MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rendaw | 2025-08-14 06:11:03+00:00
> Also, there is no target salary or salary range. This is a red flag for a couple of reasons: .... the hiring company will be paying different levels of compensation based on where the applicant lives.

I've applied for companies with a salary range that then told me the salary range will be adjusted for the country I live in (and wouldn't tell me what that conversion was during the first interview).
by somenameforme | 2025-08-14 06:11:47+00:00
This is extremely interesting, because while I'd never heard of the '2 sigma problem' [1] before, one university class I had seems to have been largely modeled on it, but with a very different angle. It was a 'self paced' electrical engineering course where we were given a textbook and free to advance through it at our own pace - kind of farcically, since you needed to complete at least 2 chapters per week to finish by the end of the semester.

Moving forward to the next chapter required, exactly as described in that paper, the completion of a problem set and then a score of at least 90% on a test demonstrating mastery of the previous chapter, sometimes accompanied by also demonstrating that skill in a lab. But far from 1 on 1, this entire class was effectively 0 on infinity. The teaching assistant/proctors that we engaged with were there only to grade your work and provided minimal feedback.

And indeed it was one of the most educational 'classes' I ever took. But I think this challenges the concept that it has anything to do with 1 on 1 attention. But rather the outcome seems practically tautological - a good way to get people to perform to the point of mastery is to require that they perform to the point of mastery. Of course, at scale, all you're really doing is weeding out the people that are unable to achieve mastery. And indeed that class was considered a weed out course.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_sigma_problem
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-14 06:14:15+00:00
> Okay, instead of just making claims and for me to trust you, go point to something concrete. I've even tried to google, but despite my years of study in statistics, metric theory, and even mathematical logic I'm at a loss in finding your definition.

Let's look again at what we're talking about:

>>> I think it’s that people tend to build up “logical” conclusions where they think each step is a watertight necessity that follows inevitably from its antecedents, but actually each step is a little bit leaky, leading to runaway growth in false confidence.

>> As a former mechanical engineer, I visualize this phenomenon like a "tolerance stackup". Effectively meaning that for each part you add to the chain, you accumulate error.

> I saw an article recently that talked about stringing likely inferences together but ending up with an unreliable outcome because enough 0.9 probabilities one after the other lead to an unlikely conclusion.

> Edit: Couldn't find the article, but AI referenced Baysian "Chain of reasoning fallacy".

The only term in there you could google is "tolerance stackup". The rest is people making ad-hoc descriptions of things. Except for "Chain of reasoning fallacy" which is a fake term. So I'm not surprised you didn't find anything in google, and I can't provide you anything from google. There is nothing "concrete" to ask for when it comes to some guy's ad-hoc description, you just have to read it and do your best.

And everything I said was referring back to those posts, primarily the last one by robocat. I was not introducing anything new when I used the terms "string" and "chain". I was not referring to any scientific definitions. I was only talking about the concept described by those three posts.

Looking back at those posts, I will confidently state that the concept they were talking about does not include markov chains. You're not having a stroke, it's just a coincidence that the word "chain" can be used to mean multiple things.
by sanjhai_18 | 2025-08-14 06:17:56+00:00
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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-14 06:19:20+00:00
i think mise can support uv too as its backend https://mise.jdx.dev/mise-cookbook/python.html#mise-uv

Also I mean I understand mise but I personally just prefer using uv for python and bun for typescript both of which can run any version of python/ (node compliant?)

I still like the project though, but I tried to install elixir using it and it was a mess man.
by spauldo | 2025-08-14 06:19:47+00:00
Solaris is an actual System V, not a clone like Linux distros often are or a BSD.

It's got excellent support for compiling software written for different UNIX systems.

It does a lot of things with commands that other systems do with config files.

But no, there really aren't any compelling reasons why a non-hobbyist would be interested. If Oracle had continued development on OpenSolaris then yes, but they have little interest in their own version of Solaris.
by syncmaster913n | 2025-08-14 06:20:33+00:00
When I was in my early 20s, I used to instinctively pressure non-drinkers into drinking as well. I did it because the non-drinkers ruin the fun for me. They don't laugh as much or engage in banter. They're timid and lack the drinker's adventurous spirit.

The pressuring usually worked though.

When I realized that I was hurting those people by pressuring them into drinking, rather than stop pressuring them, I stopped inviting them to social gatherings that involve drinking altogether.
by mryall | 2025-08-14 06:21:03+00:00
TLDR: the program prints a pseudorandom sequence of characters 205 and 206, which on Commodore 64 are graphics characters similar to / and \.

When repeated across multiple lines, it looks like an intricate random maze. But it is actually just a visual representation of whatever PRNG is used on the platform, with the default seed as set by the BASIC interpreter.

https://sta.c64.org/cbm64pet.html
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-14 06:21:34+00:00
>Elon cultivated a culture of no tolerance for BS and only having "A" Players on your team. If you are olympic class you only want to be working with those kinds of people.

This is a common fallacy.

If you are truly an intelligent person, and you know what the right solution is, what you want to be is around people who work for you. You don't want to have to spend time convincing other people of your correctness, you want to be able to just tell everyone what to do in detail and have them do it without asking questions, preferably with ability to figure the minutia stuff on their own.

The "A" players team is basically people who see value in working 60 hour weeks. With enough ambition and motivation, stuff can definitely get gone, but its not the same as intelligence. Space X didn't win with reusable launch stage because of the smart people working on it, they won because Elon had money to throw at test over and over again, while almost scamming their supplies in not paying them until way past due. Trying something over and over doesn't take intelligence.

And now, everyone is working on the Starship. While its cool, its absolutely impractical. It would take 8 -20 launches to refuel it in orbit for an actual mission, and the engines are basically on the verge of blowing up when operating due to how precise the system has to be for that high of a pressure ratio.

Personally Im very close friends with someone that worked at Space X early enough to retire at 40 with $2mil+ after stock sale. A mechanical engineer. Yet, I have to help him fix problems with his bicycle of all things, because he can't figure out how a simple bearing interface works (he was tightening an axle that was clamping the frame instead of the bearing inner race due to a missing washer, and as a result his suspension pivot was getting stuck)

A good read on the Talent at Tesla https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/form...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-14 06:23:02+00:00
Uv truly is great, and I mean they are open source and we can always fork it just as how valkey forked redis

And also if you mean that pyx might be hosted on uv, well I think the discussion can go towards that pyx should be made open source but honestly, I am pretty sure that someone might look at pyx and create a pyx api compliant hosted server or I am still curious as to how pyx works and what it actually truly does.
by eszed | 2025-08-14 06:24:32+00:00
Cash handling isn't free! You have to pay someone's time to count + reconcile + deposit it, or If you're dealing at any volume, you'll pay an armored car service to collect it. There's inevitably "shrinkage", or else business processes (more time and more overhead) to avoid it.

Cash is king for hiding transactions and avoiding taxes. If that's the situation then I won't say you don't deserve a cut, but for rules-following merchants taking cash isn't any cheaper than paying the credit card fees.
by tgma | 2025-08-14 06:24:35+00:00
I would be much more excited in finding ways to fund public infrastructure like Amazon does Prime rather than going the other way around. If anything, academic open source which is the closest alternative has not really produced much and the production open source that actually works is by and large corporate-sponsored.

P.S. The article also opens by contrasting open source consumption and contribution. In a certain sense, as the article acknowledges later, I care much much more about government consuming free software, as a neutral platform to avoid lock-in for themselves and the taxpayer, as well as providing an open foundation for integration and letting people use free software if they choose to (and not lock them to iOS and Android, for instance.) That alone is one of the biggest ways they can contribute. The actual code contribution will come naturally if they do that.
by Freedom5093 | 2025-08-14 06:25:58+00:00
This is untrue? Cameras in the UK are not "just used for surveillance". The facial recognition used recently has led to arrest of many offenders.

> The Met reported that in 12 months they made 580 arrests using LFR for offences including, rape, domestic abuse, knife crime, GBH and robbery, including 52 registered sex offenders arrested for breaching their conditions.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/live-facial-recognition-t...

That's statistics for London, not the rest of the UK.
by weinzierl | 2025-08-14 06:26:15+00:00
Back in the day computer mags had 20-liner competitions. The objective was to cram as much functionality into 20 lines of BASIC and people did amazing stuff with that.

To use the space as best as possible lines were filled to brim and BASIC commands abbreviated. PRINT was ? and other command abbreviations contained PETASCII characters that don't even have a Unicode equivalent[1].

The Commodore 64 particularly had square[2] 8x8 pixel characters and a line on the screen was 40 of them in a row. A logical line from the BASIC interpreter's perspective was still 80 characters long though, which made the program effectively 40 screen lines high.

You see, where this is going. The perfect 20-liner was close to a 40 by 40 square of character salad.

[1] They were one letter and a shifted letter, which could be displayed as symbol depending which mode you were in. They were printed expanded when listing the program. Everything was a bit complicated.

[2] Almost. Pixels were not perfectly square, with the aspect ratio depending on PAL or NTSC.
by spauldo | 2025-08-14 06:26:38+00:00
Anyone run this on top of KVM? I tried a while back but I don't know KVM or Qemu well and all the examples were ancient and didn't work for me. I'd love to play around with Solaris again (last I used it was Solaris 8 on an Ultra-1) but I don't have any decent hardware I'm willing to dedicate to the task.
by syphia | 2025-08-14 06:26:59+00:00
I'm not sure if concerete seeing/doing is the only, or even most effective, way to learn.

I've often learned by recalling the concepts from a lecture, reasoning about the material, and imagining what some of the problems would look like while sketching out solutions in my head. It's not any easier than doing the homework, but it is more convenient and flexible. And it can sometimes help with physical skills.

Theory is still important because it communicates how other people understand what they do. But it's certainly not a replacement for reasoning and experience.

I've found the best model of learning is to... not have a "learning process" in the first place. I try to understand as much as possible from as many angles as possible. This means big concepts, minutae, my ideas, other people's philosophies, imagined scenarios, hands-on-experiences, tangentially related concepts, and so on. Being able to answer questions or do the task is more of a side-effect than the intent.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-14 06:28:14+00:00
They only use cards because credit cards can allow them to get sales from people who wouldn't have been able to buy the product through debit itself, but they can buy it from credit.., so they are okay with eating 1-2% of costs in the fact that sale might happen and the companies will get 0.5-1% of it to you back as rewards (hopefully) and so there is incentive to buy using credit card for rewards but they might also give incentives of 1-2% if you buy through cash since they aren't eating that 1-2% cost.

And this whole network has now been built in such a way that now even debit costs the same charge just as network fees

Open sourcing this might be a step in good faith and I mean, we have UPI where I live and it has 0 fees and trust me its crazy good. I personally wish that either everybody in the world could use UPI or pixis from brazil.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-14 06:28:30+00:00
_Handling_ cash is expensive. I never thought of that until my SO started working in a shop. To and from the bank, with stacks of coins and notes.. and there's presumably much more than that for larger firms. In general I rely my statement on what merchants themselves are saying. Newspapers are writing interviews with merchants who (illegally) have stopped accepting cash, even though it's legal tender. "It's too expensive. It reduces our bottom line." That kind of thing. When I look around I see "Cards only" a lot of places.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-14 06:30:14+00:00
> 1. Anything that already exists, the universe is able to construct

I didn't claim it is possible we couldn't build meat brains. I claimed it is possible that equivalent or better performance might only be obtainable by meats brains.

> 2. There is no "magic". Anything that happens ultimately follows the rules of nature, which are observable, and open to understanding and manipulation by humans.

I actually don't believe the last part. There are quite plausibly laws of nature that we can't understand. I think it's actually pretty presumptuous that we will/can eventually understand and master every law of nature.

We've already proven that we can't prove every true thing about natural numbers. I think there might well be limits on what is knowable about our universe (atleast from inside of it.)

> 4. Ergo, while it might be difficult, there is fundamentally no reason to believe that the creation of an intelligent object is outside the capabilities of humans.

I didn't say that I believed that humans can't create intelligent objects. I believe we probably can and depending on how you want to define "intelligence", we already have.

What I said is that it is not a forgone conclusion that we will create "a better therapist, doctor, architect". I think it is pretty likely but not certain.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-08-14 06:30:39+00:00
As an author who is currently under contract to finish a book, I'm a bit annoyed that AI really can't write for me. I'm busy, I really like writing, but writing a good book does involve serious time researching and exploring. I've tried to have AI help me through, but I've more often than not had to dive into source code and run experiments to make sure I understand what's going on. It's even a book on AI, so there would be no shame at all in using AI to write it.

> So what am I good for anymore?

And here I was thinking this question is why writers write at all. Who else would do something requiring so much work for so little reward but those who fundamentally think they aren't worth much, it's what unites us.

But I don't think I worry about being replaced, not because I'm irreplaceable, but because if I could be completely replaced I think that might be quite a delightful experience. Imagine all those people who need something from you satisfied. That's what being replaced would entail: not a single person demanding a single thing from you. But unfortunately no, I'm still needed here, annoyingly.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-14 06:30:55+00:00
The 'freedom to yell fire in a crowded theater' argument against free speech is such a perfect illustration of the issue. That was an argument made by Mr. Eugenics himself, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, in a famous case Schneck vs United States. [1]

In it Charles Schneck was convicted for an absolutely abhorrent crime. He sent out fliers to men drafted for WW1 informing them of a legal defense against the draft - of it constituting involuntary servitude, which was prohibited by the 13th Amendment, and encouraging them to consequently assert their legal rights and work to resist the draft.

For this, he was arrested and put in prison, with the government claiming that his mailed fliers were akin to 'shouting fire in a crowded theater.' This is why free speech means free speech. Limitations are invariably weaponized by authoritarian forces to shoehorn essentially everything into that limitation.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
by Tor3 | 2025-08-14 06:30:59+00:00
The argument doesn't hold - if cards were only about getting sales which they otherwise wouldn't get - and the part about "getting sales which they otherwise wouldn't get", is true enough - then there's no reason to refuse cash payments. That's additional sales, right? But the fact is that more and more shops refuse cash payments entirely. "Pay by card or go somewhere else".
by miohtama | 2025-08-14 06:32:15+00:00
There are estimated more than 500M cryptocurrency users world wide. Single self custodial wallets like TrustWallet have 50M installs in Play Store alone.

Using "greater good" argument for censorship is a slippery slope, as we have seen with UKs Online Safety Act, when you let someone else to decide what apps and websites you should access.

Google, specifically, is having several litigations and investigations related to the abuse of their position in Search and Play Store to promote their own software products over competition.
by jader201 | 2025-08-14 06:32:37+00:00
> but for rules-following merchants taking cash isn't any cheaper than paying the credit card fees.

That’s not true at all, particularly for large purchases.

If I go to an electronics and check out with $5000 in electronics, there’s no way that handling cash incurs the same expense to the store as the 3% fee ($150).

Maybe for nickel and dime purchases, but that’s rarely the case.

Even a $50 dinner doesn’t cost the restaurant $1.50 (plus the $0.30 transaction fee) just to handle cash.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-14 06:33:32+00:00
One issue is that, at least on cheaper mobos, these don't work as a "total bandwidth budget" situation. And, especially with newer generation PCIe, it can be a bit frustrating.

Many mobos will operate the available slots such that the total number of active lanes is split between them. But if you use older-generation cards, you'll only get a fraction of the available bandwidth because you're only using a fraction of their lanes, although the physical lanes are physically present.

What I'm thinking about is something like, say, a pair of Gen3 NVMe drives that are good enough for mass storage (running in RAID-1 for good measure) and some cheap used 10 Gb NIC, which will probably be 8x Gen2, all running on a Gen4+ capable mobo.

And, while for a general-purpose setup I can live with splitting available BW between the NIC and the GPU (I most likely don't care about my download going super fast while I game), the downloads will generally go to the storage, so they must be fast at the same time.
by rurban | 2025-08-14 06:33:39+00:00
What a hilariously wrong headline. It should have said strongly-typed lisp.

Which is still less type-safe than a dynamically typed lisp. In every lisp every value carries its strong type with it. In a typed lisp you rely on the compiler to not exploit weak casts, in a dynamically typed lisp there are no such loopholes possible.
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by yukieliot | 2025-08-14 06:34:45+00:00
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by lemontheme | 2025-08-14 06:34:56+00:00
Same. I love my dashes and I’ve been feeling similarly self-conscious.

FWIW I have noticed that they’re often used incorrectly by LLMs, particularly the em-dash.

It seems there’s a tendency to place spaces around the em-dash, i.e. <word><space><em-dash><space><word>, which is an uncommon usage in editor-reviewed texts. En-dashes get surrounding spaces; em-dashes don’t.

Not that it changes things much, since the distinction between the two is rarely taught, so non-writing nerds will still be quick to cry ‘AI-generated!’
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-14 06:36:02+00:00
If you consider actual intelligent people, this isn't true. Intelligence is about dealing with information and interpreting it in correct ways - what domain that information comes from, whether politics, social issues, or coding or engineering, is irrelevant.

Most people really just DGAF about politics in US. The (few) smart people working for Elon are those who are really into whatever technology and just like to play with toys while getting paid. I used to work with such a dude a few jobs back in my aerospace days, guy was multi talented across both software and hardware, and could easily be making bank at Apple Amazon Google in one of their edge programs, but was content with getting paid like 80k a year in 2010s in a fairly high CoL area with an hour commute all because he got to play with a rather big UAV.
by _the_inflator | 2025-08-14 06:36:11+00:00
No, it is more like UK is now the new surveillance supermarket for EU: implementing what “works” for UK - trusted and applied technology.

And also the excuse included: “not China”, but even this doesn’t come as cause for concern anymore.

Have a look at the latest US “country report on human rights practices 2025”. Germany is flagged as unsafe so to say.

It is as you can only hope that the NSA has some way to spy on your data when EU gets more on more anti privacy and data protection means EU only storage is mandatory.

Dire times. Double standards are in full effect.