MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
My reality: Decades of experience, seeking one team that believes in it
by adan_caldera | 2025-07-16 14:58:01+00:00
Hello,

In a world of startups moving at lightning speed, most technical problems aren't new; they are echoes of past challenges with a new technological face. My name is Adán Caldera, and at 54, I have spent my career (spanning nearly three decades), in the trenches of every one of these transformations.

My value lies not just in the technologies I command today, but in the deep understanding of the innovation cycles I have actively navigated: from mainframes and Y2K to the web, mobile, and now AI. This unique perspective allows me to anticipate breaking points, design systems that not only work today but scale tomorrow and prevent technical debt before it becomes an anchor for the business.

For a startup, this translates into:

• Grounded Strategic Vision: As an Enterprise Architect, I connect business goals with solid technological decisions. I can design the roadmap that allows you to grow sustainably and securely.

• Pragmatic Technical Leadership: I can guide engineering teams, mentor young talent to elevate their skills, and ensure that best practices don't stifle the agility that makes you competitive.

• A Passion for Building: I love to code. I enjoy creating prototypes, designing solutions, and I'm not afraid to get "down in the trenches" to solve a complex problem. My ability to learn quickly isn't a promise; it's a pattern proven over decades.

I've noticed that many companies hesitate to hire professionals with my background, perhaps fearing a lack of adaptability. My motivation is precisely the opposite: I'm drawn to startups for their agility, direct impact, and the opportunity to build from the ground up, applying all my accumulated wisdom to do it right and fast.

Regarding my English, my technical proficiency is strong. I am fully committed to achieving complete conversational fluency and, in the meantime, I trust that with current tools and goodwill, communication is a minor challenge we can easily overcome.

A resume cannot capture the passion for creation or the ability to solve complex problems. I am seeking a remote role.

I am reaching out to this space and community, the most brilliant and humane on the planet, full of geniuses, technologists, inventors, and entrepreneurs, because I would love to have a conversation to explore how my experience can accelerate your goals.

With appreciation and admiration,

Adán Caldera adan@caldera-labs.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/adan-caldera-rodriguez/
by JohnFen | 2025-07-16 14:58:14+00:00
My first question was why doesn't Utah do what other states do, and issue permits specifically for such use rather than require non-hunters and non-fishers to buy hunting and fishing licenses?

The article addresses that. It turns out it's because Utah is engaging in a grift:

> Because while federal funds are not attached to general recreation permits, hunting license fees are matched with federal dollars though the Pittman-Robertson Act, and fishing license fees are matched in the same way through the Dingell-Johnson Act.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-07-16 14:58:39+00:00
If you are playing with Ada, be sure to try out Alire, a 'Rust cargo'-style tool for Ada libraries:

https://alire.ada.dev/

One thing to be aware of is that GNAT is part of GCC:

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GNAT

AdaCore is the primary developer of GNAT, SPARK, and related tools:

https://blog.adacore.com/a-new-era-for-ada-spark-open-source...

There are other Ada compilers as well:

https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/updated-list-of-ada-compilers/10...
by conductr | 2025-07-16 14:58:56+00:00
This is why I mentioned I would do it privately if I owned property there. I hope this tragedy encourages some political action but I sure as hell wouldn’t count on it. Our politicians simply do not care.

I actually think the private option is ideal given how rural a lot of this area is. Public infrastructure makes more sense at camp sites and where RV parks and such. It will be difficult / maybe overkill to get a full coverage alert system and likely will hold ip any investment in such thing. As the plan for full coverage is likely 5x the cost of 90% coverage.

I’ve been in Texas all my 45 years and don’t even know what hope in politics looks like so in a weird way I’m used to it and it’s my status quo to not expect anything from them.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-07-16 14:59:10+00:00
Aside from political reasons stated in other answers: Since Article 5 doesn't apply. article 5 states: "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all [...]" Thist deliberately talks about "armed" attack. Cyber attacks and related aren't covered.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm
by vascocosta | 2025-07-16 15:00:09+00:00
This kind of approach is exactly why I believe we can have a nice experience over HTTP. Progressive content enhancement nails the perfect balance between too simple and too bloated. I personally believe client side scripting is important and ideally should be used sparingly. Your example illustrates a perfectly reasonable use case where JavaScript makes sense, yet still providing a scriptless alternative that solves the problem. Nice stuff.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-16 15:00:43+00:00
Also the semiconductor industry, and ultimately the Silicon Valley, had their origin in WWII, in the great effort for developing technologies for making germanium and silicon crystals with extremely low levels of impurities and defects, which were needed for diode detectors in radars.

The vacuum diode detectors used in radios before WWII did not work at the high frequencies required in radars. Most of the work for semiconductor technologies had been done at Bell Labs, which after the war used this for developing other semiconductor devices.
by buu700 | 2025-07-16 15:01:09+00:00
Okay. Well I'm not an "elite" or misrepresenting my experience with AI in any way. My perspective as a founder is that AI empowers entrepreneurs to launch and scale cheaply, thereby providing greater value to the public while disempowering venture capitalists as gatekeepers of the startup ecosystem. The fact that some rich people may become richer at the same time is incidental, and not a bad thing in and of itself.

As far as the industrial revolution, your take is ahistorical. We're clearly more prosperous now than we were before industrialization. Let's not forget that the pre-industrial American economy relied on literal enslavement of 15 - 20% of the population.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-16 15:01:15+00:00
> This is just a completely base level of understanding of LLMs. How do you predict the next token with superhuman accuracy? Really think about how that is possible. If you think it's just stochastic parroting you are ngmi.

Yes, thank-you, I do understand how LLMs work. They learn a lot of generative rules from the training data, and will apply them in flexible fashion according to the context patterns they have learnt. You said stochastic parroting, not me.

However, we're not discussing whether LLMs can be superhuman at tasks where they had the necessary training - we're discussing whether they are capable of creativity (and presumably not just the trivially obvious case of being able to apply their generative rules in any order - deductive closure, not stochastic parroting in the dumbest sense of that expression).
by korse | 2025-07-16 15:01:57+00:00
>There are so many in here who hate tech and even progress and growth.

I think you are confusing skeptics of currently fashionable development roadmaps for popular technology with luddites.

As an example, I am a strong proponent of efforts to establish a multi-planetary society and at the same time believe that the future of humanity should have as many humans 'in the loop' as possible. This makes the technology underlying self-driving vehicles beneficial but the push to automate everyday human transport anathema. Other examples are collaborative robotics versus black-box manufacturing technology or global/system wide communications networks. Collaborative robotics allow for advanced manufacturing but can allow humans to retain their mastery of a craft and keep a hand in the process, enhancing rather than replacing. Communication networks, indispensable as they are, need not be a vehicle for exploiting weaknesses in the human psyche to hijack the human experience.

Perhaps I speak only for myself but I think there are quite a few members of this forum who hold similar opinions despite having deep knowledge of the subject matter and appreciating the technology at the core of the 'cutting edge'.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-16 15:02:15+00:00
Can't the teachers/school system impose the necessary discipline? (in terms of encouraging/monitoring usage)

My kids had access to texts/resources which I only dreamed of when I was young (too much time reading Hermann Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_ which they seem drawn from):

- https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

- https://www.motionmountain.net/

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...
by dylan604 | 2025-07-16 15:02:28+00:00
How busy in life are you that we're concerning ourselves with nearest DNS? Are you browsing the internet like a high frequency stock trader? Seriously, in everyone's day to day, other than when these incidents happen, does someone notice a delay from resolving a domain name?

I get that in theory blah blah, but we now have choices in who gets to see all of our requests and the ISP will always lose out to the other losers in the list
by boston_clone | 2025-07-16 15:02:55+00:00
And people are disagreeing with you because it's not legal. From TFA:

"California police are prohibited from sharing data from automated license plate readers with out-of-state and federal agencies."

If license plate data was sent to ICE, that's a violation of the law. Sometimes it takes journalism to uncover illegal activities. Depending on how the consequences take place, more scrutiny or civic action may be needed.

But dismissing this as saying "nearly every US law enforcement agency does plate reading" is fatalistic, and in this case, ignorant of the legality.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-16 15:03:02+00:00
> We've just about maxed out domestic tax.

We really haven't. The effective tax rate on the wealthiest Americans has dropped from nearly 60% to about 20% since the 1960s. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...

> Already we're probably past the peak of the laffer curve.

The Laffer curve is a wildly simplistic concept that's widely disputed, and every practical test of it (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment) has demonstrated that it fails. It's the right's equivalent of "let's try Communism again!"
by QuiCasseRien | 2025-07-16 15:04:14+00:00
- i'm scripting at best the full setup of my servers (mostly Nixos and some debian).

- daily backup locale + remote (blackbaze with 60 readonly retention strategy, separated bucket by service)

- monthly offline backup

- a preprod server where my users can restore entiere environment for testing purpose (CI)

in case of full house fire, i can be back online in an working day.

PS: i have only some TBs of data so quite easy to do.
by osigurdson | 2025-07-16 15:04:48+00:00
Current battery life is better than it was on Windows. I know Windows is very good from this standpoint but things always degrade over time. That is my expectation with arch as well - good now but let's see how it is 6 months from now. That is always the real test. Regardless, my laptop is too small to run Windows + WSL so will probably stick with just running Linux.
by daneel_w | 2025-07-16 15:04:54+00:00
I'm implying that I'm convinced they are not storing statistics on (thus leaking) every queried hostname. By your very own admission, they clearly state that they perform statistics on a set of malicious domains provided by a third party, as part of their blocking program. Additionally they publish a "top 500 domains" list regularly. You're really having a go with the shoehorn if you want "secret domains, like for your work" (read: every distinct domain queried) to fit here.
by sebmellen | 2025-07-16 15:05:06+00:00
I had my first child at 24 on a shoestring budget in a 700 sq. ft. apartment and it has been completely manageable. Children are way less expensive than you might think (definitely cheaper than an adult) and if you’re creative you can find good quality, full-time daycare or childcare for $10-15k/yr.

Does this add extra work? Oh yes, absolutely it does. But while having children means you sacrifice certain things, they are an incredible gift and more than make up for the trouble they cause.

It’s appalling to me how heavily we gatekeep parenthood and building a family. There is an unbroken evolutionary thread of more than 4 billion years from the very first organism to you. Your ancestors all managed to do it and they were no smarter, more gifted, or more affluent than you are. Chances are they were younger than you when they started and in a far more perilous situation to boot.
by broken-kebab | 2025-07-16 15:05:31+00:00
It's popular opinion, but it's demonstrably wrong. In terms of procreation richer countries doesn't do better, richer communities doesn't do better, and while economic incentives may shift needle a little temporarily, so far no consistent effects have been shown with them. Since condoms/pills/abortion detached sexual intercourse from its original biological function, it's only ideals, and culture which make people to choose becoming parents. It's too big a part of life to be paid with money for if you simply don't want it.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-16 15:05:49+00:00
I hear this all around and I am myself running GNU/Linux almost all the time, but running games on Steam on my default OS, which is a Debian with KDE currently, that is more miss than hit. I even know someone who has almost the same hardware, also runs a GNU/Linux system and for them almost all games work using Proton. For me however they don't. I already tried proprietary graphics card drivers instead of the ones that come with the OS for amdgpu, HWE kernel, another distro, using Steam installer downloaded from website ... nothing seems to fix the issue. When I click on the big green "Play" button in Steam, for many times it loads for a moment, and the button turns into a blue "stop" button, but then just turns back into a green "play" button, never starting the game. Mind, some games work, like Stardew Valley for example. But I think those are mostly already made to work cross platform.

I have no idea what I can still try, and it annoys me, that for most games I still have to reboot into Windows to play them. I seem to have had more luck following guides for using WINE for specific games in the past, when I made games like StarCraft 2 work better than on Windows, than I have had with Steam and Proton so far.

So anecdote. It is not smooth sailing for everyone yet, unfortunately, and I don't know what the issue is.
by eigen | 2025-07-16 15:05:56+00:00
title says design circuit boards, but it looks to just be netlist generation which is used as input to an external layout tool. step 5 is to use kicad to do lay out.

https://atopile.io/atopile/quickstart#a-typical-workflow

A typical workflow

1. Sketch your circuit on paper.

2. Search https://packages.atopile.io and GitHub for pre-existing modules you need, and use ato install to install them.

3. Design a module and do its calculations using ato code.

4. Run ato build to compile your project, choose components to suit your design, and update your layout (PCB) file.

5. Use KiCAD to lay out any changes

6. Repeat steps 3-5 until you’re happy with your design.

7. When you’re done with your design, push your changes to your repo.

8. CI will automatically build and test your project, and generate the manufacturing files you need to order your PCBs.

9. Take these manufacturing files to your PCB manufacturer to get your PCBAs.
by riku_iki | 2025-07-16 15:06:28+00:00
> that a prospective $2B investor has access to more information about the company's plans than we do and that their investment is at least some indication that there is a real product in the pipeline.

there is a funnel of investors: say retirement account holders put money into some retirement fund, fund manager put money into some "innovation fund", "innovation fund" put money in VC fund. All middlemen get % cut, VC likely watch slides about some product roadmap, but they more interested in closing the deal, get % cut and move on.
by jajko | 2025-07-16 15:07:14+00:00
Typical folks cutting in front of me while I am barely at safe breaking distance from the car in front of me, on speeds > 100kmh. This is of course always in at least semi-dense traffic, and them immediately obscuring view further means I have less than second to react to any stronger breaking or I slam into them.

I honk them, then they often get aggressive that I dared to react to their perfectly cool maneuver that gave them those precious extra 5 seconds. Bloody a-holes. Had few almost-collisions even this year due to too aggressive drivers riding too close, some were literally car in front of us or next one behind. Keep your distance, I can't emphasize this enough.
by jacobr1 | 2025-07-16 15:07:37+00:00
Good point. Look at patents. Few are truly novel in some exotic sense of "the whole idea is something never seen before." Most likely it is a combination of known factors applied in a new way, or incremental development improving on known techniques. In a banal sense, most LLM content generated is novel, in that the specific paragraphs might be unique combinations of words, even if the ideas are just slightly rearranged regurgitations.

So I strongly agree that, especially when are talking about the bulk of human discovery and invention, the incrementalism will be increasingly in striking distance of human/AI collaboration. Attribution of the novelty in these cases is going to be unclear, when the task is, simplified something like, "search for combinations of things, in this problem domain, that do the task better than some benchmark" be that drug discovery, maths, ai itself or whatever.
by dmix | 2025-07-16 15:07:38+00:00
Here is a translated version of the telegram message posted by the hacking team:

> LLC “Gaskar Integration” (Gaskar Group)—one of the largest UAV manufacturers in Russia—has just been penetrated right down to the tonsils in the course of demilitarization and denazification.

> VO Team, together with the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (https://t.me/UCAgroup) and another very well‑known organization whose mere mention makes the vatniks’ bottle‑openings burst (https://gur.gov.ua/), carried out large‑scale operations: we seized all of Gaskar Group’s network and server infrastructure, gathered valuable data on their current and prospective UAVs, destroyed that data, and knocked the entire infrastructure offline.

> By the way, from the information we obtained, the PRC is helping Gaskar Group with production and staff training. China transferred technology for the newest UAVs—technology that is now in our hands .

> VO Team focused on wiping out the production complex’s infrastructure. On‑site we erased more than 250 hosts (4 ESXi servers, 46 virtual servers, 200+ workstations) and bricked about 20 MikroTik devices. In total we destroyed 47 TB of valuable data at Gaskar Group—including 10 TB of backups—and disabled all production and auxiliary systems.

> The scum at Gaskar Group have the blood of hundreds of Ukrainian children, women, and elderly on their hands. That’s why we went after this target with special zeal. We now possess the lists of ALL employees, their home addresses, information about their family members, and much more… We’re in your home computers and phones—we’re everywhere . Not a single bastard from Gaskar Group will escape responsibility!

> The sword of Damocles already hangs by a thin thread over your heads. It’s too late to spew excuses like “we’re apolitical” or “we were just making money”….

> The whole world can see that the so‑called Russian Federation has strategically lost everything. Defeat and collapse of that unwashed entity are only a matter of time. VO Team is collecting data on everyone involved in Putin’s criminal war—the deaths of our children, mothers, and all Ukrainians. Retribution is inevitable and is drawing near!
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-16 15:08:09+00:00
Keep in mind that low latency is a different goal than reliability. If you want the lowest-latency, the anycast address of a big company will often win out, because they've spent a couple million to get those numbers. If you want most reliable, then the closest hop to you should be the most reliable (there's no accounting for poor sysadmin'ing), which is often the ISP, but sometimes not.

If you run your own recursive DNS server (I keep forgetting to use the right term) on a local network, you can hit the root servers directly, which makes that the most reliable possible DNS resolver. Yes you might get more cache misses initially but I highly doubt you'd notice. (note: querying the root nameservers is bad netiquette; you should always cache queries to them for at least 5 minutes, and always use DNS resolvers to cache locally)
by xhkkffbf | 2025-07-16 15:08:47+00:00
It's true that eBay did well during her tenure. And it's also true that she was a better grownup than the people running it before. But she also said that a monkey could drive the train. Would someone else have done better? Could a monkey have delivered the same results? We'll never know, but the experience at HP doesn't validate her as a business genius.
by threetonesun | 2025-07-16 15:09:03+00:00
I'm mostly a Mac user but I tested Windows 11 versus Bazzite in VMs in my Unraid server, and the Windows 11 install was a nightmare to then be left with a nightmare UI and a bundle of GPU driver issues, meanwhile Bazzite took two clicks and worked.

Obviously there are very cutting edge drivers you can't get on Linux, and Nvidia support is questionable, and some anti-cheat doesn't work, etc, but if you mostly play games released in [current year - a few] on hardware released [current year - a few] it's really a much more enjoyable experience.
by ttoinou | 2025-07-16 15:09:15+00:00
Do the people who style their app actually use their app on a daily basis for long amount of time ? It seems to me the basic design of app are often the best for eye fatigue, frequent usage, recognizing which information is where fast, contrast, low margin / good usage of space etc. The current design of Thunderbird is not pretty, but it's effective. I used Thunderbird everyday for 10+ years with 100k+ emails in 10+ email boxes, never once did I think about changing the design
Ask HN: What's your 2025 code review workflow? GitHub UI feels ancient
by prakash09 | 2025-07-16 15:09:20+00:00
The GitHub web UI for PRs is painfully slow and clunky. I'm looking for better ways to handle code reviews in 2025—ideally with AI assistance, keyboard shortcuts, and minimal browser time. What tools are you actually using? CLI workflows with gh? IDE extensions? Desktop apps? AI-powered review tools? I'm willing to pay for something that genuinely saves time. Just want to review code faster and smarter without fighting GitHub's interface. What's working for you?
by stego-tech | 2025-07-16 15:09:38+00:00
It’s really not, though; it’s just the proverbial relief crew in a later inning of the same ball game. The players have been shuffled around or replaced, but look at the tenures of some of the players in question and you can draw a pretty direct line all the way back.

It’s not minimizing or trivializing the harms of today by pointing out their origins in the past; rather, it’s acknowledging this has been a long-term goal of those in power for decades, and it’ll take decades of continued, organized change to improve things.

There are no easy solutions or quick wins here. It’s a long game, always has been and always will be. More people need to understand that