MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-01 20:12:18+00:00
As a person who got a physics PhD and who later worked on anti-crackpot technology and institutions for arXiv.org I am personally really offended by crackpot physics and the paranoid delusions that surround it.

One thing we noticed was that there weren't really that many crackpot submissions but they all went into a few areas like quantum gravity and foundations of quantum mechanics. Crazy people don't even know that physicists think about question like "How the hell does superconductivity work in cuprate oxide superconductors?" or "Why is there an unbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe?" or that computer scientists are more interested in improving the practical performance of SAT solvers than proving that P != NP or P == NP.
by snozolli | 2025-08-01 20:12:30+00:00
Take this with a grain of salt, because I'm just some guy who read your comment, but I think you might want to look into things to help you relax somewhat in these situations. Meditation, focused breathing, L-Theanine, and even beta blockers, if necessary. Maybe use a smart watch to track your heart rate and blood pressure. I'm not being glib, I really think that these things can help us deal with the stress that causes a negative feedback loop.
by JosifA | 2025-08-01 20:12:33+00:00
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I've been fully remote since 2018 and I intend to keep it that way.
by ac29 | 2025-08-01 20:12:34+00:00
> I'm in my late 40s. I'm Gen X. I lived through the glory days of the dotcom boom, when investors got burned for tons of money. But from the ashes of those bullshit companies, we got Amazon, Google, etc., which made investors rich beyond belief.

True, but I think they were talking specifically about the direct investors in OpenAI.

"Investors" writ large will likely continue to have good long term returns (with occasionally significant short term volatility).
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-01 20:12:53+00:00
> it's non-trivial to copy that selection to the outside of vim to another app

A correctly compiled Vim will make the two X clipboards (“selections”) available as registers * (“primary”, i.e. the current selection, pasteable with the middle mouse button) and + (“secondary”, accessed with Ctrl-X/C/V) for both reading and writing. (I believe these are synonyms in graphical environments that don’t have two clipboards.) You can make one of them the default by adding

set clipboard=unnamed

resp.

set clipboard=unnamedplus

to your Vim configuration.

> i can select a column in tmux too, using tmux commands, and [...] i can't use that selection outside of tmux.

If you’re using Wayland on Linux, install wl-clipboard and put

set-option -s copy-command wl-copy

in your tmux configuration, and mutatis mutandis for other (local) graphical environments. Watch out for cases where you’ve trained yourself to assume that the tmux selection and the desktop’s clipboard aren’t the same thing. (I don’t know how I’d synchronize things in the other direction, that seems non-trivial.)
by exceptione | 2025-08-01 20:13:09+00:00
The media rooms in the US will discuss this like a regular infotainment item, making it look like a normal controversy. Then it will pushed out from the news by some other circus act.

For many, this will feel like a defensible move or a minor mistake. If the public discourse is corrupted, the public will be corrupted. And so the whole house will come down, just as intended.
by jshfw | 2025-08-01 20:13:15+00:00
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by ilc | 2025-08-01 20:13:26+00:00
You can do both. You should ALWAYS write a formal resignation letter that's about 3 lines at most, before talking to the manager.

It just stops a ton of confusion, hope, etc. It allows that discussion to focus on "Do you want the two weeks?" and "What do you want me to do with those two weeks if you want them."

Part of being a good employee is making things clear to your manager.
by rashidae | 2025-08-01 20:13:30+00:00
We're using AI to write the boring integration code that moves data from System A to System B. The actual data processing is deterministic code that's tested like any critical system.

Correctness: 100% schema mapping accuracy after human validation. We've never had a data type mismatch or field misalignment make it to production. The AI suggests mappings at ~85% accuracy, humans catch and correct the remaining 15%.

Completeness: Zero data loss incidents. We run reconciliation reports comparing source record counts to destination. Any discrepancy fails deployment. Most common issue: the AI initially missing compound key relationships, which we catch in testing.

Tax/Financial Data: Yes, we handle financial data for several clients, including:

QuickBooks to data warehouse pipelines (invoice/payment data)

Payroll system integrations

Revenue reconciliation between CRM and accounting

Our approach for sensitive data:

AI generates the integration logic, never sees actual records

Test with synthetic data matching production schemas

Run parallel processing for 1-2 cycles to verify accuracy

Maintain full audit logs of all transformations

Human sign-off required before production cutover
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-01 20:13:34+00:00
If I had a few billion dollars lying around why not? I'm a big fan of anything on the snake river, having been a toddler in the city where it meets the Columbia. But I need to work for a living, so it will be a big city with a thriving economy for me, I don't have the option of liesuring about in a resort town.
by n2d4 | 2025-08-01 20:13:42+00:00
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by abeppu | 2025-08-01 20:13:55+00:00
I think the conceptually messed up part is, when such an award includes separate components for compensatory damages and punitive damages, the plaintiff receives the punitive damages even if they're part of a much broader class that was impacted by the conduct in question. E.g. how many people's choice to purchase a Tesla was influenced by the deceptive marketing? How many other people had accidents or some damages? I think there ought to be a mechanism where the punitive portion rolls into the beginning of a fund for a whole class, and could be used to defray some costs of bringing a larger class action, or dispersed directly to other parties.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-01 20:13:57+00:00
> but I do think "leetcode as a default" is a terrible model for finding decent engineers, and even worse now we have LLMs.

I don’t disagree. It’s a gravity problem. I might not like gravity. But gravity doesn’t care if I like it or not if I jump off of a 25 story building. It’s a small investment in time to have a much better career trajectory.

Let me emphasize I wouldn’t do it. But I don’t have to. I’ve done the build the big house in the burbs things twice and now downsized. My (step)children are grown and fully launched. I have credentials an experience where two of the other BigTech cloud providers (I have worked at one) were recruiting me based on my network without grinding leetcode. But most people don’t have those choices at least at 25-26.

I definitely couldn’t advise someone who was a recent grad to meander in enterprise Dev because they didn’t want to play the game. Yes I realize a large majority of developers in the US are enterprise devs. If you take away my AWS account, I’m just an enterprise dev with above average communication skills.
by jm20 | 2025-08-01 20:14:41+00:00
It's so funny. Every single time a company raises a ton of money at a large valuation, the comments are always filled with "how do they justify this valuation" or "they aren't work X...because Y and Z do the same thing".

VC math is pretty simple - at the end of the day, there's a pretty large likelihood that at least 1 AI company is going to reach a trillion dollar valuation. VCs want to find that company.

OpenAI, while definitely not the only player, is the most "mainstream". Your average teacher or mechanic uses "chatgpt" and "AI" interchangeably. There's a ton of value in becoming a vowel, even if other technically superior competitors exist.

Furthermore, the math changes at this level. No investor here is investing at a $300B valuation expecting a 10x. They're probably expecting a 3x or even a 2x. If they put in 300MM, they still end up with 600-900MM.

This isn't math on revenue, it's a bet. And if you think in terms of risk-adjusted bets, hoping the most mainstream AI company today might at least double your money in the next ten years in a red-hot AI market is not as wild as it seems.
by neilv | 2025-08-01 20:14:43+00:00
Yeah, when Google was founded, people acted like they were normal smart and benevolent and forward-thinking Internet techies (it was a type), and they got a lot of support and good hires because of that.

Then, even as that was eroding, they were still seen as reliable, IIRC.

The killedbygoogle reputation was more recent. And still I think isn't common knowledge among non-techies.

And even today, if you ask a techie which companies have certain reliability capabilities, Google would be at the top of some lists (e.g., keeping certain sites running under massive demand, and securing data against attackers).
by afroboy | 2025-08-01 20:14:51+00:00
Or just don't invade, kill, rape their womens? Trust me if you don't terrorise othe nations they won't attack you.

And if you are speaking about what you guys did and doing in Palestine or any other Muslim nation trust my they aren't afraid of you, they just raise people who despise you and you will cry in future when they attack you at your homes.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 20:15:02+00:00
I don't know what you mean by "bad" or "right" but a layoff isn't necessarily bad. It's inevitable unless you demand incredibly conservative hiring practices, only hiring if you're willing to commit to that role existing for their natural life. So, it happens. There is a right way to do it and that's without any BS. Sadly people don't get much time to say their goodbyes, especially in a remote situation, but if even 1% of laid-off people become disgruntled it's not smart to be really loose with access to important systems after you've laid someone off.

Now, if you mean "bad" as in it's unpleasant to hear or give the news, I agree with you, it's always the opposite of fun.
Ask HN: Best AI Automation Platform
by franze | 2025-08-01 20:15:07+00:00
I'm holding AI First Workshops for Small to Mid-Sizes Companies. For lots of them the real value of AI comes with automation. Mostly Email -> AI -> Action

Thing is Make, Zapier, n8n - whenever I use them we waste more money on clicking around and what goes where then focusing on the overall business logic. The automation part of the workshop is about 2 to 3h. So what solutions out there for trigger based automation that os truly AI first (so an internal AI oder chatgpt can really create the workflow) and users can go from idea to running AI workflow in ~2h? Or is this a product that does not exist yet?
by alephnerd | 2025-08-01 20:15:07+00:00
That's my point though.

Saying "Africa" or the "West" or "Asia" is too broad.

Housing and urban planning norms, regulation, and laws are very dependent on regional, jurisdictional, and institutional norms.

Slum redevelopment in a democracy like Nairobi, Kenya is going to be very different from authoritarian Kigali, Rwanda.

And even within a large country like Kenya, with norms and personas in Nairobi City County being distinct from those in neighboring Kiambu County.

Jurisdiction and institutional norms vary significantly given how governance has been so distinct from African country to African country. Some were governed under British colonial legislation and retain British colonial codes. Others were governed by French colonial codes. Others yet completely rewrote their legal codes after revolutions or reformist movements.

Giving a broad recommendation without taking into account local governance context is just ridiculous.
by nwmcsween | 2025-08-01 20:15:57+00:00
Sadly the time when an org wanted people to excel and really grow at is over, the new normal is peak capitalism of maximizing value.

People develop relationships with coworkers, you care if someone has issues, you're happy if a solution makes customers/coworkers happy but none of that matters to the lawnmower, it just mows lawns.
by blitzo | 2025-08-01 20:16:50+00:00
Exactly my concerns as well. If we're indeed heading toward “ask AI first, humans later” model there's potential for a slippery slope—one that could be exploited depending on which regime happens to be in power. If politicians or special-interest groups can manipulate or curate AI-generated “opinions,” they could present those biased outputs as if they were genuine reflections of their constituents’ views. Over time, the line between authentic public sentiment and engineered AI propaganda could blur, undermining informed democratic debate.
by redeyedtreefrog | 2025-08-01 20:16:54+00:00
The Scala community soap-opera was a total shit show. Both of the women involved later ended up in relationships with Travis Brown, another prominent and extremely controversial Scala figure. Travis then entered a long running war against John De Goes and a bunch of other people in the Scala community before rage-quitting.

I don't believe the women entirely made it up, or that Jon Pretty is entirely guilt-free. Likely he is a narcissist who took advantage of his status to pursue sexual relationships where there was a huge imbalance of power. Maybe this strayed into manipulative gaslighting, I don't know. But it also seems entirely plausible that the women in question desired a relationship with a powerful older man and that the relationships were essentially consensual. It's a mess of power, sex, alcohol, a lack of shared social norms, and overlapping social and professional relationships. Quite where the truth lies between "totally non-consensual gaslighting" and "consensual relationship with large imbalance of power" I don't claim to know.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-01 20:17:00+00:00
So let me get this straight, they emailed what? 12,000 employees, and told them they would be fired or not in about 15 minutes? Please tell me they didn't email 12,000 employees this ticking time bomb of a revelation. If I were at Atlassian and survived the lay offs I would be sprucing up my resume. There's no good way to lay off people, but this is even worse.
by rashidae | 2025-08-01 20:17:03+00:00
Totally agree. We wouldn’t trust AI to run that kind of migration either... And we don’t.

But here’s what we do use AI for: • Mapping legacy schemas • Spotting patterns • Generating boilerplate ETL code fast

Then humans step in: • Validate every mapping • Write custom logic for edge cases • Test everything... every field, every BOM, every relationship • Migrate with deterministic, human-reviewed code
by ndiddy | 2025-08-01 20:17:07+00:00
PBS stations in major markets will likely be able to carry on due to donations and corporate underwriting, but stations in rural areas (the types of places where Internet streaming is less viable due to poor infrastructure) will be heavily affected. Some rural stations get up to half their budgets from the CPB, and these cuts will likely make them have to shut down. In heavily rural states like West Virginia, Alaska, New Mexico, and Montana, the average public media station relies on CPB funding for over 30% of its budget. All of those stations are now at risk. More information: https://current.org/2025/04/heres-how-much-public-media-reli...
by michaelmior | 2025-08-01 20:17:29+00:00
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by littlexsparkee | 2025-08-01 20:18:14+00:00
ADP crunches the numbers too and they were more in line with the revised estimates - there was nothing preventing companies from acting on that. How can you claim this is fireable without context about how the calculations/revisions occur and their side of the story? These trade policies are engendering so much uncertainty, combined with the shakeup in the federal workforce - honestly something like this was pretty foreseeable...
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-08-01 20:18:17+00:00
I just did some googling around:

> The case also included startling charges by lawyers for the family of the deceased, 22-year-old, Naibel Benavides Leon, and for her injured boyfriend, Dillon Angulo. They claimed Tesla either hid or lost key evidence, including data and video recorded seconds before the accident.

> Tesla has previously faced criticism that it is slow to cough up crucial data by relatives of other victims in Tesla crashes, accusations that the car company has denied. In this case, the plaintiffs showed Tesla had the evidence all along, despite its repeated denials, by hiring a forensic data expert who dug it up. Tesla said it made a mistake after being shown the evidence and honestly hadn’t thought it was there.

-https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/aug/01/jury-orders-tesla-t...

Nothing enrages a judge faster then an attempt to conceal evidence that a court has ordered be turned over during discovery. If this is then I suspect the punitive damages have to do as much about disregard to the legal process as it is the case itself.
by guptadeepak | 2025-08-01 20:18:23+00:00
As someone who’s spent over a decade building identity systems and watching consolidation in security, this deal signals the start of true vertical integration—network, cloud, and identity in a single platform.

Three points stand out: (1) Palo Alto lacked a native identity pillar; CyberArk brings deep privileged access and machine identity expertise, now critical as organizations face a 40:1 machine-to-human identity ratio. (2) The market is moving away from standalone identity products toward integrated platforms, validated by a 30% YoY jump in security M&A. (3) The real technical test will be merging Palo Alto’s policy engines with CyberArk’s adaptive access and ZSP architectures.

For those at large CISOs or startups: where do you see the next opportunity for innovation with AI agent identity management as the big players focus on integration?
by apelapan | 2025-08-01 20:18:48+00:00
So how many hours is the walking waiter working in a day, and how many hours is the standing waiter working?

If anything it seems to me that it would be more logical to tip the person doing the more boring and repetitive work.

(My personal opinion is that tipping in general is a blight on a modern society and something that belong in primitive third-world economies. The way to fix this is via legislation: we simply make all forms of both receiving and giving tips illegal. It probably won't take much enforcement to quickly shift the social norms and economic practices once the wheels get rolling).
by teddyh | 2025-08-01 20:18:53+00:00
Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. Maybe you should read more books?

What I meant to convey, seven years ago, when writing that comment making the analogy to Zen Buddhism (as described by Alan Watts at least) was that there are those who come to understand technology and immediately go off and despise and belittle all the people who don’t understand it. There are also those who come to understand technology and can explain the relevant parts to those who don’t understand it, and help them handle technology to help them in their lives, without belittling them or even secretly/silently looking down on or feeling superior to them in any way. This dichotomy seemed to me to be very similar to what Alan Watts once described about Zen Buddhism.

But sure, you keep berating people for daring to quote something by someone so plebeian as Alan Watts, in a seven year old comment. I’m sure it will help you get along with people.
by karma_p | 2025-08-01 20:19:06+00:00
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