MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by em-bee | 2025-08-29 00:49:17+00:00
we seem to be talking past each other. i never meant to imply that someone should win a lawsuit if you have documented why you rejected them. they should only win if you passed over their resume without interviewing them despite having a resume that is qualified and you don't have any good reason for passing over that resume AND if the position is still open and you don't have any other candidates that are better qualified that you are still interviewing. all of those conditions need to be met.

i am only talking about the case where a company is collecting resumes but never interviewing anyone. or rejecting everyone they interview but skipping over qualified candidates they could interview but don't without a good reason.

i haven't even thought about the case where candidates pass an interview but the position still does not get filled despite that. that's probably also something to think about, but while you seem to keep talking about candidates you interviewed, until now i have only been talking about candidates you did not interview.

and again, all of this is only relevant if you are not actually filling the position, despite having found qualified candidates.
by renewiltord | 2025-08-29 00:49:23+00:00
Another example of "guy can't spell" => "he's retarded". If you can't get everything right, you probably got lots of things wrong.

It also shows why software engineers are superior engineers. The history of software engineering has some single-digit kills, at most 20 in total. Meanwhile, shuttle engineers are supposed to be the best in the aerospace business and they've lost some 13 or so? All aerospace would be put in the thousands.

An old saying is "Any fool can build a bridge. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands". But these are fools who built bridges that didn't stand.

One day, I will teach them real engineering: It is Rails backend with React frontend. Zero kills. Life above all.

BTW: Here's is the original content with Tufte review https://www.edwardtufte.com/wp-content/uploads/bboard/images...
by codethief | 2025-08-29 00:50:00+00:00
True, but OP's threat model doesn't involve state actors outside Indonesia, so traffic analysis of the "last mile" between Mullvad node and whatever non-Indonesian service OP is trying to use (Twitter, Discord, …) is not really relevant here. (Assuming Indonesia doesn't have capabilities we don't know of.)

What might be more interesting is the case where the Indonesian government forces Twitter/Discord to give up IP addresses (which I find hard to believe but it's certainly not impossible). But then they'd still have to overcome Mullvad. It's much more likely that if OP has an account on Twitter/Discord, it is already tied to their person in many ways, and this would probably be the main risk here.
by aetherson | 2025-08-29 00:50:05+00:00
Not really, these are probably mutually beneficial. Having $35 million sitting in a cash account is, as Mitchell recalls in the article, pretty bad -- you're forgoing a lot of benefit for yourself.

What the bank is probably mainly trying to do is not "extract a higher margin" from you, but rather to "maintain your business." While Alex might not have recognized that a startup that took in a bunch of financing and plopped it into a cash account and then didn't do much with it is a customer who might disappear at any time, on some institutional level the bank is aware of it. They want you to regard them not as an interchangeable place that money sits, but as a valued partner who helps you do things with your money, and as a result you feel like it would both be a risk and a bother to extract all your money and go to some other bank.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-29 00:50:31+00:00
> Things like suspend to RAM [...] working

If you're on and AMD laptop then suspend to ram can be tested with amd-debug-tools[0].

> WiFi

Here[1] is a list of public iperf3 servers. You can test your connection speed with (change host name and port to appropriate server):

# Test upload speed iperf3 -c host-name-here -p 5201 # Test download speed iperf3 -c host-name-here -p 5201 -R

You can also launch your own server so you're not limited by your internet speed (I usually run one on my router):

iperf3 -s -p 5201 [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/amd-debug-tools.git/about/ [1] https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php
by acdha | 2025-08-29 00:50:40+00:00
Elon Musk personally plowed enormous amounts of money and energy into harming American democracy: not just getting Trump elected, not just DOGE, but also things like heavily threatening Republican lawmakers not to serve their constituents and elevating some of the worst voices on X. Somewhat ironically, Tesla is receiving the backlash despite also having been damaged by having an absentee CEO at key moments but it’s understandable: giving Tesla money literally funds that effort since the hundreds of millions he spends on politics, not to mention buying Twitter, came mostly from Tesla shares.

In contrast, China’s government significantly predates the existence of BYD and companies like it have been part of China opening up somewhat and definitely improving the standard of living for millions of people, not to mention the whole “backing away from wholesale destruction of the planet” part. That’s not to say I approve of the Chinese government but simply that it’s priced into much of what we buy and buying from BYD isn’t actively contributing to tearing down a better system of government the way buying a Tesla does.
by defrost | 2025-08-29 00:50:42+00:00
FWiW there's not a lot of insecurity in the B&S boys that hit the Ute Musters for the circle work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtFYUOvYs8

A couple of thousand acres, big sheds, a couple of silos, a few trucks and combine harvesters and a go hard or go home frequently sideways attitude 'll do that, it seems.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-29 00:50:45+00:00
> McCarthyism is generally when someone in power abuses their authority to accuse others without evidence, often for a personal vendetta.

Your personal, ad hoc definition of McCarthyism is no better than any other. Generally, McCarthyism is persecution of people because of their ideas, because of wrongthink, which is the case here.

> Oh and people routinely get dragged in front of Congress by both parties for grandstanding purposes and nothing comes of it.

That's not an argument. Yes, many appear before Congress as was the case during McCarty too, but only some of those appearances, then and now, can be qualified as McCarthyism.

Let me underline that "nothing comes of it" is wrong on several levels - first, wrongthink persecution always has consequences - at the very least, the target organization or individual are put on the defensive, stressed and strained for resources while the persecutors have no such constraints.

Second, sometimes more serious consequences do "come out of it" which is not reflected at all in your argument. The most salient lesson in McCarthyism is that it caught roots in the US (something thought to be impossible) and for how long it dragged along. Therefore anything that even slightly looks like McCarthyism must be called out lest we slide down the slippery slope again. Trying to hide risks that are clearly manifested in history isn't fair play.

> Perhaps something to keep in mind when using scary words.

Perhaps it's better to keep in mind that one shouldn't be scared of words and should try to understand them instead.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-29 00:50:59+00:00
He mentions Finland and Lapua movement as an example and it's correct, but there are others.

United Sates:

There was Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the south.

In the 1930s fascism became very popular in the US. 25% of Americans listened regularly fascist radio program from father Charles Coughlin. "It is fascism or communism. We are at the crossroads. I take the road to fascism.” Large number of "shirts" organizations (fascists with different shirt colors, silver, black, green, .. ). In the Congress America First Committee, while not a fascist organization itself, included several core members with antisemitic and pro-fascist sympathies.
by godelski | 2025-08-29 00:51:19+00:00
To add to this, I'd even argue that the most "scary looking" parts of the GAN paper are where Goodfellow is just showing intermediate steps, like in (4) and (5). I guess one can argue that this is superfluous but that feels pretentious. I'd argue that the math here is helping communicate.

I think people forget why math is used. I'm always a little surprised that programmers don't see this because the languages are being used for the same reasons. Precision. They're terrible languages to communicate something like this conversation but then again English is a terrible way to communicate highly abstract concepts.

On the other hand, I've definitely seen people use math to make their works seem more important (definitely in some ML) I think I more frequently see it just being copy pasted (like every diffusion paper ever). I think that is probably superfluous, though it's definitely debatable and I'm absolutely certain these use cases aren't for flexing lol.
by utyop22 | 2025-08-29 00:51:31+00:00
Its because most people don't have the discipline and obsession of attention to detail to know when one should use an LLM and when one shouldn't.

I highly doubt the best of the best folks are even touching LLMs (barely) because they can see the flaws and the tradeoffs that are not-so-visible to others until they are 50 levels deep, with sunk investments, unwilling to go back to how they used to do things.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-29 00:51:45+00:00
is float:clear still a thing? I remember being a thing 15-20 years ago? I can't remember needing it in the last 10+

white-space seems pretty straight forward: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space

vertical-align, yea, alignment in general is hard and IMO it's hard because it's a hard topic in general, CSS or native. but yea, it's not "vertical-align"
by milindsoni | 2025-08-29 00:51:55+00:00
I built a voice-controlled map where an AI can see exactly where you're looking and describe those locations with the OpenAI Realtime API.

Its a very simple setup where, as you pan and zoom around the map, the AI receives your current coordinates, zoom level, and visible area. Now I can add tools like get the internet speed or weather for that area and I will have a Voice Controlled Map.
by sokoloff | 2025-08-29 00:54:03+00:00
There aren't two "girl-girl" states, because of the stated assumption in the problem:

> Assume the family is selected at random because they have at least one girl.

Given that plus "a family has two children" and "Assume that the probability of having a girl or boy is 50%"

That means you're starting from the set of all two child families: BB, BG, GB, and GG, being told that you do not have the BB case, leaving 3 ways in which the family could be composed and being asked about "the one which is not a G".

That's different from the dime and quarter case, and would also be different if you were told "the oldest child is a girl", because being told "the oldest child is a girl" eliminates both BB and BG.

Being told "[at least] one of the coins is heads" or "[at least] one of the kids is a girl" only eliminates one of the four cases, while being told "the quarter is heads"/"the oldest is a girl" eliminates two cases.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-29 00:55:42+00:00
I'm not upset that you don't know me, and I'm fine with people saying AI isn't for them. I even acknowledge that cursor jockeying is only marginally better than hand coding in many cases.

That's a very different situation from having an intensive conversation with an AI to generate a formalized CUE spec with correctness guards, E2E testing specifications, etc, then decomposing that spec into lanes and dispatching a swarm of agents to build it, review work, implement e2e tests/QA, etc. They're both AI, but one is vibe coding and one is autonomous engineering.
by AstralStorm | 2025-08-29 00:57:27+00:00
The claim is false, as long as they are unable to change the form of the government they tend to flame out and lose support quickly, because there's not that much substance behind their populism. They tend to have no real plan that's why different from a typical warlord, just on a slightly bigger scale.

Unless they go to war...

The real issue is that nobody with any degree of power really cares.
by Defletter | 2025-08-29 00:57:58+00:00
The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-29 00:59:21+00:00
This was an interesting article but it doesn't really provide solutions. I watched a few tech talks teaching a new API. Most slides were split, left side bullet poitns, right side either code or an image. As I was watching I was thinking "isn't this supposed to be almost the worst style"? but I was also thinking "I can't think of any way to do this better". It's an API. It requires examples. And it requires something describing what to concentrate on, what the example or image is showing.

I've been the plenty of great talks with just images, no words. But they fit the type of talk. I'm not sure an API talk would be better without bullet points. If you know of some to reference, please post links.
by numa7numa7 | 2025-08-29 00:59:42+00:00
> We already have two incompatible visions of what America should be. One side wants a multi-ethnic democracy with a social safety net. The other wants a white Christian ethnostate with unlimited corporate power.

Isn't JD Vance married to an Indian lady?

The article is very interesting and smart and well written with some really great ideas, but I think there may be a little bit of hyperbole which Im still ok with.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-29 01:00:00+00:00
> When Apple created iOS it was a closed platform. When they added the ability to create third party native apps they were clear that the platform would be a walled garden.

It clearly was not a closed platform in the way that Apple believed. It never should have been closed. I own my devices, so I get to decide what they run. It’s my electricity driving the chips, so I decide which bits get flipped. Simple as.

I do hear you, I just don’t know if I have the same perception of the facts on the ground. Google and Apple should be compelled to support users’ decisions about whether to defer to the corporate overlords, or not.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-29 01:00:00+00:00
Ok, so the states fall, but not before existing for at least a generation and in some cases effectively an entire working life:

- Francoist Spain: 40 years.

- Pinochet Chile: 17 years.

- Salazar Portugal: 36 years.

If you were 22 when Pinochet took power for example you didn't see the end until 39. Your best years lost. And that's the "lite" version. (I ignored Italy because of WW2)

If the US MAGA contingent gloms on to this fascism malarkey by anointing a true believer after Trumps inevitable death (he is pushing 80, after all) we would be looking at decades of loss.
by bcrl | 2025-08-29 01:00:09+00:00
Last month there was noise about canceling 18A for a lack of customers (see https://www.globalsmt.net/advanced-packaging/intel-may-aband...) whereas this month they're peddling products on 18A for customers to buy?

It's getting close to impossible to understand what the messaging is from Intel right now. Does 18A work? Will it have any longevity? No idea.

Nothing scares customers off ICs faster than confusion.
by nostrademons | 2025-08-29 01:00:41+00:00
It saves you time until you realize that those status flags are orthogonal. It's very common for a job to be both is_started and is_queued, for example. And a simple is_failed status enum is problematic once you add retries, and can have a failed job enter the queue to be started again.

KISS, YAGNI, and then actually analyze your requirements to understand what the mature schema looks like. A boolean is the simplest thing that can possibly work, usually. Do that first and see how your requirements evolve, then build the database schema that reflects your actual requirements.
by utyop22 | 2025-08-29 01:00:53+00:00
This doesn't just apply to software development - it applies across the board in any form of knowledge.

An example would be economics - an LLM can spit out a bunch of words about an economic model. But if you don't take the time to learn, visualise and understand it for yourself - it means nothing to you. And in that case, if you already possess mastery why would you waste your resources playing around with an inferior tool to you?

You wouldn't.
by dcre | 2025-08-29 01:01:09+00:00
Already in your first point you are mixing up two claims Ed also likes to mix up. The funny thing is these claims are in direct conflict with each other. There is the question of whether people find AI worth paying for given what they get. You seem to think this is in some doubt, meanwhile here are tons of people paying for it, some even begging to be allowed to pay more in order to get more. The labs have revenue growing 20% per month. So I think that version of the point is absurd on its face. (And that's exactly why my thing about the cost-quality tradeoff being real is relevant. At least we agree on the relationship between these points.)

Ed doesn’t really make that argument anymore. The more recent form of the point is: yes, clearly people are willing to pay for it, but only because the providers are burning VC money to sell it below cost. If sold at a profit, customers would no longer find it worth it. But that’s completely different from what you’re saying. And I also think that’s not true, for a few reasons: mostly that selling near cost is the simplest explanation for the similarity of prices between providers. And now recently we have both Altman and Amodei saying their companies are selling inference at a profit.
by js2 | 2025-08-29 01:01:20+00:00
> There was actually an exercise done to work this out, at the direction of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB). [...] In the CAIB’s scenario, Atlantis would have launched with a four-person crew: two pilots, and two EVA mission specialists. [...]

> A Columbia rescue mission would have been the most monumentally difficult and epic space mission in history, and it would have required absolutely everything going right to bring the crew home safely. But NASA has shown time and again its ability to rise to the occasion and bring its formidable engineering and piloting expertise to bear. Instead, the worst instincts of the agency - to micromanage and engage in wishful thinking instead of clear-eyed analysis - doomed the crew.

https://www.quora.com/If-NASA-had-known-ahead-of-time-Columb...

A much more deeply researched article here:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue...
by tedk-42 | 2025-08-29 01:01:26+00:00
I draw the line at if you write code, you're not just a 'packaging' company you're another software company.

Might not be the 'purest' of code, but that's really just vanity to speak like that (as is referring to them as a 'packaging' company).

I highly doubt assembly engineers think of web developers as just 'packaging' their OS calls.
by Balgair | 2025-08-29 01:01:58+00:00
As a former gear head there is also the perception issue.

Look, no way about it, most of the drivers of muscle cars today are grey headed old men. They're the only ones that can afford them.

The next big demo for muscle cars is via exorbitant leases that select for idiots. Which yeah, now we're talking younger men with testosterone, at least.

Being an old man now too, I'm fairly certain that dumb testosterone laden guys with a loud and fast car are still gonna get the girls, but I can't be 100 on that anymore.

Still thats the next demo down. It's mostly old farts on Harleys and in Mustangs (unless you're near Paris Island or San Diego, of course)
by aurareturn | 2025-08-29 01:02:01+00:00
Retirement age in China has been around 55. If you go to China, you’ll see a ton of older retired people traveling around the country on high speed trains. You won’t find that many young people during day time. So that factor into GDP per capita.

But besides GDP per capita, I think your criticism of GDP PPP per capita is wrong. You can live a very decent life in China. In some ways, it’s superior to Americans for many Chinese people. You just have to go to China to see it for yourself.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-29 01:02:38+00:00
Scott, I would fix the intro a little bit. This comes off as heartless:

> Zionism, to define it in one sentence, is the proposition that, in the situation described, you have not merely a right but a moral obligation to pull the lever

I agree with you, fwiw, but the way it is phrased is very off putting. You need to emphasize, prior to losing your audience here, the gravity and recognized moral difficulty of the choice.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-29 01:03:53+00:00
To each, their own, I guess. Yeah, I get needing 4WD for snow and mountains and reasonable capabilities suitable for farm and work, but excess is excess. I also don't understand why people put up with highway princess trucks that cost $60k+. My dad's shop '78 Chevy C-10 Scottsdale lacked headrests, cupholders, and a radio only the latter of which was added. You used to be able able to buy cheap-ish fleet trims of trucks if you didn't want a bunch of plastic and extra nonsense, I don't know if that's still the case; I wonder if Toyota makes fleet versions of Tundras (made near where I live) or Tacomas (if they're not discontinuing tacos) given it doesn't sell Hi-Lux here.
by extraisland | 2025-08-29 01:04:05+00:00
> I suspect, as with programming languages, some people think in a way that makes it easy for them and others think in a way that makes it hard.

No that often isn't the case. What is usually the case is that people don't bother the learning the basics. CSS is very easy. You can literally mess about with it on the fly in the browser and instantly see the result.

It is easier now than it has ever been. Since all the browsers for the most part implement the standards properly. Safari is the only standout and all the issues with that are well known.

> In large part because the syntax is ugly, but also because it just doesn't "mesh" with me. If I'm reading it or writing it, I always feel like I'm having to decode it. But I can easily and happily work with some programming languages that most devs would cross the street to avoid.

It is probably because you haven't learned the basics.

Whenever anyone has issues understanding CSS, they haven't bothered learning the basics and think they can flub their way through doing it.

I don't understand what is ugly about the syntax.

<some element selector> { property_1: <some value> property_2: <some other value> }

It is about as straight forward as it could be. The difficulty with CSS is organisation as the web app becomes larger. There are well documented strategies on how to do this.

> As a user, nothing would thrill me more than if web pages just stopped using JS, though, so I am very happy that there is a feasible alternative to doing that that web devs could enjoy!

Non-trivial functionality requires JS. Basic Websites rarely require JS. So I am not sure what you are trying to say here.