MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anenefan | 2025-05-31 00:40:36+00:00
Oxygen and water also enables piracy ... appropriately priced product in the first instance, any piracy that then occurred would be financially unimportant. Charging big bucks for crud isn't going to win out - people who can't afford the top or too high tier pricing will eventually just choose to view it via a cheaper option. Using harder to break DRM - it will be broken or circumvented even if albeit the resulting pirated content is at a much lower quality - people will accept that's as good as it needs to, and that's how it'll be shared.
by pvg | 2025-05-31 00:40:58+00:00
I do not believe that I even came close to breaking any rules or that I even went slightly off topic.

I'm afraid you're simply mistaken about that. It's not an ambiguous thing, it's repeated a bunch of times over and there are reams of mod comments about it. You don't owe anyone here pat on the back. You do owe everyone here basic decency or if you can't manage that, simply abstaining from bilecommenting.

This is also one of the reason I was flagged

You could ask the moderators to remove the flag if that's the case.
by okayestjoel | 2025-05-31 00:41:44+00:00
This is my game! I was recently curious about how many 5x5 nonograms can be solved purely with logic, no guessing. After running my nonogram solver on all 33,554,432 possible pixel combinations in a 5x5 grid, it turns out the answer is 24,976,511.

Inspired by One Million Checkboxes, I thought it would be cool to create a realtime, collaborative nonogram game where we can collectively try to complete all ~25 million of these puzzles. Just launched it this afternoon and its already at 65k solved!

Let me know if you have any feedback.
by awful | 2025-05-31 00:41:48+00:00
Agreed; went into Fry's, off Lawrence?, just before it closed. Visited area on and off again over the years since. Central Computer did seem to have what I needed for that moment, but the area seemed barren, was simply not the same, and especially after experiencing Fry's, Weird Stuff, Halted?, Anchor, Computer Literacy, et al. in the late 1980s and 90s.
by droopyEyelids | 2025-05-31 00:42:02+00:00
Unfortunately, unionization is not “coming back with a vengeance” in the United States and it is not allowed to by our laws.

Our laws ban: sector unionization, sympathy and general strikes, and secondary boycotts.

On top of that, we have a very narrow definition of employee, an employers can permanently replace striking workers. The right to strike can even be taken away with a mandated cooling off period.

Even having one of those factors can hamstring unionization in a country, so they’re pretty much never going to “come back with a vengance” here
by chatmasta | 2025-05-31 00:42:21+00:00
A friend of a friend told me about an organization that has a steady income from existing products maintained by just enough engineers to keep the lights on, while the other 80% of the organization is building the “new version” that no customer asked for and that nobody is currently paying for. There’s one product that is used by more than 80% of customers that’s maintained by 2 developers and that the CEO isn’t aware even exists.
by dangus | 2025-05-31 00:45:18+00:00
Honestly, reading your comment I'm not sure how I can be generous enough with it to not consider the main purpose of it to be xenophobia/racism/nationalism.

As an example of Tata’s general competency, Tata owns Jaguar Range Rover group which reported their best profit in a decade for the fiscal year ending March 31.

It’s certainly very possible for any help desk to be an attack vector regardless of the nationality of the employee.

So it seems to me the main point of your comment is to hate on an Indian company solely for being Indian and to stereotype Indian companies as low quality and low cost.

Tata Consultancy is a global company that includes offices in places like Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta.
by _m_p | 2025-05-31 00:47:30+00:00
In this vein, people might be interested in reading about the Dawson City Film Find!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Film_Find

> In 1929, Clifford Thomson, then employed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce and also treasurer of the hockey association, solved the problem of the library's stock of film and the inadequate ice rink. Thomson took 500,000 feet of film and stacked the reels in the pool, covered the reels with boards and leveled the rink with a layer of earth. The DAAA continued to receive new nitrate films which would later fuel the destruction of the entire complex in a fire in 1951. The films stored under the ice rink were preserved by permafrost and were later uncovered in 1978 when a new recreation center was being built.
by abletonlive | 2025-05-31 00:47:40+00:00
So your critique of AI is that it can't read your mind and figure out what to do?

> But how is AI supposed to replace anyone when you have either to get lucky or to correctly set up all these things you write about first? Who will do all that and who will pay for it?

I mean....i'm doing it and getting paid for it so...
by yardie | 2025-05-31 00:48:16+00:00
Almost every Hollywood movie you see,that wasn’t filmed in LA, was basically a taxpayer backed project. Look at any film with international locations and in the film credits you’ll see a lots of state-backed, loans, grants, and tax credits. Large part of the film crew and cast are flown out to those locations. And if you think LA was expensive, location pay is even more so. So production is flying out the most expensive parts of the crew to save a few dollars on craft service?
by nojvek | 2025-05-31 00:48:20+00:00
Obviously depends on how they delivered read after write.

Likely they don't have to physically move data of objects, but the layer that writes and reads coordinates based on some version control guarantees e.g in database land MVCC is a prominent paradigm. They'd need a distributed transactional kv store that tells every reader what the latest version of the object is and where to read from.

An object write only acknowledges finished if the data is written and kv store is updated with new version.

They could do this bucket by bucket in parallel since buckets are isolated from each other.
by timschmidt | 2025-05-31 00:48:23+00:00
> I think we can safety assume people in 100k years aren’t going to randomly stumble upon the elephants foot.

I think that's a big assumption. Historically, humans are interested in exploring abandoned and forbidden sites and go out of their way to do so.

> part of the new safe confinement project is to “facilitate the disassembly and decommissioning of the reactor.”

I've seen zero concrete plans or funding for this. And seeing as how the site is currently in the middle of a war zone, and has been hit by explosive drones[1], I think it's safe to say that things aren't going to plan.

1: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-protec...
by suprjami | 2025-05-31 00:49:54+00:00
Both TFA and the article it links to go too far in either direction.

The author of this is a web developer so has a lot more to lose. Yes there will always be people who pay for a human made creative website, but that market has decreased for the foreseeable future. I can't blame them for being hostile and tired, I would be too.

Simply acknowledging criticism of AI then saying "anyway" isn't really an argument either. "So do knives" is bullshit, nobody with knives wants to eliminate interns and create 20% unemployment like Amodei claims.

One thing this makes me realise is that an AI generated web largely stops growing. We've all joked about webdevs perpetually porting to JavaScript framework-of-the-week. If most websites are generated from a set of historical training data and we force web devs to diversify away, then there will be few people left to make a "web 4.0" or whatever version you consider is after the modern web.

Hopefully you like hamburger menus, looks like they're here to stay.
by smeej | 2025-05-31 00:50:44+00:00
This comment just isn't even remotely connected to U.S. reality. Transactions into and out of USDC are taxable just like transactions into and out of USD, and the IRS can every bit as easily find the owners of these accounts as they can offshore bank accounts or anything else someone might use to try to evade taxes.

I'm confident that any other country who cares to (i.e., anywhere people bother to try to evade taxes) can also do so.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-31 00:51:41+00:00
Their comment reads to me as if businesses hire employees (regardless of the work they do, since we are discussing employees that don't do anything) because investors consider employees as R&D (even useless ones).

Either way, there is no data I have seen to suggest market cap correlates with number of employees. The strongest correlation I see is to net income (aka profit), and after that would be growing revenues and/or market share.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-31 00:52:10+00:00
Disagree, Kzinti Lesson.

It's pretty much impossible to come up with a stardrive that doesn't have a weapon potential that makes nukes look like firecrackers.

1) The direct Kzinti Lesson: Anything that can push a ship to relativistic velocity produces incredibly energetic exhaust. The efficiency of the drive is directly related to how well you can point it in one direction, thus making it very hard to make something that isn't a weapon. And in a population-attack scenario such a starship throwing rocks is devastating. At 86% of lightspeed a rock hits with it's annihilation energy. At 94% of lightspeed it hits as hard as if it were antimatter.

2) Jump drives (whatever you call them) still need to get somewhere without waiting years. While it doesn't have nearly the planet-killing potential of a relativistic starship it's still quite capable of throwing city-killers.

3) Intertialess (Lensman series). No direct weapon potential but they knew they couldn't crack the defenses of Jarvenon--so the slapped inertialess drives to a couple of planets and used them as a nutcracker.

Known physics only leaves the first scenario as possible, I threw out the others to cover the various sci-fi drives. I can't think of any story that uses something that doesn't fit one of these three categories.
by donnachangstein | 2025-05-31 00:52:22+00:00
> what are you even doing?

Forensics, among a hundred other things.

> Literal amateurs can launch a WooCommerce site from nothing in a weekend

Selling low-volume horseshit out of your garage is in no way comparable to running a major eCommerce site.

> two Stanford grads in YC can do a hundred-fold better than that.

No they literally can't.

> Yes, a big site is more complicated, maybe there will be some frazzled manual data entry in Excel sheets while your team gets the "real" site back up

Great idea, we'll have Chloe in Accounts manage all the orders in a million-row Excel sheet. Only problem might be they come in at 50 orders a minute, but don't worry I hear she's a fast typist.
by kstrauser | 2025-05-31 00:54:09+00:00
I fully, completely support the idea of visa programs running like that. If you want to pay top dollar for someone with unique skills to move here and help build our economy, I am fully behind this.

But wanna use it as a way to undercut American jobs with 80-hour-a-week laborers, as I've personally witnessed? Nah.

My criticisms against the H1B program are completely against the companies who abuse it. By all means, please do use it to bring in world-class scientists, researchers, and engineers!
by ryandrake | 2025-05-31 00:54:52+00:00
People keep tossing around this 50% figure like it's a fact, but do you really think these companies just have half their staff just not doing anything? It just seems absurd, and I honestly don't believe it.

Everywhere I've ever worked, we had 3-4X more work to do than staff to do it. It was always a brutal prioritization problem, and a lot of good projects just didn't get done because they ended up below the cut line, and we just didn't have enough people to do them.

I don't know where all these companies are that have half their staff "not doing anything productive" but I've never worked at one.

What's more likely? 1. Companies are (for reasons unknown) hiring all these people and not having them do anything useful, or 2. These people actually do useful things, but HN commenters don't understand those jobs and simply conclude they're doing nothing?
by leoshimo | 2025-05-31 00:55:00+00:00
Author here - wanted to drop some context on the project from the README:

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[vrs](https://github.com/leoshimo/vrs) is a personal programming runtime - a sandbox for building my “endgame” software platform.

The goal is to create a computing environment that brings me joy.

Each piece - the language, runtime, tools, and more - is designed as part of one holistic experience.

I live on a collection of personal software running on vrs every day, evolving the runtime as I go.

Inspired by systems I love - Emacs, Erlang, Unix, Plan 9, and Hypermedia - combining their powerful ideas into something that feels just right for me.

Built at the [Recurse Center](https://www.recurse.com/).
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-31 00:57:31+00:00
What distro doesn't have it that you need? Skimming https://repology.org/project/valkey/versions it seems to be in nixpkgs, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and EPEL. Of those, the only caveat I immediately see is that Debian only got it in 13 or 12+backports.
by 9x39 | 2025-05-31 00:57:43+00:00
> 1. Plumber is a skilled trade, but the "skilled" parts will eventually be replaced with 'smart' tools. You'll still need to hire a minimum wage person to actually go into each unique home and find the plumbing, but the tools will do all the work and will not require an expensive tradesman's skills to work.

But if you have to be trained in the use of a variety of 'smart' tools - that sounds like engineering to know what tool to deploy and how.

It's also incredibly optimistic about future tools - what smart tool fixes leaky faucets, hauls and installs water heaters, unclogs or replaces sewer mains, runs new pipes, does all this work and more to code, etc? There are cool tools and power tools and cool power tools out there, but vibe plumbing by the unskilled just fills someone's house with water or worse...

> 2. Waiter serving food, already being replaced with kiosks, and quite a bit of the "back of the house" cooking areas are already automated. It will only take a slow cultural shift towards ordering food through technology-at-the-table, and robots wheeling your food out to you. We've already accepted kiosks in fast food and self-checkout in grocery stores. Waiters are going bye-bye.

Takeout culture is popular among GenZ, and we're more likely to see walk-up orders with online order ahead than a facsimile of table service.

Why would cheap restaurants buy robots and allow a dining room to go unmanned and risk walkoffs instead of just skipping the whole make-believe service aspect and run it like a pay-at-counter cafeteria? You're probably right that waiters will disappear outside of high-margin fine dining as labor costs squeeze margins until restaurants crack and reorganize.

>3. Shelf restocking, very easy to imagine automating this with robotics. Picking a product and packing it into a destination will be solved very soon, and there are probably hundreds of companies working on the problem.

Do-anything-like-a-human robots might crack that, but today it's still sci-fi. Humans are going to haul things from A to B for a bit longer, I think. I bet we see drive-up and delivery groceries win via lights-out warehouses well before "I, Robot" shelf stockers.
by smeej | 2025-05-31 00:57:45+00:00
The existence of wire transfers, cashier's checks, and, you know, CASH undermine your claim that people in payment networks don't desire irreversible transactions.

Basically everybody who's ever sold something in person wants to know they get to keep the money when the other person walks away with their stuff. It's the fraudsters in those everyday transactions who want reversibility.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-31 01:00:03+00:00
Yep. And costs are truly insane in Greater London. Bay Area level housing prices and Boston level goods prices, but Mississippi or Alabama level salaries.

But that's my point - salaries are factored based on labor market demands and comparative performance of your macroeconomy (UK high finance and law salaries are comparable with the US), not CoL.
by quantadev | 2025-05-31 01:00:15+00:00
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people write shoddy ambiguous prompts and then blame the LLM for not being able to read their minds.

If you write a prompt with perfect specificity as to what you want done, an agent like "Github Copilot+Claude" can work at about the same level as a senior dev. I do it all day long. It writes complex SQL, complex algorithms, etc.

Saying it only does boilerplate well reminds me of my mother who was brainwashed by a PBS TV show into thinking LLMs can only finish sentences they've seen before and cannot reason thru things.
by david-gpu | 2025-05-31 01:01:22+00:00
Disclaimer: This used to be my bread and butter, but I'm really rusty after five years of not working on this sort of stuff.

That said, after quickly skimming the example AI-generated kernel I am not seeing anything novel there. While working at nVidia I did see a handful of techniques that, frankly, blew my mind.

Thus, I wonder what makes this AI-generated kernel faster than the standard pyTorch kernel, which I presume is simply delegating all the heavy lifting onto cuDNN. My guess, and it's just a guess, is that they are comparing the fastest AI-generated kernel they produced for a very particular set of parameters against whatever kernel cuDNN is picking for that same scenario, and perhaps the subsystem inside cuDNN that picks which kernel to execute out of the very large database it manages chose a suboptimal candidate. Researchers tend to completely ignore this issue and assume that cuDNN is always able to choose the very best kernel in every possible scenario, something that is just not realistic.

Maybe there is something else going on, but these sort of "we have beaten this heavily optimized proprietary library" always seem to miss this very important point.

Kind regards to any NVidia insiders who may read this. You guys are the brightest people I've ever met.
by smeej | 2025-05-31 01:01:26+00:00
Bank of America decided I really had been in rural France buying tires when I had proof I was at work, at my desk, in Boston at the times of the purchases, and the card was in my hand. It's been 20 years and I still won't ever do business with them again.

It was much more fun, at least, when Amazon tried to tell me one of my children must have taken my card and made the purchases. I took it to mean the children I have not conceived yet will have access to time travel, in which case I'm not even mad. Pranking me in the past deserves whatever trinket they bought!
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-31 01:02:25+00:00
> Our laws ban ... secondary boycotts

I never understood this. How can boycotts be banned? Seems inherently unconstitutional to me.

Not that it really matters to me in the sense that it's definitely an area where I'd do as I pleased regardless of the law. But I've always found the headlines that I see from time to time odd.
by maxgrinev | 2025-05-31 01:02:26+00:00
You're right about the abstraction concern. The vast majority of the workflow stays in structured YAML - Python is only needed for two specific points: constructing HTTP request bodies and parsing JSON responses. These are inherently dynamic operations that need real programming logic. The alternatives - proprietary DSLs or visual builders - would be far more complex to learn and maintain than a few lines of Python/JavaScript for JSON manipulation. We actually started with JavaScript since it's more natural for JSON work, but the difference was marginal. Do you have suggestions for a better approach to these two specific dynamic parts? We're open to ideas that would be simpler than Python but still handle the complexity generically.
by yardie | 2025-05-31 01:02:40+00:00
Graduate school assistant in the US pay such shit wages compared to Europe that you would be eligible for food stamps. Opportunity cost is better spent getting your bachelors degree, finding employment, and then using that salary to pay for grad school or have your employer pay for it. I’ve worked in Europe with just my bac+3. I also had 3-4 years of applied work experience that a fresh-faced MSc holder was just starting to acquire.
by creer | 2025-05-31 01:02:44+00:00
Hmmm. In the case of submitting resumes in response to job postings, there is the issue of the software that ingests these resumes. I have always wondered if some keywords were toxic with some of these. Or whether they latch on (parse) some resume features which then eliminates you if you mess with them. For example, does deviating from "standard" resume formats disqualify you? Does listing some specific tools, platforms or hobbies run you head on into a keyword-specific scoring bug?

Of course any such problem would be poor design, but we know how little that means.

I keep my eyes open for people testing HR resume ingestion software, publishing findings or even side by side comparisons. And I have never seen useful reports. Anyone knows any, please let us know!
by leoshimo | 2025-05-31 01:03:56+00:00
gen_srv, supervisor analogs needs to be created

Agreed on `supervisor` - that's high up on my list to tick off when the occasion arrives.

On `gen_srv` - while there's room to iterate, I consider the `spawn_srv` / `bind_srv` to be a sufficient analog for me:

https://github.com/leoshimo/vrs?tab=readme-ov-file#services-...
by runsonrum | 2025-05-31 01:04:08+00:00
I setup dual boot on a second ssd with CachyOS seven months ago and haven't looked back yet.

I was most concerned with gaming on Linux which is why I chose Cachy and was pleasantly surprised on how well it works. Not without some issues but compared to the growing annoyances I have with Windows 11 in the last year or so, I am more than happy with my decision.

I run a modern PC, Intel 14th gen, RTX 4070-Ti, CachyOS with Plasma desktop environment. KDE Plasma is amazing and modern in its own right.
by tapoxi | 2025-05-31 01:07:32+00:00
That store is dangerous. The last few times I went "just to browse" but I came home with an ultra wide monitor and a new PC build.

I've started buying parts retail instead of online just because of how much I enjoy Microcenter. The interior does need a bit of a renovation though, it looks almost identical to how it did in the 90s.
by transpute | 2025-05-31 01:09:04+00:00
> You cannot build a secure virtualization runtime because underlying it is the VMM

There are VMMs (e.g. pKVM in upstream Linux) with small SLoC that are isolated by silicon support for nested virtualization. This can be found on recent Google Pixel phones/tablets with strong isolation of untrusted Debian Arm Linux "Terminal" VM.

A similar architecture was shipped a decade ago by Bromium and now on millions of HP business laptops, including hypervisor isolation of firmware, "Hypervisor Security : Lessons Learned — Ian Pratt, Bromium — Platform Security Summit 2018", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNVe2y34dnM

Christian Slater, HP cybersecurity ("Wolf") edutainment on nested virt hypervisor in printers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMSq3n3Gqs
by martin-t | 2025-05-31 01:09:30+00:00
1) You can and should program yourself out of a _task_, not a _job_. How many companies have a one.time need for a programmer?

2) Even if your claim was correct, then you'd amass experience on one job (task) that you could then leverage on the next job (task). If AI became reality, all that would become irrelevant. Your middle-class self would quickly realize you're only worth as much as your lower class neighbors who swing a shovel or flip burgers for a living, all the while your upper class bosses become richer thanks to your work.