MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-07-10 01:21:55+00:00
I used to work the night shift handling most off hours issues for a a couple dozen teams. We would occasionally have to call someone, but not that often compared to the alternative. Most of the time it was just to get sign off on what we already planned to do.

When I started people were paid for any hours they worked on-call. By the end, the company changed the policy so on-call was part of base pay. For those who were on-call during the change over, their last year of on-call pay was averaged and added to their salary. For everyone who came after that, they got screwed (that includes me).

Once I changed to the day shift I got called a few times for on-call. Every single time, I documented what I did to fix it, as I did it, and handed it off to the ops team. Or in some cases I automated the fix. I have 0 tolerance for being called in my free time. I don’t care what the boss says my priorities are, if I’m being called at night, stopping that in its tracks is my #1 priority. If I ever get called two times for the same issue, that’s my fault. So far, it’s never happened.
by llsf | 2025-07-10 01:23:40+00:00
Okay maybe I am an outlier, but when I vacuum my place (1400 sqft), it takes about 1hr. I fill half of the container with dust. I am kinda thorough, maybe borderline OCD :)

And so I need a vacuum that is not going to lose power, so I am happy to stay corded, with full sucking power all the way.

I can see the Pencil useful for a quick limited vacuuming.
by jemmyw | 2025-07-10 01:24:06+00:00
That wouldn't be the standard capitalist response. After all, you still have the option to spend your money in stupid ways, the ease of cancelling is not related to that. A more standard capitalist response is that this is a market inefficiency. You're spending $20 on the gym, you're not using that service, and so presumably a humble cake maker is missing out on that $20.
by hansvm | 2025-07-10 01:24:27+00:00
The pattern ", now, " is indicative of a sort of patronization I don't normally engage with, but, yes, you're correct.

In some measure of agreeing with you: For other classes of models we know for a fact that there exist problems which can be solved by those architectures and which can't be trained using current techniques. It doesn't feel like a huge stretch that such training-resistent data might exist for diffusion models.

That said, I still see three problems. Notably, the current ancestral chain of inquiry seems to care about the model and not the training process, so the point is moot. Secondarily, in other similar domains (like soft circuits) those organic solutions do seem to emerge, suggesting (but not proving) that the training process _is_ up to par. Lastly, in other related domains, when such a solution doesn't emerge it ordinarily happens because some simpler methodology achieves better results, meaning that even with individual data points suggesting that diffusion solutions don't model that sort of linearity you still need to work a little bit to prove that such an observation actually matters.
by timhigins | 2025-07-10 01:26:59+00:00
It’s known for deep tech/hard tech companies, especially in space, aviation, and energy. Many are in El Segundo or were founded by SpaceX/Tesla alumni.

https://www.addtheegg.com/p/2024-la-hard-tech-50

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/el-segundo-california-...

https://bowoftheseus.substack.com/p/south-bay-la-is-ground-z...
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-10 01:27:06+00:00
Oh this is for the website owner. Yeah, mine is to make an arbitrary site interactable with an LLM. It can choose to get a map of the DOM/screenshot/extract by xml path/ and interact via a few different methods. But the PageEval() method from GO rod works pretty well

Would like to just provide a runtime for an LLM to solve captchas.

My main focus is (anti) bot detection.
by parpfish | 2025-07-10 01:31:57+00:00
Im convinced that car seat rules have played a big role in shaping child socialization.

When was a kid, you were done with your car seat by elementary school so one parent could offer to carpool a minivan full of kids to/from an event.

But now that some kids need their car seat into middle school carpools are gone and every kid needs their parent to pick them up. It requires way more planning and parental involvement
by harmmonica | 2025-07-10 01:34:34+00:00
Had to chime here with a quick thought: I almost see LA's problems as emblematic of California's. I think the populace continues to believe in "big" government and its ability to properly manage the extraordinary amount of tax revenue it takes in despite there being significant evidence that mismanagement is rampant.

Just to give a "small" microcosm of this that's somewhat high profile in the city of LA: there was recently an attempt to audit the city's homeless efforts after years of voters approving, multiple times, billions and billions of dollars to fight homelessness. It recently came out that there have essentially been no institutional controls or tracking of the outcomes resulting from the deployment of those funds. So here you have the populace saying "yes, take my money and let's fix this," over and over again. And then you have the city government attempting to do it so poorly that you can't help but see it as utter mismanagement, at best, or pure corruption, at worst (a combination of both most likely).

Being here on the ground you can almost feel this, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, and then obviously even beyond the city limits. Yet a lot of us, as shown in this very thread, still think it's a great place to be, and somehow can work itself out from these problems. I'm not so sure anymore.

Seminal point, at the moment, I think, with the ICE crackdowns on a significant chunk of the city population, with the aftermath of the fire, a federal government that doesn't seem to want to support its "alpha" blue cities. Not sure if that means something's about to break, or if it's actually a chance for rebirth. I'm pulling for the latter, but think we're going to have to walk through (maybe too soon to say) fire before things materially improve.

Know that has nothing to do with tech in LA, but thought I'd chime in all the same.
by epakai | 2025-07-10 01:34:46+00:00
That tweet seems like the bigger story.

I've seen lots of deflection saying Yaccarino chose to retire prior to Grok/MechaHitler, but the tweet predates that.

Even more deflection about how chatbots are easy to bait into saying weird things, but you don't need to bait when it has been specifically trained on it.

All of this was intentional. Musk is removing more of the mask, and he doesn't need Yaccarino to comfort advertisers any more.
by lampiaio | 2025-07-10 01:34:55+00:00
Honest advice: free yourself from that and live a happier life. And I don't mean it in an "ignorance is bliss" kind of way, on the contrary really. Otherwise, to be consistent, you'd need to

- demand your salary be paid in salt

- have all arenas be covered in sand

- calculate only with pebbles

- only allow xylophones made of wood

And so on. It's a tiring journey to embark on -- oops, one can only embark on ships...
by IMTDb | 2025-07-10 01:35:11+00:00
The European EPR aren’t underwhelming: the power plants are delivering precisely what was planned. The underwhelming part comes from delay and cost overruns caused by local political opposition and lack of vision, as well as difficulties finding builder with the required know-how.

Despite this both France (which has just finished building an EPR) and the UK (which is building one right now) are doubling down and launching new projects to capitalise on the knowledge gained.

In France all historical reactors worked so well that we did not feel the need to build more. This lead to talented engineers going to retirement without having a chance to pass on their knowledge and experience, causing cost overruns on the new constructions. This is not inherent to the technology itself but a symptom of our decision to put it aside for a while. As an example when I was in engineering school I remember being told “don’t do a nuclear physics major there is no job for that in the future”. Not easy retaining excellence in a field when that’s what you tell your children. All the dude that went there anyway are in very very high demand today, as you might expect.

The new generation of reactors is more complex, mainly because of additional security and reliability requirements, which is a good thing. Those are certified for a lifespan of 60 years and costs are computed on that base. Some old gen reactors in the us are looking to extend their lifespan to 80 years. It’s extremely likely the new - safer - reactors will be able go beyond that, reducing the MW costs compared to current estimates.

We are slowly re-learning to build reactors, and mastering a new technology at the same time. The more reactors we build based on that experience the more that initial cost will be distributed.

There is nothing underwhelming in what was delivered; the process to get there was, but we will get better at that.
by maxbond | 2025-07-10 01:36:02+00:00
"Exception" comes from hardware/state machines, and the name reflects that they may not be error cases. For instance, if an embedded device is waiting for a button press, then pressing that button will put the MCU into an exceptional/special state (eg interrupting execution or waking up from sleep).

But surely those days are in the past. We should call them objections, because they're always used for errors and never for control flow. [1] After all, that would be an unconditional jump, and we've already settled that those are harmful.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#StopIterat...
by viraptor | 2025-07-10 01:36:04+00:00
It's rarely as simple as actually exposing something as a decision. Scope changes, access rules change, multiple systems interact in interesting ways, access configuration lives in a different place than the app, etc. You're implying that it wouldn't happen with competent developers, but I guarantee it does - just wait a bit longer and let the systems grow. The Swiss cheese will get everyone given enough time.
by lmm | 2025-07-10 01:36:58+00:00
> arbitrary precision is often the completely wrong tool, e.g. it would make certain key algorithms (like Gaussian elimination) exponential.

Sure, but even in science taking a lot of time to deliver a result, or failing to deliver one at all, is much safer than silently delivering the wrong result. There's the concept of fail-stop if you want a rigorous approach to safety. There's no analogous safety model that says silent overflow is the safe option.
by ra7 | 2025-07-10 01:37:18+00:00
It isn’t a pivot. Rather it’s gaining business that would otherwise go to Broadcom/Marvell. They continue to keep their high margin proprietary product. They don’t have to give away all their design secrets, just enough to make them a valuable chip design partner.

Admittedly, I haven’t thought this out, but I can’t find compelling reasons why they shouldn’t do this.
by malux85 | 2025-07-10 01:38:03+00:00
That's true - except rather than just rolling over and accepting it, maybe the workforce as a whole should wise up so they dont get totally fleeced a third time?

Because capitalism/free market rewards companies that do this behaviour then a unified collective coordinated action among the workers will never happen, so the next best alternative we have is to discourage blind, jaded acceptance : and encourage the rebellious message that maybe, just maybe, SOME, nah, a decent chunk, of the rewards can go to the workforce itself.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-10 01:38:17+00:00
This should be compared though to the general trend in current US stocks valuations, that are on par with Tulip Mania and Dot-com bubble.

Some examples:

- Palantir - valued at 337B USD (more than Meta less than 3 years ago !), with a revenue of 2B and net incomre 500M

- Gamestop - valued at 10B USD, with a quickly declining revenue of 4B and net income 100M (they lost money most of the time in the past 10 years)

- Coreweave - valued at 74B USD, on 1B revenue (growing quickly), 300m net loss, and very discutable accounting

- Tesla - valued at 1000B USD, on 100B revenue (which is now collapsing), 7B net income which will most probably turn into a less starting this quarter (no more ZEV credits) or next quarter (no more 7500$ subsides)

- xAI - valued at what, 100B USD ? On probably 0 revenue and huge losses.

Same goes for OpenAI, SpaceX etc, and I'm not even starting to talk about crypto (yeah, Dogecoin has a 'market cap' of 27B USD...).

We are living almost unprecedented times in terms of US stock valuations.
by kibwen | 2025-07-10 01:38:32+00:00
> I found a claim that noalias contributes about 5% performance improvement

Note that that comment is implying a range, from 0% improvement on some benchmarks to 5% improvement on others. It suggests that 5% is generally in the ballpark of the upper bound of what you should expect from putting noalias on mutable references, but that some specific cases could see better results.
by esseph | 2025-07-10 01:39:25+00:00
This falls apart when you realize DoH can (and does) just go out to 443/TCP.

It looks like a web request, which was literally the point of the specification.

"DoH ensures that attackers cannot forge or alter DNS traffic. DoH uses port 443, which is the standard HTTPS traffic port, to wrap the DNS query in an HTTPS request. DNS queries and responses are camouflaged within other HTTPS traffic, since it all comes and goes from the same port."

Now if you get into that territory, as you have suggested with your proxy comment, now you are breaking the security model for not just DNS requests but much of the overall traffic on the network.
by andrewflnr | 2025-07-10 01:40:14+00:00
He sure claimed to also want to make money on it. With how much debt he took on, he didn't have much choice. Even with the political goal, he could have moved the overton window better by less ridiculous means. (And as I mentioned in another comment, his attempts to squirm out of the sale are evidence against it being a big master plan; for that to be a fakeout requires an unlikely level of depth.)
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by Airyisland | 2025-07-10 01:40:35+00:00
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by xelxebar | 2025-07-10 01:41:22+00:00
So piano playing? If I bathe my rhododendron in nitrous oxide, it stops producing oxygen. Filling my plumbing with nitrous oxide causes my toilet flushes to stop working.

Bigfoot is what you see in this photo here [0]. A useful phenomenological description doesn't presume and use the thing it attempts to describe.

A good definition would look like the Mirror Self-Recognition Test (MSRT), or even simple verbal affirmations of personal consciousness, or some MRI features, etc. But these all have glaring limitations.

MRST is unusable with blind patients, it only tests a specific kind of awareness, and it turns out that toddlers fail the test.

Verbal affirmations limit coverage to socially functional, speaking humans, so severe autistics fail, and duct tape over the mouth (or aphasia etc.) presumably impairs consciousness as well.

MRI brain features seem to always disappoint with obvious flaws like above or have some crazy exceptions of some living, healthy patients who are missing parts of their brain.

Until we can talk about consciousness without saying "consciousness" or referring to it indirectly, then we're just hallucinating IMHO.

[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot#/media/File%3APatter...
by latency-guy2 | 2025-07-10 01:45:34+00:00
If you went to a website that consisted of roughly within 2 standard deviation population representative of multiple sides, then maybe you would have a point.

But this is reddit. It is not a population consisting of anywhere near that generous 2 standard deviations.

You know precisely what you're doing and you know you're being dishonest.

Tell me, a website that is not wholly owned and operated by shills on the left would respond with the state of /r/pics any day of the week, and exclaim that is entirely organic behavior, let alone consisting of representative population of the real world USA.

We can go blow for blow in any large sub. In fact, tell me why /r/Idaho, a state that has consistently voted red for decades somehow has "organically" resulted in posts entirely consisting of run-of-the-mill liberal posts? What of /r/Texas which is the same story and out of the question not a liberal stronghold that it presents itself to be.

You can pull the wool over your eyes all day, don't expect anyone else in the world to believe your bullshit.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-10 01:49:21+00:00
It's the same thing as why would any shoot a spike into their veins to get high on heroin. The lack of empathy for an addict is telling. The indignity of a righteous ex is insufferable. How someone became an addict is not necessarily relevant, but once they're hooked quitting is not so simple as those unable to empathize while on high horses want to think.

It is however annoying when the addict does their thing in public with zero fucks to give for anyone else around them.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-07-10 01:51:25+00:00
Shouldn’t these ‘malicious’ prompts be part of testing? If we are allowing scripts to be executed through prompts, shouldn’t there be more checks and balances?

“Don’t trust user input” “Validate user input” “Sanitize user input” mantras ring in my head.

Why weren’t they ringing in those developers heads? Or were they vibe coding??

Tongue firmly in cheek - or may be not.
by trimbo | 2025-07-10 01:52:08+00:00
> her legacy will forever be stained

Interesting. My hot take is 99% of the time non-founder CEOs end up on the dustbin of history, successful or unsuccessful.

Terry Semel. John Akers. John Sculley, Carly Fiorina. Except among those of us in tech, all are now long forgotten failures. Even Gil Amelio, who made one of the most genius acquisitions ever, was fired and his name lost to the sands of time. My bet is nobody's going to remember Tim Cook or Sundar or Satya in 50 years, maybe even 20.

Possibly the only non-founder CEO who has made a real legacy in the last 100 years is Elon. I would also say TJ Watson Jr. but I very much wonder if that many HN commenters know who he is!
by fsckboy | 2025-07-10 01:52:16+00:00
let's say you are very afraid of heights. let's also say that your toddler climbed out a window and is now playing on the edge of the roof. you're just going to watch, or worse, hide your eyes?

you replied to a comment that cited "survival", so to argue against it you need to also cite surviving, or not surviving in the case you bring up.
by xattt | 2025-07-10 01:52:19+00:00
Soviet apartments had a separate rooms for the toilet and the area with a bath/shower/sink. The area behind the toilet was usually a hinged wall that could be opened to reveal the entry point for utilities.

I assume toilet hands were an unspoken issue, because there was no possible way to traverse from the toilet room to the washroom without touching anything.

For a complete tangent, I’ll mention that Soviet toilets had a “poop shelf” so that people could eyeball their stool to gauge their health. One flaw of this design is that there was no odour suppression offered by toilets that immediately immerse stool in water.
by ars | 2025-07-10 01:52:20+00:00
> and it doesn’t take much to verify them.

Really, and how exactly would you verify them? And of course they would never just make up the numbers, right? https://www.cfr.org/blog/un-halves-its-estimate-women-and-ch...

> Why do you suggest Palestinian prisoners are not?

A hostage is taken randomly to force the other party to do something. The Palestinians arrested were arrested because of a specific reason pertaining to them, some have been tried in court, some have not, but none were taken randomly.

You can call some of them prisoner of war, but of course those would be combatants, and again they were taken because they were fighting.

None were taken randomly, so none are hostages.

> akin to “due process” is happening in Gaza right now?

I'm not surprised you are getting basic information wrong, most Palestinians activists know almost nothing about Palestine or Gaza. To give you a correction the prisoners we are talking about were arrested in the West Bank, not Gaza.
by bnralt | 2025-07-10 01:52:23+00:00
Right, Reddit banned any sub that disagreed with the progressive positions on Transgender issues, any mainstream subs would ban users for disagreeing with those positions, and heterodox subs were warned not to discuss them or else they could be banned. For instance, here's the Moderate Politics sub discussion on why they banned transgender topics[1]:

> The first of these banned topics: gender identity, the transgender experience, and the laws that may affect these topics.

> Please note that we do not make this decision lightly, nor was the Mod Team unanimous in this path forward. Over the past week, the Mod Team has tried on several occasions to receive clarification from the Admins on how to best facilitate civil discourse around these topics. There responses only left us more confused, but the takeaway was clear: any discussion critical of these topics may result in action against you by the Admins.

Also mod efforts to enforce an ideological view across the entire site. For instance, in the run up to the 2020 election, mods on the boardgame sub started going through the history of users and would ban anyone who voted for Trump.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/mkxcc0/st...
by o11c | 2025-07-10 01:52:31+00:00
Decent intro, though nothing new.

A couple useful points it lacks:

* `switch` statements can be lowered in two different ways: using a jump table (an indirect branch, only possible when values are adjacent; requires a highly-predictable branch to check the range first), or using a binary search (multiple direct branches). Compilers have heuristics to determine which should be used, but I haven't played with them.

* You may be able to turn an indirect branch into a direct branch using code like the following:

if (function_pointer == expected_function) expected_function(); else (*function_pointer)();

* It's generally easy to turn tail recursion into a loop, but it takes effort to design your code to make that possible in the first place. The usual Fibonacci example is a good basic intro; tree-walking is a good piece of homework.

* `cmov` can be harmful (since it has to compute both sides) if branch is even moderately predictable and/or if the less-likely side has too many instructions. That said, from my tests, compilers are still too hesitant to use `cmov` even for cases where yes I really know dammit. OoO CPUs are weird to reason about but I've found that due to dependencies between other instructions, there's often some execution ports to spare for the other side of the branch.
by arp242 | 2025-07-10 01:53:39+00:00
> if you get one to say racist things it's probably because you were trying to make it say racist things.

When it started ranting about the Jews and "Mecha Hitler" it was unprompted on unrelated matters. When it started ranting about "white genocide" in SA a while ago it was also unprompted on unrelated matters.

So no.