MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brandall10 | 2025-08-01 23:41:24+00:00
Claude Code does not have a daily limit, it has 5 hour windows that reset. On the $100 plan it's pretty hard to hit a window limit w/ Sonnet unless you're using multiple/subagents. The $200 is better suited to those who do that or want to use a significant amount of Opus.

Also the weekly limit selling point is silly - it almost certainly only impacts those who are abusing, ie. running 24/7.
by unshavedyak | 2025-08-01 23:41:34+00:00
Incase i'm missing something, why wouldn't it be possible?

Claude and Gemini have similar offerings for a similar/same price, i thought. Eg if Claude Code can do it for $200/m, why can't Cerebras?

(honest question, trying to understand the challenge for Cerebras that you're pointing to)

edit: Maybe it's the speed? 2k tokens/s sounds... fast, much faster than Claude. Is that what you're referring to?
by renewiltord | 2025-08-01 23:42:29+00:00
Don't have to keep transaction open. What I do is:

1. Select next job

2. Update status to executing where jobId = thatJob and status is pending

3. If previous affected 0 rows, you didn't get the job, go back to select next job

If you have "time to select" <<< "time to do" this works great. But if you have closer relationship you can see how this is mostly going to have contention and you shouldn't do it.
by touisteur | 2025-08-01 23:42:36+00:00
Another fun thing to do is to get mode c (barometric altitude) from aircraft transponders (either SSR or Mode-S downlink 5 or 21 - same physical layer as ADS-B just different bitfield header) and compare it to its GNSS altitude (from ADS-B most of the time) from the same aircraft (the Mode S address used as key) and you can build a map of atmospheric pressures.
by skytreader | 2025-08-01 23:42:46+00:00
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by ahhh_ife | 2025-08-01 23:43:18+00:00
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Willing to relocate: Yes

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by gnabgib | 2025-08-01 23:43:23+00:00
Please post this in the appropriate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757794

> Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN. A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
by crawshaw | 2025-08-01 23:43:24+00:00
If you would like to try this in a coding agent (we find the qwen3-coder model works really well in agents!), we have been experimenting with Cerebras Code in Sketch. We just pushed support, so you can run it with the latest version, 0.0.33:

brew install boldsoftware/tap/sketch CEREBRAS_API_KEY=... sketch --model=qwen3-coder-cerebras -skaband-addr=

Our experience is it seems overloaded right now, to the point where we have better results with our usual hosted version:

sketch --model=qwen
by blackbear_ | 2025-08-01 23:43:24+00:00
The revisions were -133k for June and -120k for May, and yes the are unusually large.

Generally, it seems that estimation post-covid became less accurate, with five (if I'm counting correctly) revisions of 100k or more since 2022, excluding the latest two. I imagine this is because covid messed up the numbers for the seasonal adjustment.

Do note that the reported standard errors are about 83k/70k for first/second estimates (tables 3/4 at https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesvarae.htm), meaning that deviations of up to ~133k/112k in either direction from the true value are expected at a confidence of 90%.

Overall, my conclusion is that these revisions are higher than normal, but not unexpected if you dig into the numbers.
by xelxebar | 2025-08-01 23:44:44+00:00
> how can we build a product that saves local affiliate stations money

Let's bring back those supposed good 'ol days!

What are some valid business models that could successfully fund local affiliates? Knowing nothing of the industry, some initial questions come to mind:

- Is there value in cross-affiliate connections and referrals where a broadcasting association could work?

- Direct donations seems like a filled market, but what about donation pooling?

- Does private equity have an interest in these affiliates and why or why not?

- Is there a product in marketing and branding local stations that appeases YouTube and related algorithms? Would this fundamentally work against the mission?
by dizlexic | 2025-08-01 23:45:18+00:00
I have NEVER tuned into PBS for weather and disaster alerts. Growing up in rural America I've seen this headline multiple times, but I'm 99% sure in my community PBS doesn't actually do any weather coverage during tornadoes or similar. You MIGHT get a required alert tone and a banner, but no radar or anything of real value.

Our local news stations do an amazing job and they don't ask me to donate.
by djoldman | 2025-08-01 23:45:33+00:00
There's a lot to talk about here. I think this is pretty interesting:

> In reality, this wouldn’t happen, because, generally, people understand that stabbings are a cultural issue, rather than a technical one. The issue is less the existence of knives and more the factors that drive people to use them aggressively.

I think this may be true but also nearly impossible to address.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-01 23:45:46+00:00
>But that study can obviously not measure the longer term impacts on overall competitiveness. And again, since I'm talking about longer term impacts, no study that only took place from 2019-2022 could measure these effects. But I think it's important to acknowledge that, rather than just leaning on the "See! Studies prove remote work doesn't hurt productivity!" argument, which is an invalid interpretation IMO.

It didn't though, and if companies and managers are supposedly results driven, data driven orgs (many claim to be, some times very loudly), why would they go against the actual data? Famously, Amazon's CEO couldn't even show something - anything - that supported their RTO position.

If you start to see issues downstream in a few years, you need to ask questions as to why, but assuming - which is what RTO does - that going back to the office is right because its been the historical norm - without actually truly studying the effects of remote work - is the problem here.

This is simply the executive class flexing what power they have for purposes other than the goal they claim its for
by quesera | 2025-08-01 23:46:10+00:00
Apple did it correctly!

Apple provided a new modifier key (Command, or ⌘) for our GUI shell. Or Open Apple/Closed Apple if you go back to the Apple II days. Control still works like it should.

Microsoft said "Hey that's useful, but we don't make hardware, and we don't have a Command key, so let's break things and reuse Control in our copycat GUI, and ignore all of the historical uses of control characters. What could go wrong?"

And then Linux (Gnome??) said "Hey we don't make hardware either, let's do what Microsoft did, because lots of people are familiar with it, and even though the historical uses of control characters are really important on Unix-like operating systems."
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by renewiltord | 2025-08-01 23:48:11+00:00
> But using it to make a subtle jab agains CAHSR isn't really fair -- they're two very different projects (for one of them, it's genuinely a stretch to call it "HSR") in two very different regions.

Well, CA HSR doesn't exist. It's missing the R part of the HSR. So that must be the one it's a stretch to call "HSR".
by ggm | 2025-08-01 23:49:16+00:00
Believe it or not, across the 50 years since the 1970s rich and poor people have come and gone and the UK economy has risen and sunk for reasons which at scale have three fifths of nothing to do with expats and their tax concerns.

Yes, billionaires leaving happens. Yes, it is measurable. No, it does not leave an impoverished, dysfunctional economy behind because they left

They could have stayed and things be every bit as bad, because they invest their money in ways which are about them and not motivated by the British economy.

It's a GDP of 3.84 TRILLION. 3.84 x 1000 billion. Think about that, scaling factors, the actual tax paid as residents, income flows, their future investments in UK plc. The effect of these people leaving is at best marginal. It won't alter the price of tea in Aberdeen, or the cost of petrol in Guildford.
by XorNot | 2025-08-01 23:49:21+00:00
Those are separate issues though frankly. Unified government ID is efficient. You have it anyway, just as a morass of other forms of ID which contribute to the expense to administrate.

That's quite separate to "verify with your government ID" to visit a website having nothing to do with government services.

And it should be apparent that the lack of the former did not stop people asking for the latter. And they did ask for it.
by noodletheworld | 2025-08-01 23:49:51+00:00
This matches my expectations.

Now that its increasingly clear that writing MCP servers isn't a winning strategy, people need a new way to jump on the band wagon as easily as possible.

Writing your own agent like geminin and claude code is the new hotness right now.

- low barrier to entry (tick)

- does something reasonably useful (tick)

- doesnt require any deep ai knowledge or skill (tick)

- easy to hype (tick)

Its like “cursor but for X” but easier to ship.

Were going to see a tonne of coding agents built this way, but my intuition is, and what Ive seen so far, is theyre not actually introducing anything novel.

Maybe having a quick start like this is good, because it drops the value of an unambitious direct claude code clone to zero.

I like it.
by metalman | 2025-08-01 23:49:53+00:00
.003$ per stream(before other publishing costs) users pay $150 +- year 275 million users 16 billion € a year net no breakdown on how much of the "70% goes to artists" is actualy record labels, and not actualy artists. looks like crazy long odds for an artist to ever earn enough for one meal, and making a living would be litteraly the same odds as a lottery ticket
by m463 | 2025-08-01 23:50:46+00:00
I've thought about this kind of thing.

There are a few huge personality disconnects at many companies.

One is that a lot of programmers are introverts and the people who hire them frequently are not.

If not managed well, this can lead to like hiring like and other problems where people who like to think deeply about problems are excluded or just not understood.

The open seating problem is adjacent. Managers might love to collaborate all day but a lot of introverts are working in a difficult environment.
by zahlman | 2025-08-01 23:52:02+00:00
The actual text:

$ python -c 'import this' | grep way There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

There are many layers to this, but the most important thing to point out is that having only one obvious way is just a preference (or ideal). In practice, any deliberate attempt to prevent something logical from working is counter-productive, and there is really no way to control what other people think is or isn't "obvious". And we all sometimes just expect things to work very differently than they actually do, even in ways that might seem bizarre in retrospect. We can't all "be Dutch" all the time.

But let me dig into just one more layer. Pay attention to the hyphens used to simulate em-dashes, and how they're spaced, versus what you might think of as "obvious" ways to use them. I'm assured that this is a deliberate joke. And of course, now that we have reasonably widespread Unicode support (even in terminals), surely using an actual emdash character is the "obvious" way. Or is it? People still have reasons for clinging to ASCII in places where it suffices. Then consider that this was written in 2004. What was your environment like at that point? How old was Unicode at that point? What other options did you have (and which ones did you have to worry about) for representing non-ASCII characters? (You can say that all those "code pages" and such were all really Unicode encodings, but how long did it take until people actually thought of them that way?) On the other hand, Python had a real `unicode` type since 2.0, released in 2001. But who do you know who used it? On yet another hand, an emdash in a terminal will typically only be one column wide (just as an 'm' character is), and barely visually distinct from U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS. (And hackers will freely identify "dash" with this character, while Unicode recognizes 25 characters as dashes: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Pd) Reasonable people can disagree on exactly when it should have become sensible to use actual emdashes, or even whether it is now. Or on whether proper typography is valuable here anyway.
by titanomachy | 2025-08-01 23:53:03+00:00
> This views organizations as chaotic “garbage cans” where problems, solutions, and decision-makers are dumped in together, and decisions often happen when these elements collide randomly, rather than through a fully rational process

Only tangentially related, but this has to be one of the worst metaphors I’ve ever heard. Garbage cans are not typically hotbeds of chaotic activity, unless a raccoon gets in or something.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-08-01 23:53:15+00:00
The problem there is the decades. They've done an extremely solid job with PR over the last five, maybe ten years. Now everyone knows Microsoft are lovely people making everything better. The prior behaviour can perhaps be forgotten.

Though they acquired github (to be nice) and fed all the GPL'ed code they could find into LLMs (to be nice) and now open source is moribund, which is rather in keeping with the effect of previous strategic moves, but sort of plausibly deniable as an aggregate effect.
by zeroCalories | 2025-08-01 23:53:19+00:00
Yes, top talent at these companies include h1b. And yes, infra is low pressure. If the engineers don't do an amazing job, or the timeline slips a little, it's a minor hiccup. If your product is mediocre, or ships late, you risk losing everything. You don't need top talent for the former, you do for the later. And you prefer to have top talent working next door, for various reasons.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-08-01 23:53:55+00:00
A lot of Flatpak applications ship with filesystem=home, and this is effectively opens up ways of indirectly getting root access (since you can override sudo by editing .bashrc) or overriding .desktop files (of say system settings) to point to your application instead which a user is more likely to enter their password when opening, or override environmental variables, you get the picture.

It's not as if non-Flatpak apps can't do this either, but the false sense of security from Flatpak may encourage people to download apps they wouldn't otherwise.

Unlike Android/iOS where Google/Apple can push developers to update their apps to use new apis, or say bye bye to those that don't, there's no motivation for Linux app devs to update their applications to use portals to avoid the need for filesystem=home, and as long as that exists people will just install them with a false sense of security.

Flatpak is not a security project, it's an app distribution one (which I think it does a generally better job than native packages, but the bar is low). The sandbox should be considered part of the separation from host dependencies, nothing else.
by juanpabloaj | 2025-08-01 23:54:38+00:00
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by no_wizard | 2025-08-01 23:55:24+00:00
>Office work is increasingly just adult daycare much of the time. Even in manufacturing I'm seeing more folks killing time in rest areas or meeting rooms because the work is getting done faster (but they're not going to say so and get laid off for doing a good job)

This brings up a good point, one I have observed myself. That efficiency is ultimately punished, not rewarded. I think the term office politics should have been a signal of this, but it alluded me for a number of years while I was building my career.

Once I slowed down and started to be a little more performative, only then did the promotions start coming in. The only logical reason I can track is that its because in the act of slowing down and being more performative, is that I started talking more with others in the company up and down the hierarchy and became known as a do good affable guy (which admittedly, I actually am!)

In short, people like me and that matters alot, and my actual performance beyond being slightly better than my peers, mattered little.

Yet, me being personable - and I don't mean simply courteous, on time, using good verbal language etc but more akin to befriending - is what paid the dividends for my career.

This runs directly counter to what is supposedly valued[0].

[0]: Let me be clear here, I'm not saying people who are productive but mean, grumpy and don't work well with others shouldn't have that taken into account. There is at least some minimum of good social courtesy and discourse required, especially when working with others. I'm talking about how pseudo friendship is valued in and above being productive, while someone with good social graces and metrics (quality work etc) but doesn't network consistently does worse
by josephg | 2025-08-01 23:56:36+00:00
> who can pass this except recent college grads?

I can. So can a lot of the better candidates I interviewed. Most googlers and fb engineers can pass this stuff too.

Theres a much better way to test for senior engineers though, and it’s this: prepare a small program (200 lines or so) with some bugs in it. Write a few test cases which highlight the bugs. Then give the candidate the code and the tests and ask them to fix the buggy code.

Good senior engineers - in my experience - aren’t better than smart young grads at programming. But they’re soooo much better at reading code and debugging it.

I interviewed this insanely good Ruby engineer once. He had the body of a bear, and a bushy, greying beard to match. During the interview he gave me a masterclass at debugging. Before he even looked at our tests, he read the code and named out loud assumptions he was making about it. Then he started writing his own test suite to validate those assumptions during the interview. He fixed a few of our bugs before he even looked at our tests, in the first 10 minutes of the assessment. And he fixed another bug we didn’t know about. I can’t remember how he did at the programming section of our interview. But I’d hire him in a heartbeat from watching him debug.

The one thing to keep in mind if you do this is that most people will overestimate how much debugging you can do in half an hour or an hour and overcomplicate the program you give candidates. If you make a test like this, make the code simpler than you think and actually calibrate its difficulty with your coworkers.