MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snowwrestler | 2025-06-22 22:39:37+00:00
Is this out of date in a few little ways now?

He says the hiring market for engineers is hot… is it? Maybe for certain rare species of AI specialists, but for anyone else the going looks a good bit tougher now than it did even a couple years ago.

Also, he spends a fair bit of time encouraging people not to reveal their former salary, but in all but a few rare cases your former salary is available to your new employer via data sharing service providers. The HR team at my employer now asks applicants for their former salary strictly as a test of their honesty. And yes, have kicked competitive candidates out for giving a false number. Declining to give the number is fine, but does not create any negotiating advantage.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-06-22 22:39:59+00:00
Best method:

1. Get another job someplace more progressive

2. Make sure they phone your employer for a reference

3. Explain to current employer salary package is insufficient, and you are cutting back your available hours

4. Leave if they argue over something as silly as heavily taxed income

By the time people have to have this conversation, there is already a serious problem in the corporate culture.

Tech people usually must eventually leave if they want a better position. =3
by Gigachad | 2025-06-22 22:41:45+00:00
All of the privacy stuff straight up breaks the internet these days. Try using a VPN and half the time CDNs straight up refuse to serve you the JS files so sites like supermarkets or flight booking websites load broken or show some generic forbidden error.

Blanking out the user agent would have to be pushed by either Apple, Google, or Microsoft. And out of those I feel like only Apple would do it. iCloud private relay doesn’t end up breaking websites since companies care about not degrading the experience for Apple users and make sure the site still works.
by Magmalgebra | 2025-06-22 22:42:12+00:00
This has never stopped working for me - I interview every year or so as a matter of course.

My experience helping others is that in a tightening labor market they are experiencing "small fish in a big pond" syndrome mentioned above.

Compensation for the bottom 50-75% of talent has dropped significantly since 2021* - if you are in that band and chasing the same comp you're dealing with the "small fish in a big pond" situation. If these people drop their compensation expectations back to 2017 levels many of them will find jobs much more plentiful - though the very bottom of the pool is being driven out of the industry entirely.

* this estimate pulled from conversations with engineering leaders and recruiters at large SV tech companies
by ExaltedPunt | 2025-06-22 22:42:31+00:00
It is pretty easy to spot botted accounts both on YouTube and Twitter. I generally try to judge the sentiment and the momentum.

I will admit I am a bit of a politico, I see myself as the equivalent of someone betting on horses or dogs.

Generally I do the following:

- It is pretty easy to spot botted accounts both on YouTube and Twitter. Especially on YouTube. You will typically get a lot of real sounding names and real looking avatars that almost say exactly the same thing, along with a fake conversation as replies. These bots aren't using advanced AI. They can be bought quite cheaply actually.

- I also talk to a lot of people both in left and right leaning Discord groups. The consensus to anyone that isn't a complete die-hard is "MAGA has jumped the shark".

- There are lower level commentators who represent maybe few tens of thousands of people. Some of these are political operative, some of these are grifters, others are genuine people that have moved towards nationalist politics over time. I've been around these spaces long enough to know the usernames, the characters and accounts of those that follow them.

I appreciate none of this is scientific. However, I will take that over a poll any-day of the week and has been more consistent IME than polling (which is well known to be skewed depending on who is doing it).

I've been not paying attention to any of it recently because quite honestly I've burned out on it and instead I am having a break from it.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-06-22 22:42:31+00:00
Interesting idea. Literary fiction never actually existed; it’s an artificial construct.

I’d really love some professors to analyze a furry solarpunk story I wrote and dig through the symbolism like Virginia Woolf wrote it.

It would be interesting to see if a random internet dog’s scribblings can provide just as much content for discussion. From what other people have told me, it does.
by polivier | 2025-06-22 22:42:38+00:00
I love Home Assistant.

Many years ago we gave our then-toddler an old digital camera to play with. Some time later, we looked at the pictures he took. We were horrified to find out that he took pictures of the outside of the house at night. As in, our toddler would unlock and open the front door, go outside (at night!), take pictures of the house, go back in, close and lock the door, and go back into his bed. I bought some wireless door sensors and created an automation where if the sensors are triggered between 10pm and 6am, the lights in our room would turn on to wake us up.

I expanded this later and today we have sensors on all doors/windows that kids can use to leave the house (we have 4 young kids). As it happens, these are the same doors/windows that burglars can use to enter the house, so this doubles as an alarm system (that we can activate when we leave the house and will notify us remotely if the sensors are triggered).

The best part is that with Home Assistant you are not locked into an app/ecosystem. Our door/window sensors are of a different brand than our lightbulbs, and we control everything from a single app.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-22 22:43:11+00:00
That kind of sounds like two pretty different complaints.

I can see the issue with the “changed their mind” comment. Of course armageddon accelerationist evangelicals aren’t going to change their minds, that position comes from deeply held convictions and values that are for many inextricable from their faith. To suggest that they would abandon their enthusiasm for the coming of the savior and the age of messianic peace that he brings with him is kind of dismissive of how seriously evangelicals take the topic of the second coming.

Conversely, the complaint about the enthusiasm about the timing of the return of Christ is kind of a head scratcher for me. You seem to assert that Jesus’ return is fundamental to your beliefs but you personally would prefer that he arrives later. Like it is important and central to your faith but it is also offensively presumptive to assert that anybody would actually want it to happen.

It is kind of like you are simultaneously complaining that he is taking the evangelical position on the second coming both too seriously and not seriously enough.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-22 22:43:35+00:00
Life is the ultimate test. We see ourselves reflected in the eyes of others. There may be nothing more humbling than being confronted with our own ignorance, except when we have an audience.

I guess once the strings are too loose, then they can’t vibrate consistently enough for long enough to be tunable/playable? I am wondering if a kind of lap guitar or a guitar laid flat might allow for pedals to be used that could bisect the strings to do octave changes upward in pitch. Going downward in pitch from an open position is going to be hard unless you have some excess tunable string beyond the last point of contact with the strings, and that contact could be released to increase the string length?.

You might be able to find an 8 string bass, and have two different string gauges. The top four could be heavier gauge and tuned at a lower octave. Or you could alternate gauges and silence the strings? I don’t know much about playing technique, but it sounds like it might be hard to build in such a way so idiomatic playing technique and style is preserved, but many alternate tuning methods and tools do affect how the guitar is played, so that may not be such a big deal if he’s the only one playing it, but if he wants the mechanics to translate to playing other guitars, those concerns might be more relevant.

It might also be possible to teach him how to build simple guitar pedals, which can easily pitch bend in post-processing once you know how the parts fit conceptually together.

Your guitar projects sound interesting and would be a good post for HN if you can find the time.
by Gigachad | 2025-06-22 22:44:53+00:00
There’s also no reason that the public facing name has to be the same as the internal name. They could have called it Windows 9 and internally reported it as anything in the apis.

Its basically standard in software to do this when the actual name for something comes out near the end or changes often so you don’t have to update all the code to reference the new name.
by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-22 22:45:12+00:00
People also call it "the curse of knowledge," and yeah, being able to empathize with the non-expert is both an ongoing effort and a learned skill.

A lot of my job as a tech writer is basically acting as a shock absorber for user frustration in that regard, because when I need info from devs it's a constant struggle to get them to explain what they built—they often give descriptions that don't make sense unless you're already familiar with whatever they're talking about, which sort of defeats the purpose of a description. So I have to do all the teeth-pulling up front, and eventually get the necessary info, and then present that info in a way that actually makes sense to users.
by bell-cot | 2025-06-22 22:45:26+00:00
Answered in the first 5 words of the subtitle:

> According to our elected leaders, we should be very scared of the possibility that Iran could get a nuclear bomb. But Israel already has them, and ...

For the past 80 years, it's been all-but-guaranteed that you won't win an American election if you seem insufficiently pro-Israel.

Yes, there are plenty of objective arguments for America's foreign policy being far less pro-Israel than it has been for 8+ decades. US Sec. of State (and former US Army General) George Marshall made those arguments to US President Harry Truman back in 1948 - and was overruled. Truman had staked out a pro-Israel position before his previous election (which he had won), then won another election 6 months after overruling Marshall.

- If your real priority is sounding sophisticated, you can make fancy arguments about America being far too pro-Israel.

- If your real priority is understanding why America is so pro-Israel, then you need to shut up with the fancy arguments, and analyze the American electorate's strong preference for that.

- And if your real priority is winning American elections, then you need to present as "obviously" pro-Israel. And ignore the idiots making fancy arguments.
by mkoubaa | 2025-06-22 22:45:41+00:00
To produce a good work of fiction its important to both 1) have a story to tell and 2) tell it masterfully.

By the time people collect enough life experience to satisfy (1) they've aged out of the demographic that's willing to put in the work to learn (2). This is why great writers are and will always be rare. People who write slop in their 20s will either fail and give up or be a victim of their success and produce more slop to satisfy their audience.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-06-22 22:46:51+00:00
I found that behavior would change a lot once I had an offer from a decent company. Suddenly all the scheduling/matching delays and processes that supposedly were delaying me would be resolved when I revealed that. It was even worth emailing recruiters that ghosted me because they would respond again. Also, offer deadlines are usually just pressure tactics and would go away if there actually was a risk of me not signing.

Caveat that I haven’t interviewed in the last couple years and this may not be the case anymore.
by sdenton4 | 2025-06-22 22:46:58+00:00
Relevance!

eg: What's it like to be a teenager alongside the rise of AI? It's a hell of a lot different than the old sci-fi imagines, and old sci-fi generally skipped to the 'end-phase-ubiquitous-AGI' instead of focusing on the transitionary 'awkward teenage' period of the technology.
by bobxmax | 2025-06-22 22:47:18+00:00
The same GAMAAN org that in 2020 found 33% of Iran were Shia, and in 2022 reported that number was now 56%?

Religiosity surveys in the middle east are largely bunk. Actual boots on the ground reality is very different. In the 2000s much was made about the rapid secularization of the Arab world. ... in reality, the exact opposite has happened with the youth.
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-06-22 22:47:22+00:00
That blog post associates for me with the indirect observation of branching that I mentioned. Double slit experiment with one detector has a seemingly impossible phenomenon when the interference pattern disappears without measurement in our branch, so without branching this phenomenon can't be explained as "pattern disappears due to measurement", because measurement didn't happen. In MWI in this case the pattern disappears due to measurement in the other branch, that branch splits from our with the measured part of the photon and the pattern disappears in our branch. Our branch isn't privileged in this case, actually it's affected by the other branch, and the situation is symmetric: when measurement happens in our branch, pattern disappears in the other branch without measurement there. Well, technically if the other branch is destroyed by measurement there, the result for our branch is the same I guess. And if this phenomenon can't be explained without branching, then it's almost direct evidence for branching.
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-22 22:47:27+00:00
Could I have had added more rigor to make it air tight that my remark was not a generalization? Yes.

Did I? No. Because I thought that was not necessary when the response was in context about a specific group of people already: evangelicals who support Israel. Those who would understand what my remark was referring to, would already know that these evangelicals are a specific set; hence I saw no need to qualify it.

When Rick asked me for clarification twice if I meant that as a generalization, I said in clear terms that I did not.

If someone knows about these tendencies among the evangelicals, they would have the requisite knowledge to know it is not held among all evangelicals.

So if what I said was meant to be a joke, then it was more of an "in joke." But I didn't mean it as a joke, as much as I meant it as, I admit, a reactionary opening to discussing about this specific group's influence on US politics. But now I see that possibility was derailed, because reactionary responses only birth the same.

I am not offended. And, I love you too.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-06-22 22:48:18+00:00
> If NSA and only NSA can crack a particular system, they probably wouldn't mind using it for their own secrets.

How do you think they could assess that they, and only they will ever be able to exploit a particular cryptographic vulnerability at any time over the next few decades?

They can’t, they would be well aware of that, and they are extremely risk averse.

> And anyway why is there any reason to believe they really do use the system they say they use?

Because these systems exist widely throughout government today.

https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Commercial-Solutions-for-Class...

https://www.disa.mil/-/media/files/disa/fact-sheets/dmcc-s-f...
by aydyn | 2025-06-22 22:48:27+00:00
Earlier this year, a youtuber speculated on the cause of a (small aircraft) crash and was threatened with a lawsuit by the family of the pilot- he had to issue a full retraction.

Given how early the investigation is and the magnitude of this crash, I wonder how open the author is to being sued by Boeing? How is this any different than the youtuber lawsuit? Any lawyers want to weigh in?
by toast0 | 2025-06-22 22:49:00+00:00
Oshkosh is working in partnership with Ford. The ICE build uses a Ford drive train, and there's a connection to the Ford Transit. This is how most contract commercial vehicles are built for the US markets, take a cutaway truck/van from usually Ford or GM, and put the needed body on it. Sometimes even the cutaway cab is too much, there's often a chassis+engine only package, and sometimes a custom chassis is needed.

GM had entered the procurement process, but left early on. Rivian had no track record when the procurement process began.

No argument that the process is long, and probably has problems, but I don't think it's strange that Oshkosh made it through the process.
by nomel | 2025-06-22 22:49:03+00:00
It's literally a button, with some extra stuff attached to it. The only requirement for a button is that if it's accessible to the person trying to press it (no pictures posted of that, feel free to assume). But, there's intentional inaccessibility built into this project, so that may be an intentional goal.

Thats's the great part about home assistant though...anything that can change states, with intent/meaning, is waiting to be tied to an automation.
by predrag_peter | 2025-06-22 22:49:38+00:00
The difference between human and artificial intelligence (whatever "intelligence" is) is in the following: - AI is COMPLICATED (e.g. the World's Internet) yet it is REDUCIBLE and it is COUNTABLE (even if infinite) - Human intelligence is COMPLEX; it is IRREDUCIBLE (and it does not need to be large; 3 is a good number for a complex system) - AI has a chance of developing useful tools and methods and will certainly advance our civilization; it should not, however, be confused with intelligence (except by persons who do not discern complicated from complex) - Everything else is poppycock
by begemotz | 2025-06-22 22:49:49+00:00
Because that is not how p-values work. Each 'row' is a separate hypothesis test against some null hypothesis.

And frankly the conclusion that "B is winner" because it has the lowest p-value also demonstrates the author's limited understanding.

P-values tell you very little, and generally nothing about what you really want to know.

In this context, you would be better off looking at effect size estimates of key metrics that would signal "better" - not the p-values.
by com2kid | 2025-06-22 22:50:39+00:00
I'm of the belief that the TV and movie sci-fi are a completely different genre than book sci-fi. There are occasional faithful adaptations, but none of the far out stuff ever gets adapted.

But even discarding cinema (Star Wars famously being a samurai movie set in space), most sci-fi books written after the golden age, are focused on societal changes and people. Stories are metaphors for our world.

That is fine, fiction that cannot be related to rarely gets read.

Bobiverse is a nerd's power trip fantasy. 90% of what Heinlein wrote is just "external observations on sociey".

Even Greg Egan, who writes super hard sci-fi (his books have footnotes linked to actual science papers!) has his novels largely focus around societies and people (or aliens that are easily related to!)

It has honestly been 80 or so years since science fiction was mostly "here are a few poorly fleshed out people, and some really damn good science!"

I've read a lot of those stories, they are cool and I kind of miss them, but honestly almost every major plot point possible was already thought up by the boards of scientists turned sci-fi authors of the 1930s through 50s. An occasional new story of that type makes its way out now and then (some of the SCP stories are actually this in a very pure form), but IMHO that genre of pure science writing with minimal focus on people or society is 99.9% dead.
by doofusmcgoo | 2025-06-22 22:50:57+00:00
None of those required congressional oversight. The US hasn't officially declared war since WW2. That's largely due to every administration since then finding clever wording to get around it. Did Obama do unethical things? Probably, geopolitics is not a game of right/wrong. Did Obama do anything illegal, nope. Same with Trump. (Yes, in this context I'm both-sidesing, but not every context: Trump wants to imprison/deport/kill me and people I love, there's no comparision, and he's too dumb to be a nazi but is absolutely an evil dictator. Obama never put crosshairs on the heads of US citizens for not being straight white christians or not kissing his ass.)
by ICBTheory | 2025-06-22 22:51:32+00:00
Oh no, I am not at all trying to find an explanation of why this is (qualia etc.). There is simply no necessity for that. It is interesting, but not part of the scientific problem that i tried to find an answer to.

The proof (all three of them) holds without any explanatory effort concerning causalities around human frame-jumping etc.

For this paper, It is absolutely sufficient to prove that a) this cannot be reached algorithmically and that b) evidence clearly shows that humans can (somehow) do this , as they have already done this (quite often).
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-22 22:53:03+00:00
> Congress shouldn't be voting on a big ugly omnibus spending bill written by special interests, rather they should be browbeaten into focusing on impeachment.

Not to mention standing up in Congress, and reminding each other to actually read what they're voting on, like MTG a few weeks ago realizing the effects of a bill she voted for but hadn't read.
by scrubs | 2025-06-22 22:53:22+00:00
Critical subject. In engineering

* Do not assign writing or communication tasks to hackers, nerds, techies, dorks. Assign to engineers

* Periodically retrain engineers to write

* Let sales do sales. Don't confuse sales with marketing. Let's engineers do engineering communication. Details matter, sure. But the big modalities matter too. It's simply NOT a blur between the three

* Good communication requires one to know who the audience is, and what they care about and how/where it intersects with what one knows. If you're confused, sit this one out

* There's an important extreme of the previous point that needs emphasis. Too many ``communicators" cannot tell the difference between a piece of communication for ``some other", and one's personal diary. I call this diary communication (or diary code). My diary is for me; there is no audience. It can be terse, sweet, staggered, pithy because I know all the players, context, back story. That data is elided from my diary. Hell, maybe it's even right in places. But do not labor under the insane delusion it forms the basis of information for others to build off. You cannot build a team with a bunch of diary nonsense.

* Do not communicate everything you know/think. It's called communication not a data dump. Have some game; you gotta have taste. Try this: overload on the first date with a smart, beautiful lady ... see how that goes ... see if she ever wants to waste time on you again

* Avoid owl talk, jargon. If I cannot work out a reason why I'm faced with dealing with bunch jargon I assume the speaker is deficient, is hiding something, or is an empty hat passively repeating whatever he read 10 minutes ago. It's never a good look.

* Read the room: if you blab on for 10 minutes and nobody has questions ... you blew it. You're another brick in wall, and another reason why people hate meetings

* If you publish ``communication" on the web for God's sake do not atomize it by placing each electron of info from the whole in 62 quadrillion places connected by html links. F that. Stay one book/single-volume/whole-unit. The web has almost single-handedly insured we can only learn about electron sized pieces of info without every realizing there's atoms, molecules, matter up to Shakespeare/Newton i.e. the good stuff. I want the good stuff. I resent having to struggle through a maze of BS to get it

* Some companies are especially clueless. Some companies suck bad. Have you ever had to deal with Mellanox? Wow! It's a shame