MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by braza | 2025-08-06 05:57:21+00:00
> Europe does not have that talent pool nor do they actively retain or attract such talents.

Disagree. Not only does Europe have the demographics and educational institutions, but on top of that, it has very high social mobility [1].

I agree 100% related to the retention of talent, but I have a different perspective: I think there exist 2 kinds of retention, (I) environmental and institutional retention and (II) organizational retention.

At the (I), you have all the things that Europeans bring here when such discussions happen: accessibility to public health care, a range of public services, less inequality, access to education, and so on.

At the (II) come the big companies and their perks, mission, compensation, impact on society, organizational culture, rewarding mechanisms for ambition, and allow people work satisfaction. And a market large enough to allow some work mobility (change seats and plenty of opportunities).

Being in Central Europe, I can say we have (I) but are lacking at the (II).

I have been around for almost a decade, and my general impression is that people have some mixture of a bit of professional cope that sublimes to work contentment and, honestly, unless you have a big reason and/or financial offset to stay due to (I) personal circumstances, people that can have options will choose (II).

[1] - https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...
by jaredcwhite | 2025-08-06 05:58:13+00:00
I dumped DuckDuckGo for Kagi. heh heh

Seriously, I haven't used Google in years. I stopped even relying on Google as a decent backup option because it's gotten so-o-o bad. DDG has gotten incrementally worse simply because they're unable to fend off the reams of AI slop taking over everything (and it's also based in large part on Bing's index).

I recently tried Kagi now that they have free and lower-cost tiers, and oh wow I can feel the difference. This is like 2010s-era search, and I mean that as a distinct compliment. I signed up and won't look back. The "Quick Peek" feature is truly fantastic…it feels like it's some sort of AI but it's simply just a good set of queries with good excerpts of REAL text from REAL links. Bravo!
by LexiMax | 2025-08-06 05:58:19+00:00
> The people you describe have been given a highly addictive media environment tailor made to engender outrage and drive behavior. It shouldn't be a shock when most people cannot resist it.

Although I also take issue with labeling people "stupid," I also take issue with the blanket assumption that people are victims of the media environment. Both take away people's agency in their own way.

Instead, I'll ask this uncomfortable question. What if a good chunk of these people would prefer to believe a convenient lie over an inconvenient truth? If so, what does that say about them and their morals? Is that better or worse than being labeled stupid or a victim?
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-08-06 05:58:50+00:00
> Have you ever noticed how the host of some YouTube videos invite people to comment with a prompt, such as soliciting information? It is meant to encourage positive conversations.

This is a great insight. I always wondered why video platforms seemed to have much more positive comments than text platforms, but now it makes sense. Most videos have some prompt ("leave a comment below if you have X" or "if this made you remember a funny time in your life leave a comment on my video") to answer whereas most text doesn't which primes folks to respond negatively.
by Shorn | 2025-08-06 05:59:18+00:00
"micro-management" is not a useful concept, it's just a though-terminating cliche - let's get specific.

The problem with bad stand-ups is usually that they're just "personal status updates" by another name. They're abused as a way for team lead/project manager to "get a feel" for what individuals on the team are doing. Bad managers do this, because they're bad at their jobs. It's literally their job to know what people are doing, where they're at in their various tasks, what's going on with the project. They should be doing that all day, every day - when they're not "managing up". Gathering info in a 15 minute standup is both too short a feedback cycle and too long and nowhere near high enough bandwidth. It's also one of the major reasons stand-ups frequently go off the rails and end up taking so long, in badly run projects. Stopping those derailments is actually supposed to be one of their jobs and should be one of their main priorities during the stand up.

If you're stand-up involves going around the team, one person at a time asking "what did you do yesterday, what are you doing today" - that's a bad stand-up.

Stand-ups should be run from the sprint board - you run through all open tickets for the sprint, asking whoever is assigned to that ticket "what's up with that?" Once you've gong the through the tickets, you're done. No looking forward to next sprint - that's for backlog grooming and planning sessions. No looking backward, that's for retros.

Don't get to talk during the stand-up? Then WTF are you even working on, and why isn't a story in the sprint? That's a question the manager should be asking and resolving - privately, outside of the standup.

Stand-ups are for "visibility of the team, for the team". Not for managers or other wanna be management.

Stand-ups are for telling your teammates "i unstuck this ticket this way, if that's an issue or there's a better way, hit me up after the standup" or "I'm going to be working on X and I don't know anything about that; anyone who can help me, hit me up after the standup".

If your stand-ups aren't like that they're bad stand-ups. Because your manager sucks. Don't worry - most managers suck. Deal with it, get over it; and stop blaming your tools.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-06 05:59:25+00:00
> Accounting rules.

Correct.

> If the credits last indefinitely, any unused credits cannot be counted as revenue.

Maybe incorrect? Unless they are cooking the books, the unused credits should reflect as a liability on the books.

When someone pays you for a thing, until they take delivery of it (or use it up if it is a service), you owe them the value of that thing.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 05:59:42+00:00
In over 80 volumes of ASTM publications, I would estimate they may amount to more kilos than that.

Almost all of the actual lab work requires statistical determination of repeatability & reproducibility to be calculated between different labs, and the summary is included with each document.

I would say there is way less than a kilo without this.

And the amount of supporting raw data on file amounts to kilos which dwarf the pages published. Formally accessible so everything can be thoroughly reviewed at any time in the future, allowing for complete reconsideration if called for.

Scietific instrumentation doesn't stand still.

So it definitely can be done. Even if it's to the extreme not suitable for everybody else.

The less-reproducible documents are there, they did the best they could, but have a smell not shared by the good stuff. You know "exactly" how good or bad the underlying science turned out to be in the real world.

Paradoxically, or intuitively, as the case may be, if you're going to utilize the less-reliable techniques (most likely because they're the best there is), you may need to know how bad they are most of all.

Maybe other publications should raise the bar on statistics as appropriate, I figure zero statistics is about as far as you can get from ASTM "standards".

Some places probably have a lot further to go than others and it would be nice to have a whole lot sweeter smell all around.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-06 06:01:49+00:00
Because it's a waste of money. You don't need satellites to measure CO2 levels. Ground based measurements work perfectly fine, which is where air is densest. These satellites are supplementary and are fairly imprecise in measuring CO2 as they look at reflected sunlight from the surface. Note that the satellite can't measure through clouds, which is 2/3 of the atmosphere at any given time.

This is a satellite you probably never heard about before but you were moved by an overemotional headline that a journo used to manipulate your pretenses.
by ninjin | 2025-08-06 06:01:53+00:00
There are some library functions to support databases in base, but that is probably not what you are asking for. Likewise, to the best of my knowledge there is no TUN/STUN server. However, you likely have both in ports.

Not sure if you are asking these as "Gotcha questions", if not, sorry, reading tone, etc. over the Internet is hard. If you are though, you are missing the point of what OpenBSD is and asking those questions is akin to walking into a Burger King and asking for sushi or how Linux interoperates with proprietary Windows drivers.

OpenBSD is the answer to what happens when a bunch of programmers get together around a shared history (BSD), goals (security, sane defaults, etc.), and very limited resources (Linux may be on the order of magnitude of a million times more users and funds). For example, based on reading tech@ for a few years, I am certain that the OpenBSD developers would love to have a new file system (people on Hacker News love to complain about FFS2), but the problem is that they are acutely aware of their own limitations. Ignoring the licensing issues with say ZFS, they do not have the funds and manpower to bring it into base (and maintain it as well, which everyone conveniently seem to forget is a cost) given how complex and large of a piece of code it is. So, an OpenBSD solution to what a new file system will look like will always be different from what we see out of Windows, Linux, etc. This, to me, is a good thing, because I like software diversity and history has shown that out of the OpenBSD community comes amazing pieces of software that makes its way into the rest of the ecosystem: OpenSSH, OpenSMTPD, tmux, LibreSSL, etc.

As a user, it forces you to rethink the cost of what you run and to some degree change your habits. I, for example, thought I "needed" a media server, but instead I have a directory serving videos over HTTP via httpd(8) and I just use the default directory listing and copy a URL into VLC to watch. Now, you may cry "That is not the same as a media server!" and I am not claiming it is, but I am getting along with no dependencies and fewer lines of code and am happily watching my videos regardless of any objections. Plus, I bet my "media server" upgrades come with a lot less drama.
by ruszki | 2025-08-06 06:03:02+00:00
You can misconfigure your SaaS too. And it’s not that difficult to learn how to secure your system… you just need to want to learn it, which is rarely the case. The topic itself is not that difficult, you don’t need to know cryptography in details in reality to make something secure. You just need to care. But most of the people are fine with copy-pasting from StackOverflow level of caring, which is absolutely not enough with security. But once again, you have the same problem with SaaS.

The main reason to switch to SaaS is that it’s less of your responsibility anymore. The decision is made mainly not because of technical but legal or budget reasons.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 06:05:07+00:00
I'm incredibly interested -- it's just not legal yet, and the drug is in trials by Eli Lilly:

https://trials.lilly.com/en-US/trial/580035

Just to be very explicit here, my profit incentive is selling newsletter subscriptions not selling drugs, if that was the worry.

The thing is that we just won't get any high quality data from the official trials for a very long time, but it looks like it's going to be even better than Tirzepatide which is the current king.

Outside of being simply well-researched, the best thing about GLP1s is that they are safe enough to be taken by millions of people (and they are) -- so anecdata is valuable. It's valuable to know what the "first adopters" are doing and what they're finding and what trends show up there.

[EDIT] Maybe I'm reading the comment wrong -- to answer with good intent assumed, I think GLP1s are basically the answer to obesity on any reasonable time frame.

GLP1s not the answer we wanted (most people would have preferred better food ingredient regulation, more people choosing healhtier lifestyles, etc), but it's the solution we're getting, it seems like.

Right now the only thing I think most can do to help this wave along (unless you're a drug manufacturer, insurer, or politician) is to share as much information as possible on positive and negative side effects, how the drugs work, why they work, etc.

[EDIT2] - Clearly there was no positive intent. I guess it's my own fault I took the time to seriously respond.

The original comment (now edited) was a question about me seeming like a disinterested third party and asking why I am discussing a gray market drug.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-08-06 06:06:42+00:00
As I understand it, currently all drones require a human operator who can only operate one at a time. And except for some special operations behind enemy lines, you must be fairly close to the target, as within a few km. The fiber optic ones, even closer

So your 50 drone swarm is going to need 50 operators, fairly close to the front. Who are also vulnerable to enemy counter drones and glide bombs - the latter is a real problem for Ukraine

I haven’t seen any evidence of a “swarm” on combat footage from Ukraine war, I have seen a few drones hitting a single target, especially armored vehicles in fairly quick succession, like a few seconds, It looked like independent operators all picking the obvious high value target, not some intentional “swarm”

Tech may change this in the future but we’re not there quite yet
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 06:06:48+00:00
It's completely illegal -- the drug is not for sale, obviously is not FDA approved, and is not manufactured anywhere, the only safe/legal way to get it is a via an ongoing trial:

https://trials.lilly.com/en-US/trial/580035

As one might imagine though, capitalism found a way. A LOT of compounding pharmacies are now very good at manufacturing GLP1s (not necessarily the case that the knowledge transfers, but I imagine networks/knowledge sharing groups do), so gray market has sprung up to supply adventurous people with Retatrutide.
by cess11 | 2025-08-06 06:07:44+00:00
The Laravel developers expect you to use Stringable::macro if you want to extend their 'fluent' API, and if you're working in an organisation that builds with the Laravel toolchain that's probably what's least surprising to the other members.

I'm still not clear over what you want to do or why the third party library expects there to be a hacked in 'fluent' method on the Stringable.

Personally I'm not a fan of the Str/Stringable API:s, I find it weird and confusing to mix methods for file paths, strings, encryption and so on. Actually, I'm more of a Symfony person for reasons like this.
by astrange | 2025-08-06 06:08:13+00:00
> 2. Keep ownership private and limited. Once you're publicly traded, long term planning becomes impossible and "line must go up" becomes the reigning false god.

You can fight this with dual-class ownership. Google and Meta can do whatever they want because nobody can change their board.

They're still motivated to care about share price because they pay their employees in shares, but you're going to have to get the money to pay employees from somewhere.
by antman | 2025-08-06 06:08:26+00:00
Althought we know that there is no empirical evidence for trickle down economy, a worst case scenario was that some of the profit would be allocated to be cost of labor and through great economy expansion and regardless of rising inequality and some reskilling, innovation and its effect on the rise of the economy was at least somewhat positive for everybody.

This will not be the case anymore. There is no labor restructuring to be made, the lists for the future safe jobs are humorous to say the least. There has been a difficulty in finding skilled labor in sustainable wages for the companies and that has been highlighted as a key blocker for growth. Econony will rise by removing this blocker by AI. Rise of the economy due to AI invalidates old models and trickle down spurious correlations. Rise of the economy through AI directly enables the most extreme inequality and no reflexes or economics experience exists to manage it.

There have been many theories for revolutions, social financial ideological and others. I will not comnent on those but I will make a practical observation: It boils down to the ratio of controlers vs controlled. AI also enables an extremely minimal number of controllers through the AI managment of the flow information and later a large number of drones can keep everyone at bay. Cheaply, so good for the economy.
by cm2187 | 2025-08-06 06:10:10+00:00
Not for me, in fact my diet involed not taking any dessert, which GLP1 made fairly easy, so I ended up allowing myself to drink a couple of glasses of wine in the evening, which I never did before. I never noticed an alteration of the sense of taste, just a general feeling of satiety (particularly on an empty stomach).

Though many people mention feeling sick as a common side effects, I can very well imagine that they would lose any pleasure from food and drink.
by ryao | 2025-08-06 06:11:19+00:00
> Are LLMs enabling something that was impossible before?

I would say yes when the LLM is combined with function calling to allow it to do web searches and read web pages. It was previously impossible for me to research a subject within 5 minutes when it required doing several searches and reviewing dozens of search results (not just reading the list entries, but reading the actual HTML pages). I simply cannot read that fast. A LLM with function calling can do this.

The other day, I asked it to check the Linux kernel sources to tell me which TCP connection states for a closing connection would not return an error to send() with MSG_NOSIGNAL. It not only gave me the answer, but made citations that I could use to verify the answer. This happened in less than 2 minutes. Very few developers could find the answer that fast, unless they happen to already know it. I doubt very many know it offhand.

Beyond that, I am better informed than I have ever been since I have been offloading previously manual research to LLMs to do for me, allowing me to ask questions that I previously would not ask due to the amount of time it took to do the background research. What previously would be a rabbit hole that took hours can be done in minutes with minimal mental effort on my part. Note that I am careful to ask for citations so I can verify what the LLM says. Most of the time, the citations vouch for what the LLM said, but there are some instances where the LLM will provide citations that do not.
by defanor | 2025-08-06 06:11:19+00:00
A Festival's English model, festvox-kallpc16k, is about 6 MB, and it is a large model; festvox-kallpc8k is about 3.5 MB.

eSpeak NG's data files take about 12 MB (multi-lingual).

I guess this one may generate more natural-sounding speech, but older or lower-end computers were capable of decent speech synthesis previously as well.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-08-06 06:12:05+00:00
How many times has a drug had negative effects that only showed up after 10-20 years? Out of all the drugs that have been widely prescribed in, say, the last 100 years? And it’s not even actually a new drug class - Liraglutide was approved in 2010! Should we wait until the clinical trial participants all die of old age until we put a drug on the market?
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 06:12:07+00:00
> If Eli Lily is the only producer, how is the gray market being supplied? This makes no sense...

It turns out enterprising chemists and pharmacists are capable of reverse engineering.

I don't think it's that hard to figure out how someone might do it -- imagine having to reverse engineer food you've received, given many samples. Imagine some of those samples might have "fallen off the back of a truck".

> That being said, I'm waiting for oral GLP1 agonists. Injections are a hassle and gray market ones even more so

This is really going to be the second leg of adoption and will catapult GLP1s even further IMO. Rybelsus has not really seen a ton of popularity compared to the injections. That said, Orforglipron is Eli Lilly's upcoming oral GLP1 and it looks to have really good results:

https://glp1.guide/content/updates-from-maritide-orforglipro...
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-06 06:13:09+00:00
> Ok, but corporations also lie to and defraud their employees all the time. In ways large and small.

That's 100% true, and lamentable. But two wrongs don't make a right. And while one can't control the company's behavior, a person can control their own behavior. As such, it is perfectly reasonable to criticize them when they choose to act without integrity.
by aceofspades19 | 2025-08-06 06:13:10+00:00
On what sort of basis do you make the claim that the US is on track to be the only 1st world consumer driven economy 5 years from now? What do you mean by a 1st world consumer driven economy, as opposed to what exactly?

I do agree that having tariffs on certain items to encourage domestic production definitely does work. The tariffs have to be consistent and on things that can actually be produced in the country.

The issue with Trump's approach is that its not consistent, has nothing to do with which products can be made domestically. Changing tariffs daily/weekly/monthly is not going to encourage domestic production.
by t43562 | 2025-08-06 06:13:24+00:00
I am not sure this is avoidable. Whatsapp (and perhaps Telegram) are the dominant messaging/chat apps for example and that is European tech but it was inevitably going to be bought by some bigger company that wanted to be dominant and that was obviously going to be American since they managed to make big money first.

Skype was at one point extremely popular and this is European but it was bought and squashed under the mountain of American poo that is MS Teams. Forgive me the rudeness but I wish to dispell the thought that American tech is automatically superior or that it wins by being good.

Then there's Linux - another European development that has rocked the world but has been bought and ruled by mostly American companies with the noticeable exception of Ubuntu (and a few others).

The World Wide Web - a blow for freedom and the spread of information coming from CERN that has again been captured and perverted into an advertisement delivery and spying system more powerful than the East German Stasi could possibly imagine.

We have Big Tech to thank for Nazi saluters, quite potentially for the attempt to break the world economy and the idea of turning all of humanity into basic income serfs which will not, of course, include the owners of big tech itself.

The EU is the only powerful entity that hasn't been completely perverted by the power of big tech and we have to hope like hell that it won't be. To all those with shares in big tech or jobs in it who want to expand and rule - go ahead and vote me down - who would expect anything else!
by bell-cot | 2025-08-06 06:13:43+00:00
Possible? Yes.

How valuable a target were you, vs. how valuable would an AirDrop'ed PDF exploit against 18.4 have been when this happened? High-value exploits are reserved for high-value targets.

I'd go further than SilentTiger's advice - if you're not actively using AirDrop, then turn it completely off.
by sznio | 2025-08-06 06:14:07+00:00
>Students who don’t want to pay but somehow have the hardware?

that's me - well not a student anymore. when toying with something, i much prefer not paying for each shot. my 12GB Radeon card can either run a decent extremely slow, or a idiotic but fast model. it's nice not dealing with rate limits.

once you write a prompt that mangles an idiotic model into still doing the work, it's really satisfying. the same principle as working to extract the most from limited embedded hardware. masochism, possibly