MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phba | 2025-08-01 19:24:53+00:00
Not sure how you would define better, but I can provide some anecdata.

At one of my previous jobs we counted the number of bugs that every dev introduced, so when you fix a bug you blame the problematic code (two clicks with a simple IDE addon), and the dev who wrote it gets a point in their statistic.

We used this feedback to prepare individual training. Many bugs were introduced due to not understanding the purpose of a module and why the code was written in a specific way, so we organized meetings to clear that up.

Those who did well in the coding interview had significantly fewer bugs during onboarding. However, over time most devs were able to reduce their bug count to roughly the same level (the problems weren't too complex, at some point you had seen it all).
by ofalkaed | 2025-08-01 19:25:15+00:00
Developing repair skills beyond those offered by most guitar shops is not a high bar considering most shops don't offer repair and just have a "tech" whose training stops at intonation and truss rod adjustment, the stuff required for basic setup. Personally, I think every guitarist should learn setup even if they plan on paying someone to do it, it is not difficult or time consuming to learn and if you can tune a guitar you can do a setup. I did not challenge anyone and to suggest I did is a misrepresentation, not an oversimplification.

>Your attitude toward playing seems like my attitude toward my profession, which I'm actually good at.

It is the attitude required to get good .
by twoodfin | 2025-08-01 19:25:26+00:00
My view of the history is that Steve wanted to take the Mac simultaneously in two directions: Get the “classic” Mac cheaper and more capable for home users, and build out a “Big Mac” line of workstation/business machines.

Both of these eventually happened despite him getting fired, but the Mac II series was only a workstation in the hardware sense.

IIRC, Steve had negotiated the UNIX license for Apple before he left. Given where NeXT went, I wonder if a Steve-driven “Mac II” would have included the OS rearchitecture that was otherwise delayed a decade by his absence.
by EA-3167 | 2025-08-01 19:25:29+00:00
As is also pointed out ad nauseam, the claims made about autopilot (Tesla) go far beyond the name, partly because they sold a lot of cars on lies about imminent "FSD" and partly because as always Elon Musk can't keep his mouth shut. The issue isn't just the name, it's that the name was part of a full-court-press to mislead customers and probably regulators.
by ilc | 2025-08-01 19:25:56+00:00
Disclaimer: Volunteer Svalboard Firmware Dev.

For most people the south keys and center are easier to press and more importantly hold. I don't care much about directions anymore, except for holding down keys.

Layout is a personal thing, we use Vial, so different people have different layouts, mine has a ton of mnemonics in it. It's really up to the user what they want, I'd be surprised if there are 2 Svalboards with the same layout. (Maybe stock when they are starting out, but people develop their own opinions pretty quickly.)
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 19:25:58+00:00
I understand and sympathize with the desire to directly equate every current social issue no matter how small with a social issue from the past as part of a larger "chain of social progress" because I think it originates with the desire to correct past injustices and treat everyone with respect and decency.

I disagree that this is a useful or accurate way to engage in discussion about an entirely different and specific subject in an entirely different context. The only way they are related is with this "chain of social progress" framework, and even within that framework, they are not the same issue.

I perceive it to be a dismissive approach which shuts down conversation, and I think it's clear when viewed plainly in the opposite direction: "If you have concerns with any of the political messaging in children's shows, you would not allow a person of a different race into your swimming pool", or in a slightly different way, "If you have concerns about this you are explicitly the "bad guy"".
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-01 19:26:36+00:00
> In nearly every case of RTO, there was no recorded dip in productivity associated with the move to remote work.

I've seen this repeated often, and I've never seen any convincing evidence to support it. The studies I have seen always focus on "task-based" roles, where productivity is easily measured and everything is very well-defined. Think call center employees, stuff like that, where they're simply measuring call volumes.

But execs are clearly more worried about the general "disattachment" people have with their job when they're working remotely, and they're worried about reductions in innovation and collaborative idea generation. Those kinds of concerns are much more difficult to measure in a short term study, but I think they're very valid.

Since those things are difficult to measure, I'm not saying there is good evidence one way or the other on remote work's effect on those things. I am saying I think it's disingenuous and just a bad argument to say remote work has no impact on productivity.
by ineedasername | 2025-08-01 19:26:39+00:00
Maybe he would have pulled over if the car’s capabilities hadn’t been oversold. Two entities did stupid things: 1) The person by not waiting to pull over because Elon Musk’s false claims, and 2) Tesla via Elon Musk making those false claims.

It passes a classic “but for…” test in causality.
by petcat | 2025-08-01 19:26:44+00:00
There is definitely a lot of links in this chain. Maybe leafo [1] can chime-in and say exactly what happened. But I suspect that someone downstream of Visa/Mastercard anticipated that the payment card processors would not permit the transactions and relayed that back up to the merchants, and they shut it off preemptively.

But it's hard to say. Mastercard is now saying that they never said or did anything. So where did the outrage come from? Someone must have done something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=leafo
by jcoby | 2025-08-01 19:27:16+00:00
> But in the age of internet streaming, wouldn't rural areas still have access to stream public radio?

Sometimes streaming isn't an option. When Helene hit WNC we lost power, cell, internet, and water all at the same time. The local NPR stations were the only ones broadcasting updates on a regular cadence so we could learn what in the world was going on. And we're not far from downtown Asheville.

Some extremely rural areas only have spotty internet or no internet or cell at all and public radio is the only thing they have.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-01 19:27:41+00:00
The danger was perceived precisely because it's rare and uncommon and the whole thing unusual. It's the only time I've every personally encountered something like this, so it made me believe that this woman knew exactly what she was doing and we interpreted her words as an insinuated threat. Why else would she say something like that about a man who everyone could clearly see was just trying to help? No, there was no confusion. Whatever she was up to was malicious.

Because it's so uncommon is why my dad was even going around trying to help this girl in the first place, because he never imagined something like that happening. But then we got a hint of it, and decided to just disengage and not risk it.
by bangaladore | 2025-08-01 19:27:43+00:00
> feature called Autopilot functions as a true autopilot

What's a "true autopilot"? In airplanes, autopilot systems traditionally keep heading, altitude, and speed, but pilots are still required to monitor and take over when necessary. It's not hands-off or fully autonomous.

I would argue you are creating a definition of "autopilot" that most people do not agree with.
by Tetraslam | 2025-08-01 19:27:53+00:00
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by thevillagechief | 2025-08-01 19:27:57+00:00
My point here is that "strong institutions" were supposed to stem this tide. Of course, I should have thought through who made up these institutions. In some ways institutions kind of held up pretty well 2016-2020. Which is why I was a little less worried. But looks like that was a dry run. The efficiency with which this is happening now is shocking. Honestly, I'm kind of impressed. If we applied this much efficiency constructively in the US, we'd probably see post-war prosperity levels. I imagine even NASA would approach the 1960s productivity.
by deadbabe | 2025-08-01 19:28:09+00:00
The premise of your argument relies on the idea that engineers are commodities, and any engineer is easily replaced with another engineer for similar results.

Unfortunately (for you), some engineers are just better than others. The right engineers on your team can make or break your company. It can mean the difference between being first to market with innovative game changing solutions, or putting out a shitty product filled with defects and poor design choices.

And experience has consistently shown that the best engineers tend to be American or American educated.

So yea, you can hug your fantastic offshore engineers tightly and treasure them. But the fact is if they are as good as you say, they should easily be commanding higher salaries that justify the kind of ROI they bring to a company. Why go cheap on the salary for an engineer who could 10x your revenue? If they're not being paid those high salaries, then you're exploiting them. And worse: they can easily be poached by competitors who offer to pay them twice as much as you, leaving you with the problem of finding new hires again.
Show HN: Aya – Open-source AI assistant that gives live hints during sales calls
by jonathanlehner | 2025-08-01 19:28:23+00:00
We originally built voice agents for sales training - basically AI role-play partners to help reps practice pitches and handle objections. Problem was even we stopped using it. Setting aside time for practice felt like overhead, and simulated scenarios never matched real conversations.

So we tried a different approach: instead of practicing fake calls, get help during real ones. Aya sits on your desktop and watches sales meetings. When someone raises an objection or asks something unexpected, it suggests responses or pulls up relevant info about their company.

The multimodal part is what makes it different - it's not just transcribing audio, but seeing your screen and understanding context from multiple inputs in real-time.

We open sourced it because the concept feels like it could work in other verticals too - education, customer support, even job interviews. But we're just one team focused on sales. Want to see what the community builds with it and where else this real-time AI assistance makes sense.

Built with Electron and LiveKit for screen recording. Runs in a transparent window so it's there but not intrusive. Still figuring out the privacy aspects of having AI watch your calls.

Try it: https://aya.miraipitch.com/ Code: https://github.com/MiraiPitch/Aya-Assistant

What do you think?
by chatmasta | 2025-08-01 19:28:24+00:00
IANAL, but it’s almost certainly legal, as long as all parties involved adhere to the applicable non-disclosure agreements, non-compete agreements, and intellectual property provisions of their employment contracts. Even then it’s likely to remain a civil matter in most cases.

Companies can sue each other for nearly anything, so any level of this behavior could result in a lawsuit. It wouldn’t cross the line into criminality until it involved some fraudulent deception or blatant corporate espionage. For a recent example of that, see the ongoing litigation between Rippling and Deel. (But even that egregious espionage activity remains limited to civil court, at least for now.)
by msgodel | 2025-08-01 19:28:46+00:00
>general "disattachment" people have with their job

At least for me this is a consequence of the instability, extracurricular demands from my employer (signaling our relationship is not important to them) and deterioration in the labor market making my career less of a priority than my side projects (as at least in my mind the expected long term payout has dropped.) Being forced to commute would only exacerbate the situation.
by int_19h | 2025-08-01 19:28:47+00:00
At the moment, the only way you can tell if the model is good for a particular task is by trying it at that task. Gut feel is how you pick the models to test first, and that is also based largely on past experience and educated guesses as to what strengths translate between tasks.

You should also remember that there's no free lunch. If you see models below a certain size fail consistently, don't expect a model that is even smaller to somehow magically succeed, no matter how much pixie dust the developer advertises.
by duped | 2025-08-01 19:28:58+00:00
> But so many things (national weather service operations, HUD housing assistance, grants for local PBS stations, SNAP benefits) have a largely local or regional benefit.

You should look up which states/regions/counties provide the funding and which states/regions/counties receive the benefits, it's disproportional. Unironically, unbundling HUD, SNAP, and NWS would probably cause famine in Mississippi.
by dietr1ch | 2025-08-01 19:29:06+00:00
I'm guessing that they ran out of leeway with small tweaks and found that breaking inactive links was probably a better way out. We don't know the hit rates of what they call inactive nor the real cost it takes to keep them around.

A service like this is probably on maintenance mode too, so simplifying it to use fewer resources probably makes sense, and I bet the PMs are happy about shorter links, since at some point you are better off not using a link shortener and instead just use a QR code in fear of inconvenience and typos.
by intended | 2025-08-01 19:29:25+00:00
Progressives needed to show up at the polls as a bloc. Unfortunately, there is a pervasive belief that this is a symmetric game between Dems and Republicans.

This belief gives people a reason to expect that their protest is recognized, without doing significant harm to electoral outcomes.

This isn’t the ONLY problem here, theres reasons progressives feel disillusioned by the party, but the rule of power is that its must be grasped.

The Tea Party movement ate the Republican Party from the inside - they primaried politicians and used their Fox/Media economy well.
by HaZeust | 2025-08-01 19:29:27+00:00
>"Sadly I would have probably hired the person if they had been honest about not having direct experience in our domain, but once you catch someone lying so directly it’s hard to trust them for anything else"

I heard this time and time again, where omitting information - that would otherwise require a lie - looks better and would give a recruiter more lean towards hiring, but I highly doubt it pragmatically. Without even listing direct domain expertise in the first place, I actually doubt you would have hired them - let alone advance them to the stage of hiring that requires the vetting and scrutiny, that you did to find those inconsistencies.

I think recruiters are so soured by false notions in resumes and professional work experience (for good reason), but that they delude themselves that they'd seek to entertain those with a lack of sought-after experience in resumes and work experience at all. It's not bad to truthfully say that you wouldn't entertain either applicant in those scenarios.
by gwbrooks | 2025-08-01 19:29:31+00:00
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by arcanemachiner | 2025-08-01 19:29:38+00:00
Erlang/BEAM/Elixir stuff shows up on the front page of Hacker News pretty often, I'd say at least once per month.

Elixir was a HN darling a few years back. Publicity has somewhat waned since then.

To answer your question, I would say "no", that no particularly interesting things have emerged from that community lately. Just more stuff happened to make it to the front page. (That is not to say anything bad of the BEAM community, just that I see nothing particularly outstanding of late which would warrant such a claim.)

I would say the most recent newsworthy events would include:

- The Erlang `:ssh` module had a serious CVE that required an immediate upgrade for anyone using it.

- Gleam, a BEAM language with static typing, had a v1.0 release.

- Phoenix LiveView also reached v1.0.

- Elixir is making steady progress on the implementation of a static type system, using a novel "set theoretic" type system.

Overall, I would say that the ecosystem as a whole is progressing slowly but steadily.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 19:30:39+00:00
I mean yes the web gateway can shut, but honestly like atleast with goo.gl if things go down, then there is no way of recovering.

With the system I am presenting, I think that it can be possible to have a website like redirect.com/<some-gibberish> and even if redirect.com goes down then yes that link would stop working but what redirect.com is doing under the hood can be done by anybody so that being said,

it can be possible for someone to archive redirect.com main site which might give instructions which can give a recent list on github or some other place which can give a list of top updated working web gateways

And so anybody can go to archive.org, see that's what they meant and try it or maybe we can have some sort of slug like redirect.com/block/<random-gibberish> and then maybe people can then have it be understood to block meaning this is just a gateway (a better more niche word would help)

But still, at the end of the day there is some way of using that shortened link forever thus being permanent in some sense.

Like Imagine that someone uses goo.gl link for some extremely important document and then somehow it becomes inaccessible for whatever use case and now... Its just gone?

I think that a way to recover that could really help. But honestly, I am all in for feedback and since its 0 fees and as such I would most likely completely open source it and neither am I involved in this crypto project, I most likely will earn nothing like ever even if I do make this, but I just hope that I could help in making the internet a little less like a graveyard with dead links and help in that aspect.
by tristor | 2025-08-01 19:30:39+00:00
As a "remote work booster" who has been remote since 2015, I have absolutely no problem with a company hiring engineers and other staff in other countries at a lower rate, as long as they're hiring people who are competent. Some of my most enjoyable work experiences were on fully remote teams that crossed numerous national boundaries, because we were focused on competency above all-else. In many cases, it didn't even save the company money (good people cost a lot, regardless of where they happen to be located).

I have never seen any evidence that remote work increased offshoring, and it makes perfect sense why that would be the case. Almost all offshoring done by large companies is a /cost-cutting measure/, it is absolutely not about trying to find the best people regardless of where they are. Most of that off-shoring is to lower cost employees (regardless of competence, or in most cases incompetence) who work in an office in another country. RTO + Offshoring is a combo made in hell (but beloved by corporate executives) and basically nonexistent in remote-first companies.
by ilc | 2025-08-01 19:30:55+00:00
The Datahand / Svalboard branch is even more niche than a standard mech board. They are really designed for people who are facing injury, injured, or have been injured.

I'd encourage you to look at the Svalboard, I think it solves many of the issues you are running into. In the end, moving a large mouse is not good for someone with shoulder issues, the "Svalmouse" has been tried and solidly rejected. (Using a Svalboard hand as a mouse.)

If you want to discuss things, I'm sure you can find me on the Svalboard discord. :)
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-01 19:31:02+00:00
No one said it was all lies actually. Even the guy. He could say "I didn't sleep wih a young attendee of a conference I helped her get into, after getting her drunk at my airbnb". But he just vaguely said "fake evidence" and "short relationship". If what she said is true, "short relationship" is hella euphemism
by fireflash38 | 2025-08-01 19:31:18+00:00
Considering that reporting factual information gets blamed as left wing bullshit... I don't think your post has merit.

See: COVID, vaccines, climate change. You have one side explicitly denying what we can do with the scientific method and decades of peer reviewed research, and then blaming anyone who contradicts them as biased sources.

Comparing to Fox News is even more ridiculous. You say that them knowing they're spouting bullshit is better than the people not spouting bullshit at all?

Cmon now. Take the group that is actually trying to engage in good faith rather than the one that is knowingly producing crap. Maybe this is why people voted for Trump: he told them what he is, and they liked the honesty.
by ninala | 2025-08-01 19:31:36+00:00
Perhaps the term "canalization" fits? Coined by C.H. Waddington, describing the process of forming a chreode in a homeorhetic system. But it doesn't really encompass the "everything becomes overly generalized" concept you mentioned. Rather, it's more about robustness against perturbation of a trajectory in a conceptual space. Christopher Alexander called them 'paths in configuration space'.