MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mistachkin | 2025-08-01 18:11:29+00:00
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by fern_ | 2025-08-01 18:11:50+00:00
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I’m looking to be challenged in a strong technical environment with other people who I can learn from, and I’m open to work on most interesting problems as long as they’re roughly net neutral or positive. I’m very hard-problem oriented, and am quite skilled at distilling complex, slow, brittle training procedures down to simple, performant, and hackable ones. The kinds of problems that engage me the most are ones where I can always be growing and learning, and that’s the kind of environment that I’ll thrive in. I’m certainly open to learning new subdomains (molecular, etc).

I tend to focus more on data/architecture/training dynamics than raw low-level kernel stuff, though the two tend to go hand-in-hand. I have a tendency to enjoy mentoring people, casual mentorship is something that I greatly enjoy. I am looking to learn working with larger-scale distributed runs, scale is something that I’d like to work with a bit more.

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by hinkley | 2025-08-01 18:12:17+00:00
I am an ex Java developer. Enterprise Fizz Buzz is highly entertaining. That stupid masters thesis pretending to be a design book landed right an inflection point and ruined half a generation of developers.

What isn’t entertaining is using OpenTelemetry, which takes me right back to Java for over-engineering. Moving to OTEL from StatsD cost us about 3% CPU per core, which on 32 core machines is an entire CPU lost to telemetry. Or more accurately, an entire second CPU lost to telemetry. That is not right.

Prometheus doesn’t have these problems. And isn’t trying to fix quite as many problems I’ve never had.
by oceaneinvest | 2025-08-01 18:12:18+00:00
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by godelski | 2025-08-01 18:12:30+00:00
> but retaliation is a thing, and is hard -- and expensive -- to prove.

My understanding is that it is fairly easy to prove. If you suddenly have a change in working conditions it is considered retaliation. See the example here[0]. Doesn't matter if you're in an at will employment state. If you get terminated really close to a reporting, well, you'll probably take home more money than you would have by working. It's up to the employer to prove the termination was rightful and they can't just say "because".

It also is not expensive. At least not more than the theft. Lawyers working on wage theft generally take payment as part of the recovery. You pay out of the winnings, not up front.

Honestly, a big part of the problem is that many people have defeatist attitudes. A lot of people don't even bother to make a report after they leave. It is hard to retaliate when you've left.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/retaliation
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by henry_marks | 2025-08-01 18:12:56+00:00
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by lotyrin | 2025-08-01 18:13:10+00:00
I did miss that, I suppose I should have said "underestimate the effect of the power imbalance" then. But you've made it clear you do understand but don't care.

You actually think it's justified for an older man to recruit a younger woman, hold his influence in a professional community over her head, suggest that they share a hotel room (making her feel bad for trying to invite a chaperone), suggest that she become intoxicated, and suggest that they have sex? Simply because she accepts this slow erosion of her boundaries and autonomy?

Anyone who seeks to be accommodating and accepting by default, who harbors doubts about the intent of others is "responsible for the consequences"? This exact attitude is why women are choosing to default to assuming malice on the part of men, so they don't fall into traps like this. It's extremely ironic when men hold both positions of "they went along with it so it's not my fault" and "it's not fair that women don't trust men".

What are your boundaries for what constitutes inappropriate behavior here? Merely the law? Do you not understand that people can decide to create consequences in their social communities that go beyond what is prescribed by law? Law provides free speech but doesn't provide consequence-free speech. That you've chosen a throwaway here is telling, knowing your comments here would have consequences if you were to associate them with your public figure.

Consent must be enthusiastic and sober. I'm sorry for men who've never had a woman be excited to have sex with them and who feel that a kind of begrudging intoxicated acceptance is the closest they'll ever get to that. If you're in that category I suggest sex work is significantly more ethical (and less effort).
by nineplay | 2025-08-01 18:13:18+00:00
Let's not forget it became a business. Gayle Laakmann wrote a book, became a consultant, and I'm sure earned a whole lot of money convincing companies that she'd found the perfect path to hiring great engineers.

I think she had a willing audience because a lot of companies weren't sure they were interviewing the 'right' way. It's always easier to tell your bosses you are following the advice of a top consultant than to try to tell them why you have a better strategy than the FAANGs.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-08-01 18:13:22+00:00
> minimizing false positives

This has not been my experience at all. Years ago being ex-FAANG was a pretty good signal, but as the filter has increasingly become "regurgitate a bunch of leetcode" the quality of FAANG engineers has plummeted.

The teams I've worked that have used live coding filters all had far worse devs than all the startups I've worked with that didn't require live coding.

In the old "algorithm whiteboarding" days, I think it was a decent signal, but now it's just a sad parody of this and the results show.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-01 18:13:51+00:00
If you're interested in a vaguely similar case, I found the situation of somewhat-famous video game writer Chris Avellone interesting to follow.

He's worked on some games I enjoyed in my youth (Planescape: Torment is probably the most well known, considered a genre classic) and my reaction to his cancellation was roughly something like "ah crap, another one of my heroes turns out to be a bad egg". The narrative of famous men abusing their end of a power dynamic is generally easy to believe, etc.

As a result, he lost his employment, contracts and so on as well.

But this one had an aftermath a couple of years later. He wrote some elaborate/lengthy pieces defending himself (which struck me as plausible and even convincing, but then I had to keep in mind he's an expert writer) and initiated legal proceedings -- that he eventually won, resulting in a public statement by the accusers that the events they accused him of never took place. I think his posts make for interesting reading.

His career seems to have resumed recently, five years after the accusations were made public.

Even so, if you look at internet comment threads on recent news of his new game involvement, there's a persistent meme that he paid for this statement in the form of a "seven-figure settlement", which is a curious misreading because the seven-figure sum was paid to him by the accusers to make up for damages.

Sadly, the case of another writer I sometimes liked (Warren Ellis; I enjoyed Transmetropolitan back in the day) is rather grim in comparison.
by hyperbrainer | 2025-08-01 18:13:57+00:00
> the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source

I am not concerned with whether it has a future. But I do fear that the absolute manic focus on code quality, testing and support may take a dive when other programmers take the helm. I am not claiming that there are no developers who are equally careful and/or skilled, but whether the culture of SQLite will persist is, to me, still an open question.
by ncr100 | 2025-08-01 18:13:59+00:00
Apologies for the following snark - it's tragic, so this is more of a reaction comment:

> I have found public broadcasting to be one of the least biased sources of headline news and information available

> kids programming is the absolute best

Fixed that for you:

> I USED TO FIND public broadcasting provided the least biased sources of headline news and information available

> kids programming WAS the absolute best
by avmich | 2025-08-01 18:14:35+00:00
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by dwroberts | 2025-08-01 18:14:44+00:00
> but this did allow for a port of the game to the OG XBOX (733 MHz PentiumⅢ box) way back in 2003

Not sure if the clock speed is just for reference or emphasis re: efficiency, but RCT1 will in fact happily run on a Pentium 90 (which is still mind blowing to me given the scope of the game)
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-01 18:15:02+00:00
> Rarely have I seen a class that truly needs 20 parameters

If a class seems like it needs that many parameters, it is very common that one or both of these is true:

1. It is doing too much, or

2. There are things-that-should-be-their-own-classes hiding in groups of the parameters.

#2 is kind of a subset of #1, but the "doing too much" tends to be concentrated in validating relations between parameters rather than what happens after the object is constructed.
by disqard | 2025-08-01 18:15:09+00:00
> Google does not really own the complete AI stack, NVDA is extracting a lot of the value there.

...not sure what you're implying.

Google most definitely has their own stack (spanning hardware-to-software) for AI. Gemini was trained on in-house TPUs:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/12/07/google-...
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-01 18:15:14+00:00
I mean the projects are connected. If you enjoyed cryonceaweek.com you will probably like https://www.feelapp.io. I guess it could be considered a funnel promotion but it's more me just trying to share a new project with people who use the previous one. It didn't always link to the app - I added that later after we launched the app page and waitlist.
by Voultapher | 2025-08-01 18:15:27+00:00
Comparing the industrialized usage of animals like pigs and cows to "predator and prey" is not a good comparison in my opinion. For the record I'm totally fine with indigenous humans hunting and killing animals. The scale and industrialized nature is what makes a big difference I find, the same way killing someone in self defense and genocide both involve the murder of humans, yet there is a qualitative difference I wouldn't ignore.

Many predatory species engage in behavior that limits their hunting to avoid making their prey extinct. Right now extinction rates are >1000x above the baseline a couple hundred years ago. What we are doing to the biosphere we are currently part of is short sighted self sabotage - which is in large parts fueled by a wide spread human supremacist mindset.
by cestith | 2025-08-01 18:15:29+00:00
Indeed Perl has true lambdas and full closures and has for many many years. There’s no GIL. It supports multi-process programming, event-driven programming, and multithreading. It has optional objects. Code can be, but doesn’t have to be, written in prefix with surrounding parentheses. It can feel very natural for people coming from some form of Lisp.

Unfortunately it doesn’t do automatic tail call elimination but that’s a tooling limitation more than a language limitation.
by vel0city | 2025-08-01 18:15:37+00:00
> public funding for my local NPR and PBS stations

Ah, so it's not going anywhere because it's not directly affecting your station. Got it. For many other people it is going away.

This will affect your station though. Lots of stations spent a good bit of their budgets on content from PBS and NPR. While direct federal sources aren't a massive chunk of their income, revenues from member stations is. This will impact the content your local public TV and radio station will get.
by McAlpine5892 | 2025-08-01 18:15:44+00:00
I am quite literally in the middle of reading this now [0]. This would be great required reading for high school students. Anyone that runs across this comment should put it at the top of their reading list.

Most frustratingly, many people know how to be properly skeptical. To use Sagan's example, it comes out in full-force any time someone buys a used car. Never trust the dealer. Everybody knows that.

I really appreciate that Sagan refrains from looking down on anyone. It's all too easy to do and I am guilty of it at times. It also leads to a much more useful conversation. Sagan provides hope that we can educate better. Compared to say, Dawkins, who I think has ultimately hurt the cause. Nobody will listen when they feel insulted.

> So sad to see its worst predictions come true.

The most recent bit of the book I read involved James Randi. I was curious about the guy so I did some other reading. Randi gave out an annual "award" called the "Pigasus Award" to fraudsters and similar. Mehmet Oz received the award [1] three times. Now Oz runs Medicaid!

Sadly, we've lost Sagan and Randi. Sometimes it feels like the world has lost any sort of check against gullibility. To paraphrase from the book, many scientists are particularly not equipped to call these scammers out. Scientists wrestle with nature - nature has laws. Trying to call out the Oz's of the world is hard because they don't play by the rules of reason.

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[0] https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-709

[1] https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2011-apr-01-la-heb-dr-...
by nbraga | 2025-08-01 18:16:21+00:00
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by frumplestlatz | 2025-08-01 18:16:26+00:00
I guess I just don’t find that as horrifying as you do. The market cannot hold public broadcasting accountable, and this is one of the few levers that we have to do so.

Conservatives have wanted to defund public broadcasting for decades. What made it finally possible was that public broadcasting made their bias obvious and undeniable. Over the past 10 years, the stark shift leftward has been undeniable — they became what they’ve been accused of being for a very long time.
by 827a | 2025-08-01 18:16:27+00:00
IMO: Context engineering is a fascinating topic because it starts approaching the metaphysical abstract idea of what LLMs even are.

If you believe that an LLM is a digital brain, then it follows that their limitation in capabilities today are a result of their limited characteristics (namely: coherent context windows). If we increase context windows (and intelligence), we can simply pack more data into the context, ask specific questions, and let the LLM figure it out.

However, if you have a more grounded belief that, at best, LLMs are just one part of a more heterogeneous digital brain: It follows that maybe actually their limitations are a result of how we're feeding it data. That we need to be smarter about context engineering, we need to do roundtrips with the LLM to narrow down what thbe context should be, it needs targeted context to maximize the quality of its output.

The second situation feels so much harder, but more likely. IMO: This fundamental schism is the single reason why ASI won't be achieved on any timeframe worth making a prediction about. LLMs are just one part of the puzzle.
by TheRealPomax | 2025-08-01 18:17:01+00:00
Conversely: if that's all it takes, there is no point in going to University just to get a piece of paper that says "you did the thing you already did".

University (for folks serious about continuing in academia after) is (obviously) about making sure you have the same base knowledge as everyone else, but also for you to come to terms with how academia actually works, who the bad players are, who the good players are, and who you need to know to get shit to happen for you. So in that sense, most Universities going "no" is literally the most accurate reflection of what life's going to be like on a continuous basis on the inside.
by DHowett | 2025-08-01 18:17:11+00:00
I’ve noticed most of the replies to your comment address the first half, and none (as of right now) address the second:

> So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that comes with no software or prospect of software.

If by “this” you mean the MicroSD Express hat from the article: this is a hobby project produced by a hobbyist, who seems to have no plans to sell or mass produce it.

It is unfair to the creator for you to lump it in with, and draw a conclusion from, the works produced by Raspberry Pi Holdings.
by m01 | 2025-08-01 18:17:20+00:00
> But one thing that seems unavoidable is that the "section" (the part where you hold the pen) gets messy when you put the cap on it. I wonder why every fountain pen seems to have this design.

FYI, there are fountain pens with a retractable nib that don't have a cap, including for example the:

- Pilot Vanishing Point/Capless/Decimo (there's a cheaper Japanese "Special Alloy" version as well)

- LAMY dialog

- Platinum Curidas

I don't know if they fix your inky fingers issue but if taking the cap on and off is a hassle then these might be worth looking into.

EDIT: formatting