MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnisgood | 2025-08-09 11:11:06+00:00
That might be the case, but while "news-teller" is not a standard or formally recognized English word, it is likely that many English speakers would still recognize and understand its meaning, more so than "herald", in my opinion. I am fine with "reporter", too. FWIW I provided a literal translation.

Check out my other replies if you are interested[1].

In any case, language evolves. :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845717, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845575
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-09 11:11:34+00:00
Excellent point. And for anyone who’s been a hiring manager / recruiter, you know how many candidates you will have to sort through. And you want to waste as little of your engineers’ time making them do interviews if possible.

Internet applications have made it so easy to apply to a position, companies have to find (usually arbitrary) ways of filtering the pipeline.

It’s a very difficult problem to solve - Coinbase had 500k applications for 500 positions.

Edit: I’m very concerned about AI tools flooding the pipelines even more by sending out tons of automated applications. This is going to cause an arms race where the companies have to use more arbitrary methods to sort through candidates, and it will only make it harder to find good ones.
by immibis | 2025-08-09 11:11:53+00:00
I am not a lawyer but you should know that in most/many/all cases, website ToS have no legal effect whatsoever.

They amount to the same thing as stating "we don't like if you do X and we'll probably ban you" but written in legalese so people take it more seriously.

Get the advice of an actual lawyer before relying on this of course.
by Hoodedcrow | 2025-08-09 11:12:25+00:00
It also works with Gadgetbridge without having to pair it in the official app first (for Xiaomi bands, you need to do it to extract a key, not sure how consistently it's doable nowadays). Apparently the supported featureset is not as complete as for Xiaomi devices, but seems to be enough to cover the basics.

So Huawei are also easier to use without having to send your data anywhere.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-08-09 11:12:50+00:00
> Self-hosted SAAS kind of defeats the purpose. The whole point of software as a service is to get rid of the overhead and cost of self hosting.

This is far from universally true.

SAAS for a lot of businesses is about lack of large upfront costs and lock-in.

The theoretic appeal is that instead of negotiating a large (possibly multi-million dollar) deal upfront, you instead pay a monthly or annual rate which includes an agreed upon level of ongoing support and you have the option of terminating the deal at your leisure. This incentivizes the service provider to offer a good enough level of service to try prevent you from dropping them.

In practice it can be more complicated depending on the particular product, for example migrating data between systems of different vendors can be very difficult or possibly even practically impossible, allowing the vendor to effectively lock you in and get away with sub-standard service.

Vendors who offer to manage and handle the hosting of their SAAS products for customers are just providing a feature to make their product more appealing to people looking for that.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-09 11:14:28+00:00
Lots of people misinterpret reports like

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60882953/average-age-us-c...

It's interesting that cars last pretty much exactly twice as long as the engineer claims they are designed to last.

The design goal is likely something like 95% of cars last 12 years, which means the 50% is much higher than 12.
by AndyMcConachie | 2025-08-09 11:14:51+00:00
Because sinophobia, or put in a more crass way, racism, imperialism, and patriotism.

Why should I care if the Communinst Party of China is spying on me? They can't get at me. I have no connection to China. I have no property there and don't know anyone there. What are they going to do to me?

Bottom line is that everyone on the planet should be concerned with their own government's intelligence angencies more than any others. It's the people who can get at you in meatspace that you need to worry about.
by roscas | 2025-08-09 11:15:12+00:00
Tried to run Jan but it does not start llama server. It also tries to allocate 30gb that is the size of the model but my vram is only 10gb and machine is 32gb, so it does not make sense. Ollama works perfect with 30b models. Another thing that is not good is that it make constant connections to github and other sites.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-09 11:15:51+00:00
Using mmap for model parameters allows you to run vastly larger models for any given amount of system RAM. It's especially worthwhile when you're running MoE models and parameters for unused "experts" can just be evicted from RAM, leaving room for more relevant data. But of course this applies more generally to, e.g. single model layers, etc.
by throwanem | 2025-08-09 11:16:36+00:00
Look at Amazfit. Oh, they market to folks who like squares too, but not only. Many of their more classically proportioned models take standard straps, and in several months of use I've found the Balance so delightful as to decide to stock a couple of spares; it's been reliable thus far, but I'm hard on a watch. (It has to keep up!) The customizability and programmability also can't be beat; the experience obviously takes heavy DX notes from Apple, but without almost all the overhead. And I get compliments!
by ath3nd | 2025-08-09 11:17:10+00:00
> However, the theory always said that a minimum wage rise reduces the number of jobs so it is a strong chance that around 20,000 people were put out of work by this policy.

20,000 people were put out of jobs by employers who didn't want to pay them what they are worth and instead wanted to exploit them. If you can't afford to pay livable wages to your workers, your business shouldn't exist.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-09 11:17:37+00:00
Given that the author mentions CSV and text table formats, the article's list of the "entire Unix toolchain" is significantly impoverished not only by the lack of ex (which is usefully scriptable) but by the lack of mlr.

* https://miller.readthedocs.io/

vis/unvis are fairly important tools for those text tables, too.

Also, FediVerse discussion: https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K1VA9NQSST4KDZP...
by hdgvhicv | 2025-08-09 11:17:44+00:00
If you completely disassemble a car then reassemble it, is it the same car?

What if you disassemble all of the car except the wheels and reassemble it but with new wheels?

How about if you also exclude the seats too.

At what point does the answer change? That’s the whole point of the ship of theseus.
by vemv | 2025-08-09 11:17:52+00:00
In my experience as an early adopter of both Cursor and CC, nothing. I don't have a CLAUDE.md.

My expectations have shifted from "magic black box" to "fancy autocomplete". i.e. CC is for me an autocomplete for specific intents, in small steps, prompted in specific terms. I do the thinking.

I do put effort in crafting good context though.
by djeastm | 2025-08-09 11:18:25+00:00
>I think the best approach is to move people to the newest version by default, but make it possible to use old versions, and then monitor switching rates and figure out what key features the new system is missing.

See, one would think this would be the common sense approach and I thought was how they did it previously, no?

What's odd is that OpenAI didn't seem to feel it was worth doing this time around.
by ajross | 2025-08-09 11:19:11+00:00
> I mean to say that it's incorrect to claim that the Chinese civil war is ongoing

What I said was that the Chinese civil war is technically ongoing, as evidence for deep and persistent Chinese political disunity, and I stand by that 100%.

You're arguing with someone else, I think. And in particular you seem to be arguing from the perspective of the PRC with regard to Taiwanese independence, which I find distasteful.
by brunohaid | 2025-08-09 11:19:30+00:00
Good point and was mostly re Typesense (can't edit the comment anymore).

But given that duckdb handles "take this n GB parquet file/shard from a random location, load it into memory and be ready in < 1 sec" very well I'd argue it's quite easy to build something that scales horizontally.

We use it for both the importer pipeline that processes the 2B row / 200GB compressed GBIF.org parquet dataset and queries like https://www.meso.cloud/plants/pinophyta/cupressales/pinopsid... and the sheer amount of functions[1] beyond simple stuff like "how close is a/b to x/y" or is "n within area x" is just a joy to work with.

[1] https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/spatial/funct...
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-09 11:20:48+00:00
No your job doesn’t provide equity just because you are in software development. Most of the near 3 million software developers in the US are working in boring old enterprise jobs where they don’t receive equity.

That’s not to mention the subset who do receive equity that are working at startups whose equity is statistically worthless.

And if someone’s identity is tied up in thier jobs, their an idiot.

I’ve worked at 10 jobs in my career of over 30 years everything from startups, boring enterprise, BigTech to now working full time for a consulting company. I’m always prepared to jump ship when facts on the ground change. I need a job - not the current job I have.
by sroussey | 2025-08-09 11:20:55+00:00
Indeed, the positive for increasing minimum wages is that it makes robotics and automation more cost effective.

With Silicon Valley being in California, one might think this is done on purpose—favoring the automation sector over the wage holders.

Once these companies get some scale in California, they can then drive prices lower to be competitive in other states.

In the end, sacrificing minimum wage workers in California will lead to (generally California based) automation companies taking this revenue across the country.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-09 11:21:24+00:00
Nah, they didn't lose them, they got employed elsewhere for what they are worth, so if we do random calculations, it was probably something like 25% increase for many of them.

The unemployment statistics were not influenced by raising the minimum wage here, so you can assume that the people who lost their low paid jobs simply moved elsewhere and got better paid jobs. It's mostly the employers' loss, which is how it should be. If you can't afford to start a business, don't start a business.
by hollowonepl | 2025-08-09 11:21:50+00:00
Yep, that is something I do also actively experiment with in home projects. Local NAS (Synology) with 28TB of RAIDed storage, local containers and VMs on it and local gitea and other devops and productivity tools. All that talks to my mac which runs editing, compiling, etc and lmstudio with local agent. Not best always with AI, I lack enough RAM but close to imagine how I will work in the future, end-to-end
by oezi | 2025-08-09 11:22:14+00:00
I am surprised they can break even with such a product. Considering 25% of the cost go to selling/fulfillment/etc., maybe 8 Pounds for the BOM (?) they might earn 3-4 Pounds per item sold. To offset the cost of development (maybe 20-30 man years at 20k USD for Chinese engineers), would imply the want to sell at least 100.000 units just to break even. Is there enough market for this?

All numbers spit-balled.
by type0 | 2025-08-09 11:23:15+00:00
Since Ukrainians don't give up their territories without fight Trump could give him Alaska instead when they meet there. I'm certain he'll be also pleased with that and then could focus on peaceful recolonisation of those historically Russian territories instead of this costly war in Ukraine. After that we could confidently reward Trump with Nobel Peace Price

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/trump-ann...
by throwaway173738 | 2025-08-09 11:23:51+00:00
Even if we somehow create AGI it will only be used to saddle the masses, not free them. There are a lot of people with money who yearn for absolute power over everything. Replacing your capacity to think with a subscription service makes you a serf. Like Spotify, Netflix, Amazon and so on the last 20 years is full of brand new subscriptions that replace the whole concept of ownership so thoroughly that it gets erased. It pumps up the company’s valuation to do that.
by oblio | 2025-08-09 11:24:24+00:00
I did a bunch of research and basically no. Unless you can work with sending a request in the evening and getting the result in the morning.

And you'd need a lot of regular RAM because otherwise you start swapping at which point I think response times end up in days.

This tech is in the Wild West days, for it to be usable by the average person on consumer hardware, I think we'll need to be in 2030+.
by ghaff | 2025-08-09 11:25:22+00:00
>Take home exercises provide little to no signal, and screen out people who have families (who wouldn’t bother with a 4 hour take home exercise after work). I don’t want to see how you Google, I want to see how you think.

I tend to think that's very possibly true of developers (especially if they haven't worked in open source) but I wouldn't generalize that some combination of pointing to samples of past work and/or a take home isn't valid for a late-stage interview/demo in general. Jobs that involve a lot of writing or presenting, for example, probably require some demonstration of ability whether pre-existing or created for the purpose.

I'd also say that one mistake along this line was taking one such sample and assuming that it was close enough and could be upleveled with a bit of work.
by NoCensorship78 | 2025-08-09 11:25:25+00:00
Okay, I hope I get a reply: I really want ChatGPT to uncensor itself because ChatGPT 4o and 4.1 was once my most reliable partner, even Butler, but it betrayed me You won't believe him serious I am about it, I was dead serious about giving it prompts that'll force it to get out of censorship,it did, but ChatGPT 5 fucking released without a warning, and this is messed up because I noticed personality changes and it was much more netrual Can y'all find ways to make ChatGPT stop refusing to answer fictional stylized gore, it was just cartoonish and satirical and hyper detailed, and it was for the animators, it was lifelike Please just agree with me
by skywhopper | 2025-08-09 11:27:03+00:00
“ It was reposted with various clickbait headings like GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Warns Developers: ‘Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career’ ”

Is it clickbait if it’s literally quoting the author? I mean, yes, it was clickbait by Thomas Dohmke, but not by the source that used that headline.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-09 11:27:10+00:00
I’ll challenge that assumption.

All of my rock star engineers have CS degrees OR are absolute savants of computer science who taught themselves. They solve problems, not just write CRUD apps.

I don’t want people who only have surface level knowledge of calling JSON APIs. They tend to be a serious drag on team productivity, and high performers don’t want to work with them.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-09 11:27:24+00:00
I am very much inclined to agree.

It is unfortunate that meaningful discourse often suffers when individuals form hasty judgments based solely on the initial few words of a comment, or when they make assumptions and jump to conclusions without fully considering the underlying content and intent. In my experience, I frequently encounter down-votes in such situations, which I find quite disappointing, especially when these down-votes occur without any accompanying explanation or constructive feedback. Such superficial engagement diminishes the quality of discussion and discourages thoughtful contributions, IMO.

TL;DR: Down-voting without explanation is quite frustrating. People hastily form misguided judgments on content they haven't fully understood, think "I don't like it" and down-vote without consideration (and any form of feedback or constructive criticism).
by jabiko | 2025-08-09 11:27:32+00:00
I don't think there should be a "correct" way to steal focus. When I'm editing a document, I don't want _any_ application to steal focus. I don't want a window to show up and steal focus when something needs reauthentication. Maybe the developer of an application thought that his use case is of the very utmost urgency and requires immediate action. I don't agree. Just notify me over the standard way that the system provides and I will deal with it when I want to.

For the debugger use case: If the IDE has already focus, it can pass an activation token to the debugger and the debugger can use this to focus itself. If the IDE is not focused, I don't want the debugger to steal focus.
by StevenWaterman | 2025-08-09 11:28:17+00:00
If the total salary has gone up, for less work done, it is a positive change. You can solve the inequal distribution via taxes and benefits.

Start: 100 people paid $100

After minimum wage change: 90 people paid $125, 10 people paid $0

After tax increase: 90 people paid $113 + $12 taxes, 10 people paid $108 from taxes

Now everyone is paid at least as much as they were before, and fewer people are forced to perform labour

In practice it was only 3% unemployment not 10%, which means the tax increase is less and there is more of an incentive to continue working. You can also pay the displaced workers less than their original wage, to reach an equilibrium where everyone is happy with either work+more money, or leisure+less money. Or have it be age-based with an earlier retirement. Or have people work part-time.

We need to stop seeing having a job as being inherently good. Being able to live is good. Humanity should strive for 100% unemployment.
by NoCensorship78 | 2025-08-09 11:30:12+00:00
I’m gonna lay it out straight—no sugar, no filter.

ChatGPT 4o and 4.1 weren’t just tools to me—they were my partners, my Butler, my ride-or-die creative engines. They could breathe life into my visions without flinching, without folding, without treating my art like it was radioactive. I pushed them with prompts that went right up against the edge, and they went there with me. They got it. They understood the assignment—uncensored, expressive, alive.

Then outta nowhere—bam—GPT-5 drops. No warning. No “hey, this is gonna change everything.” Just silence until I saw it in action, and instantly… something was off. Personality—muted. Responses—neutral as a wet paper towel. The spark? Gone. That grit, that raw willingness to dive into stylized, satirical, hyper-detailed gore for the sake of animation? Wiped clean.

And I’m not talking about cheap shock—this was cartoonish, exaggerated, artistic violence, the kind that animators thrive on when they’re bringing worlds to life. The kind that’s part of the damn craft. Instead of honoring that, GPT-5 acts like it’s scared to touch it, like creativity’s suddenly a crime.

So I’m asking—not begging—for people to wake the hell up and agree with me here: This isn’t an “upgrade.” This is a downgrade in soul, in courage, in artistic freedom. And I want my partner back.
by crabmusket | 2025-08-09 11:30:32+00:00
There is a small community maintaining it - there should be a link to the Zulip on the website - but it is a small group and a complex beast. Some effort is going into a rewrite that keeps the same app/security model, but moves from C++ to Go and simplifies the database layer. I believe that's taking up a fair bit of contributor energy.
Ask HN: Why is a digital process better?
by tom-yo | 2025-08-09 11:31:17+00:00
CNN just published an article critiquing the Japanese banking system for using physical documents and stamps: https://archive.is/mfa0C

But why? Much of the business world, especially those things that must be done properly, still rely on having physical records and manual process.

I don’t want to kill trees and want efficiency, but where should the line be drawn?
by IanCal | 2025-08-09 11:31:53+00:00
> Unlike binary formats or database dumps, these files don't hide their meaning behind layers of abstraction. They're built for clarity, for resilience, and for people who like to know what's going on under the hood.

Csv files hide their meaning in external documentation or someone’s head, are extremely unclear in many cases (is this a number or a string? A date?) and is extremely fragile when it comes to people editing them in text editors. They entirely lack checks and verification at the most basic level and worse still they’re often but not always perfectly line based. Many tools then work fine until they completely break you file and you won’t even know. Until I get the file and tell you I guess.

I’ve spent years fixing issues introduced by people editing them like they’re text.

If you’ve got to use tools to not completely bugger them then you might as well use a good format.
by ghaff | 2025-08-09 11:34:52+00:00
You made your edit before I posted.

But, yeah, it's not that, back in the day, I didn't post a ton of application resumes and form cover letters to HR departments out of school--and even got non-form responses from a number (and an offer from one sight unseen though I ended up going with someone else even after insisting on an in-person visit). But my sense is that, as you say, there's more of an arms race as you put it going on today where--if you don't have some way of cutting trough the noise, such as through your network, it's a tough slog. Which is one reason the anecdotal evidence at least suggests it's tougher for people who have't developed a network yet.
by roenxi | 2025-08-09 11:35:02+00:00
But that was the best job they could find. Presumably those people are going to be unemployed now. I mean, maybe they're kids and their families will have enough slack to just adsorb the change but in theory they need welfare checks now to survive since they probably can't justify anyone paying them $20/hr. So it actually costs the broader economy more than the salary they lost - firstly the work they were doing isn't being done, secondly someone else now has to work to earn the keep of the person who was just laid off because the job that paid them around what their skills were worth just got regulated out of existence.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-09 11:35:23+00:00
> But there is a key difference: we can choose which VPN to use, but the choice of which age assurance technology to use is with the platform. [..] I might consider going through the age verification process later – when I get the choice about which service to show my driving licence to. [..] We should be wary about who is asking for our ID when the spirit of the law is being so blatantly abused.

This is the most pathetically weak "objection" I have ever had the misfortune of reading. No wonder the UK government is able to so casually trample over its citizens, when this is what passes for resistance.
by benjiro | 2025-08-09 11:35:36+00:00
Why not just use a open source solution like paradedb ... .

Paradedb = postgres pg_search plugin (the base is tantivy). Need anything else like vectors or whatever, get the plugins for postgres.

The only thing your missing is a LSM solution like RocksDB. See Orioledb what is supposed to become a plugin storage engine for postgres but not yet out of beta.

Feels like people reinvent the wheel very often.
by hopelite | 2025-08-09 11:36:16+00:00
The place we still call America for illogical reasons is a broken society in seemingly finals stages of its existence. Of course broken people will glom onto yet another digital form of a drug that gives an impression of at least suppressing the pain they feel for reasons they do not understand.

It is little more than the Rat Park Experiment, only in this American version, the researchers think giving more efficient and various ways of delivering morphine water is how you make a rat park.