MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thrance | 2025-08-01 20:57:55+00:00
You misread my comment, I meant the status quo of the current democratic party leadership.

Whatever deregulation "abundance liberalism" pushes for, it will immediately be killed off or undone by the people that benefitted from those regulations. The democratic party is plagued by private interests (almost as much as the republicans), who very much do not want to see homes getting cheaper.

The establishment, through its neoliberalist direction, has shown that it has either no interest or is completely powerless to curb the growing inequalities and societal issues stemming from them. Only a fool would fall for it again, because it is rebranded from "neoliberalism" to "abundance liberalism". "Deregulation" has been the chief word in politics for 50 years, what makes you think it will lead to somthing any different this time?
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 20:57:55+00:00
I do think it is pro-establishment but as a remainer I was exasperated by both the outsized presence Mr Farage got on BBC programming and also the uncritical nature of the coverage of the post-Brexit negotations and treatment of dissenting MPs, so I am not convinced at all the BBC had a particularly pro-EU position.

I think you could argue it had a sort of pro-Cameron lean to it for a while simply because he initially positioned himself as quite a boring centrist, but I don't believe there was any policy alignment generally.

Less sure re: the scottish independence vote but I think in that case the BBC was sort of paralysed by what the outcome would mean for it, and that may have made it difficult for it to comprehensively handle.
by kkfx | 2025-08-01 20:58:29+00:00
We've been talking about learning organisations for years, and the importance of a documental culture has been clear for a long time. However, most companies have never truly implemented these models. Remote work forces them to do so, or they'll fail. So, even though it's been "theorised for a long time" and widely dissected, remote work it's effectively a new thing, and it's sadly normal to encounter many problems, especially with management that lacks even the most basic substantial IT skills to truly work in a virtual company, and not just management, but a large part of all the staff too.

I'm one of those who are very productive working remotely, but not out of loyalty or some "ethics/morals". It's simply because, as an engineer, I seek efficiency, and remote work is efficient. I suffer from inefficiencies, rituals created to placate bipedal cattle, and senseless reactionary attitudes. We are few, I imagine, but we are also the cohort that innovates, at various levels and in various sectors, without whom I don't know how much the West could hold on, and this, indeed, is not free.

Today, with RTO, a social rift is forming between those who want to truly advance and those who merely muddle through, while the world moves forward. If this trend isn't reversed, the West, which has already lost so much, will lose what little remains and discover that its residual military strength amounts to little more than a Romans legio fantasma. At that point, the cost of "saving money" by not innovating will be so high that it will lead to bankruptcy.
by vel0city | 2025-08-01 20:58:44+00:00
Wanting to be called your name and not liking having a person in a superior position arbitrarily rename you as an example of "American hyper individualism". Incredible.

It is literally someone over you stripping you of your own choice of identity.

Even if we removed the idea of teacher/student relationship from this, are you still fine with people just arbitrarily renaming you? That someone respects you so little they won't even respect your own choice in name, that's fine?

I'm absolutely fine with someone who has a name which could be difficult to pronounce in the local language choosing to go with another name. It is their choice. That's the big difference. They're choosing to go by that name in those contexts. It wasn't just arbitrarily chosen for them.
by jimbokun | 2025-08-01 20:58:52+00:00
What does "gatekeeper" even mean in this scenario? There was no employment relationship, no ability for either party to fire someone or impact pay or job responsibilities.

And is "exploiting" synonymous with "having sex with"?

You seem to be saying two people in the same community can never have sex, because one or the other will have more power within that community making it exploitative.

If not, are the circumstances where it's not problematic?
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-01 20:59:01+00:00
> The main motivation for the concept of design patterns is to give unique names to existing programming patterns

No, naming them is not the main purpose, preserving and transmitting knowledge of what they are and what they are useful for, so that people aren't fofced to rediscover solutions to the same problems over and over again. [0] Naming is obviously important for that purpose, but isn't the main goal, but a means of supporting it.

[0] If this sounds like a subset of the purpose of a reusable code library, it is, which is why in languages with sufficient abstraction facilities to allow the generic implementation of a pattern to be reusable, well documented (for the “where and when to use this” piece) code libraries replace documents that have the explanation paired with implementation recipes that one can modify to one’s particular use.
by wtfwhateven | 2025-08-01 21:00:58+00:00
>There's plenty to pick from.

No there's not. Name three.

>This is the most accessible and transparent administration in decades, if not longer. The POTUS has held more interviews, with just about every national media organization, and regularly holds open ended press conferences with pools of reporters.

This is simply an absurd lie with no basis in reality, I really don't know why you even spouted it. It contradicts observable truth. Strange.
by simonw | 2025-08-01 21:01:19+00:00
"How much of a burden could this really be?"

My understanding from conversations I've seen about Google Reader is that the problem with Google is that every few years they have a new wave of infrastructure, which necessitates upgrading a bunch of things about all of their products.

I guess that might be things like some new version of BigTable or whatever coming along, so you need to migrate everything from the previous versions.

If a product has an active team maintaining it they can handle the upgrade. If a product has no team assigned there's nobody to do that work.
by sreynosowork | 2025-08-01 21:01:31+00:00
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by xp84 | 2025-08-01 21:01:32+00:00
Goo.gl was a terrible idea in the first place because it lends Google's apparent legitimacy (in the eyes of the average "noob") to unmoderated content that could be malicious. That's probably why they at least stopped allowing new ones to be made. By allowing old ones, they can't rule out the Google brand being used to scam and phish.

e.g. Imagine SMS or email saying "We've received your request to delete your Google account effective (insert 1 hour's time). To cancel your request, just click here and log into your account: https://goo.gl/ASDFjkl

This was a very popular strategy for phishing and it's still possible if you can find old links that go to hosts that are NXDOMAIN and unregistered, of which there are no doubt millions.
by metabagel | 2025-08-01 21:02:18+00:00
Boats and aircraft are both different from automobiles. They have full freedom of movement. You can't set a course in the same way with an automobile, because the automobile will need to follow a roadway and possibly make turns at intersections. Boats and aircraft can have waypoints, but those waypoints can be mostly arbitrary, whereas a car needs to conform its path to the roadway, traffic, signage, etc.

It's an entirely different domain.
by dh2022 | 2025-08-01 21:02:34+00:00
About pre-reqs: third and fourth year PureMath classes at UofWaterloo consisted of math I already took in HighSchool in Romania: group theory, ring theory. Plus some calculus I already read in high school out of curiosity: measure theory and the Lebesgue integral. Another Romanian guy at UofW was auditing 4th year classes while in his first year (he is now a math professor at an American university)

I can see a committed and gifted student being able to get most of the pre-reqs for doctoral studies in America or Canada while in high school.
by granitepail | 2025-08-01 21:02:55+00:00
In my case, I’m paying for inference on the original models from e.g. Fireworks. So it’s not a quantization problem. The Qwen3 I was using was the new 458B (i think that’s the size?) model that was their top performer for code.

I agree with other comments that there are productive uses for them. Just not on the scale of o4-mini/o3/claude 4 sonnet/opus.

So imo open weights larger models from big US labs is a big deal! Glad to see it. Gemma models, for example, are great for their size. They’re just quite small.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-08-01 21:03:41+00:00
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by cnst | 2025-08-01 21:03:43+00:00
Yup, 0.01% of users at scale is indeed a lot of users.

This is exactly why many big companies like Amazon, Google and Mozilla still support TLSv1.0, for example, whereas all the fancy websites would return an error unless you're using TLSv1.3 as if their life depends on it.

In fact, I just checked a few seconds ago with `lynx`, and Google Search even still works on plain old HTTP without the "S", too — no TLS required whatsoever to start with.

Most people are very surprised by this revelation, and many don't even believe it, because it's difficult to reproduce this with a normal desktop browser, apart from lynx.

But this also shows just out how out of touch Walmart's digital presence really is, because somehow they deem themselves to be important enough to mandate TLSv1.2 and the very latest browsers unlike all the major ecommerce heavyweights, and deny service to anyone who doesn't have the latest device with all the latest updates installed, breaking even the slightly outdated browsers even if they do support TLSv1.2.
by rvz | 2025-08-01 21:03:49+00:00
This article uses "ES256" for the alg, GitHub uses "RS256" as their alg and a very deranged few use "none".

The point here is this article is giving the developer lots of rope to hang themselves with the JOSE standard on JWT/K/S and it is a sure way to implement it incorrectly and have lots of security issues.

PASETO is a much better alternative to work with: https://paseto.io with none of the downsides of the JOSE standard.
by vadertemp | 2025-08-01 21:04:07+00:00
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by signatoremo | 2025-08-01 21:04:11+00:00
“catastrophic mismanagement”, “a HUNDRED AND FIFTY PEOPLE?”. What is it with all the hyperbole on HN?

Atlassian grew from 3,600 people in 2019 to 12.100 in 2024. Triple in 5 years. Some adjustments are expected. Sucks to lose your job, but you might not have it in the first place.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1276817/atlassian-number...
by slava_a | 2025-08-01 21:04:13+00:00
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by gopher_space | 2025-08-01 21:04:28+00:00
Tell your employees as soon as the idea pops into your head, and make sure they know there'll be something in it for them if they stick around until then. A layoff in nine months gives people time to plan.

Sort of a moot point though. Laying off spooled-up knowledge workers is probably the stupidest thing you could do if you're creating software and not investment opportunities.
by hnav | 2025-08-01 21:04:39+00:00
I don't think it's that, I think they just want people to onboard onto these things before understanding what the actual cost might be once they're not subsidized by megacorps anymore. Something similar to loss-leading endeavors like Uber and Lyft in the 2010s, I suspect that that showing the actual cost of inference would raise questions about the cost effectiveness of these things for a lot of applications. Internally, Google's data query surface tell you cost in terms of SWE-time (e.g. this query cost 1 SWE hour) since the incentives are different.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 21:04:49+00:00
For the most part I think this is right though I'm not opposed to a quick screener. It reminds me more of the traditional engineering interview, which is more about how you think. Knowledge is good, but it usually isn't hard to obtain. But the way you think? That's much harder to change. I'd love to optimize for both, but if I have to pick I'd rather have someone who has a good engineering mind. Seems even more important these days, because if I just wanted to optimize for knowledge I'd just use an LLM and RAG.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-08-01 21:05:19+00:00
Anyone who used it knows its limitations. IDK maybe in 2019 it was different tho, now it's full of warnings that make it barely useable when distracted. Ironically you are better off disabling it and staring into your phone, which seems what regulators actually want.

And by the way what is true autopilot? Is the average joe a 787 pilot who's also autopilot master?

Funny that pretty much every car ships with autosteer now. Ones I've used didn't seem to have much warnings, explanations, disclaimers or agreements that pundits here assume it should.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-01 21:05:47+00:00
I have an acquaintance who was forced to RTO (finance), and they’re both looking for a new remote job on company time and sabotaging [1] [2] internally (not illegally mind you) by doing as little as possible to keep the job until they bounce. Don’t blame them in the slightest.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...

[2] https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
by teiferer | 2025-08-01 21:07:04+00:00
Hm interesting. You seem to assume that cutting funding by 20% will cut exactly the fraudulent parts. That naïve world view is quite impressive tbh.

>> Must be really easy to get a research position there if every idiot fraud is able to.

> Indeed. [...]

Hm alright. About 10 of my friends have tried over the years to get into Harvard for research positions, only 2 of them succeeded. I must be surrounded by stupid idots then. Not clear to me how the rest of your text provides any supporting argument (what does providing employment forms have to do with it?) but I'm likely just as stupid as my friends.
by pncnmnp | 2025-08-01 21:07:21+00:00
One of my favorite examples of this is the Beatles:

> On 11 February 1963, the Beatles recorded ten songs during a single studio session for their debut LP, Please Please Me.

> Martin asked the band if they had any songs that they could record quickly. According to Martin, "It was a straightforward performance of their stage repertoire – a broadcast, more or less." Initially, a morning and afternoon session only were booked; the evening session was added later. Mark Lewisohn later wrote: "There can scarcely have been 585 more productive minutes in the history of recorded music".

Interestingly,

> .... the Beatles arrived with John Lennon suffering from a bad cold, which he attempted to treat with a steady supply of throat lozenges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Please_Me
by nemo44x | 2025-08-01 21:07:53+00:00
Good it’s a completely outdated concept. There’s no barrier to producing and distributing content today. That public tax dollars go to a place where partisans distribute it to their favorite projects is a 1960s era concept that needs to die.

Really the 1960s and 70s were such an insane era we should examine all government programs from that era that are still in commission with very suspicious eyes.
by djsavvy | 2025-08-01 21:08:01+00:00
This is all true, but removing the broker fees and replacing it with a rent hike is still better for the market overall, since the broker fees simply artificially dampen liquidity. You only paid them when you moved into a new place, but that meant that if you are stuck with a crappy landlord you might not move out because the marginal cost of moving anywhere else in NYC is much higher.
by catlover76 | 2025-08-01 21:08:07+00:00
? I read the first example and it's dumb.

> What happened? Well, it turns out you’re always getting the same instance, no matter what parameters you pass. Your second call to Singleton(name="Bob", age=25) didn’t create anything new — it just silently reused the original object, with its original attributes. No warning. No error. Just quietly wrong.

It's not wrong, it's right. No shit it "didn't create anything new"--it's not supposed to. It's a Singleton.
by djsavvy | 2025-08-01 21:08:48+00:00
left this comment on another comment in this thread, so copying it here:

This is all true, but removing the broker fees and replacing it with a rent hike is still better for the market overall, since the broker fees simply artificially dampen liquidity. You only paid them when you moved into a new place, but that meant that if you are stuck with a crappy landlord you might not move out because the marginal cost of moving anywhere else in NYC is much higher.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-01 21:09:04+00:00
You must be drawing from experience in a specific locality in the US, probably a rural one, because what I described is how land sales in the largest cities in the US has worked for half a century.

Doing what I described in New York City is exactly how Donald Trump made an initial fortune back in the 80s. It's happening right now in Seattle.

The business model not making sense, is due to the incorrect assumptions you make. For one, that land or buildings in cities appreciate less quickly than the stock market.

> At that point you've ceased to describe construction companies and are now describing real estate speculators while calling them construction companies.

I'm not sure what you think the difference is in practice. There may exist some construction companies that don't engage in real estate speculation, they just aren't the big or most profitable ones. Which addresses:

> Meanwhile, what, if not for zoning rules and other regulations, is preventing anyone else from undoing your attempt to constrain supply by opening up a new construction company which is actually a construction company?

The fact that the most valuable land is owned by other construction companies who have more money because of the real estate speculation.
by quintes | 2025-08-01 21:09:25+00:00
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by metabagel | 2025-08-01 21:09:43+00:00
Tesla is level 2 autonomous.

https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/level-3-autonomy-what-car-buy...

The only level 3 autonomous vehicles available for purchase in the U.S. are certain Mercedes-Benz models, and it only works on select roads in California and Nevada.

> Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot: California and Nevada are currently the only states with roads approved for the Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot. For 2025, only the EQS and S-Class offer Level 3 and then it’s by subscription.
by l33tbro | 2025-08-01 21:10:01+00:00
What if the girl above is crying and appears hurt because she has been mollycoddled, and this is a strategy to get attention?

Perhaps the parents had clocked-on to this, and were just letting the girl self-soothe so she could learn resillience. Then, on-cue, in steps some member of the public with their own opinion on the child they're trying to raise. This would be kind of tiring for the fatigued parent of a toddler, and the frustration of the parent in the above scenario is justifiable, particularly as encounters like this could happen multiple times daily with a child like that.

Now they could also just be a shitty parent. There's plenty of them. But it's difficult for us to judge and make hard rules in cases like this.