MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by figassis | 2025-08-10 19:41:32+00:00
This CEO, even if he were an engineer, would probably not hire himself even though he thinks he’s the ideal specimen. He’s likely a max cash, 30u30 sort of person. But he’s not wrong if you optimize for max speed and minimum cost of hiring.

You should always aim to be the best at what you do. It does not mean that will become your card to every role. You need to complement that with drive (being able to deliver, no matter what), intelligence (being able to navigate any situation, political, personal, etc) and character (integrity with strong opinions, loosely held as well as exceptional ability to communicate and sell yourself). These are really useful because employers are thinking about how they can apply your skills to grow their business. They want to feel that they need you. They can hire a bunch of coders, but you need to be a mover, have gravity and fit into their budget (no max cash lol). This is what they want. But you should be aware of this, and position your cards so this also works out for you. Create leverage for yourself so you can negotiate better terms gradually, on future roles. As you progress you’ll gradually have the confidence to also turn down crap equity offers, ask for better terms, participation in liquidity events, etc.

Finally, comparing SWE roles with other engineering roles is a mistake. Currently there is a lot of money in these roles, and you have the opportunity to create a lot of impact very quickly. This is a role that effectively becomes more business oriented as you grow (if you choose to). So your thinking needs to evolve as well. Everything is a negotiation.

No one will play the game for your benefit. That’s your responsibility.
by lucideer | 2025-08-10 19:41:38+00:00
Unfortunately this seems to be a bug in the website.

For any representatives that have no position / position unknown, rather than the website showing them as "Unknown" as you'd expect, it just assumes their position is the position of their government's EU Council representative supports this.

Many national representatives are aligned with opposition parties within their own country, and as such it's highly likely their position will deviate from that of their government, so this is a pretty bad misrepresentation. Highly misleading.
by gostudio_ai | 2025-08-10 19:41:40+00:00
I run a small SaaS, GoStudio.ai, selling AI-generated headshots globally.

Last month, Paddle froze my account during a quarterly review, citing a KYC mismatch (my legal name didn’t match their records). They told me payouts would resume after 180 days.

For 48 hours, my checkout was down. As a temporary fix, I added a PayPal link and manually credited accounts. In parallel, I: - Contacted Paddle support and my network to escalate - Reached out to alternate providers like Dodo Payments and Polar.sh - Completed onboarding and verification with Dodo Payments - Integrated Dodo’s payments API and tested payment flows - Managed two PayPal transactions manually

Within a week: - Payments running again via Dodo Payments - Payout released from Paddle - Helpful conversations with both Paddle and Dodo teams

Lessons learned: - Keep a backup payment processor partially integrated - Understand payout hold policies before onboarding - Build payment integration layers so swapping providers takes days, not weeks

It was two days without sleep, but I now have a contingency plan for future incidents.

Anyone else got banned on Paddle recently?
by HPsquared | 2025-08-10 19:42:21+00:00
"We" being the actual decision-makers, the owners. The class who wants GDP to go up, but doesn't care about GDP per capita.

Edit: I'm undecided if it's capitalist ownership class, or a "late stage socialism running out of other people's money". Still undecided. It's probably both, which is why we're doomed.
Ask HN: A class where students design tests to stump AI but not humans?
by amichail | 2025-08-10 19:42:28+00:00
Instead of just solving problems, students create them — drawing from language, culture, logic, creativity, and real-world knowledge.

Each round, humans and an AI both try the tests. The class then analyzes the results, learns why the AI failed or succeeded, and iterates to make stronger "human advantage" challenges.

It’s part game, part lesson in AI literacy, and part exploration of what makes human thinking unique — at least for now.
by cyberax | 2025-08-10 19:43:12+00:00
That really matter for hand-to-hand combat.

So let's think about what's needed for soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat:

1. They somehow need to lose their main weapon.

2. Their sidearm.

3. Be on the front line.

4. Somehow find an enemy soldier that also lost their main weapon and the sidearm.

5. Engage in hand-to-hand combat.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-10 19:43:16+00:00
Extrapolations over a century into the future are worthless.

We need to embrace and adapt to a decrease in population because the explosion that has happened is unsustainable and so are current global population levels. That's the best, if not only, way to both get rid of poverty globally and to preserve the climate and environment.

This does not mean that population should or will collapse to extra low levels...
by nis0s | 2025-08-10 19:43:57+00:00
Hyper-capitalist societies need some counterbalance with social safety programs, e.g., as seen in the Nordic states and the blue states in the U.S., otherwise people choose not to reproduce if their children won't get anything out of society like they did.

Besides that, at a cultural level personal worth and dignity and safety need to be divorced from monetary net worth as that makes it easier for someone to decide where is a comfortable place for them in their society, and then adjust their time between working and child-rearing.

That said, it's also hard to motivate some people to reproduce if there's no greater point to it than some basic primal instinct, which may not be that high in such people. It follows, I guess, that the more educated a populace gets, the less its participants are likely to thoughtlessly reproduce. Tax credits are helpful (said sarcastically).
by neuralkoi | 2025-08-10 19:44:31+00:00
Society rewards you if you can give it what it needs, and I guess one of the things society wants right now is Chipotle.

One aspect of college is that it's supposed to teach you how to be a better thinker. One could make the argument that someone who graduated through college should have developed the critical thinking skills required to teach themselves another skill that IS in demand.

What do you tell new grads who can't find a job to do? Learn plumbing, heating/AC, or electrical work? Start a small business?
by maxglute | 2025-08-10 19:44:41+00:00
Shortterm, SKR probably the only country with culture of civil service, loathing for immigration, and enough gender drama for misandrist men to eventually roll out coercive family planning system onto females (that hate them) to force family formation.

TBH need someone to attempt very illiberal effort to make babies because every pro maternity policy has failed to bring TFR > replacement. At this point it should be abundantly clear that short of religion, carrot policies cannot reward their way to 2.1+ TFR. Or I guess embrace immigration.
by refulgentis | 2025-08-10 19:45:08+00:00
Hmmm...I'm not sure if gender equality advocacy is when you always advocate for complete equality in all things always.

There's a side component of the mens right advocacy movement that tries introducing the idea that there's some flaw in woman's rights movements because they're not true gender equality movements: inter alia, famously, lawsuits over ladies nights at bars

I think the reason that doesn't carry much attention is because it's intuitive, even without the concept involved, to understand why someone might advocate for equal pay but not for equal conscription. We are but sentient meat.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-08-10 19:45:16+00:00
This essay could probably benefit from some engagement with the literature on “interpretability” in LLMs, including the empirical results about how knowledge (like addition) is represented inside the neural network. To be blunt, I’m not sure being smart and reasoning from first principles after asking the LLM a lot of questions and cherry picking what it gets wrong gets to any novel insights at this point. And it already feels a little out date, with LLMs getting gold on the mathematical Olympiad they clearly have a pretty good world model of mathematics. I don’t think cherry-picking a failure to prove 2 + 2 = 4 in the particular specific way the writer wanted to see disproves that at all.

LLMs have imperfect world models, sure. (So do humans.) That’s because they are trained to be generalists and because their internal representations of things are massively compressed single they don’t have enough weights to encode everything. I don’t think this means there are some natural limits to what they can do.
by RickS | 2025-08-10 19:47:14+00:00
This video by Benn Jordan makes the case that yes, traditional capitalism and empowerment by way of ownership are eroding in favor of a rent-seeking subscription economy. This economy requires continuous payment for participation with services that are not only merely loaned to us, but are loaned under the constant threat of banishment if we fail to contort ourselves to comply with nebulous, ever changing terms set by orgs that don't care about us. One such contortion is the agreement to be surveilled at all times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM
by will4274 | 2025-08-10 19:47:24+00:00
(I work on Entra) The OpenID Connect standard says that when you make a request using the OpenID Connect scopes (openid, profile, email, address, phone, offline_access), you get an access token that can be used to call the UserInfo endpoint. The OpenID Connect standard *does not say* what happens when you combine OpenID Connect scopes with OAuth scopes (like $clientid/.default).

Entra treats such requests as an OpenID Connect OAuth hybrid. The ID token is as specified under OpenID Connect, but the access token is as expected from OAuth. In practice, these are the tokens most people want. The UserInfo endpoint is stupid - you can get all that information in the ID token without an extra round trip.
by lucideer | 2025-08-10 19:47:47+00:00
A little context here since this website is highly misleading:

- EU Council holds more power in Europe than EU Parliament

- EU Council is pushing this regulation

- this website misrepresents the positions of most members of EU Parliament - it shows "Supports" despite most of them being "Unknown"

Overall, while people should be encouraged to contact their MEPs, I suspect many are already very informed on this & strongly opposed. Whether Parliament will end up having enough power to stop it is a different question.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-08-10 19:47:59+00:00
This is only the first step in the process. First they will force all messaging/email providers to implement the scanning. Those who refuse or decide to leave the EU as Signal said they would do, would end up being unlisted from Google Play or the Apple (EU) app store.

Then the second phase is coming by 2030. Read about the ProtectEU (what a fucking ridiculous name) proposal which will mandate the scanning on device and basically record everything you do on your device.

This will be forced on Apple and other manufacturers directly.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-08-10 19:48:10+00:00
The country is predominantly Catholic. So both prudish views on sexual content, but also wanting to pretend sexual abuse by priests in their religion, and their religion protecting those priests, isn't the problem - nope, it's the interwebs creating child abusers. That is coupled with racist fear of terrorist attacks being committed by the African and middle eastern immigrant populations.

Sure are a lot of white elephants in the room with you...
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-10 19:48:30+00:00
I'm not convinced the US will even have fair elections a couple of years from now. Do those amendments really matter, when those in power are doing everything they can to break down the rule of law, and turn the country into yet another autocracy?

EU may be sliding towards feudalism, but America is definitely farther down that road than we are. Current administration's relationship with tech billionaires is a concrete proof of that. I have no faith in politicians of either part of the world.
by drdeca | 2025-08-10 19:48:49+00:00
The parts of what?

Just because the belief system I believe includes some beliefs that some other belief system has, doesn’t mean I’m like, taking portions from that other belief system.

(If you think that Christianity says that the purpose of people is purely to reproduce, you are quite mistaken.)

The purpose of people is to be in loving relation with God, and with each-other. The purpose of coitus is to further those goals, by symbolism, by strengthening affection among a married couple, and by producing more people.

And the purposes of sexual desire follows from these purposes.

(To justify the claim that Christianity does not say that coitus should only ever be done with the goal of reproduction: If one burns with desire, it doesn’t become not right to marry on account of being infertile. Now, I think one should be open to the possibility of a child, and be willing to raise a child if need be, but it doesn’t need to be the goal of the marriage.)

Of course, I recognize that some people reject the idea that there are purposes to these things / reject that there is a telos to things. I don’t think either I nor they will convince the other in this thread.
by hellisothers | 2025-08-10 19:48:51+00:00
How do you notice hallucinations in a field you’re not familiar with? You may value focusing on different types of inputs or outputs than the model picker does and now you have no control.

We don’t know what we don’t know, we can’t always judge what is categorically right or wrong to make an informed decision. What we can do is decide who we want to ask a question based on competence.
by rileymat2 | 2025-08-10 19:49:07+00:00
From what I see, it is enabled by (and thrives under) the compulsion for control. eg: Beneficial labor unions of the 1930s were corrupt by the 1950s because union members preferred the safety of power over the uncertainty of excising corruption.

You also need to look at the counter parties in a lot of the union corruption, they were in dirty corrupt industries controlled by the mob. But at the same time, we don’t focus on that part of the story as much.

If you look at industries that had less corruption, you see less union corruption.
by ChiMan | 2025-08-10 19:50:30+00:00
AI performs best in non-deterministic environments where highly extensive if slightly imperfect (or even hallucinatory) knowledge works just fine. When mapped onto today’s jobs, the fit feels less natural for high-level engineering than for “looser” tasks that would do well to be armed with wider knowledge. In other words, it seems like AI—or AI-armed humans—are more squarely aimed at executives.
by runako | 2025-08-10 19:51:00+00:00
> disagree with the need to have them at any cost.

I think we can all agree with that. I think a sane position is to return to the level of state support of e.g. the 1960s or 1970s. This worked in a substantially poorer US until we chose to stop doing it.

> There's no reason that grades 13-16 should cost more than grades K-12, so why do they?

This is the key point. Like most things, this is driven by policy choices. The choice is made to achieve certain aims, or to ensure other aims are not achieved. We have the object lesson that subsidized college broadly worked in the US until we collectively decided to stop doing it. We can choose differently when there is political will to do so.

FWIW I would suspect that most of the explicit revenue extraction is less about the types of things you indicated and more about the # of full-fare international students a college is able to recruit. There's a huge difference between a $35k in-state student on financial aid and a $55k student who will pay cash.
by nick238 | 2025-08-10 19:51:14+00:00
Fluoride doesn't bio-accumulate like PFAS do, which has a strong affinity for proteins and fats in organisms. Constantly drinking water with 0.5-1 ppm fluoride may cause minor side effects like mild dental fluorosis, but you'll excrete almost all the excess as it's very water soluble. Drink water with any PFAS, and your body will strongly hold on to it all.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-08-10 19:51:44+00:00
> Hyper-capitalist societies need some counterbalance with social safety programs, e.g., as seen in the Nordic states and the blue states in the U.S., otherwise people choose not to reproduce if their children won't get anything out of society like they did.

Total fertility rates in Scandinavian countries (known for their very generous welfare) are falling as well -- not as catastrophic as South Korea's, but way below replacement rate nonetheless. E.g., Denmark's total fertility rate fell yet again in 2024 to 1.466. (Source: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/befolkning/fer...)
by qcnguy | 2025-08-10 19:51:54+00:00
My claim is correct! A trend line calculated for any natural dataset will never be exactly zero. This doesn't mean humans need to speak in scientific notation as if we are robots. You are well aware of that, so please stop playing silly word games that don't advance the discussion. "Is it getting worse? No" is a perfectly reasonable way to describe storm data, which is why governments say the same thing:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/understanding-...

"The UK State of the Climate report states that there are no compelling trends in storminess when considering maximum gust speeds over the last four decades. More comprehensive studies across the North Atlantic region have reached similar conclusions."

If you're going to try and argue that "no trend" isn't the same as "no compelling trend".... please, just don't. Life is short.

You've mis-interpreted the second graph. It doesn't show any increased flooding. It shows a very minor and unimportant trend in wetness. The trend is unimportant because increases in wetness don't imply increases in flooding, as the relationship is non-linear. Flooding has not increased so although I didn't mention flooding I could have added it to the list. See "Floods and Heavy Precipitation at the Global Scale: 100-Year Analysis and 180-Year Reconstruction" in JGR Atmospheres, Renard et al.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-10 19:52:51+00:00
Personally I think the culture has changed. It's got little to do with costs or insentives or support and everything to do with changing wants/desires. Rather than devote 20+ years of a person's life to kids, most people would rather socialize, party, dance, netflix-and-chill, youtube, tiktok, travel, game, raise a pet, hobbies, etc....

Many countries have tried giving every incentive possible. Cash bonuses, tax breaks, a year+ of mandatory child leave for both men and women, cheap child care, mandatory flexible hours, housing subsidies, cultural campaigns.

Some of them have a short term effect but none of them get the numbers up to replacement levels and the numbers keep going down.

It's hard to blame it on any one thing. Some might say "suburban car centric culture" but that doesn't explain Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc....

I can't personally imagine the numbers going back up.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman
by ryukafalz | 2025-08-10 19:53:06+00:00
Yes, Flatpak portals are an implementation of the powerbox pattern. They're still underutilized, though there are more portals specified than I realized at least: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html

That kind of thing (with careful UX design) is how you escape the sandbox cycle though; if you can grant access to resources implicitly as a result of a user action, you can avoid granting applications excessive permissions from the start.

(Now, you might also want your "app store" interface to prevent/discourage installation of apps with broad permissions by default as well. There's currently little incentive for a developer not to give themselves the keys to the kingdom.)
by Henchman21 | 2025-08-10 19:53:08+00:00
IMO the "bootstraps" thing was always an insulting joke. Something the wealthy would say to knowingly insult the poor. Go do the impossible you stupid poor person while they laugh so hard their monocles fall into their brandy. Its like spitting on someone just cause you can. Yes, this is an absurd characterization, an almost cartoonish villain trope. It's a silly world!

But something happened: people who didn't understand it was meant to indicate somthing impossible started using it like it was some moralizing good. And here we are, saying dumb shit on the internets.
by octo888 | 2025-08-10 19:53:32+00:00
> The latter is also debatable

Only in terms of perception or semantics or applying a huge negative weighting to a bit of water and ignoring boats, trains and planes exist. But then you say...

> Ireland feels closer to Europe

So are you slyly conflating Europe and the EU?

Some crazy person might say this is really subtle "UK isn't part of Europe" propaganda similar to that in the lead of up Brexit
by arp242 | 2025-08-10 19:54:03+00:00
I looked at the Framework Desktop a few week ago; mainly to get something that has nicer gaming performance than my laptop's iGPU. I'm not a big gamer really, but as of late I've been wanting to play some things, like The Witcher 3 (saw thread on Reddit celebrating its 10 year anniversary: "that's the new one I still need to play", so that's about how up to date I am with games – some of these "new" games are already classified as "good old game" on gog.com).

My take-away was/is that the Framework Desktop is a very nice machine, but it is expensive IMHO. You can get better performance at a lower price by building your own machine; in this article the 9950X scores lower than the Max 395, and I'm not entirely sure that's accurate – that wasn't my take-away at all (don't have links at the ready). This is also what you'd expect when comparing a 55W laptop chip vs. a 170W desktop chip.

That said, Linux compatibility is a bit of a pain, for example some MediaTek WiFi/Bluetooth chips that ASUS boards use don't have a Linux driver. In general figuring out what components to get is a bit time-consuming. In one of the videos Nirav mentioned that "just get the Framework Desktop" is so much easer, and 100% agree with that.

In the end, I decided to get a USB4/Thunderbold eGPU, which gives me more than enough gaming performance for me and is much cheaper. I already have a laptop that's more than performant enough for my needs, which I got last year mainly due to some idiotic JS build process I had to deal with last year that took forever on my old laptop. On the new machine it's merely "ludicrously slow". Sometimes I think JS people are in cahoots with Intel and/or AMD...

For LLM stuff the considerations might be different. I don't care about that so I didn't look into it.