MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ge96 | 2025-06-27 03:50:09+00:00
I was at Amazon warehouse for a year, I was getting contract offers for 6 months I was like f that wanting security. Eventually I took one and I'm at it now, six fig job. It was crazy though like impossible to get hired unless you went through a recruiter. I don't have a degree but have years of work exp.

Edit: I did see some news thing about trying to undo/keep 174.
by more_corn | 2025-06-27 03:50:48+00:00
Yeah, so Taiwan. Drones or no drones? Just poking around at the news, seeing Chinese drone carrier ships. Drone carrier aircraft, landing craft being prepared, drone swarming being practiced. Pretty sure we’re going to see a lot of drone warfare in the coming years. I hate to put a timeline on it but the Chinese did announce one so we know what it’s going to look like and where it’s going to happen and when it’s going to happen.

And there gunna be lotsa drones.
by sillyfluke | 2025-06-27 03:51:08+00:00
Yeah, you're supposed to email hn instead of posting if you think it's an issue.

I've seen 3 point new posts up near the top before so I assumed that's what it was. 2 points top of the page is pretty aggressive tho, it might have been a near instant upvote by someone who was interested in the topic.
by porcoda | 2025-06-27 03:52:05+00:00
The HPCS benchmarks predated Graph500. They were talked about at SC for a few years in the early 2000s but mostly faded into the background. It’s hard to dig up the numbers for the MTA on RandomAccess, but the Eldorado paper from ‘05 by Feo and friends (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1062261.1062268) mentions it and you can see the MTA beating the other popular architectures of the time in one of the tables.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-27 03:52:42+00:00
it may have to do with many of us on HN not getting the target audience for Matrix. It works great for a ton of people. Their usage stats speaks for itself.

But there are reasons it isn't competing with discord, slack or teams. I would like to say a lot of that has to do with matrix.org not having a serious/good commercial play, but I think it's a lot more nuanced than that.

Matrix is sort of like Mastodon and Lemmy in its target audience and usage, and there is nothing wrong with that. But I think a lot of us wanted something like Bluesky but for chat apps.

Marketing and UI are very important. something like Signal can get away with being terrible at it because they were able to get publicity and marketing from snowden, politicians,etc... I even think Matrix is a better OMEMO/E2EE communication client than Signal. But having a good product isn't enough, the user experience needs to be competitive for the general public to join and things like branding and publicity are especially important for Matrix because a good product other people aren't using isn't usable for communication purposes.

Don't get me wrong, I know the matrix team is well aware of this and they try their best, but it seems for now at least they know their target audience and that audience is happy enough with it. I suspect in Europe at least they're going to do really well. Whatsapp and Viber are very popular east of the Atlantic. Matrix should focus on disrupting those. Having something like whatsapp numbers instead of full on user id's (or translating them) for example would help compete there.

Matrix is carving out a nice but they're developing it like it should be competing with the bigger/dominant players. I interact with very technical people that are into opensource, development, security, etc... and every single time, I am the first person they hear about Matrix from.
by forgotpwagain | 2025-06-27 03:53:06+00:00
DeepMind/Google does a lot more than the other places that most HN readers would think about first (Amazon, Meta, etc). But there is a lot of excellent work with equal ambition and scale happening in pharma and biotech, that is less visible to the average HN reader. There is also excellent work happening in academic science as well (frequently as a collaboration with industry for compute). NVIDIA partners with whoever they can to get you committed to their tech stack.

For instance, Evo2 by the Arc Institute is a DNA Foundation Model that can do some really remarkable things to understand/interpret/design DNA sequences, and there are now multiple open weight models for working with biomolecules at a structural level that are equivalent to AlphaFold 3.
by monster_truck | 2025-06-27 03:53:38+00:00
I suspect they'd stop at automatic rendezvous & docking. Use some sort of cradle system that holds heat fins, power, etc that boxes of racks would slot into. Once they fail just pop em out and let em burn up. Someone else will figure out the landing bit

I won't say it's a good idea, but it's a fun way to get rid of e-waste (I envision this as a sort of old persons home for parted out supercomptuers)
by netbioserror | 2025-06-27 03:54:09+00:00
I work at exactly one of these companies. It's been thoroughly refreshing, picking my tools and language, being able to defend my choices and help make new ones, have ownership of my part of the product, and see that all bear fruit going from a product that was on fire and mired in tech debt when I got there, to a smoothly running machine with my code at its heart now.

They definitely can't pay inflated Silicon Valley salaries, but I'm also at much less risk of getting that pink slip when some far-off executive decides I'm extraneous. I'm two hops from the company CEO, and even though I haven't met him, he's quite aware of my contribution and has requested projects for my skillset. I have direct lines to most of the executive engineers. That's gratifying.
by lmpdev | 2025-06-27 03:55:19+00:00
All of those are from the later scientific revolution (except Linneaus, Maxwell and Kelvin) and none of those are priests/leaders of a church. You’re correct in that they’re protestant and were surely religious but had little to no influence on protestant theology

Can you find any protestant priests with major scientific contributions during the reformation?

I only mentioned Weber as there are no other major contributions I can think of that actually influenced protestantism/wasn’t primarily from the scientific revolution
by upghost | 2025-06-27 03:56:30+00:00
Is there anyone else who feels kinda like declarative templating is actually kind of worse than jQuery? Don't get me wrong, I've been using React for nearly a decade. But the more complex my SPAs become, the more I wish I had imperative control of the DOM.

I think the reason is because the DOM is a leaky abstraction and at some level I would just prefer last write wins.

I realize declarative templating is supposed to handle that, but this starts to break down really quickly when you share mutable state between components.
by justrudd | 2025-06-27 03:57:00+00:00
I assume by industry you mean software development. And I’m not tired of that. Where else can you be integrally involved in different businesses? Communications, medical, education, e-commerce for anything/everything. We get to play in a lot of different playgrounds and potentially have a huge impact. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of that.

I am tired of the interview process. Here’s a take home assignment that you’ll code in isolation without feedback or interaction from us. Completely opposite of how you’d do the job. You’ll have to justify any assumptions you make. And if we don’t like your justification, pass.

Took 2 days on the assignment - this is kind of simplistic, not what we’d expect from a senior dev. Pass.

Take 4 days on the assignment - what took so long? We’d expect a senior dev to knock this out in 2 or 3 days. Pass.

Maybe we’ll tell you’re out. Or we’ll just ghost you. Depends on how our recruiting team is feeling that day.

Behavioral is generally where I “blow” it. I won’t lie and answer the “so tell me a time about xyz”. Sometimes xyz was terrible, and I didn’t handle it well. I know how I’d handle it now and can articulate that. Sorry. We’re looking for someone that handled this exactly right already.

Personally I screwed myself over the years by not chasing titles. I’ve done Staff and Principal level stuff. For years. But I didn’t fight for the title. So I generally get screened out of those pretty quickly because past titles don’t match what recruiting team has been told to look for.

But this is the price that must be paid. So I can work/play in a lot of different playgrounds. Keep applying. Keep trying. Eventually I’ll find something.
by neighbour | 2025-06-27 03:57:14+00:00
I would guess that the overlap between people deeply concerned about display response times and those excited to buy a Switch 2 is tiny. Most Switch buyers aren’t chasing cutting-edge codecs, they’re buying it for Splatoon, Zelda, Mario, and Animal Crossing. Nintendo’s audience has always prioritised unique first-party games and portability over hardware specs.

Speaking from experience, I've been thoroughly enjoying the Switch 2. Even if I knew about this information before I bought the console, it would not impact my purchase decision.
by oceanplexian | 2025-06-27 03:57:44+00:00
We’re probably thinking of it the wrong way. Instead of a single datacenter it’s more likely we build constellations and then change the way we write software.

There will probably be a lot more edge computing in the future. 20 years ago engineers scoffed at the idea of deploying code into a dozen regions (If you didn’t have a massive datacenter footprint) but now startups do it casually like it’s no big deal. Space infrastructure will probably have some parallels.
by goku12 | 2025-06-27 03:57:53+00:00
There are two performance parameters for a rocket/jet engine. The first is thrust and the second is specific impulse. You are thinking about thrust. The others in the tread are talking about specific impulse. Thrust is important for some stages, especially the early stage booster engines (as opposed to later stage sustainer engines). As a simple example, any space rocket will need a first stage with an enormous thrust so that it can lift itself, the subsequent stages and the payload off the launch pad. Additionally, the rocket has to finish its initial vertical climb as fast as possible. Otherwise the propellants will be wasted in just lifting off (this is called gravity loss). That will also require a high initial thrust.

However, the requirement of the high thrust disappears once you finish the vertical climb. There's no danger of falling back to ground once you reach orbit. What you need at this stage instead, is to add velocity (deltav) to the craft to change its orbit/trajectory. This can be done even at very low thrust, because you have all the time you need. The limiting factor now is that you have only a finite amount of propellant onboard. You want to add as much deltav as possible before it runs out. A high thrust doesn't help because the engine will simply consume the propellant faster and exhaust it before you get the required deltav. This is where specific impulse comes into play. The maximum deltav you can get is proportional to the specific impulse of the engine (see rocket equation for details). As you can imagine, high specific impulse is critical for space missions requiring high deltav, like the New Horizons spacecraft that imaged Pluto or the Parker solar probe (interestingly, getting to the sun is harder than escaping the solar system). Rockets/jets with low thrust and high specific impulse are called sustainers.

The general trend seen is that specific impulse drops off as thrust increases. For example, the space shuttle solid booster has Tmax = 15 MN, Isp = 268s, and space shuttle orbiter cryogenic engine RS25 has Tmax = 2.28 MN, Isp = 452s. Meanwhile, the NEXT xenon ion thruster used in the DART mission has Tmax = 236 mN and Isp = 4200s. Note that the thrust has changed from Mega newtons to milli newtons. You would hardly recognize it if the ion engine thrusted against your body.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-27 03:57:58+00:00
Thiel told the New York Times that “Mars was supposed to be a political project; it was building an alternative. And in 2024 Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist US government, the woke AI would follow you to Mars.”

He xittered the Tweetie, by copying the logo of X Window System, btw.

Isn't Xitter all about followers?

Shit happens. Get over it, do some more fireworks ;->
by drdaeman | 2025-06-27 03:58:11+00:00
> Aquinas does not begin with the existence of God.

Excuse my poor knowledge and understanding of all this stuff - but he's absolutely depending on Aristotle, taking existence of telos as a foundation, doesn't he?

And from this, inventing a God isn't a far stretch - if something axiomatically has an intrinsic purpose, it's probably not too hard to state that there should be something with agency to define it all, or something that's has a perfect nature, or however else one wants to define "God".

This said, are any of those books a good read for someone who doesn't think there's any purpose, reason or goal to all of this?
by sopresatta | 2025-06-27 03:58:47+00:00
No.

But I live and breathe tech even in my spare time[1]. You gotta learn to roll with the sh-t and set boundaries. I hate to say it but turn off HN, this place a hype machine designed to make you feel bad. It's like "Roast and Toast" x 1000 on here, not reality. It's toxic in a very passive-aggressive way (rather than reddit toxic, which is just aggressive).

I've been at this since 1988. (Made a few personal bad choices so not retired, lol [2]) I've changed jobs every 5-7 years since the post-2000 implosion. Don't bother with the FAANGs, its all style over substance tossing-off investors: they don't care about you at all and their top level management just want to be centibillionaires (or trillionaires).

Find smaller companies, that's what I started doing 20 years ago. I started a new job as a senior director at a 5000 person company 3 years ago, most money I've ever made in my career, great people who enjoy their work, no pressure to move up the ladder unless you want to (not much ladder for me, but the younger devs are happy to stay put without the dumb pressure to give 150% every year). Our revenue is <10B, and it is a German company so there's minimal (unremarkable) equity, but the base salary is great.

Find a company that makes boring products that sell. Mine is a stable boring company, making real-ware silicon products and associated cloud services for medical and automotive industry. Look for a company trying to grow profits at a normal rate, not a FAANG rate. Avoid the hype. Be boring. Slow and steady.

[1] also, if you're only in tech because you think that's where you're supposed to be, and don't have a deep passion for it, you're gonna have a bad time.

[2] Oh, and don't accidentally get someone you don't like pregnant. Because then you're completely f--ked.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-06-27 04:00:10+00:00
The answers here have been pretty solid, a lot of what you want depends on where you live. For example, it is very likely that this is not possible if you're property is covered by an HOA. The definition of "it looks nice" is super hard to pin down (neighbors will complain at everything), and unless you're doing something really small, there is going to be some wiring involved. None of that should discourage you however.

"Zero emission generators" (aka battery boxes) are pretty easy to build, and even a 2kW inverter is relatively easy to hide/disguise. If you're doing this in a home situation (vs a camping situation) the 6V "golf cart" lead/acid batteries are really solid. A couple of those will give you 240 AHrs of 12V that can run a bunch of stuff. 240W panels can be stored at night and brought out during the day so keep them 'temporary.' Etc. Victron[1] makes nice chargers and monitors and are popular in the RV / Vanlife communities. Lots of online resources for hooking them up. And generally things you can roll around your property to different places are pretty easily defined as 'not a building' so immune from the permitting process generally.

[1] https://www.victronenergy.com/chargers
by filoeleven | 2025-06-27 04:00:35+00:00
If you haven't yet encountered it, check out Michael Levin's lab and work. Among other things, they are trying to figure out what "basal cognition" is; the idea being that even if we can't point to some dividing line in the end, we'll have a better understanding of what cognition is and where it shows up. And it shows up surprisingly far down!

The definition of "intelligence" that he works with comes from William James: the ability to achieve the same goal by different means. It's a useful definition, given the remarkable stuff coming out of his lab.
by ggm | 2025-06-27 04:01:00+00:00
I am led to believe Ridley Scott is over being told he isn't historically accurate. He knows. He also does care about some things, and doesn't like being nitpicked about others. He really cares about a visually beautiful, historically "acceptable" framing, colour matched and evoking a mood. "But the Germanic people didn't wear braes at this time and wolfskin wasn't worn with laminar armour" makes his temper show.

Bret Devereaux isn't wrong. He's also not in the film business.

Ridley Scott thinks "acceptable" means he may at least ask a historian to suggest things. He won't give Russel Crowe a raygun, he may misuse ballista freely and reinterpret gladiator school freely. They didn't die usually? Pshaw.

"nitpick" is the kind of pejorative he'd use I think. I don't think Devereaux is nit-picking, the battle scene and a shitload of other stuff is about as a-historical as you can get without Kirk Douglas and Ray Harryhausen.

"The Duellists" which is Scott's movie of a Joseph Conrad story is beautiful, "Barry Lyndon" (by Stanley Kubrick) levels of attention to detail. I have little doubt Historians of Napoleonic era rip it to shreds. Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine .. just wonderful.
by DangitBobby | 2025-06-27 04:01:51+00:00
I don't think the purpose was to screw anyone over, of course, the benefits are obvious. It is much easier to deal with a large volume (any volume, really) of digital applications. You can pool from a much wider application base and like you said you don't physically need to be there to apply. But my impression is that it was more of a monkey paw curl for applicants than a boon. I definitely think a human knowing you exist when you submit an application would add a small hint of humanity back to the process. I watched my wife recently submit dozens of applications and heard back from only a handful in the form of rejections, it was like throwing darts in a dark room.
by goku12 | 2025-06-27 04:01:51+00:00
That really depends on how fast you can cruise. High speed scramjets above mach 15 will make space missions possible. The craft will be at the sufficient height and just enough speed, so that a rocket engine won't have to add too much deltav. Scramjets are still in their infancy. There are already developments on for variable-geometry multi-mode ramjets for this purpose.

PS: I have seen early-stage (but successfully tested) scramjets being developed for this purpose.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-27 04:02:05+00:00
Good grief. There should be a federal law against that much Google Javascript and tracking on a government website without offering a non-Google, no-JS alternative.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs

https://ncvs.bjs.ojp.gov/data/custom-graphics/person/all_all...

The NCVS measures self-reported victims not convicts.

It does not measure criminal charges, convictions or imprisonment.

The NCVS is only focused on a subset of crimes, some of which do not carry prison sentences. For example, it excludes drug offences. It excludes manslaughter and homicide. It excludes financial crimes.

The survey is only given to census recipients, i.e., households and individuals. Non-residential addresses are not included. It only targets a subset of crime victims.

Perhaps better sources to look at would be UCR, SRS and NIBRS.
by db48x | 2025-06-27 04:03:02+00:00
In Diaspora that wasn’t considered to be a problem. Merging two individuals was almost automatic once you’d both decided to do it, and everyone participating in the Diaspora had decided ahead of time whether they wanted to sync back up at the end of it and merge. Also, it was fun that different individuals chose different conditions for waking up, and some stayed awake for the whole trip, or even all of them. Good book.
by gtest | 2025-06-27 04:03:46+00:00
> The article starts with that but then provides no evidence for that claim

You people are sure allergic to anything religious.

The author's main point isn't that so he or she didn't support it. I don't think it's true, though he is an important figure in philosophy and theology still.

Should the author also first attempt to prove the existence of Aquinas? And that he was a monk? Before writing about him? Does he need to prove that Aquinas wrote the work the work usually attribute to him? Does he need to prove there is a god? Just to talk about Aquinas' view? But I agree his intro is a bit overestimating.
by shazron | 2025-06-27 04:05:39+00:00
The beginner experience (like others mentioned) is not there, at all. It's as if I was dropped into a foreign country, and forced to talk. Sure, I'm going to flail around, and maybe get frustrated, and maybe with some hand gestures get my point across in real life.

But this is not real life - I tried to "flag" the tutor with sentences that I don't understand, and I am way over my head, and it just chugs along, with long sentences, totally unaware.

The service should not advertise itself as having a beginner level at all, in my opinion.
by douAgree | 2025-06-27 04:06:30+00:00
Has little to do with “industry” and everything to do with America being led by post war, Cold War paranoids who drank lead water and huffed lead gas fumes, brains wired to march to a steady drum, right into building a shit hole country.

Sure is a whole lot of demand to show up just so from ossified gerontocrat pols who can’t provide for themselves and mock us to our faces about freedom.

A bunch of randos socialize we’re off the hook for each other, good luck! While also expecting we show up for jobs that secure their investments or they send out the riot cops. It’s a fucking brain dead social culture of learned helplessness copy pasted around office worker meat suits. An obvious, making it pointless, LARP.

Zero flexibility in human agency when too few know how to fix their stuff and need these brain dead jobs to trickle down to the poorer service workers.
by all2 | 2025-06-27 04:06:51+00:00
> The engineers built tools and modules that put most of them out of work.

Yes, but no. I'm in hardware. I deal with hardware engineers. This part of the industry is alive and well. You might not see it, but it's there.

> Once you design a piece of hardware that works well, it can be re-used ad-infinitum, and most hardware today is really firmware running on microcontrollers.

Yes to the first part, it's just like code. Write once, then run it perpetually. Except that isn't really the case. There are still jobs for maintaining COBOL systems. Likewise, legacy hardware needs to be replaced, improved, or repaired. Old companies die, new ones swoop in and capture market share. My employer is the only manufacturer I know of for a legacy system component. They have a captive market because no one else wants to take the two weeks in CAD, and phone time with the contract manufacturers. This kind of thing is everywhere.

> So it is a natural evolution that software is becoming automated.

Again, yes, but no. We automate things as a matter of course. We are engineers. This doesn't mean fewer jobs, it means a shifting job market. IE loom operator vs hand weaver.