MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshka | 2025-06-23 22:41:10+00:00
For reference, the DS-160 (form to book a visa appointment) question is as follows (for an E3 visa at least, unsure if this is different for different visa classes):

Do you have a social media presence? Select from the list below each social media platform you have used within the last five years. In the space next to the platform’s name, enter the username or handle you have used on that platform. Please do not provide your passwords. If you have used more than one platform or more than one username or handle on a single platform, click the 'Add Another' button to list each one separately. If you have not used any of the listed social media platforms in the last five years, select 'None.' Help: Social Media Enter information associated with your online presence, including the types of online providers/platforms, applications and websites that you use to collaborate, share information, and interact with others. List the username, handle, screen-name, or other identifiers associated with your social media profile. (You do not need to list accounts designed for use by multiple users within a business or other organization.)

The options listed on the form are:

ASK DOUBAN FACEBOOK FLICKR GOOGLE INSTAGRAM LINKEDIN MYSPACE PINTEREST QZONE REDDIT SINA TENCENT TUMBLR TWITTER TWOO VINE VKONTAKTE YOUKU YOUTUBE NONE

The next question on the form is also:

Do you wish to provide information about your presence on any other websites or applications you have used within the last five years to create or share content (photos, videos, status updates, etc.)?
by fasthands9 | 2025-06-23 22:41:14+00:00
I do agree generally with this, but AI 2027 and other writings have moved my concern from 0% to 10%.

I know I sound crazy writing it out, but many of the really bad scenarios don't require consciousness or anything like that. It just requires they be self-replicating and the ability to operate without humans shutting them off.
by mlsu | 2025-06-23 22:42:14+00:00
Mine's different. She's cuter.

On a more serious note. Have these AI doom guys ever dealt with one of these cutting edge models on out of distribution data? They suck so so bad. There's only so much data available, the models have basically slurped it all.

Let alone like the basic thermodynamics of it. There's only so much entropy out there in cyberspace to harvest, at some point you run into a wall and then you have to build real robots to go collect more in the real world. And how's that going for them?

Also I can't help remarking: the metaphor you chose is science fiction.
by comrade1234 | 2025-06-23 22:42:23+00:00
I wish people drove the speed limit but now I have to deal with robotaxis speeding?

I have my motorcycle license and drove an sv650 when I lived in CA. Normally on a motorcycle the left lane on the highway is the safest because people are merging in and out of the right lane when they enter and exit the highway, so the left lane is usually steady and no turning.

So you drive with traffic in the left lane as much as possible. The problem in CA is that you're driving at times 95mph just to stay with traffic. I had a turn near Ventura on the 101 where I had to lean my bike so far over that it was like I was on a racecourse.

Since moving to Europe it's much more sane. There are speed cameras everywhere so people don't speed. When you can predict what every on else is doing on the road it's so much safer.
by abnercoimbre | 2025-06-23 22:42:31+00:00
Interesting. You might (or might not, I'm not really sure!) become interested by Terminal Click [0]

If you want a comprehensive demo with even more features, I have one in this community video [1]

Anyone can email me if they're game: abner at terminal dot click

[0] https://terminal.click/posts/2025/04/the-wizard-and-his-shel...

[1] https://vimeo.com/1091637660 (6-minute mark)
by perihelions | 2025-06-23 22:43:20+00:00
That's quite something to read again with the perspective of hindsight. It's highly ironic that the European Commission called the US sanctions on Iran's ballistic missile program illegal (and took actions against them); those same ballistic missiles are being used against Europe today, in Ukraine.

That was in 2018; the EU ended up themselves sanctioning Iran for ballistic missiles in 2024,

> "In a statement dated 13 September 2024, the EU strongly condemned the recent transfer of Iranian-made ballistic missiles to Russia, considered as a direct threat to European security [sic!] and as a substantive material escalation from the provision of Iranian UAVs and ammunition, which Russia had used in its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. The High Representative stated that the EU would respond swiftly and in coordination with international partners, including with new and significant restrictive measures against Iran."

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024...

> "The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s deputy defense minister, senior members of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and three airlines over allegations that they supplied drones, missiles and other equipment to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine."

https://apnews.com/article/eu-russia-drones-missiles-iran-sa...
by kopecs | 2025-06-23 22:43:37+00:00
AIUI Because if you have a zero data retention agreement you are necessarily not in the class of records at issue (since enterprise customers records are not affected, again AIUI per platinffs' original motion which might be because they don't think they're relevant for market harm or something).

So I think that this is more so an artefact of the parameters than an outcome of some mechanism of law.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-06-23 22:44:22+00:00
The self-inflicted economic wound is nothing more than Trumpnomics. If the numbers look bad he will just say they are fake or solved by GDP growth or tariff revenue.

Iran already knows that Israel can decapitate them at will, but not occupy them. Nothing has changed with these strikes.

Bombing nuclear facilities and killing scientists kicks the can down the road and that has worked for decades. But the US/Israel coalition is also trying to negotiate or orchestrate regime change, which could provide a more lasting impact.
by hbn | 2025-06-23 22:44:24+00:00
Randomizers are a fantastic innovation of the past decade. They can breathe so much new life into a game you've gotten comfortable with, where subsequent playthroughs are becoming stale.

I played through a Dark Souls randomizer a few years ago and it really made me explore a lot more like I haven't really done since my first playthrough, since I eventually learned where to get all the equipment I like and which areas aren't worth going to.
by cole-k | 2025-06-23 22:44:29+00:00
That's kind of a weird point to make. I don't see why it would be a universal truth that a good programmer is someone who invests in their tools.

I could just as easily say that good programmers are the ones who don't have sophisticated tooling setups because it means that they spend more time programming.

I'm inclined to agree with other comments that the baseline for productivity is probably lower than we think. It's fine to enjoy the process of making a perfect setup, but I don't see it as a prerequisite or strong indicator for being a strong programmer.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-23 22:44:33+00:00
I use:

- one top-level tmux - with a window for each workspace - running a nested tmuxsession, one per- workspace - for any codebase that can be indexed by cscope(1) I run cscope on window #0 of each nested tmux session, with - CSCOPE_EDITOR set to a script that launches $EDITOR in a new window in the same session, titled after the basename of the selected file - that CSCOPE_EDITOR script exits as soon it runs the `tmux new-window` command so that cscope gets focus back

This lets me use tmux+cscope as a poor-man's mouse-less IDE.
by leymed | 2025-06-23 22:44:58+00:00
I think your interpretation is correct. The voltage control is done at the high level of the grid, meaning the control covers bigger generation stations and major substations. Even if it’s small generator, rotating machinery, you won’t have strict voltage control other than its own AVR. The problem I see here is that we embed smaller individual generations at the lower level, where they pump the generated power to the grid at the medium voltage level. When you have majority of your generation at this level, you won’t have strict control over voltage and even frequency, I assume. I’m still digesting the report, but what I am after is whether they really neglected it and if it is not possible to do voltage control with 50% generation coming from renewable and through medium voltage level, aka lower level.
by w10-1 | 2025-06-23 22:45:40+00:00
I think the real takeaway is that Apple has achieved a psychotic break from actual users, and its internal forces are driving decisions. Somehow user testing signal has been captured by these forces, and market signals are overwhelmed by the overall quality premium they deliver (and you can never prove the negative of how much better sales would have been without this).

I care less about the quality failings than the signs the Apple is too big to manage through the next few years. They’ve done a great job asserting independence from chip makers, but they’re no where near independent enough for the new era of assertive nationalism.
by iLemming | 2025-06-23 22:46:08+00:00
I'm sure you're not talking "soft skills vs. tools", that's a false dichotomy trap - great programmers often excel at both, and tooling mastery can itself develop problem-solving skills that transfer elsewhere.

We are in a better world today specifically because of legendary programmers who invested heavily in tooling, and even created their own from scratch. Prof. Knuth spent decades perfecting typesetting, made TeX/LaTeX, METAFONT, and literate programming tools. Linus built Git and maintains his own terminal emulator and scuba diving log app among many other things. Ken Thompson is famous for building tools to build tools. Rob Pike created text editors, window systems and numerous Unix tools. Carmack built custom level editors and dev tools for each game engine he created, he is known for obsessing over development workflows.

Can you name one person who "blows most other engineers out of the water" while not "being obsessed with tech", using nothing but "the soft skills"?

I dunno about you, I, as a software developer, rather want to be like these guys, and I think any aspiring software dev would. I spent my last weekend figuring out my new WM. Not because I had to, forced to do it, offered money for it, or because I perceive it as my "bottleneck". I don't fetishize over my tools to "get a slight edge". I do it purely out of enjoyment for the process, nothing else.

And I have watched many of my peers going through their career ladders. Sure, many of them might be perceived as more successful because while I was busy "sharpening my sword," they went into "the real world" and "touched grass" and "talked to people." Most of those are no longer doing engineering. If the goal is to "grow out" of being a software engineer, sure, then focus on the tooling might be overrated. That's not for me though; I'm happy where I am.
by astrange | 2025-06-23 22:46:14+00:00
> There weren't enough pixels for the printer to do a good job, or you could see digital noise in them.

Much of that can be fixed with shooting raw and editing in Lightroom, which is the same process you'd use for a bigger camera.

As for printing, it matters how it's being viewed. You're looking at it up close, which is the physical equivalent of pixel peeping and relatively rare. For something like a highway billboard, a low resolution photo is actually fine because you're so far away from it.

I'd suggest trying crappier traditional cameras to learn flexibility. Last time I took a photography class we used disposable B&W cameras and pinhole cameras and developed the film ourselves.

Btw, one thing I've always found interesting is that people seem to think "DSLRs" are the higher quality competitors to phone cameras, but they aren't particularly high quality as far as these things go. For film cameras, rangefinders, medium- and large-format cameras have better "image quality" than SLRs. Those Apple product images that look like 3D renders are real photos shot with large-format digital backs from Phase One.

(This is good to know if you have a mirrorless camera, because you can adapt rangefinder lenses to them and they're very cheap for the quality you get.)
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-23 22:46:49+00:00
Like all things, there's a place and time.

If you're walking out over unfair treatment or wage theft or similar, sure, skip the interview.

If you're at the end of your first internship, or leaving on good terms, or both parties genuinely care, there's plenty to be gained.

The exit interview I had with an intern after my first time mentoring was very valuable for both of us, and was a positive point in our relationship.

On the other hand, I'm quitting the same job and will be declining any exit interview with "I've spent the last six months explaining to you why I'm quitting". There is no value at all to be gained from the conversation so I won't.

Skip the interview if the job sucks. Participate if you think you'll get value, or in particular if you're young and early in your career.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-06-23 22:47:04+00:00
You have to play really, really hard ball to get an offer revoked because of negotiation. By the time a company has decided they're willing to hire you, they've sunk a non-trivial amount of resources into the process. Beyond just the interviews, there have been meetings, reports from the people in the interviews, etc. Everyone involved is pretty strongly motivated to get it over with.

That friction translates to leverage. If you don't open up with "I wouldn't boot up my computer for any less than twice your offer", then there's negligible chances of the worst case scenario not being their initial offer. Personally, I like to try and use PTO as an opening point in negotiations. Companies hate giving out PTO, I don't know why, but it's seen as a soft-blocker. Something like "I've looked over your offer, and it's pretty compelling, but it's a bit below market rates. If you could add another week of PTO, or another 15% comp I could sign today". Every time I've done this I got the vast majority of the money (but never the PTO, which I would be just as happy for).
by int_19h | 2025-06-23 22:47:06+00:00
In US, I find it doubtful regardless of how well the tech works, for purely political reasons.

On the right, car ownership is deeply culturally ingrained as a signifier of personal freedom, and the notion of the government requiring that a robot drive you instead would be unpalatable, never mind the notion of no car ownership at all.

On the left, you have a generally hostile attitude towards cars in general as undesirable and to be replaced with public transport. Then there's a growing current of FSD being associated with "big tech" in general and Musk in particular that makes it an even stronger knee-jerk reaction.
by Zigurd | 2025-06-23 22:47:21+00:00
At current prices, Waymo may actually be generating operating profit with the current vehicle costs and opex. Driver 6 hardware and Ioniq 5 cars will cut the vehicle costs sharply. I don't think Waymo wants to make a big deal out of this because it would be disruptive, but they are either at the point or very near to it where they can undercut human powered ride hailing.

A big cost driver is invisible, at least once Tesla gets their safety monitor out of the vehicle, which is the ratio of safety monitors to vehicles. You need three shifts of safety monitors seven days a week. It adds up. Google wouldn't be expanding if they had to hire a building full of safety monitors.
by kragen | 2025-06-23 22:47:27+00:00
> You sure? Programming is an act of creation. Any [good] creative worker - artists, sculptors, novelists, potters, bakers, et al. would agree...

Yes, I'm sure. Being a painter is not about decorating your studio and choosing paints and paintbrushes. Being a sculptor is not about using the best chisels and rasps. Being a novelist is not about configuring your word processor. Being a potter is not about the selection of clay bodies and kiln accessories in your workshop. Being a baker is not about where you place your oven or what brand of mixing bowls you use.

It's surely true that any accomplished potter will have enough opinions about clay bodies, glazes, wheels, scrapers, and other tools to talk about all afternoon. But that's not what being a potter is about. 99% of potters have never made anything as beautiful or as useful as many of the pots that María Poveka Montoya Martínez coil-built from clay she dug up near her house and pit-fired with dried cow manure. She engaged with her tools, and I bet she would have yelled at you if you left one of them in the wrong place, but she wasn't defined by them.

That's what being a potter is about.

It's the same for programmers.
by everforward | 2025-06-23 22:47:29+00:00
You're mixing together temperature and heat transfer. That region is very hot, but it transfers very little heat. It's like getting hit with a blast of hot air when you open the oven. The air is hot enough to harm you, but it can't carry enough heat to actually harm you unless you stay there for a long time.

Except where Voyager is, the "air" is so thin there are like a dozens zeroes on the percentage thinner it is, so the amount of heat it carries is also divided by a similar amount.

Each particle is carrying a huge amount of heat, but it gets hit by very few particles. Earth is the inverse; each particle carries a very moderate amount of heat, but you get hit by a lot of them.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-23 22:47:35+00:00
> AI can very efficiently apply common patterns to vast amounts of code, but it has no inherent "idea" of what it's doing.

AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. There are no inherent limits around what AI can and can't do or comprehend. What you are specifically critiquing is the capability of today's popular models, specifically transformer models, and accompanying tooling. This is a rapidly evolving landscape, and your assertions might no longer be relevant in a month, much less a year or five years. In fact, your criticism might not even be relevant between current models. It's one thing to speak about idiosyncrasies between models, but any broad conclusions drawn outside of a comprehensive multi-model review with strict procedure and controls is to be taken with a massive grain of salt, and one should be careful to avoid authoritative language about capabilities.

It would be useful to be precise in what you are critiquing, so that the critique actually has merit and applicability. Even saying "LLM" is a misnomer, as modern transformer models are multi-modal and trained on much more than just textual language.
by upofadown | 2025-06-23 22:47:42+00:00
If you blame the incorrect phone number in the Apple address book then sure, but that implies that you think that a smart phone address book should be responsible for identity management in an end to end encrypted messenger. Oh, and the telephone number to identity mapping is the responsibility of:

* Signal

* Twillo

* The phone company

That's all OK as far as it goes, but the root problem here is that a typical Signal user is made aware of none of this. Sure it's legit to take convenience over security, but it is not OK to leave this tradeoff completely unknown to the people affected.
by fennecbutt | 2025-06-23 22:47:44+00:00
No, we still had responsibilities then.

I think the real answer is that we never thought what we had would change, or go away.

I think I described it in another comment from a wee while ago, but the old Internet was split. It was like there was a giant wall up between the serious business side of the Internet and the fun meme side of the Internet. "Pssssh, nobody is gonna make money from this stuff, that's not the point."

And then the serious business side realised that everything on the other side of the wall was monetisable. And so they broke the wall down, to offer us t-shirts and mugs with our memes on them. And then the denizens of the fun loving side realised that money could indeed be made from memes. And now you have it, the modern Internet where it's all purely about clout, creating an image/brand for yourself, monetising going viral, engagement farming.

It's ironically biblical, in a way.
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-23 22:48:30+00:00
I'm saying the Voyager probes don't make a counter example to interstellar travel being impossible. That's still very much an open question. We might be able to develop adequate shielding to protect spacecraft from radiation over mildly geologic timespans, but we might not. I'm certain it won't be as easy as you seem to think it is.

(Unless you count slinging a dead pile of former computers through a distant star system as successful interstellar travel, but that's not what most people are interested in.)
by reaperducer | 2025-06-23 22:48:35+00:00
How do Tesla Robotaxis handle unreasonable directions from road crews?

The law where I am is that human traffic directors (police, sheriffs, construction crews, etc) take precedent over what's in the book. If they didn't, nobody could ever get around a fire truck at a fire.

I just ignored him and went around when it seemed safe.

And that's where you get a ticket. Plenty of cops around here sitting at the exit of construction zones waiting for people just like you.
by pxc | 2025-06-23 22:48:38+00:00
That's great info! Thanks for filling me in.

I used tmux for everything many years ago, but when I started the current job, I decided to try to do everything natively with Kitty instead. (IIRC one of my main reasons was that Kitty supports macOS' "secure input" features.)

But tbh I never got around to making my Kitty setup as nice as my old tmux one. I think I may switch back soon. It sounds like I may want to set things up differently in light of these new features!
by oblio | 2025-06-23 22:50:47+00:00
Standards do die off, up to a point. XML is widely used but the last time I really had to edit it in anger working in DevOps/web/Python was a long time ago (10 years ago?).

At this point XML is the backbone of many important technologies that many people won't use or won't use directly anymore.

This wasn't the case circa 2010, when I doubt any dev could have really avoided XML for a bunch of years.

I do like XML, though.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-23 22:51:07+00:00
> additionally equipment may have been moved prior to bombing.

It's possible, and Iran has done it before (AFAIK, the only country), but this is about as easy as building a new facility from scratch (what they essentially did last time they moved a centrifuge).

It's not exactly portable, like a satellite dish or something.

And even if you transported some of the most complex parts (the centrifuge), they aren't really very useful on their own, without an entire facility.

So the idea that they're going to be up and running and further enriching uranium to bomb grade any time soon is - while theoretically not impossible - highly implausible.

The odds are likely higher that they've just got another facility no one yet knows about (which is low, but non-zero).
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-23 22:51:15+00:00
Agreed. The relatively small battery substation linked above can output 2GW of equivalent inertia generation (a measure to align batteries to inertial power systems) when needed. That's an entire power station they can match for short periods of time. Link: https://www.energymagazine.com.au/sa-approves-world-first-ba...

Australia's largest power plant has 2.9GW of inertial generation assuming all generators are running at 100%. As in the small battery substation alone comes close to the countries largest power station. I'm not sure where the idea that lithium ion can't dump power quickly comes from. They are absolutely phenomenal at it. Australia's building dozens of these substations too since they are so cheap and reduce overall power costs. It's a win from all points of view.