MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-08-01 16:06:19+00:00
>Here’s what they found: The participants being watched scored half compared to those who were alone.

I once had a coding interview where I was given a laptop with no internet access and 30 minutes by myself to solve a couple questions a step or two above FizzBuzz, in pseudocode. The interviewer then came back into the room and we discussed my solutions, using them as a jumping-off point into a more open-ended discussion (e.g. "why did you use a hash table here? can you think of another approach?" which then led to a general discussion on the suitability of hash tables versus other approaches for related problems.)

It was one of the best technical interviews I've had. I'm surprised more places don't do this. It's a win-win-win: it relieves stress on the interviewee, gives the interviewer back half an hour of valuable time, and makes for a much more productive assessment of the candidate — it's a lot easier for a candidate to explain code they've already written, and thus a lot easier to an interviewer to assess the candidate's thought process.
by mfer | 2025-08-01 16:06:22+00:00
> That died last week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction.

If the issue is one of jurisdiction, did they file the case in the wrong court?

Following local news, I've seen the case where a case is closed because it was filed in the wrong court. A different court had jurisdiction in the matter. I wonder if that's what happened in this case.
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-01 16:06:29+00:00
> But from a user's standpoint

Not true generally. One man's engineering malpractice is another man's clever hack.

Users of Windows 95 complained that Windows 95 broke SimCity.

What did Windows 95 break? It fixed an obscure allocator bug SimCity was relying on.

Users loved Windows 95, for ""fixing"" this. How was it fixed? By introducing an obscure switch to old allocator if it detected SimCity in the app name.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-...
by salawat | 2025-08-01 16:06:30+00:00
So... Where was the negotiation step where there was the option to do VPN'ry without the surveillance? Take it or leave it license agreements in my opinion violate meeting-of-the-minds, and our legal system has just cut a pass for the last half a century to one sided take it or leave it levels of exploitative entering into contracts at scale. Not one company, in particular, tech companies, have a legal pipeline that can support redlining a contract or facilitating negotiation at scale which is the actual desired incarnation of contract law as a tool of mutual empowerment through agreements. We need to seriously hold our system to account for building only the accept as-is part of the pipeline, but not the negotiation side of the pipeline.

Make no mistake either, as that was an intentional decision to chase growth in the interests of becoming TBTF. We need to clamp down and make it clear, big mofos do not get to call unilateral shots and that it is not acceptable for terms to be dictated only in one direction. Yes, this complicates the hell out of business logic, but ya know what, the ones who have TBTF'd have drank of the waters of economies of scale to get the sweet draught, it's about damn time they got the bitters too.
by justonceokay | 2025-08-01 16:06:53+00:00
> always having to sell opaque higher up decisions as your own

Is that really part of management etiquette? In my experience nothing ruins my trust in my manager more than when they pretend that they love every decision from the higher ups. My favorite managers have always taken a “well this is dumb but we have to do it because the CEO said so” approach. It creates comraderie and lets me know they are a real person.

My least favorite manager of all time laid off a valued member of the team for financial reasons (sad but understandable). Within 24h he had started to rationalize and defend that our team was actually /better/ now. I assume he was trying to convince himself as much as the rest of us.

Managers are weird because they are implicitly asked to take on elements of the organization into their personality. It’s unavoidable to an extent. But some fully become Sartre’s Waiter. I always wondered if this type of manager went home and was totally cool and normal with their family or if they brought The Board home with them too.
by rob_c | 2025-08-01 16:06:56+00:00
And Canada is entirely without blame for deciding to enrage an idiot.

It's clear here would enforce tariffs he made it clear he would and did it to China and certain countries that decided to not engage.

Let me guess the EU is now evil because they engaged? This is as much Canada's fault as trump is (mis-)using American influence.

If you decide to double down and pretend he won't do it off course he's going to do it. If Canada had engaged rather than pretending he's all bluff they'd be in the same situation as Mexico. Besides after the damage that guy did to the UK economy you're welcome to him you voted him in. He's short cited and focused more on posturing and keeping those close to him happy than fixing anything. At least you can't accuse trump of just keeping people happy. If that were true musk wouldn't still be acting salty. (Obviously the works richest man still has influence but that's different to being invited into the oval office regularly)

Edit: happy to fiddle while the mad king burns Rome. What the?... Your Canadian but decided to hold America in that regard? It's a sess poll full of hicks, ultra lefties and morons who listen to the tube box and regard drag racing as a sport gulping down Monsanto's latest creation. It's a fluke that America's industrial and arms sector got to be the size and scale that it is that placed it in the position of being almost a global hyperpower. Sure some amount of innovation has happened, semiconductors being one, but this is a country trying to convince it's citizens the world isn't flat and there's no hidden vaccines in the toilet paper. America is not to the modern world what Rome was to the Visigoths. The comparison is worrying that you hold them to that esteem.
by solatic | 2025-08-01 16:07:07+00:00
> make on average

This completely misses the boat on venture capital, which is almost by definition the riskiest of all risky bets. Any smart LP throwing $X into a fund has a portfolio valued, at the very least, at 100 if not 1000 times X. It is simply the way to expose the high-risk portion of the portfolio to that level of risk at the size of the investment needed. Being high-risk, probably it will return nothing. But it might not.
by fn-mote | 2025-08-01 16:07:23+00:00
Yes, creating special exceptions like this is an awful idea.

More carve-outs complicating the tax code and pandering to specific constituents is a bad thing.

It reminds me of listening to a story of how day care business owner-operators are not required by law to contribute to Social Security, don’t, and are then screwed at the end of their life because they don’t have any way to retire.
by nyeah | 2025-08-01 16:07:30+00:00
Parts of that are true. Parts of it are a bedtime story to help Americans cope with the reality of what our nation did. EDIT: Recall that Iraq had nothing to do with the WTC attacks.

Some people truly try to protest all the horrors of war on all sides, everywhere. Others try to make "Country X" sound worse than anybody else. I don't have your insight into who has what agenda.
by kollmar28 | 2025-08-01 16:07:37+00:00
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by guhcampos | 2025-08-01 16:07:41+00:00
Maybe they didn't give you the same sets of problems most companies use.

Last time I went through any of these one of the problems was implementing a priority queue, for which I would have to write a min-heap on the spot. There's no chance I'd be able to do it on 45 minutes with an interviewer breathing down my neck.

In other situations I had easier ones. I don't remember the problems especifically but I recall one I googled after the interview and the answer was using two-pointers fast/slow to iterate through a list. I spent maybe 20 minutes tryng a couple different approaches and that one never occurred to me. Last time I had to use a two-pointer solution for a problem was at uni, which I left 15 years ago.
by harryquach | 2025-08-01 16:08:30+00:00
If European society survived the Black Plague we will be fine. Imagine living in a time where an unknown virus kills half of the population. Half of everyone you know is gone. This is only one of countless examples throughout history.

No doubt today we have unique challenges but I am optimistic we will overcome and thrive. Like a poster mentioned above, perhaps its time to log off and go for a walk.
by mburaksayici | 2025-08-01 16:08:38+00:00
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by CPLX | 2025-08-01 16:08:38+00:00
> 1. Derek Thompson is flat out lying

It's this one. The person he called made a lengthy follow up post. It's clear Thompson purposely misrepresented the conversation.

It's helpful to understand why the "abundance" movement exists. Its only purpose is to stop the Democratic Party from addressing concentrated economic power. It's funded by the concentrated economic power.

This isn't an academic debate, it's an attempt to maintain power by a discredited group of people who recently presided over the collapse of the Democratic Party and are desperately casting around for a narrative where that's not what happened.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-08-01 16:08:51+00:00
Is this because the representatives are becoming weaker - or is it because we're asking the government to get involved in such a huge portion of what used to be free (as in speech) that it's impractical for them to pay attention themselves at the necessary level, and have to offload the work somehow?

That is, I'm claiming that government can't scale to the levels that the 20th Century escalated it to, with any degree of efficiency at all.
by subw00f | 2025-08-01 16:08:55+00:00
Author: Larry Liu (Morgan State University, Baltimore) Abstract: There is an increasing public discourse of automation for white-collar professional jobs due to improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) capacities, raising the question about the contours of the future of work. Marx and Ricardo’s framework of technological labour displacement helps us understand the future of work in the context of AI. Marx’s discussion in Capital and Ricardo’s discussion in Principles of Political Economy reveal the common thesis that technology-induced worker displacement and precariousness of employment relationships are built into the internal logic of the contemporary digital capitalist economy. There are three important differences in their theoretical framework: (1) Marx did not believe that high technological unemployment is possible within capitalism even with very advanced technologies such as AI, while Ricardo saw technological unemployment as a serious threat while he acknowledges countervailing employment-creating tendencies; (2) While Ricardo’s explanation for the falling rate of profit is limited to rising wages, Marx traces the profit decline to the rising organic composition of capital and automation itself; (3) For Marx, a desirable future of work is not found within a capitalist framework but in communism, while Ricardo sees no alternatives to capitalism.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-08-01 16:09:21+00:00
Your point being? I just want a coherent response from you. Your initial question was how is the NYT different as you assumed they make all their money from a billionaire benefactor and that subscriptions are not a significant part of the income of any news paper. Now it's about that one year where their income wasn't doing well. And they took a loan. And the creditor bought stock that they sold later.
by OnionBlender | 2025-08-01 16:09:23+00:00
I interviewed with Mozilla back when they were working on Firefox OS. The first question was to write a linked list in C++. Easy, I actually practiced that ahead of time. However, I forgot everything and started sweating profusely (Thankfully it was a phone interview). The interviewer was nice and tried to help me get started but all I could think about was how stupid and screwed I was.

Since then, I've found that I need to practice extensively so that I can still function when my IQ drops due to the stress. It reminds me of, "Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training."
by childintime | 2025-08-01 16:09:25+00:00
This comes at a time where my experience with Gemini is lacking, it seems to get worse. It's not picking up on my intention, sometimes replies in the wrong language, etc. Either that or I am just transparent that it's a tool and its feelings are hurt. I've had to call it a moron several times, and it was funny when it started reprimanding me for my foul language once. But it was wrong. This behavior seems new. I could never trust it to not do random edits everywhere in a document, so nowadays I use it to check Claude, which can be trusted with a document.
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-01 16:09:27+00:00
Right so who wants to work on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746016 it is time to finish this as govs won't learn. And even china hasn't managed to block that traffic: the eu/us probably wont go that far. But if they do, it wont probably work.

We must have p2p , decentralized application frameworks with strong encryption. A framework I can write my next saas on and no, not blockchain.
by karthikkolli | 2025-08-01 16:09:39+00:00
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by ecshafer | 2025-08-01 16:09:47+00:00
Your arguments are not backed up by anything.

> gentrification and displacement

These are not actual issues with regards to housing being too expensive. These are pet issues divorced from economics.

> the slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing

This is absolutely proven in the data, and even a basic thought experiment using the pigeon hole principle will show that more houses means the prices drop of existing stock.

> critical need for direct public housing to serve low-income communities

Why is this a critical need? More housing being built could also mean more public housing, but removing zoning and land use regulations doesn't hurt this.

It seems you are more disappointed that your personal pet political issues are being ignored in favor of a market solution to house prices.
by Breza | 2025-08-01 16:09:50+00:00
Very well put. There's a lot to be gained from using smaller models and existing hardware. So many enterprise PMs skip straight to using a cutting edge LLM via API. There are many tasks where a self-hosted LLM or even a finetuned small language model can either complete a preliminary step or even handle the full task for much less money. And if a self-hosted model can do the job today, imagine what you'll be able to do in a year or five when you have more powerful hardware and even better models.
by jpadif | 2025-08-01 16:09:54+00:00
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by panick21_ | 2025-08-01 16:10:02+00:00
> That they're instead focused on standardizing employee salary

That's kind of a strange statement.

Because every company has some salary policy and structure. Would you for other companies say 'obsessed with finding different salaries for each employ'?

Seems to me having a fixed salary will lead to less overall discussion and less time spent on salary discussions. Letting the executives actually focus on the product instead of endless salary discussions.
by jstummbillig | 2025-08-01 16:10:20+00:00
OpenAI, Google, and friends now hand out $10-20 M packages to a few hundred ML specialists worldwide, not because those engineers add more "value units" but because their skill set is brutally scarce.

Money is elastic, but relative slices still matter when the pie is made of houses, GPUs, and your grocery bill. Calling "share of all the money" a bad mental model is like saying gravity is a bad mental model because planes fly: True in the abstract, irrelevant when you hit the ground.
by WillAdams | 2025-08-01 16:10:37+00:00
For folks who are curious, the product in question here is physical objects and Onshape is a CAD program.

Their licensing kerfuffle was a bit more subdued than Autdesk's on-going slow motion crash (maybe AD has finally come to a rest) --- as noted elsethread, all documents on a free account are public.

The opensource alternatives are a wide-ranging lot:

- BRL CAD --- intensely old-school, it is one of the oldest opensource codebases

- FreeCAD --- exactly what it says on the tin, the recent fixes and UI updates have put it back on the radar for a lot of folks

- Solvespace --- small/light-weight and nimble (a single downloadable executable on Windows last I checked) it has a UI which I never found comfortable

- Dune 3D --- the new kid on the block, it has a remarkably polished UI (it's the only interactive CAD program whose tutorial I made it through more-or-less successfully) --- it's had a number of previous discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37979758

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228257

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975958

Or, of course, one can just code a design using OpenSCAD (and for the Python folks there's https://pythonscad.org/ and so forth).
by esbranson | 2025-08-01 16:10:50+00:00
Obviously. Hence the purpose of civil forfeiture, to discourage violations of the law. Civil forfeiture is a potential consequence of doing pickpocketing, beatings, and robbery, to keep to your example. Criminal fines are meant for after all the illicit money has been seized, they're meant to come out of their McDonalds paycheck not their robbery proceeds. Otherwise fines are useless against criminals who profit from their crimes.