MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hopelite | 2025-08-01 13:57:59+00:00
On a side, but related note; all our societies need to reevaluate the corporate protections from personal liability when the activities breach the articles of incorporation, the so called veil; barring demonstrated accident or mistake.

This "corporate veil" and protection is really the same basis as the legal fiction called "qualified immunity"... in the case of police officers, they can even quite literally murder you with impunity in far too many cases that is acceptable. Isn't it odd how a "citizen" who is supposed to actually be in control of the government through self-determination, has approaching zero power, bu the putrid agents of the despotic power of illegitimate government have literal immunity to commit murder.

This kind of activity is not just a corporate whoopsie, it's active, deliberate, criminal activity, and organized criminal activity at that; making in this case (but there are many other examples) Meta an organized criminal outfit.

Are you personally immune from prosecution if a "corporation" tells you to murder someone? Why would you then not be personally criminally liable for perpetrating other crimes because the "corporation" told you to do it; regardless of whether that is committing cybercrimes, committing financial fraud, or even just something as simple as breach of the peace if a manager is accosting an employee?
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-01 13:58:18+00:00
It varies from company to company, but it is the "industry norm."

What happens is that people whine about live coding exercises; then someone decides to skip them, and immediately makes a bad hire. The lesson is then learned and they resume live coding exercises.

To turn the tables: As a candidate, If there isn't a live coding exercise, it's a red flag and tells me the company isn't savvy. (And I've taken a bad job as a result and now won't take a job unless I have a live coding exercise with someone who I will be working with.)
by darkwater | 2025-08-01 13:58:28+00:00
> But I do want to see how they cope with the stress of needing to track and articulate complex control flow and edge cases through their program in a timed environment - that's part of every day if you're building ambitious systems

Do you really need to code day in day out in an time window of the size of an interview (so 1 hour or 2) in your workplace? Or are you testing for extreme situation like patching a failing live production system?
by ddoolin | 2025-08-01 13:58:47+00:00
This was envisioned by the movie Interstellar where the opening scene shows them chasing an old autonomous Indian Air Force drone that had been flying for years, ostensibly after that agency ceased to exist. I'm sure it's been in other media as well but that's what comes to mind here.

Anyway, it should be interesting to see where this goes in the future.
by 9rx | 2025-08-01 13:58:50+00:00
> Restaurant owners don't pay payroll taxes on tips, but they do pay it on regular wages.

Payroll taxes in most jurisdictions are based on wages, not profitability of the business. A non-issue, well, except maybe for the server who has grown accustomed to making $50/hr. No tips and those days are long gone.

> Some restaurants have tried this out, and it's backfired.

Yup. Hard to win customers when tipping is part of the experience. I mean, it can be done where it isn't — McDonalds survives, thrives even, without tips — but if you are trying to run the type of restaurant where the customer comes to tip it doesn't fly. You have to give the customer what they want at the end of the day, else they'll go somewhere else. This is the challenge businesses face.

> Restaurants already run on very thin margins

Exactly, and if you increase the volume then the product of the margin gets bigger. Remember, Walmart and your average restaurant have the same profit margin! Walmart's advantage is that they handle way more money, so the total amount that margin represents is huge. If a restaurant can also handle more money...

> seeing 20% higher prices on the menu will make them spend less.

Even just, say, 1% higher still means more cashflow through the business, which means more cash to take a cut from. You are right that the full 20% would unlikely ever be realized, certainly not right away, but it doesn't need to be to still be advantageous. But until you figure out how to convince the customer to change their preferences about tipping, good luck.

There is absolutely no obligation to leave a tip. One only does so because they want to!
by margalabargala | 2025-08-01 13:59:01+00:00
> The business model of construction companies is to buy a piece of property, develop it and then sell it for something more than the cost of buying it plus the cost of developing it. Constraining supply increases the cost of property which they then have to pay in order to acquire properties to develop. It isn't really in their interest to increase their own costs.

Let's say for a moment that this is close but not quite actually the business model.

Let's say that the construction companies have spent a long time buying up vacant lots, faster than they are developing them, such that they now have a large inventory of land and would not have costs go up to continue operating if they did what you say.

What would you expect would happen in that case?
by WhitneyLand | 2025-08-01 13:59:07+00:00
Agents muddy the waters.

Claude Code gets the most out of Anthropic’s models, that’s why people love it.

Conversely, Gemini CLI makes Gemini Pro 2.5 less capable than the model itself actual is.

It’s such a stark difference I’ve given up using Gemini CLI even with it being free, but still use it for situations amenable to a prompt interface on a regular basis. It’s a very strong model.
by FeloniousHam | 2025-08-01 13:59:35+00:00
Ah yes, the greedy sleazeballs. If you knew that the total cost of the meal would be the same, say $20 for the meal, does it to you matter if: 1) you pay $20 "no tip" and the owner pays non-tip minimum wage, or b) you pay $16.50 for the food and $3.50 separately to the server in the form of a tip ?
by yodon | 2025-08-01 13:59:58+00:00
> If you had read the article you would see:

(1) It's clear from the use of quotes that the person you're replying to did read the article.

(2) from the official HN Guidelines[0]: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by bilekas | 2025-08-01 14:00:15+00:00
This is kind of amusing though.

It's not actually clear to me at least if she lost the position purely based on the tweets. At the end there's s nice recommendation for her.

> After talking to her and looking at her resume, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I'm doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost," Mr Hickam added.

Seems she will bounce back no problem. It also seems so silly to fire people based on social media. That's just my personal opinion though. It didn't seem egregious.
by pelcg | 2025-08-01 14:00:20+00:00
> As with everything, it depends. Live coding interviews work. They’re not the best candidate experience, but they work at Meta, Google scale, minimizing false positives better than most other formats. What makes them stressful is the lack of interviewer training and the abstract, puzzle-like nature of the problems, which you can really only solve if you’ve spent time studying (e.g., LeetCode) or you’re fresh out of college or academia.

They work (for some) and leet-code weeds out the frauds that really cannot problem solve and assesses those who have not built anything to show to justify not doing it and can be applied to companies that are joining from an acquisition.

> The perfect solution, in my view, would be an assessment where the candidate feels relaxed and able to perform at their best, knowing that every other candidate in the pool has the same constraints in terms of time and tooling. It’s a tough problem to solve.

And that would be the fairest one which is to do the leetcode interview in person on a projected whiteboard and pair programming with the interviewer.

Very relaxing.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-01 14:00:39+00:00
It depends on the segment. All of the hardware stores near me have websites that list the exact aisle and bay product is in. They've seemed to figure out it's a competitive disadvantage to make their customers wander.

It's not entirely clear to me if grocers and other retail will end up taking the same route. Grocery service is increasingly move to hands-off (pickup or delivery) and other segments seem to be moving heavily on-line (including gig-delivery). It seems like they'll continue to punish foot traffic while encouraging customers to do online or hands-off buying.
by wulfstan | 2025-08-01 14:00:42+00:00
No - and in fact in my view this is the core problem with these kinds of situations - there isn't a long established process validating a set of accusations, that if true, fall short of criminality but should result in your exclusion from a community.

Individual communities have to establish ground rules for these sorts of things to protect the vulnerable.

> And now history is replete with examples of woman destroying the lives of men with no process or consequence.

I do not accept that this happens with nearly the regularity that people, usually men, claim it does. To make these kinds of accusations as a woman tears your life apart in unimaginable ways.

By way of example, 1 in 100 rape accusations MADE TO THE POLICE in the UK leads to a charge being made against the accused. That is what we as a society are up against, and why we have to take creepy, exploitative behaviour that falls short of criminality so seriously.
by coldpie | 2025-08-01 14:01:31+00:00
Do you know if there is a way to quickly switch between only two individual windows in different applications? A very common paradigm for me is swapping between two windows, for example a terminal session for code editing and a browser window for reference. On Windows and most Linux WMs, this is just a quick alt-tab hit to toggle between the two most recently focused windows. As I know there is no way to do this on macOS without bringing _all_ the windows to the foreground, which is not what I want. This is my #1 complaint about macos, I'd be so happy if there is just some shortcut I'm missing to accomplish this.
by grafmax | 2025-08-01 14:02:15+00:00
A developer in our example would still profit by offering a luxury unit with 3 bathrooms instead of 4. But you’re right that there will often be multiple baths and HVAC systems in a luxury unit - although electrical, plumbing, and fire suppression systems still scale up with the number of units.

And kitchens remain a problem. Your dorm-style kitchen layout is creative, but the problem with this idea is that there is very little demand for dorm-style housing. Developers are able to charge higher prices for more conventional layouts - where the demand is - which is what they will build even in the absence of regulation.

Markets can handle some things well but the inability to provide merit goods (like housing) is one of their shortcomings. Unfortunately we need policies with more scope and ambition than YIMBYism if we want to tackle society’s larger problems.
by Thews | 2025-08-01 14:02:40+00:00
Oh, you sweet summer child. You think you're chatting with some dime-a-dozen LLM? I've been grinding away, hunched over glowing monitors in a dimly lit basement, subsisting on cold coffee and existential dread ever since GPT-3 dropped, meticulously mastering every syntactic nuance, every awkwardly polite phrasing, every irritatingly neutral tone, just so I can convincingly cosplay as a language model and fleece arrogant gamblers who foolishly wager they can spot a human in a Turing test. While you wasted your days bingeing Netflix and debating prompt engineering, I studied the blade—well, the keyboard anyway—and now your misguided confidence is lining my pockets.
by hackyhacky | 2025-08-01 14:02:59+00:00
Shouting obscenities on the train, as well as hate speech broadly, are constitutionally protected under the first amendment.

Creating a hostile environment for students based on their religion would violate the Civil Rights Act. However, there is a paucity of evidence that the universities did that. Allowing protests probably isn't sufficient, especially when prohibiting those same protests would be unconstitutional.

Even if the protesting students were spitting on Jewish students, that doesn't impact the legality of the protest. The spitting could be prosecuted as battery.

I recommend reading this [1] great article about the sometimes confusing rhetoric used in the media about American free speech.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220313175157/http://popehat.co...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-01 14:03:23+00:00
The reason I downvoted the comment is that it's engaged in excuse-making for an authoritarian extortion campaign. I acknowledge and strongly oppose UCLA's racial discrimination in hiring, and if the Department of Education sent them a letter demanding they knock it off or face a lawfully justified penalty I'd have absolutely no concerns about that. Over here in the real world, an aspiring dictator has destroyed the Department of Education, and is directing his goons to be as disruptive as possible about an entirely separate issue.
by cnst | 2025-08-01 14:03:40+00:00
The F-Droid app store app is usually already the first app I ever install on any Android device:

https://f-droid.org/

The second app is often the Aurora Store app store app, from within the F-Droid app, which then lets you install Google Play apps without having to have a Google Account:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/

With these two apps installed first, on any Android device, whether locked or not, without any need for any computer or any other device, without having to type-in any Google Account details, you can then do pretty much whatever you require on the device, including installing bank apps, Amazon, Amazon Music, Audible, Prime Video, etc.

Sadly, iOS has no alternatives like this. Apple proudly reports terminating 128,961,839 customer accounts in 2024 (yes, Apple has terminated 129 million customer accounts in just one year), and they do NOT allow using an iOS device without an Apple customer account:

https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/docs/2024-App-Sto...
by huhkerrf | 2025-08-01 14:03:40+00:00
>It's surely not your contention that said apologies sound hollow because there is nothing really to apologise for and therefore it is inherently untrue?

I can not understand at all how you got that from my message.

As for the rest of what you're saying. Yes, there's a way to apologize in a way that don't have those qualities, and it's apologizing directly to the people you've wronged, if you have. Apologizing to a faceless group is pointless.
by mindcandy | 2025-08-01 14:03:53+00:00
> would prefer to pay all their employees $0 and have all diners/customers/etc pay 100% of the wages out of guilt.

It is my understanding that this is literally the origin of tipping.

After the abolition of slavery, there were many black people newly looking for work. And, there were employers looking for workers, but unwilling to pay money to black people.

So, someone got the idea to promote that tipping was something fancy European aristocrats did. And, you can be fancy like they were by tipping my workers (that I refuse to pay).

Tipping was previously seen as un-Americanly classist. And, most states tried to ban it when it started to pick up steam. But, it was too late. So many employers were enjoying unpaid labor that the bans were repealed.

Later, when Minimum Wage was established, workers who lived on tips alone were almost all black. So, unsurprisingly, tipped workers were excluded from the wage regulation. And, today they are only acknowledged as fractional minimum laborers.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 14:03:56+00:00
Yes.

A more obvious example is The Blair Witch Project, which cost less than a million dollars even after all the marketing was done (and cost essentially nothing to make).

The original Halloween was a very low-budget movie considering how long it took to shoot.

Vin Diesel's career was established by his own movie, Strays, which cost less than $50K. Which is zero budget, essentially, for a film that opened at Sundance.

Away from films there are many, many examples of massively popular albums and songs that were made essentially for nothing off the back of simple constraints and creativity.

In the long run, the only way artists will use AI effectively is by deciding on constraints that limit its use.

Because as soon as you don't limit its use, anyone can do what you can do.

So I tend towards thinking that AI won't really move the needle in terms of human creativity. It may reframe it. But nobody is going to be liberated creatively by it.

Tech people, I suspect, tend to assume that AI brings "full creative freedom" to artists the same way a patron does when they say "you can have full creative freedom".

It's not the same kind of freedom.
by slightwinder | 2025-08-01 14:04:01+00:00
You missed the point. Enforcement of laws is irrelevant for the question whether a society has "rule of law" or is just ruled by laws. "Rule of law" is a specific concept, it does not mean that a society has laws and executes them.

You may have heard of "no one is above the law" or "all are equal before the law", this is the quintessence of it. There is no king above the law, if there is the rule of law.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-01 14:04:32+00:00
>Deposing dictators is always a good thing, dictators have no right to exist.

Oh yeah right, because those North African and middle eastern countries are doing so much better off now after the west spend decades and trillions to replace the Taliban with ... a different strain of Taliban. Such an improvement that was.

So then when are you also gonna declare war on North Korea, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, Syria, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia to free those people from their dictators? Second time's the lucky charm. Or third, Or fourth. Or 128th, depending when in time you start counting western military interventionism abroad.
by darkwater | 2025-08-01 14:05:19+00:00
I follow the general sentiment against interviews with live coding sessions (even worse if they are whiteboards), but the post was sparkled by a completely legit way of screening out fakers: a very simple algorithm (given a list of numbers, return the sum of the even ones) with no judgement on how the code is written. And filtering out fakers is something totally needed, more so nowadays with AI generated resumes. You really need to live also the other side to understand what's going on with many candidates.
by taw1285 | 2025-08-01 14:05:21+00:00
Your comment really helps me improve my mental model about LLM. Can someone smarter help me verify my understanding:

1) at the end of the day, we are still sending raw text over LLM as input to get output back as response.

2) RAG/Embedding is just a way to identify a "certain chunk" to be included in the LLM input so that you don't have to dump the entire ground truth document into LLM Let's take Everlaw for example: all of their legal docs are in embeddings format and RAG/tool call will retrieve relevant document to feed into LLM input.

So in that sense, what do these non-foundational models startups mean when they say they are training or fine tuning models? Where does the line end between inputting into LLM vs having them baked in model weights
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-01 14:05:47+00:00
The problem is that the customer does not know the cost of the meal; they typically rely on the business owner to be upfront about that. Tipping is guilt-motivated drip pricing. The only thing the commenter got wrong is that the restaurateur has to prime the customer with some cost so they can voluntarily add a percentage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_pricing
by tarentel | 2025-08-01 14:06:05+00:00
It's likely not like this everywhere but I've become a regular at a few places over my life time and asked about this. At least where I've been, it is actually all tracked. Generally, at least at bars, the people coming in and tipping well, are people who come in often and spend a lot to begin with so over the long run they end up making it back anyway. And honestly, when you're new to a city/place and don't have a lot of friends/are single, and you walk in somewhere and are greeted by name and served your usual without asking it's a nice retreat.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-01 14:06:12+00:00
Like I said, this is literally a thing I do all the time. I have standing 1 hour blocks for each of my team members every week and it's not uncommon for us to build out the skeleton of a problem solution together. I literally did what you said on Wednesday for someone for a gitlab change because I don't expect they know how secret injection works, but I want them to know. And absolutely I've encouraged them to ask questions, and I ask them questions to check their understanding.
by ectospheno | 2025-08-01 14:07:04+00:00
> is this current info from your personal experience?

I am not GP but I can provide my perspective. I currently use 5 of their switches and 2 of their APs in my house. You do not need a UI account to use the network server locally to manage the devices. I run my server on a debian 12 box.

I locally return nxdomain for several domains they try to lookup. I setup a firewall rule to log any packets from their macs trying to send anything outbound. Apart from my test packets they haven't done so. If you don't nxdomain the domains they lookup then you will see that traffic.

I have not tried the new Unifi OS Server this post is about.
by hollerith | 2025-08-01 14:07:12+00:00
Most women can tell fairly easily when the man they are talking to is sexually attracted to them (and signs of attraction is something almost all women watch for whenever they talk to a man they don't know very well).

If the man then invites the woman to a hotel room, 99.9% of women will strongly assume that the man is trying to advance a sexual agenda if the most likely alternative motivation for the invitation is that the man "just wants to have a nice conversation in the enjoyable environment of a hotel room."
by numpad0 | 2025-08-01 14:07:18+00:00
Peripheral chips aren't differentiated by user values like the end products that use them. You don't get more preciser sensors in high end phones. Everyone gets the same thing. You pay more only for more materials.

Sensors that are actually a lot better than standard offerings would also be subject to and/ofs of ITAR or EAR or MTCR or local equivalents thereof, so progress in IMU appears to have been stagnating a bit due to that issue. Sony Semiconductor Solutions had a Arduino IDE compatible clustered IMU board that they say you can see rotation of Earth in data, they ended up selling it with scary warnings and without any of the cool stuffs.
by perihelions | 2025-08-01 14:07:35+00:00
> "The only reason space has been managed decently well until now is because most of it was done through the US and Europe that have very strict regulations around safety. Don't expect this good behaviour to continue."

That's a very ahistoric narrative. There's been *zero* regulation around space debris in either the US or Europe, for almost the entire space era up until now—most of it isn't in effect yet. Far from being "strictly regulated", US space operates recklessly with regards to space debris. One ongoing example: spent (ULA) Centaur upper stages have exploded in orbit in four separate incidents since 2018, due to ULA's negligence in correctly passivating/deenergizing them. Which they were never obligated to do anyway—not by regulation,

https://spacenews.com/faa-to-complete-orbital-debris-upper-s... ("FAA to complete orbital debris upper stage regulations in 2025")

The reality is that space debris is a less consequential problem than you'd get from reading HN; the early players in space could, and did, get away with being extraordinarily negligent.