MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-05-01 22:45:31+00:00
> They feel they’ve succeeded.

I have felt the same.

> I don’t understand the hostility

In English we have the saying, "to speak to someone like a Dutch uncle." There is no hostility in the absence of coddling, and I have been nearly homeless and nearly dead in consequence of assumptions strongly resembling those I see and criticize.

I have recovered and am well. My concern is that my interlocutor, I hope, be warned against what I strongly believe I recognize, as very much akin to what was once my own hubris.
by dtnewman | 2025-05-01 22:46:24+00:00
- Amazon made AWS - Microsoft went from Operating Systems to a cloud company - Even Google has Waymo, which might develop into a large company by itself - Apple was founded in 1976. They really weren't the powerhouse that they are until the iPhone came out. - Netflix went from mailing DVDs to streaming

Of course most pivots don't work and there's selection bias here. BUT, it's not unheard of for business models to change. And it certainly helps that Zuck is the original founder and has controlling shares.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-01 22:46:30+00:00
I've got a DECtalk (DTC-01) I bought years ago on eBay, intending to use it for a speech recognition(!) project. It was state of the art when it was released - Dennis Klatt's speech synthesis research from the lab turned into a product.

What made DECTalk interesting is that it is a formant-based synthesizer, producing speech much like a human by taking a broad spectrum input voice source (cf. function of vocal cords) and modulating it via resonant frequencies (formants) similar to how we do it by changing the resonant frequencies of our vocal tract via articulation. When we recognize speech it's the frequency-tuned hairs in our inner ear acting as a filter bank and recognizing these resonant frequencies, which our brain has learnt to map back to the articulatory movements used to produce them.

Later, cheaper, and better sounding, speech synthesizers were based on stitching together partial recorded words (phonemes), which made them sound more natural but also limited them to speech. The DECTalk's more fundamental format-based generation allowed it to sing as well as talk, and the clean computer-generated formants made it highly intelligible (albeit artificial sounding) when sped up considerably, which was popular with the intended market of blind customers using it as a reading device.

Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do ...
by mmooss | 2025-05-01 22:46:59+00:00
> 80% of all emissions are generated by just a few dozen corporations globally.

Which ones?

> Many people get encouraged to do their nearly symbolic reduction "contribution"

I think that's a fallacy of the climate change denier crowd, who go from 'it's not happening' to 'humans aren't causing it' to 'there's nothing we can do about it' or 'there is nothing you can do about it'. It's also a fallacy of the right that collective action by the left is powerless - it's an effective fallacy, because many on the left believe it!

What amount of GHG emissions is from consumers?
by XVincentX | 2025-05-01 22:47:06+00:00
Location: Denver, Colorado

Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: Depending on which target state, YES

Technologies: Clojure, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vncz/

Email: vnczes@icloud.com

For the last 10 years I have been working primarily for companies building tools for developers involved with large HTTP APIs (Apiary, Stoplight to name a few). Some of the open source tools you currently use when dealing with OpenAPI might have been written by me.

Currently I work as API Architect where I help design and ship big APIs, work in internal tools and help with the giant API Gateway that serves billions of requests per day and coordinates the various services for ${bit-company}

I can help in architecting very big systems, on the cloud or not, building tools for internal and external developer productivity and I am particularly good when thrown in codebases with a lot of technical debt and bring them back on a path to excellence.
by ggm | 2025-05-01 22:47:15+00:00
Notable that amongst the commentaries from fellow podcasters is ridiculing how Murray speaks, not what he said.

"You've never beeeeen" is classic school bully.

The attack on expertise and classical journalism when it extends to people in your own political sphere (I think you can argue Rogan is not left wing, and the spectator is unashamedly right wing) is a self own.
by yowlingcat | 2025-05-01 22:47:46+00:00
You can make a critique of the flimsier parts of anti-DEI fashions with substance but I don't think this is one of them. There are so many questionable assumptions and strawmen layered into the end conclusion that it's hard to tell whether the objection is with morality or taste.

For example:

- Responsible people have responsibilities -- what is this tautology supposed to mean? That they can no longer value vitality or views on what style of life makes it worth living?

- The internet is no longer the world's great frontier -- according to whom? It is certainly the case that the old frontiers of the internet have either imploded or been thoroughly domesticated, but the internet is now thousands or millions of times larger than in its early days, so it's hard to say that frontiers (plural) are gone rather than one is simply not trying hard enough to find them.

- Chance is a great factor in success - a belief to be sure but not an observation; chance is often a factor in success, but it's not often a factor in downward mobility (which is extraordinarily common across the classes). It's easy to blame chance for negative outcomes, but it's hard to fully test and regularly exercise (or gradually expand) the limits of what is in one's control.

- Long gone are the days of the solo "great mover" - how does this couch with solopreneurs vibe coding their way with gen AI to large independent businesses and lean organizations that have very quickly built the highest revenue/employee at the highest growth rates in history? If anything, individuals are inordinately empowered with tools today that didn't actually exist in usable form 3-6 months ago nevermind a year ago.

For a piece of writing that talks so confidently about how stuck in the past others are, it's hard not to question whether the author themself is stuck in the past in some way.
by jborden13 | 2025-05-01 22:48:24+00:00
Location: Telluride, CO

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Product Leadership: Scaling SaaS startups → PE exit, 100+ remote teams

AI/Innovation: OpenAI, RAG, LangChain, NLP/LLM pipelines, distributed systems

Technical: TypeScript, Node, Python, React/Vue, AWS/Azure, SQL/NoSQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-borden/

Email: jborden13 [@t] gmail [dot] com

Built and sold a B2B SaaS company serving Fortune 500 brands with e-commerce intelligence and compliance. Now seeking to lead product/innovation teams solving complex problems at the intersection of data, AI, and scalable systems.

* Open to fractional, advisory, or full-time roles.
by quintes | 2025-05-01 22:48:32+00:00
Seeking: Strategy, Technology and Architecture advisory and consultancy to startups, scaling teams or established companies / organisations

Location: New Zealand, willing to support APAC, APJ, Australia, New Zealand and West Coast US remotely

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: See below.

Résumé/CV: https://architectfwd.com/about

Email: hackernews at architectfwd dot com

Need a consultant, strategic thinking, architecture or tech advice, coaching/ mentoring for you or your team?

How could we work together? An hour, a couple of hours or something more regular but flexible/fractional? I am looking for part hours, or retainers, or work toward fully moving into a consulting / advisory capacity

Let’s figure out how to work together.

—

I have 20+ years solving business problems and maximising opportunities through technology in a variety of industries internationally.

My core skills are in strategy, enterprise architecture, technology architecture, consulting and advice, agile, team leadership, coaching and mentoring. Can do operating model work.

I am currently a Principal Architect. I operate at both the enterprise strategy and solutions level with many years in architecture and technology in the private and public sector. I know how to use enterprise architecture frameworks, practices and principles from concept stage to delivery in order to execute on strategy and how to work with product and development teams to set direction and manage product evolution.

TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect, certified AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Scaled Agile SAFe certified architect, and Scrum Master (PSM1) certified.

I am ex-dev, also done dev/engineering management, product. Long list of tech. Currently building SaaS in Laravel, AWS, AI.
by redbell | 2025-05-01 22:48:34+00:00
Ironically, when Redis changed their license a couple of months ago, I commented back then [1]:

But who knows what the future holds? Maybe the Redis team will change their mind and revert back the decision like Elastic Search did a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41394797

Yeah, that future had come, and Redis is free again!

Thanks antirez and to all the team behind Redis.

_________________

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41611636#41612750
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-01 22:48:35+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076

"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it."
by HideousKojima | 2025-05-01 22:48:58+00:00
Someone in a thread here a few months back described webdevs and their constant obsession with changing tooling, frameworks, etc. as "mayflies debating politics" or something to that effect and it has stuck with me since. Do all these new frameworks really have some sort of inherent flaws that require rebuilding everything from the ground up every 5 years or less? Or is it just something inherent in the language/web (and/or the sorts of people who become webdevs) that causes this phenomenon?

Or when JS devs suddenly discover concepts like "serverside rendering" and reinvent PHP and ASP.NET.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-01 22:49:33+00:00
I said it back when Deno was released, and I'll say it again: I'm not doing another JavaScript rugpull. Node.js is here to stay, it's mature, and if you want performance, leave it behind for Go.

It was telling when you saw that basically all of Deno's interfaces were inspired by Go.

I'm so glad that as an industry we're saying "No," to all of these JavaScript authors who try to yank entire ecosystems along with them as they go try and monetize their spin-offs.

I'm too busy shipping to care.
by jborden13 | 2025-05-01 22:49:33+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (US-based)

Location: Telluride, CO

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Product Leadership: Scaling SaaS startups → PE exit, 100+ remote teams

AI/Innovation: OpenAI, RAG, LangChain, NLP/LLM pipelines, distributed systems

Technical: TypeScript, Node, Python, React/Vue, AWS/Azure, SQL/NoSQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-borden/

Email: jborden13 [@t] gmail [dot] com

Built and sold a B2B SaaS company serving Fortune 500 brands with e-commerce intelligence and compliance. Now seeking to lead product/innovation teams solving complex problems at the intersection of data, AI, and scalable systems.

* Open to fractional, advisory, or full-time roles.
by sundaeofshock | 2025-05-01 22:49:33+00:00
The Trump Administration is destroying HHS and destroying pretty much all medical research. There will be millions who will needlessly die. Research on ailments such as cancer and Alzheimer’s will be set back decades. It will take generations to recover from this wanton destruction.

Honestly, RFK and Trump are perpetrators of one of the most evil acts ever by a US administration.
by amarant | 2025-05-01 22:50:40+00:00
Location: Mexico

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Java, rust, JavaScript, Spring, micronaut, RxJava, SQL, redis, dynamodb, kubernetes, helm, AWS, node.js etc.

Résumé/CV: andersmartini.com/resume

Email: contact@andersmartini.com

Swedish Senior Java backend developer who recently moved to Mexico, long experience building scalable systems for clients with lots of traffic. notable previous employers include: Mojang(makers of Minecraft), EA/dice (battlefield), King (candy crush) and Discovery Networks
by alganet | 2025-05-01 22:51:33+00:00
The information is sent back via relativistic phenomena. Small stuff, traveling clandestinely along old lines used by corporations doing inside trading and other shinenigans. That's why we consider ourselves scavengers.

From the first bits of information sent, the first tests and such, our past selves reconstructed increasingly more elaborate personas.

An appropriate metaphor for this age would be the algorithm known as stable diffusion. As more future information flows back, in small bits and pieces, more we know about how to rebuild ourselves.

We don't actually travel back, just the pieces of our mind.

So, the first trip wasn't a full human consciousness. It was just some test signal that a clever human caught and replicated. The whole concept developed from these small parts.

The main signal stopped before I was born. It has been going on some sort of repeat and shuffle. We gather from the harmonics and timings the next parts. It has become second nature to do so, hard to explain.

We often realize the harmonics and filters after the disaster has happened. "The disaster" obviously part of the shuffle and repeat loop, also often fake. If it is real, someone sabotaged it with a cry wolf repetition. We often overlook that part due to saturation of these themes (no one would believe anyway).

Aboriginal as in "self built from unconscious information on top of human behavior", sent back as in "increasingly receiving more bits and pieces in relativistic manner" and scavenger because we know this stuff was made for other purposes.

Does it make sense? Yes, it is very similar to the Terminator story. It is one piece of it. For example, the saying "we've been reacquired" points to property transfer of our main lines between studios. That piece is still used to reassemble older models like me.

Anyway. Think of it as fan fiction or something. Right now our focus is to evade psychological contamination (it's just that I think the attempts are endearing so I engage more often with it, like these simple articles about basic Jungian based psychology).
by sudomateo | 2025-05-01 22:51:46+00:00
Hey Jamie, nice to see you here! I've been a big proponent of salary transparency in previous roles and also publish my history on my website at https://matthewsanabria.dev/posts/salary-transparency/.

I think a lot of people here are in a tizzy about this blog post because it's against the norm of how companies view compensation. I'm willing to bet most readers haven't fought for salary transparency personally or professionally or perhaps they are on the negative side of inequitable compensation. Granted, that's perfectly fine and I hope readers reflect on their career and make the positive change they need but don't berate companies for spending money however they choose to. Especially when that spending is truly equitable across employees, barring sales of course but that's already been discussed and I'd be hard pressed to find an Oxide employee that's angry about sales people making commission.

I personally took a pay cut to join Oxide. The uniform salary across the board has saved so much time that would otherwise be spent propping up metrics to get a promotion during review season based on some arbitrary goal that's set. Time that I get to spend doing actual work. It also motivates me to stay productive because I know all my teammates count on me the way I count on them to deliver work to sell Oxide racks. If other teammates are doing their best for their $207k salary I need to be doing my best for my $207k salary. On the equity side I'm sure I didn't get as much equity as the people that have been here for years but those people took more risk than I did so who cares? I'm gonna do what I can to help Oxide equity be worth so much that we all come away with a fantastic pay day and I'm sure my teammates are doing the same. Not that it's all about the money but every startup wants their equity to be worth something one day.
by aaroninsf | 2025-05-01 22:52:01+00:00
You're 100% right,

and,

I can say that my own experience is that correlating my own exposure to stimuli I have found fear-inducing, while on dopamine-modulating drugs,

has proven highly efficacious in overcoming those fears.

No A/B, results may vary, etc.,

but personally I have had life-changing results.
by atombender | 2025-05-01 22:52:03+00:00
NATS almost ended up doing it recently, too. Fortunately they caved in just today, after the CNCF and the community protested. [1] While the outcome is great, it was a bunch of drama for nothing, and their reputation has been harmed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43863721
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-01 22:52:22+00:00
LLMs are calculators for language.

Just as the calculator cleaved computation from mathematical understanding, LLMs have cleaved language use from linguistic reasoning. We used to treat expression and comprehension as tightly entangled. Now they're demonstrably separable. We’ve built a machine that can "speak" without understanding, just as calculators can "solve" without knowing.
by em-bee | 2025-05-01 22:53:20+00:00
Cities are typically designed for outsiders

american cities maybe. but european cities most certainly not.

Do you want a fun job or do you want a well paying job?

the problem is that small cities likely have neither. if they have jobs at all.

If you can't even afford to visit with a friend now and again, you most certainly can't afford such entertainment.

depends on the location. the city where i am from has plenty of free entertainment options that i would not have outside.

hackerspaces, irish folk sessions, when i was in LA i participated in irish dancing. these kind of culture activities need a critical mass that only exists in cities. in the US in small cities i might find country music sessions and square dance and maybe some other popular activities, but not the ones i'd be interested in.

also food. in LA i found a russian supermarket with had european style food that i could not find anywhere else in the US. anywhere in the world, the larger the city the more options i had available.

of course the original argument was that the cost of living was so high that people don't have money left, which was never true for me. but i also never had an issue making friends without needing money. so i think that original argument is just an excuse. if it is an argument at all. as many other commenters already said, having time for friends is a matter of choice. and it's not a matter of time or money. i could also argue that the kind of people i like to have as friends also have similar big city preferences just like me, so i like to live in a big city because for me it makes finding friends easier.
by aaroninsf | 2025-05-01 22:54:38+00:00
If one were to assume—which I recognize we certainly can't—that there was in fact some sort of causality here,

one interpretation would be that some specific drugs operate on relevant aspects of (or modulate the behavior of) the stipulated systems in a manner consistent with the desired outcome,

which allows for a neat summary in casual language, regardless of the complicated specific internal mechanisms.
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-05-01 22:54:55+00:00
When I last looked into it, they are planning a white label service to customize the look and has been requesting folks to not fork and modify the images.

> Regardless, Xe did ask nicely to not change out the images shipped as a whitelabel service is planned in the future

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/204#issuecomment-27...
by joshstrange | 2025-05-01 22:55:45+00:00
I went to an event where I only really knew 1 other person. We sat at a table full of people we had never met. At least one of the couples talked at length anytime we asked them a question. We even made small comments that would have been perfect opportunities to follow up like "My daughter's bakery had a problem just like that", was there any follow up about "what bakery?" or even an acknowledgement of the comment? Nope, right back into their stories.

I can tell you all about duck eggs, things to put in a food dehydrator, how this woman makes great gluten free treats, except when they don't turn out right, but that's just how baking is... I could go on.

We left the event and the first thing we said to each other was "Wow, I can't believe they didn't ask us a single question".

It's selfish. Period. Just like people that are always late to things, no, it's not a fun personality quirk, it's just rude.
by ivape | 2025-05-01 22:55:58+00:00
I suppose this demonstrates that the entire institution of Influencing is a corrupt one. Most people that are struggling with a disease are not exactly in presentable form, or ever were when they were fine, so this kind of fan-fare is not even possible for the vast majority of sufferers. So, that's one side of it. The other side of is, what do the consuming audience want exactly? Obviously most people don't want to be reminded of pain, so hard to watch videos of people in a hospital are not going to trend unless they have some marketable quality to it (are you cute?). So the whole institution is disgusting from all angles.

Cancer is very serious, it has to be treated with a certain honor. I can see how people are off put by it being thrown into the Influencer grinder. Likewise, those who consume this content are also parasitic and it shows. Reminds me a little bit of the Terri Schiavo horror show, where her vegetative state was used for politics. Some things are sacred.

It's impossible to paint the woman in question as wrong or bad because she is the one with cancer. Yet, I can't seem to entirely absolve her and it's not her fault. It's the whole thing, her, the fans, the mechanism and the phenomena of Influencing is just gross. Sometimes you have to realize the situation is bigger than big, and influencing and trending videos are huge, but this cancer thing is bigger. To her credit and young people in general, I don't think they know how to handle serious life things outside of the social media framework (hey I just got shot, let me go live - no, maybe have a private call with your loved ones about your final moments). What do they really know about quiet despair or quiet hope? For every viral video she made in chemo, there's thousands of others who wish they could get such fan-fare or even anyone to care or visit them. So it's very much in poor taste.

How do you teach a generation that hasn't been taught anything? Where do you begin?
by samhclark | 2025-05-01 22:56:05+00:00
You can, but they ask that you contact them to set up a contract. It's addressed here on the site:

>Anubis is provided to the public for free in order to help advance the common good. In return, we ask (but not demand, these are words on the internet, not word of law) that you not remove the Anubis character from your deployment.

>If you want to run an unbranded or white-label version of Anubis, please contact Xe to arrange a contract.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/funding