MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by f1shy | 2025-06-09 08:10:20+00:00
It is just unwanted to be that in a medium to big company.

For a long time I thought the more productive you are, the better. And it is so, until a certain point.

It is inconvenient for a big company to have “that one man” that can do “everything”. Because then when he/she is unavailable, chaos ensues, in a hurry. It can be because of disease, death, or another job. Doesn’t matter. Is a liability. Big companies want “commodity” people, that cost less, and can be easily replaced. Say RAID for HR.
by wjb3 | 2025-06-09 08:10:40+00:00
I once sat in on a hiring committee where candidates with broad, interdisciplinary CVs were treated with subtle derision—as though curiosity across domains was a sign of unseriousness.

As someone who’s always been promiscuous with my curiosity, I was surprised—and disappointed.

That experience stuck with me. It challenged my once-naive belief that academia was a place that welcomed intellectual breadth.

So you can imagine my quiet hope when I saw Nature publish this: an editorial calling for an end to the "pivot penalty"—the career cost researchers pay when they step outside their disciplinary silos.

The piece notes that interdisciplinary teams often produce more meaningful work (even if it takes longer) and that global problems demand cross-domain insight. It also highlights studies showing that Nobel laureates are more likely to collaborate across fields, and calls for evaluation systems to catch up.

Maybe—just maybe—we’re starting to value the spark that comes from recombining ideas that don’t obviously belong together.

And maybe that means a few more of us can return to the kind of scholarly life we once imagined.
by nertirs1 | 2025-06-09 08:12:56+00:00
I am not a fan of mythologizing people. Most of the listed achievements are just as much the result of the circumstance and should have an asterisk. For example - Einstein was the first to introduce the theory of relativity, but his works stands on the work of others, also if he had failed others would have almost certainly come to the same conclusion. Chris Sawyer at the start of making RollerCoaster Tycoon already had 12 years of game development experience, during a time when being a solo programmer was the norm. Eric Barone was lucky enough to have a girlfriend, who worked 2 jobs to support them both.
by cesaref | 2025-06-09 08:13:12+00:00
I was involved in writing ATC software in the 90s for a European country (the FATMI system for Finland), and they were definitely using paper strips at the time, and I believe the design did not change this. I wasn't involved in the flight strip printing though, I was working on SIDs and STARs, airspace sectorisation, that sort of thing.

It would be interesting to know how things have changed since then, as obviously nearly 30 years has passed since that system would have been commissioned!
by PaulRobinson | 2025-06-09 08:15:40+00:00
I read some years ago - IIRC the letters pages of BYTE, which dates it - about a critical factory control system in a company somewhere running on an IBM XT. The MFM drive had started to show some errors, so they got in touch with IBM, who being IBM, did not have any drives in stock (they'd stopped making them 15 years previously), but could retool a manufacturing line and make some. They offered to do it for $250k/drive. The company paid up.

That was cheaper at that time, than modernising that system. But it's clearly not long-term scalable.

I've heard of S/360s in KTLO mode in basements keeping banks running. Teams of people slowly crafting COBOL to get new features in at a cost of thousand of dollars a day each, and it "still works". But from a risk point of view, this is also ridiculous.

Safety critical systems have different economics. Yes, you can keep the floppy systems going, but the cost of keeping them going is rising exponentially each year, and at some point a failure will cost one or more airliners full of civilians and the blame will be put on not having a reasonable upgrade policy.

Sometimes you have to fix things before they stop working, or the cost is not just eyewateringly expensive in terms of dollars, but of human lives too.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-09 08:15:52+00:00
The chemical difference between titanium and steel is mainly that titanium has a much higher reactivity with oxygen and nitrogen, the main constituents of air.

Like with aluminum, this high reactivity is masked in finite products made of titanium, because any titanium object is covered by a protective layer of titanium dioxide.

What is worse in titanium than in aluminum is that titanium has a low thermal conductivity, so a small part of the titanium can become very hot during processing, which does not happen with aluminum, where the remainder of the aluminum acts like a heatsink.

The hot spots that exist on titanium during processing, which do not exist on aluminum during processing, make titanium much more susceptible to reacting with the air or even to starting a fire.

Titanium, even as "commercially pure", has a much higher strength than aluminum, which requires higher forces for machining and increases even more the chances for overheating.
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by imtringued | 2025-06-09 08:17:33+00:00
1MB of context can maybe hold 10 tokens depending on your model.

For reference. llama 3.2 8B used to take 4 KiB per token per layer. At 32 layers that is 128KiB or 8 tokens per MiB of KV cache (context). If your context holds 8000 tokens including responses then you need around 1GB.

>Unless the GPU is not fully utilised on each prompt-response cycle, I feel that the GPU is still the bottleneck here, not the bus performance.

Matrix vector multiplication implies a single floating point multiplication and addition (2 flops) per parameter. Your GPU can do way more flops than that without using tensor cores at all. In fact, this workload bores your GPU to death.
by Propelloni | 2025-06-09 08:18:52+00:00
Those fighting democracies are very specific about what is and what is not irreconcilable. For example, in Germany you can murder the president--that's just homicide--but you cannot abolish the protection of minorities. That's a violation of the constitution. Germany's far-right party Alternative für Deutschland has been under suspicion of violating a few of those provisions for quite some time now.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (aka. Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) completed a report a few weeks ago but is required by law to withhold it from the public due to due process. Of course it leaked, you can read the report here [1] (it's in German, obviously).

Now there is a discussion ongoing, if the Alternative für Deutschland has to been dissolved. That's a fighting democracy at work, following the rule of law.

[1] https://assets.cicero.de/2025-05/Geheimgutachten_Teil%20A.pd...
by kstrauser | 2025-06-09 08:18:54+00:00
A friend explained it to me like this: they believe God gave the rules, loopholes and all, exactly as intended. His followers were made in his own image. He delights in their creativity in discovering the true intent of his rules, which must include those loopholes because the rules are perfect. If he meant something different, he would’ve phrased the rules otherwise.

I’m not Jewish and this just my paraphrasing of an explanation I’ve heard a couple of times. The idea of God giving us a hacker nature and delighting in it makes me happy.
by xorcist | 2025-06-09 08:23:13+00:00
Wouldn't the natural thing to do be to bury it? That's what we do with other important wires. Hanging it off old telephone poles seems like a recipe for recurring disaster.

Does it need to be a metal wire? Or is, say, a plastic pipe enough? In the spirit of the other comments here, there are plenty of those already in place. Certainly with the involvement of the land owner, which in these cases probably are the city or the state.

It would be interesting to hear from someone who are involved in these traditions to hear their view.
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by rwyinuse | 2025-06-09 08:26:38+00:00
I use a Proxmox server with RTX 3060 to generate paintings (I have a couple of old jailbroken Amazon Kindle's attached to walls for that purpose), and to run ollama, which is connected to Home Assistant & their voice preview device, allowing me to talk with LLM without transmitting anything to cloud services.

Admittedly with that amount of VRAM the models I can run are fairly useless for stuff like controlling lights via Home Assistant, occasionally does what I tell it to do but usually not. It is pretty okay for telling me information, like temperature or value of some sensors I have connected to HA. For generating AI paintings it's enough. My server also hosts tons of virtual machines, docker containers and is used for remote gameplay, so the AI thing is just an extra.
by rendaw | 2025-06-09 08:27:10+00:00
If the medicine instructions didn't state that they should be taken in the morning it might be reasonable, but presumably the producer had some reason for including that instruction. Furthermore, the linked study implies that this effect was suspected before but not confirmed - it's possible and even likely that the CedarCure makers knew this and specified the instructions as such.

> There’s a really interesting phenomenon in the immunotherapy field that has been going on for what seems to be several years now

> All of this culminated in a really incredible review paper

(review paper references papers from multiple years prior)

And no, it's absurd to imply I do carry blame here. I'm not a medical professional and that's exactly why I asked two specialists for help understanding the criticality of the instructions... that's the point. Even if they didn't know, they could have deferred to the written instructions rather than coming up with an original conclusion.
by alganet | 2025-06-09 08:28:44+00:00
Let me try to put this in the scale of coffee:

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Using LLM via api: Starbucks.

Inference at home: Nespresso capsules.

Fine-tune a small model at home: Owning a grinder and an italian espresso machine.

Pre-training a model: Owning a moderate coffee plantation.
by kibwen | 2025-06-09 08:30:38+00:00
> from a purely technical POV they are not addicts

Videos show them performing the silly skooma-drinking animation while standing there locked outside the den, so they must have some sort of flag somewhere, even without skooma in their inventory.

> though I don't think faction membership is the reason for that

The wiki claims that patching them to add faction membership fixes the locked-out bug, FWIW.

In any case, in conjunction with this bug we no longer need to assume that the addicts in the den are loaded and simulating at all times in order to make the murdered-skooma-dealer story plausible. It seems fair to assume that potions (including skooma) could once be consumed (per the demo video), and that a "consume skooma" package analogous to "eat" would have caused them to seek out skooma. It's true that shopkeepers have stored their shop inventories in hidden chests since at least Morrowind, but if we're charitable enough to assume that some "acquire from merchant" behavior was ever prototyped, then it's not hard to imagine some sort of hack was added to make it seem as though shop items were "in" a shopkeeper's inventory for the purpose of the AI's environmental search routine. Even if killing a shopkeeper did not literally make their shop inventory available from their corpse (for player balance reasons), that could still have caused the murder itself to happen.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-09 08:30:38+00:00
Yttrium is a more benign contaminant.

Very small amounts of oxygen in titanium are enough to make it too hard and too fragile for most applications.

Adding less harmful impurities to bind the more harmful impurities that cannot be otherwise removed (a.k.a. gettering) has always been a major purification technique, both in metallurgy and in semiconductor technology.

Steel is purified in the same way from the more harmful impurities, by adding other impurities like calcium, silicon or manganese or rare-earth metals.

In some cases, the compounds that result from adding impurities may be removed later, e.g. like slag floating on molten steel, but in other cases they may remain in the metal or semiconductor that is the desired end product.

It remains to be seen whether the extra yttrium and yttrium oxide that remain in titanium are harmful enough to make it worth to attempt to remove them somehow. In some cases they may even have beneficial properties, though e.g. for dental implants I would want commercially pure titanium that does not have any other metallic impurities like yttrium (commercially pure titanium includes small amounts of oxygen and of iron, both of which have no harmful effects in living tissues).
by ben_w | 2025-06-09 08:32:13+00:00
> Denouncing X should also mean denouncing actors close to X, for a given domain space F(actor).

Nobody has time for that.

For example, one common target for activists is Nestlé. Most people barely have time to think about Nestlé at all, and of those who do, I think most are oblivious that e.g. Maggi is a brand that Nestlé owns.

I could probably do this XKCD but about activists and company names instead of geochemists and olivine/feldspar/quartz: https://xkcd.com/2501/
by PaulShin | 2025-06-09 08:33:02+00:00
This question brings back memories. For a previous B2B service I ran, we had a client in the manufacturing space with a very specific requirement: "do not touch the server unless it is absolutely critical."

It was a simple Node.js + PostgreSQL server running on a fire-walled on-premise machine. We let it run untouched for just over two years. No OS updates, no package updates. It was terrifying, but it was the client's explicit demand for stability over new features. The lesson was that "uptime" and "security" can sometimes mean different things to different customers.

For our new company, Markhub, we're on the opposite end of the spectrum. We run a modern CI/CD pipeline on a cloud infrastructure. We deploy multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times a day.

My takeaway is that the "right" answer depends entirely on the service's promise to the customer. For some, reliability means "it never changes." For modern SaaS like ours, reliability means "it's always improving and secure." The real challenge is building a system that can deliver both when needed—which is exactly what we had to architect for our first on-premise enterprise deal.
by Jugurtha | 2025-06-09 08:33:08+00:00
Your question is "Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website?". The short answer is: There is demand for employment.

What problem are you actually trying to solve? If you were looking for a job, would writing a résumé be the biggest hurdle for you?

People write CVs to apply for jobs, and they apply for jobs to work, and they work to have an income which they use to go on about life.

Now, what we have here is selling soap to hungry people who are broke. A CV builder is like soap in a restaurant; it is important to wash your hands at a restaurant, but you don't go to a restaurant to wash your hands.

It can be a hook to do other things, like discover your customers, etc. but your would be users eventually come to you to get a job. How do you get them there? What are the sides of this market?

You have a distribution problem. Ideally, anyone who uses your CV builder gets employed. Which means they get hired. Which means there's an employer on the other side who received that CV. How do you plug in that process?

Maybe go upstream and do some fine targeting, maybe a choice of the point of market entry: start with people who are looking for their first job and who've never had a CV. You shouldn't wait for them to find you; they may not even be aware they need a CV. Maybe you can start with employment agencies where you live. Many countries have agencies where unemployed people register to get notified when a job matching their skills is available. Maybe going to high-schools or colleges and getting your users there, on the spot, helping them making a CV.

Maybe fine-tune where you plug in that value chain: the builder is just to get the data in order to make recommendations to jobs that match their skills that they weren't even aware existed.

Get to know who you're serving and what serving them is about.

This response is about the feasibility of this, not about its viability as a business or if it is worth your while.
by smodo | 2025-06-09 08:33:09+00:00
My colleagues at the head of a company. I’m one of four bosses. One of us is pushing for AI every single meeting. The other is ignoring her. The last one is starting to ‘see her point.’ I’m considering quitting if this goes to far but unwilling to make that threat yet, as it’s a bridge I can only cross once.

Anyway. To me it just speaks to the disdain for semi-intellectual work. People seem to think producing text has some value of its own. They think they can shortcircuit the basic assumption that behind every text is an intention that can be relied upon. They think that if they substitute this intention with a prompt, they can create the same value. I expect there to be some kind of bureaucratic collapse because of this, with parties unable to figure out responsibility around these zombie-texts. After that begins cleaning up, legislating and capturing in policy what the status of a given text is etc. Altman &co will have cashed out by then.
by chrismatheson | 2025-06-09 08:34:33+00:00
I know my view will be affected by the UK being generally a small country...

most people aren't driving 200+ miles a day, which means 90% of charging will be at home.

Driving longer that 200 miles means you probably want a decent break. So I would imagine that most "local" places will disappear / pivot into shops with EV charging also.

Motorway services will also change I think. Fast food isnt as much of an appeal when you're stuck there for an hour or so anyway. So I could see a rise in retrain complexes with charging abilities.

possibly changes in behaviour will also affect things. If im traveling 4-6hrs in a day, id be ok with stopping of for an hour at a shopping centre where I could charge and also do some shopping, maybe let the kids play in a softplay or whatever

The first clever folks to stick a bull ring within 5 minutes drive of the M6 will 200+ charging points will do VERY well I think.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-06-09 08:35:20+00:00
Buttons in pedestrian traffic lights are far from universal, my country is not Jewish and pedestrian lights without a button are very common.

Actually I dislike those with buttons. They send the message that cars passing and pedestrians stopping is the "default", and ensure that a lone pedestrian always has to stop, regardless of luck, while establishing the ritual that pedestrians need to "beg" for being allowed to cross. In my view, cars already have too many privileges in cities, it's not the end of the world if they have to stop at an empty crossing from time to time (something that pedestrians also have to do often).
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-09 08:35:54+00:00
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1. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:95...
by AndrewStephens | 2025-06-09 08:36:29+00:00
Thanks. I originally just wanted pixel-to-pixel dithering (quite difficult with modern browsers and retina class displays) but after I saw the results I knew I needed to add lower resolutions as well. It looks really good with some images, especially photos with lots of details - almost like a high-quality printed magazine. However you are right that the extra detail can be distracting to the eye.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-09 08:37:36+00:00
Great question. We're building Markhub, an AI-powered collaboration OS, and our stack is a hybrid one, because we believe the "best" model depends entirely on the task.

1. For Heavy, Complex Tasks (Summarization, Code Gen, Creative Work): We don't self-host. The performance of top-tier models is still unmatched. We use Gemini-based models via Google's Vertex AI. The reliability and raw power for complex reasoning are worth the API cost for these critical features.

2. For Fast, Specific, Private Tasks (Our Self-Hosted Stack): For smaller, high-frequency tasks like classifying feedback types or extracting specific keywords from a conversation, we use a self-hosted stack for speed and cost-efficiency.

Models: We use fine-tuned versions of smaller, open-source models like Llama 3 8B or Mistral 7B. They are incredibly fast and cost-effective for specific, repetitive tasks. Runtime/Orchestration: We use LangChain for chaining prompts and managing workflows. For serving the model, we're using a simple FastAPI server running in a Docker container. Hardware: We run this on a dedicated GPU instance (like an A10G on AWS/GCP) for inference. The cost is predictable and much lower than using a large model for every small task. My takeaway: The "go-to stack" in 2025 isn't one-size-fits-all. It's a pragmatic, hybrid approach using the bestin class cloud APIs for the heavy lifting, and deploying fast, fine-tuned open-source models for everything else.
by monodot | 2025-06-09 08:37:37+00:00
Fascinated to read this post as I’m doing almost exactly the same thing. Just started using Xcode for the first time, a month ago. I’m not inexperienced with software development, but having to rely mostly on Xcode, Apple’s Developer documentation, information embedded inside WWDC videos, and random forum posts, has been a pretty rough experience.

So Claude has been a massive help, to get to a working app quickly. I am using it in a similar style to the author. Discuss in the UI, try really hard to cherry-pick from the code it generates, while trying to understand what it’s doing. Claude is not clever enough to realise it’s selling you out-of-date APIs, so i feel I need to be super vigilant, which chimes with what folk are saying here about the iOS upgrade treadmill. I’ve supplemented with a couple of technical ebooks as backup.

But the feeling of having your own app, that does something which improves your own life, running on that computer you’ve been carrying in your pocket for years, is extremely rewarding! (In my use case it needs to be an app not a PWA because it needs to integrate with device APIs.)