MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rchaud | 2025-05-11 19:42:23+00:00
The kind of work you speak of isn't going to get highlighted at opulent photo op events like "an interview with Stripe". Necessity is the mother of invention, so conservation and repairability advances are being made where they are most needed: poor countries, where people can't afford to just throw thing away because the vendor forcibly EOL'd it. [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-lapt...
by altairprime | 2025-05-11 19:42:30+00:00
There’s no substitute for 401 Auth Required with a resource description of “Please enter any username or password to proceed”. Automated scrapers would be legally liable under US criminal hacking statutes if they started attempting random credentials at random sites, even if one claimed that an AI interpreted the message to indicate it was permissible; meanwhile, human beings can simply follow the directions to be authorized access without vulnerability under any common sense interpretation by a judge.
by oleks_a | 2025-05-11 19:42:36+00:00
I recently launched Final Interview, a browser-based AI assistant designed to help you during real, live job interviews — whether it’s a behavioral round or a technical screen.

It works by listening to your browser tab (not your mic), transcribes what the interviewer is saying in real time, and suggests context-aware answers on the fly — using your resume, previous chats, and even code snippets if you’re in a technical round. It works with any screen-sharing or video platform (Zoom, Meet, Teams, etc.).

It also includes: - AI chat coach for prep and strategy - Resume uploader so answers reflect your real background - Coding interview support with live AI suggestions

No installations, no recording your webcam or audio — just a focused assistant in your browser to help you navigate high-pressure interviews better.
by nateburke | 2025-05-11 19:42:46+00:00
The opportunity for trades-based small business creation in America would feel a lot more tangible... absent the carried interest tax loophole.

Part of the small business trades success narrative is built upon trust, trust that in youth, doing good work will create a reputation within your community that will be remembered, and form the foundation for a brand (your name) that can attract the next generation of youth to be developed, trained, etc.

If successful small businesses only exist to get acquired, so that both workers and customers suffer, that foundation of trust will struggle to persist.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-11 19:42:53+00:00
> That means that linking to external libraries using the older language version will fail unless you keep the old version around simply because the maintainer of the external library DID upgrade.

This just isn’t true. C ABIs has not seen any change with the updated standards and while C++ doesn’t have a stable ABI boundary you shouldn’t have any problem calling older binary interfaces from new code (or new binary interfaces from old code provided you’re not using some new types that just aren’t available). That’s because the standard library authors themselves do strive to guarantee ABI comparability (or at least libc++ and stdlibc++ - I’m not as confident about MSVC but I have to believe this is generally true there too). Indeed the last ABI breakage in c++ was on Linux in C++11 15 years ago because of changes to std::string.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-05-11 19:43:20+00:00
I don't think Apple's battery life wins are primarily from isa. I think it's largely from better target and process optimization/ecosystem control. Intel (and somewhat AMD) make most of their money in servers where what matters is performance/watt in a 100% loaded system. they also are designing for jdec RAM and pcie connectivity (and lots of other industry standards). most of Apple's efficiency advantage comes at the edges, lowering max clock speed, integrating the ram to save power, using custom SSDs where the controller is on the CPU etc.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-11 19:43:57+00:00
> Remove the LTE chip

You can't, it's required for eCall which is a mandatory feature in Europe.

Unfortunately, it's fraught with issues, especially for the very first eCall modules where the hardware supported only 3G (HSPA)... which is being phased out across Europe together with GPRS (1G)/EDGE (2G), leaving these cars without a working eCall system - and no upgraded hardware modules in many cases.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-05-11 19:45:24+00:00
I got a no-name handheld sprayer[1] back in early 2020. It'll absolutely work like a power washer if you turn the T-valve all the way on. That can be painful, probably best to keep the pressure a bit lower.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DR83GQB
by kmeisthax | 2025-05-11 19:46:03+00:00
I went to Stony Brook, so my experience isn't comparable to yours, but I definitely did not encounter any professors doing shit like that[0]. And to be clear, there were a few politically-minded courses in our gen-ed requirements. We had a News Literacy course that was actually really good, that I wish I could force my Facebook-brained parents to sit through.

If SBU had an indoctrination ray, they certainly had it on the wrong setting[1]. I'd already been firmly radicalized by Ron Paul revoLution warriors on Reddit into mainlining LvMI blog posts about Austrian economics and anarcho-capitalism by the end of my first year. It wasn't until I was leaving school when my political positions shifted away from that.

[0] To be clear, SBU notoriously had a heterodox economics professor who was unabashedly a Marxist. I never met him, I only heard about the professor from one of the school newspapers.

[1] Which, given everything else managed by the state of New York, would be totally on-brand for them.
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-11 19:46:41+00:00
I even aegue that Brexit was a boon to EU.

Despite losing a relatively large economy in the block, the results of Brexit were so embarrassingly disastrous for the UK, that even the far right parties in the mainland, that had the common talking point of leaving the EU, had to switch their rhetoric to "reform" the EU (which is weakening it from the inside). Leaving the EU became sort of unpopular.
by stahtops | 2025-05-11 19:46:57+00:00
BMW i3 is great for city/town if you’re OK with electric. Not 4x4, but minimal “assist”, just traction control. Internet remote stuff is optional but nice.

In the fully autonomous future the car I want to own and drive will still be my 6MT 911! :-)

If I want to be driven, I’ll just book a waymo.
by vardump | 2025-05-11 19:47:11+00:00
One could also send a binary stub that sets up fast CPU clock speed and decompresses the rest of the firmware at the RP2350 side. Should be even faster.

Just like old C64 decrunchers and Amiga PowerPacker. Or Fabrice Bellard's LZEXE. (Is there anything that guy did NOT write?!)
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-05-11 19:47:31+00:00
it was not an insult. They called themselves pagans. There was a civil war or two in rome with Pagans on one side, and monotheism on the other. They used the term pagan, as in the "old ways". Many people died to decide the fact of whether "Rome" was going to continue as pagan, or convert to monotheism under the Kai Row.
by throwanem | 2025-05-11 19:48:21+00:00
Dep version clashes were a problem until iirc some time about mid-late last decade, say ~2017.

These days it's perfectly solved at some cost in storage and memory, which in entire fairness are lately about as cheap as any other resource. There is also lately a movement in the space significantly away from "taking dependencies," a phrase I quote to highlight its pejorative connotation: presumptively undesirable, however necessary.

If a large language model is satisfactorily efficient for 2025, then to scruple over the disk space and RAM used in the current model of exhaustive dependency resolution employed by modern JS/TS package managers, seems impossible to regard as other than ideologically motivated.

In any case, I took some care earlier to avoid talking beyond the package.json dependency declaration model, in hopes of forestalling precisely this bikeshed. If you want to talk further about things that don't interest me in this context, please find someone else with whom to do so.

(I don't wish to seem rude in this. Only that I have had that discussion too many more times than I can count, and I have long since stopped expecting it to vary noticeably in a given iteration.)
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-11 19:49:07+00:00
So many issues with that, the copyright office doesn’t police access, which involves consuming, the copyright office polices distributing.

So then for them to determine fair use, they need the department of justice involved to say the access was illegal? since when. just to highlight the absurdity. “Illegal” meaning a terms of service violation despite the fact that everyone using the service can consume copyrighted works? This circles back to the now paradoxical issue about it not being copyright infringement to consume, but requires policing the terms of service by the copyright office which is impossible.

This is too paradoxical to even entertain, but thats why the office led with “current law”, because it is completely unaccommodating to a real social problem. A lot of artists and people are uncomfortable with the current law, and generative AI. New law could patch this except:

Artists don't actually like the generative AI that isn't trained on copyrighted works either.

The laws are going to change too slow and there are already models that fulfill the high bar that detractors started with.

New works that were specifically licensed for use in AI training and compensated.

The outcome is still the same. More people can express themselves. People with years of discipline are no longer needed.

By the time any law could actually address noncompliant models - to this new imagined standard - compliant models will already have obsoleted the same trade.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-11 19:49:43+00:00
> Why does your car need an internet connection?

It requires at least a basic cellular module for eCall in Europe since 2018, so car manufacturers use the already present hardware to provide more services. Maps and updates (live traffic view), internet hotspots for passengers (IIRC, Tesla does that one), entertainment that doesn't rely on a phone, firmware updates, feedback of driving data to insurances (yes, some insurances offer discounts in exchange for proving you "drive safely"), position data for leased/financed cars in case they need to be repo'd, synchronizing stuff like seat and mirror position across a fleet, remote pre-heating, "put packages in my trunk" access for parcel deliveries to thwart porch pirates, uploading data from real-world traffic situations to train AIs (again, Tesla does that one)...

There's quite the laundry list of nifty to nasty things that can be done with a connected car.
by eugenekaliisa | 2025-05-11 19:50:25+00:00
I'm working on a project called Piper to tackle the challenge of securely providing API keys to agents, scripts, and MCPs. Think of it like a password manager, but for your API keys.

Instead of embedding raw keys or asking users to paste them everywhere, Piper uses a centralized model.

You add your keys to Piper once.

When an app (that supports Piper) needs a key, Piper asks you for permission.

It then gives the app an sts token, not your actual key.

You can see all permissions on a dashboard and turn them off with a click.

The idea is to give users back control without crippling their AI tools.

I'm also building out a Python SDK (pyper-sdk) "https://github.com/greylab0/piper-python-sdk" to make this easy for devs.

Developers register their agents and define "variable names" (e.g., open_api_key)

The agent uses the SDK which vends a short-lived token that the agent can use to access the specific user secret.

Also incliudes environment variable fallback in case the agent's user prefers not to use Piper.

This gives agents temporary, scoped access without them ever handling the user's raw long-lived secrets.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-05-11 19:50:25+00:00
Not really sure what you find scare about that. If you set cloudflare as your dns provider, they own the dns response they give you. If they get court ordered to redirect you to a site saying this is illegal. Is your preference for this to be over plaintext?

Cloudflare is a public CA. Your browser or OS trusts it implicitly. If you don’t trust Cloudflare, remove it from that list I guess.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-05-11 19:50:37+00:00
From my perspective, it seems like tech bros are declaring everything they see to be waste without any real familiarity with the specific programs that they're cutting and without any cost-benefit analysis. The program that this poster highlighted - educational materials to prevent SIDS - seems incredibly cost-effective. The actuarial value of an infant's life is very high - certainly in the millions of dollars. And getting parents to understand what they need to do and change their behavior can be very difficult. Spending $10 million a year (to use the poster's number) to make sure that doctors have good educational materials in a variety of languages is worth it from a cost-benefit perspective if it saves a single infant life a year. What's your evidence that it isn't cost-effective?
by throwanem | 2025-05-11 19:51:01+00:00
Presumably I've defined a .toString() method on w that will behave as I wish when implicitly invoked to perform this coercion.

If I haven't, then presumably I'll be satisfied with the inherited default behavior, which will probably look something like "<h1>[object Worker]</h1>".

If I care about this extremely contrived example case, in other words, I'll do something to handle it. If I don't, I won't. If I do, it's been easy for at least 25 years now; iirc .toString() was specified in ES3, which was published in March 2000.
by phire | 2025-05-11 19:51:08+00:00
We aren't talking about legacy instructions. Those have all been culled and replaced by microcode (in fact, most of them were always microcode from the very first 8086, they just never got non-microcoded versions thought the 286, 386, 486, pentium era).

We are talking about how the whole ISA is legacy. How the basic structure of the encoding is complex and hard to decode. How the newer instructions get longer encodings. Or things which can be done with a single instruction on some RISC ISAs take 3 or 4 instructions.
by akudha | 2025-05-11 19:51:50+00:00
I don’t know about Google but many places I have worked had people who say a lot of things but those words don’t actually mean anything. You listen to them for half hour but you can’t summarize why they said in those 30 minutes, no matter how hard you try. Lots of buzzwords and word salads. It isn’t unique to Google. Reminds me of politicians
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-11 19:52:05+00:00
> Trying to graft the Internet onto physical country borders has been fraught from the very beginning

I’d argue Silicon Valley pretending there is a natural arc of digital history towards freedom and enlightenment if we just leave everything alone is distinctly reminiscent of 90s free-trade optimism. And like that philosophy, this too one finds its tombstone in China.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-05-11 19:52:09+00:00
The most clarifying post I've read on attention is from Cosma Shalizi[0] who points out that "Attention" is quite literally just a re-discovery/re-invention of Kernel smoothing. Probably less helpful if you don't come from a quantitative background, but if you do it makes it shockingly clarifying.

Once you realize this "Multi-headed Attention" is just kernel smoothing with more kernels and doing some linear transformation on the results of these (in practice: average or add)!

0. http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-11 19:52:28+00:00
> people should be free to question even that belief that dignity and equality supersede freedom of speech. Who defines what is dignity and equality?

I define what dignity is, and I think you should have none. And I actively incite others to remove your dignity.

If this was real, I am not really sure if you would think I should exercise my free speech to your standards, especially if you thought that harm to you was tangible.

It's all fun and games until we are enacting a Kristallnacht.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-05-11 19:53:13+00:00
You are right.

it's just that the romans themselves had an identity crisis of "pagan" vs. "monothestic". So yes, you are right to call out the fact that situating it in the christian context would be follie.

But the original point still stands. Calling it pagan is still a correct classification of the works in the library.
by gigatexal | 2025-05-11 19:53:37+00:00
I love this. This is what we need more of. My only concern is who will challenge their thinking? Who will teach them critical thinking skills? Who will give them a broader more holistic understanding of the world if not at a university?

I fear we will get ( because we need them ) many thousands more skilled workers in the trades to build more again but they’ll also be too easily bamboozled by charlatans like Trump and vote in policies that will screw us all
by subtlesoftware | 2025-05-11 19:53:49+00:00
If you default on your Klarna loan, you could pay them back in support hours:

> The pilot has started small, with two of the new breed of customer-service agents live now, but the ambition is to tap into candidates such as students or rural populations. “We also know there are tons of Klarna users that are very passionate about our company and would enjoy working for us,” he added.

[from the bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-tu...]
by darth_avocado | 2025-05-11 19:54:26+00:00
I think this is in the broader context of Klarna CEO claiming he had stopped hiring for almost a year because of AI. It was a big talking point for a lot of CEOs and LinkedIn influencers. Big enough that incompetent management across the industry was following Klarna’s steps and reducing staffing (Not because AI, but because they could short staff teams with AI as an excuse). That is why when there is a clear evidence that Klarna was completely wrong, it needs to be talked about.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42432494
by electroly | 2025-05-11 19:54:40+00:00
While I think your page is excellent and loads great, I don't think this is related to the approach described by TFA. You're using the biggest framework around: WordPress. You're just static rendering it. TFA is talking about no build tools at all, using modern web standards, and specifically nothing requiring preprocessing. "... just an editor, a browser, and web standards" is a quote from the page.
by nullc | 2025-05-11 19:55:27+00:00
Pay differs a lot from place to place and sub-industry to subindistry. It's not uncommon to see people comment on redding claiming pay for something or another is far lower than I know of people earning in that field. To go by reddit you might conclude programmers make $40k/yr, since thats what they make in Japan or whatnot.

Not to say they they aren't correct here, but you shouldn't put too much stock in it.

Welding itself is also a pretty broad scope-- are you taking on broken trailer hitches or are you talking about underwater welding of pressure vessels? Programming robots to do automated welding? etc.
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-11 19:55:27+00:00
> You have singled out the most extreme examples

Yes, because it is the topic of this thread. It's about Ireland implementing the EU directives on hate speech, such as Holocaust denial.

> and yet even with that freedom to say racist things, so many non-whites are trying to move INTO the United States

We are taking about Ireland and the EU.

I have no idea why people want to move to the US. More power to them, not my problem.

> Your limits on free speech are a slippery slope. Yes most of the world is authoritarian. I experienced it during the pandemic in a so called First World country.

Ah... I see the problem now. You are one of those people.

I won't reply to you any further. Feel free to have the last word. This conversation will never get anywhere.
by metalman | 2025-05-11 19:55:51+00:00
I tried to undersand how someone with half a wheelbarow load of food scrap and leaves(picture in.article) talked there way into 20 million dollars to compost waste @$1681.8/ton, which is a lot lot more than the wholsale cost of a many kinds of NEW food, but then maybe thats why the plug got pulled.
by pizlonator | 2025-05-11 19:56:04+00:00
It’s a GC allocation, not a traditional malloc allocation. So slower than stack allocation but substantially faster than a malloc call.

And that GC allocation only happens if the compiler can’t prove that it’s nonescaping. The overwhelming majority of what look like stack allocations in C are proved nonescaping.

Consequently, while Fil-C does have overheads, this isn’t the one I worry about.
by famouswaffles | 2025-05-11 19:56:17+00:00
>Python is not popular in ML because it is a great language but because of the ecosystem: numpy, pandas, pytorch and everything built on those allows you to do the higher level ML coding without having to reinvent efficient matrix operations for a given hardware infrastructure.

Ecosystems don't poof into existence. There are reasons people chose to write those libraries, sometimes partly or wholly in other languages for python in the first place.

It's not like python was older than or a more prominent language than say C when those libraries began.
by jruohonen | 2025-05-11 19:56:24+00:00
"Typically, in 97% of the cases the OP does not change his mind but in about 3% of the cases he does."

Another way to put the "someone is wrong in the Internet" thing.

"This brings us closer to my central argument: the AI's success was'’t due to superior reasoning or a reliance on facts and logic, but rather because it effectively 'hacked' the mechanics of persuasion."

Indeed, and that's what many people here too have been saying for a long time. Though note that with 3% it is all questionable to say the least.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-11 19:57:23+00:00
I am afraid that a few facts cannot be denied. The Wikipedia article details several things: that she was in some sort of clandestine romance with the co-founder, Ramesh Balwani. That she alleged sexual assault and abuse from him and other people in the course of her rise to notoriety. That she allegedly married Billy Evans and definitely had children by him, as well. That the most recent conception of her child may or may not have been a bargaining chip for her criminal trial. I don't know about other men, but to me, her photos indicate that she is extremely attractive, and seems to be into Steve Jobs type turtleneck chic, which is an interesting angle for the financial villain role she's assumed.

In light of all these facts, I, for one, would say that "partner" is an impoverished term to use in this headline, because what really does that signify? A business partner? Come on. There are obstacles here to clarity of terminology, due to the dubious nature of her legal marriage and such. But this is a woman who seems to have leveraged her sexuality to every advantage, as well as being taken advantage of in return. Not a good scene!
by abound | 2025-05-11 19:57:57+00:00
I was curious about this, so I looked for data from prior to 1970 [1] and it's all clearly trending in the same direction. So 1970 isn't special or misleading in this case, there does not appear to be any bamboozlement going on.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
by imp0cat | 2025-05-11 19:58:03+00:00
But some do, don't they? It seems to me that Hyundai will initiate the phone connection right when you open the driver's door. Then, as you sit down and start the car, the infotainment has already booted up and the phone connection comes online almost immediately.

Also, during short stops, the screens go black but the connection is kept up, so when you re-start, there is no delay.