MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gorgoiler | 2025-06-08 04:07:23+00:00
For me, trams have a much more comfortable ride. The lack of pitch and roll reduces a lot of motion sickness and the rails are obviously a lot smoother than paved surfaces.

There’s nothing stopping a road from being smooth but, logistically, there’s clearly no reason to rush to repair roads when they deteriorate. That means potholes get tolerated, potholes means suspension, and both of those mean bus-like rides instead of suburban light rail rides.

Railway track has to be flat. Anything less than perfect is intolerable so it tends to hold its maintainers to a higher bar.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-08 04:08:52+00:00
Political polls are extremely misleading. Ask someone if they still agree with a decision they already made, they will more often than not find a reason to say yes.

> I believe you but maybe float a question to your neighbors - "If prices don't come down would you vote Democrat in 2027?"

The fact that you're assuming people should align with one party or the other is the problem.

Who gives a shit what letter is next to a candidates name? What matters is what the candidate stands for, what matters to them, and whether you believe they'll stuck to their guns when the political machine that is DC fights back.
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-08 04:11:13+00:00
You think a carefully staged spat between two men with long track records of impulsive idiocy is the simple solution?

I mean, there is a sense where a conspiracy is always the simplest explanation for public affairs, in the same way "a wizard did it" is simple. But that's not usually what people mean when they talk about Occam's razor.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-08 04:11:48+00:00
Oh, it's not a good idea at all from a performance perspective to use system memory because it's slow as heck. The important thing is that you can do it. Some way of allowing the GPU to page in data from system RAM (or even storage) on an as-needed basis has been supported by Nvidia since at least Tesla generation.

There's actually a multitude of different ways now that each have their own performance tradeoffs like direct DMA from the Nvidia card, data copied via CPU, GPU direct storage, and so on. You seem to understand the gist though, so these are mainly implementation details. Sometimes there's weird limitations with one method like limited to Quadro, or only up to a fixed percentage of system memory.

The short answer is that all of them suck to different degrees and you don't want to use them if possible. They're enabled by default for virtually all systems because they significantly simplify CUDA programming. DDR is much less suitable than GDDR for feeding a bandwidth hungry monster like a GPU, PCI introduces high latency and further constructions, and any CPU involvement is a further slowdown. This would also apply to socketed memory on a GPU though: Significantly slower and less bandwidth.

There's also some additional downsides to accessing system RAM that we don't need to get into, like sometimes losing the benefits of caching and getting full cost memory accesses every time.
by capyba | 2025-06-08 04:12:33+00:00
I don’t know anyone that works at Meta, so I’m hoping that someone here could answer this for me-

What makes employees there feel good (or at least okay) about doing stuff like this? You're spying on people, no? Surveilling ordinary people, not enemy combatants or foreign militaries? Perhaps a friend of a friend or even a family member? This kind of thing is so creepy and disturbing to me, not that it’s anything new…
by XorNot | 2025-06-08 04:14:04+00:00
It's something of a technical limitation though: there's no reason all my devices - the consumers of my domain name - couldn't just accept that anything signed with some key is actually XorNot.com or whatever...but good luck keeping that configuration together.

You very reasonably could replace the whole system with just "lists of trusted keys to names" if the concept has enough popular technical support.
by xingwu82 | 2025-06-08 04:17:04+00:00
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by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-08 04:17:10+00:00
Apparently it's because the original headline had the unfortunate juxtaposition of "homelessness" & "experimentation"?

I wouldn't be so quick to call delusion/dissent when designers of our spaces have simply made it far too easy to turn private affects into public effects..

(& It might be rude of me to be so concrete.. so.. apologies)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213954

& What if everyone starts camping on pristine beaches? That'd be something! To marvel at!
by haberman | 2025-06-08 04:22:23+00:00
Most data structures have invariants that must hold for the data structure to behave correctly. If users can directly read and write members, there's no way for the public APIs to guarantee that they will uphold their documented API behaviors.

Take something as simple as a vector (eg. std::vector in C++). If a user directly sets the size or capacity, the calls to methods like push_back() will behave incorrectly, or may even crash.

Opaque pointers are one way of hiding representation, but they also eliminate the possibility of inlining, unless LTO is in use. If you have members that need to be accessible in inline functions, it's impossible to use opaque pointers.

There is certainly a risk of "implicit interfaces" (Hyrum's Law), where users break even when you're changing the internals, but we can lessen the risk by encapsulating data structures as much as possible. There are other strategies for lessening this risk, like randomizing unspecified behaviors, so that people cannot take dependencies on behaviors that are not guaranteed.
by efitz | 2025-06-08 04:23:16+00:00
I think legislators are skilled politicians and many are lawyers of varying competence. I would not expect them to deeply understand the negative downstream economic consequences of changing an obscure provision of the tax code. Maybe some of them could but would those have even been in the room? I get the impression most legislation is written by staffers (polysci or lawyers) and particularly spending legislation is tightly controlled in committee; only a handful of lawmakers ever saw the actual legislation before it was passed.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-08 04:27:20+00:00
> One function of the National Guard is to quell civil unrest at the behest of the POTUS

Only "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions" [1]. Otherwise, the National Guard is banned from domestic law enforcment at the command of the President [2].

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/insu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_%28United_State...
by atmavatar | 2025-06-08 04:28:31+00:00
>> That's the predominant view on hn.

> Only in the doge side of HN

That's hardly true. I'm pretty far from the doge end of the spectrum, but I want as little surveillance as possible (ideally: only via court order).

You need only read about what impact a simple census question about religious affiliation had in the 1930s/40s to realize that information about yourself can very quickly be used for very dark purposes.

We've already seen stories about red states using data from social media and phone apps to target women who may have gotten abortions.

I can think of plenty of not so great ways red light camera data can be (and probably already is being) used for things completely outside the scope of merely automating speeding and red light crossing tickets.
by ednite | 2025-06-08 04:29:13+00:00
When I first heard about the government's push to mass-filter contracts under a tight deadline with a small team, I figured they must be using AI. Hopefully not the “retail version” most of us tinker with.

But then I paused. I thought, surely with federal urgency and resources, they had access to advanced internal tooling or some supercharged AI product. This is sensitive work, impacting essential services. It would require deep domain knowledge, careful oversight, and rigorous review. I imagined a team of 10x engineers and policy analysts coordinating a finely tuned system.

After reading this piece, I realized my original suspicion was correct, but the reality was worse. No secret AI. Just a general-purpose model, with vague prompts, limited contract context, and questionable assumptions. That they didn’t anticipate hallucinated figures or misclassified services is frankly baffling.

Even with my limited AI experience, I would have known these risks. And that’s the real concern: not just flawed execution, but a fundamental misunderstanding of how and when these tools should be used.

It makes me wonder how many other organizations are deploying LLMs in the same way, unproven or experimental systems driven by deadlines, with little grasp of the underlying complexity or consequences.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-08 04:30:44+00:00
> Lots and lots of drones, flying high over the heads of ICE agents and their enforcement buddies, dispensing joy to all those below

Just document. We need evidence of the individuals at ICE and the National Guard who may be breaking the law so we can, down the road, prosecute them. (Or right now if a Democrat state AG grows a pair.)

Dropping glitter or slime on the National Guard would be incredibly provocative, childish and counterproductive.
by yorwba | 2025-06-08 04:33:51+00:00
Its number of occurrences is 103,090. In the master's thesis identified as the original source https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~smwatt/home/students/theses/CSo2005... the Unicode value of the operator occurring 103,090 times is given as 2061, and the thesis helpfully explains that

Unicode 2061, 2062 and 2063 are invisible operators. TeX does not have any of these invisible operators. These invisible operators result from the TEX to MathML conversion.

– 2061 – Function application

– 2062 – Invisible times

– 2063 – Invisible separator

And Wikipedia says that function application may be represented as

U+2061 FUNCTION APPLICATION (&af;, &ApplyFunction;) — a contiguity operator indicating application of a function; that is an invisible zero width character intended to distinguish concatenation meaning function application from concatenation meaning multiplication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_application#Represent...

I'm not sure though how an automated conversion process would be able to distinguish between these.
by r0m4n0 | 2025-06-08 04:34:49+00:00
> I left Apple with Marc Porat and Andy Hertzfeld to co-found General Magic and help to invent the personal communicator.

It’s always wild to me how many of the people that are the beginnings of these large prodigy companies and the connection to other powerful rich people. You look up some of these people and see the relationships and it’s wild. Like the name Porat rang a bell so I look up Marc and oh? That’s Ruth Porat’s brother. The ex CFO of Morgan Stanley and current CIO and president of Google. Is it truly talent that drives these leaders to the top of these organizations or is it connections to other crazy powerful people? Maybe both.

Sometimes I feel like I’m over here building cool stuff with talent galore but nothing ever gets what it needs financially. It’d be nice to know these types of people I suppose
by PaulShin | 2025-06-08 04:35:58+00:00
Interesting question. As the founder of an AI collaboration platform (Markhub), we live and breathe this problem every day. My take is that the best approach isn't a simple choice between in-house vs. outsourced, but a hybrid model focused on the quality and context of the data.

For our foundational models (e.g., text summarization), we start with powerful base models like Gemini and fine-tune them. But the real magic happens with our proprietary data, and for that, outsourcing is not an option.

Here's our approach: Our own product, Markhub, is our primary annotation tool.

When our early users give feedback—like circling a button on a screenshot and commenting "This color is wrong"—they are, in effect, creating a perfect piece of labeled data: [Image] + [Area of Interest] + [Instruction].

We call this "Collaborative Annotation" or "In-Workflow Labeling." The data quality is incredibly high because it's generated by domain experts (our users) as a natural byproduct of their daily work, full of real-world context. This is something an external annotation firm can never replicate.

So, to answer your question on how the trend will evolve: I believe the future isn't a binary choice between in-house and outsourced. The next wave will be tools that allow teams to create their own high-context training data simply by doing their work. The annotation process will become invisible, seamlessly integrated into the collaboration flow itself.
by 999900000999 | 2025-06-08 04:36:27+00:00
Cool story, but this seems like a really good way to get your visa revoked if caught.

I kinda understand doing this if at home, and you have no other options. But this comes off as reckless and somewhat naive. To save 2K over a few months you risked serious injury, violated the terms of your visa and ultimately felt a need to humble brag about it.

Not everything needs to be shared.
by kilburn | 2025-06-08 04:38:09+00:00
Not necessarily. You are still running within the same kernel.

If your images use the same base container then the libraries exist only once and you get the same benefits of a non-docker setup.

This depends on the storage driver though. It is true at least for the default and most common overlayfs driver [1]

[1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/drivers/overlayfs-dri...
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-08 04:38:22+00:00
How about 2 5-word signs?

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F7...

In "reality", the tradeoffs aren't so stark.. (e.g. procrastination & distractions whilst on the path of "wisdom" are worth ~50 miles)

(Got that meme from other upforum sophists)

(Plus a sizable cohort of the lawnowners have an unshakeable faith in the dominance of their sense of humor over "reality" )

The political situation in the Americas, is imho, "just" the Monroe Doctrine reaping it's mimetic oats: US WASPs making their ancestral values the fount of honor in W Hemi => LatAm its political arrangements viable in the US via guerilla psyops (pop culture, Catholicism, etc etc).

Caricature: Bezos vs Thiel (note the swap of cultural affiliations)
by cycomanic | 2025-06-08 04:39:19+00:00
So you want to reverse the development in Romania over the last 3 decades [1] ? I agree that the way the transition from the Ceauşescu regime was handled was less than ideal to say the least. But let's not forget that rampant nationalism and isolism was what got Romania into the mess in the first ace. I would even argue that every time a government/regime is bringing out the nationalism card it is to cover up for rising inequality, decreasing quality of life and all sort of other issues. An appeal to the "nation" is just not necessary otherwise.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig3_330480915
by FearNotDaniel | 2025-06-08 04:39:36+00:00
> Everything that has an IATA code is an airport

I used to travel fairly often between Salzburg and London Heathrow, which has very few direct flights outside of weekends in the ski season. One option was to book a through ticket on the Lufthansa bus Salzburg-Munich then fly, which meant of course that the bus journey had to have a flight number. I particularly loved that there was a pick up at the halfway point of Rosenheim in Bavaria, which means a lonely bus stop in a car park just off the motorway also got assigned an airport code.
by erksa | 2025-06-08 04:39:52+00:00
Not just a huge influence w/ Apple. Bill Atkinson was a dedicated photographer who did a lot to help bring the idea of sharing memories together.

He and his associated printed and sent tons of photography all around the world.

The was loved among photographers as well. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photocard-by-bill-atkinson/id3...
by speakfreely | 2025-06-08 04:40:20+00:00
You don't seem to understand the implications here. This requires bootstrapped startups to have gross margins substantially above incumbents in order to compete and not be cash flow negative after paying taxes.

It makes it substantially more cashflow intensive to build a new software business, which entrenches incumbents and reduces competition. It favors companies who have the cash to wait for the full 5-year depreciation cycle, i.e. the opposite of most bootstrapped startups.

Quick example:

$10,000 revenue

$8,000 paid to software developer

$1,000 paid to AWS

leaves $1000 in profit.

You received $10,000 into your business account, but spent 8000+1000 = $9000. Your business account has a balance of $1000 at the end of the year.

Section 174 means you can only deduct 1/10th of the $8000 in the first year, $800. Your total deductible business expenses for the year will be 800+1000 = $1800.

Your taxable profit for the year is 10000-1800 = $8,200. If your effective tax rate is 25% (generously low), you owe $2,050 in taxes.

You pay your $2,050 tax payment and your business account is overdrafted by $1,050. You need to add $1,050 from your personal funds to the business to cover the shortfall.

Your business was cash flow negative for the year. This makes it extremely difficult to bootstrap a software company.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-08 04:41:11+00:00
I believe you two are in agreement, they go to the website to get a phone number to call the company to talk about something that needs human interaction, they cannot get any phone number at all some times, or they can only get one with a bot that says I don't understand a lot - as a consequence "that website has completely failed"

> Customer support is an exception to that, but only as a last resort: if it gets to the point that I have to call a business, something has gone very very wrong.

It is a common thing that people say - hmm, this is a complicated situation and a human needs to be talked to (probably these people don't understand how impressive AI is) and modern UX as a cost saving measure absolutely fails a customers need to talk to a human at the company they are getting a service from.
by kb_dev | 2025-06-08 04:41:15+00:00
In principle, I think most people believe their morals would prevent them from working at a company like Meta.

On the flip side, how much are morals worth if you have the opportunity to be financially free?

There's also the opportunity to work on interesting problems.

Anecdotally, of course, I know a Meta engineer at the L7 level (generally staff engineer in these large tech companies). He makes over seven figures a year, 75% of that being from stocks. The money is there.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-06-08 04:41:17+00:00
The Brennan Centre site doesn't show the complete text. Dare I say Trump feels the below warrants the NG? I guess it could be argued that the civil unrest falls within the below reference?

§253. Interference with State and Federal law

The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/sub...
by perilunar | 2025-06-08 04:41:46+00:00
It's not so much the fear and prejudice that's the problem; it's the idea that violence (or the threat of violence) is an acceptable way to force others to do what we want. You might think that most people don't think violence is acceptable, but every time someone says "there ought to be a law..." they are implicitly accepting the the use of force.
by plentysun | 2025-06-08 04:41:52+00:00
Hi HN, I wrote the linked post.

With the current tech market being so tough for new grads, I wanted to understand the root cause of why so many get cut after the initial screening call. I spent some time talking with a handful of tech recruiters to get their perspective.

The key insight was consistent: that first call isn't a mini-technical test, but a "risk filter." The recruiter's primary job is to protect their engineers' time, so they're looking for specific signals of competence, interest, and professionalism to decide if a candidate is a "safe bet" to move forward.

The post breaks down what those signals are and how to demonstrate them, based on those conversations. It's an attempt to give new engineers a more strategic framework for that first, crucial step.

Happy to answer any questions and curious to hear if this resonates with those of you who have been on either side of the hiring table.
by tcmart14 | 2025-06-08 04:45:36+00:00
I don't know if this explains all the funding. But there definitely was a year where the employees at Microsoft voted to give funding to FreeBSD. I don'w know if it's a thing, but apparently Microsoft had this thing where every year, or quarter, employees could sort of nominate and vote on open source projects that Microsoft would donate to[1]. And FreeBSD one year won some funding out of that.

[1] https://resources.github.com/open-source/microsoft-foss-fund...

But yea, I'm not sure if they have a reoccurring donation to FreeBSD or not. Looking at the FreeBSD Foundation, they are listed as sponsors for 2025/2024/2023. So my guess is that they do have some form of reoccurring donation.
by sega_sai | 2025-06-08 04:47:37+00:00
Some people do react to all, but the parent comment that I commented on just mentioned the spacex situation, like it's something new, while this is just the continuation of what's be going on for months.

And I've certainly seen people on HN trying to defend grant cancellations, Harvard attacks, NSF firings etc. I obviously can't be sure what those people's opinions are on the spacex threats, but I conjecture, that many of them don't like them, while they were ok with the attacks on universities, science agencies.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-08 04:49:37+00:00
I feel this. The market for remote gigs can feel like a race to the bottom if you're just looking on standard platforms.

My experience from running a subscription-based design agency taught me one thing: the best, highest-paying "gigs" rarely come from applying. They come from "showing your work."

Instead of spending time searching for low-intensity work, maybe spend that time writing one high-quality article about a complex problem you solved in A/ML, or building a tiny open-source tool for a DevOps pain point you have.

When you put value out into the world first, the right kind of "gigs" (which are really partnerships) tend to find you. It's a slower but much more rewarding path. Good luck with the search and your time in SF!