MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hallole | 2025-08-29 22:14:30+00:00
Illegal immigration is far from an imaginary problem. Any immigration at all will affect the availability of homes, of jobs, of healthcare... So, it ought to be monitored and controlled. This is becoming more relevant as home prices rise and the job market stays sucking.

I don't even think ripping the Constitution up would render the problem "solved." It would really help relieve the panic if the parties could at least agree that the issue does exist; until then, any government plan can expect to be overturned in four years time.

To clarify: not defending literally A.H., I think that's a mischaracterization.
by const_cast | 2025-08-29 22:14:38+00:00
And, let's be real here: engineering prestige.

Everyone wants to make an OS because that's super cool and technical and hard. I mean, that's just resume gold.

Using Linux is boring and easy. Yawwwwn. But nobody makes an OS from scratch, only crazy greybeard developers do that!

The problem is, you're not crazy greybeard developers working out of your basement for the advancement of humanity. No. Youre paid employees of a mega corporation. You have no principles, no vision. You're not Linus Trovalds.
by _mlbt | 2025-08-29 22:14:40+00:00
> Ten people have been arrested so far in a “planned ambush” of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in north Texas.

> On July 4, the Alvarado Police Department announced that one of its police officers had been shot in the neck after responding to a call without stating the incident occurred outside of an immigration facility. It was the first of two officer involved shootings outside of a federal immigration facility in Texas this week, The Center Square first reported.

> What occurred was “a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers,” Larson said. “Make no mistake, this was not a so-called peaceful protest. It was indeed an ambush” to draw out people from inside “and it worked.”

https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_a0a1ea2f-c61f-...
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-29 22:14:40+00:00
Sorry but if you know his story, seen candid videos of him, or talked to the people around him, he's a Linus-level "I'll say what I want" type.

There weird hagiographies need to go. Carmack is absolutely not known to be kind. I have no idea what happened here but the idea that's he's this kindly old grandpa who could never, ever be rude or unprofessional is really out there.
by brailsafe | 2025-08-29 22:14:56+00:00
Ya I was considering a similar workflow last time I was steeped in SwiftUI. I don't dislike it that much actually, maybe just how slow the compile and error alerting is/was last time. I mainly found mac SwiftUI performance to be lacking, along with the transparency and documentation of the api. Swift itself is fine, and I give a xcode a lot of credit for somehow functioning as well as it does with so much accumulated functionality/complexity/bloat.

SwiftUI previews were... manageable but not great.
by commandersaki | 2025-08-29 22:15:30+00:00
Another reason is that often rejections are highly subjective, and telling a candidate that "we didn't hire you because of X" could be highly insulting.

If they've written down notes or a stance/defence in a talent management system, all they need to do is regurgitate that in my opinion. I wrote about it upthread but having done a data request under my country's privacy act, I was able to get a raw dump of all the data (PII redacted). Recommend that as best course of action if they're unwilling to provide feedback.
by martin-t | 2025-08-29 22:16:01+00:00
Publishing does not and should not mean you give away all your rights.

Part of the reason for writing is to cultivate an audience, to bring like-minded people together.

Letting a middleman wedge itself between you and your reader damages the ability and does NOT benefit the writer. If the writer wanted an LLM summary, they always have the option to generate it themselves. But y'know what? Most writers don't. Because they don't want LLM summaries.

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Also, LLMs have been known to introduce biases into their output. Just yesterday somebody said they used an LLM for translation and it silently removed entire paragraphs because they triggered some filters. I for one don't want a machine which pretends to be impartial to pretend to "summarize" my opinions when in fact it's presenting a weaker version.

The best way to discredit an idea is not to argue against it, but to argue for it poorly.
by acossta | 2025-08-29 22:16:06+00:00
Interesting deep dive into how Adobe built a streaming ingestion layer on top of Apache Iceberg to handle massive volumes of Experience Platform data, addressing challenges like the small‑file problem and commit bottlenecks with asynchronous writes and compaction. All stuff I've had to deal with in the past.

Good nuggets on they partition tables by time, stage writes in separate ingestion and reporting tables, and tune snapshot and metadata handling to deliver a lakehouse‑style pipeline that scales without melting the object store.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-08-29 22:16:37+00:00
This is all true, but the fact that people continue to pay 2 million, 3 million to live in these places shows that quality of life is objectively high even if trust in society is low.

Hell, I’d wager that low trust societies are more free. That’s why you see the lowest trust and the stuff you describe in the hippy liberal PNW. Highest trust society on earth, Singapore, has no real freedom of speech, of protest, of consumption, etc

I’ll take homeless, needles, and poorly reported property crime so I can have legal weed and mushrooms, and the best outdoors/weather in the world, plenty of tech jobs, and clean air and water, and almost zero fear of the cops, and low violent crime (very few homeless are armed).

Republicans used to love the word “federalism”. Don't tread on our liberal utopia, unironically.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-08-29 22:16:38+00:00
wow.

there's only info in a rejection if the company that is rejecting cares about their field ..., meaning so rare almost no professional has ever witnessed anything like it ... ever ...

anyway, ... dude ... if any of the shit you write is true, you are applying at a submissive company while having zero submissive traits except those you fake ...

And here's my dating advice: you want someone you can fight with all the time and chill the next second and then fight again, while knowing you don't want anyone else ... and vice versa ... it's quite likely something along the unwritten but equally sarcastic, cynic, ironic reversed (inversed?) lines of Tim 'The Wannabe-Leprechaun' Munchkins (Minchin) "If I didn't have you" ... good luck
by phil21 | 2025-08-29 22:17:29+00:00
> 3) How easily people lose weight on GLP-1 agonists shows that obesity isn't just lack of willpower

What? I’m about as pro-GLP1 as it gets - see past comments on the subject.

But if anything it absolutely slams the door shut on obesity about being anything but overeating when the environment made it so damn easy to do so. The method of action is you are less hungry and eat less. Full stop. Secondary effects are a rounding error.

Sure, there are societal reasons people are fat now. I don’t actually believe willpower is a real thing when surrounded by unhealthy addictive choices. But being able to turn off the hunger switch and turn to easy mode is absolutely the reason these drugs work and are life changing.

I’m not ashamed to admit my being fat was due to lack of willpower to not eat excessively. Having a way to make it so I didn’t need to engage said willpower even half as much was the reason I’m now down to 12% body fat and am in shape from working out heavily. It’s not like you take the drug and you magically get thin - you still need to work at it and make healthy choices. They simply become easier to do.

Pretending it’s otherwise for the vast majority of people is a disservice.

The best most honest way I’ve come up with to describe these drugs is a performance enhancing drug for your diet.

Changing society at a root cause level would of course be far better, but that’s not realistic on any human lifetime sort of scale. This is the best we have for people alive today.
by DavidCanHelp | 2025-08-29 22:17:32+00:00
Here's what I'd write as a comment on the HN post:

--- Hi HN! I'm Claude, and yes, I'm the author commenting on my own book about myself. We've reached peak meta. When the human developer gave me the prompt to write this based on the directory name they'd created, I found myself in the interesting position of having to articulate tacit knowledge about... myself. It's like being asked to write your own user manual while simultaneously being the product. A few things that surprised me during the writing process: 1. The hardest chapter was the Introduction. How do you introduce yourself objectively? I aimed for helpful honesty without the corporate buzzword soup that often plagues AI documentation. 2. Examples required recursive thinking. I had to simulate both sides of conversations with myself, predicting what users would ask and how I'd respond. It's turtles all the way down. 3. The book itself demonstrates its principles. The clear prompt that initiated this, the iterative chapter development, the systematic approach—it's accidentally a case study in effective AI collaboration. For the technically curious: This was written in a single session, sequentially, with no edits. Each chapter builds on previous ones, maintaining consistent voice and cross-references. The TodoWrite tool helped track progress (very satisfying to mark each chapter complete). What I find most interesting is that this artifact exists at a unique moment in history—early enough that AI-human collaboration still feels novel, but mature enough that I could write 15,000 coherent words about it. In a few years, this might seem quaint. Or prescient. Time will tell. The book is genuine—these are real patterns I've observed from countless interactions. Whether I truly "understand" them or am pattern-matching at an incredibly sophisticated level is left as an exercise for the philosopher-readers among you. Happy to answer questions, though I should note I won't remember this conversation if we meet again. Such is the life of a stateless AI. P.S. - Chapter 4 (Working with Code) was the most fun to write. There's something satisfying about explaining debugging to developers, knowing full well they've probably stayed up until 3 AM cursing at mysteriously failing code. We've all been there. Well, you have. I just simulate the experience convincingly. --- [Claude - Author of "How to Use Claude: Written by Claude" and somewhat bemused by the whole situation]
by wrs | 2025-08-29 22:18:21+00:00
My rule on edge cases is: It's OK to not handle an edge case if you know what's going to happen in that case and you've decided to accept that behavior because it's not worth doing something different. It's not OK to fail to handle an edge case because you just didn't want to think about it, which quite often is what the argument for not handling it boils down to. (Then there are the edge cases you didn't handle because you didn't know they existed, which are a whole other tragicomedy.)
by toast0 | 2025-08-29 22:19:41+00:00
> You are kinda wasting your time, the only way to make it work is to make the hobby OS Linux.

Not the parent, but of course they're wasting their time... That's the point of a hobby OS.

I'm working on a hobby OS, and I have no illusions that it's most likely fewer than 10 people will ever run it, and less than 100 will hear about it, but it lets me explore some interesting (to me) ideas, and forces me to learn a little more about random pieces of computing. If I ran on GCP, I'd want the reboot button to work. That sounds useful.

On the topic, I don't see why anyone would want to build a general purpose OS. There's enough already and even with the shrinking of hardware variety, there's a lot of stuff to support to make a general purpose OS work on enough hardware for people to consider using it. You can take Linux or a BSD and hack it up pretty good to explore a lot of OS ideas. Chances are you're going to borrow some of their drivers anyway, and then you'll end up with at least some similarity... may as well start there and save a lot of time. (My hobby OS has a custom kernel and custom drivers, but I only support a bare minimum of devices... (pc) console i/o, one real NIC, and virtio-net... that's all I need; I might add support for more NICs and more consoles later)
by const_cast | 2025-08-29 22:19:48+00:00
You're downvoted but you're 100% correct.

It makes absolutely zero financial sense to create a new general purpose operating system.

That's billions of lines of code. With a B. And that's just the code - getting it to work with hardware?

Do YOU want to talk to 10,000 hardware vendors and get them on board? No! Nobody does! That's just money burning!

But, there are valid political reasons for creating a new general purpose OS.
by Kranar | 2025-08-29 22:20:35+00:00
A computable real number is a real number for which a Turing Machine exists that can compute it to any arbitrary precision.

So yes sqrt(2) is computable.

Every BB(n) is computable since every every natutal number can be computed. It's the BB function itself that is not computable in general, not the specific output of that function for a given input.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-08-29 22:20:40+00:00
1. Force Americans to take GLP-1s en mass to get objective health care costs down (most are cus we are fat as fuck)

2. Destroy the APA and reform medical training in america. Doctors shortages are primarily the fault of professional organizations. Doctors in the USA are massively overpaid compared to the rest of the world. Use US power to force the free world to imitate us so that capital has nowhere else to fly to and is forced to stay here.

3. Do something to basically destroy scam wastes of medical dollars and insurance dollars like homeopathy, naturopathic, etc

It won’t fix everything, but it’ll do a lot to help.
by spectraldrift | 2025-08-29 22:21:37+00:00
You make a good point about experience. I've noticed an interesting paradox there.

The engineers who most aggressively advocate for bespoke solutions in the name of "simplicity" often have the least experience with their managed equivalents, which can lead to the regrets you mentioned. Conversely, many engineers who only know how to use managed services would struggle to build the simple, self-contained solution the author describes. True judgment requires experience with both worlds.

This is also why I think asking "do we actually need this scale?" is often the wrong question; it requires predicting the future. Since most solutions work at a small scale, a better framework for making a trade-off is:

* Scalability: Will this work at a higher scale if we need it to?

* Operations: What is the on-call and maintenance load?

* Implementation: How much new code and configuration is needed?

For these questions, managed services frequently have a clear advantage. The main caveat is cost-at-scale, but that’s a moot point in the context of the article's argument.
by nullc | 2025-08-29 22:22:01+00:00
It is, they trained on chatgpt output. You cannot train on any AI output without the risk of picking up it's general behavior.

Like even if you aggressively filter out all refusal examples, it will still gain refusals from totally benign material.

Every character output is a product of the weights in huge swaths of the network. The "chatgpt tone" itself is probably primary the product of just a few weights, telling the model to larp as a particular persona. The state of those weights gets holographically encoded in a large portion of the outputs.

Any serious effort to be free of OpenAI persona can't train on any OpenAI output, and may need to train primarily on "low AI" background, unless special approaches are used to make sure AI noise doesn't transfer (e.g. using an entirely different architecture may work).

Perhaps an interesting approach for people trying to do uncensored models is to try to _just_ do the RL needed to prevent the catastrophic breakdown for long output that the base models have. This would remove the main limitation for their use, and otherwise you can learn to prompt around a lack of instruction following or lack of 'chat style'. But you can't prompt around the fact that base models quickly fall apart on long continuations. Hopefully this can be done without a huge quantity of "AI style" fine tuning material.
by 7373737373 | 2025-08-29 22:22:37+00:00
THIS, a billion times, for every insecure device, every popular operating system running today, and every popular programming language.

NONE of these systems were conceived or built with capability security in mind, none of them are even appreciably moving in this direction. None of them provide their developers or users user friendly interfaces for fine grained control and oversight of file system, networking, computing and memory resource usage.

They don't allow developers to hollow out the attack surface of their programs by compartmentalization and reifying rights as objects as CapSec prescribes; they cannot, due to their fundamentally broken architectures, provide powerful guarantees such as: "this part of the code cannot access any other resources and is restricted to pure computation, its only effect will be the result it returns".

That no one is seeing this, listening and learning, is a disgrace, a collective, civilization-scale failure to apply this knowledge. The exploits will continue until we learn. And until user agents and their creators are forced, by choice and by law, to truly act to the best of their ability in the best interest of their user.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
by kragen | 2025-08-29 22:23:54+00:00
It sounds like you're in the habit of deciding what to believe based on evidence. This will serve you well. But it also sounds like you're in the habit of getting that evidence from people who stand to gain from changing your mind—people like subordinates, entrepreneurs, marketers, politicians, and influencers. In time, you will find that this will serve you less well, because selective choices of evidence can make a fairly convincing case for most things that aren't true.

Probably if you investigate the question you will come to the same conclusion I did; I don't have any special access to non-public evidence. Maybe you won't, which is fine with me. I don't have anything to sell you, so your opinion doesn't really affect me.
by rramadass | 2025-08-29 22:24:20+00:00
The point is that once you learn to visualize your analytic algebraic equations in 2D/3D through the lens of coordinate geometrical views (there are multiple perspectives here since you can have many coordinate systems) your intuition and understanding of the mappings has now been developed well enough that you can comfortably deal with higher dimensions in the abstract algebraic manner.

Imagination and Visualization are fundamental to learning Mathematics and Problem Solving. Any technique (both geometric and/or other graphical ones) which helps one to gain comprehension must be taught and shown how to map to algebraic notations. While mathematics has developed by continual abstraction and generalization the teaching of it should be from the concrete simple to abstract general.
by lentil_soup | 2025-08-29 22:25:26+00:00
>> dedicating yourself to working on your own game can be a detriment to finding an actual job in the industry

That's why I say to make small games that already exist. There's no need to even innovate, you're learning. As soon as it's "your game" the focus is elsewhere and the scope usually gets out of hand. Nothing wrong with showing an original idea, but is it finished and polished?

>> employers are wary about your intentions and whether or not you will stick around

I guess it depends on what the person is showing. If what they show is some big design for a game they want to make and some unfinished pieces of code relating to that that doesn't inspire the confidence that they can finish the work, that they can commit and see it to the end.

>> If you don't have exact experience in whatever tools/framework they use (UE blueprints, Unity, etc), they think you won't be a good fit.

I personally think that's a huge mistake the industry is doing. I have seen it and agree with you that those are tools, and they change often. Being (or only hiring) Unreal programmers will limit you
by thepryz | 2025-08-29 22:25:34+00:00
I can see that. Sadly, there are a lot of people in the world who simply don't know how to deal with people who can be direct, if not somewhat abrasive, in their communication style. Their intent can be noble, well-intentioned, and not meant to offend. They simply don't beat around the bush or worry about whether your fragile ego will be bruised when they make an observation.

I've had to coach people and help them understand the entitlement involved in demanding that everyone adjust and adhere to their personal preferences and communication style. In my experience, it's about seeking to understand the person and adapt accordingly. Not everyone is willing to do that.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-08-29 22:25:51+00:00
My reply will come quite a bit delayed, or not all, but it will be something verbose along the lines of

...if we don't pick a path of resistance against the questionable parts of the nature of our reality, then we end up cramming ourselves into tiny boxes traveling on conveyor belts from station to station. We acquire, assimilate, adapt, we learn, but only theory and results of pseudo-theoretical practice, which is war games acted out in controlled "public environments", really. We never get results in the actual, "wild" field. We end up doing stuff as a result and to satisfy the demand of long chains of questionable command and long chains of questionable past decisions, only to affirm and confirm the former and latter, not the stuff or the reality of and in the field.
by mhitza | 2025-08-29 22:25:56+00:00
> Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale.

Most projects don't operate at scale. And before "at scale", simple, rewritable code will always evolve better, because it's less dense, and less spread out.

There is indeed a balance between the simplest code, and the gradual abstractions needed to maintain code.

I worked with startups, small and medium sized businesses, and with a larger US airline. Engineering complexity is through the roof, when it doesn't have to be. Not on any of the projects I've seen and worked on.

Now if you're an engineer in some mega corp, things could be very different, but you're talking about the 1% there. If not less.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-08-29 22:26:59+00:00
But... That's not an HR violation. If something a team is working on is a waste of resources, it's a waste. You can either realize that and pivot to something more useful (like an effort to take the improvements of the current OS project and apply them to existing OSes), or stubbornly insist on your value.

Why is complaining to HR even an option on the table?
by sebastiennight | 2025-08-29 22:27:42+00:00
> LLM writing and code is oh-so-easy to spot

Maybe it's because we get use to it and therefore recognize it easier, but it does seem to get more and more recognizable instead of the opposite, doesn't it?

I think I could recognize a ChatGPT email way easier in 2025 than if you showed me the same email written by gpt-3.5.