MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deanmoriarty | 2025-06-11 05:11:47+00:00
I live in SF, find it a beautiful city but I’m not particularly attached to it, so I rent.

The area where that property is located is really good, I live nearby. I think the property is worth that amount, since someone paid for it in a competitive market, that terrace with views of Sutro tower is spectacular. It’s also a good deal compared to its previous 2019 sale price ($1.4M), so it’s likely it was intentionally priced below market, the owner never meant to sell it at the asking price.

The city just has so, so many wealthy people, it’s difficult to comprehend. I, a complete nobody, know a lot of people in their 20s with $10M+ net worth. I’m in my 30s with a $6M liquid net worth and I’m the least successful in my peer group. It’s not unreasonable to drop that much in a beautiful city with such a scarce inventory. I don’t think that property value will significantly drop any time soon, if ever.

You are entitled to your own opinions and venting, but it might be more productive to just vote with your feet and leave, if this is too frustrating to deal with.
by leoh | 2025-06-11 05:12:25+00:00
> To be noticed by a large community though, a new OS needs to be different from yet another C-based POSIX-style system. We already have a lot of those which are fine enough.

Needs to be different

> It would be nice to see a new OS chucking away that legacy and doing some new things, supporting Linux via a WSL-style system at most.

Needs to be similar
by motorest | 2025-06-11 05:12:54+00:00
> (...) at this point, should tell us that we are really quite dumb and simply not good very good at either using or evaluating the technology (yet?).

I don't know about that. I think it's mainly because nowadays LLMs can output very inconsistent results. In some applications they can generate surprisingly good code, but during the same session they can also do missteps and shit the bed while following a prompt to small changes. For example, sometimes I still get prompt responses that outright delete critical code. I'm talking about things like asking "extract this section of your helper method into a new methid" and in response the LLM deletes the app's main function. This doesn't happen all the time, or even in the same session for the same command. How does one verify these things?
by eru | 2025-06-11 05:13:43+00:00
That's basically equivalent to saying that the natural numbers encode all information [0], it's just that the index to say which natural number you mean is rather long.

However for natural numbers, the 'decompression' is very fast. Much faster than for Pi.

[0] You can make this precise via Bijective Numeration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration to handle leading zeroes nicely.
by orionblastar | 2025-06-11 05:14:38+00:00
Remember if you can't get MS-DOS or PC-DOS etc you can always use FreeDOS: https://www.freedos.org/

DOS has no User Login like Linux and is insecure as a result.

DOS is still being used by NASA and other places.

I want to write books on DOS programming using PowerBASIC 3.5 and other languages to help the newbies learn DOS programming.
by NalNezumi | 2025-06-11 05:15:11+00:00
I think you got it reversed. Most people go to Europe (or most first world really) FIRST as a student, get an understanding of the place + connection + trust and THEN apply for job. It's good I think that you want to be prepared for the study, but usually programs that welcomes international students don't strictly require that and instead offer it too, as part of study

Applying for job out of the blue is notoriously hard, even with right qualifications (IT for example) at right time (not recession). Even my EU citizen friend struggled finding job in London (pre-brexit), another got a "work-application visa" in Netherlands, and didn't find anything for a year, even with a degree from an EU university. She got an offer too late, by contact in her previous residence, so still it was through networking.

You can still ofc find jobs. There are forums, job boards, events to connect with people. But for Europe, unlike US you're well protected as a worker. This makes hiring more risky and employer a bit more cautious, which means you're extra disadvantaged as a guy applying from abroad, because they can't gauge trust. Networking (knowing right people, have the right degree/school/job on your resume) is still powerful in Europe.

As for my story: was (kind of?) expat in Japan for 5 years, although my mother is Japanese (but I'm born and raised in Europe) so being able to speak the language & understand culture put me in a native-expat middle ground. I found a job through an "IT Talent from abroad recruitment service". Many of my expat/migrant coworkers found job the same way, although they usually had PhD or Master degree to help their visa application.

Still, the biggest help to land a job was the language fluency + I had gone to an exchange program at one of their top 3 university (although only for 6 month, enough to land "trust points")
by galaxyLogic | 2025-06-11 05:16:01+00:00
I've been using Preplexity lately while learning to use Yamaha SeqTrack synthesizer. I have the UserGuide, but I find it easier and faster to ask Preplexity for things like "How do I mute a track?".

It never occurred to me I could use Google this way. And it is a novel idea to me, that it seems to be better to use AI than read a manual.
by Nevermark | 2025-06-11 05:16:23+00:00
> It’s not like these models were released with all of the weights perfectly accounted for and changing them in any way ruins them.

So more imperfect is better?

Of course the model’s parameters leave a many billions of elements vector path for improvement. But what circuitous path is that, which it didn’t already find?

You can’t find it by definition if you don’t include all the original data with the tuning data. You have radically changed the optimization surface with no contribution from the previous data at all.

The one use case that makes sense is sacrificing functionality to get better at a narrow problem.

You are correct about that.
by jedbrooke | 2025-06-11 05:16:24+00:00
not quite ads in LLMS, but I had an interesting experience with google maps the other day. the directions voice said "in 100 feet, turn left at the <Big Fast Food Chain>". Normally it would say "at the traffic light" or similar. And this wasn't some easy to miss hidden street, it was just a normal intersection. I can only hope they aren't changing the routes yet to make you drive by the highest bidder
by garbagecoder | 2025-06-11 05:16:51+00:00
It is impossible for that article’s date to be correct and it to mention the expansion which did not become law until December of 2021, 5 months later. And indeed, it refers to a different section, as I said.

There is no need to for you to have been hostile about this point. I know how much it bothers people here when people with primary experience comment. References to different statues and slightly different wording may seem irrelevant to you but they are not.

In any event, there is a more recent article from lawfare that explains the current situation better. GIYF. I don’t need the upvotes as much as you, so I didn’t feel the need to post it to a coder/startup board.

Also, the Brennan Center isn’t a totally neutral source and makes no mention nor discusses in any detail the basis currently being cited as the grounds for using the military the way it is being used, which the lawfare article does. It’s advocating for a change to the law in response to January 6th, not talking about the specific issues currently relevant.
by raghav-daga | 2025-06-11 05:17:01+00:00
Hi! My name is Raghav, and I love developing tech projects and finding free food. I found that both high schools and colleges have tons of cool clubs and organizations that host events that serve food, but simply fail to reach enough of an audience due to not having a dedicated platform to publicize. By developing a platform that allows clubs to create events, and for students to find events, events and meeting can achieve wider audiences, all while inviting people with the prospect of food.

This project utilizes MapBox-gl, a React.js front-end, and a firebase database to enable the functionality.

I would truly appreciate your support in my development journey by upvoting my work and providing me with insightful comments on how to take this project to the next level. This project has been created for Hack Club's shipwrecked.

Thank you!
by anal_reactor | 2025-06-11 05:17:09+00:00
Honestly, I'm happy my phone won't get an update. This way I won't be exposed to new bugs. I'm on Android 13 and the only thing I observed when updating from 12 was that now when I switch apps, the screen blinks for split-second, which is incredibly annoying. Functionality-wise, there's very little that can be improved anyway. It's mostly just fiddling with details of the UI here and there.

I think we grew up with technology advancing rapidly and expensive tech from previous year being outdated, but now we came back to baseline where technological advancement is just small fixes stretched over a long period of time.
by charleszyong | 2025-06-11 05:17:22+00:00
Sorry for being MIA for a bit. All 120 units are now sold out. I’ve created a waitlist at https://vassarrobotics.com/newsletter to keep you updated on when the next batch will be available (most likely in late July).

Thank you so much for everyone’s support. My top priority now is to get all the orders shipped on time and with high quality.
by strix_varius | 2025-06-11 05:17:42+00:00
So there are at least two of us! I'd be truly excited and willing to pay laptop-tier prices for either:

1) a bare (ala Pixel) foldable with S-pen and without large external displays to get cracked and complicate things

2) a rooted linux-computer-in-your-pocket that can be plugged into a usb-c hub and happens to have a SIM card/cell modem to work as a phone.

...but until then I just get by for years and years on whatever mid-tier phone happened to be the smallest form-factor and best-camera-for-$ at the time my last one became unusable.
by physix | 2025-06-11 05:18:10+00:00
I read them to get an idea of the quality that the AI produces, but mostly ignore the content after reading and click on to find actual sources, since I don't yet trust that content.

I was thinking that the drop in traffic to news sites is due to AI summaries, which might have the effect of filtering out people who are happy with a snippet. And was postulating that it would have two effects: improving the relevance of those who go to the news site (good) and feeding people with poor quality AI generated information (bad).

But then I tested out various news- ish search terms and never got an AI summary from Google. So I think the primary cause for a drop in traffic to news sites is probably not the AI summary itself.
by eru | 2025-06-11 05:18:47+00:00
> If you don't go after offenders then you create a lemon markets.

Btw, private markets are perfectly capable of handling 'markets for lemons'. There might be good excuses for introducing regulation, but markets for lemons ain't.

As a little thought exercise, you can take two minutes and come up with some ways businesses can 'fix' markets for lemons and make a profit in the meantime. How many can you find? How many can you find already implemented somewhere?
by justsomehnguy | 2025-06-11 05:18:51+00:00
Shoulda checked it in the first place:

GET https://muffinman.io/js/posts/glitch/parser.js [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 138ms] Uncaught TypeError: animation is undefined parse https://muffinman.io/js/posts/glitch/parser.js:263 Monorail https://muffinman.io/js/posts/glitch/monorail.js:327 <anonymous> https://muffinman.io/js/posts/glitch/index.js:10 <anonymous> https://muffinman.io/js/posts/glitch/index.js:5

FF 138.0.1 (May 1, 2025)
by throwanem | 2025-06-11 05:20:10+00:00
"Asymmetrical warfare" is a strategic and operational concept, not a threshold on some notional tech tree. It's a mental tool that people reared in the paradigm of high-tech, high-intensity combined-arms mobile warfare - in other words, Americans - can try to use to think about warfare as pursued by people who don't have the logistical support or unassailable strategic reserve that makes it possible for us to win wars the way we do.

This would certainly be the case for a billionaire, who simply cannot swing the resources to sustain the logistics to support the kind of formalistic, resource-intensive combat you envision. In a realistic scenario the strategic and economic balance is going to look like the American Civil War only much more so, inasmuch as where the Confederacy at least at the outset of the conflict had an economy it could dedicate to supporting the war, a billionaire, as I've already touched on nearby, not only lacks such power but indeed requires unfettered economic access to continue to exist, a vulnerability he constitutionally cannot answer since it inheres in the source of his power...again just like the Confederacy, which relied on trade in raw agricultural outputs to supply itself with the tools and materials of industrial warfare, and so saw its back broken after the Union suppressed that trade by blockading southern ports.

But at least the Confederacy had an economy, however incompetent. What, I ask again, does a billionaire have that an army can't take away?
by octo888 | 2025-06-11 05:20:16+00:00
Depends what you're paying.

£50k full stack dev in London? You're going to get AI slop these days, particularly the moment you encourage usage within the org. LLMs will help underpaid people act their wage. You've already asked them to do 2 or 3 people's jobs with "full stack"

Will you pay £20k more for someone who won't use AI?
by somenameforme | 2025-06-11 05:21:19+00:00
Also, excuse the double reply, but there are simple solutions to also help push society in the right direction. For instance requiring employers over 'x' employees (let's say 1000) to provide free access to a specified minimal set of exercise equipment and grant employees at least 'x' hours per week of paid exercise time which must be spent within this area exercising at a reasonable intensity (in other words not taking an hour break to go play on your phone in the gym).

Other things would be to offer a 100% tax credit for things like gym memberships. If this actually incentivized people, then it'd probably pay for itself through better health outcomes for society. It could also be paid for by adding a health tax, such as already exists on cigarettes, to e.g. highly processed foods, candy, and cola.

Similarly, the FDA should have some sort of an accreditation that restaurants and other food services can apply for that confirms some standard of minimal healthfulness of their food. This accreditation would be extremely critical since, in general, just dumping salt and sugar into food makes it more addictive, which increases margins, so when you go for health - you do so at profit loss. Such an accreditation could help combat this by giving people something to look for.
by findalex | 2025-06-11 05:22:40+00:00
How boxed in is cosmology by the cosmological principle? If we - as an example - didn't assume the cosmological constant was constant and expected it to vary over large distances, could we arrive at a working model of the universe? maybe high density dark matter/energy regions are the same as regions of high/low values of the CC. It's late.

edit; did some digging - looks like its actually and active area: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=13446...
Ask HN: What is the latest on treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer?
by hazrmard | 2025-06-11 05:23:26+00:00
I was reading this recently shared post on the promise of CAR-T therapy for cancer[1]. However, it seems that it may not be universally applicable to all cancers[2], including breast cancer.

What have we discovered (and made available as treatment) for advanced breast cancers?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219379 [2]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8990477/
by ldsjfldsjf | 2025-06-11 05:23:26+00:00
A lot of good software engineering is just tribal knowledge. The people who know know.

Things like when to create an ugly hack because the perfect solution may result in in your existing customers moving over to your competitor. When to remove some tech debt and when to add to tech debt.

When to do a soft delete vs when to do a purge. These things are learnt when a customer shouts at you and you realize that you may be most intelligent kid on the block but it wont really help the customer tonight as the code is already deployed and your production deployment means a maintenance window.
by sudomateo | 2025-06-11 05:23:35+00:00
If you hire someone, you need to vet them enough to mitigate a bad hire. Your butt needs to be on the line if they are a bad hire.

Saying things like this in isolation is silly because it just shifts blame rather than creating an environment of teamwork and rigor. What I got out of the article is that AI helps humans get to answers faster. You still need to verify that the answers are correct.
by prmoustache | 2025-06-11 05:24:17+00:00
That is probably a US only viewpoint. Everywhere else in the world apart from Samsung, Xiaomi is super big as well as brands such as Oppo, Realme, Honor, Pocophone, TCL, Oneplus, Huawei, Motorola and many others I just can't remember from the top of my head.

i have the feeling that for anything in the US, everything has to end up in monopolies or bipartisan approach. People just seem to buy what their neighbors/coworkers/siblings buy without trying to do a bit of research. Some kind of deep vulnerability to virality. My mate has an iphone, I need an iphone, my neighbor beagged about their Thermomix, I need a Thermomix too immediately.
by woopsn | 2025-06-11 05:24:48+00:00
Rado has many interesting subgraphs, for example the implication graph of every countable theory. Are arithmetic propositions associated randomly? Not as we see it, but in some sense they could be (even iid). It is not the quite the same but I take the rado construction to be the logical extreme of the position there is no inherent/meaningful truth in such theories. You need to deal with this kind of many-worlds absurdity that falls out.

From your reply though I feel we are not really disagreeing so much. There is a kind of truth which is not propositional or self-evident but teleological. That is a sense in which I think the assigned truth values are meaningful.

The formalist movement was indispensable, I shouldn't have implied it was merely self-defeating. But I believe the philosophy that mathematics is fundamentally arbitrary mechanical symbol manipulation is wrong.
by Peteragain | 2025-06-11 05:25:08+00:00
A proposal for a solution. The data is the unique selling point. Put that in public hands with an API, published algorithms, and it's own development team. The free market can then sell user interfaces, filters, and whatever. The metaphor is roads (state managed) and vehicles (for profit). Today I can (physically) go to the British Library and get any published book, or go on line and pay for the privilege.
by JCattheATM | 2025-06-11 05:26:21+00:00
> I still genuinely struggle to understand the advantage of UEFI/Secureboot whatever over BIOS.

Apart from way nicer boot menus and bootloader setup?

In a security context, it prevents a whole host of attacks, it's clearly an advantage and a much needed progression.

> Out there, there is software, which I have to figure out how I'm going to trust,

Yes, and with secureboot, if you guess wrong, that malicious software can do less damage than it otherwise could.
by ath92 | 2025-06-11 05:26:39+00:00
CUDA kernels are a non starter because they require Nvidia GPUs. Things like CAD software will mostly use some kind of lower common denominator graphics layer like openGL. Webgpu is actually a decent alternative to that.

There certainly are optimisations that aren’t possible in web browsers today. Arbitrary wasm memory constraints and difficulties around cpu multithreading or simd for example. But CUDA kernels aren’t a realistic option for most cad software.
by eviks | 2025-06-11 05:27:36+00:00
> These days, I find that I am using multiple search engines and often resort to using an LLM to help me find content.

> This is just my anecdata

Not a single example, so it's not even that, just vibes

> the past few years. There’s recent science to read about the quality of search.

Let's look at the "science"

> We monitored Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo for a year on 7,392 product review queries.

Oh, so there is nothing about the past few years either. And this isn't "search", but a very narrow category of search that is one of the prime targets for SEO scam, so it's always been bad, and the same incentives made review content highly suspect before any SEO was ever involved.

Which multiple engines can help you here? Which LLMs?
by rl3 | 2025-06-11 05:28:06+00:00
>Either way, individuals are welcome to practice any sort of compassion they want with their own money. The government collects tax dollars from citizens under threat of violence, and their only responsibility should be to use that money to ensure the welfare of its citizens, not to engage in charity work in other countries.

Soft power is of obvious immense benefit to citizens of the United States, however you've rejected that in other comments.

The argument otherwise reads like a stereotypical "Not with my tax dollars!" argument. It's always fascinated me, that. Inevitably it's always an impassioned argument, regardless of the funding subject.

In this particular case, a very conservative estimate might put the number of child deaths in the tens of thousands. Reality is probably closer to hundreds of thousands at this point.

I pay taxes, a lot of them. I don't get angry when my taxes are used by the government to keep disadvantaged children in hellish conditions alive.

If you were to express the total cost of USAID's former budget against your tax bill as a binary choice between that and a few hundred thousand kids dying, I suspect it'd be much harder to maintain your current position.

Moreover, consider that central to this issue is the abrupt dismantling of an agency which was critical to global aid flow, and amounted to a rug pull. There was no justification for that.

Hopefully Sam's ASI is more compassionate than people, which frankly isn't a high bar lately.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5413322/aid-groups-say-...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/05/28/g-s1-...
by K0balt | 2025-06-11 05:28:39+00:00
I didn’t mean to imply that -no- ai generated content is useful, only that the vast, vast majority is pollution. The problem is that it is so cheap to produce garbage content with AI that writing actual content is disincentivized, and doing web searches has become an exercise is sifting through AI generated slop.

That at least will add extra work to filter usable training data, and costs users minutes a day wading through the refuse.