MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghaff | 2025-08-09 17:32:10+00:00
2010.

It didn't hurt that the person in question ran the products group. (And I went to the same school as the ultimate hiring manager.)

People obviously have different experiences at different companies but networks matter a lot in many cases whether a lot of folks like it or not.

Things still took a few months to coordinate meetings and interviews but it was still the only job I (sort of) applied for.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-09 17:32:14+00:00
Coal trains:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/coal-pollution-is-ki... | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118787

Warehouses:

Air pollution impacts from warehousing in the United States uncovered with satellite data - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50000-0 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50000-0

Where Warehouses Are Built, Air Pollution Follows - https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153471/where-wareho...

Impact of Warehouse Expansion on Ambient PM2.5 and Elemental Carbon Levels in Southern California's Disadvantaged Communities: A Two-Decade Analysis - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GH00... | https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001091

Global air quality map: https://explore.openaq.org/

(this is why it is so important to electrify trucks and to disallow industrial and commercial parks with lots of truck traffic near residential and school areas; all of this combustion/fossil energy pollution is creating health debt that will catch up with us)
by musicale | 2025-08-09 17:32:34+00:00
> I'm a little surprised things like tagged memory and CHERI

I think we're seeing some improvements in memory safety for C (e.g. -fbounds-safety in clang) and C++ (e.g. -fsanitize=address) as well as adoption of more memory-safe languages (Rust, Swift, Java, Go, etc.) And I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple eventually add some hardware support for memory safety to Apple Silicon (note that Morello was a prototype implementation of CHERI for ARM.)

> And is there a benefit to calling directly into an executable instead of making a shared library and a thin executable that uses it?

I think so - having one thing instead of two, and being able to use it for either purpose with minimal effort.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-09 17:32:49+00:00
The Toyota fanboys in these comments are a really great illustration of how human factors, cliche's and circle jerks degrade discussion

Nobody who doesn't have some bias derived ignorance would've been surprised if it was a 4cyl 5spd Ford Ranger in fleet service, an old Volvo 240 or Honda Accord in commuting service, an 2000s diesel Dodge or GM in work truck service, etc, etc. There are a lot of "good" vehicles out there that can get close to half a mil with fairly cheap work, from there it's just a matter of having an owner who cares to make the investment, something much more likely to happen to a "cool niche car" for which there aren't a ton of like-priced replacements available like a Tercel Wagon than a more boring vehicle.
by jelambs | 2025-08-09 17:33:01+00:00
Hi! I'm biased as one of the Stytch founders but wanted to share my POV in case it's helpful. As others mentioned, any of the open source options are not going to be low management overhead, but can be great in terms of cost and flexibility. I worked with Keycloak in a previous role and I think it's a really great option if you do go the open source route, just be prepared to spend time managing it.

> True multitenancy Many of the paid options you mentioned (workos, clerk, etc same goes for auth0) aren't actually multitenant, they've tacked on a concept of organizations to a user first data model. This presents some limitations as a result of users as the first class entity versus organizations, for example, membership across multiple organizations with different auth requirements (ie I can log into my personal with sign in with email/google but to log into a company account I need 2fa or SSO), multiple SSO connections per organization or a single SSO connection across multiple organizations (both common in enterprises where there's lots of M&A).

Happy to go into more detail on any of this or answer any specific questions you have!
by weatherlite | 2025-08-09 17:33:26+00:00
> Searching and IQs FOR doctors seem to average about 120 with 80th percentile being 105-130.

Where are you getting this from exactly ? Getting in to a medical school is very difficult to do in the U.S. Having an average IQ of 105 would make it borderline impossible - even if you cram for SAT and tests twice as much as everyone else there is so much you can do - these tests test for speed and raw brain power. In my country - the SAT equivalent you need to have to get in would put you higher than top 2%, it's more like 1.5%-to 1%, because the population keeps growing but the number of working doctors remains quite constant. So really each high school had only 2-3 kids that would get in per class. I know a few of these people - really brilliant kids, their IQ's were probably above 130 and it's impossible for me to compete with them in getting in - I am simply not exceptional - at least not that far high in the distribution. I was maybe in the top 3-5 best students in my class but never the best, so lets say top 10%, these kids were the best students in the whole school - that's top 1%-2%.

One caveat to all this is that sure, in some countries it is easier to get in. People from my country (usually from families who can afford it) go to places like Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy etc where it is much much easier to get in to med school (but costs quite a lot and also means you have to leave your home country for 7 years).

Now is it necessary to have an IQ off the charts to be a good doctor - no, probably not, but that's not what I was arguing, that's just how admission works.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-09 17:34:02+00:00
My mental model is that the system prompt isn't one thing, and that seems even more apparent with line 6 telling the model what today's date is. I have no insider information but system prompts could undergo A/B testing just like any change, to find the optimal one for some population of users

Which is to say you wouldn't want to bake such a thing too deeply into a multi-terabyte bunch of floating points because it makes operating things harder
by briga | 2025-08-09 17:34:42+00:00
Certainly we are not perfect, but I think overall Canada has done more for the world to uphold human rights and freedoms than otherwise. When the government does act against "individual freedom", it is usually for the good of larger society. For instance because of firearm restrictions Canadian citizens are (or used to be?) free from getting shot with firearms on the streets. Is it a perfectly free society? No, but for the most part people here have it pretty good. I'd wager most of the immigrants moving here are much more free than they were in their home countries
by bostik | 2025-08-09 17:34:51+00:00
I know you're joking, but this doesn't feel too far off the mark in this world of late-stage capitalism run amok. Give it another 15 years and the bleeding edge[!] insurance companies are likely employing agents to go after clients who have become a net drain on their P&L.

The agents probably won't be doing that "themselves", but instead will be offering bounties (think: contracts) on suitably well hidden assassination markets. After all, as a machine AI cannot be held accountable for what is essentially a management decision.

I'm personally still waiting for the first country to go full Running Man to solve their prison overcrowding issues, and in addition to entertainment licensing deals also offer state-sanctioned gambling options to get a second bite.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-09 17:34:58+00:00
Well, as you yourself saw, they still need maintenance and repairs. And the “traditional” larger Toyota engines are gone. Because their fuel economy was always terrible. 600k miles in a 4Runner at 60-75 cents a mile in fuel doesn’t sit too well with people when it costs 35 cents a mile in a Hyundai. That pays for a lot of repairs!

The 4Runner of last year was the last traditional uncomplicated V6. The Lexus GX of two years ago was the last traditional V8. Aside from their small 4-cylinders, it’s all super-complicated turbos and we don’t know if those will hold up as well. Early indications are that they aren’t quite as special compared to everyone else’s super-complicated turbos.
by zorked | 2025-08-09 17:35:57+00:00
CORBA emerged in 1991 with another crucial insight: in heterogeneous environments, you can’t just “implement the protocol” in each language and hope for the best. The OMG IDL generated consistent bindings across C++, Java, Python, and more, ensuring that a C++ exception thrown by a server was properly caught and handled by a Java client. The generated bindings guaranteed that all languages saw identical interfaces, preventing subtle serialization differences.

Yes, CORBA was such a success.
by toast0 | 2025-08-09 17:36:02+00:00
Limiting by referrer is probably the right first step. (And changing the front page text)

You want to track usage by the site, not the person, because you can ask a site to change usage patterns in a way you can't really ask a site's users. Maybe a per IP limit makes sense too, but you wouldn't want them low enough that it would be effective for something like this.
by mrandish | 2025-08-09 17:37:03+00:00
N=1 but in 2017 I lost over 100 pounds in 8 months by changing to a keto + IF diet and I've kept it off. I lost 10 pounds in 10 days and 20 pounds the first month. At around six weeks I became 'fat-adapted', a long-term metabolic transition to primarily burning fat instead of carbs (glucose) for energy. I didn't start with IF but at around that point I sort of fell into intermittent fasting because it just felt right. I'd heard about IF but never had it as a goal because it seemed impossible since I'd been hungry my whole life. But limiting carbs with keto controlled my blood sugar to the extent I was almost never hungry which made IF trivially easy. So if you're trying IF and struggling with hunger pangs, try managing blood sugar by reducing carb intake.

The combination of Keto+IF worked so well for me, for a while my calorie tracking switched from the usual preventing eating too many calories to ensuring I was getting enough, which was certainly never on my bingo card. After a lifetime of being a slave to hunger it was liberating to suddenly feel effortlessly in control of diet and my relationship with food changed completely. Then at around 90 days my palate shifted, meaning I even lost my taste for carbie foods. If I tried a small bite of something carb-laden that I'd loved my whole life, it didn't even taste particularly good to me anymore. I also became hyper-sensitive to sugar. Sugar-soaked foods just taste poisonously over-sweetened (which they kind of are). A slice of apple now tastes as sweet as I'd ever want, like a dessert that has extra sugar-added.

In the 8th month I reached below my ideal 'dream' weight and even saw abs appear for the first time in my life! I transitioned to maintenance mode but stayed keto because being in a blood sugar controlled state felt so amazing and not just physically but also mentally and emotionally. At around a year I went from strict keto to low carb for life which I still am 8 years later. When I started that was unimaginable. I saw keto as an onerous regimen that I'd endure if it worked and stop the second I wasn't overweight. But during the journey my metabolism, palate and food preferences changed so dramatically, I was basically a different person when I arrived. Those first few months when I was rigorously tracking every calorie in an app and managing intake with measuring cups and a kitchen scale felt like a burden but were actually invaluable skill-building. After a few months all that process became automatic so I didn't need to constantly track and by six months I got to the point where I don't even think about it consciously. That early rigor helped me get so in sync with my body and able to sense where my metabolism is in its natural cycles that now I just eat when necessary and convenient for my schedule. This often ends up being IF but it's not intentional on my part, which makes me think maybe IF patterns evolved in the hunter/gatherer era as part of our natural biological rhythms. Due to habit and carb-laden factory foods I'd never been able to access those rhythms until I made the conscious effort to break the patterns I'd been raised in.
by extra88 | 2025-08-09 17:37:13+00:00
Con Ed rates are about 0.16/kWh so in their case it's not the cost of electricity, it's all the things explained after the $1000/month line, a ridiculous lack of insulation and lack of air-tightness.

They may also keep the heat higher than most people. There's mention of an au pair so there must be a small child.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-09 17:37:31+00:00
No, and I'm surprised it hasn't happened by now. Genode was my hope for this, but they seem to be going away from a self hosting OS/development system.

Any application you've got assumes authority to access everything, and thus just won't work. I suppose it's possible that an OS could shim the dialog boxes for file selection, open, save, etc... and then transparently provide access to only those files, but that hasn't happened in the 5 years[1] I've been waiting. (Well, far more than that... here's 14 years ago[2])

This problem was solved back in the 1970s and early 80s... and we're now 40+ years out, still stuck trusting all the code we write.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25428345

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-important-question-or...
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-09 17:38:00+00:00
You could also try turning off the file descriptor cache. Keep in mind that nvme ssds can do ~30-50k random reads/second with no concurrency, or at least hundreds of thousands with concurrency, so even if every request hit disk 10 times it should be fine. There's also kernel caching which I think includes some of what you'd get from nginx's metadata cache?
by pentamassiv | 2025-08-09 17:39:06+00:00
UPDATE: Two people from Anthropic recommended me internally and their HR department already rejected the application. They recommended me for jobs where you need more experience with AI, so I agree that I wasn't a good fit for those positions. Thank you for your recommendations anyways. That was very kind.

A number of other people contacted me with offers so it looks like there will be a happy end to the story :-)
Starlink "Support"?
by jtotheh | 2025-08-09 17:39:20+00:00
I just spent a day trying to get a starlink installation to work. I could verify that it was talking to the satellite from the "statistics", but it found the present location unacceptable and was in "restricted" mode = useless. So I tried to resolve it through the app, the website, etc. I changed the account to "ROAM" type so it shouldn't have mattered where I was. Their "support" consisted of an autoreply to a ticket, no way to get a human, even a chatbot. We just replaced it with a T-Mobile 5G device. T-Mobile was a pleasure to deal with. I'm just wondering if others have also had bad experiences with Starlink "support". I assume they just figure the money they save by not providiing it is more than the business they lose????
by hotep99 | 2025-08-09 17:39:38+00:00
Screwworms could probably be eradicated in theory but it would require spreading the sterile fly program to the entirety of the Americas which isn't going to happen. There would always be a pocket somewhere in the Amazon of fertile flies so it isn't really viable. The point of stopping them at the Darien Gap was that there was a geographically small area where their spread could be halted from entering Central and North America and re-establishing themselves.
by Starlevel004 | 2025-08-09 17:39:41+00:00
> I believe what is happening is that those images are being drawn by some script-kiddies. If I understand correctly, the website limited everyone to 1 pixel per 30 seconds, so I guess everyone was just scripting Puppeteer/Chromium to start a new browser, click a pixel, and close the browser, possibly with IP address rotation, but maybe that wasn't even needed.

I think you perhaps underestimate just how big of a thing this became basically overnight. I mentioned a drawing over my house to a few people and literally everyone instantly knew what I meant without even saying the website. People love /r/place style things every few years, and this having such a big canvas and being on a world map means that there is a lot of space for everyone to draw literally where they live.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-09 17:40:51+00:00
I manage multiple Starlink customer terminals, and yes, this is the level of support you'll get when there are issues. When it works, it's great, when it's down, you wait until it isn't.

I would recommend you keep that T-Mobile 5G home internet station as backup considering the price point ($35-$50/month) and 5 year price lock guarantee (as of this comment). Get a router that will load balance and failover between both that and Starlink.
by bwfan123 | 2025-08-09 17:41:34+00:00
> I have never met a human who has a good grasp of what they know and don't know

yep. There are 2 processes underlying our behaviors.

1) a meme-copier which takes in information from various sources and regurgitates it. A rote-memory machine of sorts. Here, memory is populated with info without deconstructing it into a theory. This has been termed "know-that". Here, explanations are shallow, and repeated questioning of why will fail with: I was told so.

2) a builder which attempts to construct a theory of something. Here, a mechanism is built and understood, and information is deconstructed in the context of the mechanism. This has been termed "know-how". Here, explanations are deeper, and repeated questioning of why will end up with: these are the "givens" in our theory.

Problem is that we operate in the "know-that" territory most of the time, and have not taken the effort to build theories for ourselves in the "know-how" territory.
by 986aignan | 2025-08-09 17:41:47+00:00
It is possible to take this too far, though - consider the OpenAI IMO proofs[1], for instance, and compare them to Gemini's.[2]

[1] https://github.com/aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15855 Appendix A
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-08-09 17:42:27+00:00
> That's only true in rich people fantasies.

I am not rich my any means. In today's definition of classes I guess I'm somewhere middle class with a chance of making it to upper middle class by the time I reach retirement age.

But, I grew up very poor (shoes with holes in them going to school type of poor) and that motivated me to do more, learn more and hopefully achieve more than my predecessors.

And for this reason I abhor all the "only the reach get richer and other's people misery is all their fault" mantra.
by snozolli | 2025-08-09 17:42:33+00:00
My mom scolded me when I was young, telling me that I needed to know how to fold fitted sheets because women care about that sort of thing. This made me dread washing sheets.

Turns out that no woman I've dated has cared about whether fitted sheets are folded properly, nor have any of them known how to fold them. You know what they do care about? Cleanliness of sheets.

Bookmarked anyway. Maybe I'll ingrain the method before reaching my deathbed.

Bachelor hack: you don't need to know how to fold fitted sheets if you only have one set of sheets.
by kergonath | 2025-08-09 17:43:35+00:00
Entertaining, but not to be taken too seriously. The author himself says that it’s very subjective and not thoroughly fact-checked. Even then, the digs at the Kievan Rus’ are… well, absurd. Also, I don’t know of any European country without its share of demented and paranoid rulers. But England is not Henry VIII and Germany is not Hitler.

Also, this

> But let us start with the Communist Manifesto which is the holiest tome of communist ideology and can be called the red gospel.

is a pearl of unintended absurd humour. In this case, when someone applies their beliefs and frame of mind to a foreign object without actually understanding it.

In the end I agree with the author that all life if absurd, it’s just a matter of point of view.
by vidarh | 2025-08-09 17:44:08+00:00
The reason for making that observation is that we don't have any other comparable tools and it is more reasonable to benchmark LLMs against what humans are capable of, because whether or not they are good approximations, we are trying to model human abilities.

One day maybe we exceed human abilities, but it's unreasonable to expect early attempts - and they are still early attempts - to do things we don't know how to beat other than by putting all kinds of complex process on top of very flawed human thinking.
by lxm | 2025-08-09 17:44:35+00:00
> their place will be other businesses that employ people of higher than minimum wage

Worth noting that California’s regime extends to fast food industry exclusively.

Presumably some of those job losses were absorbed by industries still paying minimum wage - retail, construction, warehousing, etc.

Presumably if those losses were not absorbed by those low-skill sectors, the job loss figure would've been higher.

So I guess, as you said, data is conclusive.
by philsnow | 2025-08-09 17:45:05+00:00
> This seems not necessarily very hard to me? All you have to do is keep yourself honest by actually trying to reproduce the results of the notebook when you're done

It's one thing when I'm relying on my own attention to detail to make sure all the intermediate results have been correctly recalculated, but it's entirely another when I have to rely on even trusted co-workers' attention to detail, much less randos on github. As a sibling comment points out, the "reproducibility crisis" numbers are very much not in favor of this approach being the right idea.

... Or you could work in a format that makes incorrect / out-of-date intermediate state impossible (or at least hard) to represent, which is (I believe) what marimo is an attempt at.