MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 19:56:51+00:00
I came to this book too late for the core message to resonate as far as mindset and methods (yeah, yeah, I found this path and walked at least this far on it already, you're preaching to the choir, should have read this when I was like 10 or 12 I guess...) but did make the mistake of dismissing an absolute chorus of warnings about anti-intellectualism from Sagan and a dozen other authors I read as a kid and in my 20s (which warnings, yes, were a significant component of this book)

They were all from roughly the same time period, and I thought their focus on that particular issue was overblown. A relic of the time they'd lived through and their efforts, which efforts had gotten us here, where anti-intellectualism is a curiosity, periodically an annoyance, but not a threat. Sure, we could swing back toward that being a real concern, but it'd take a while. We'd see it.

What's weird is I could also list a bunch of ways that we were swinging back toward it. I think on some level I just didn't believe that these kinds of big shifts backwards could happen, actually and not just in shootin'-the-shit discussions with friends, in my lifetime. Bumps on the road of progress, sure, but going backwards entirely? I even shied away from labeling authoritarian-enabling changes, policies, or actions "fascist", even as I literally protested some of them in the street—well, that's alarmist, surely. It's silly and childish that I was embarrassed of the term.

It's so damn foolish when I look back on it. I had so many of the particulars right, but just couldn't believe in something so big actually happening, I guess. I'd have told you that sure, it could, if you'd asked, even outlined a plausible path from here to there based on recent and current goings-on... but I didn't believe it might happen. Not really.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-08-01 19:57:02+00:00
Whatever one believes about the state of the FSD / Autopilot today (it still doesn't work well enough to be safe and probably won't for the next 5 years), I just don't see how one can argue that almost 10 years ago, when this thing would go into a fatal accident every 10 miles while Tesla was arguing it's safer than a human and will go from LA to NY autonomously within the year, was not a total bullshit a deceptive marketing.

"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons" - that was 2016... Funnily enough, in 2025 they are rolling exactly the same idea, as a Robotaxi, in California. Amazing.
by ardit33 | 2025-08-01 19:57:17+00:00
Well, at least it is a video. Meta had its layoffs with emails when they did all those rounds in 22-23 and 24. You got an email if you were safe, and another if you were terminated plus some links to some portal etc. Plus, there was some video/zoom call for some I think.

Anyways... modern corp culture, don't expect too much from larger companies. Once a company grows beyond a certain limit, it becomes impersonal as it has to.
by psyklic | 2025-08-01 19:57:54+00:00
Undergrads who care about learning and research will take the most challenging classes, do research with professors, and surround themselves with other strong students who will push them.

Even at top universities, very very few freshmen are capable of doing high-quality research immediately. They'd be better served learning the foundations inside and out with a cohort of similarly strong students to challenge them.
by Bender | 2025-08-01 19:58:11+00:00
- where does one go to discuss political and world issues

- with similar respect and tolerance

This is just my pessimistic view but I have never seen a site able to do those two things simultaneously. Human psychology gets in the way every time. In my opinion there would have to be an in depth entrance exam administered in person to screen out people unable to have truly unbiased discussions that did not have ulterior motives, uncontrolled emotions and agendas and even then the site admin would have to be ready to fling the ban hammer without hesitation. Short of that, every site that attempts to allow discussing politics devolves into the negative aspects of Tweeter, Reddit, 4chan, 8chan, etc... Or perhaps such a site exists and I did not pass the exam.
by dcsourcegraph | 2025-08-01 19:58:13+00:00
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by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-01 19:58:18+00:00
Who wouldnt deploy AI to help with engineering? The question is, will it help so much that you need fewer engineers, or will you simply be ecstatic that your engineers are now a little or a lot more productive. If you have x engineers, and your competitor has the same x number of engineers.. and you both start using AI, are you going to layoff half your engineers when your competitor doesn't? Unless your cash strapped and also don't have any plans for new development, I suppose yes. But otherwise, it's just another thing you need.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-08-01 19:58:48+00:00
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by wolrah | 2025-08-01 19:58:51+00:00
Using a link shortener for any kind of long-term link, no matter who hosts it, has never been a good idea. They're for ephemeral links shared over limited mediums like SMS or where a human would have to manually copy the link from the medium to the browsing device like a TV ad. If you put one in a document intended for digital consumption you've already screwed up.
by drewbeck | 2025-08-01 19:59:00+00:00
> The problem is with people not being willing to decide for themselves whether someone's behavior meets this threshold, and letting the mob substitute their own judgement.

I don't think we can say that this is what happened here. The allegations were public; some signatories may not have read them and just gone along with the "mob", but many would have read them and made their judgements based on that. This isn't "letting the mob substitute [for] their own judgement."
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-08-01 19:59:01+00:00
Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Zig, Rust, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ... Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, executive and political outreach, media appearances, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
by Grosvenor | 2025-08-01 19:59:02+00:00
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by Grosvenor | 2025-08-01 19:59:12+00:00
SEEKING WORK - Data scientist, remote worldwide, email in profile.

I'm a data scientist and I'm looking for hard problems to solve. Hair on fire "This is causing lemon-law recalls and we can't solve it." type problems - I've done those a few times.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique toolset. I've worked with names you know in automotive, tech, and other spaces. Recently I've been working with Oil & Gas - Production estimates, pricing, and other interesting things.

I've worked on projects including LLMs, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, vehicle route planning in constrained environments, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, maritime piracy, and more.

If you're unsure, get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-01 19:59:16+00:00
Thank you. I always get frustrated whenever there are layoffs that everyone pounces on "but they didn't say exactly the right things, in exactly the right way, exactly how I expected!"

Layoffs suck, period. Like the good advice goes when starting a new relationship "Just ignore everything they say, and only focus on what they do." A generous severance package is loads more important than nitpicking the format of the layoff announcement. Plus, Atlassian famously has a global, distributed team that embraced remote work. Someone somewhere is getting the recorded clip regardless.
by deadbabe | 2025-08-01 19:59:24+00:00
Chatbots are the wrong approach. You should construct personalities and use the various traits and components of the marketing message as considerations for a utility AI that determines what action it will take when presented with the content. Perhaps the only place you'd use LLMs is the score the marketing message on various attributes, but that could also just be done through cheap sentiment analysis and classifiers.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-08-01 20:00:10+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE ~~

20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. I have recently built a software NGO with over half a million supporters and over a thousand active volunteers and major political and media networking. I have built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.

If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it, and build a team or company around it. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com

~~

Example engagement types:

- Long term dev / IC or managerial roles

- Security audits for cryptography and secure code

- Review your code and dev processes, 10-page report

- Short-term dev and research work

- One-shot meetings

(see reply for skill list)
by leeter | 2025-08-01 20:00:20+00:00
There are tricks. I've been through such an acquisition. The purchaser sets up a new "Philz Coffee Co LLC" then purchases assets and operations for the exact amount the preferred stock holders want. They then liquidate the old company. Because the old company was never legally "bought" the common stock holders are SOL because they now own stock in a fictional company. That's not to say they don't have options... but I am not a lawyer and that definitely involves lawyers.
by thejazzman | 2025-08-01 20:00:21+00:00
- FSD came out in October 2020; I suppose rounding up to 10 puts it nearly 10 years since. It also, literally, doubles the number from its actual value.

- There have been a lot more than one incident. This is one court case about one incident.

- There are an insane number of accidents reported; does it only matter to you if someone dies? A lot more than one person has died in an accident that involved a vehicle that was equipped with FSD.

- Your comment is obviously targeted and disingenuous.

There was even a recall over it: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/02/16/tesla-full-self-driv...

So to answer your question of what one might want to come out of it, perhaps another recall where they fix the system or stop making false claims about what it can do.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-08-01 20:00:22+00:00
Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Zig, Rust, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ... Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, executive and political outreach, media appearances, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-01 20:00:22+00:00
And beyond those things there are often performance / battery optimization related things as part of the update too. Just because an app claims it respects your privacy, it doesn't mean that it is a well behaved app.

Most other android app stores enforce a high target sdk. Fdroid is the only one I know that doesn't and allows apps as far back as Android supports. Android has been yearly, except Android 16 it seems, raising the minimum installable target sdk so eventually updates will be needed to run on new devices.
by vishalontheline | 2025-08-01 20:00:44+00:00
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by cnst | 2025-08-01 20:00:47+00:00
I fail to see how your conclusion follows from the premise.

Banking apps in the US don't even show any PINs for 2FA, so, why exactly is Schwab doing that again?

BTW, Google Wallet does let you take screenshots of all the views except for just one or two views where you enter card number, billing and card security code. Honestly, even that is an overreach; it's not like I can't use the camera to take a photo of my credit card with CVV in view, so, why should the camera function of any app prevent that again? Google never blocks screenshots of any transactions, last-4 of any card, or any other screens. If they ever did, I'd be far less happy with them, and would go out of my way to find an alternative contactless provider. Wells Fargo used to provide contactless on Android in their app for their own cards, but, probably thanks to Apple, this feature was removed for feature parity with iOS.
by comte7092 | 2025-08-01 20:00:59+00:00
A lot of discussion in this thread about the technical meaning of “autopilot” and its capabilities vs FSD.

This is really missing the point. Tesla could have called it “unicorn mode” and the result would still be the same.

The true issue at hand is that Elon Musk has been banding about telling people that their cars are going to drive themselves completely for over a decade now and overstating teslas capabilities in this area. Based on the sum totality of the messaging, many lay consumers believe teslas have been able to safely drive themselves unsupervised for a long time.

From a culpability standpoint, you can’t put all this hype out and then claim it doesn’t matter because technically the fine print says otherwise.
by lotyrin | 2025-08-01 20:01:28+00:00
> If two people each drink a beer and then have sex, did they rape each other?

That's too concerned with post-facto labels.

Better framing:

If I am sexually interested in someone and value their consent, should I ensure that our first sexual encounter is negotiated while both of us are entirely sober?

My answer to this question is unequivocally "yes". I understand that's not broader culture's answer, I am suggesting that this is a problem with the broader culture.

And before you deem me prudish, I regularly attend BDSM or other kink events where power is exchanged and sex occurs, regularly explore altered states of consciousness via controlled substances for fun and philosophical insights. It is exactly because of this openness to and experience with these ideas that I confident that most people lack discipline around sexuality, power exchange, altered states of consciousness and are unskilled in how they combine them.

And it's not a sexism thing either, I'm not misandrist, I actually think men suffer from this cultural deficiency more than they benefit from it. It might feel unfair but the stakes of "I got canceled for not being careful" or "everyone assumes I'm being a predator until I prove I'm not" or "I don't know how to walk the tightrope of expressing interest in women but not also creeping them out" which has been ramping up in modern times just simply do not register in a context of the consequences women experience around it for all of human existence that includes everything up to and including being murdered.
by Aunche | 2025-08-01 20:03:06+00:00
What YIMBY deregulation do you view as problematic? YIMBYs aren't calling for more billionaire row towers and multifamily to single family townhouse conversions. They are calling for more apartment complexes, ADUs, and other utilitarian forms of housing.

New housing developments only gets branded as "luxury" because that's the way that housing is priced right now. It costs the city of San Francisco over $1 million to build a single affordable housing unit. Blindly throwing more money at the problem doesn't help. SF is spending $846 million on housing, over $1000 per resident. Despite this, homelessness is actually increasing. Increasing funding is something that should be prioritized after you made development as frictionless as possible. If public housing is cheaper and faster to build, more voters would be willing to support funding it.

I gave SF a lot of shit, but to be clear, they're the least problematic city in the Bay Area, as they at least allow some denser development.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 20:03:08+00:00
Thinking about my GE requirements at undergrad, I think it would be a waste of this girl's time to be forced to learn about and write about random subjects that don't interest her. She has but one lifetime, and can contribute much to her field.

The subjects such as English composition, she should be allowed to test out of if she is already a good writer.
by malic1tus | 2025-08-01 20:03:28+00:00
I created this repo not to share code, but to preserve a moment that slipped away. It's a README file — and only a README — written as both a tribute and a time capsule.

It uses the structure of a software license (the “DCA-LAURA v1.0”) to document not intellectual property, but a summer, a feeling, and a silence.

There's no actual code inside. Yet every line computes something emotionally real. It’s for anyone who’s ever lost someone they never really had — and still wakes up debugging the moment they should have spoken.
by orwin | 2025-08-01 20:04:29+00:00
I'm tired and I'm not sure I understood your question correctly, sorry if it doesn't address your point:

In python test library, you have something called 'monkeypatch' that allows you to intercept calls to specific functions or classes and set the response yourself (I mostly use it to mock API responses tbh but it can do a lot more, an really complex operations). Monkeypatch only operate in the scope of the function or file it's written in (I think. I only remember using it in unit test functions).
by michaelmure | 2025-08-01 20:04:39+00:00
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by stagger87 | 2025-08-01 20:04:57+00:00
I agree with you and don't know enough to speak authoritatively. That being said, I did find this definition of liquidation (below). The article hints the business was in trouble, the way I'm reading it, if the sale doesn't cover all obligations, its would be a liquidation.

"Business liquidation involves selling off a company’s assets, such as equipment, inventory, and real estate, and using the proceeds to pay off debts and obligations. This process usually occurs when a business is no longer profitable, facing insurmountable financial challenges, or the owner decides to retire or pursue other opportunities."