MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-07-29 02:52:22+00:00
If someone gets beaten up and left in the street, and, consequently, their wallet is laying right there beside their unconscious body, is it OK for you to take their wallet?

I mean, you can't pretend the wallet isn't right there, for everyone to see, just begging for someone to take it? This is why beatdowns are so wrong? The person who takes the wallet is as much a victim as anyone? Blame society?
by n8henrie | 2025-07-29 02:52:23+00:00
What? 25%? Isn't rabies in dogs lethal in fairly short order (like in humans)?

I'm pretty sure the rural county in which I work hasn't seen rabies in a dog since like 1986.

I work in an emergency room (frequently caring for dog bites) in an area with numerous packs of strays. Dog rabies is always a concern, but I've never seen a confirmed case.
by vessenes | 2025-07-29 02:52:53+00:00
Careful about your labels! I went to brown in the late 90s and considered a cs degree before moving to math.

Even then among academic programs brown was considered a bit low brow in that it spent a fair amount of time on software and systems engineering: this was all part of the cs department, but it wasn’t science per se.

Today most cs programs are in fact software engineering programs; well and good, but they give themselves the same name as the original meaning which was, while engaged in engineering, more theoretical.

I can think of so many counter examples to what I just wrote I’m sort of excited for the comments, but tldr: in the late 90s, if you wanted engineering skills you hired MIT, Caltech, not Harvard. (Stanford alums didn’t move east and even then were not generally hirable for cash)

I’ll note my current perspective is probably aligned with your complaint - we need more engineers and quality engineers than we do theoretical cs undergrads by at least two orders of magnitude. The best schools taught their engineers theory, and I think that goes with the history of the discipline - most of the greats were tinkerers at least, more usually engaged in real engineering work while working on theory. The other way: getting theorists to become great coders - seems less common.

And in fact my era at brown produced a number of influential engineering folks like brian cantrill, so despite its non exalted status, it did the world some good!
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-29 02:53:18+00:00
Interesting theory but anecdotally doesn't fit with my experience.

The most compliant, least critical, and laziest thinkers in my acquaintance are all squarely "anti-institutional" now.

> Alt-media arose in maybe the last 10 years. Most of these anti-vaxxers were fully baked (intellectually) by then

This isn't true. There was definitely a crunchy left-wing anti-institutional anti-vax cohort that's very old, but the modern energy behind the movement is not from this group. And alt-media is much older than you give it credit for. Rush Limbaugh premiered in 1988. Alex Jones' InfoWars was founded in 1999.
by Herring | 2025-07-29 02:53:40+00:00
> Home ownership and the rest of the American dream seem out of reach for many people, and there’s very little safety net available when it comes to healthcare expenses, retirement, or just bad luck.

I empathize with the author, I really do, but you can't care about someone more than they care about themselves. If anyone has had the supremely unpleasant experience of trying to get loved ones to work out, they know. The last time someone (democrats) tried to tackle healthcare, they lost scores of seats all down the ballot.

https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/under-obama-democ...
by VonTum | 2025-07-29 02:53:59+00:00
Yup, HLS is ridiculously fickle in that regard. In our lab we had the case that swapping out a C-style array T[] for a C++ std::array 10x-ed our resource consumption with no explanation.

And also the general problem of scribing resource use to the different components isn't easy, because thz way control flow is structured heavily alters that

Of course, that's what I'm trying to fix with SUS :p
by YZF | 2025-07-29 02:54:00+00:00
I'll give you my honest opinion here and a criticism of Israeli government all at once. Israel should have moved the Palestinians civilians into Israel proper, e.g. the Negev. It should have created refugee camps for them there and provided them with all the support/aid while it went after Hamas. They'd be able to filter the people going in, make them surrender their weapons etc. No tunnels, no weapons caches, etc.

It's a very tough one to swallow for Israelis. I'm also not positive it would have worked. But I think it would be worth a try.

I think in the beginning of the war there was some thought of Egypt playing that role but it was pretty clear that wasn't going to happen.

The problem is throughout the war Israel had no appetite/desire to own the problem of Gazan civilians. Israel intentionally left that part to Hamas and the UN and at no time during this conflict has controlled any piece of land with Palestinian civilians.
by lowlystatsguy | 2025-07-29 02:54:59+00:00
I notice more and more product manager responsibilities being foisted upon engineers because everyone thinks we need a corporate kool aid mustache of “impact.” Instead, I think we should return to the idea that engineers are craftsmen. They care about doing good work and honing their craft. It is a leaders job to align the goals of the business annd the craftsmen. Unfortunately, our capitalistic society does not have a reward function that aligns with the craftsman’s, in general.

I think AI has poisoned the waters here a bit. It’s brought a fear of relying on AI tools and losing pure skill versus raw productivity. Business folks used to be fussy about timelines, but now they feel even more empowered to push back because AI has brought code to their level. If AI can write code that fast, why can’t you?

The article reads like if someone in the C suite was trying to tell me how to work who has no idea what actually goes on in my day-to-day or willfully ignores my pleas for better system stability and security in lieu of only taking the highest “impact” work (I.e. money). It’s just a greedy algorithm: almost always guaranteed to be suboptimal, but any effort to chart a different, more measured approach is seen by leaders as perfectionistic or even sabotage.

I’m not jaded; you’re jaded.
by dang | 2025-07-29 02:55:32+00:00
Other users have already made some good replies, but I want to add that this is an example of what I wrote about in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851 (one's feeling of good faith decreases as the distance between someone else's opinion and one's own increases). The community is much bigger than people assume it is, and therefore contains a much wider range of backgrounds and views than people assume it ought to.

I believe this is the main factor that tricks readers into assuming that (legit) comments and votes on a story must be manipulated. It's hard to fathom how anyone could in good faith hold views so different from one's own, views that seem not just obviously wrong but monstrous.
by bix6 | 2025-07-29 02:55:43+00:00
If you just want experience then intern for free due to the cost issue addaon mentioned. Otherwise why not try and start your own business with your skills? I think it’ll be hard for you to get a paid gig without some sort of referral especially while you’re under 18.

Could you travel to a nearby city that is bigger and get a referral there?

You should also think about your pitch. What value can you provide someone? Why should they take a chance on you? Etc.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-29 02:56:05+00:00
There’s a case that it was darker than that. The IDF is arguably the best army of its type in the world.

Yet the level of incompetence demonstrated when Hamas took the hostages was beyond incompetence. A retired general hopped in his car and rounded up a bunch of troops to extract his daughter. No officers were present in the area.

It seems weird that a military that had 3D mapping and monitoring of a region allowing it to detect and target concealed Hezbollah artillery in buildings somehow was caught flat footed. It’s weirder that there hasn’t been any commentary about this in an age where every decision made is analyzed to death.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-07-29 02:56:33+00:00
And thank goodness we don't teach kubectl and never will.

Knowledge at the level of kubectl is worthless to the vast majority of grads. It's also extremely time-limited. In 5 years everything will have moved on.

Web apps? What fraction of our grads build web apps? How much will the technology for doing so change in 5 years? 10 years?

Universities are not vocational schools. We teach people to think. Then they learn what the details are on the job. This has always been the role of universities.

If you want something else, go to a coding bootcamp.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 02:56:44+00:00
There is no moral obligation, only the terms and conditions. That's your actual obligation.

There's only one person who made a mistake here - Anthropic. They purposefully make their terms and conditions bad, and then when people played by the contract they set forth, they lost money. It's calling a bluff.

Anthropic purposefully priced this far too aggressively to undercut their competitors. Companies with stupid amounts of investor capital do that all the time. They flew too close to the sun.

You can't create a contract, have all the power in the world to rig the contract in your favor, and then complain about said contract. Everyone was following the rules. The problem was the rules were stupid.

To be more specific - abuse requires an exercise of power. End-users have no power at all. They have literally zero leverage over the contract and they have no power to negotiate. They can't abuse anything, they're too weak.
by bsder | 2025-07-29 02:57:03+00:00
> GenX and millennials were marinated in anti-establishment, anti-institution rhetoric growing up.

Would that were true and they were fighting against the system right now...

They were marinated in "Both sides are bad(tm)! The System(tm) is bad. You can protest by dropping out of the system!"

Except that ... doesn't work. "Dropping out of the system" instead advantages both the status quo and those who do actually muster up the energy to fight.

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -- John Philpot Curran, 1790
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-29 02:57:18+00:00
Well being a good engineer doesn’t mean “Jack shit” if you’re homeless and hungry because no one will hire you to exchange money for labor to support your addictions to food and shelter.

If I have to explain everything in detail and check behind your work as a junior dev snd wait for you to get up to speed, I might as well just use ChatGPT.

If I do need a perdón, why would I hire a junior engineer when I can just recruit an underpaid mid level developer more whose already proven himself and gotten up to speed especially if I can hire someone cheaply living in MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska who is willing to work for less than I made over a decade ago?
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-07-29 02:58:25+00:00
> The problem is developers are now DevOps, QA, PMs, Customer Support, and everything else.

As long as the hour expectations are reasonable I actually like this. This teaches you so many more skills than being pigeon-holed into software engineering. Granted, I like the idea of one day founding a business so I may need to be able to do all of these rolls some day.
by jibal | 2025-07-29 02:58:31+00:00
Totally false things are clear to you? Ah well.

I'm not hating on anyone, fundamentally dishonest person.

P.S. I helped develop the ARPANET and my name is mentioned in RFC 57.

P.P.S. My comment included the Wikipedia link ... so much for having something useful to add ... I did, you apparently don't. The whole idea that asking HN--a form of social media with all of its problems--is asking experts but reading Wikipedia (not a "conventional communication channel")--written/curated/edited by experts isn't is completely nuts.
by mattkrause | 2025-07-29 02:58:35+00:00
For me, the difference between ration and hoard is the uhh…rationality of the plan.

Rationing suggests a deliberate, calculated plan: we’ll eat this much at these particular times so our food lasts that long. Hoard seems more ad hoc and fear-driven: better keep yet another beat-up VGA cable, just in case.
by all2 | 2025-07-29 02:58:44+00:00
> What happened was that ordinary people heard about the paper

I've never heard of this paper, but I am aware of the judicial capture that pharma companies manage to get for themselves. A whole extra judicial organization to handle vaxx related damages.

That's why I don't trust them. Amongst other things (burgers for vaxxes is an odd choice, speaking charitably).
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-29 02:59:24+00:00
True, consensuality is difficult to ensure if you're not good at reading the signs. Especially with autism. It is deeply important though. I frequent sexually tinted parties and we have security, safe zones and coloured armbands (though these don't replace explicit consent, just an interest to be asked for it in the first place).

I don't think it's specially a male issue to worry about this because some of my female friends mention being worried about this too. But because of the role models still prevalent even in progressive communities they don't have to do the approaching so much so it's less of a problem for them.

I also think this is a very specific autism/adhd thing. I see this mostly in neurodivergent friends. And avoidant attachment is more of an upbringing thing (physically or emotionally absent partners). It doesn't really have anything to do with porn.

I don't care about stable marriages or birth rates though. I'm happy to be polyamorous. A lot happier than before I knew it existed. Having a traditional family would be a prison for me and I've always felt that way. The religious community in particular advocates this as the only moral way but it isn't. In fact my poly friends are much nicer and considerate people than my religious friends.

The human population is way too big anyway. If we had half or a third of the population we'd have far less problems. Environmental pollution, housing, fighting over scarce resources leading to wars. I'm proud not contributing to this by not having kids.
by jibal | 2025-07-29 03:00:23+00:00
I didn't say anything about what you're allowed to do.

"this is more informative"

As someone who was on usenet before it was even called that, I can authoritatively say that it isn't. I can tell you that many of the claims here are false ... e.g., someone claimed that the name "usenet" came from news organizations in 1993/1994, but in fact the name was voted on at a 1982 USENIX conference (and I was present and voted).
by voxl | 2025-07-29 03:00:42+00:00
Why do you think these two things are connected? Working out is a personal choice that should have zero barring on how we care for and help one another. For example, someone shouldn't have less access to healthcare because they don't or didn't work out.

Democrats losing support can be explained by several reasons that have nothing to do with tackling healthcare. It can be the fact that it ended up being a weak half measure in comparison to the strong desire for a universal healthcare system. Or completely unrelated to healthcare altogether, like the Hilary Clinton scandal fiascos.
by deterministic | 2025-07-29 03:01:02+00:00
I know quite a few programming languages well enough to write production software using them. It didn't take long to learn.

The hardest to learn for me was Haskell. Because of how different the thinking behind the language is. But it was great to learn even though I don't use it daily.

I highly recommend learning different programming languages. It's a great way to get exposed to different ways of thinking about how software should be developed.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-07-29 03:01:08+00:00
Right, except that all credible reports from the US government and senior Israeli military officials indicate there was never any large diversion of UN aid to Hamas. It was just a fog-of-war story made up by the Israeli government as a supposedly plausible reason to hermetically seal Gaza and prevent millions of civilians from receiving food.

Sources:

NYT: No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

https://archive.is/1bllc

Reuters: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-fou...
by jongjong | 2025-07-29 03:02:26+00:00
I was in relatively early in the web as a developer, I was in early on the crypto movement, also as a developer.

These technologies didn't fix the problems. There is too much regulation, you can't do anything without a license. The only solutions are political, not technological.

Everything feels like a scam within a scam. I feel dizzy just thinking about it. I'm completely demoralised. Everything related to career feels pointless, sisyphean because of the bureaucracy and monopolization. Any work that pays well is useless at best, harmful at worst. It's either illegal or impossible to do anything which might provide value to people. Even if all the hurdles could be removed, I'm not even sure I want to contribute... For whose benefit? And I feel totally disconnected from the broader society around me.

I basically completely checked out career-wise. I'm good at faking though so I just fake it. I just started bullshitting my way through life. I hate it but everyone is just eating it up and loving it. What can I do? Just give the people more of what they want I guess. Value creation doesn't pay, bullshitting pays... People are living a lie and they love it when you build on top of it. If you just say the right words, they will deny their own eyes; this is what COVID taught me and I can see this in my day-to-day life. It's depressing, they are good people, that's why they assume good faith. I was just like them before, living in a bubble, I understand, I'm no better than them, just less fortunate. If they saw what I saw, they would probably do what I do. Many would do worse.

I feel like I need therapy from being this way. I have bills to pay though. I think I did everything approximately right but I've been ridiculously unlucky. I was operating on limited info and incorrect assumptions. Now, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.

It's illegal to be homeless in my country. It's illegal to live in a tent on 'your own' property, you are not allowed to build your own house without some expensive license and approvals... You can't do shit within your means. All the things which seemed unimportant to me before are now the centre of my life and on that plane of existence, I see scams all around.
by rany_ | 2025-07-29 03:03:11+00:00
This is exactly why the whole "vaccine causes autism" got started. We need to improve science literacy before we could say things like that to the general public.

When a layperson hears this, they'll think that there's a small but possible chance that vaccines do cause autism; when what the scientist means to say is that "it's highly unlikely that vaccines cause autism."
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 03:03:28+00:00
IMO abuse requires an exercise of power. End-users have no power - they hold zero leverage over the contract, and they have zero room to negotiate. It's a fully take-it-or-leave-it deal, and pray they do not alter the deal further.

Because of that, IMO end-users can't abuse the contract, no matter how hard they try. It's not on them to do that, because they have zero control over the contract. It's a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too problem.

Anthropic simultaneously retains complete control of the contract, but they want to "outsource" responsibility for how it's used to their end-users. No... it's either one or the other. Either you're in complete control and therefore hold complete accountability, or you share accountability.
by waterlaw | 2025-07-29 03:04:02+00:00
There are numerous clips of Rabbis openly promoting the extermination of Palestinians.

They use the story of Amalek from the Torah.

One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when you kill the first child it breaks your heart [...] then you start to enjoy it."

_Many_ Rabbis are demanding that animals, children, women and unarmed males be "erased." IDF soldiers are bragging about killing and raping civilians on social media. One IDF soldier was complaining he hasn't shot any children under 12 yet.

Netanyahu is a moderate. He's not an "extremist."
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-29 03:06:10+00:00
From Tao's post, red team is characterized this way

> In my own personal experiments with AI, for instance, I have found it to be useful for providing additional feedback on some proposed text, argument, code, or slides that I have generated (including this current text).

In AlphaEvolve, different scoring mechanisms are discussed. One is evaluation of a fixed function. Another is evaluation by an LLM. In either case, the LLM takes the score as information and provides feedback on the proposed program, argument, code, etc.

An example is given in the paper

> The current model uses a simple ResNet architecture with only three ResNet blocks. We can improve its performance by increasing the model capacity and adding regularization. This will allow the model to learn more complex features and generalize better to unseen data. We also add weight decay to the optimizer to further regularize the model and prevent overfitting. AdamW is generally a better choice than Adam, especially with weight decay.

It then also generates code, which is something he considers blue team.

More generally, using AI as blue team and red team is conceptually similar to a kind of actor/critic algorithm
by jjice | 2025-07-29 03:06:48+00:00
Prisma has shown me that anything is possible with an ORM. I think they may have changed this now, but at least within the last year, distincts were done IN MEMORY.

They had a reason, an I'm sure it had some merit, but we found this out while tracking down an OOM. On the bright side, my co worker and I got a good joke to bring up on occasion out of it.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-29 03:07:51+00:00
"which is if there’s no compelling evidence, it’s safe to say it doesn’t happen."

I call BS.

Until there was compelling evidence that antidepressants cause suicidal ideation it's safe to say it doesn't

Until there was compelling evidence that contaminated water causes cholera it's safe to say it doesn't

Until there was compelling evidence that dirty hands cause maternal death it's safe to say it doesn't

Until there was compelling evidence that lack of sunlight causes neo-natal jaundice it's safe to say it doesn't

These examples span centuries, including the 21st, that were vigorously rejected by experts
by dang | 2025-07-29 03:08:07+00:00
WTF? Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299743 and the fact that you've done this before with other accounts, I've seen enough to ban this one.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by zoratu | 2025-07-29 03:09:07+00:00
Israel is a Jewish state, but it's also a safe harbor for minorities. It is the only place in the Middle East where you can be openly gay or trans and not be killed for it (or Druze, as it turns out).

Even for Israelis that are against the current government and want to see equal rights for all peoples in the Middle East, there is an abundance of evidence to show that you don't get that without Israel.