MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-01 23:25:27+00:00
It's complicated. I've lived in an eastern European communist country, escaped as a political refugee, and then lived in several western countries.

Communist countries at least could house everyone. They more or less had to, because most of them are too cold in winter for the homeless to survive. Education was generally free and quite good. Etc...

But... my dad was dragged off one day and beaten black and blue by the secret police for engaging in "anti-communist capitalist activities". He was tutoring students after school for a bit of cash.

Meanwhile, in the world's richest third-world country, the United States, people with the wrong skin colour are being dragged out of their homes and thrown into concentration camps in another country. Breaking a leg can bankrupt you.

You hear stories of NK refugees hating their new life in SK because it's too competitive and they can't keep up with the constant go-go-go business culture.

I also saw smuggled(!) videos of children in NK picking up individual grains of rice that fell in between the railway tracks at the local shunting yard. So you know... hustle culture, or that.

I personally remember driving to a shopping centre and standing in line outside right before it opened so my Mom could buy me rain boots. Her friend that worked there had called her at 6am telling her to hurry because they had them in stock for the first (and only) time that year.

But... on my recent holiday to the US I was shocked to see how tense police officers looked compared to anywhere else in the world. I witnessed a traffic accident, and the cops that turned up looked like they were ready to draw their weapons and start blasting at any second. They were all kitted out in body armour and had their hands on their weapons at all times. Scanning the crowd non-stop. Where I live, cops are friendly and will high-five my kid and pose for selfies. The US feels more like an outdoor prison to me.
by kaikai | 2025-08-01 23:25:29+00:00
I started a job hunt support standup group.

I asked around in various tech communities I was already apart of for other job seekers who were interested. Once I had a small group, we picked a time we were all free to do a video call standup. I think it was twice a week.

We’d do the usual “what we completed, what’s in progress, what we’re doing next”, then people could stay on the call to chat.

We ended up giving each other mock interviews, making connections, and doing resume reviews outside of the standup. Having the support of other people going through a similar experience was very helpful, and the accountability helped keep me motivated.

It was easy to set up. If people got annoyed about something like wanting to join but having a schedule conflict, or not liking the format the group wanted, I cheerfully said that’s a great idea, and suggested they start a new group. Setting that limit got rid of a lot of the annoying parts of organizing events. The group changed as people got hired or dropped out, and when I got hired I handed it off to other group members.

Job hunting sucks. Having support makes it way easier.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-01 23:26:02+00:00
I think the center in modern American politics has historically been neoliberalism, which explains why the center keeps holding. Neoliberalism is only now having to respond to populism on the left and right, which has caused the balance of power to shift on each side. The neoconservative bloc has attained power on the right with the rise of Trump and the Tea Party before him, and some folks on the left have acquired influence, like Bernie Sanders and AOC. The center is holding less and less as the bureaucracy is being fired and defunded.

I don’t mean to be dismissive, as I think your reading is also accurate. The center of mass is shifting, but I’m not sure the locus of control is as much.
by j1elo | 2025-08-01 23:26:19+00:00
One thing that usually doesn't get mentioned is what happens when someone else needs to quickly use the computer for whatever. Like a coworker helping you to check something, for which I just leave them the controls; or a partner doing a quick google while we discuss about where to travel next. I'm just making up scenarios, but the point is that not having an additional backup keyboard effectively makes the machine unusable for anyone else; this could jokingly be a pro, but more seriously it seems to be a hidrance for collaboration. And unless living in a cave, we collaborate with other human beings sooner or later. So an additional keyboard it is...

the same happened to me when I used the Elecom Huge trackball... I'd want someone to check something and they wouldn't even know how to left click :) (it's done with the thumb)
by jimt1234 | 2025-08-01 23:28:07+00:00
My ex's brother's situation was in the early-90s, when civil forfeiture was - well, I don't think the legal concept was new, but the cops sure acted like it was. They kept telling his attorney that there was no process to challenge the forfeiture, and the attorney seemed to confirm that. He spent countless hours just trying to figure out how to proceed in court.

I think at one point his attorney got a court to basically order the cops to return his assets, but the cops flat-out refused. I think that's when the cops came with the offer of about 10% of the value of the seized assets (around $50K). His attorney, a close family friend, advised him to take it.

My ex's brother was absolutely innocent. And the whole process broke him. He had to move him and his family back into his parents' house while the situation unfolded. And that's why he took his family to live in Mexico. It's such a shame, too, because last I heard he was doing really well in Mexico; he opened a bunch of automated car washes. So, it sucks that a hard-working, entrepreneurial dude like him took his talents to another country because the corrupt-ass local cops wanted free shit.
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-01 23:29:05+00:00
It occurs to me that the bitter lesson is so often repeated because it involves a slippery slope or moot-and-castle argument. IE, the meaning people assign to the bitter lesson ranges between all the following:

General-purpose-algorithms-that-scale will beat algorithms that aren't those

The most simple general purpose, scaling algorithm will win, at least over time

Neural networks will win

LLMs will reach AGI with just more resources
by codingdave | 2025-08-01 23:30:15+00:00
There are two types of law. Contracts are civil law. Breaking them does not break criminal law. Civil vs. criminal law has different procedures, different burdens of proof, and different potential consequences.

When it comes to contracts, no, there are no "laws", there are agreements between parties that can be enforced if taken to court, and in that sense they are binding. But breaking them does not break any law... it just breaks an agreement.
by flakes | 2025-08-01 23:30:44+00:00
Im a firm believer that there will never be a perfect general purpose job scheduler. The priority for how jobs are scheduled is always deeply coupled to your business needs. General purpose schedulers always end up as a jack of all trades but master of none. With a custom built scheduler you get that control, but do have to re-invent the wheel for a lot of features. Jenkins, Argo, Airflow, Cron, etc, all have their own pros and cons.
by onli | 2025-08-01 23:31:36+00:00
We knew that. But it is very useful in documents that would be printed, especially if the original url is complicated. That is why one would not use a random url shortener, but Google's. After all, Google would never destroy those URLs, and the company will likely outlive us.

I'm completely serious, and I have a PhD thesis with such links to back it up. Just in some foootnotes, but still.

Yes, maybe this shows how naive we were/I was. But it definitely also shows how deep Google has fallen, that it had so much trust and completely betrayed it.
by Buttons840 | 2025-08-01 23:31:40+00:00
Who will pay me for my AI chat histories?

Seriously, make a browser extension that people can turn on and off (no need to be dishonest here), and pay people to upload their AI chats, and possibly all the other content they view.

If Reddit wont let you scrape, pay people to automatically upload the Reddit comments they view normally.

If Claude cuts you off, pay people to automatically upload their Claude conversations.

Am I crazy, am I hastening dystopia?
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by duderific | 2025-08-01 23:32:10+00:00
Next up in the timeline - when a bad jobs report lands, the person reporting the unwanted data gets fired [0]. Undoubtedly a toadie will be put in their place who will report numbers that make fearless leader look better.

We are now well on our way to George Orwell's 1984 dystopia.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-num...
by JonChesterfield | 2025-08-01 23:32:27+00:00
YAML.load '[FI,NO,SE]' => ["FI", false, "SE"]

Ah yes, I remember that.

%YAML 1.2

Absolutely no truck with this either. If you want another whitespace obsessed bug farm, you can give it a new name.

Stay with XML. It's fine. I wrote a bunch earlier this evening, even though you're not really meant to edit it by hand, and that was fine too. Emacs totally understands what XML is.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 23:32:40+00:00
FWIW the data suggests that thin cotton clothing can stop these knives much more effectively, and therefore could at least make impulse knife crime (indoor assaults) much, much less deadly.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rounded-knif...

Let's Be Blunt have more data: https://www.letsbeblunt.co.uk
by HardCodedBias | 2025-08-01 23:33:08+00:00
I know. These things are unbelievable machines. The people at Cerebras are fearless wrt. taking on difficult hardware challenges.

But this will certainly be a money loser. They have likely been waiting for an open source model that somewhat conforms to their hardware's limitations and which gives acceptable recommendations.

It looks like they have found it with QWEN. We'll see!
by moomoo11 | 2025-08-01 23:33:15+00:00
I’m open to discuss here if that’s okay. If it can also help others who are in similar boat.

Biggest advice I can offer is that if YOU are building something you have the most to gain, and also lose. You give a shit, that’s why you are doing it.

The 50/50 equity split works for college students who want to do a startup. Don’t bother with MBAs, people who dress up as Steve Jobs, and people who have done only sales (add them on LinkedIn for their connections).

IMO if you’re a solo technical founder you should give yourself 60% (leave 40% unallocated). Until you find the right co-founder or early employee, you should own 100% of your company.

Keep building the IP, keep networking, and push through the negative signals (there will be many).

You should add as many people on LinkedIn as you can. Add other founders, people who can be your potential customers, and anyone in the middle who has 500+ connections.

Go through those connections of theirs and keep messaging and adding people. Warm up to them (takes time), don’t be pushy/salesy, and you’ll do well.

Also join any communities (slack, discord, forums, etc) that have your potential customers. Warm up there, hop in and add to off topic and such channels so the regulars get to know you. Then, when you do start pitching you won’t get banned lol.

At worst you will probably burn through the first few dozen as you figure out what works and doesn’t. Thankfully there are billions of people and probably hundreds of thousands or millions potential people who will talk to you.
by c22 | 2025-08-01 23:33:20+00:00
Sure, why not?

Monkey helpers are trained to assist with tasks such as: Retrieving dropped objects such as cell phones or remote controls Opening bottles and inserting straws Turning on buttons/switches for remotes, phones, and computers Repositioning limbs on a wheelchair after a muscle spasm to prevent sores and other injuries Turning pages and scratching itches

https://www.sunrisemedical.com/livequickie/blog/september-20...
by spencerflem | 2025-08-01 23:33:27+00:00
“The Left” does not mean to the left of you personally. It’s like how there’s only two types of drivers, insane speeders and insane slowpokes and that’s true no matter how fast you drive :p

The “left” in terms of voters is against the genocide in Gaza and for socialist policies and candidates like Mamdani. Plenty of polls and evidence supports this.

NYT undid their endorsement policy to specifically Not endorse mamdani and is very biased against Palestine. Their opinion columns like David Brooks etc are blowhard conservatives too.

In terms of mainstream news sources, I consider the Guardian US to be a reasonable big tent news source for the center left.

NPR is centrist. They take no sides even if (imo) one is obviously correct.

NYT and WaPo is the ‘reasonable right’ (still report facts but with a right wing spin- see their billionaire owners).

Fox etc. are not news they are ‘entertainment’ and do not report facts and are a vile propaganda engine that must be destroyed
by drtz | 2025-08-01 23:33:53+00:00
The fact that Brightline can take you from Miami to Orlando is wonderful, and I'm really happy Florida is embracing more efficient, less dangerous, and less stressful forms of transportation.

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.

Yes, it's harder to get big projects through the red tape in California than it is in West / Panhandle Texas or Central Florida. Go take a drive through those regions and you'll quickly see some reasons why, besides just NIMBYism, Californians are a bit more protective of their landscapes. If a massive wind project were proposed across large swaths of the Texas Hillcountry, you'd see a lot more push-back.
by danscan | 2025-08-01 23:34:18+00:00
Not sure which way of constraint you're referring to, but WebAuthn credentials are bound to a domain via Relying Party ID.

There's a proposal for cross-domain usage via Related Origins, but that scheme depends on the authority of the relying party, meaning you can't say "I'd like to be represented by the same keypair across this set of unrelated domains"
by parineum | 2025-08-01 23:34:56+00:00
> Only when it comes to rights.

"Corporations are people" means a corporation is people, not a corporation is a person.

People have rights, whether they are acting through a corporation or not. That's what Citizens United determined.

I hope you think about who misled you to thinking that "corporations are people" meant a corporation is a person and trust them a little less.
by dylan-m | 2025-08-01 23:35:07+00:00
> When it asks me to open a file, or a directory, it should invoke a system dialog that cannot be faked, and when I pick a file/directory for it, that directory or file should be bind-mounted into its mount namespace without giving it extra information about other files beside it, or indeed what's the full path of the file. When recording a screen, I should be able to pick which regions and which applications it should be able to see, and the system should make it think it's all there is.

You've described exactly what flatpak is doing? I'm curious what gaps you see with its approach in particular.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-01 23:35:12+00:00
When you're a new member of a community, you're dedicating a lot of effort to working out its norms and customs. How frank are you in giving feedback? Is it OK to swear? When is it appropriate to go out with the group for dinner or a round of drinks? There's no right or wrong answers to these questions, so you can't reason about them from first principles; you just have to learn by absorption what the community finds normal.

As an established member of the community, especially one who routinely organizes events for it, your actions heavily guide that process of absorption. So you can't sleep with anyone in the community until they've been around long enough to understand that the sex has nothing whatsoever to do with community norms. It's not just about whether they think they have to; they have to know that it's not a default, that it's not something a typical community member would do in their shoes, that nobody's going to think they're weird or a prude for turning you down.

"Why would anyone think that in the first place?" There really are communities, including big ones that organize events, where sexual access is part of the norm. Everyone knows what's up when a rock star invites you to share his hotel room. You and I understand that the analogy to a programming conference is ridiculous - because we're deeply acculturated into what a programming conference is and what kinds of things are or aren't normal at them.
by gooseyard | 2025-08-01 23:35:37+00:00
i'm also an audio nerd and although I do everything in the box when i'm recording, i agree completely that it's way easier to use outboard stuff for this case. i had an analog channel strip but decided to try one of the very inexpensive behringer uv1 strips with an integrated usb interface and it's been great, the gate and compressor work well, and i have a rolls audio parametric eq in the effects loop to high pass and de-essing.

since it's convenient to use the headphone out on the uv1 for the headset, i do use a limiter plugin in Rogue Amoeba Soundsource to compress the output from the conferencing software we use, it's nice being able to do that per-application since i listen to music through the headset a lot and don't want to have to take the limiter in and out.

analog headsets are so much less annoying and flexible, huge fan
by endeavor-zach | 2025-08-01 23:35:42+00:00
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by BeauNer | 2025-08-01 23:35:59+00:00
The open source community just got a fresh reminder that even trusted ecosystems like Mozilla’s are not immune to phishing attacks. According to a new alert, bad actors are actively targeting developer accounts on AMO (addons.mozilla.org), attempting to steal credentials by sending convincing but fake emails that impersonate official Mozilla communications.

The fraudulent emails follow a familiar pattern. They claim your developer account “requires an update to continue accessing features,” hoping to scare you into clicking a malicious link. But Mozilla is clear: do not click any links if you’re unsure of the source.

Instead, Mozilla recommends that developers take a few steps to protect themselves. First, check that any messages claiming to be from Mozilla are actually sent from a legitimate domain, such as mozilla.org, firefox.com, or mozilla.com. If an email appears suspicious, it’s smart to check whether it passes SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication protocols. Your email client might provide this info under headers or message details.

And even if a message passes those checks, developers are still urged to avoid clicking embedded links. It’s much safer to go directly to addons.mozilla.org by typing the address manually. Under no circumstance should you enter your credentials on any site other than an official Mozilla domain.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-08-01 23:36:11+00:00
My understanding is that (at least at one point) binaries older than about six months were not allowed to run in production. But APIs are "evolving" irregularly so the longer you go between builds the more likely something is going to break. You really need a continuous build going to stay on top of it.

Best analogy I can think of is log-rolling (as in the lumberjack competition).
by johncolanduoni | 2025-08-01 23:37:29+00:00
I was referring to this:

> Pity that Passkeys are so constrained in practice by browsers, that using them pretty much requires you trust the cloud providers absolutely with all your critical keys.

Passkeys are not constrained so you have to trust cloud providers or anyone else with all your critical keys. The key is resident in whatever software or hardware you want to use, and anyone can create passkey software or hardware that will work with Chrome etc. I'm talking about (and I'm pretty sure the OP was referring to) the other side of WebAuthn: where the credentials surfaced to JavaScript via WebAuthn actually come from and how the browser relays requests that a challenge is signed.
by stavros | 2025-08-01 23:37:37+00:00
If I'm an OpenAI employee, and I use Claude Code via the API, I'm not doing some hacker-fu, I'm just using a tool a company released for the purpose they released it.

I understand that they were technically "using it to train models", which, given OpenAI's stance, I don't have much sympathy for, but it's not some "special developer hackery" that this is making it sound like.
by didibus | 2025-08-01 23:38:03+00:00
I think it's possible that Derek Thompson is just doing the same thing he is calling out.

4. Derek Thompson interpreted a short conversation with the author the way he wanted to hear it.

The author might have said a bunch of "nuanced details" in that conversation, and he took it as: "I knew it, author thinks their claims are bogus."

If I recall, I don't remember seeing any part of their conversation quoted word for word, or even the name of the author he contacted in the article. (though I might have just missed it)
Show HN: Inworld TTS open sourcing and technical report
by feifan123 | 2025-08-01 23:40:34+00:00
Inworld TTS modeling and training codes have been open sourced now for the community: https://github.com/inworld-ai/tts, together with a detailed technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21138.

Interested in ultra high quality TTS with very low cost to scale your application in production? Now it’s a great time to integrate: https://inworld.ai/tts
by josephg | 2025-08-01 23:40:41+00:00
Hah totally. When I was interviewing professionally, we emailed candidates a document describing our interview process. We told them in that document what we’d ask and told them how they could prepare.

Almost nobody bothered to read that document before the interview. And the people who did were usually the better candidates. We joked internally about skipping the entire interview process, and just passing everyone who read our study notes.
by azeirah | 2025-08-01 23:41:17+00:00
Sometimes awful is the best we have, we don't have anything that performs at a similar level to EUV machines by ASML but are much simpler or tenable than what we have right now, right?

Perhaps we will find something better in the future, but for now awful is the best we got for the cutting edge.

Also, when is cutting edge not the worst it's ever been?