MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcyb5st | 2025-08-04 07:28:09+00:00
Not sure about the author, but having a few hundreds interviews under my belt (as the interviewer) some of those statements are incomplete.

Your example is complete, but if I see statements like: "decreased latency by 5%" I will ask you if are we talking about median or long tail latency. Another example would be "developed a ML model that increased revenue by X%". Here it is missing how the population is affected. If you say overall then I will ask you things like: "For which slice of the population did you see the biggest improvement with the new model? Any regression?" or "Did you run any control group".

While I might or might not care about the technicalities of your answer the important thing is that if you can't convince me that you know what you are talking about then it is as parent said, bullshit and I will stop likely paying attention to you and mind my business as I will suggest a no-hire.

If, instead, it looks like you really did those things you mentioned it is a nice ice breaker and genuine candidates seem to perform well when they get the tension out of the way by answering something they know.

PS: If I were to interview you I would ask "How" because as I mentioned it is a complete statement in my mind :)
by cyberax | 2025-08-04 07:28:52+00:00
Which "things"?

Pretty much the only thing is the availability of bars and night clubs. And people past the age of 20-25 are typically not that interested in them.

Anything else: museums, operas, theaters, etc. Take up an insignificant amount of time in the real life. For example, most NYC citizens go to museums exactly 0 times a year.
by hkt | 2025-08-04 07:29:16+00:00
I did a flask application that read an AWS account's glue resources, displayed them based on category (tag of "databasename" and "driver" etc) and offered the ability to run those jobs in serial or parallel, with a combined job status page for each batch. It also used company colours because I told it to pick a colour palette from the company website. It worked first time and produced sane, safe code.

There was a second shot, which was to add caching of job names because we have a few hundred now.

(Context: I'm at a company that has only ever done data via hitting a few hand replicated on prem databases at the moment and wanted to give twitchy folks an overview tool that was easy to use and look at)
by berdario | 2025-08-04 07:29:42+00:00
> Capitalism isn't meant to do anything.

It was probably meant in the manner of: "the purpose of a system, is what it does"...

I.e. regardless of how it evolved (system of laws written with good intent, or system of laws organically grown out of corruption and lobbying...) what capitalism does now is its purpose, and we shouldn't expect it to be meant to do anything different.

> capitalism [...] necessarily creates the incentives for the legal system to adopt laws to maintain itself

Agree

> If for some reason private property was not legally enforceable, capitalism wouldn't get off the ground

I think this makes as much sense as saying: "if money wasn't a thing, capitalism wouldn't get off the ground".

Technically true, neither capitalism nor feudalism would be able to get off the ground, but "private property not enforceable" evokes images of thugs stealing your property... The truth is that the first few people (or group thereof) who accumulate a commodity (grain, livestock, widgets, etc.) would also be the first who would be able to bribe/pay thugs with a small share of their commodities, to help protect from (deny access to) others in the community.

The monopoly of violence (and legal authority) would grow out of the initial group.

In the same way, even if money was going to be abolished, any other commodity would just take its place, and rebuild capitalism with it. It is tricky to wrestle democratic control back, and move on from capitalism.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-08-04 07:30:35+00:00
I do not know why anyone would bet that the executive order defined tariffs would stay. It was and still clear as a day that Trump uses them to force people to the negotiation table. Obviously, negotiated deal may look different.

Regardless, tariffs as an instrument have their merit with Trump or without Trump. Strategically, US has to bring manufacturing (and as much of a supply chains) back, there is no way around it.
by weatherlite | 2025-08-04 07:30:50+00:00
> Fear. People are afraid of rejection, because some experiences are bad. But some experiences being bad doesn’t make all (or even most) experiences bad.

I agree but the fear is based on something, not only on rejection. There are quite a few issues happening at once I think:

1) Relentless economic/status competition. The more unequal the society the more this is pronounced, this can cause a huge burden on a relationship where one side is more successful than the other side. This can cause you to feel Schandefreud when your friend is not doing well which is the opposite of what you're supposed to feel; most people don't want to feel these twisted feelings and might prefer to withdraw from the friendship. Others will "endure" their friends' success and a small minority will be 100% happy for them without any feelings of inadequacy.

2) Our culture of instant gratification - friendships and all relationships are hard work, we don't seem to like doing that anymore.

3) Friendship instability - people move cities, countries or simply change and will look for other people to be friends with. That causes an emotional rollercoster and could cause people to ask whether it's worth it . Many friendships don't survive 10 years.

4) I guess a summation of all previous points is relentless individualism in the West and the death of community, religion and even somewhat family. If some of us can't be botehred to visit our parents more than once or twice a year it's not a shocker we can't be bothered to do the hard work required to maintain personal friendships.

There could be more things going on but I think it's much more complex than simply fear of rejection.
by dspillett | 2025-08-04 07:31:09+00:00
> Back when I was a student writing homework assignments rolling dice or drawing cards, no one really worried about these tiny biases,

That brings back an old (> 3 decades) memory… Way back when, not actually part of a homework assignment but a time in my life I would get them, I noticed a bias while picking random cards. This IIRC was with a 16 (or maybe even 8) bit PRNG, I'm not sure if the significance of the bias was due to that or just if the PRNG overall was terrible. After doing some simple analysis to prove some cards were less likely to be picked, my answer was to actually shuffle the deck: move the cards around in an array, looping over the whole array picking a new position for each card, multiple times. Of course it was slow so would not fit in with the "efficient" goal of this article, but it did seem to smooth out the bias, and picking in order from a pre shuffled deck much better emulated the real world game I was trying to implement at the time (so why wasn't I doing that from the offset?: the bad design process of a early-teens self-taught fledgeling programmer!).

The analysis (written almost entirely in BASIC though the shuffle was in 6502 assembly as I was learning that a bit at the time) was my first experience of running a programmed process over several hours, my parents were dubious about the good ol' BBC Master needing to be left powered on all night! The results may have been completely wrong but (very) young me was convinced at the time. Ahh, innocent times…
Show HN: An Infinite Wiki Simulator
by joegibbs | 2025-08-04 07:32:57+00:00
This is a small demo I've been working on that generates entire wiki-style articles on the fly (it should generate the article in two seconds if there's no load on the server, they're cached after).

They're not really of any educational value themselves because the model is so small and it's not rooted in any kind of factual basis - you'll probably be able to spot obvious errors in even very widely-covered events - but I'm working on a blog post about non-chat interfaces for LLMs and this is part of it.

Code: https://github.com/joe-gibbs/wiki-simulator
by turkzilla | 2025-08-04 07:32:57+00:00
I’ve spent more than two years building an agentic AI platform, working daily with GPT, Claude, and lately Gemini LLM models in real-world production code. They’re powerful; but if you watch closely, you’ll see something unsettling.

They don’t just write bad code. They write our code. And that should worry you.

This is what I realized in the mirror we trained.
by Siokaloka | 2025-08-04 07:33:06+00:00
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by supermatt | 2025-08-04 07:33:19+00:00
No idea about oppenheimers degree tbh, I just remembered it was 2 years from the movie lol.

The American PhD program is pretty weird looking at it from a European perspective.

Here you typically do your undergraduate degree, then a masters, then the PhD.

In USA it seems it’s more common to combine the masters and PhD as a single course, resulting in the inflated duration.

It’s totally possible to do a 2 year (or less) PhD in certain subjects, as you have already done the 2 years equivalent study (1 year in UK?) as part of your masters.
by OJFord | 2025-08-04 07:33:35+00:00
I am joking with the terminology, but I don't believe B.S.'s claim that they were able to do human language learning without 'labelling'.

It's a valid way to learn a second language in the same script, see Lingua Latina for example, but how can you possibly learn a first language or a new script without being told the sounds characters make? You can learn to listen/comprehend and speak by in immersion like that, but not reading & writing.
by sipofwater | 2025-08-04 07:35:00+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/androidterminal/comments/1mc3pnz/go... (old.reddit.com/r/androidterminal/comments/1mc3pnz/googles_linux_terminal_plays_a_big_part_in/n5tjgu8/)
by hkt | 2025-08-04 07:35:42+00:00
I've made another comment in this thread about a nice tool I one-shotted. The reason I don't publish anything now is because in the UK at least, companies are not behaving will with relation to IP: many contracts specify that anything you work on that can be expected of you in the course of your duties belongs to the company, and tribunals have upheld this.

There's also a bit of a stigma about vibe coding: career wise, personally I worry that sharing some of this work will diminish how people view me as an engineer. Who'd take the risk if there might be a naysayer on some future interview panel who will see CLAUDE.md in a repo of yours and assume you're incompetent or feckless?

Plus, worries about code: being an author gives you a much higher level of control than being an author-reviewer. To err as a writer is human, to err as a reader has bigger consequences.
Show HN: GenimeLabs, vector-based AI videos built for clarity, not realism
by bansaltushar92 | 2025-08-04 07:36:33+00:00
We’ve been experimenting with generative video for a while, and ran into a core limitation: current models are great at realism, but often fail at clarity.

Try asking them to generate a simple origami tutorial or an animated concept explainer - you usually get something visually stunning, but semantically incoherent.

The reason: most generative video models operate at the pixel level. They're optimized to mimic reality, not to communicate ideas.

At GenimeLabs, we're exploring a different path — Programmatic Storytelling, where generative media is built using vectors and code, not just pixels. Think modular, editable, consistent objects — more like Figma components than video frames.

This approach has tradeoffs, but it unlocks something powerful: videos that are precise, structured, and reusable, better suited for explainer animations, educational content, technical walkthroughs, etc.

Still early, but we’re opening up to early users. Curious to hear what this crowd thinks — especially anyone working at the intersection of generative models, vector graphics, or technical communication.

Please join the waitlist if interested in trying out. Site: https://genimelabs.com
by lifestyleguru | 2025-08-04 07:37:15+00:00
> Vaguely it feels like something shitty is coming and it's being drawn out in an attempt to lessen the impact but it's being fucked up by everything else. Reminds me of shortly before 2008, when a lot of the people who knew they'd be getting laid off found out.

The economies of entire developed world have been edging since 2020 and every attempt to release was terminated with another violent punch. One pattern within Europe is noticeable though. Countries one by one are overtaken by mafia with legal immunity, and every cash is allocated into luxury cars and real estate.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-04 07:37:20+00:00
In theory, yes, although there are some fairly big stones falling in the avalanche of turning off HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 at the server end.

In practice, it's going to be tricky to know without measurement; and the shifting of the default at the client end to from 0.9 and 1.0 to 1.1 began back in 2010. Asking the people who run robots for statistics will not help. Almost no good actor robots are using 0.9 and 1.0 now, and 0.9 and 1.0 traffic dropped off a cliff in the 2010s falling to 0% (to apparently 1 decimal place) by 2021 as measured by the Web Almanac.

* https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/http

If a modern HTTP server stopped serving 0.9 and 1.0, or even just had a problem doing so to decades-old pre-1.1 client softwares, very few people would know. Almost 0% of HTTP client traffic would be affected.

And, indeed, http://url.town/ is one of the very places that has already turned 0.9 off. It does not speak it, and returns a 1.1 error response. And no-one in this thread (apart from edm0nd) knew.
by hexmiles | 2025-08-04 07:38:02+00:00
You can't dictate it, but you can influence it.

Imagine if we teach from primary school student to clean their own classroom and bathroom so that everyone must do at least once every x days/week, it think it would help reconsider how we view this jobs. This is just an example, but I think there are plenty of ways for a government to incentivize desirable behavior (even social).
by yason | 2025-08-04 07:38:19+00:00
Not necessarily, no, but empirically yes.

Paper-shuffling used to be not a major issue in a doctor's work day. It was merely something that yes, sure you had to log new patient data and whatnot for reference, but you were mostly free to do the paperwork in a way that fit your natural workflow. Based on the doctors I know/knew, it was not a pain point. Yeah, you would sometimes have to fetch physical papers from somewhere instead of clicking yourself to the same information on the computer, but that was not a major issue. I'd say it was similar to a programmer who's waiting for an incremental compilation to finish: a minor moment out of actual work but nothing to fret about.

After doctors' offices got digital then interacting with the computer specifically certainly became an issue which didn't exist before. At best, it was just a clumsy way to do the inevitable and at worst it became a major part of the patient visit, with myriad of odd tricks you had to learn about some particular computer software in order to accomplish your actual goals.

If something that used to be normal part of work nobody thought twice about once become noted as a separate issue of the work day, something did change there. Sure, there are benefits too, but it's the friction points that you feel at work when you're trying to get other things done. Sure, software could be written to serve the user and not the other way around, but software rarely is -- no matter the profession, doctors aren't the only ones!
by Lebu | 2025-08-04 07:38:23+00:00
Location: Nairobi,Kenya

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I would love to work in an organisational level so i canbe able to contribute my skills
by sergiolema | 2025-08-04 07:38:56+00:00
We’ve all been there: a brilliant idea for a new product, followed by weeks (or months) of development, only to find ourselves with an over-engineered solution and no users. It's a common trap. We love to build, but sometimes we build too much, too soon.

To avoid this pitfall and maximize your chances of success without burning through time and money, I've refined a three-step framework. This approach is less about a rigid project plan and more about a strategic mindset: build small, validate fast, and scale deliberately.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-04 07:39:21+00:00
There's a huge difference between parsing a PDF and parsing the contents of a PDF. Parsing PDF files is its own hell, but because PDFs are basically "stuff at a given position" and often not "well-formed text within boundary boxes", you have to guess what letters belong together if you want to parse the text as a word.

If you're interested in helping out the resume parsers, take a look at the accessibility tree. Not every PDF renderer generates accessible PDFs, but accessible PDFs can help shitty AI parsers get their names right.

As for the ff problem, that's probably the resume analyzer not being able to cope with non-ASCII text such as the ﬀ ligature. You may be able to influence the PDF renderer not to generate ligatures like that (at the expense of often creating uglier text).
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-04 07:39:54+00:00
I still think we're on the same page for the most part, I've long agreed with every word of your first comment.

Now there can also be a very big difference between living in a place versus being born & raised in that kind of place. The latter being far more depth of immersion than a tourist or long-term visitor, and is actually the kind of detail that makes the difference between whether one is indigenous to that environment or not.

Being born & raised in a "tourist town" surrounded by nothing but tourist towns is not all that common but may be extreme enough to give the kind of awareness that some indigenous "cultures" can present themselves to visitors in an almost completely imaginary way compared to "normal", and over the much longer term than others.

That's the same kind of feeling that I get in a place that's unusually good or unusually bad, but where they have lots more going on than tourism the dose is minuscule by comparison. Well I do recognize that a minor facade can be completely unintentional but just as difficult to see beyond.

Some people travel more than others too, or venture further from their origin, sometimes you need to play the role of a tourist, sometimes act the host. As well as you know how to do, in either case.

What about when other cultures come to visit you more than you visit them? A lot of the same familiarity can be built anyway.

When every visitor is from someplace different, they're not bringing much of their "culture" with them, rather they are relatively isolated and completely surrounded by whatever indigenous culture exists, for the better or worse, some things are just more inclusive or co-existable than others.

OTOH when there's a crowd from one single culture passing into a foreign area, an almost infinitely larger amount of culture comes along for the ride. If they stop to stay for very long this might be the first time when the indigenous host has to "contend" with a foreign culture beyond trivial accommodation.

This may be too challenging for some cultures to handle when you've got some lands where assimilation has been so successful that there's not a close second, and others not like that at all. And everything in between. The concept of better or worse can take on infinitely greater scale, maybe even reverse unexpectedly.

Then there's the part when you return to your origin, and your particular indigenous culture has been almost completely lost, all that remains are the scarce dwindling "outliers" but you yourself are not any more indigenous to any other place.

You could end up being an "ex-patriate in your own hometown".

From your further comments I think you might agree what it feels like, when the same place migrates from "unusually one way" to become "unusually the other", left to themselves the entropy is strongly from bad to worse rather than vice versa.
by hkt | 2025-08-04 07:40:41+00:00
I can confirm input matters a lot. I'm a couple of hundred hours ahead of you and my prompting has come along a lot. I recommend test cycles, prompts to reflect on product-implementation fit (eg, is this what you've been asked to do?) and lots of interactivity. Despite what I've written elsewhere in these comments, the best work is a good oneshot followed by small iterations and attentive steering.
by avisha_jaiswal | 2025-08-04 07:41:23+00:00
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Willing to relocate: Not at the moment, but can travel once or twice a quarter for meet-ups and discussions. Can relocate early 2026.

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