MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jp57 | 2025-08-29 15:22:01+00:00
One great piece of advice an informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection.

That is to say that you cannot draw any conclusions about yourself or your interviewing technique or your skills or anything from the single accept==0 bit that you typically get back. There are so many reasons that a candidate might get rejected that have nothing to do with one's individual performance in the interview or application process.

Having been on the hiring side of the interview table now many more times than on the seeking side, I can say that this is totally true.

One of the biggest misconceptions I see from job seekers, especially younger ones, is to equate a job interview to a test at school, assuming that there is some objective bar and if you pass it then you must be hired. It's simply not true. Frequently more than one good applicant applies for a single open role, and the hiring team has to choose among them. In that case, you could "pass" and still not get the job and the only reason is that the hiring team liked someone else better.

I can only think of one instance where we had two great candidates for one role and management found a way to open another role so we could hire both. In a few other cases, we had people whom we liked but didn't choose and we forwarded their resumes to other teams who had open roles we thought would fit, but most of the time it's just, "sorry."
by naasking | 2025-08-29 15:22:08+00:00
Really interesting to see how long ideas take to go mainstream. From my recollection, Oleg and Chung-chieh Shan did this first back in 2009 as a library in OCaml [1,2].

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/fa.caml/c/CbXeoR_Rzrk?pli=1

[2] https://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/
by bccdee | 2025-08-29 15:22:36+00:00
Well yeah, that's a false dichotomy. If you're vulnerable and a chatbot sends you into a spiral of psychosis, your pre-existing vulnerability doesn't negate the fact that a harm has been done to you. If you have a heart condition, and I shoot you with a Taser, and it kills you… I've killed you. You weren't "already dead" just because you were vulnerable.
by SvenL | 2025-08-29 15:22:49+00:00
Exactly, if I need to keep my hand in the position you see often in videos and I need to keep an eye on everything I can drive my self. The best part is, that Tesla itself says that for most crashes which happened FSD was turned off a few seconds before the crash - so no liability. As long I need to take care it’s useless.

I still wonder why there is no push to make car to car communication a thing. Or make road signs/the street itself emit signals. In combination with others sensors it might increase reliability.
by Bridged7756 | 2025-08-29 15:23:02+00:00
60+ APIs? Odd way to word. Did you mean endpoints?

What's the impressive thing here? No one said AI can't do boilerplate. Especially if you're doing run of the mill crud and starting from a clean slate, in fact, that's probably one of its only useful usages in my opinion. You still need to understand your system when maintaining or adding features to it, do a code review, understand the architecture, ensure its architecture allows for pivots in design/functionality, etc.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-08-29 15:23:17+00:00
There was some tangentially related discussion in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050415, but this cost analysis answers so many questions, and gives me a better idea of how huge the margin on inference a lot of these providers could be taking. Plus I'm sure that Google or OpenAI can get more favorable data center rates than the average Joe Scmoe.

A node of 8 H100s will run you $31.40/hr on AWS, so for all 96 you're looking at $376.80/hr. With 188 million input tokens/hr and 80 million output tokens/hr, that comes out to around $2/million input tokens, and $4.70/million output tokens.

This is actually a lot more than Deepseek r1's rates of $0.10-$0.60/million input and $2/million output, but I'm sure major providers are not paying AWS p5 on-demand pricing.

Edit: those figures were per node, so the actual input and output prices would be divided by 12.$0.17/million input tokens, and $0.39/million output
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-29 15:23:29+00:00
I think I'd have more understanding for this position if I thought that these companies were still fundamentally interested in serving their users. They are not. Any information you provide is more likely to be used against your interests (even if that's "just" targeting you with some ads for a scammy product) than for your benefit.

Basically all AI companies are fruit from the same VC-poisoned tree and I expect these products will get worse and more user-hostile as they try to monetize. We're currently living in the "MoviePass"[1] era of AI where users are being heavily subsidized to try to gain market share. It will not last and the potential for abuse is enormous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoviePass
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-29 15:23:52+00:00
The core thing is, am I really in control of my brain, at a fundamental level? If my thoughts are the result of electrochemical reactions, which everywhere else in the universe follow normal deterministic (even if stochastic) physics... How does thinking actually change their result? The unsettling conclusion is that it doesn't. The thoughts are the result of the reactions continuously in progress, and any sensation that we are a actively making decisions and guiding the process is simply an illusion created by that very same process. I.e. there is no free well.

Under that view, the bipolar feedback loop example disappears. The engrossing or psychotic thoughts are not driving the chemistry, they are the chemistry. The whole thing is just a more macro view where you see certain oscillations play out. If the system ultimately damps itself and that "feels like" self control, it was actually a property built into the system from the start.
by PrincessEe | 2025-08-29 15:23:54+00:00
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has made gatekeepers (Google, Meta/Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, etc.) provide real-time, continuous user data access to third parties.

Article 6(9) in particular goes beyond static “download your data” exports. It enables context portability: the ability to stream your searches, posts, stories, likes, purchases, etc. into other services you choose.

We’ve been testing and providing feedback to many gatekeepers (Google and Meta in particular). It feels a lot like the early days of Open Banking: messy, loads of enrichment needed, but when it works, you suddenly have a portable “memory layer” you can plug everywhere. Magical!
by some_random | 2025-08-29 15:24:19+00:00
Title is misleading, they're now opt-out rather than opt-in to your data being used for training. All you have to do is flip a single switch in the options to turn it off, I don't understand why everyone is treating this as being such a big deal.

Edit: I just logged in to opt out, they presented me with the switch directly. It was two clicks.
by btown | 2025-08-29 15:24:44+00:00
If you store a specification for a probability distribution and give that specification a name, it can behave like a function in that it can be sampled for a scalar output. It can behave like a variable in that you can assign it to a new variable name, play with it as you would anything else in a programming language. And a linear system, perhaps overdetermined, is but one of many ways that the specification can be defined under the hood.

The fact that one can play with complicated nested probability distributions that unify these concepts, as one would play with dolls in a dollhouse, is the point!
by Kranar | 2025-08-29 15:25:06+00:00
Yeah this is a fairly poor article by an otherwise amazing blogger.

With that said the point stands that the likelihood of sending bitcoin to an unintended address due to a typo is very small. It's not as small as the article suggests, but it's still basically impossible (about 1 in 4.3 billion for a single character typo).

Perhaps the irony is that if you do happen to send bitcoin to an unintended address, you have a much greater chance of recovering it if that address belongs to a real person and is in use. If the address is not in use, then for all intents and purposes that bitcoin is lost forever.
by zimpenfish | 2025-08-29 15:25:29+00:00
> It allows you to select which photos an app has access to

Yeah, that's the "limited access" mode but if the app uses the system photo picker[0], the app doesn't need any photos permission to pick a photo. Blame the app developers for not updating their apps (and this has been available since 2021 - they have no excuse.)

> Apps don’t need to request photo library permission when using either class, so the sample app avoids requesting permission until it’s necessary. A camera app, photo editing app, or library browsing app needs to use much more of PhotoKit‘s functionality, but [[an app that’s only setting a basic profile photo doesn’t need photo library permission]].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit/selecting...
by mothballed | 2025-08-29 15:25:57+00:00
Thesis:

1) We will tariff the Chinese to make it unprofitable to sell to America anything built using anything other than our self-imposed regulations.

2) When more American steel plants etc are built, assuming investors even believe the tariffs will exist through enough administration to make it profitable, they magically will somehow be safer than working in the other industries these workers were pulled from, and magically not continue to be one of the more dangerous occupations in the USA that for mysterious reasons we want more people risking their hides in.

Reality:

1) Chinese do the same thing as always, and sell to the other 95% of the world, with no labor condition changes for the chinese.

2) More Americans get their arms turned into molten lava instead of Chinese (see recent Clairton plant explosion, yay for building more of that?). So labor conditions degrade for Americans.

3) Other Chinese figure out how to game the system enough to pretend they've followed the same rules, because lets be real, "the king is far away and the mountains are large."

4) The few Chinese not manufacturing for the other 95% of earth and haven't figured out how to game the system, are fired and work at the next even shittier job they passed on the way to the steel mill.
by const_cast | 2025-08-29 15:25:59+00:00
The problem is people have to actually do this, and it's cumbersome.

The solution is just straight up banning apps from the app store which request full photos permissions but only need a picker.

Whatsapp only needs a picker, it's not Google photos. Just make that part of the developer terms and start banning low hanging fruit and the apps will confirm in no time.
by ajross | 2025-08-29 15:26:01+00:00
In point of fact eMMC wear failure was an actual bug in early Tesla MCUs. They were logging too much, so when the car reached (via routine use) a certain fill level the logging started running over the same storage again and again and the chips started failing.

It's very easy to imagine a response to this being (beyond "don't log so much") an audit layer to start automatically removing redundant data.

The externalities of the company are such that people want to ascribe malice, but this is a very routine kind of thing.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-08-29 15:26:14+00:00
Not sure if it's been declared generally yet, but debugging is harder with AI.

Once your requests start to veer away from the direction you wanted (Especially if at-any-point, you transition to Cursor's "Free" mode, and it misunderstands and bulldozes all your previously-working features)

Not only is it harder, the physical stress caused by debugging with AI is something new. It gets some requests so-incredibly-wrong and follows directions totally-contrary, your brain forgets it's talking to a computer, and reacts in a way you would to a person who did all the wrong things here.

Version control has never been so important. I never use cursor without it. And even then, sometimes I just open the client, and a bunch of files changed.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-29 15:26:56+00:00
It's interesting that a high-performance computing core has added instructions for bit manipulation. They're really common on low-power embedded cores, where bit manipulating inputs and outputs is more common. They can save a lot of instructions when needed, though. For example, clearing a bit in a variable, without an express instruction, requires raising two to the power of the bit, inverting the result, anding that with the variable, then writing the result back to the variable. Depending on the language, it looks something like this:

Variable &=~(2^Bit)

The series of bitwise operators looks more grawlix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix) than instructions, as though yelling pejoratives at the bit is what clears it.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-29 15:27:08+00:00
> Is it cheaper?

"ccusage" is telling me I would have spent $2010.90 in the last month if I was paying via the API, rather than $200.

But also I do feel Claude Code is quite a bit better than other things I've used, when using the same model. I'm not sure why though, it's a fairly simple program with only a few prompts and only a few tools, it seems like others could catch up immediately by learning some lessons from it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-29 15:27:21+00:00
Healthcare, especially the patient-facing part, isn’t like other services.

If we want private ownership of this infrastructure it has to look more like either a utility, where the state has a direct say in service changes and pricing, or a partnership, where unlimited liability flows through to the owners. I’m a fan of the latter.

Limited liability was an amazing invention. But it’s not appropriate for healthcare. Turn these services into partnerships and you’ll see the give-a-shit factor quintuple overnight. (You’ll also probably see a reduction in leverage.)
by coremoff | 2025-08-29 15:27:31+00:00
I don't think I'm qualified to provide an answer - trying to detail how execs should not be able to profit from fail-cases like this is a mine-field of edge cases, I expect.

I do think that you shouldn't be doing anything to destroy their lives "no pension" (outside of any judicial outcomes); but it should be sufficiently comprehensive such that you can declare both that no one profited from malfeasance/incompetance and that poeple in positions governed by these provisions are strongly encouraged to make sure that they don't fall foul of them.
by ceroxylon | 2025-08-29 15:27:41+00:00
According to the model card it is extremely fast, can be hijacked 25% of the time, has access to search tools, and has a propensity for dishonesty.

I also think it is optimistic to think the jailbreak percentage will stay at "0.00" after public use, but time will tell.

https://data.x.ai/2025-08-26-grok-code-fast-1-model-card.pdf
by SauciestGNU | 2025-08-29 15:27:46+00:00
The intermediate cartridge doctrine is evolving as a result of improvements in armor. M855A1 5.56 cartridges fired out of a long (20") barrel may have success against modern armor, but slightly larger intermediate cartridges (6 and 6.5mm) are being adopted for supposedly superior performance. That doesn't excuse the weird 6.8 fury cartridge Sig designed around though.
by bakjoke-lab | 2025-08-29 15:27:51+00:00
We built CoinScore because most crypto research tools we’ve seen feel like black boxes — you get a number, but not the reasoning behind it. Our goal here is transparency:

- Every formula and metric is published on the Methodology page.

- Current MVP covers price stability and news aggregation with live data.

- Other metrics like holder distribution and developer activity are still placeholders.

- Future updates will include a community voting system, so users can help decide which metrics matter most and how they should be weighted.

It’s still very early, so feedback is super welcome Which additional dimensions would you find most useful to evaluate a token’s reliability?
by sirn | 2025-08-29 15:28:18+00:00
This is more of a successor to the Xeon 6E (Xeon 6700E / Sierra Forest-SP), which had 144 cores. There was supposed to be a 288-core variant (presumably Xeon 6900E / Sierra Forest-AP), but they never released it to the public. I was looking forward to it since Sierra Forest-AP was supposed to support a 2-socket configuration (from motherboard spec). That's 576 physical cores in a single server!
by Liftyee | 2025-08-29 15:28:21+00:00
Agree that reality is always more nuanced than the simple views pushed by news and the (mainstream) internet.

Unfortunately oversimplified, pre-digested informational slop is easy to convey and satisfying to ingest. Nuanced viewpoints take flak from both sides of people who have absorbed the former kind of information.

It is definitely interesting (annoying?) how it is often taken as a given that China is an enemy of the US rather than a competitor in the global scene with values both in common and in disagreement. Perhaps there is some colonial/empire-building projection going on, or the US wants to keep being the only country to meddle in other countries' politics.
by sim7c00 | 2025-08-29 15:28:45+00:00
pretty cool, kind of like the idea these sattelites would harness sun for propulsion too :) not sure if it would be more efficient than powering their own propulsion with the already captured energy (i know nothing about this obv)

i wonder a bit too, totally unrelated to the software engineering here. how would one get the power back to earth? :'? dont say photon rays :D but really how ?
by dns_snek | 2025-08-29 15:28:51+00:00
It doesn't sound like they're accessing your photos without the app being granted permission to do so in iOS. It sounds like they're abusing that permission (if granted) for nefarious purposes that users didn't agree to.

So you granted Facebook permission to access your files in order to share a photo in some group 3 months ago, but now they secretly abuse that permission to scan your entire library for AI training.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-29 15:28:57+00:00
Sounds like they got greedy:

> Some banking experts said that the bank would have managed its risks better had it not been for the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA), enacted in 2018 and supported by SVB CEO Greg Becker, which reduced the frequency and number of scenarios of required stress testing implemented under the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for banks with under $250 billion in assets.
by bccdee | 2025-08-29 15:29:11+00:00
> They wanted to report specifically his birth/legal name, with no plausible public interest reason.

Siskind is a public figure and his name was already publicly known. He wanted a special exception to NYT's normal reporting practices.

> Realistically private/public is a spectrum not a binary

IIRC his name would autocomplete as a suggested search term in the Google search bar even before the article was published. He was already far too far toward the "public" end of that spectrum to throw a tantrum the way he did.
by calmbonsai | 2025-08-29 15:29:21+00:00
I don't know where to begin on this other than to say handling a full-auto handgun is far worse for untrained personnel than a semi-auto handgun. It's even a challenge for highly-trained personnel.

Additionally, the very long history of machine pistols would indicate the form-factor is a poor fit for the application of any full-auto fire.

This is the primary reason that personal defense weapons (PDWs) were developed in the first place.
by psittacus | 2025-08-29 15:29:22+00:00
I was browsing through the issues of extrepo and found deb-get, seems pretty useful too:

> deb-get makes it easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages.

https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/

In particular, the list of software is a bit longer than extrepo (e.g. includes zoom):

https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/blob/main/01-main/REA...
by miki123211 | 2025-08-29 15:29:26+00:00
Where do you draw the line?

What about "fancy fonts" (foreign characters that look like latin letters)? Japanese / Chinese ideographs? Common pictograms like "stop sign?" Mathematical symbols?

People made emoticons out of ~100 printable ASCII characters. With thousands of "real" Unicode symbols available, they would have gone wild anyway.

As a person with accessibility needs, I'm honestly glad emojis exist. They at least carry semantic meanings (though some people do abuse them in ways inconsistent with those meanings), unlike random combinations of symbols that the internet community has agreed on.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-29 15:29:43+00:00
>Smartphones are crystalized perfection.

Time will tell, but to me they feel like desktops did 20 years ago. The process of enshitification has turned simple tasks complicated and everyone wants a different, privacy destroying, frustrating to use "app", each of which has a slightly different UI paradigm, a mandatory subscription I've forgotten to cancel for two years straight, and a confusing name to remember. I now have something like 90 apps installed on my iphone, and I can only remember what something like 40 of them do. My damn cat box has an app, and instead of naming it something sensible like "Shitbox 2000" they named it "Whisker".

Was it "Foober Eats that had taco bell, or Instafart, maybe it was Dine-N-Dash? Where's the back button on this thing and why is it different from every other app? Is this an ad or content, does it even matter anymore? Why do I need another login, what happened to SSO? Why won't my password vault work for this one app? Did I register for this one with my google account or apple? Who took my pills? Stay off my lawn!"

When the day comes that I can just tell my device what to do, and let it get it done I'll be very happy to dump that cognitive load onto someone/something else.
by xenotux | 2025-08-29 15:29:46+00:00
> One great piece of advice and informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection.

I mean, there might be, in two ways. Sometimes, you just mess up in some obvious way and can learn from that. But you also get a glimpse of the corporate culture. Maybe not for FAANG and the likes - the processes are homogenized and reviewed by a risk-averse employment lawyer - but for smaller organizations, it's fair game.

But as with layoffs, there's nothing you can win by begging, groveling, or asking for a second chance. The decision has been made, these decisions are always stochastic and unfair on some level, but you move on. You'll be fine.
by MangoToupe | 2025-08-29 15:29:52+00:00
A third party... that sounds exactly like the other two.

Where is the anti-capitalism party? The anti-war party? The anti-corruption party? Aren't political parties supposed to represent DIFFERENT interests? Instead we're forced to choose between a party hates immigrants and a party that hates immigrants slightly more

And like you can criticize republicans, but they actually invested in intel. Wrong company, but a step in the right direction.
by bitpush | 2025-08-29 15:30:01+00:00
> Python got big by impeccable marketing

This is so further from the truth that it hurts. It sounds like you're fairly new to python, and you probably only saw python in its third or fourth "wave" at which point there were alternatives, and you could ask why was python being promoted.

- The first wave was systems programming (replacing aging perl and bash scripts) - Second wave was web, with django, flask etc. This is also the rise of Ruby on Rails. This cemented python's stature. - Third wave was data analysis, fueled by numpy and pandas - Fourth wave is ML, building on top of third with tensorflow and pytorch.

You can argue we've in the fifth wave with LLMs, but it is mostly a 4.5 in my head.

If you dont remember waves 1 or 2, it is hard to get a perspective. But python was much much much big by wave 2.