MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by closeparen | 2025-06-22 21:14:25+00:00
L5 at FAANG and adjacent companies (Airbnb, Uber, Stripe, Block, Databricks, etc) is a rank and file, employee number 12887 rule. Yet it is compensated in the mid six figures, and the ranges are easily more than $100k wide. Position in the range depends on a number of factors, famously stock market timing is a big one, but competing offers and negotiation are certainly in there.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-22 21:15:56+00:00
Possibly, but it wouldn't be the first time that people took a field that was supposed to be an originator name and made it something else entirely.

There's a field in the Volume Boot Record of disc volumes, in the PC compatible world, that was supposed to be the name of the OEM whose software formatted the volume. It was (and is) a few bytes of identifying human-readable text. Operating systems ended up doing string comparisons and parsing numbers, and breaking in odd ways, including not even recognizing their own handiwork, when operating system vendors did not use the name of the first vendor.

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/volume-boot-block-oem-name-field.html

It has probably been long enough since MS-DOS 3.3 and in turn the Browser Wars that someone is right now failing to learn from history and making this mistake anew, yet again, somewhere.
by spike021 | 2025-06-22 21:16:28+00:00
Over the past few years i've become friends with my neighborhood's USPS mailman.

While it doesn't get as hot here as other parts of the country, it's pretty awful what he needs to deal with once temps reach 80+. his truck is like sitting in a metal can. he does what he can to park in shady areas but otherwise he's basically being cooked when he needs to go inside to get mail or drive it from stop to stop.

these vehicles would've been a huge improvement.
Show HN: I made weekend project (Active Directory Security Assessment Tool)
by Shazeb | 2025-06-22 21:16:29+00:00
Hi All,

I'm a penetration tester with 5 years of experience in the industry. I hold certifications like OSCP, OSEP, and some related to Active Directory assessments. I mainly focus on network and Active Directory testing.

After doing several AD assessments, I built a simple weekend MVP for an Active Directory security tool. I originally made it for myself. For example, it can do password spraying and also gives export options for user lists, SMB scan, share enumeration, Kerberoasting, active users, computers, and more. But I'm not really sure who else might find this tool useful — maybe blue team members, security engineers, or other penetration testers.

Right now, it only covers some basic ideas. If you have any feedback, please feel free to share it.

If people find it useful, I’ll add many more features in the future. The goal is to make it a simple UI for non-technical or non-penetration testing users — like one-click excel reports and low-hanging findings.

I hope you find it helpful.

Thanks in advance.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-22 21:17:31+00:00
>[P]eople might want to keep a bad law if they continue to make money by snitching. In fact, money is the exact wrong incentive for this sort of thing.

I've said elsewhere the optimal mechanism here is for that money to be paid to the snitcher, from the person who is being turned in. This would lead us to assume that for most crimes of a personal nature, we would have about as many people losing money due to the law as making money due to it, and so the effect cancels out.

In situations where many more people make money and only a select few are losing big, well... Somehow I feel like that's usually for the best anyway. See my other comments on eg the runaway success of the False Claims Act. Or just consider the class action lawsuit and whether you think it fills a valuable role in society.

>Think a little harder and see if you can imagine why a law that isn't strongly enforced still might exist.

Thanks for letting me pick the reason, that's very thoughtful of you. Obviously it's because said law being strongly enforced would cause such a public backlash that it would quickly get repealed in its entirety, and thus further erode the monopoly on violence the state holds over its citizenry. Cops then have fewer en passants they can pull when they don't follow procedure, etc etc. I'm glad we're in agreement on this.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-06-22 21:17:55+00:00
I don't know how AI will change education, but here are some ideas on where it can have an impact:

1-Education can be individualized for each student.

2-Students can pursue what they want to learn.

3-Teachers can guide students on where to find educational materials.

4-Teachers can assess students to ensure they are learning, especially in the core curriculum.

5-Schools will shrink in size since special curriculums will be cheap to produce and won't require a large student body to justify cost.

6-Parents will choose schools for their children that align more closely with their core beliefs.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-22 21:18:36+00:00
Putting stacked diffs aside, I'd frankly just be happy with the ability to track comments across different commit hashes. This is something neither GitLab or GitHub can do:

1. "Please change this" 2. <I change it, and force-push the change [cuz I don't like a messy git history]> 3. Comment keeps association with the original line and/or its new replacement.

Gerrit has no problem w/ this flow. GH and GL both can't do it.

GH wants to force you to put a pile of "fix" commits in and then either do a merge commit (eww) or squash the whole thing into one commit (not ideal in some cases).
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 21:19:20+00:00
Anybody who considers themselves an American needs to be calling for a full stop to all activities of this administration, including impeachment and conviction. It's clear that our country and our government have many problems. They have festered over years, causing the frustration and pan-society feelings of disenfranchisement that drove Trumpism. But at this point it's clear that regardless of all the "4d chess", there is no reforming going on here - just a wholesale destruction and fire sale of our country at the behest of the same entrenched interests that have been pulling the strings the entire time. This is like going to the hospital for a broken bone, and they start calling surgeons to salvage your organs.
by lisper | 2025-06-22 21:20:01+00:00
> You could also sense that your location is privileged, because the observable universe is neatly centered at it

Yes, that's right. This is not an easy problem to solve. This is why it took thousands of years for mankind to realize that the earth is not at the center of the universe. The difference between that and the MWI is that there is actual evidence against geocentrism. There is no evidence against my-branch-centrism. Not only that, but the theory itself predicts that there cannot possibly be any such evidence. So the MWI is self-defeating. The only way there could be evidence for it is if it's wrong.

> in God's-eye view you have both

Nope. The mortal's-eye view is fundamentally incompatible with the god's-eye view. This is the reason that the measurement problem is a thing in the first place.

> if Born rule is an observed phenomenon, it must be computable from Schrödinger equation

Only if the SE is a complete description of reality, and it manifestly is not.

(If you want to argue that the Born rule is not "an observed phenomenon" then I don't know what to tell you. Maybe go hang out with the flat-earthers and lunar landing denialists. You may find kindred spirits there.)

> This was argued by Max Tegmark

Yes, the 3-D space part. That is old news. It's the Born Rule that (AFAIK) no one has yet derived.
by nathanrenard3 | 2025-06-22 21:20:52+00:00
After working with Django for years, I kept feeling something was missing — a fast, developer-friendly CLI to scaffold code and structure apps quickly.

Frameworks like NestJS, Laravel, and AdonisJS let you spin up models, services, or entire modules with one command. That developer experience is what makes them so productive — and Django didn’t have that natively.

So I built django-smartcli, a Python package that brings a Laravel-style CLI to Django projects.

Why I built it: • Save time on every new app/module • Avoid repetitive boilerplate • Make Django feel more “modern” • Learn how to publish a real Python package

Would love any feedback, thoughts, or ideas. Contributions welcome!
by rendall | 2025-06-22 21:21:42+00:00
If a psychedelic experience leads to humility, repentance, and love, how do you know it was “of the flesh”? Could it not be a moment when the Spirit spoke through the weakness of flesh, as God does often in scripture?

If God can use a burning bush, a talking donkey, and a dream given to Pharaoh (a pagan king), is it really theologically sound to say that God cannot or will not speak through a psilocybin vision?

Is it possible that your framework is set up to reject any experience you disapprove of, no matter the outcome?
by bigyabai | 2025-06-22 21:21:47+00:00
Hinton invented the neural network, which is not the same as the transformer architecture used in LLMs. Asking him about LLM architectures is like asking Henry Ford if he can build a car from a bunch of scrap metal; of course he can't. He might understand the engine or the bodywork, but it's not his job to know the whole process. Nor is it Hinton's.

And that's okay - his humility isn't holding anyone back here. I'm not claiming to have memorized every model weight ever published, either. But saying that we don't know how AI works is empirically false; AI genuinely wouldn't exist if we weren't able to interpret and improve upon the transformer architecture. Your statement here is a dangerous extrapolation.

> you cannot tell me what an LLM would say nor tell me why an LLM said something for a given prompt showing that we can't fully control an LLM because we don't fully understand it.

You'd think this, but it's actually wrong. If you remove all of the seeded RNG during inference (meaning; no random seeds, no temps, just weights/tokenizer), you can actually create an equation that deterministically gives you the same string of text every time. It's a lot of math, but it's wholly possible to compute exactly what AI would say ahead of time if you can solve for the non-deterministic seeded entropy, or remove it entirely.

LLM weights and tokenizer are both always idempotent, the inference software often introduces variability for more varied responses. Just so we're on the same page here.
by jrockway | 2025-06-22 21:22:17+00:00
I don't think there is any desire to find a legitimate buyer. The bill wants to say "throw them into a landfill" but the architects are trying to sound thrifty. Stated reasoning: "Stop wasting the government's money on useless initiatives. Sell these white elephants and ask employees to use their own car!" Actual reasoning: "We need to burn more oil. There are campaign donations on the line and the midterms are going to be very tough for us. Big Electricity does not donate to campaigns and we can't take the money we save on fuel and use it for ads."
by eszed | 2025-06-22 21:22:17+00:00
A big reason (this is from the project site):

> NEPA Completed 04/12/2018: Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), Liberty Canyon Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Project

> In compliance with CEQA, Caltrans held a 47-day public scoping period to allow the public and regulatory agencies an opportunity to comment on the scope of the IS/EA and to identify issues that should be addressed in the environmental document. A scoping report documents the issues and concerns expressed during the public scoping meetings held on January 14, 2016 and the written comments received from the public, community organizations, and governmental agencies during the public scoping period from December 14, 2015 through January 29, 2016. The release of the Final Environmental Document with responses to comments included was completed in the summer of 2016. NEPA/CEQA was completed in April 2018. A total of 8,859 comments were received in response to the draft Environmental Document, with only 15 opposed.

When any infrastructure project requires nearly a decade of preliminary work before shovels hit ground, said work becomes impossible to accomplish for smaller-scale builds. Even if ten smaller bridges would be a better solution, 10x-ing the review process would likely be impossible at current staffing / budget levels.

It's a big problem.
by da_chicken | 2025-06-22 21:22:28+00:00
I understand the categorization you want to draw, but I don't think convention and usage are going to back you up well enough to solidify it.

Sometimes people use CLI to mean something you're literally doing at the shell prompt, and sometimes people use CLI to mean anything that isn't a GUI. And the Venn diagram of those meanings has significant overlap when both of those meanings are contextually valid and the end result of the meaning is functionally identical.

If I say, "instead of Firefox I'm using lynx, a CLI web browser," it's not really so ambiguous what I mean that you're confused. You can do backflips and dodge context to arrive at being confusing, but you really have to cross into disingenuous reading to get there.

The fact that you CAN draw a difference does not actually mean that the author needs to in order to communicate effectively.
by tolerance | 2025-06-22 21:22:37+00:00
I wonder if people are downvoting you in good faith because I think you're on to something. My assumption is that denigrating mass media and pop culture comes across as "elitist".

Oh well. I mean, for the person who can look around and feel disdain toward these things, they deserve whatever shred of dignity the allegation subscribes them to.

"Second Order Illiteracy" is precisely what cripples imagination, or the ability to perceive things beyond the immediate senses. Passively consuming electronic media does the heavy lifting that the literary mind achieves.

> It's a bizarre kind of deja nostalgia - the only futures that can be imagined are the ones that have been imagined already.

If we toss the word "capitalism" into the fray of what you're saying I think this is what Mark Fisher meant by the "Slow cancellation of the future".
by bdavbdav | 2025-06-22 21:23:34+00:00
I’m not sure why money / earnings are stated. I live in London, UK, pay for two SIMs (due to contention everywhere) and still have horrific bandwidth in London. My folks do extremely well and have awful bandwidth due to location. Where I live, even if I were paying bargain basement for fixed line internet, it’s all FTTP so rock solid and >100mbps.

Earnings have practically nothing to do with it.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-22 21:23:39+00:00
> If I want my device to be secure, I want this trust.

Device security and mediated trust between mutually distrustful entities are separate things.

> If I want to sell a copy of my virtual asset to only be used in ways I approve of, I want this trust.

I don't want you to be able to do that. At least not with general purpose computing devices (ie my phone). Maybe for something like a game console or set top box but that doesn't seem to be what's being discussed here.

> either your device can provide this trust or it cannot

It is entirely possible for device firmware to do nothing more than verify that the bootloader was signed with a particular user configurable key.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-22 21:24:02+00:00
I'm saying that there is zero reason for them to believe that entering into a negotiation with us would keep us from attacking them, because they have done that (twice) and we attacked them in the middle of that negotiation.

Don't get me wrong, I think there could be a face-saving announcement at some point, that we've come to some agreement. But it will have no credibility (on either side).
by roncesvalles | 2025-06-22 21:24:27+00:00
>Productivity starts going down once you try to use LLMs in a large codebase and expect them to be as helpful as they were in a smaller one.

Exactly this. I've really tried to find use for LLMs in my big tech company SWE job and I just can't. The context is just too large, and not just the code context. In the time that I can "explain" everything to the LLM, keep iterating until it spits out something semi-useful and massage that into something I can merge, I'd rather just do the whole thing myself.

But it's amazing for greenfield personal projects.
by tom_boneahawk | 2025-06-22 21:24:57+00:00
I played around with this and really dig it.

While there's a lot of hostility towards musical applications of genAI, and in many cases rightly so (that interview with Suno's CEO earlier this year[1] still gives me the creeps), I believe that models like this offer a lot of creative possibilities. If users could include parameters like tempo and key, this would be excellent for creating real-time backing tracks for guitarists.

[1]https://youtu.be/E0YL83U5VWk?feature=shared&t=1380
by CoastalCoder | 2025-06-22 21:24:58+00:00
> I hate this administration and group of people like nothing I’ve hated before.

I'm in the same boat. Politically / culturally I'm pretty centrist, and historically I've found things to like and dislike about both parties' governance. (G.W. Bush was the first administration I ever hated. But I'm mostly willing to write GW Bush off as a moron, and his fellow Republicans as inept.)

With Trump 2, for the first time I actually loath the entire Republican party, and the voters who support him. I'm having a very difficult time believing anything praiseworthy behind their motives.

It's the first time I truly fear for the immediate future of the country. I'm sure this says as much about me as it does about the Republicans. But if there are many others like me, this can't be a good sign of what's to come.
by tim333 | 2025-06-22 21:25:08+00:00
>we really do live in a toxic attention ecosystem that rots our brains

Well it can be like that if you spend your time scrolling stupid stuff on tiktok but for learning about the world, if you want to, I think it's better than it used to be. "40 pages of wandering setup" doesn't make you smart, it wastes your time you could be using to learn something more interesting.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-06-22 21:25:23+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-L9ENuw-ec might be interesting (especially the last 10 or so minutes). It's a talk by one of the primary Modelica developers who is now working for JuliaHub on Dyad. The TLDR is that Modelica is pretty solid (and there's https://openmodelica.github.io/OMJulia.jl/which is Julia OpenModelica integration), but it very much is a project from the 90s with all the baggage that entails. Modelica invented their own vector graphics format (SVG wasn't stable), and were/are very focused on the electrical and mechanical domains somewhat to the detriment of other domains.

A lot of what Dyad is trying to do is see what a Modelica-like language can look like when build for 21st century tooling, and possibly tackling even harder types of problems (e.g. synchronous systems, PDEs, SDEs, etc).
by sandreas | 2025-06-22 21:25:50+00:00
In my opinion it is enough to REMOVE distractions (mostly electronic devices) and force yourself into reading for > 20 Minutes until you get into a flow state (Deep Work). This will probably work better if you enjoyed, what you're reading.

If you have to use ebooks for a specific reason, use a dedicated device (ebook reader or tablet) with wifi disabled and do not disturb mode.
by Espressosaurus | 2025-06-22 21:25:51+00:00
If it's too small/unsafe you'll end up with wildlife not using it or being funneled in for other for predators. The larger and more skittish the animals you want to use it, the larger you're going to want to make it. Since they're calling out mountain lions, which are quite skittish, they're going to need a large (and probably partially covered) pathway for them to want to use it--as opposed to treating the freeway like the barrier it is to wildlife.

I'm sure there's more to it than that, but making it desirable, accessible, and for it to feel safe for the target animal population is important for it to accomplish what it's intended to do.

There are smaller culverts all over the place for smaller wildlife. I've even seen some called out in small walking paths--there for the frogs and other amphibians.
by modeless | 2025-06-22 21:26:20+00:00
Yes, Waymo did have safety drivers back when they first started service. But they were in the driver's seat instead of the passenger seat. Having employees in the car at the very beginning seems prudent.

These are regular Model Ys straight off the production line, the only difference being software and some decals. The 2-seater Cybercab with no steering wheel is a completely new design and will not start production until next year at the earliest. This timeline was announced last year at the unveiling, and is not a delay.
by nivertech | 2025-06-22 21:27:05+00:00
If any entity threatens u: u have 3 options: fight back, surrender, or self-destruct

In the first case, u have 2 more options: strike pre-emptively, or wait for them to strike & then retaliate

It doesn't matter what the entity is, it only matters whether they are enemy or not

——

> So China is not a sovereign state because it is a front for the CPP and can be bombed at will...?

I don't see the logical connection here. I never wrote that countries controlled by terrorist or authoritarian entities should be bombed at will. I wrote that some countries are highjacked by them, & if they attack or declare their intention to attack u, u may as well do it first
by psanford | 2025-06-22 21:27:18+00:00
One of the key points to patio11's article is that there is only upside to negotiation with no downside. You are basically saying: negotiation doesn't work so why bother. Please stop.

I once negotiated a large raise at a job where afterwards my boss told me that he could not have justified giving me that raise on his own, but because I asked for it he was able to make the case.

Negotiating often works. It has no downside for you (besides making you feel uncomfortable) and major upsides that last well beyond your current role.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-22 21:27:28+00:00
At first impression this does seem pretty silly to cancel the project so late after most of the costs have already been incurred. Auctioning the vehicles will certainly not recover anything close to their cost, to say nothing of the other infrastructure that has been built out and will essentially have to be scrapped.

On the other hand, that could be a "sunk cost" fallacy, if the future costs of these bespoke EVs is higher than the cost of just using a standard commercial utility vehicle. Not saying that it is, and the article really doesn't explore this other than to quote Rand Paul as saying that the provision “aims to cut unnecessary costs and focus USPS on delivering mail and not achieving the environmental initiatives pushed by the Biden Administration.”
by desumeku | 2025-06-22 21:27:30+00:00
It's not rust. It's crust. https://github.com/tsoding/crust

"The Rules of Crust

Every function is unsafe. No references, only pointers. No cargo, build with rustc directly. No std, but libc is allowed. Only Edition 2021. All user structs and enums #[derive(Clone, Copy)]. Everything is pub by default."
by ddingus | 2025-06-22 21:27:39+00:00
Yes. There is a big heuristic lookup network involved.

Ever notice as we age, get hurt, that table, network, updates?

For some injuries, part of the imperfect process, is a relearn, recalibrate step involved. Once that has played out. The whole thing works as a unit.

I can sometimes remember what it used to be like. Being able to move jn some way, or some rate.

And when I try and do it today, there is a very deep inhibition. My brain / body knows it no longer happens that way,

And these things may be why physical therapy helps. No pain. No gain. We have someone else pushing us. Manipulating our bodies in ways that challenge those built in metrics.

So, it hurts, but it is good hurt. Triggers that network to reconsider, update, whatever.