MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by awongh | 2025-06-02 10:52:08+00:00
I liked that in Oppenheimer, even though the plot of the movie was a similar sort of high stakes mystery heist movie, instead of the macguffin being a random piece of metal like it was in tenet, its the literal atom bomb. For that reason I enjoyed it more than some of his other movies.

I would enjoy a Wes Anderson movie that just moved the whole aesthetic over to something new. It can still be a Wes Anderson movie but just different in one important new dimension.
by ansgri | 2025-06-02 10:52:09+00:00
It's deceptively simple.

I have a lot of lumber from previous construction projects, and all the basic woodworking tools. I also have some relevant skills. Would I be able to build it right now? No, need a wide and sturdy board, widest I have is 150x30mm pinewood. Would I make one if I had a proper piece of wood? Also no, I just don't want to accept the structural weakness here. And this joint actually requires some precision, which is not trivial (at least for me) with handheld circular saw!

Haven't built a chair yet, but my go-to design would be something like Adirondack.
by mboto | 2025-06-02 10:52:56+00:00
What is also useful to keep in mind is the tendency to recreate your primary family life in the workplace. So if you had critical controlling parents who never valued you and everything you ever did was worthless, then you'll tend to select for those places and it is often done outside of awareness.

Was your primary family spent being valued and appreciated? Then you'll select for that and when people start to not value you, you'll intervene earlier to correct for it and you'll have the skills to do that.

Did your parents respect your boundaries growing up? Were you able to erect strong boundaries and have people listen to you when they over stepped, or were you constantly put down and your wishes ignored? A lack of skills in erecting proper boundaries and then maintaining them by being in the goldilocks zone of not too soft and too hard can lead to issues in the workplace and personal life.

First step is bringing this in to awareness so you can look back with hindsight, next step (the hardest) is mid-sight, you know you are doing or not the doing the thing you need to do but can't do it or don't know how. There there is foresight, hey I normally do this thing that's not good for me here, I had better do the thing I need to do to keep this situation positive.

Keep this mantra in mind: You are the only in charge of you and your emotions, no one makes you do anything, and you will protect yourself.

Awareness + skills = ability. Psychotherapy (not counselling) is what you need to look out for. Combine that with Transactional Analysis and it makes you very very effective.
by cs_throwaway | 2025-06-02 10:56:50+00:00
CS professor with 15 years experience.

The massive boom in computer science enrollment over the last 20 years has been driven mostly by people chasing tech salaries, not by any real interest in computing itself. These students often show up completely unprepared for how difficult CS actually is, and universities have responded by dumbing down their programs to keep everyone happy and enrolled.

If this weeds out the people who are just there for the paychecks, it might actually be a relief to get back to teaching students who genuinely want to learn about computing.
by rigrassm | 2025-06-02 10:57:07+00:00
I had to double check that I wasn't sleep posting or something cause that's literally what 90% of my days are like.

Probably 5% of the time I'll get stuck completely and those days are immensely stressful but on the flip side, the 5% of the time I actually am able to silence the procrastination demon in my ear, those days are so satisfyingly productive.
by austin-cheney | 2025-06-02 10:57:26+00:00
This is far more simple than it sounds. Do what others cannot to deliver success to the internal goals of the business. It is always more about capabilities and delivery and it’s never really about hard work.

These capabilities can include authoring new tools but most often are soft skills and better written communication. Many people will fail at this because they cannot perform or independently determine their own performance criteria.

Sometimes the employers will set you up for failure by limiting your value potential so that you are a commodity. In these cases value is not what you add but how well you play a game.
by moritonal | 2025-06-02 10:58:08+00:00
I know that due to being interested in a specific industry, lets say Video Games, I can combine a general understanding of the environment, to a specific understanding of certain companies and the games they're making. If I see in a low-key mailing list that a company is making a new game that I know will line up well with the direction the industry is going, then I can invest in that company and likely be ahead of the market.

My hunch is that if you spend more than 6 hours a week studying the mood of a industry, you would likely be "luckier" than the market (although all risks still apply). I also believe a LLM could do exactly what I do with enough investment.
by neom | 2025-06-02 10:58:37+00:00
My thought is, it would be a dysfunctional system, like this: https://futurism.com/professors-company-ai-agents

I was just building a tool people can use to do the business side of product and technology. I wanted it to do basic tasks i KNOW a business needs at all scales, not pretend to do whatever "AI" thinks an employee does.
by bux93 | 2025-06-02 10:59:06+00:00
The source is here https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...

I don't read too much into the fact that unemployment for nutrition science is at 0.4% - that doesn't mean those people are all working as nutritionists or even in a job that requires a degree. You can see this clearly in the underemployment rate which is 45%+.

Likewise, the top unemployment rate (9.4%) of those with an anthropology major probably doesn't mean all those people are living under a bridge - a fair number of them will be pretty well off, living off their parents and knew going in that their field doesn't hire millions.

So what to make of IT grads having high unemployment rates (but low underemployment rates! bottom 5 in those)? I feel some more on-the-ground reporting is needed.

The quotes from randos reacting in this article don't really help. "Every kid with a laptop thinks they're the next Zuckerberg, but most can't debug their way out of a paper bag," because debugging (like Zuck!) is computer science, apparently.
by ramesh31 | 2025-06-02 10:59:09+00:00
>But I do think the cinematic world as a whole would benefit from him experimenting a little more, trying a novel format, and so on.

But his format is novel in the entire world of cinema right now, even if it doesn't change from film to film. People go to see a Wes Anderson film for the same reason Marvel fans line up for the next blockbuster; you know what you are going to get, and you want more of it. He takes it to the extreme in this one, where it works entirely visually as an almost homage to the days of silent film. We would benefit greatly from more filmmakers (and studios willing to take them on) who have such a defined aesthetic vision and are able to develop it over such a long a period, rather than just mashing together whatever expectations a focus group might have, or going off on flights of fancy that have little artistic continuity.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-06-02 10:59:31+00:00
This looks cool.

If every node is both a server and a client then will a lot of traffic use my node/server as an exit node?

I see there is a separate list of public servers. Presumably, these are people running EasyTier nodes/servers who are willing to allow strangers in?

If I start my own node and I wish to connect to the mesh is that part of the reason for pubic nodes?
by 47282847 | 2025-06-02 10:59:58+00:00
Countries have a point as it is useful to organize locally for local issues: districts, municipalities, villages, cities, regions, states, all are useful organizational units to have, and none of those require borders (as in, regulation of migration; not borders as in organizational structuring).

I see no logical argument why suddenly and arbitrarily on one of those levels one should have to introduce borders. And you have not provided any either so far, so I have no ability to grow towards your perspective.

The usage of -isms is poor. If you do not want to defend your perspective, fine. But don’t make it about me. Most people will feel offended if you throw -isms at them, and rightfully so. I am an individual, not a category.
by killerstorm | 2025-06-02 11:01:43+00:00
React introduces absolutely insane level of complexity:

* you no longer know when code is executed - it's magic

* state can be managed in ~5 different ways, with a lot of ceremony and idiosyncrasies

It is, absolutely, an eDSL (`useState` & `useEffect` introduce new semantics using JS syntax), and a proper DSL would be a lot easier to learn.
by eqmvii | 2025-06-02 11:02:35+00:00
It’s the difference between partnership track and various “counsel” type titles at law firms.

The former grows (or at least maintains) a book of business and is valuable, the latter has key skills and is useful but clearly not to the same degree.

And like many other contexts, the vast pipeline of people willing to dedicate their lives to trying to be useful mitigates the value of just being useful over time.
by BobWue | 2025-06-02 11:03:00+00:00
NXAI unveils its first time series model, TiRex, based on the novel xLSTM architecture – and immediately claims the top spot in well-known international benchmark leaderboards. Despite having just 35 million parameters, TiRex is significantly smaller and more memory-efficient than its competitors. It not only excels in prediction accuracy but is also considerably faster. A decisive advantage lies in the model’s ability to continuously monitor, analyse, and update the system state – known as state tracking. Transformer-based approaches lack this capability. TiRex, on the other hand, can approximate hidden or latent states over time, improving predictive performance. Its architecture offers another major benefit: it is adaptable to hardware and enables embedded AI applications.
by pfdietz | 2025-06-02 11:03:11+00:00
I want you to consider the scale of the problem.

In particular: cells accumulate genetic damage over time. Each cell receives a different set of mutations. So it's not just the problem of correcting an inborn genetic error across all cells, it's the problem of specific patches for every cell in the body.

If you can't do this, I don't care what other advances are made, the cells (including neurons which aren't replaced) will eventually stop working.
by codelion | 2025-06-02 11:04:13+00:00
Re-reading the problem apparently works well - https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06275

Here the system seems to have discovered this strategy by itself. The prompts are generic because during learning there is a part to refine and combine them. I haven’t experimented yet by adding all prompts to every query, given the large context it will be interesting to see.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-02 11:04:18+00:00
> These are the only motivations?

No, just the major ones. But it's nice to be honest and consistent about those with your audience, and with yourself.

If you just want to contribute something good to the world, being seen by LLMs in training and retrievable by them via search are both good things that strongly advance that goal. If you also want to make money and/or cred this way, then LLMs are interfering with that - but so do search engines and e-mail and copy/paste.

It's unfortunate, but no one is actually stealing anything (unless a work gets regurgitated in full and without credit, which is an infrequent and unfortunate side effect, and pretty much doesn't happen anymore unless you go out of your way to cause it to happen). Works are being read and interpreted and understood (for some definition of that term), and then answers are provided based on this understanding. If that stops someone from reaching your page, that sucks, but that's been a factor before LLMs too; intellectual property is not meant to be monopoly on information.

(Some of those complains get even more absurd when they get extended to LLMs using tools. As designed and customary, when LLM invokes search and uses the results from some page, it cites it as a source, exposing the URL to it directly in at least two places - inline, and on the overall sources/citations list. Credit is not lost.)
by felixarba | 2025-06-02 11:05:42+00:00
> Every kid with a laptop thinks they're the next Zuckerberg, but most can't debug their way out of a paper bag

I feel like I've seen this quote many times over the years.

Also, how do they calculate employment rate? If you get a job at McDonald's while having a civil engineering degree or nutrition science, that counts as employed as well, no?

Would be good to see how many are actually employed in their field of study
by rvz | 2025-06-02 11:06:08+00:00
This is nothing (it will get worse) compared to what will happen in 2030.

Just look at what is happening in just the last 5 to 6 months since this prediction was made [0]. The definition of "AGI" was hijacked to mean all sorts of things to the companies that operate the AI systems, even conflicting with each other on timeframes and goals.

But what really is the true definition of "AGI" is the blueprint inside the WEF's Future of Jobs Report 2025 [1] with the deadline of 2030 including mass layoffs which 40% of employers admittedly anticipate reducing their workforce where AI can automate tasks, as I said before [2]

So what AGI actually means is a 10% global unemployment increase by 2030 or 2035 and with all those savings going to the AI companies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490692

[1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652402
by weitendorf | 2025-06-02 11:06:10+00:00
If I had infinite time and energy I would try to reboot an RSS-inspired Internet UX/community. Unfortunately I'm not able to do that yet, but one thing I have just started working on is one-click deployments of configurable static sites with the goal of making them entirely modifiable and self-hostable if desired, but easily used for most non-technical users.

I recently became old enough to be a part of a couple of mailing lists but I just do not find email to be a good medium for articles or discussion.

But it turns out you can buy 1 septillion ipv6 addresses for $500, it's not that hard to register domains and serve static sites for people, and it's not that hard to build a static site generator that packages in standard functionality like RSS and deployments. And AI is generally pretty good at modifying tailwind configs or adding funny UI widgets. So I'm interested in seeing if people might want to participate in a "myspace if it came out in 2025" or "distributed cozyverse", or if regular people would make websites more often if it were truly as easy as clicking a button and paying a few dollars.

There are some really interesting things we can do with social media on the open web with creative application of existing tools. Free idea for the taking: you can use JWT/JWKS and proxy auth providers to implement a "private site" only authorized for access by friends you personally invited.
by davedx | 2025-06-02 11:08:59+00:00
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

Short term movements are very much sentiment driven, both humans and algorithms. Long term movements generally trend towards the consensus of fair value of any given security, which is usually modelled somehow. You can see stocks where the models struggle to reach consensus by their long term volatility.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-06-02 11:09:23+00:00
I believe the markets are assymptotically efficient, but because of constant changes/surprises and the mechanisms being chaotic, it never reaches steady state, and thus is never actually efficient. There might be individual stocks or sectors that do reach steady state between annual reports, but as a whole: no. It's possible there's statistical signal in the inefficiency, comparing predictions to outcomes. At least HFT seems consistently profitable, and whatever Medallion is doing.

That said, judging if one specific trader is lucky or good is practically impossible.
Show HN: Fast Random Library for C++17
by GeorgeHaldane | 2025-06-02 11:09:45+00:00
Morning HN.

Random number generation feels is a somewhat underrepresented topic in the C++ realm. There is a lot of questionable info about it found online and even the standard library is quite behind the times in terms of it's algorithms. It suffers from trying to accommodate sometimes impractical standard requirements and has several ways of getting significantly bad statistical results. This leaves a lot easily achievable performance & quality on the table.

So, being a mathematician who mostly works with stochastic models and wants these models to run fast and well, I embarked on a journey of trying to summarize "what is good and what is bad" and implement the "best stuff there currently is".

Thankfully, the design of C++ <random> is quite flexible and easy to extend. With some cleanup, generalization and compile-time logic all the different algorithms can be wrapped in a generic standard-compatible API.

A result of this work is single-header RNG library which has:

- <random>-compatible generators (PRNGSs) with 3x-6x better performance - Cryptographically secure generators (CSPRNGs) - Faster uniform / normal distributions that produce same sequences on every platform - Quick approximations of some non-linear distributions - More reliable entropy sources that std::random_device() - rand()-like API for when we just want random numbers without the boilerplate of proper a <random> setup

Effectively all of this gets us 2x-8x speedups on many workloads while producing even better statistical quality.

Don't think there is anything else like it, so I would like to showcase the result here and hear some opinions on its improvement:

https://github.com/DmitriBogdanov/UTL/blob/master/docs/modul...

For those interested, there is a more detailed rundown of all the quirks of this topic at end of the docs, might prove an interesting read.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-06-02 11:10:27+00:00
I have the same experience. Multiple companies with a crazy manager that bullied and insulted employees. The bosses never do anything because the manager is always right.

At my last job I was the only developer who knew bash and Linux. I handled everything until a new CTO came and destroyed the servers with his lack of technical knowledge.

I was critically useful to the company until I broke down due to the daily harassment. I became valued the instant I gave my two weeks notice, but I still told them to go to hell.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-02 11:10:30+00:00
> Do you think the market is so efficient that anyone who outperforms it is merely lucky?

> Or do you think the market is inefficient enough for a person smart enough to be able to outperform it by thinking?

The market cannot be “efficient” (though this isn't what “efficient” means in economics besides in EMH), because if it was efficient, then there would be no incentives for market makers, and as such there wouldn't be anyone working to make it efficient.

As such, the market is always in an in-between state, inefficient enough so that people spend energy to try beat the average, but still hard to beat because there are already many players out there.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-06-02 11:10:40+00:00
Again, you are not wrong. This is all clearly not intended. However it has become a challenge to map things like Btrfs subvolumes (when seen from a Btrfs mount) onto POSIX semantics [1].

You are absolutely right that ideally there is an update to the POSIX standard. But things like this take time and it's also not necessarily clear yet what the right path here is going forward. You can consider a lot of what is currently taking place as an experiment to push the envelope.

As for if this is a Linux specific problem I'm not sure. I'm not sufficiently familiar with the situation on other operating systems to know what conversations are taking place there.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/866582/
by apercu | 2025-06-02 11:13:21+00:00
That kind of work avoidance sounds like a lot of work.

Advice would be to try to find a job or role doing something you’re interested it.

A lot of the subject matter of my work is not that interesting to me, and the politics and lack of any sort of vision or leadership at most organizations these days makes project work sometimes stressful. But (maybe as a survival mechanism?) I’ve found that focusing on improving how I do my work and taking pride in my output (even if no one else notices) is a way for me to have some control over my work day.

This way it’s about me and I’m not looking for external validation (which isn’t coming for a myriad of reasons that would be exhausting to list here).

My point is that we all (most of us anyway) have to work so my theory is that it’s best to try to find some balance of interesting, pays ok and you’re good enough at it that you can find some meaning in your work.

To me, work avoidance sounds mentally draining.
by mda | 2025-06-02 11:13:31+00:00
The remark "Do you want him to make a superhero or action movie or something?" implies that any desire for Anderson to evolve beyond his current style stems from a limited understanding of cinema, rather than a genuine wish for artistic expansion. Imo this rhetorical question can be seen as an attempt to dismiss the critique by framing it as unsophisticated. I found it a little condescending.
by varispeed | 2025-06-02 11:14:18+00:00
You're right that IR35 has always been a mess - but that last point seriously misses the mark.

Big consultancies aren't exempt because they "pay market rates" - they're exempt because the worker doesn't own the delivery company, so the client carries no IR35 risk. Meanwhile, the consultancy bills the client often 2-3x the day rate and books the margin as corporate profit - profit that’s often structured to minimise UK tax exposure (through internal charges, offshore entities, etc.).

It's tempting - and convenient - to reduce a small, one-person business to "just an employee in disguise," but that's classism in its purest form.

Contractors didn't have tax advantages over big consultancies or employees - in fact, they often paid much more. They had none of the multinational tax structuring, none of the offshore routing, none of the internal "cost shifting" that lets large firms declare minimal UK profit and no top accountants on tap.

Employees typically see a small fraction of what the consultancy actually bills for their work. So the idea that big consultancies "do it right" while small independents were somehow gaming the system is a myth - one that government and corporate lobbyists have carefully exploited to shut down independent economic actors and funnel the contracts back to large firms.
by bigs | 2025-06-02 11:14:37+00:00
My 8yo has an iPad with Osmo Awbie which he loves. You use physical tiles to program steps in a logic game like “move right 3”, “turn 90deg”…

They have a bunch of other programs too but for some reason I seem to only be able to find them on Amazon now.

He did want to create Roblox levels and Blender based characters and it was just too much to start with.
by paxys | 2025-06-02 11:15:01+00:00
It's mainly #1. For 20 years now we've been hearing non-stop about how computer science is this magical major where anyone can sleepwalk out of college into a 150k job. Parents have been pushing their kids into it whether they are interested or not. Colleges have been taking advantage by pushing sub-par programs and boosting graduation rates. The end result is a large number of CS graduates who can't write a for loop in an interview (and will then loudly complain about how the interview process is unfair).