MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by huhkerrf | 2025-08-30 11:30:55+00:00
Indeed. The closest I've ever come to "arguing" (quotes very much intended) was when a recruiter called to give me feedback, and followed up by asking if I would like a call back if a more junior role opened up.

I told her that I respected their opinion but that I disagreed that I wasn't ready for the more senior role, and so I wasn't interested, but appreciated their time nonetheless. And I was appreciative. Although I predicted as soon as the interview was over that I wasn't getting an offer and why, having confirmation helped me refine where I messed up in the interview.
by postquantumfax | 2025-08-30 11:31:25+00:00
There's no leak being discussed. Everyone in the world sets resolving and it is what it is with the current TLDs when ICANN needs more coke money they possibly break every node in the world and a distributed group of thousands has to look if something bad happened.

There is the argument that ICANN should no longer be consulted ever by nodes of consequence but that is an argument that they have failed 100% in their responsibilities.

If you don't care at all about zone delegation and global resolution then you obviously don't have an opinion on how to evaluate ICANNs stewardship of global domain delegation.

We have run out if IPv4 addresses but there is NAT is not a satisfying answer to start. But we have let ICANN polute naming so let's implement shadow naming everywhere is an even less satisfactory answer.
by jay-barronville | 2025-08-30 11:32:42+00:00
> he's 100% the type of person to lean into the controversy it creates

Except, objectively speaking, he actually did NOT do that. He basically just ignored the “controversy” because it was such an obviously false narrative meant only to smear him that I’m sure he had enough faith in most Americans who aren’t consumed by partisanship to see it exactly for what it was.

> At that time, building favor with trump voters was good for him.

Your implication here seems to be that Trump voters, en masse, want folks who are doing Nazi salutes, or am I misunderstanding you?
by jonathaneunice | 2025-08-30 11:34:27+00:00
Hadn't previously seen the effusive emoji everywhere that LLMs love, but otherwise bulleted lists and paragraphs with bold-highlighted run-in headers have been a staple of consulting memos for the longest ever.

Very effective way to summarize reports, recommendations, or analysis. IME well-received and appreciated by those consuming complex info for the first time.

Still love the style, though one does need to soft-shoe it so as to not scream "this is LLM copypasta!"
by lstodd | 2025-08-30 11:35:32+00:00
heh, in mid-2000s all I had were a batch of misbehaving SATA controllers under freebsd, and an (actually quite well-written core of a) linux driver was all I had to work with.

Without that, we would have probably just switched hw, because the quite obscure bug was in the ASIC, and debugging that on 2005-6-ish hw is just infeasible.
by andix | 2025-08-30 11:38:08+00:00
I've seen the struggle with not upgrading frameworks and staying on an old version. Usually the cost/risk for upgrading is perceived much higher than it actually is. And the cost/risk of technical debt is mostly ignored. I've seen this issue so often: "we can't use this external component, because we would need to upgrade the framework. Let's just work around it, it will only take 2 days (and 50 more days to maintain it over a decade)"
by robertlagrant | 2025-08-30 11:38:51+00:00
> “What’s the catch?” the company’s FAQ page said. “Honestly, there isn’t one. You post, you watch, you shop — and Flip rewards you for it. Rewards get you free products. Creator Earnings get you real money you can cash out. That’s really it.”

The catch is they're riding on a train of free money and it's not legally mandated that people keep paying them.
by anymouse123456 | 2025-08-30 11:41:02+00:00
Okay, I'll bite.

> Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt [sic] worked at scale

I've worked in startups and large tech organizations over decades and indeed, there are definitely some problems in those places that are hard.

That said, in my opinion, the majority of technical solutions were over engineered and mostly waste.

Much simpler, more reliable, more efficient solutions were available, but inappropriately dismissed.

My team was able to demonstrate this by producing a much simpler system, deploying it and delivering it to many millions of people, every day.

Chesterton's fence is great in some contexts, especially politics, but the vast majority of software is so poorly made, it rarely applies IMO.
by thinkharderdev | 2025-08-30 11:42:15+00:00
Yes, this is an excellent rule. I read an essay years ago (which I can't find now) about technical debt whether the author separate tech debt into two flavors which he analogized to a mortgage (good) and credit card debt (bad). Basically, getting the right design but only partially implementing it is like a mortgage, you're making a down payment on the full implementation and you can pay down the debt over time. But doing terrible hacks to "get something working" is like credit card debt. You're buying some time but will have to pay that back later (with a lot of interest).
by bonzini | 2025-08-30 11:43:11+00:00
Yep, vm-memory needs pretty large changes to the crate itself but fortunately they're already in progress to add IOMMU support to the virtio and vhost crates. Probably there will be an API break but with old and new crates able to talk to each other so you don't need a flag day.

I am curious if you get to DMA before or after QEMU, and if before what your API will look like.
by lozenge | 2025-08-30 11:43:17+00:00
Well, a lot of countries aren't worth leaving. Taking my home of the UK as an example, Wikipedia lists 19 countries with higher GDP per capita, but if I don't want to learn a new language, overcome bureaucratic obstacles and leave my family behind, there is nowhere to go and this criteria describes almost everybody who gets an education here, even the smart ones. Romania is #53 on the list and their EU membership means they can emigrate easily.
by esperent | 2025-08-30 11:43:27+00:00
The issue isn't advertising, it's targeted advertising which is a very different and far more problematic beast than the advertising of your grandparent's time.

In the interest of not getting bogged down in semantics, let's just always assume that when people say "advertising" in this era, they mean "targeted advertising". Then we can avoid yet another tired attempt at excusing Meta's behavior.
Show HN: I made a browser extension to save/load storage profiles between tabs
by oldbig | 2025-08-30 11:45:56+00:00
Hello HN,

I was tired of the constant cycle of logging in/out to test different user roles (admin, user, etc.), which meant manually clearing and setting `localStorage`, `sessionStorage`, and cookies. It was a huge time sink.

So, I built "Tab Storage Copier," a browser extension that treats tab states like git branches.

The core feature is *Profiles*: - *Save Profile*: Take a complete snapshot of a tab's storage (local, session, cookies) and name it (e.g., "Admin User", "Test Account"). You can even save multiple versions for each profile. - *Load Profile*: Instantly apply a saved profile to your current tab. Switching between complex user states becomes a two-click process. - *Manage*: A simple UI to delete old profiles and versions.

It also has the basics covered: - *One-Click Copy*: Quickly copy storage from any tab to your active one. - *Quick Clear*: Wipe storage from the current tab without digging through DevTools.

It's a workflow tool I now can't live without. It’s free and open source. I'd love to get your feedback.

Get it for your browser: - Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-storage-copier/... - Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/tab-storag... - Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-storage-c...
by anewhnaccount2 | 2025-08-30 11:48:14+00:00
Sometimes I listen to music without lyrics like surf or gabber. Other times its genre music like northern soul or punk or familiar music where the lyrics are so familiar or vacuous/cliche that they don't distract. I wouldn't listen to really lyrically focussed music like singer songwriter stuff generally. So I think there's a spectrum rather than just instrumental music vs everything else.
by akssri | 2025-08-30 11:49:32+00:00
Theory of Computation wasn't around when all this "exciting" stuff was developed in Mathematics. Given their non-constructive nature "real" numbers are unsurprisingly totally incompatible with computation.

Chaitin has a great paper on this and shows how Cantor's constructions were reflected a half-century later by Turing. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418

Except of-course, while "hyper-Turing" machines that can do magic "post-Turing" "post-Halting" computation are seen as absurd fictions, real-numbers are seen as "normal" and "obvious" and "common-sensical"! It was amusing sometime back to see people pooh-pooh the likes of Hava Siegelmann for being funded for their "super-Turing" machines with "real-number" computation, without realizing that the core issue is the "real"-number itself!

I've always found this quite strange, but I've realized that this is almost blasphemy (people in STEM, and esp. their "allies", aren't as enlightened etc. as they pretend to be tbh).

Some historicans of mathematics claim (C. K. Raju for eg.) that this comes from the insertion of Greek-Christian theological bent in the development of modern mathematics.

Anyone who has taken measure theory etc. and then gone on to do "practical" numerical stuff, and then realizes the pointlessness of much of this hard/abstract construction dealing with "scary" monsters that can't even be computed, would perhaps wholeheartedly agree.

edit: The post has a great link to a note on Cantor's theology,

https://apeironcentre.org/theology-of-georg-cantor/
by whstl | 2025-08-30 11:49:33+00:00
Hard agree.

I also worked on some quite large organizations with quite large services that would easily take 10x to 50x the amount of time to ship if they were a smaller org.

Most of the time people were mistaking complexity caused by bad decisions (tech or otherwise) with "domain complexity" and "edge cases" and refusing to acknowledge that things are now harder because of those decisions. Just changing the point of view makes it simple again, but then you run into internal politics.

With microservices especially, the irony was that it was mostly the decisions justified as being done to "save time in the future" that ended up generating the most amount of future work, and in a few cases even problems around compliance and data sovereignty.
by zanfr | 2025-08-30 11:50:04+00:00
A globally distributed, peer-to-peer (P2P) network for large language models (LLMs) that ensures:

* Privacy: All queries remain on local nodes unless federated updates are performed. * Censorship resistance: No central authority controls outputs. * Renewable energy utilization: Inferers only operate when powered by solar, wind, or other green energy sources. * Continuous operation: Geographic distribution ensures night/day operation. * Community-driven model selection: Nodes vote on the model to use, ensuring it fits inferer constraints.
by Speedy218 | 2025-08-30 11:50:56+00:00
The privacy and control implications this has is absolutely insane, they are control freaks just like almost every other big corporation. I'd fully argue that what they are doing to us is worse than the supposed stuff that happens to children that "Google" aims to protect them from. I'm sure our children would be thrilled to know that they are going to live a reality in the 1984 book where Google and major governments are big brothers. The "security" reasoning was just an afterthought in this so that they have a leg to stand on in court. ROOT YOUR ANDROIDS IF YOU STILL CAN!! Google is rapidly pressuring manufacturers to permanently lock bootloaders, I know all of this trips play integrity which means lots of apps stop working, but quite frankly it's a bad hand and it's all we've got.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-30 11:53:10+00:00
I’m for Ukraine, but I’ve been watching YouTube videos from decent sources for years. They’re talking about how some new tactic or weapon is a game changer in the war.

The war has been going on for years with no big changes. I recently stopped watching these videos because it’s obvious they’re propaganda.

Just because it sounds good doesn’t make it true.
by Gud | 2025-08-30 11:53:45+00:00
The one thing LLMs do well is manipulating text. The danger is obviously that it will reduce individual expression and make everything the same mediocre sludge.

For me writing is a way to capture a stream of consciousness so I don’t really see the advantage of using an LLM.

When I see some trivial mediocrity I simply stop reading. It’s just not interesting.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-30 11:54:58+00:00
Or the Russian way:

> We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”

> Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.

> Interestingly, several of these features run directly counter to the conventional wisdom on effective influence and communication from government or defense sources, which traditionally emphasize the importance of truth, credibility, and the avoidance of contradiction.3 Despite ignoring these traditional principles, Russia seems to have enjoyed some success under its contemporary propaganda model, either through more direct persuasion and influence or by engaging in obfuscation, confusion, and the disruption or diminution of truthful reporting and messaging.

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
by conaclos | 2025-08-30 11:55:41+00:00
The following articles may also be of interest to the audience:

- The definitive guide to error handling in Rust [0]

- Error Handling for Large Rust Projects - Best Practice in GreptimeDB [1]

- Designing error types in Rust [2]

- Modular Errors in Rust [3]

[0]: https://www.howtocodeit.com/articles/the-definitive-guide-to... [1]: https://greptime.com/blogs/2024-05-07-error-rust [2]: https://mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust-error-handling [3]: https://sabrinajewson.org/blog/errors
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-30 11:55:50+00:00
In my experience, they were absolutely awful.

In the old days, they were awesome. More like talent agents, than matchmakers. They were usually older folks that advocated for you, maintained extensive Rolodexes (shows how long ago that was), which they exercised on your behalf (basically, they "networked" for you), and made pretty significant commissions. I believe that top-tier executive recruiters still work like this.

These days, they seem to be very young, and, I suspect, make a great deal less money.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-08-30 11:56:32+00:00
Nuclear power plants aren't inherently any more unsafe than the nuclear material itself before having been mined.

What makes them potentially unsafe is nuclear technology having an incredible energy density, which can be misused and the radioactive material being active even without prior activation. The latter makes many radioactive isotopes a very effective poison.

And misuse or bad practices are a general problem. One can build awful buildings, toys or government structures, too.

And if you have a look at what the worst reasonable non-political consequences from a nuclear powerplant meltdown can be, they're surprisingly harmless.

We have to Soviets to thank for their absolutely incompetent response to the Chernobyl meltdown, that we have a good idea of the long term effects. The powerplant never stopped operating, people kept working there every day for decades. Hundreds of people were never evacuated and hundreds more returned within weeks.

Just to put this into perspective: Chernobyl was effectively a dirty super-bomb dispersing 50t of highly active radioactive materials and yet the death count among anyone who didn't approach into rock throwing distance remains 0.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-30 11:57:12+00:00
How much easier can it be to work asynchronously than to use Slack? For the most part people don’t expect an immediate response. You can sync it with your corporate calendar to see when people are in meetings or on PTO, it tells you other people’s time zones and when there are on PTO and thier status. Most importantly, you can schedule messages.

There are times where I’m running errands during the day or traveling and working late and I schedule a message for 8:00 or 9:00 their time.
by password54321 | 2025-08-30 11:58:18+00:00
It got mentioned for a reason. And obviously escalating with HR is a big deal as it comes with career risks for the person you are reporting. Risking someone else's career should be a last resort but seems to be more commonly a knee-jerk reaction with HR becoming weaponised.

The drawback of this is you lose good talent and keep rent-seekers instead.
by pendenthistory | 2025-08-30 11:59:14+00:00
I've been heavily saving for retirement from the day I started working, and approaching FIRE before 40 (living in the Nordics). I've been telling some close friends that even if they don't aim for early retirement, they need to at least have a backup option for regular retirement, but they can't seem to sympathize enough with their 70 year old self who is forced to keep working. And who is going to hire a 70 year old human in 30 years? What economic value could they possibly provide in 2055?

Everyone here needs to make money and save everything they can right now. If you're not saving 50%+ of your income you AGMI
by Speedy218 | 2025-08-30 11:59:31+00:00
Sadly "non-certified" phones come at a big consequence, I wrote a big article on it on HN but I'll give you the summary, Google has added in "play integrity" into all certified phones which detects if your bootloader is unlocked or your phone is modified in some way, and apps can (and do) request this device verdict on your device to choose to deny you service. Bank apps, basically all NFC wallet apps like Google Wallet, and games do this, and it's a massive headache. Good apps also make this a server-side check meaning you cannot bypass this without leaking your phone's special hardware attestation key stored in 50 different layers of security in the actual CPU with tamper detection.
by csomar | 2025-08-30 11:59:55+00:00
If you do that, you'll quickly find that there is less than 10 companies (globally by considering remote) where you are the "perfect" match and you can also get in touch with a real person and get their attention. I've been doing that for quite sometime now and although you get interested leads, my experience has been that things end up falling through anyway as I estimate half weren't as well capitalized as they thought they were.

So the OP numbers game is a safer bet and one that everyone is playing right now. Not that I am playing this game but not everyone has the option to remain unemployed for this long.
by ninkendo | 2025-08-30 12:00:10+00:00
Except the java/python style with unchecked exceptions means an exception can happen at any time, there's no way to know in advance. This is what Rust is trying to avoid with the errors-as-values approach.

It has its drawbacks, yes, but I'd never go back to the wild-west YOLO approach of unchecked exceptions, personally.
by MrMember | 2025-08-30 12:00:41+00:00
>Skinner acknowledged that the technology is flawed, and he said that about that 60 percent of the AI-generated results and facial recognition searches lead to wrong matches on social media profiles. He says a group of volunteers verifies them through another process before posting any names online.

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. 60 percent of the output is garbage and leads to an innocent person being "identified" but don't worry the unpaid volunteers have a "process" to make sure nobody innocent is targeted!
by Paradigma11 | 2025-08-30 12:01:33+00:00
There are always unknown unknowns that might be correlated, like that flaw in the component. Weather systems like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute are known facts. The good thing is that we do have excellent weather data for the last 75 years, so it is totally feasible for proponents of renewables to run their models through that historical data and say: Look, if we have that amount of renewables and that amount of batteries that would have been enough for the last 3 quarters of a century.

That would be go a very long way to convince me.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-30 12:02:54+00:00
Xiao He? I knew that name sounded familiar...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_He

This guy was a genius military logistician and civil administrator during the Chu-Han contention of ~200BC. Legitimately among the greatest of all time. Every military historian knows his name.

Unless that bot is damn good, this feels sort of disrespectful, lol.
by jacknews | 2025-08-30 12:03:09+00:00
I think you're describing getting jobs via networking.

That's a different thing to applying to 'public' jobs ads, which often have an AI discard most applications, then they just throw 50% in file 13, filter another 50% with stupid questions, and so on, and that's even if the job is real.

The same as for the freelancer sites; there's a high chance your applications won't even be read, so it's really not worth spending quality time on them.
Ask HN: For what do we need a CEO in the age of AI?
by martin_henk | 2025-08-30 12:03:41+00:00
Just wondering... How much value do CEOs add actually? They get a lot more money for sure. But what's the value? They give some vague direction that gets anyways refined more downstream. Could be replaced by AI no problem. Also, would justify the high cost of data centers. I'd say boards better invest in a awesome LLM and some kind of angelists.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-30 12:03:58+00:00
It's hard to come close to solar cells' Carnot... I don't think they improved "efficiency" by much. That's why by performance they actually mean something like raw power output. TEG is notorious for having like microwatts per sq cm of output near room temp. Now they are a 100th to a 10th of PV "performance".. mildly disingenuous titling imho.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-30 12:04:56+00:00
Would you really use Google products to write your email if you knew that they were watermarking it like this?

I think this technology is gonna quickly get eliminated from the marketplace, cause people aren’t willing to use AI for many common tasks that are watermarked this way. It’s ultimately gonna cause Google to lose share.

This technology has a basic use dilemma problem where widely publishing it’s ability and existence will cause your AI to stop being used in some applications
by dsego | 2025-08-30 12:05:45+00:00
> The benefit is certainty that the system you are building and delivering to people works.

I'd say that works and works correctly and covers all edge cases are different scenarios in my mind. Looking at an exaggerated example, if I build tax calculator or something that crunches numbers, I'd have more confidence with a few unit tests matching the output of the main method that does the calculation part than a whole end-to-end test suite. It seems wasteful to run end to end (login, click buttons, check that a UI element appears, etc) to cover the logical output of one part that does the serious business logic. A simple e2e suite could be useful to check for regressions, as a smoke test, but it still needs to be kept less specific, otherwise it will break on minor UX changes, which makes it a pain to maintain.