valiant effort.
by monkeyfun | 2025-05-13 05:21:28+00:00
If you're interested in human habitation of Venus overall, you may find it interesting to learn Venus is probably preferable kept at about its current temperature or only made a little colder.

See, the atmosphere at ~50 altitude... happens to be about 1 bar (which happens to be Earth's atmospheric pressure ASL)... and happens to have temperatures that can support human and plant life!

And better still, the atmosphere being mostly co2 with a little nitrogen actually means normal Earth air is a lifting gas! Starting to see where this is going?

It's not too hard to imagine the skies of Venus full of floating habitats that move to stay in the sunlight, or occasionally dock with tethers or balloons carrying cargo from extremely reinforced mining facilities deep underground (where they could be much more protected most of the time from the pressure/temperature/corrosion) -- a future where people (or machines!) might scoff at the idea of cooling off Venus and losing out on such an excellent habitation zone, one which could also fairly easily support elevated runways or launch platforms to more cheaply reach space from.

With Venus also having 91% of Earth's gravity, and those atmospheric conditions at high altitudes that add some radiation shielding and would probably let a human worker only need a very limited suit more akin to a hazmat or firefighting suit with SCBA to work outside habitats... Venus is actually easily the single best planet for humans to live on after Earth!

(Can you tell I'm writing a story set there? Hehehe)
by umanwizard | 2025-05-13 05:21:44+00:00
Yes, and most of it is awful, whereas Joanne Rowling is talented.

It’s very unlikely that she would (or even could) have devoted herself to writing fiction in her free time as a passion project without hope of monetary reward and without any way to live from her writing for the ten years it took to finish the Potter series.

And even if she had somehow managed, you’d never hear about it, because without publishers to act as gatekeepers it’d have been lost in the mountains of fanfic and whatever other slop amateur writers upload to the internet.
by Spivak | 2025-05-13 05:21:58+00:00
One of the biggest accolades Biden got for a lot of people was they got 4 years of being able to turn off the news and nothing was on fire. His critics might have called him sleepy Joe (despite his administration being quite prolific) but it terms of normalcy and the government not constantly meddling in your life and business he did a bang up job.
by rashunain | 2025-05-13 05:25:03+00:00
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by const_cast | 2025-05-13 05:26:53+00:00
When I was a student I was leading a project where we made a timeclock web software.

I enforced a no-login policy, because I didn't want potential users to even think about entering a password into a form on the website. I didn't trust myself or my group to handle it correctly, so I decided it was best to just side-step the problem. Naturally this made the application a lot less useful - but it was a student project, who cares.

Software engineering students have an obligation to ethics just like all other engineers. We need to think these things through, and decide if we even want to implement features. And we need to be thinking in terms of risk, not design.

Storing sensitive data is risky, even if you're really talented. Companies will try to put processes in place to mitigate that risk. But students are almost certainly not doing that, so they should be questioning if they should even be doing what they're doing in the first place.
by YossarianFrPrez | 2025-05-13 05:27:57+00:00
In "The Utopia of Rules" David Graeber (author of "On Bullshit Jobs") suggests that one reason why "bell labs worked" is because the corporate tax rate was relatively high during the golden age of bell labs. This meant that forced with the choice of either a) sending a decent chunk of revenue to the government or b) reinvesting it in R&D as a business expense, AT&T chose the latter.

This seems to me to be under-discussed re: Bell Labs.
by sampullman | 2025-05-13 05:28:39+00:00
I'm not sure if the analogy fits. I would say AI is more like a fast car that turns the wrong way every couple of blocks, or a car that randomly refuses to go on certain roads. Is it still a useful mode of transportation? Sometimes, but, it's not reliable.

The sibling comment says it better - it's about predicability of mistakes, and the effort and knowledge necessary to correct them.

Maybe the next generation of models will solve these problems, who knows.
by 1attice | 2025-05-13 05:28:39+00:00
This was a good, albeit sobering, read.

Advice to other commenters here on HN. Before clicking 'add comment', ask yourself:

- If I post from a non-empathetic stance, to what extent is my lack of empathy a strategy to avoid experiencing discomfort?

- If I post from a contradicting or fact-checking stance, to what extent is my skepticism motivated by a desire to feel safer in the world?

- If I post from a relativising or contextualizing stance, to what extent is my reframing driven by the fear that it could happen to me?

You don't have to ask yourself any of these things; but they are hard-won tools I've gained through a lot of work on myself, and they have been of benefit to me. May they be of benefit to you as well.
by californical | 2025-05-13 05:30:47+00:00
Well, the two go together.

Safe infrastructure can be fully separated bike paths - a road network that minimizes intersections with car traffic. And stoplights that have a separate right-of-way which allows bikes to go when no cars are allowed to go. Fixing that will mean that more people feel comfortable riding a bike for trips within a couple miles. And more people riding their bikes for short trips mean that drivers have more empathy for bikers, etc. And it means that more people advocate for allowing denser zoning near them since they get the benefit of more amenities.

It’s a virtuous cycle that starts with making lots of safe infrastructure, so safe that even grandma and young children are able to bike safely.
by rayiner | 2025-05-13 05:33:42+00:00
> From the perspective of individual rights and liberty, there is only one side that is destroying our country right now.

"Individual rights" is the tail on the constitution's "democratic republic" dog. It's just as bad when the public's right to regulate individual conduct is incorrectly limited in service of "individual rights," as when individual rights are incorrectly limited in service of expanding government power.

> If this "other side" were in power, my quarrel would be with them. But they are not - "your side" is.

The other side is in power, insofar as we are living with 60 years of precedents based on "emanations from penumbras." And about 30 years before that sanctioning an unconstitutional administrative state. If we are playing Calvinball, why should I be upset that the government isn't adopting a textualist-originalist view of the suspension clause?
by westurner | 2025-05-13 05:33:47+00:00
There are 48+2 port switches with OpenWRT support.

Re: initial specs for the (4 port) OpenWRT One, which is built on Banana Pi's, which supports U-boot: https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/01/12/openwrt-one-ap-24-xy... .. https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one:

> The non-open-source components include the 2.5GbE PHY and WiFi firmware with blobs running on separate cores that are independent of the main SoC where OpenWrt is running. The DRAM calibration routines are closed-source binaries as well.

Software for FPGA switch, probe, and GHz oscilloscope projects?

/? inurl:awesome vivado https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aawesome+vivado :

awesome-hdl: https://github.com/drom/awesome-hdl :

sphinx-hwt:

d3-wave probably won't do GHz in realtime. https://github.com/Nic30/d3-wave

Pyqtgraph probably can't realtime plot GHz probe data without resampling either?

pyqtgraph: https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph

The hwtLib README says Vivado supports IP-XACT format.

hwtLib: https://github.com/Nic30/hwtLib :

> hwtLib is the library of hardware components writen using hwt library. Any component can be exported as Xilinx Vivado (IP-exact) or Quartus IPcore using IpPackager or as raw Verilog / VHDL / SystemC code and constraints by to_rtl() function. Target language is specified by keyword parameter serializer.

IP-XACT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP-XACT

hwtlib docs > hwtLib.peripheral.ethernet package: https://hwtlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hwtLib.peripheral.et...

hwtLib.peripheral.uart package: https://hwtlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hwtLib.peripheral.ua...

It looks like there are CRC implementations in hwtlib. Which CRC or hash does U-boot use for firmware flashing? https://www.google.com/search?q=Which+CRC+or+hash+does+U-boo... ... Looks like CRC32 like .zip files but not .tar.gz files.

U-boot: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot

OpenWRT docs > "Failsafe mode, factory reset, and recovery mode": https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/troubleshooting/failsafe...

Open vSwitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_vSwitch :

> Open vSwitch can operate both as a software-based network switch running within a virtual machine (VM) hypervisor, and as the control stack for dedicated switching hardware; as a result, it has been ported to multiple virtualization platforms, switching chipsets, and networking hardware accelerators.[7]

"Porting Open vSwitch to New Software or Hardware": https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/porting/

awesome-open-source-hardware: https://github.com/aolofsson/awesome-opensource-hardware

awesome-open-hardware: https://github.com/delftopenhardware/awesome-open-hardware :

> Journal of Open Hardware (JOH), HardwareX Journal,
by mock-possum | 2025-05-13 05:34:18+00:00
Well yeah - that’s how the lifecycle works.

That’s some new term for an effort to create more inclusive institutions, nearly unavoidably at the expense of the traditionally privileged - inevitably it’s taken too far, it crosses a line, even if the cross and the line itself must be manufactured by the resident reactionaries - and it becomes yet another rallying, cry for conservatives, another neat little entry in the portfolio of pogroms against progress.
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-13 05:34:19+00:00
Software, cloud, AI, financial services, movies, computer games, space (i.e.: Starlink), military technology, etc...

There are entire categories of things where it is just the US doing the thing, OR without the US the thing would implode.

For example, there are only two popular mobile phone operating systems: Android and iOS. Both are made by US companies (Google and Apple).

Let me put it this way: If every undersea fibre link out of the Americas was suddenly severed, people in the USA might not even notice for a while. The rest of the planet would make a winding down noise as every second piece of hardware or software stopped dead because of some missing dependency.
by K2h | 2025-05-13 05:34:21+00:00
I map many trails on osm from personal site surveys and a combination of sat imagery and my gpx files. No way google is doing that because there is no one to steal the data from. It was me, the enthusiast that put it in osm directly. That’s just me and the trails I load tho. Example - Latest was short one at monkeyface falls. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/34.098058/-116.955639
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-13 05:34:24+00:00
Another card noon here, especially in urban motor driving so please excuse my ignorance. In that desperate situation isn’t it cheaper to call a friend to seat on the car and handle the steering wheel while you attach the car to yours with those rods, then pull it to a metal scrapper shop that buy metal by the weight? Without plate, isn’t that car basically a non car but a pile of metal?
by simgt | 2025-05-13 05:37:19+00:00
Never Too Small has an episode on a renovated flat in the Barbican: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2L0uML715dE

I personally love the brutalist and gigantic architecture of this time. Jam pack the flats, leave space for nature and public areas around it. Fairly standard in developed Asia, rare outside of ghettos in the West. Every time I discuss it with others, it's a hard sell against the "bbq with your neighbors in your back garden" so many aspire to by moving in suburbian houses.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-05-13 05:39:22+00:00
Google has been shipping custom NPUs since the Pixel 4 in 2019. Prior to that, Google phones just used off the shelf SOCs from Qualcomm, with 2018's Pixel 3 using the NPU in the Snapdragon 845. Android first shipped NNAPI in Android 8.1 in 2017, with acceleration on various mobile GPUs and DSPs, including the Pixel Visual Core on the Pixel 2. Google has shipped more on-device models so far, but neither company has a moat for on-device inference.

https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-p...
by Balgair | 2025-05-13 05:40:37+00:00
Oh, I very much have a lot of these jobs at the house. It's just that I tend to call a specialist [0] as the handy men around me tend to, well, not really exist anymore. Besides, most of the smaller things that don't require the really tall ladders, I can do myself.

[0] who then never shows up on time and charges too much. But that's a whole nother story about where I live...
by bitwize | 2025-05-13 05:40:54+00:00
We as a global civilization are close to forgetting how to make CRTs. There's like one company that still makes them, but only for military or major industrial applications (fighter jet HUDs and the like), at call-for-pricing prices. The major manufacturers, like Sony etc. all shut down their production lines, never to be restarted again because the knowledge of how to make them dissipated with those production lines. If you're an enthusiast who wants to experience retro video games as they appeared back in the day, your only option is to scavenge an old TV from somewhere.
by SilasX | 2025-05-13 05:41:36+00:00
That's just the usual hand-wavy, vague "it's different" argument. If you want to justify treating the cases differently based on a fundamental difference, you need to be more specific. For example, they usually define an amount of rainwater you can collect that's short of disrupting major water flows.

So what is the equivalent of "digging too much" in a beach for AI? What fundamentally changes when you learn hyper-fast vs just read a bunch of horror novels to inform better horror novel-writing? What's unfair about AI compared to learning from published novels about how to properly pace your story?

These are the things you need to figure out before making a post equating AI learning with copyright infringement. "It's different" doesn't cut it.
by const_cast | 2025-05-13 05:41:38+00:00
I don't think they're good coders at all, I think they're good at generating small snippets of codes.

If you tried to replace a programmer with whatever LLM it would completely flop. Just write a script to fetch Jira tickets and let it rip - it won't work well. Because it doesn't know that maybe the Jira ticket is stupid, or that if they implement this change it requires insight from Team X, or that this bug is really intended behavior, etc.

Being a programmer is much more than, like, making a neat regular expression or generating slightly customized boilerplate. As it stands, these are assistants in which programmers guide and handhold them the whole way. They are not coders.
by rajivm | 2025-05-13 05:42:23+00:00
Don't follow all the advice blindly. I helped take a company in the compliance space from 0 to 3B exit. You're selling to startups that need SOC 2 so they can sell; they've never heard of "System and Organization Controls" but they have heard of SOC 2 because it's what their customers are asking for. Even compliance professionals wouldn't call it that on the daily. SOC 2 is what everyone knows.

If I was building a HTTP Inspector tool, you wouldn't call it a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Inspector tool.
by psychoslave | 2025-05-13 05:42:55+00:00
Ok, understood. This being into account, would it not even better to make the most obvious way to code some logic most likely shaped without this issue in the first place.

Because, if the external dependency smells that bad, what the root cause? If that is crap code produced thus for some reason (unskilled/over-time-bound-pressured person for example), then probably this is better to avoid using this code altogether. And if this is instead because the language encourage easy path with bad outcomes, then it might make more sense to make a proposal with a facility to instead make the path of least resistance be something of more enjoyable outcome.
by dtgm92 | 2025-05-13 05:43:34+00:00
You lose a heart every mistake you make in lessons, to regain them you do a practice session, or wait and they regen over time... like health in a videogame.

I'm guessing you pay for duolingo? Or maybe it is different on smartphones, idk but it has had hearts for a while.

This sounds way better, it really is annoying to fail your daily lesson and then have to go do practice to keep your streak intact. I regularly fail grammatical gender in danish and can't bother trying any harder so this is nice.
by mrtksn | 2025-05-13 05:44:41+00:00
IMHO USA is still the best in many of those things, it's just that its no longer uncontested. USA is going through the stage all the former European empires went through. You are even trying to do the nationalism thing which by itself means if you adopt it you will become a nation instead of an empire and instead of doing global stuff you will do what a nation of 340M people do. All those isolationist stuff, identity crisis etc. looks like post-imperial Europe to me. Sometimes I wonder if USA is trying to do soft-transition from being global superpower empire into a largish country like on of the others. I just can't see the mechanism where all that can be orchestrated, so maybe it's not orchestrated but because US have only 2 neighbors and they are well behaved the US empire isn't going down with a huge war but its just pulling back as it is contested.
by kqr | 2025-05-13 05:46:32+00:00
There was a lot of development around radio navigation aids in the interwar period. I believe it was even possible to navigate using commercial AM radio broadcasts, as long as the location of the broadcasting station was known. So while the basic method was computing location based on speed and compass bearing from a landmark (possibly accounting for wind drift), I believe a certain level of radio navigation was still going on in cases of adverse weather.

Longer-range bomber flights also did it the same way ocean-faring ships have done in the past few hundred years: they had a roof window for taking celestial fixes with a sextant. Come to think of it, that's how the Apollo capsule also confirmed its location.

There's a lot to read about this. This is probably a good start since it branches to many other related articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe_(navigation)
by Balgair | 2025-05-13 05:47:06+00:00
Yeah, I agree with both your replies here. The certainty that I had when I was starting out in life that I could walk into pretty much any auto shop and have a job in a week, I dunno, I think I took that for granted. In that, I never really thought about it and my profession was more of a choice to me; I always had a backup. I guess a lot of my friends and coworkers really didn't have that sense about themselves, maybe.

The real question, per the WSJ article here, is: How does a kid go about getting this back up? I got it by virtue of birth. But some other kid would have to go seeking it out, at the expense of time they could spend studying or, you know, just being a teenager. I'm not sure that teenage me would have taken the 'learn a trade as a backup plan' route. In fact, I know I would not have done that.
by reconnecting | 2025-05-13 05:47:42+00:00
It is not broken on mobile. There is simply nothing to be broken.

What commenters above are probably suggesting is that there is no adaptive version for mobile, but no one had promised one.

One small, but important correction, it's a B2B on-prem web application, and this is exactly the reason why any devices except those that can run the web server itself are not the target audience.
by YouWhy | 2025-05-13 05:48:46+00:00
Thank you, that's a well stated and thorough critique.

A lot of your reaction is towards the notion of dramatic impact. Note that I tend to distinguish between an "intellectually capable" researcher and a "right stuff" researcher, which involves the ability to manage risks in self-led multi-year high-risk high-impact programs.

My icons are Katalin Karikó and James P. Allison, who are not necessarily the brightest people of their fields, and subpar at politics, but are actually very good at making impact (duh).

Circling back to the original thesis, setting up a Bell Labs necessitates spotting out the Karikós and Allisons out of a very large flock of (at best) diligent followers of current academic fashions or (worse) popularity contest winners, and I reckon that's not practically possible today.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-13 05:49:08+00:00
You might like SponsorBlock, from the same dev as DeArrow.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

> SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.