MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AbhinavX | 2025-07-30 16:20:10+00:00
the way it is integrated (its explained more in the docs) is by installing the python/typescript sdk and writing "lai.init()" at the top of your code. Then we capture all LLM calls and tools with integrated providers (similar to LLM ops platforms). If you want to manually add more information you can add decorators, lai.create_step/create_event "logs", etc.

We then take all this information you give us and try to transform it i.e group together similar nodes, run an agent to evaluate a session, or to find root cause of a session failure in the backend.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-30 16:20:10+00:00
> That culture ended quickly pretty around 2012-15, but I never figured out why.

The learn to code movement, the plethora of bootcamps promising to make you "job ready", and how it became more widespread knowledge that software development was a "quick" way to a 6 figure+ salary. It's around that time it spread beyond just the nerds and became the hot new easy money career, or at least people thought at the time.

2008 played a role as well. People saw that tech was relatively resilient, and one of the only industries accelerating after the crisis. After 2008, chosen majors at universities saw a drastic change as well from humanities and arts into more job-focused degrees, CS being the major one.

Still happening today, although the job market isn't what it used to be, tech is still one of the very few fields where someone can quickly earn 6+ figures without a PhD.

Honestly if salaries would have kept up in other fields, we probably would not have seen as many people rushing to software development as a safe haven from economic instability.
by surgical_fire | 2025-07-30 16:20:20+00:00
If that's your metric, then the golden age never ended, and we are still in the upward trend.

There were never as many tools, programming languages, IDEs, framework, services and tools available for programming. And with the advancement in technology, even a pretty old laptop is still powerful enough to run it all. You now even gave LLMs that are interesting (even if very flawed) code assistants.

If anything, the golden age of programming is a tomorrow that is always postponed another day.
by krapp | 2025-07-30 16:20:23+00:00
I would argue that the "Golden Age of Programming" came about due to the existence of Javascript and the ubiquity of the web, introducing the masses to a simple, easy to use development and distribution environment. Also that brief time when free web hosts like Tripod offered CGI access and scripting.

The rise and fall of programming as a job in Silicon Valley is a separate but related phenomenon. A gold rush, but not a golden age.

To that end, when corporate interests commoditized the web and everything became too complex and javascript got treated as bytecode and required a package manager and toolchain, the golden age was absolutely killed by big tech.
by maxdo | 2025-07-30 16:20:33+00:00
It’s a bit naïve—almost a textbook neo-western, ego-centric mindset—where everything is attributed to a brilliant personality, and all setbacks are blamed on some mysterious villains.

But in reality, market forces explain it more cleanly—think corporate priorities and shifting strategies, not just “evil managers.”

It’s simpler than it seems. In the past, growing a tech company meant building more products and features, which required more people. That’s how you scaled.

Now, in the AI era, growth often means more GPUs and a smaller, highly skilled team solving business problems.

The pattern of investment has shifted. It’s not about corporate greed—it’s about evolving models of efficiency.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-30 16:20:49+00:00
"Based on your response, you are plenty sure."

I legitimately wasn't sure at first. I had to look up many of the recent examples to assume who they were talking about.

"The key phrase here is "in response to TX" which proves it is not literally the same thing. Just like if someone hits you in the face and you respond by hitting back, it is called self-defense and is treated differently than assault or battery."

What you are overlooking is proportionality and continuing threat. Calling on additional states to do this is like telling someone to keep hitting someone after a single punch, which would be an escalation and result in charges in many cases. Frankly, it's a dumb comparison because doing something illegal just because someone else did it doesn't absolve you of any illegality and doesnt directly negate any harms from the first occurrence, only leading to the creation of additional harms in other states.

"Threatening to do something is different than doing it and demanding payments."

True. There can be other examples of both parties pulling funding for programs and organizations they don't like.

"Going back 80 years to find your "counter argument" kind of proves my point."

Or proves your cognitive bias.

"It's in Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation has spoken about it plenty."

Wasn't your prior argument that threats and actually doing it are two different things? Wouldn't that make this a moot point until it occurs? Sounds like this plan is basically just withholding federal funds if the states or cities don't comply with conditions. The feds do this with highways funds, schools funds, etc. Again, not really news if you've been paying attention.

"This explains how Hegseth signed the deal with Qatar that allows him to keep a $400 million free plane even after his Presidency."

It's going to the presidential library foundation. He might be able to use it, but he can't personally own it. Guess where ethe other gifts go? That's right, to the presidential libraries through the national archives. You might want to look into his other politicians use their charities, such as the Clintons.

You're trying really hard to play a game of 'gotcha', but you just aren't looking at all the facts or examining your own biases.
by nerptastic | 2025-07-30 16:20:53+00:00
I used to handle email development for an accounting firm. HTML in emails is truly dark magic. Working with marketers was soul-sucking, and even further - performing a duty that people actively distrust / hate was an eye-opening realization. I am so glad to be away from that side of things. Email was never meant to house full-blown advertisements…

However, it’s worth noting the ingenuity surrounding the data. Solid article, and a lot of light bulbs went off over the years to get this tech to where it is today. Even though the tech is a black pit of despair.
by js8 | 2025-07-30 16:21:07+00:00
Honestly, I wouldn't ask Israelis or Palestinians for their opinion. I think the OSN should mandate and using peace forces:

- Establish a new, transitional government of Israel/Palestine, nominated by the UN

- Give citizenship to every Israeli and Palestinian for the whole territory

- Mandate a 50/50 ethnic quotas system in the military, police, judiciary and all government institutions, and minimum 30% ethnic quotas in every other employer

- Create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission, modeled after JAR; it would figure out what reparations are needed to each citizen

- Mandate both hebrew and arabic as official languages, and teach every kid both in school

- Once things would settle down, after 1-2 years, run a new elections but with constitutional provisions (5-10 years) against dismantling the quotas

Heck, even US could do this unilaterally (just like British did), if they wanted to pursue human rights.
Ask HN: Is there a language that is simple and empowers developer productivity?
by akkad33 | 2025-07-30 16:21:28+00:00
I think many languages tried to be "simple", but in the process they also handicapped developers by removing useful features like generics and operator overloading. I'm thinking Java, Go, etc. Is there a language that actually is simple, but also is expressive while also remaining correct, with a reliable type system with no holes? I would not say Rust, D etc are simple, even though they allow enormous flexibility
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 16:21:33+00:00
Sales is unique because the monetary benefit to the company is mostly objective: If someone closes a $10 million sales contract, that becomes $10 million in revenue.

If a team of developers work together to fix a bug, how would you calculate the revenue value of the bug and how would you distribute that to the team that solved it? Technically the value of a bug is negative because it costs the company, so do you subtract that from the pay of the engineers he worked on it? If 5 people implement a feature that uses a library developed by 5 other people, which was built on the platform team's infrastructure, how do you divide up the commission? It doesn't work.
by Imanari | 2025-07-30 16:21:50+00:00
> This all started for me about three years ago, when I left a Google review for a doctor saying I felt discriminated against. Shortly after, I got slapped with a legal threat demanding €40,000 in damages. I ended up settling and paying €1,000 in legal fees just to avoid the nightmare of going to court.

They can force you to court over a google review?!
by falcor84 | 2025-07-30 16:21:53+00:00
It says "Ranked Top 1 on GAIA Benchmark", but I don't see it anywhere on https://huggingface.co/spaces/gaia-benchmark/leaderboard , what am I missing?

EDIT: Also, almost every positive comment here is by a user with 1 karma - what's up with this?
by SamBam | 2025-07-30 16:22:18+00:00
Plants respire oxygen continually, day and night. It's a myth that they only respire at night.

Like every other organism except for anaerobes (mostly microbes, some fungi) they need oxygen in order to burn fuel for cellular processes. Plant cells are doing things day and night.

The origin of the myth is simply that they produce more oxygen via photosynthesis than they respire, and so are net producers of oxygen during the day.
by throwanem | 2025-07-30 16:22:22+00:00
There's no depth limit, it's just that the reply link takes a few minutes to show up at depth. You can always reply from the comment view (click the timestamp) until the reply window (iirc 14 days) has closed. I don't care about Candid9; as I said, there's no place for it in anything I do. If it matters to you to pitch effectively to street photographers, I assume you would want to find out what we care about. If not, why pitch us at all? Unfortunately for me, it's too goddamned hot right now to go outside and live, and I'm bored of doing house chores. Good luck.
by forty | 2025-07-30 16:23:00+00:00
Keep in mind that many mosquito species don't fly far too far from where they are born (in particular the very annoying tiger mosquito does'nt fly more than 100m) so treating your own garden might somewhat be effective (depending of housing density where you live).

treating your own garden means not leaving stagnant waters (including in water pots etc). then you can consider trap. also try to convince your close neighbours to do the same.
by henrydark | 2025-07-30 16:23:03+00:00
Dask for python satisfies exactly these requirements, just in the python ecosystem. A pattern I have been using at multiple workplaces for the last decade was to start a dask cluster (maybe 10 years ago I would start an ipyparallel cluster) on any node that does computation, then as I needed I would spin new nodes and connect them. This gives dynamic infinite scalability, with almost no overhead or even code debt - the dask interfaces are great even without using distributed computing. When I wasn't allowed to use containers, I would sneakily add code to other machines to join my dask clusters. I would connect any and all computing devices. One company pushed us to use databricks and spark, and I never got it - why would we commit to a cluster size before we started a computation?
by pphysch | 2025-07-30 16:23:24+00:00
> Why does X do evil things?

What is happening is definitely "evil" in its purest form, but there are many contributing explanations that don't rely on circular reasoning.

- long-term geopolitical goals of "the West" in the middle east

- a culture defined by a noxious combination of victim complex + ethnoreligious superiority

- a society pampered by foreign financial and military aid (not having to stand on its own)

- a long history of regional violence
by kridsdale1 | 2025-07-30 16:23:51+00:00
I’m already getting a lot of (subjective) benefit from doing what I can with supplements that target each phase of the Krebs cycle’s bottlenecks, and glutathione production to delay ROS damage (which this paper finger-points at). My mental endurance to do things like program and handle corporate politics lasts hours longer on days when I do this.

Next I need to get a lot better cardio endurance but I have some pulmonary problems to deal with.
by matt_opmistro | 2025-07-30 16:23:53+00:00
At least you've got the building + pivoting down!

Looking back, how do you think you did on the marketing/sales front? I don't mean the results of the efforts but I mean the input front.

Curious if those pivots were caused because the problem addressed wasn't painful enough, the solutions didn't address that pain well enough, or if it was simply distribution.

If the former two, I imagine it's only a matter of time until you strike gold. But if it's the final third, there's a chance one of the 17 could have worked out well.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-30 16:23:57+00:00
> israel is a european settler colony created and founded by europeans and settled by europeans

Speaking as someone who has heritage in a former European colony, this reductive framing strikes me as ringing closer to the remote oversimplifications Sykes and Picot engaged in than anything those on the ground would endorse.

American political science is obsessed with settler colonialism. Herego, every conflict distills through that lens.

Are there elements of this conflict that mirror that dynamic? Sure. Is it a useful model for making predictions and policy for the people on the ground? No. Will that impact the profitability of repeating it on social media? Probably not.
by mindslight | 2025-07-30 16:25:29+00:00
Spot on. I read the article wondering when they were going to describe what specifically failed or got stuck. Instead it's just a vague implication that such redesigns must have been unnecessary, but never saying exactly why such redesigns were being done. What/who is the project currently waiting on? It's never specified.

In light of that, maybe a better description of the problem is more the absence of responsibility/accountability (for both the proponent and the reviewers, although it's not indicated which is dropping the ball here) rather than the processes/regulations themselves.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-07-30 16:25:37+00:00
Are you a troll? Why do you keep willfully misrepresenting or twisting what others are saying into something slightly different?

My point, that from the 1950s through the 2010s, no one in the US or Western Europe has been presented facts from both sides, and seeking out facts from the "wrong" side would result in social, financial, and possible criminal penalties, was incredibly clearly stated.

Because of the way you keep twisting others' words, it seems pretty safe to assume you would side with the fascist religious ethnostate that's been committing a genocide for decades with the financing and approval of the US and EU state, military, financial, media, and educational apparatuses.

People who oppose fascism don't communicate the way you have communicated in this thread.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-30 16:25:41+00:00
> USA continues to ignore the plight of Palestinians and continues to fund and arm the regime that kills them

False monolith. To the extent there is a single foreign policy issue dominating the American public consciousness, it’s Gaza.

Palestinian lives are not being ignored. There isn’t universal compassion for them. But the average American has more developed views on this topic than for any comparable conflict around the world.
by rtpg | 2025-07-30 16:25:59+00:00
200k a year. In US dollars. American dollars.

Now you have families, debt, etc. There are things. Minimum expectations for family etc. But come on! It’s not poverty wages!

“I am willing to take a pay cut for a thing that I’m passionate about” is such a normal thing that everyone serious I know in this industry says. Or like… even just ethical choices to leave money on the table (there’s a reason online casinos pay their software engineers so much!). Not everyone makes the choice (and I get people saying no) and but in a sense I gotta imagine it’s part of the calculus for making it work. “We won’t have to pay people half a mil in total comp like meta has to, because the mission is more straightforward”. I feel like an O&F ep mentioning someone from intel expecting _triple_ the comp. 600k!

And like… people saying it’s not enough and talking about equity. You’re not paying rent with equity!

Signed: a guy who was at a small startup and who would have been very happy with the inflation/CoL equivalent of 200k instead of what I had those early leaner years

At one point “joining the scrappy startup” does involve some scrappiness. Otherwise you’re just working in a division of Google that hasn’t been integrated into the borg yet.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-30 16:25:59+00:00
Yeah, I wasnt comparing a single admin to another for scope. My main point was that thinking only one party does these things isn't representative of the situation. A big problem is that virtually every prior administration did one or more things similar which set a precedent. And it was usually done in an low key way. Now this administration is doing them all at the same time and loudly. So I do believe the scale now is larger than in most prior admins, and that they aren't trying to hid what they are doing too.
by mpkendall | 2025-07-30 16:27:04+00:00
Hey! Yea I've been looking into energy harvesting a bit as well after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbtzlWb-Kc

Generally the higher frequency you go, the lower range you get as a rule of thumb. It's also harder to design around higher frequency boards, though it's totally doable. That said, I'd love to see how 2.4GHz works out!
by cestith | 2025-07-30 16:27:06+00:00
A few years ago The Register described it as a rack-sized blade chassis with hardware, firmware, and software designed in-house together.

It’s a 7-foot tall rack with compute sleds, storage sleds, and network sleds. It has its own BMC design, its own power design, its own physical connectivity design, its own virtual networking design, its own hypervisor (although it’s based on Bhyve), its own OS (although it’s based on Illumos), and its own API to spin things up and configure them.

As I think of it, it’s basically a private cloud in a box and The Register wasn’t far off.
by jabl | 2025-07-30 16:27:39+00:00
> I used to make the ww2 models as a teenager and loved painting them with the oil paints (you need the right brand but I can’t remember the name).

I had a conversion chart for Revell, Humbrol, and Tamiya colors (which were the ones around when I was building models as a kid). It was good enough for me. Perhaps if you were really good or picky about the exact color it wouldn't do.
by benreesman | 2025-07-30 16:27:46+00:00
TFA is largely vibes, the angst it expresses is about real things but the analysis is to your point flawed in the details. Here's a better one.

The foundational technologies that have enabled the current high-cap pool of companies to wield disproportionate power in every aspect of modern life and escalate their influence with each successive administration to the point where in 2025 that Inaugeration seating is a caricature of gilded-age trust kleptocracy were developed in robust public-private partnerships funded by a combination of the DoD, ATT / Western / the Labs, NASA, the University system and grants. The taxpayer bought a technology lead over the rest of the world with tax dollars.

This gigantic pile of wealth in everything from semiconductors to software has been getting privatized by a handful of companies for coming up on 40 years in the more extreme cases, some newer entrants about 20 years ago. This materializes as things that used to belong to everyone (ARPANet becomes the Internet, big free democratic thing) getting captured, controlled, and treated like the personal property of a small number of feudalist organizations masquerading as publicly traded companies on a stock market (dual-class share structures that have shared and market caps but no shareholder governance would be a good example).

This group of people has had one nasty thorn in their side: their most scarce input was elite engineers, a notoriously prickly bunch as concerns unaccountable authority, and having this group of people as a key input led to both considerable pricing power in the hands of someone else, and being at the mercy of a weirdly principled group of people who don't necessarily share the agendas of a Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg.

Thus, this cabal has run headlong into multiple rounds of prosecution by the Federal Department of Justice, who incidentally has to decide that something is serious enough to take limited resources off of chasing drug dealers and terrorists. They were most recently successfully prosecuted in 2012.

In 2025, engineers everywhere are pretty pissed off about a pretty clearly bogus cover story that's really about this group of companies/lifetime-CEO-boy-kings trying again in a time friendlier to law-buying and other sanctioned law-breaking to break the back once and for all of one of the last truly upwardly mobile professions in the United States.

There. FTFY.