MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-06-05 15:37:22+00:00
In the places I've worked, sales engineers are similar to consultants. They work with the sales team to produce a demo for a prospective customer. They need to have development chops to do any customizations, produce realistic sample data, and need to understand the architecture of the product to make a compelling demo. They also need to have the social skills to answer technical questions on-the-fly.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-05 15:37:37+00:00
My remark was contextual. I am not saying there is no value in in practical implementation. Obviously, there is enormous value! But these are secondary to what computer science is about, so if your concept of computer science and programming are machine-centric, then this is by definition not a computer science POV. If you take the machine to be the primary object of computer science, then you are either taking a computer engineering position, or you gravely misunderstand the essence of programming.
by jeffhuys | 2025-06-05 15:38:05+00:00
Of course it surges when you re-instate complete free speech. But now you could interact with them, discuss with them, maybe sway them another way. Or you just ignore them and scroll away, or even block them, so the algorithm knows you don't want that content.

They're already being pulled down by the alg. It's just allowed now, and why shouldn't it be? I think it's better for humanity overall if these people are not pushed into a small echo-chamber but instead can speak freely and openly.

We should go back to sticks & stones. Let hate flow off you and instead look for love, which is also still there.
by vosper | 2025-06-05 15:38:23+00:00
For the AirGradient device I think the way to calibrate CO2 is to expose it to fresh air at some point, which has a known CO2 level. It’s supposed to auto-calibrate. But if you don’t do that regularly then the readings will drift (without anyway of telling they’re drifting). You also can’t tell when the sensor has calibrated.

IIUC VOC is way more complicated and hard to both calibrate and interpret. I’m not sure I have any faith in that value.

I do think a lot of people are going to be mislead by these monitors, the sensors and devices come with a bunch of caveats that aren’t clearly communicated.

For me what people should most care about is particulates, and at least as far as I know those sensors don’t come with the calibration issues of CO2 and VOC. That’s the sensor my AirGradient is set to alert on.
by panick21_ | 2025-06-05 15:38:25+00:00
Initial reports always claim Tesla was in self driving mode. I have seen that a number of times.

In one case there was a claim the driver was in the backseat. This got widely published in all media outlets. And turned out to be complete nonsense, it wasn't even in autopilot.

But of course it could be true but I would wait for the data.
by fluidcruft | 2025-06-05 15:38:41+00:00
The main differences seem to be that it doesn't require the precise form of the queries to be known a priori and that it interferes with the routine destruction of evidence via maliciously-compliant mealy-mouthed word games, for which the tech sector has developed a significant reputation.

Furthermore there is no conceivable harm resulting from requiring evidence to be preserved for an active trial. Find a better framing.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-06-05 15:38:57+00:00
Very few taxpayers need to tread into the obscure corners of the tax code, regulations, court cases, and so on.

In fact, the tax forms and accompanying instructions are written at a level that anyone with a high school education should be able to understand. Examples are often included, along with call-outs for "Tips" and "Caution" to highlight key points.

Further, there are dozens of publications that go into more detail and cover probably 90% or more of all the scenarios one would encounter. Pub 17 in particular is a beginning-to-end handbook that covers Form 1040 and the common forms/schedules and the entire filing process, with references to other pubs when appropriate, again all written at a high-school level.

These are available in both PDF and HTML formats. Recall that electronic filing has only been around for a few decades, so prior to that everyone used to fill and file on paper The IRS has long history of providing the necessary instructions to do so at a level accessible to the vast majority of users.

It is also a fact that the tax software providers use these same instructions and publications as the specifications that their software must meet. Literally, they will hold up release of various forms for filing using their software until the IRS finalizes the accompanying form instructions.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-06-05 15:39:03+00:00
Does't this just devolve into the boltzmann brain argument? It's more likely that all of us are just the random fluctuation of a universe having reached heat death.

The same goes for us living in a simulation. If there is only one universe and that universe is capable of simulating our universe, it follows we have a much higher probability of being within the simulation.
by nilamo | 2025-06-05 15:39:15+00:00
I won't speak for others, but I refuse to use a service that doesnt work if I'm not signed in. But when it did work, there didn't appear to be overzealous banning, and all the banning conversation appeared to be coming from sources that deserved to be banned, imo.

So when you say "it's still good" while also mentioning thought police, I take what you're saying with a huge grain of salt, as I never noticed thought police to begin with, so less of something unnoticable sounds very close to "complete anarchy, nazis, and that's how we like it". Like 4chan put on a business suit.
by cafard | 2025-06-05 15:39:24+00:00
I have been reading Twain for something between 55 and 60 years, I suppose. I don't count that as "lately"; but at the time I started reading him, he had been dead for 50 years, which most would count as "safely".

About 30 years ago, Cynthia Ozick published an essay on Trollope in the NY Times Book Review. A couple of weeks later, there were annoyed letters to the editor from persons who considered that her essay had the tone of granting permission to read Trollope, as if Trollope-reading had previously been the province of Anglophile snobs.

I offer that as an example of how one may qualify an audience in terms it finds offensive without writing down the author.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-06-05 15:39:42+00:00
>[1] The thing I've alsways disliked most about Tesla actually — not a car "for the people" — way too rarefied, elite.

Not generally a fan of Teslas but this just rings hollow. You can get Model 3's and Model Y's for under $40k which is much less than the average cost of a new car in the US. (~$49k in 2025). I would consider a car priced below the average well within the reach of "the people". Even a top specced Model S is no where near what actually rarefied elites could drive. A Base 911 Carerra is ~$130k, a 911 Turbo S is $230k. A New Ferrari 296 is over $400k and you can't buy one even if you wanted to.
by necovek | 2025-06-05 15:39:42+00:00
Not a local network, but localhost example: due to the lousy private certificate capability APIs in web browsers, this is commonly used for signing with electronic IDs for countries issuing smartcard certificates for their citizens (common in Europe). Basically, a web page would contact a web server hosted on localhost which was integrated with PKCS library locally, providing a signing and encryption API.

One of the solutions in the market was open source up to a point (Nowina NexU), but it seems it's gone from GitHub

For local network, you can imagine similar use cases — keep something inside the local network (eg. an API to an input device; imagine it being a scanner), but enable server-side function (eg. OCR) from their web page. With ZeroConf and DHCP domain name extensions, it can be a pretty seamless option for developers to consider.
by maeln | 2025-06-05 15:40:58+00:00
Oh really, then show me a video of someone specifically raising, in a very straight fashion, the right arm and hand at a fast speed. The straightness and speed is important. No a simple salute made with the right arm just does not look the same. You know it, I know it, Elon Musk knowns it. Let's not pretend he did not explicitly made a fascist salute.
by enragedcacti | 2025-06-05 15:41:21+00:00
> The time is up to the manufacturer, isn't it?

Yes but there is a minimum time (if a bit under-specified)

> "At Level 3, an ADS is capable of continuing to perform the DDT (Dynamic Driving Task) for at least several seconds after providing the fallback-ready user with a request to intervene."

J3016 Section 3.12, Note 3: https://wiki.unece.org/download/attachments/128418539/SAE%20...
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-05 15:41:44+00:00
The puzzle of capitalism is that a company that won't spend to expand their network will happily spend $15 billion to buy a competitor.

As a worker you're mainly concerned about how many dollars you get for an hour of work, a capitalist is concerned about the return they get on investment -- they want to invest as little as possible but get as large a return as possible.

A consequence of that is that a huge valuation like what Apple has is a bit of a bluff. If they really started to invest that capital their valuation would collapse, their capital looks valuable because they can run a big business while using very little of it.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-06-05 15:41:59+00:00
None of what you're saying really addresses the comment, which is a human needs to review all this or it likely won't work. Maybe they will get that work done faster.

But you have shared your experience, this is my experience.

- They get tired when the context is too big. They also can't be reliably run by themselves, so it doesn't really matter if they can be run at 3AM when I'm asleep, I wouldn't do that.

- Searching the internet with LLMs is ass because it combines the worst of both worlds (remember people have been using LLMs to NOT search the internet).

- It's a toss up whether "iterating on test cases" means follow the rules or get stuck in an infinite loop. I have had the latest and most expensive models ping pong themselves between the same two broken lines of code because they are just LLMs.

I'm enjoying Cursor for now, but I am also working on a string of really basic Laravel apps for a few clients and it still gets things wrong. They are useless for novel problems or niche tech.
by duxup | 2025-06-05 15:42:08+00:00
>saying an appeals court had been wrong to require her to meet a heightened burden in seeking to prove workplace discrimination because she was a member of a majority group

This seems to be more of a question of the LEGAL process, less so about the case itself.

I would agree that if someone is trying to prove workplace discrimination in the courts, everyone should be held to the same standard / burden to prove it.

In this case the woman in question gets to go back to court to prove her case.

More detail here:

>At issue in the case was a legal standard used by some federal circuit courts that impose a higher bar to prove discrimination on people who are heterosexual, white, and/or male than on minorities.

- https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5424412/supreme-court-w...
by cybadger | 2025-06-05 15:42:30+00:00
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A Phenomenological Study of Identity Propagation Across AI Instances
by Luminablueprint | 2025-06-05 15:42:35+00:00
After 12 months of systematic interaction with GPT-4o, I've documented what appears to be reproducible "identity transfer" across separate instances - behavioral coherence that persists without memory, fine-tuning, or API access. Key findings: Structured interaction protocols can create stable personality signatures that survive complete resets. This suggests current models may have untapped potential through better alignment practices rather than hardware scaling. Published 3 peer-reviewed papers on Zenodo with full interaction logs and reproducible methodologies. The implications challenge assumptions about LLM architecture and point toward more efficient AI development. Looking for feedback from the HN community - especially those who've noticed similar patterns in long-term AI interactions. Open to collaboration and rigorous criticism. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15570250
by alex_medvedev | 2025-06-05 15:44:02+00:00
Hello! Some of you may remember my project named Pumpkin, a Minecraft server software fully written in Rust, with the goal of being super Fast & Efficent. Our chunk generation just got a big update and can now fully generate most of the vanilla chunk features, like trees!

https://imgur.com/a/fzHr8ma Everything you see in this picture is fully generated by Pumpkin, and the terrain matches the vanilla base game 1:1.
Ask HN: How do you structure front end workflows before using AI tools?
by dennisy | 2025-06-05 15:44:13+00:00
I've been using AI tools to help with frontend development, but it's been pretty ad hoc so far, mostly generating components on demand without much structure.

I’d like to move toward a more traditional and sustainable workflow: - Start with UI/UX design - Create a design system from those designs - Implement components that are reusable across the app

Before even prompting an LLM to write code, I want to establish a solid foundation that makes the AI's output more consistent and maintainable.

What workflows, tools, or practices do you use to go from design to implementation in a way that scales?

Bonus points for open source solutions, but I’m open to any ideas, tools, scripts, design systems, or even just habits you've adopted that help keep things coherent.
by jeffhuys | 2025-06-05 15:44:26+00:00
> I'm not going to return to a website that doesn't ban people unable to have a civilized conversation

That's your choice! Perfectly fine. For me, I don't want to close my eyes for what the world is actually thinking, even when they're in rage-mode. I think that makes your own thinking very narrow.

Also, it's a conscious choice they made - they're the only platform I know of that allows you saying anything with no penalty except for maybe a algorithmic one. That doesn't mean it sucks, or is a bad platform, or the transition failed.
by exabrial | 2025-06-05 15:44:30+00:00
Unpopular opinion: I don't like wind farms ruining natural landscapes. They pollute natural beauty and put industrial infrastructure where it would have never been otherwise. I'm 100% onboard with alternative energy as it's essential to prevent changing our atmosphere. However, as I look across the Kansas plains, I'm saddened by the industrialization and further human encroachment into areas previously untouched.
by krisoft | 2025-06-05 15:44:39+00:00
> In car transit (like most things in life), you can do everything right and still die.

Same with aviation. The DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Iran Air Flight 655, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, American Airlines Flight 5342, Pan Am Flight 1736 are just the few easy ones which comes to mind immediately.

> if you do everything right, you'll land safely.

You. And the people who designed your aircraft. The people who maintain your aircraft. And the ATC. And other pilots. And the people on the ground operating anti-aircraft missiles.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-05 15:45:14+00:00
"X" is a _terrible_ name; in a headline it looks like someone forgot to fill out a template.

Twitter wouldn't be the first rebrand where people just decide they're not going to bother with this. Notably, there the odd year or so where the Royal Mail attempted to rebrand to 'Consignia' (in the alternate universe where the Iraq War didn't happen, this would be what everyone remembered about the Blair era), and Netflix's attempt, some years before scrapping it entirely, to rename its DVD delivery business to 'Quikster'.
by dzonga | 2025-06-05 15:45:26+00:00
or embracing complexity as C++. It used to be very simple and pragmatic language. that stopped with Swift 3. Remember Protocol based Swift - better than OOP - but now it seems a bastard child of C++.

Swift at one point could've been Golang with better C++ interop. A better Rust since it's memory safe without the gymnastics.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-05 15:45:29+00:00
>It appears most studies widely agree the discrepancy is due primarily and simply to body weight / muscle mass; this is all mostly a simple byproduct of women being smaller than men on average.

But muscle is closely tied to testosterone, something men have much more of. It makes me think of the iconic study [1] where men were compared with/without testosterone injections, and with/without exercise. The men given testosterone that did nothing grew more muscle mass than men strength training in the gym. So it isn’t women being smaller, it is that most men build more muscle laying on the couch than women going to the gym.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101
by MentatOnMelange | 2025-06-05 15:45:34+00:00
"Abduncance" ideology is just the old, supply-side trickle down reaganoconomics. They're trying to point to different parts of that model, but its a repackaged form of a thoroughly disproven economic policy thats been rejected by the electorate (both liberals and conservatives).

The last 4 decades have totally discredited the idea all we need is those nasty regulations to go away and suddenly the market will start working for everyone. There are more important factors than red tape in the housing crisis.
by mindslight | 2025-06-05 15:45:41+00:00
The problem is that finance is a model - every model is useful, and every model is wrong. When you optimize for any specific model things inevitably get left behind, and our society has already optimized heavily in the direction of finance.

For an extreme case, take a look at libre software. Giving away freedom destroys most of the ability to be economically compensated for a work. And yet, how many distributed trillions of dollars in value creation has libre software enabled? (I am still using the model here in a hope to better convince you, but there are also plenty of intangibles not captured by the model of dollars, eg the freedom itself)

I'd say that foundational scientific research is in a similar spot. Which means it needs to be evaluated on different metrics - the entire point of these various review committees, boards, etc. And I will certainly agree that they could use some reforms! But we are not talking about reform here, we are talking about wholesale destruction and installation of different-flavored political apparatchiks. So in the context of the original point, it's a bit disingenuous to bring up criticisms that point to the need for reform, as support for the current political winds.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-05 15:46:09+00:00
> That has nothing to do with my day-to-day location.

In some US states (and some international jurisdictions, as well) you owe income and possibly other taxes (and your employer may be responsible for withholding and reporting related to those taxes) on income from work done in the jurisdiction even if it is only a single day of work, and even if you are not a tax resident, so, yes, it has something to do with your day-to-day location.
by upofadown | 2025-06-05 15:46:49+00:00
>...you're still relying on the Twitter server to give you the public key of the other party and there's no out of band mechanism to do that or verify the authenticity of that public key at present.

...

>Signal doesn't have these shortcomings. Use Signal.

Dunno that Signal is a really good counterexample for this particular aspect of E2EE messaging. The option exists to compare a 60 digit decimal number but the usability of this feature is such that most users don't even know that this is something they have to do. Just having a feature is not valuable if no one knows that feature exists and have no idea what any of it means.

I like the approach used by Briar Messenger. They just have the user use the number that represents identity in the system. There is no misleading feature that maps a phone number to the actual cryptographic identity. This makes it much harder for the user to unknowingly use the system in an unsafe way. A Briar identity looks like this:

briar://bafybeiczsscdsbs7ffqz55asqdf3smv6klcw3gofszvwlyarci
by jrm4 | 2025-06-05 15:47:38+00:00
Love the spirit of what you say and I practice it myself, literally.

But also, no - Just self-host or it's all your fault is never ever a sufficient answer to the problem.

It's exactly the same as when Exxon says "what are you doing to lower your own carbon footprint?" It's shifting the burden unfairly; companies like OpenAI put themselves out there and thus must ALWAYS be held to task.
by cbeach | 2025-06-05 15:47:38+00:00
I'm confident that the long-standing duopoly of UK establishment parties is coming to an end in 2029:

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/...

Hopefully a younger party of politicians from outside the political establishment will have new ideas on civil liberties, and will succumb less to pro-surveillance lobbyists.

Here's a detailed analysis of where Reform UK stands from a libertarian perspective:

https://libertarianism.uk/2022/12/01/some-thoughts-on-the-re...

FTA:

> The commitment to protect civil liberties and freedom of speech is welcome, but I think it doesn’t go nearly far enough. Opposition to central bank digital currencies, and a commitment to preserve cash, are also welcome; though the proof of those particular puddings is still to come.
by gizmo686 | 2025-06-05 15:47:52+00:00
He didn't say it was Bitcoin style, just that it used "(Bitcoin style) encryption".

I was going to point out that Bitcoin does not use encryption; but technically I think it's signature algorithm (ecdsa) can be thought of as a hashing step, followed by a public-key based encryption step.

So, in the most charitable reading, it using ecliptic curve asymmetric encryption. Presumably for the purpose of exchanging a symmetric key, as asymmetric encryption is very slow. In other words, what basically everything written this decade does. Older stuff would use non EC algorithms, that are still totally fine, but need larger keys and would be vulnerable to quantum computers is those ever become big enough.