MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by absurdo | 2025-05-31 01:09:58+00:00
IMHO actual worry has to be tempered by action. Blog posting is a short term relief from the pent up emotions. There are doomers that doompost and doomscroll, and doomers that prep and give themselves a buffer. The world’s wealthiest people build bunkers and buy real estate and agriculturally healthy land across the globe because they’re doomers at heart and can’t shake the feeling of needing to prep for any disaster at any moment. So it’s not just the tinfoilers that have this mentality.

Unfortunately HN predominantly caters to the doomposters and doomscrollers, and then somewhere the shitposters that thrive on performative acting of outrage, fright, drama, and so on to perpetuate the cycle and milk it to its full extent.

I’m not saying go out get some 25-year shelf life MREs and move to a very LCOL area and start growing vegetables in case you need to get through a particularly peckish winter, but humanity as a whole has lived through worse situations and no idea is off the table if its time has come.

I imagine a lot of people are very averse to losing what they have, being set back in their life in some way and seeing others unfairly benefit and perhaps unfairly benefit from their hard work. I don’t have an answer for this that actually solves the issue at heart. We won’t be holding hands and singing Kumbaya any time soon and weather events certainly don’t mind razing entire states. Starting resistance movements and communities is great but hard, unrewarding work with no guarantee of success.
by tombert | 2025-05-31 01:10:53+00:00
I have noticed a lot more jobs are requiring you to post your LinkedIn now. A small part of me thinks it's an AI automatically filtering for these things now.

I thought about buying a domain name that looks similar enough to a LinkedIn URL shortener and writing a thing to track the data around it (like Grabify) just so I might be able to see where it's actually being ingested from.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-31 01:11:34+00:00
And it's more than the fantasy of a madman??

1) EMP strike. The device is a big h-bomb peacefully sitting in orbit, pretending to be something else. Push the button and basically everything to the horizon (which is a very long ways) gets fried. Some of the hardened military stuff might survive, but the country is gone. The survivalists might hang on for a while, but they can't rebuild.

2) Salvage fuse. You put a proximity sensor on the missile that detonates it if something comes sufficiently close. All the antennas and missile seekers looking at the area are dazzled if not destroyed. The defenses have a very hard time engaging the next missile. The next missile doesn't need to be looking at anything, it doesn't get fried.

3) Suppose it "works"?? Nope, the reality of missile defense is that you spend more on the interceptors than your enemy spent on the missiles. Iron Dome is last I knew $50k/shot. And note what happened in the aftermath of 10/7--Hamas bled the launchers dry with rockets that were at least an order of magnitude cheaper. Last I knew Iron Beam was only test-deployed (shooting at real inbounds but not considered fully operational) and even it can be swamped. And it's only a short range defense. And it takes dwell time--salvage fuse becomes an issue even though it's an energy weapon. Point defense, yes. Country defense, no.
by prmph | 2025-05-31 01:12:04+00:00
You're still talking past my points. Look at the example I gave. Does it seem like the problem was due to an ambiguous prompt?

Even if my prompt was ambiguous, the LLM has no excuse producing code that does not type-check, or crashes in an obvious way when run. The ambiguity should affect what the code tries to do, not it's basic quality.

And your use of totalizing adjectives like "zero ambiguity" and "perfect specificity" tells me your arguments are somewhat suspect. There's nothing like "zero" and "perfect" as far as architecturing and implementing code goes.
by j_w | 2025-05-31 01:14:06+00:00
The issue is that if you have a claim like "American's should get healthier" I would presume that you would have evidence that they are unhealthy in the first place (Note: I am not disputing this). If the evidence you supply for your claim is fabricated, then either your claim is bullshit or you are the wrong person for the job.

RFK Jr. just often hits the first target and is always hitting the second.
by gaurav1086 | 2025-05-31 01:14:35+00:00
- technological advantage (ebpf + AI/LLM) - lightweight, uses very less resouces than other heavy/bloated solutions - seamless installation. - highly customizable and fast shipping compared to existing solutions. - can create custom rules to raise alerts on any file, commands, uid, gid, port, ip etc. - XDR: automated response/blocking of malicious ip/port.
by gaurav1086 | 2025-05-31 01:14:45+00:00
- technological advantage (ebpf + AI/LLM) - lightweight, uses very less resouces than other heavy/bloated solutions - seamless installation. - highly customizable and fast shipping compared to existing solutions like splunk, wazuh, sentinel one etc. - can create custom rules to raise alerts on any file, commands, uid, gid, port, ip etc. - XDR: automated response/blocking of malicious ip/port.
by robomartin | 2025-05-31 01:15:36+00:00
Excellent and insightful conversation with:

Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO, Stripe

Chris Power, Founder and CEO, Hadrian

Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO, Boom Supersonic

Dr. Mary Daly, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco

Moderator: Caroline Hyde, Bloomberg Television
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-05-31 01:16:20+00:00
Not sure what you're aiming to get out of this comparison. Software engineers make quite a bit more at prestigious tech companies than they do at prestigious finance firms in NYC, and prestigious finance firms in NYC extensively recruit people from outside the US. Even if you want to compare engineers in tech to bankers in finance, I'm not sure Goldman is paying all that much better than OpenAI these days.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-31 01:16:52+00:00
Something that bothered me about the book:

Yes, looking at a sample of material it's feasible to match it up with known samples. But after the detonation that makes no sense at all. Everything's been vaporized and mixed with what's around. And a lot of stuff has been transmuted.

Identifying it if they found the bomb would be one thing, identifying it after detonation makes no sense at all to me.
by rayiner | 2025-05-31 01:17:26+00:00
If your theory is that it’s a first amendment violation, then it’s irrelevant whether it’s a law passed by congress or an executive order.

It is well established that the government is allowed to make value judgments in deciding what activities to support with discretionary grants: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/government-funding-a... (“The absence of an affirmative right for individuals to receive government aid has been central to this doctrine and these cases.”).

Title IX is an example of this. As interpreted today, it covers not only sex discrimination, but also speech, including speech by students, relating to sex and gender that would be protected by the first amendment outside the federal funding context: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/university-of-por....
by pdfernhout | 2025-05-31 01:19:07+00:00
"a friendly and kind guy mostly contented with his life" reminds me somewhat of another Irish author, James P. Hogan (who I was lucky enough to meet in person once through Princeton University's Infinity Limited science fiction society and corresponded a bit with many years later).

https://web.archive.org/web/20160221054919/http://www.jamesp...

https://tangentonline.com/interviews-columnsmenu-166/intervi...

http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/articles/ho... "Hogan's humane outlook and faith in intelligent problem-solving permeate his books."
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-31 01:19:09+00:00
I’m not claiming it doesn’t have predictive powers. But the theory does parameter fit through the addition of dark matter and dark energy into the model, which we don’t know if they exist since we have absolutely zero theoretical description of what they would be. And 85% of the observable universe is supposed to be this unobservable thing we have no model for? That doesn’t feel like parameter fitting to you?

And while it does have predictive powers, it’s equally important to be honest about its failed predictions which have skyrocketed since Webb conclusively showed the age of the universe doesn’t fit that model. That tells me there’s an elephant we haven’t found yet.
by dehrmann | 2025-05-31 01:19:22+00:00
> I worked on 0-1 products that if the company was more disciplined would not (or should not) have attempted.

You said you were at large companies, so this is a hard call to make. A lot of large companies work on lots of small products knowing they probably won't work, but one of them might, so it's still worth it to try. It's essentially the VC model.
by godelski | 2025-05-31 01:20:16+00:00
I'm not sure the question is about factorization but more about having the proper coordinates. Right now our basis vectors are pointing in... well... random directions. So when we naively interpolate between two vectors we're certainty going to pass through different semantical concepts. Our basis vectors aren't aligned to those concepts. And certainly LERPing is not the right way to move along this geometry either, and we should actually be thinking about the geodesics of our surface.

We've gone about all this as if we're working with a 2D cartesian coordinate system. I'm actually impressed things have worked this well! Crazy how we've done all this without care for the structural preservation of our data. But I guess with scale you can kinda side step that, forcing the manifold hypothesis. But to move forward and tackle these challenges? Might be time to get back into the weeds.
by Jarwain | 2025-05-31 01:20:35+00:00
Too late to edit buuut

There's a standard! (for time intervals, and I could see it working here)[0]

> Section 3.2.6 of ISO 8601-1:2019 notes that "A solidus may be replaced by a double hyphen ["--"] by mutual agreement of the communicating partners",

So forget what I said; why exacerbate the standards problem?[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals [1]https://xkcd.com/927/
by jemmyw | 2025-05-31 01:21:43+00:00
Ya I've been there. I even tried pitching to management that a small team of us wanted to move to the legacy product and iteratively improve it because it had customers and revenue and we could make an impact while the new product was under development. They said no. I left about 6 months after. 9 years later the legacy product is still running. I can't find any evidence that they launched a new one.
by jacob019 | 2025-05-31 01:22:44+00:00
Sounds like interesting work, thanks for sharing! "Vibe debugging", hah, I like that one. The latest crop of models is definately unlocking new capabilities, and I totally get the desire to make your own tools. I do that to a fault sometimes, but it's nice to have a simple tool that does exactly one thing, exactly the way you want it.

I've been pair programming with the models for a while, and wrote some "agents" before I knew to call it that back in the dark days of GPT-3.5, but only recently with the latest models unlocking capabilities beyond what I could achieve with handwritten code.
by somat | 2025-05-31 01:23:34+00:00
It is a shame.

I think the tipping point was newegg the store vs newegg the marketplace.

Newegg "the store" was pretty great, newegg "the marketplace" not so much. And unlike amazon at least newegg tells you who the seller is and keeps a big "only show results from the newegg store" filter present. but even despite that the store is not nearly as great as it once was.

I wonder if there is anything left of amazon "the store", perhaps if you buy a book? Or has amazon "the marketplace" consumed everything.
by evilsaloon | 2025-05-31 01:23:35+00:00
I love the idea of Waymo in theory, but unfortunately the only times I've seen them in the news are when things go horribly wrong (like the fact that they've gotten almost 600 parking tickets in SF last year). I will still prefer a human driver, as fallible as we humans are, until we get to avionics level of safety. I drive a lot, and I often forget that cars aren't consumable, fun toys, but rather two-ton hunks of metal that hurtle at inhuman speeds. I'm glad the cars are deferential to pedestrians, but I fear the time when these limits will be unlocked.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-05-31 01:23:53+00:00
> Does anyone else think the fact that companies hire superfluous employees (i.e. bullshit jobs) is actually fantastic?

I do.

It's much more important that people live a dignified life and be able to feed their families than "increasing shareholder value" or whatever.

I'm a person that would be hypothetically supportive of something like DOGE cuts, but I'd rather have people earning a living even with Soviet-style make work jobs than unemployed. I don't desire to live in a cutthroat "competitive" society where only "talent" can live a dignified life. I don't know if that's "wealth distribution" or socialism or whatever; I don't really care, nor make claim it's some airtight political philosophy.
by bofaGuy | 2025-05-31 01:24:52+00:00
I run Redis across dozens of applications. So when Valkey became available for a discounted price on AWS I was excited. We finally got around to trying it out about 2 months ago and all was going well. No noticeable difference in performance. Until Valkey just died. It died in such a way that AWS still thought it was running happily but it was completely offline. It took 12+ hours for it to come up again and then it happened again... AWS researched the issue for 2 weeks and couldn't figure it out. It will be a long time before we attempt to use Valkey for anything critical in the future. We since have replace that Valkey with Redis under the same workload and have no issues.
by roughly | 2025-05-31 01:26:34+00:00
> “Fry's Electronics is closing all stores", 300 comments (2021), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435

> "Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?", 350 comments (2020), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21945492

This made me chuckle. Betteridge’s law is more of what you’d call a guideline than a rule.
by vali128 | 2025-05-31 01:26:42+00:00
Xylar – a sleek sidebar system monitor for macOS. Unlike traditional menu bar apps, Xylar offers an edge-triggered interface that appears when you move your cursor to the screen's edge, providing real-time insights into your system's performance.

Key Features:

Edge-Triggered Interface: Access system stats with a simple mouse movement to the screen edge.

Comprehensive Monitoring: Track CPU, RAM, network, storage, battery, and GPU metrics.

Real-Time Graphs: Visualize system performance with stylish, interactive displays.

Customizable Display: Choose between a persistent display or auto-hide mode.

Efficient Design: Minimal resource usage with adaptive refresh rates.

Smart Notifications: Optional alerts for critical system thresholds.
How to improve interview skill?
by gogo61 | 2025-05-31 01:28:07+00:00
I am extremely good at my work and always get great ratings. However, my interviewing skills are extremely poor. I can't express my stories during the interview. I also tend to be in a hurry. Any resources to improve it?

I feel I need improvement on following things

- Storytelling - Tonality - Pacing - Keeping excitement
by verdverm | 2025-05-31 01:30:50+00:00
I recently used PG-Boss to setup jobs to refresh auth tokens in the background. Very easy to use, would recommend taking a look. Docs are a bit minimal, but there's not that much to it either. (https://timgit.github.io/pg-boss/#/)

You don't need WASP for any of this, certainly not worth learning their custom DSL for it. Two of their points about how it makes it better are moot, setting queue names (one line of code) and type safety (you should be using TS already). I've not seen the value in their abstractions and indirection.
by lerno | 2025-05-31 01:31:33+00:00
C++ is just slow to compile. With the standard library it is much worse. The problem is that with C++ you're not getting as much encapsulation as you would in C unless you do extra work that also has a performance hit (pimpl). This means that C++ code often has to recompile a whole lot more than C code does when doing incremental compilation in my experience.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-05-31 01:32:43+00:00
Good lesson in when not to use chatgpt.

$ docker run --rm -ti debian:trixie root@d12c52dcfee8:/# apt-get update && apt-get install -y valkey Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [178 kB] ... root@d12c52dcfee8:/# valkey-server --version Valkey server v=8.1.1 sha=00000000:0 malloc=jemalloc-5.3.0 bits=64 build=13683752e517a7b6
by kumarvvr | 2025-05-31 01:33:57+00:00
> Time to 365B Annual Searches = ChatGPT 5.5x Faster vs. Google

Is this really relevant? Google was formed when there were no gazillion phones to do searches a million times a day.

ChatGPT was formed recently, when every strata of society, and every country in the world has double digit internet penetration.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-31 01:34:03+00:00
Primary explosive: Sensitive, used in very small quantities to initiate the main charge.

Secondary explosive: Takes quite a bit of energy to initiate and therefore reasonably stable.

High explosive: I forget the exact technical distinction from low explosive, but it refers to how it goes off, not how energetic it is.

In the real world nobody but a terrorist uses any more of a primary explosive than is needed to set off the secondary, and they are kept apart for as long as possible. You put the charge in place then you insert the detonator cap.

However, these are nukes. Obviously, we don't know details but there's another technology in use: exploding blast wires. A blast wire has no primary explosive, it is set off by pushing a huge current through a tiny wire. This is done both for timing reasons (you need great precision in imploding the plutonium) and because primary explosives cook off in fire. Secondary explosives often do not. While the heat causing a detonator to cook off isn't going to produce a nuclear yield it would still make an awful mess.
by snowwrestler | 2025-05-31 01:34:20+00:00
Historically, people have been pretty good at predicting the effects of new technologies on existing jobs. But quite bad at predicting the new jobs / careers / industries that are eventually created with those technologies.

This is why free market economies create more wealth over time than centrally planned economies: the free market allows more people to try seemingly crazy ideas, and is faster to recognize good ideas and reallocate resources toward them.

In the absence of reliable prediction, quick reaction is what wins.

Anyway, even if AI does end up “destroying” tons of existing white collar jobs, that does not necessarily imply mass unemployment. But it’s such a common inference that it has its own pejorative: Luddite.

And the flip side of Ludddism is what we see from AI boosters now: invoking a massive impact on current jobs as a shorthand to create the impression of massive capability. It’s a form of marketing, as the CNN piece says.
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-05-31 01:34:25+00:00
The graph on page 6 makes it look like Waymo has overtaken "Ride Share" in general—but the chart is based on the data from page 302, which only compares Waymo and Lyft.

Waymo is clearly growing fast, but it's not bigger than Uber—yet. Super impressive its already surpassed Lyft. From personal experience, it also seems to have driven Uber prices down materially.

Page 6: https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelli...

Page 302: https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelli...
by goalieca | 2025-05-31 01:35:22+00:00
> The US has no motive to cover it up

The is now public evidence that Fauci acknowledge it was likely early on in private emails and then set out to campaign against it. In front of Congress he is criticized of perjury for lying that his agency funded gain of function researching. Fauci tried to argue it was not quite gain of function but similar even though everyone knows it was. He public also show that he moved all related conversations to private emails, in violation of the records act, to avoid scrutiny. He convinced trump to reverse an Obama era rule on funding gain of function research.

In the end, Obama pardoned fauci but he did not let ecohealth alliance nor its leader off the hook. They can no longer receive funding. Its leader was also the one who wrote in the lancet that it was a natural event.

There’s lots more evidence in public record now. But clearly it was an embarrassment for all involved including the USA.
by osigurdson | 2025-05-31 01:38:33+00:00
It is almost like once a company gets rolling, there is sufficient momentum to keep it going even if many layers aren't doing very much. The company becomes a kind of meta-economic zone where nothing really matters. Politics / fights emerge between departments / layers but has nothing to do with making a better product / service. This can go on for decades if the moat is large enough.
by ryukoposting | 2025-05-31 01:38:35+00:00
I'll preface this by saying I agree with most of what you said.

It'll be a slow burn, though. The projection of rapid, sustained large-scale unemployment assumes that the technology rapidly ascends to replace a large portion of the population at once. AI is not currently on a path to replacing a generalized workforce. Call center agents, maybe.

Second, simply "being better at $THING" doesn't mean a technology will be adopted, let alone quickly. If that were the case, we'd all have Dvorak keyboards and commuter rail would be ubiquitous.

Third, the mass unemployment situation requires economic conditions where not leveraging a presumably exploitable underclass of unemployed persons is somehow the most profitable choice for the captains of industry. They are exploitable because this is not a welfare state, and our economic safety net is tissue-paper thin. We can, therefore, assume their labor can be had at far less than its real worth, and thus someone will find a way to turn a profit off it. Possibly the Silicon Valley douchebags who caused the problem in the first place.
by roenxi | 2025-05-31 01:39:50+00:00
The obvious thing to do is for the farmer to learn how to package their own chickens, then sell it themselves. The hard part of this should be the however-long-it-takes a chicken to grow + feed for the bird.

Since that isn't happening I'd assume that doing so has been made illegal by the regulators for some reason. Or that "chicken packaging" is wildly misnamed, because it sounds like something you can ... just do. People ate chickens for millennia without relying on 3 chicken packers.

I've had neighbours who keep their own chickens (curse them for the mice). It didn't look so hard a quasi-monopoly could form naturally.
by timschmidt | 2025-05-31 01:41:00+00:00
Or just power or wind the clock externally. If it's [electro]mechanical, losing power or forgetting to wind it will only extend the period of time for which it remains closed. Otherwise it would need an internal backup battery, which, if it's only powering an extremely low power clock and nothing mechanical, could last that long with the right chemistry. Solar cells could also last a hundred years, suitably encased, with some reduction in effectiveness due to ionization.