MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GianFabien | 2025-07-29 03:09:22+00:00
From what you've written I deduce you are living in a rural community in the UK and plan to got to Cambridge uni to study CS. Your GitHub works are both in C.

I see two options:

1. Since opportunities for your skillset are limited in your area, you could seek out project based C/C++ programming remote or gig work. But, I think you'd be up against a lot of competition.

2. Broaden your offering to being a Mr PC FixIt guy. I don't know if GeekSquad or similar operate in your area. You could charge for results instead of the time you take.

I would recommend the second option, because it exposes you to real-world use of computers and provides an insight into how businesses operate. This level of knowledge and expertise is a valuable complement to technical knowledge.
by bbor | 2025-07-29 03:09:23+00:00
A) heh. Always love a good dad joke, never apologize! I'm not sure many zoomers made it on here anyway, lets be real.

B) That's honestly interesting, to be boring for a moment. I've been fascinated with super basic names ever since I saw Vercel's giant billboard in the center of SF bragging about snagging `ai` on the npm registry!

I thought single-letter domain names were banned in the 90s except for a handful of grandfathered ones, but turns out that was just for .com and .net[1] -- .ai is open for business! So far, wikipedia just lists c.ai (CharacterAI) and x.ai (Grok), so I'll have to add this exciting new one to the list.

Towards your joke, y.ai is for sale by a Chinese phone number, and it seems interest has shot up in reaction to GLM4.5! Of the rest,

- Broken apps/underused: a, d, f, i, l, t, v - For sale from China for best offer: b, h, k, k, m, n, u, y - For sale for a specific value: j: $3M (!!!) - Used: - c: CharacterAI - e: An everything app? - g: Google (of course) - o: some very rich guy[2] who also owns "Neuro.ai" & "Soul.ai" and makes chat avatars - p: marketing SaaS that redirects to programmai.com (baffling choice) - q: ...something ominous?[3] - r: E-Commerce SaaS - s: some *awesome* activist programmer named Sai's old-school landing page (by far the best one!) - w: distributed computing project to "build distributed superintelligence" - x: Twitter - z: The third largest AI company in China![4]

Honestly my biggest takeaways are 1) Someone in China had the prescience to go on a buying spree, and 2) not a single YCombinator firm snagged one! I guess "needs YCombinator" and "has millions to spend on a vanity URL" turn out to be mututally exclusive descriptors...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-hadjioannou

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/company/q-a-i/about/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhipu_AI
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-29 03:09:58+00:00
I think the problem is on the dissemination side.

Navy receives data from the spacecraft, pushes that up into their probably-classified HPC environment, processes it there and then gets the output back into the unclassified world via a cross domain solution[1] of some sort.

High-to-low CDSes in particular are very expensive and complex to deploy and obtain approval to operate, so it makes sense that they’re reluctant to spend a ton of money and resources doing that as part of their modernisation work to support a spacecraft that they plan to decommission anyway.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain_solution
by lettergram | 2025-07-29 03:10:02+00:00
The study only covers aluminum:

> no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions

It's right in the title, which was omitted on submission.

The concerns the public have are not aluminum, so of course it wont. Should also point out the argument largely made is that the _quantity_ of vaccines, particularly in the US are part of the problem.

Generally speaking, I'd welcome studies on what folks are actually saying. Having friends in both the avid vaccine advocates and the anti-vaccine crowd, I think both are just arguing past each other and not studying stuff rigorously enough to convince the other.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-29 03:10:06+00:00
This isn't viable. This isn't a normal vocational job - it's too abstract/overwhelming for everybody to learn all of it on the job to the needed degree. We need to stop tricking kids into this path. Either CS needs to teach practical skills (I understand things evolve fast, but you're exaggerating, and regardless, an education in the current thing is absolutely invaluable, and also prepares you for learning the next thing on your own), or we need to make it much more clear that another education path is better. Also, boot camps are worthless for this.
by bccdee | 2025-07-29 03:10:31+00:00
That's completely untrue. I paid my way through school off student loans & the wages from my internships. I got a degree in computer science, but I took a wide variety of electives outside my program because I wanted to get a broad education.

Taking a course in macroeconomics is good for you; it makes you smarter. Sociology makes you smarter, pure math makes you smarter, english lit makes you smarter, miocrobiology, philosophy, and history all make you smarter. There's a lot of value in a liberal education. I certainly wouldn't have traded mine away for a primer on kubernetes or whatever.

As soon as I needed k8s on the job, I skimmed through the O'Reilly book and that was all I needed. The least valuable thing school can give you is an explanation for how to use a tool which is already well-documented.
by canada_dry | 2025-07-29 03:10:45+00:00
OpenAI's "PRO" subscription is really a waste of money IMHO for this and other reasons.

Decided to give PRO a try when I kept getting terrible results from the $20 option.

So far it's perhaps 20% improved in complex code generation.

It still has the extremely annoying ~350 line limit in its output.

It still IGNORES EXPLICIT CONTINUOUS INSTRUCTIONS eg: do not remove existing comments.

The opaque overriding rules that - despite it begging forgiveness when it ignores instructions - are extremely frustrating!!
by gonzobonzo | 2025-07-29 03:11:25+00:00
College is a massive time and monetary commitment. The reason the vast majority of people go through it is because employment opportunities are gated away behind a degree. Without one, finding the job you want can be extremely difficult, and at times even impossible.

It always bothered me how colleges hold someone's future career hostage like this, forcing them to go through them, and then they pretend it's not the case and that college is simply intellectual enrichment.

The gating that colleges do also makes it much more difficult to change careers than it should be. The whole system does the task it's given extremely poorly, and pretends that it's not even responsible for the task. Great, fine. Let's work on alternative ways to handle job credentialing then.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-07-29 03:11:27+00:00
it's not a court of law.

end users did have power. the power to use the service legitimately, even as a power user. two choices were possible, with the users given the power to decide:

1. use it for an entire 8 hour workday with 1-2 agents at most - limited by a what a human could possibly entertain in terms of review and guidance.

2. use for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with recursive agents on full opus blast. no human review could even be possible with this much production. its the functional equivalent of one person managing a team of 10-20 cracked engineers on adderall that pump out code 24 hours a day.

the former was the extreme of a power user with a practical deliverable. the latter is a circus whose sole purpose is to push the bounds and tweet about it.

now the lawyers get some fresh work to do and everyone gets throttled. oh and that 2nd group? they'll be, and are, the loudest about how they've been "rug pulled just like cursor".
by umanwizard | 2025-07-29 03:11:34+00:00
Come on, you are badly misreading these quotes.

> saying he wants the end of peaceful coexistence

He does not say this. He says he wants the end of the two-state solution; that is, he wants the entire area to be one state (in which people coexist peacefully).

> he claims the Jews will have zero rights

No he doesn't. He says they will have no national right; that is, they will not have the right to claim the land as the exclusive home of the Jewish Nation. They will still have civil rights as normal citizens like everyone else. In fact, let me paste the full quote, since you left off the clarifying explanation that immediately follows it:

> I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land and therefore, we have to accommodate both national rights. I am completely opposed to that, but it would take me too long to explain why, so I will stick to the model I support, which is a secular, democratic state: one person, one vote — regardless of ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, and so on and so forth … Full equality under the law with the inclusion of the refugees — this must be based on the right of return for Palestinian refugees. In other words, a secular, democratic state that accommodates our inalienable rights as Palestinians with the acquired rights of Israeli Jews as settlers.
by dubyah | 2025-07-29 03:11:42+00:00
There's a group signed letter by 99 American volunteer medical professionals stating:

Specifically, every one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest on a regular or even a daily basis.

https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024
by gpm | 2025-07-29 03:11:42+00:00
Yeah the justification I gave is pure theory until you're talking large distributed systems... and the theory amuses me here so I'm going to keep talking about it first.

But it's actually a place where practice happens, by coincidence, to match theory pretty well: https://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html
by lazyasciiart | 2025-07-29 03:11:59+00:00
There has been some commentary. For instance reports of rising levels of intense military activity on the border, sent by IDF female spotter squads on the border for months, were ignored by command centers. This was explained as “chauvinism” - crippling incompetence if true.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/01/israels-female...
by JustExAWS | 2025-07-29 03:12:03+00:00
And if you didn’t get a job right out of school would you have been homeless and hungry or could you just have moved back in with your parents? If you hadn’t gotten a job 5 years out of school that would have allowed you to support yourself would you be homeless or hungry?

I told both of my sons that I wouldn’t pay for a degree that would be less likely to lead to a decent paying job. When my youngest graduated from high school, I was working for BigTeh but I made it abundantly clear that a colleges sole purpose was to be gainfully employed.
by eajr | 2025-07-29 03:12:06+00:00
The couple comments you've gotten so far are pretty spot-on. The job market is not good for software engineers in general right now. I'll second bix6's advice to start something of your own. When I was a teenager I got into reverse engineering via an mmorpg that the server executables leaked, and ended up launching a number of private modded servers that netted good income. Make something of your own and you'll learn a lot that will be very useful in your career further down the road. Best of luck to ya
by TinkersW | 2025-07-29 03:12:49+00:00
You live in a bubble then, most people I know don't care very much about this issue. We have bigger issues to worry about, like our buffoon President & spiraling climate change.

The pro Palestine side has also given themself a pretty bad image, so it will take some very compelling evidence(which this video is not as it doesn't show anything clearly), to make this issue higher priority.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 03:12:51+00:00
The "far-right" propaganda comes in when we try to argue that actually the right cares about immigrants, and they want to deport them because they just care so damn much.

Like, come on now. Give me a break. This type of reasoning is so caked with bullshit I don't think anyone on the right even buys it.

Sure, we can say maybe the left is arguing for exploitation, but certainly the right aren't champions of human rights. I mean, what's the big picture here? "Don't exploit the immigrants! Instead, violate their rights and force them into camps!"

We can solve the immigration problem overnight, if anyone cares. Just say that if you're found hiring undocumented people, you go to prison. I garauntee you, the problem will solve itself with such expedition it will leave you in awe.

But nobody on the right actually proposes this. Because they don't actually care about immigration. They care about populist messaging. They want you to believe there's an enemy within causing all your problems, and they they alone are the solution.

But no - they, too, directly rely on the exploitation. They won't ever patch it. It will always be lip-service, propaganda, and populist messaging.
by josephg | 2025-07-29 03:13:18+00:00
That logic cuts both ways.

We could equally say that this overreaction by Israel was entirely predictable - and inevitable - after Hamas’s murderous rampage on Oct 7. And to take hostages and not return them? What did they think Israel would do? Capitulate to Hamas’s demands, thereby encouraging Hamas to do the same thing again every few months when they want treats? Invasion was perhaps the only option the Israelis had. Hamas played chicken, using their own civilians as human shields. And Israel called their bluff. To the death of tens of thousands of innocent lives.

The heartbreaking part is that I agree with you. I feel like this conflict is inevitable. And it’s the civilians on both sides - but especially Gaza - who are bearing the brunt of misery as a result.

What on earth do I have to be sorry about? Of course their murderous rampage through Gaza happened after October 7. Even with the benefit of hindsight I’m not sure what better options Israel had.

I just wish they’d pull out and let the rebuilding begin. This conflict won’t be healed with more blood.
by lapcat | 2025-07-29 03:13:31+00:00
> And now, they didn’t trust the bottom-line conclusions being reported by the Lancet and the media.

That's the funny thing, though. Logically, distrusting The Lancet means distrusting Wakefield's paper too. It makes no sense to claim that The Lancet is untrustworthy while you still base your beliefs on a paper because it was published in The Lancet. If the journal goes down, the journal articles have to go down with it.

The difference is that these people had spent years building a personal identity around vaccine skepticism, as embattled fighters for the safety of children. Retraction of their beliefs would have been very painful, a blow to their self-image. Thus, it was easier to invent conspiracy theories about how their beliefs are still true, and now there's a cover-up.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-29 03:14:16+00:00
I’d argue it has more to do with the fall of mainline religion and the rise of the zealot.

In that vacuum, some people found independent churches and legacies, and others ended up following woo-woo new age bs, which the Internet organized at scale. We know about the Wakefield study because zealots pushed it hard. Fluoridation is another example - my city recently started it and the council was brigaded by lunatics from all over the world losing their minds over it.
by kanodiaashu | 2025-07-29 03:15:11+00:00
Hi all,

I got sick of copy pasting everything I'm reading through deeply into ChatGPT and getting lost in walls of text.

I'm building a new map like interface to understand any topic deeply. As you chat, your map gets built out, kind of like a nice notebook. You can search the web and pull in/upload documents in any format (pdf/epub/html), create maps over those docs for deeper understanding. You can also listen in podcast mode to your map for complete control over what you're listening to. You can semantic search docs, but also the interface has chapter level awareness of each uploaded source.

Samples are also available at proread.ai/pgessays , proread.ai/books , proread.ai/llm-papers.

Here's a couple of recent spaces I was consuming lately 1. economics - https://www.proread.ai/share/3fd6fa9d-5aea-4dd1-a190-eb83a6a... 2. the dollar weakening - https://www.proread.ai/share/3ca2565f-96ed-4abf-a523-e32b591...
by JustExAWS | 2025-07-29 03:15:28+00:00
All colleges have electives. I also took business classes with my computer science degree and while I am an MBA drop out, learning about business helped me talk my way into a lot of opportunities over the years. Of course learning how to write and communicate is actually part of the leveling guidelines to get to be a senior at every tech company.

And math classes are essential to understand machine learning algorithms and how to apply them and have been way behind the recent AI craze.

But I bet you would think different if you were a junior in today’s market…
by slimebot80 | 2025-07-29 03:16:02+00:00
Overall I think this is as positive - protecting the system from being hit heavily 24/7 and with multiple agents from some users might make the system more sustainable for a wider population of users.

This one thing that bugs me is the visibility of how far through your usage you are. Being told when you're close to the end means I cannot plan. I'm not expecting an exact %, but a few notices at intervals (eg: halfway through) would help a lot. Not providing this kinda makes me worry they don't want us to measure. (I don't want to closely measure, but I do want to have a sense of where I am at)
by antonvs | 2025-07-29 03:17:14+00:00
They're saying that convincing other people to do what's in their own interests is very difficult if they don't care. Working out is given as an example: it's obviously a beneficial activity, but that's not enough to convince many people to do it regularly.

The claim then is that people don't care enough about having public healthcare (or are actively against it) for it to be a politically popular goal.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-29 03:17:28+00:00
There is a middle ground between both.

If teaching fundamentals, then force students to utilize these fundamentals to build into applied or industry usecases.

For example - leveraging the K8s thread - force students in their OS class to understand HOW to apply data structures to manage scalability problems AND forcing students to understand Linux kernel internals like cgroups.

Most universities don't offer course to connect these fundamentals together - not even my Ivy League alma mater based on my own survey of curricula.

Everyone is incentivized to understand the bare minimum, overindex on Leetcode, and skim over harder fundamental courses. On top of that, ime at my alma mater, most CS faculty was essentially applied math nerds who could see beauty in a well formatted inductive proof but would glaze out when pushed on implementing Paxos using best practices around kernel or system performance. And vice versa for the system nerds.

In a world where AI/ML can increasingly automate away boiler plate work and even conduct limited reasoning, understanding how fundamentals and (shudder) first principles are connected into become a product or solution is what matters.

And thus, this becomes a critical thinking problem, which just cannot be learnt without experimentation and getting into the weeds.
by mmis1000 | 2025-07-29 03:17:36+00:00
I had do frontend for decades and witness the Jquery => Angular.js => React/Vue (Class) => React/Vue (Hook) transition.

And out of them, the react hook is the only one that 'doing it wrong' is easier. A good API interface should have least resistance for the user when doing things correctly. But React Hook almost feels like the complete opposite of this phenomenon. It's complex, comes with tons of foot gun. And yet still get popular?

Wondering if there is something other like this exists in the computer history.
by utbabya | 2025-07-29 03:17:37+00:00
Interesting, DDoS in real life. Or rather slashdotting, since those are legitimate queries.

If I were Visa/Mastercard leadership I think at least part of me would be happy to see this blow up, long term wise. Hey it's not me pushing back now, it's prigs versus the people, with a much higher chance of legislation change come out of it. Which IMO is just in this case, common carrier status as it should have, open to judicial requested blockages based on laws that are draft by folks elected by the population.

We've a buncha RFCs specifying the architecture with three branches to deal with these problems in the most agreeable way to most people, as good as we could come up with as a species. Rather than drafting new RFCs without understanding the why those three branches needed to exist, how about patching them. Complete rewrite works too but that should incorporate all the crystalized knowledge in the legacy version, which we all know is hard.
by _kb | 2025-07-29 03:18:24+00:00
This is a really nice walkthrough of matching trade offs to acceptable distortions for a known signal type. Even if you’re selecting rather than designing a codec, it’s a great process to follow.

For those interesting in the ultra low latency space (where you’re willing to trade a bit of bandwidth to gain quality and minimise latency), VSF have a pretty good wrap up of other common options and what they each optimise for: https://static.vsf.tv/download/technical_recommendations/VSF...
by YZF | 2025-07-29 03:18:38+00:00
I agree Israel has control over aid entering Gaza. I also agree that civilians should not be starved.

In recent weeks though Israel has allowed aid into Gaza but the UN has not been picking it up and distributing it. Israel brings it outside the area that Hamas controls and asks the UN to truck it in. Those trucks then get looted or the goods just sit there because the UN agencies refuse to pick it up. Some food recently had to be destroyed because it expired sitting on the platforms. Obviously Israeli soldiers can't truck the aid into Hamas controlled Gaza themselves.

I'm pretty sure "we asked them to leave but they didn't" is actually sufficient. How else is the population going to move?

https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/siege

Otherwise how exactly would a siege work? You're expecting the enemy to cooperate?

Anyways, I don't think a siege is workable here even if legal, and we can see why. There has been political pressure in Israel to at the very least prevent Hamas from controlling the aid.

It's true that Israel blocked aid for a few months. This was after the strip was flooded with aid during the previous ceasefire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vz02e7g8o

"Gaza kitchens warn food will run out in days after two months of Israeli blockade" (will run out in days - May 2nd). So at least a few days after May 2nd we know there was still some food available.

The GHF started distributing food on May 26th.

I don't know for sure what is the food situation in Gaza at every given moment. In theory the IDF says they have been monitoring it. So it's their word vs. Hamas. We also had people killed sitting in a cafe at the end of June so presumably there were some ingredients for that cafe to be open and serving customers. That's very anecdotal. I'm sure there are pockets of poverty, hunger and more. If you have money or the right connections you're probably getting food. The fair distribution of food within Hamas controlled Gaza isn't something the IDF has control of.

The UN has also refused to collaborate with the GHF and Hamas has been attacking the aid centers and the Palestinians that help deliver aid there. Yes, the setup is far from ideal, but Israel has a right to try and get Hamas out of the aid loop. At the very least there are other players here, not just Israel, to share some of the blame.