MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eugene_g | 2025-08-04 16:07:52+00:00
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by gffrd | 2025-08-04 16:08:19+00:00
A lot of interviews are of the "is this a real person, and are they reasonably competent on their feet?" variety … which is hard to gauge through email.

I'm guessing that's a big part of what the AI is assessing here.

> Why is it even necessary to be an interview?

I do think this question is an important one at this point: is companies fielding mountains of resumes and trying to parse them in an automated way the best way for the humans and the company?

If the goal is "get a qualified candidate" (with as little waste as possible), we feel very far from that.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-04 16:08:33+00:00
Requiring file extensions and not supporting automatic "index" imports was a requirement from Browsers where you can't just scan a file system and people would be rightfully upset if their browser modules sent 4-10 HEAD requests to find the file it was looking for.

"exports" controls in package.json was something package/library authors had been asking for for a long time even under CJS regimes. ESM gets a lot of blame for the complexity of "exports", because ESM packages were required to use it but CJS was allowed to be optional and grandfathered, but most of the complexity in the format was entirely due to CJS complexity and Node trying to support all the "exports" options already in the wild in CJS packages. Because "barrel" modules (modules full of just `export thing from './thing.js'`) are so much easier to write in ESM I've yet to see an ESM-only project with a complicated "exports". ("exports" is allowed to be as simple as the old main field, just an "index.js", which can just be an easily written "barrel" module).

> tc39 keep making are idiotic changes to spec like `deffered import` and `with` syntax changes

I'm holding judgment on deferred imports until I figure out what use cases it solves, but `with` has been a great addition to `import`. I remember the bad old days of crazy string syntaxes embedded in module names in AMD loaders and Webpack (like the bang delimited nonsense of `json!embed!some-file.json` and `postcss!style-loader!css!sass!some-file.scss`) and how hard it was to debug them at times and how much they tied you to very specific file loaders (clogging your AMD config forever, or locking you to specific versions of Webpack for fear of an upgrade breaking your loader stack). Something like `import someJson from 'some-file.json' with { type: 'json', webpackEmbed: true }` is such a huge improvement over that alone. The fact that it is also a single syntax that looks mostly like normal JS objects for other very useful metadata attribute tools like bringing integrity checks to ESM imports without an importmap is also great.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-04 16:08:36+00:00
The point is to cut MasterCard and Visa out of the loop entirely. Payment systems in many countries don't have them as intermediary. Payments in China work perfectly well without them. Or in Germany. Even Poland has widely used alternative payment scheme. With future European digital currency a lot of commerce will be done completely without any involvement from Visa and MasterCard.
by davidjonsdev | 2025-08-04 16:09:04+00:00
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by HocusLocus | 2025-08-04 16:09:08+00:00
Why don't you just ask the document creator?

Every time I turn around these days I encounter someone ready to use an infinite amount of energy that is being paid for by other people, to 'simulate' some analog process by temporarily taking the reins of some data center that is burning megawatts of energy. We are being given the reins for 0.5 seconds but very soon the horse will gallop away unless we have a lot of money to spend.
by michaeld123 | 2025-08-04 16:09:14+00:00
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: VP Product (AI), Game Design, Complex Systems, Data Architecture, Ships Products People Love

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by rapind | 2025-08-04 16:10:02+00:00
I didn't use the word "problem". In fact I presented no opinion at all. I'm just pointing out that scale matters a lot. In fact, in tech, it's often the only thing that matters. It's naive (or narrative) to think it doesn't.

Everyone having a personal shopper obviously changes the relationship to the products and services you use or purchase via personal shopper. Good, bad, whatever.
by seydor | 2025-08-04 16:10:16+00:00
> it is built on trust.

This is funny coming from Cloudflare, the company that blocks most of the internet from being fetched with antispam checks even for a single web request. The internet we knew was open and not trusted , but thanks to companies like Cloudflare, now even the most benign , well meaning attempt to GET a website is met with a brick wall. The bots of Big Tech, namely Google, Meta and Apple are of course exempt from this by pretty much every website and by cloudflare. But try being anyone other than them , no luck. Cloudflare is the biggest enabler of this monopolistic behavior

That said, why does perplexity even need to crawl websites? I thought they used 3rd party LLMs. And those LLMs didn't ask anyones permission to crawl the entire 'net.

Also the "perplexity bots" arent crawling websites, they fetch URLs that the users explicitly asked. This shouldnt count as something that needs robots.txt access. It's not a robot randomly crawling, it's the user asking for a specific page and basically a shortcut for copy/pasting the content
by tpm | 2025-08-04 16:10:16+00:00
> Actually, there is.

You can build new cities. But it will be a city, not countryside. Maybe it will be just suburbs without a clear central zone, but it will still be a city. Anyway, Silicon Saxony is centered in Dresden, which is a city.

> China in contrast has used the shitload of money they got from the Western countries over the last quarter century (when they joined the WTO) to do exactly this.

What exactly do you mean by 'this'? They certainly didn't in any way stop rural flight, quite the opposite.
by iainmerrick | 2025-08-04 16:10:22+00:00
If the AI is so great, it should be trivial to get it to explain why it rejected interviewees. Unless it has serious shortcomings that would be risky to publicize.

Why should AIs be any different from human interviewers in this respect?

It wouldn't be much extra effort for humans to give a little feedback, but this typically isn't done.
by grafmax | 2025-08-04 16:11:07+00:00
At Alligator Alcatraz and CECOT, people are held without charges, denied timely access to legal counsel, and prevented from having a fair hearing to challenge their detention. At CECOT, transfers from the US occur without notice to attorneys or families, in a foreign justice system that has suspended many basic rights.

The conditions at these facilities are inhumane and deliberately so. The purpose is to punish people, not detain people awaiting fair trials. Besides the other issues, being punished without trial is a clear violation of constitutional rights.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-04 16:11:18+00:00
As a person who has a couple of sites out there, and witnesses AI crawlers coming and fetching pages from these sites, I have a question:

What prevents these companies from keeping a copy of that particular page, which I specifically disallowed for bot scraping, and feed it to their next training cycle?

Pinky promises? Ethics? Laws? Technical limitations? Leeroy Jenkins?
by 9rx | 2025-08-04 16:11:29+00:00
> Anyway just wanted to note there is no known policy that would stop rural flight.

High prices will do the trick, though. In Canada — which is said to have the most out of control housing market in the world — the urban population between the latest and previous census only increased by 4.8%, while the rural population grew by 6.5%. Due to periods of data collection, there could some COVID influence in there[1], but a similar trend was also seen in earlier censuses.

[1] If there is, that would be policy-driven, which you suggested isn't a factor, so...
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-08-04 16:11:34+00:00
Me too, I remember how easy it was to remember stuff as a 9 or 10 year old. Math was a breeze. I didn't even have to write any of the problems out. I could just do it in my mind. Every thing just came easy. I don't know when but it certainly changed after I got to 7th grade.

I'm sure part of it was the amount of information I was expected to remember but something changed on how easy it was to remember stuff.
by atrettel | 2025-08-04 16:11:37+00:00
Your comment made me wonder how much time I've spent in face-to-face interviews over the last year of job hunting. It comes out to 7 percent of all of the time that I spend applying to jobs. For every minute that I spend in an interview, I spend roughly 14 minutes preparing for it in some way (or applying to a different job).

Perhaps I can get more efficient with my time, but as you said, the process is naturally inefficient as it stands already.
by jstummbillig | 2025-08-04 16:11:41+00:00
The point is that instead of having to complain about the ownership class, you can now be an owner more easily than before. AI enables people to do more on their own. You can build stuff that simply was not feasible before. You still have to do it though.

If you prefer to be subject to the ownership class, I recommend being honest about why that is.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-04 16:11:42+00:00
I had a Macbook Pro with a butterfly keyboard before and it was terrible and would break constantly and my Applecare was offered without accidental damage warranty and only lasted 3 years.

Now I have a MacBook Pro and I pay a small annual fee and have full coverage Applecare with accidental damage and if the battery goes out they replace it, etc. The only reason I would upgrade at this point would be for a built in cellular modem or face id.
by shagie | 2025-08-04 16:11:52+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg...

> Some types of pornography (both real and fictitious) are technically illegal in Australia and if classified would be rated RC and therefore banned in Australia. This includes any pornography depicting violent BDSM, incest, paedophilia, zoophilia, certain extreme fetishes (such as golden showers) and/or indicators of youth (such as wearing a school uniform).

Fictitious violent fetishes and BSDM would likely be illegal in Australia.
by ChrisNorstrom | 2025-08-04 16:12:02+00:00
YES. I get constant Deepfake Oprah and Joe Rogan ads on YouTube. They know about it. They just don't care. Google can easily demonetize channels, block videos, anytime you talk about something controversial (Covid-19 vaccines, Jan 6, election denial, etc...)

A few years back when people were talking about Q-Anon / Pedophile celebrities thousands of YouTube channels were taken down simultaneously of anyone, ANYONE, who was talking about it. "Mouthy Buddha" on YouTube had just 2 videos on the subject and had his channel taken down and was never allowed back on. They all migrated over to BitChute at the time. The YouTube press release claimed about 10,000 videos and their channels removed.

So Google does have ways of scanning content and banning the scam ads, they just don't want to.
by belter | 2025-08-04 16:12:17+00:00
Skip AI only interviews, blacklist firms that use them. Opaque algorithms will reject you for race, gender, age, then will give you zero feedback. It shows a signal of a “people are costs” culture a la Amazon. Your data becomes their training set. Video, voice, and text will be stored indefinitely and reused, with flimsy privacy safeguards.
by gligierko | 2025-08-04 16:12:47+00:00
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by Jaauthor | 2025-08-04 16:12:48+00:00
When it comes to storytelling and suspension of disbelief, I’m a fan of Ogden Nash’s advice. Wanna hear it? Here you go: Here’s a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. The art of storytelling – especially science fiction – must contain some suspension of disbelief (SoD). Otherwise you’ll have idiots in the theater going ‘wait, why did Iron Man punch the Hulk? They’re supposed to be friends. Worst movie eVar!!’

But too much SoD ruins the story. Take for example, the movie Arrival by Denis Villeneuve from 2016. The entire plot (Spoiler alert) hinges on a suspension of disbelief on our part that human beings can alter time simply by changing their perception of it. In the last act of the film, the protagonist learns the alien language alters humans’ linear perception of time, allowing them to experience memories of future events. Banks’s visions of her daughter are revealed to be premonitions; her daughter will not be born until sometime in the future.

That never sat well with me as the audience – like, all this time all we had to do was ‘change our perception?’ That seemed awfully familiar, but I couldn’t figure out why. Then it hit me – ‘Arrival’ has the same plot as ‘Somewhere in Time.’
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-04 16:12:57+00:00
We'll see more of this sort of thing as AI agents become more popular and capable. They will do things that the site or app should be able to do (or rather, things that users want to be able to do) but don't offer. The YouTube music playlist is a good example. One thing I'd like to be able to do is make a playlist of some specific artists. But you can't. You have to select specific songs.

If sites want to avoid people using agents, they should offer the functionality that people are using the agents to accomplish.
by throwforfeds | 2025-08-04 16:13:00+00:00
In my experience orgs choose these low code tools because good engineers are expensive and many don't fundamentally understand the process of software development.

I've seen business-side product owners complain "why can't you just make it do XYZ this week, Excel can do that" without realizing the application is being built by like three people and if they want the feature roadmap to be on time -- that they themselves planned months ago -- doing something seemingly trivial might be a non-trivial refactor. Trying to keep them focused on the long term is like dealing with a toddler's attention span.

So then they get impatient and the business goes out and buys Salesforce, because it "does everything for cheap", and then they quickly realize if you want to do some non-trivial thing -- which their custom application of course needs to do -- they're shit out of luck or have to buy Marc Benioff a new island.
Ask HN: Is There Room for a Clear, Trustworthy, Human-Centric AI Search Tool?
by zyruh | 2025-08-04 16:13:20+00:00
Traditional search engines are often overwhelmed with ads and cluttered blue links. Meanwhile, many AI-powered search tools struggle with inaccuracies and present cold, uninviting interfaces.

Here’s my question to the community: Is there a real opportunity for an AI search tool that provides clear, reliable (validated) answers wrapped in an interface that feels genuinely human and approachable?

These are the three qualities I believe matter most. What are your thoughts?
by tracker1 | 2025-08-04 16:13:22+00:00
I often wish it weren't the case as much. There's a massive cassum the size of the Grand Canyon between the majority of JS devs and good JS devs that understand the language, and have a good grasp of software craftsmanship. And that doesn't mean stuffing JS based projects with "Enterprise" patterns that don't make sense in the platform being used.
by yojo | 2025-08-04 16:13:28+00:00
Any information that requires something approximating a full-time job worth of effort to produce will necessarily go away, barring the small number of independently wealthy creators.

Existing subject-matter experts who blog for fun may or may not stick around, depending on what part of it is “fun” for them.

While some must derive satisfaction from increasing the total sum of human knowledge, others are probably blogging to engage with readers or build their own personal brand, neither of which is served by AI scrapers.

Wikipedia is an interesting case. I still don’t entirely understand why it works, though I think it’s telling that 24 years later no one has replicated their success.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 16:13:57+00:00
>what about our society is driving these behaviors.

It ain't no different how low quality secular governments in the middle east drove a generation of young men to religion 50yr ago, or how the catholic church stifled europe so thoroughly that it created an explosion of various flavors of christian extremists, or when the extractive European colonial empires drove the nations they ruled toward nationalism.

People don't say "f this" and find a new altar to worship at when the current god is serving them well (metaphorically, but sometimes literally). Young men are always the tip of the spear in these transitions because men as a demographic don't put up with shit and the young ones don't have a bunch of accumulated obligations forcing them to.
by armada651 | 2025-08-04 16:14:26+00:00
> This appears to be the system engaging by accident because some crazy from Australia accidentally said the right thing to the right people.

This has been happening for years already, this is not an accident caused by a crazy lady from Australia complaining to the right people. She simply took advantage of Mastercard already engaging in censorship and challenged them and their payment processors to take on an even broader interpretation of Mastercard's obscenity rules.
by wltechblog | 2025-08-04 16:14:28+00:00
Most of the image/video related stuff is done in the hardware, as well as a bunch of other functionality that would be hard to do on a 1 watt cpu. Check out the block diagram of the T31 processor: https://en.ingenic.com.cn/products-detail/id-21.html

Our streamer (prudynt-t) communicates with those blocks to handle settings, overlays, etc and receives the pre-processed image/video/audio data, packages it up for rtsp//mjpeg/etc, and handles client connections, motion sending, day/night vision, etc.

This is the status quo for ip cameras regardless of vendor!
by Daishiman | 2025-08-04 16:14:56+00:00
Outsourcing has been happening since the late 90s and back then there was already chat and global conferencing with software-defined phones.

The global job market remains the mostly same: top talent gets paid top dollar globally. A lot of first-world markets command a particular premium and incentivize immigration. Some people will not move no matter what but will still get very high salaries.

A lot of offshoring fails. The offshoring that works isn't newsworthy and nobody hears about it. A lot of software that gets shipped is crap.
by short_sells_poo | 2025-08-04 16:14:59+00:00
There's an important distinction that we are glossing over I think. In the times of the "old web", people were putting things online to interact with a (large) online audience. If people found your content interesting, they'd keep coming back and some of them would email you, there'd be discussions on forums, IRC chatrooms, mailing lists, etc. Communities were built around interesting topics, and websites that started out as just some personal blog that someone used to write down their thoughts would grow into fonts of information for a large number of people.

Then came the social networks and walled gardens, SEO, and all the other cancer of the last 20 years and all of these disappeared for un-searchable videos, content farms and discord communities which are basically informational black holes.

And now AI is eating that cancer, but IMO it's just one cancer being replaced by an even more insidious cancer. If all the information is accessed via AI, then the last semblance of interaction between content creators and content consumers disappears. There are no more communities, just disconnected consumers interacting with a massive aggregating AI.

Instead of discussing an interesting topic with a human, we will discuss with AI...