MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n4r9 | 2025-07-02 21:27:36+00:00
There's a great John Stuart Mill quotation from On Liberty related to this. In the UK it used to be the case that you were barred from testifying in court if you declared yourself an atheist.

> Under pretence that atheists must be liars, it admits the testimony of all atheists who are willing to lie, and rejects only those who brave the obloquy of publicly confessing a detested creed rather than affirm a falsehood.
I tested a GenAI agent on real cybersecurity scenarios and it surprised me
by niruwu | 2025-07-02 21:28:19+00:00
I recently came across a platform that lets you spin up custom GenAI agents without writing much code. Out of curiosity, I tried building one for a use case I rarely see discussed outside enterprise tools, a quick threat triage for small teams.

The idea was simple. Feed the agent basic logs or threat descriptions and ask it to suggest next steps. Not alerts or dashboards but contextual follow ups. Like asking, “This looks like a port scan, what should I check next” or “This file was flagged, how can I validate it manually”

I used Lyzr to test it in a controlled setup with mock data. What stood out was not the accuracy but the way it handled uncertainty. When the input was vague, it asked for clarification. When it lacked context, it acknowledged that instead of guessing. That felt new.

It was not perfect. It struggled with very technical payloads and made conservative assumptions. But for exploratory questions or narrowing down false positives, it was surprisingly helpful.

Has anyone else here experimented with GenAI in this way? Not to replace analysts but to make the loop tighter between suspicion and action I feel like there is a lot of unexplored ground in using agents for reasoning rather than reporting.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-02 21:28:36+00:00
PS4 wasnt too terrible but jumping back to PS3... wow I completely forgot how memory starved that machine was. Working on it, we knew at the time but in retro spect it was just horrible.

Small RAM space with the hard CPU/GPU split (so no reallocation) feeding off a slow HDD which is being fed by an even slower Bluray disc, you are sitting around for a while.
by SR2Z | 2025-07-02 21:29:26+00:00
If a software engineer starts working at Applebees, GDP will decrease. If lots of software engineers do it, GDP decreases more.

If corporate revenue increases and is spent (as most revenue is), then the workers will be better off in the most bland "raising all boats" sense of the word - there will be more competition for their labor and more opportunities for them to jump ship.

GDP gets a bad rap but if I had to pick a single metric, that's the one I'd choose.
by nilkn | 2025-07-02 21:30:09+00:00
I'd say execs getting hired for substantial seven- and eight-figure packages, with performance-based bonuses / equity grants and severance deals, absolutely do have a lot more in common with superstars than with most other professionals. And, just like superstars, they're hired based off public reputation more than anything else (just the sphere of what's "public" is different).

It's false that execs are never ICs. Anyone who's worked in the upper-echelon of corporate America knows that. Not every exec is simply responsible 1:1 for a business line. Many are in transformation or functional roles with very complex responsibilities across many interacting areas. Even when an exec is responsible for a business line in a 1:1 way, they are often only responsible for one aspect of it (e.g., leading one function); sometimes that is true all the way up to the C-suite, with the company having literally only a single exception (e.g., Apple). In those cases, exec performance is not 1:1 tied to the business they are 1:1 attached to. High-performing execs in those roles are routinely "saved" and banked for other roles rather than being laid off / fired in the event their BU doesn't work out. Low-performing execs in those roles are of course very quickly fired / re-orged out.

If execs really were so replaceable and it's just a matter of putting the right number in a spreadsheet, companies wouldn't be paying so much money for them. Your claims do not pass even the most basic sanity check. By all means, work your way up to the level we're talking about here and then report back on what you've learned about it.

Re: performance management and "everyone knowing that", you're right of course -- that's why it's not an interesting point at all. :) I disagree that established techniques are not valid -- they work well and have worked for decades with essentially no major structural issues, scaling up to companies with 200k+ employees.
by lawlessone | 2025-07-02 21:30:16+00:00
Maybe more accessible tools i think?

It's possible to run models locally, fidget with temp etc

Being able to change other things on the fly like identify weights most used for a prompt and just changing those to see what happens is much harder.

I've tried both LLMS and image generators on my machine locally and while it's gotten in easier it's a long task just setting up. Especially if you run into driver issues.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-02 21:30:56+00:00
Is it your suggestion that the Levant was once as well-watered and verdant as, say, the Netherlands or Hawaii?

While human activities undoubtedly contributed to desertification, the Levant is geographically and climactically a desert. The amount of surface water that is available may be directly influenced by human behavior, but I do not think that human behavior changed the fundamentals of the landscape.

Am I wrong?
by jbs789 | 2025-07-02 21:31:20+00:00
My perspective is more as a small business founder creating an app to solve real world problems in a small market, rather than a VC/Silicon Valley. (So I don’t know for sure how my views stack with “conventional” business wisdom. Maybe smarter people disagree.)

I observe or believe that an MVP (product and strategy) exists in the context of the current time and marketplace, with a view to figuring out how the customer responds to it, so has evolved over time as the customer expectations have matured.
by maypok86 | 2025-07-02 21:31:29+00:00
No, I haven't looked into it, but the combination of "lock-free" and "S3-FIFO" raises some red flags for me :)

I don't quite understand the specific rationale for replacing segmented LRU with S3-FIFO. If I remember correctly, even the original authors stated it doesn't provide significant benefits [1].

Regarding TinyUFO - are you using lock-free queues? Has the algorithmic complexity of TinyLFU changed? (In the base version, S3-FIFO is O(n)). How easy is it to add new features? With lock-free queues, even implementing a decent expiration policy becomes a major challenge.

[1]: https://github.com/Yiling-J/theine/issues/21
by codytruscott | 2025-07-02 21:32:16+00:00
Rather than 23andMe, Ancestry ($50-$100) etc => imputation, broad clinical labs offers exome + genome blended for $120.

https://usegalaxy.org is pretty remarkable and provides access to a ton of open source bioinformatics tools + compute to process the files.

I really think the $1200 20x pacbio from broad is worth it if you are going to make it serious hobby.
by markfinger | 2025-07-02 21:33:12+00:00
It depends on your location. Some of our staff live locally, and some commute from all parts of Sydney and the surrounding regions. I come in via train most days and it's a 10min walk from the station.

There's a surprising amount of software jobs in Western Sydney in IoT as it's the industrial heart of the Sydney region. In our case, the office is next door to the factory, so we can collab with hardware and manufacturing folk easily.

We are having conversations about opening an office in the city - mostly for tech workers. But that is still in early conversations and there are no concrete plans or timelines yet.
by tptacek | 2025-07-02 21:33:50+00:00
Yeah, you're missing my point. Given most startups fail, the question isn't "at the end of the day do you still get a paycheck for your failed startup", it's "how much of your life did you burn on that failed startup".

Since we're talking about a specific startup whose founders are participants here, I think we can do without the ghoulish stuff about them not making payroll or whatever; "winding down" implies they're failing in an orderly way.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-02 21:34:19+00:00
I think "monad" is overloaded, or at least there are varying depths of understanding that are confused.

From a programming perspective, the definition of monads is clear.

bind :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b return :: a -> m a

You can start using monads immediately, and in a language like Haskell, things click fairly quickly, because monads are used everywhere and taken seriously in that language.

But the implications and consequences of this definition for monads aren't always obvious, like how they can be used to structure operations or whatever.

And then there's the category theoretic business of monads which you don't need to understand for most programming purposes. That might be a source of confusion. As you more or less say, people have vague, built up expectations about monads. They expect something heavy and mysterious and doubt they're understood them according to the first definition. But the basic definition is straightforward.

Numbers are like this, too. You understand what a number is (a quantity). You can perform all sorts of operations and calculations using them without knowing number theory or the philosophy of mathematics.
by vr46 | 2025-07-02 21:34:53+00:00
What is in there that is supposed to reflect the laser? It a Red Book-compliant CD?

Modern CD players are cut-down versions of older machines. My Naim forgoes de-emphasis as only older CDs from the 14-bit era used it. Surely one would expect full backward support for a medium designed for a greater-than-human lifespan?
by friedtofu | 2025-07-02 21:35:02+00:00
What the hell...

Even if you're directing this at the user's blog posts specifically; this is a ridiculously pessimistic, sad way to view things.

I hope you're just having a bad day because if you sincerely have this greedy, cynical mindset day to day(towards blogging, software, offline/real life activities, whatever) I feel sorry for you.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-02 21:35:27+00:00
Yeah, I have a comment that I cannot find right now, they mention many of these things as well. They are all C++-esque, i.e. bloat, in my opinion.

Edit: oh, you actually did quote me, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41854897

In any case, thank you.
by billmcneale | 2025-07-02 21:36:00+00:00
But the whole promise of monads is precisely that they are a type that can compose.

It basically allows you to pipe successive function calls returning different types by lifting these types into a monad.

Don't get me wrong, that promise is very powerful and in the rare few cases where it works, it unlocks beautiful composition, but the simple truth is that monads are really not that useful outside of Haskell (and I'd say, it's even questionable within).
by lurk2 | 2025-07-02 21:36:38+00:00
> Wikipedia has an article that lists documented instances of citizens being removed.

Thanks. It looks like the article lists 8 instances where deportation occurred. In 3 of those instances, the deportee sued and successfully returned, and in 2 they appear to have failed to return after their deportation. This is more like 3 / 5 though as the examples involving children were not technically deportations of the children but of the parents, who were not US citizens.

So it’s more than 0, but so far as I can tell none of the counted deportations occurred when Trump was in office; the last one was in 2008.
by layer8 | 2025-07-02 21:37:03+00:00
No, but for young people who only ever used a smartphone or tablet, it might be relatively unfamiliar terminology, and even when they do know what it means, may seem misplaced for how they use technology.

As an analogy, consider how you would feel if the instruction manual of your microwave oven (or other physical appliance) would instruct you to "click" its buttons. It's not that you wouldn't understand what to do or that you'd be looking for a mouse port, it's that the word wouldn't be the right one for the circumstance.

Incidentally, as a keyboard user I sometimes feel that way when there are instructions to "click" some UI button, but I will press the appropriate keyboard shortcut instead.
by jm20 | 2025-07-02 21:37:15+00:00
Odds are this is a dev shop with more than one person doing at least some things. It would explain how “he” was able to get so many jobs and maintain appearances. And a lot of startups don’t have the best screening processes to begin with (have a beer with a founder, check out their source code, you’re hired!). This is exactly the place where the structure and processes of larger companies can be a benefit. And even then, people work multiple jobs and get away with it. It’s become popular post COVID.

Given these two factors, I don’t think it would be out of the realm of possibility for something like this to happen.
by cnrad | 2025-07-02 21:37:20+00:00
This beautifully summed up a lot of what I've been thinking about Liquid Glass since I first saw it. A lot of it doesn't really make sense - in an effort to make usability clearer, they are designing everything to look the same and create more empty space for... vibes?

As the years have gone on, it feels like computers are slowly losing every ounce of personality they once had. Software should be delightful to use! Computers felt fun! I'm hoping we eventually get through this minimal/bland era of UI design and come back around to design with a little creativity.

It feels like Apple is trying to subtly introduce the concept of spatial UI for the future, where the norm will be to have controls and content on separate "layers" - but I don't think it should come at a cost of sacrificing the interfaces we already have.
by acv | 2025-07-02 21:37:35+00:00
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by onlypassingthru | 2025-07-02 21:38:05+00:00
> The selected tree species is Bur Oak, given that it is included in the SNWA Regional Plant (SNWA 2021) list, it is marked as a street tree in the list...

Who the hell is planting oaks in Vegas? Oaks are non native and moderately water intensive trees. If this study is based on oaks, it calls into question the validity of the data since this is a tree that absolutely does not belong in the Mojave desert.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-02 21:38:13+00:00
> He absolutely is.

When people explicitly say "do not build this, nobody should build this, under no circumstances build this, slow down and stop, nobody knows how to get this right yet", it's rather a stretch to assume they must mean the exact opposite, "oh, you should absolutely hurry be the first one to build this".

> By collating AI as a doomsday weapon, you necessarily are begging governments to attain it before terrorists do.

False. This is not a bomb where you can choose where it goes off. The literal title of the book is "if anyone builds it, everyone dies". It takes a willful misinterpretation to imagine that that means "if the right people build it, only the wrong people die".

If you want to claim that the book is incorrect, by all means attempt to refute it. But don't claim it says the literal opposite of what it says.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-02 21:38:23+00:00
I have "programmed" Copilot to do some Q&A work. For my org the team should scale to 50 to make it effective. My idea and implementation will keep us to ~20 with the capability of dropping it to 5 (organically). I don't think anyone will double my salary though, so there is your real life impact. Now take that and apply it to at least "10 areas" in every org above 10k headcount. It won't change life on earth, but considering that this has just began...
by raphlinus | 2025-07-02 21:38:36+00:00
Have you attended recently, as in the past few months? Maybe our meeting is special because it's Berkeley, but we have a solid core of young people regularly attending. I was on Nominating Committee last cycle, and we've gotten a number of Young Friends, where in the recent past it's been pretty much aging members.

You might be right about rebranding, but to me a lot of what appeals is the focus on the substance rather than perceptions.
by dazzeloid | 2025-07-02 21:39:06+00:00
he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews. the funny thing was that he actually had multiple companies on his linkedin at the same time, including ours. we just thought they must have been internships or something and he never updated them (he felt a bit chaotic). but then it turned out he was working at all of them simultaneously.

worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job (we also let him go when we discovered the multiple jobs)
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-07-02 21:39:46+00:00
Kind of pedantic?

I think everyone knows the debate is around the 'event', which caused a 'period' of geologic history which is referred to as "Younger Dryas". I guess once the 'event' is known, it can be named something, like "The Younger Dryas Event".

What I'd like to know, is why just one event. There is this paper, and also the crater found in Greenland a couple years ago. Maybe there was a more general bombardment, not just a one-off smoking gone.
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by balfirevic | 2025-07-02 21:40:09+00:00
"Physical education" would be hilarious if it weren't sad. It's a pretty impressive feat that it managed to simultaneously:

- make me spend quite a lot of time on something exercise-related (since it was "opposite shift" of regular school classes)

- had me do next to zero actual exercise

- teach me literally nothing about how exercise or training works

- make me hate everything related to exercise for quite a few years

Worse than a waste of time, it was actively harmful.
by gopher_space | 2025-07-02 21:40:45+00:00
Not op but worked on multiplayer.

If your game uses matchmaking or is multi region or crossplay it’ll be depending from a lot of different services, and tightly integrated with them.

Latency concerns, for example, might be handled at several points in the flow that would stop existing for a standalone server. None of the code involved is reusable because it was written for a completely different context.
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-02 21:41:55+00:00
Pre-emptive strikes are illegal under international law except for in very narrow circumstances.

The circumstances in this case where nowhere close to that. So I wouldn't agree it's a difficult political question.

Israel and the US are parties to those laws and clearly broke them.

It's unclear why, it does appear politically motivated rather than actually about any actual threat or particular intelligence.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-02 21:41:57+00:00
While I love the ASCII art, yeah... thats not how the moon phase works. At half moon it should be exactly half occluded, so like it was cut in half, not just a weird circle cut out.

This is something that partially bothered me about GTA San Andreas on Ps2. They used the same trick as here but I would give them a pass because it was just a small detail on a large simulation on an already very limited system.

There are some great bones here on the site, just need to tweak the shadow and it can be a 10 out of 10.
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by robgehring | 2025-07-02 21:42:20+00:00
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by 93po | 2025-07-02 21:42:32+00:00
Cops should be proud to put their lives at risk. It should be part of the job expectations. You should care so much about the community you're supposed to serve that you'd be willing to make that sacrifice, even for a total stranger. The fact that none of this pride or expectation exists highlights that cops are cowards who get into policing for bad or selfish reasons and perpetuate systemic problems that harm millions.