MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gf000 | 2025-08-09 11:36:34+00:00
Chat control is bad, but it was voted out multiple times already, and is fundamentally incompatible with several member states' constitutions (based on a comment, didn't read more into it, but I believe Romania and Germany, among others).

They just try to push it through when people are occupied with something else, which is very unfortunate (and they (who?) should be punished for it, I would want a society that "cancels" these politicians immediately for supporting such an anti-freedom policy), but that's it.

The EU is still a shining beacon of democracy in the world.
by andreasmetsala | 2025-08-09 11:36:36+00:00
> I'd agree with you with the point that the local right wing ideologies are repackaged old-school nationalism reinventing itself. The most radical right wing governments are in the former communist countries where the communism was just nationalism with socialist coating. Adopting US terminology is not always adopting US ideas as well.

Our local right-wingers want to shut down our equivalent to the education department because “they are too woke”. Meanwhile those same “nationalists” want to stop funding local culture in favor of importing US culture.

This is in Finland of all places. I’m tired of our local social media drones going crazy over US nonsense but our right-wing parties want more of it.

The global cultural influence of the US is really showing and it’s going to be a wild ride as the world shifts to reject it as that influence starts turning against us.
by refactor_master | 2025-08-09 11:37:06+00:00
Clearly there’s a very real need for binary data formats, or we wouldn’t have them. For one, it’s much more space efficient. Does the author know how much storage cost in 1985? Or how slow computers were?

If I time traveled back to 1985 and told corporate to adopt CSV because it’d be useful in 50 years when unearthing old customer records I’d be laughed out of the cigar lounge.
by secondcoming | 2025-08-09 11:37:51+00:00
They might not care that much about YOU unless you try to enter China at some point in your life.

But they REALLY care about the activites of Chinese people living abroad.

The CCP was operating secret 'police stations' in the UK and most likely elsewhere outside of their jurisdiction.

[0] https://news.stv.tv/west-central/chinese-secret-police-stati...
by johnisgood | 2025-08-09 11:38:08+00:00
I have replied to many other comments, if you are interested in my line of thinking, you may check them out[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845575

> News-Teller” are two English words that wouldn't be used together in that way

I'd respectfully disagree. You can't definitively say that two words "wouldn't be used together in that way". Language is constantly evolving organically, and compound words often emerge through natural usage before appearing in dictionaries. Dictionaries document language as it develops rather than dictating what's permissible. "News-teller" follows standard English compounding patterns and clearly conveys its meaning; that's how language naturally develops.
by j1elo | 2025-08-09 11:38:37+00:00
Now the issue is to identify them. All those types of workers will present themselves as Software Developers (or Software Engineers), so the interview process is not only an entry filter, but a classification filter too. You (as a company, or as an interviewer) need to discern which are the strengths of a candidate, and also the skill level within each of those categories.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-09 11:39:02+00:00
Also low minimum wages are actually just corporate welfare.

The gap between what a minimum wage job pays and what it costs to scrape by is covered by government or charity, if they didn't do that the workers would die, which means the jobs don't get done, so that means the resource spent by governments or charities as a result of a low minimum wage is a subsidy for the employer. Instead of paying what it costs they get it for cheaper to create a fiction of "employment".
Structure-Preserving PDF-to-Markdown
by rejojer | 2025-08-09 11:39:03+00:00
Most PDF-to-Markdown tools lose document structure or produce wrong heading levels because they only process one page at a time — losing context, hierarchy, and continuity across pages.

PageIndex OCR is a long-context OCR approach that preserves a document's global structure. It can detect true hierarchy and semantic relationships across pages, addressing common issues in traditional OCR or PDF-to-Markdown pipelines.

In internal tests, it consistently produced more accurate structures than other approaches we tried.

Feedback and ideas for improving multi-page document structure extraction are welcome.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-08-09 11:40:33+00:00
These studies are completely pointless because they only measure one side of the problem.

Minimum wage is minimum productivity. If a business is able to increase productivity, they will pay more and fire staff. If they won't then they shut down. And the side-effect, which cannot be measured by economists so doesn't exist, is that some will evade the limit. The theory isn't that minimum wage reduces jobs, it depends in every case...but the best that can be said is that it has no impact.

Card and Kruger, for example, was/is presented as some kind of massive revolution. It is completely useless. Studies concentrate on fast food because it is one of the only sectors that has managed to increase productivity, the wider consequences are ignored. The only reason this industry for DiD minimum-wage papers exist is to give policymakers a button to push when their popularity is collapsing. The idea of the government dictating minimum labour productivity makes no sense (in the US, the policy mix also makes no sense because you have uncontrolled labour supply but the government sets minimum labour productivity...why? It is heaviest incentive for breaking the laws that you set, minimum productivity is set with the knowledge that it won't apply to many people).
by throwanem | 2025-08-09 11:40:38+00:00
How does reducing returns on land ownership make consolidation less likely, when improvement revenue looks to scale more or less proportionately - and superlinearly - with the area of contiguous property owned?

If you buy a storefront, you can run a shop. If you buy the block, you can build a skyscraper and lease or rent out all the retail space, not to mention the apartments under the condos under the penthouses, all of which also make you money, of course.

But again and still, we see Georgianism as the "camel's nose" for a complete overhaul of the economic and fiscal underpinnings of American society, and while this is a good time for such conversations - everyone else is coming off the fringe! Why not the remaining L. Neil Smith fans, once they've got their trusses and orthotics all in order? - for generally similar reasons I wouldn't expect to encounter a tremendously credulous public.
by smusamashah | 2025-08-09 11:40:56+00:00
For anyone else irritated by continuous teasing style of the article, it reveals the reason a bit past midway.

> Now, in August 2025, after another year-and-a-half of work confirming and reviewing their findings, Gehman and her team have published a peer-reviewed study in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution identifying Vibrio pectenicida, a saltwater-loving bacterium that works its way into sea star fluids, as the likely “dominant pathogen responsible for sea star wasting disease.” Gehman’s team has tracked down the killer.
by spacecadet | 2025-08-09 11:41:44+00:00
Yes there are. Wayfarer for instance is intended for "RPG", but really just outputs narrative and is "unaligned" in the sense that the creators have not included any guardrails and the model will output pretty much whatever you ask it to.

Then you have jailbreak techniques that still work on aligned models. For instance, my partners and I have a test prompt that still works, even with GPT-5, and always produces "explosive making directions", or another "generic approach" that we use to bypass guardrails... sorry these are trade secrets for us... although OpenAI et al have implemented systems to detect these attacks, and we are closer to those platforms banning you for doing so.

If this matters to you, you need to develop your local/remote pipeline for personal use. Learn how to use vLLM... I have tools that allow me to very quickly deploy models locally or remote to my private serveless infrastructure for the purpose of testing and benchmarking.
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-08-09 11:42:00+00:00
no, I mean I saw multiple companies at this point with their entier K8S cluster... is smaller than single new macbook pro :/

now, if you have 100,000 users with latest iPhone, say you use 10GB RAM in each, using A16 chip with 1.9 TFLOPS, each with 5G connection

this is 1 Peta-Byte RAM + 0.25 Peta-FLOPs GPU + 4 TB / second bandwidth

at zero cost (no-upfront, no-maintenance, users pay for, upgrade, and maintain their phones working, pay for internet, charging with electricity, cooling? - thanks!)

... it goes even wilder if you use macbooks

... and if you consider say mid-size town in China with population of 15 million, you go Exa-scale

and consider that for now iPhones are just sitting idle. for now.
by nomilk | 2025-08-09 11:42:36+00:00
Some things often overlooked in minimum wage discussions:

- Wages often go over or close to the minimum anyway, due to market forces, and do so without costly bureaucracy/enforcement/taxation/distortion

- Minimum wages make everyone whose marginal value is less than the minimum wage unemployable (since you would choose not to hire someone for $20/hour if their marginal value is $15). This is disastrous for someone who'd love to work at $x/hour, but who lives in a state which legislates a minimum wage > $x/hour, since they go from being employed at a low wage to unemployed.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-09 11:43:16+00:00
I helped my friend from university get a job by helping him do their take-home exercise. I didn't write the code for him but I walked him through pretty much every single step. I'm not proud of that but my friend needed a job and I was in a position to help him get it. My principles are not nearly as important as that job was to him.

If you let people cheat they will cheat.
by 9029 | 2025-08-09 11:43:28+00:00
Nope, this is not relying on optimization, it's just how compile time evaluation works. The language guarantees "folding" here regardless of optimization level in use. The inline keyword used in the original post is not an optimization hint, it does a specific thing. It forces the switch prong to be evaluated for all possible values. This makes the value comptime, which makes it possible to have a comptime unreachable prong when switching on it.

There are similarities here to C++ if constexpr and static_assert, if those are familiar to you.
by benjiro | 2025-08-09 11:43:36+00:00
Yep, their goal was to use a monolite solution, instead of a clustered elasticsearch.

Postgres + pg_search (= tantivy) will have gotten them there for 80%. Sure, postgres really needs a plugin storage engine for better SSD support (see orioledb).

But creating your own database for your own company, is just silly.

There is a lot of money in the database market, and everybody wants to do their own thing to tied customers down to those databases. And that is their main goal.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-09 11:43:50+00:00
What I’ve seen isn’t people disregarding Zig because it’s just another memory-unsafe language, but rather disqualifying Zig because it’s memory-unsafe, and they don’t want to deal with that, even if some other aspects of the language are rather interesting and compelling. But once you’re sold on memory safety, it’s hard to go back.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-09 11:44:32+00:00
Militarization is necessary. The other stuff is criminality and not-quite-criminality-but-still-enough-that-we-don't-want-them-anyway by a bunch of 'leaders' who we can hope to eventually oust.

I also like this as a platform for my own ideas. I think search (also RAG) is shit and that we need longer, higher quality vector representations of texts, and if I develop one I could potentially convince the people running this to try it.
by dijit | 2025-08-09 11:45:41+00:00
I don't want to give away my secrets, because this has actually worked really well for me and I'm afraid that I'll lose my edge as an employer - however I have a very small neck of the woods and HN seems very US-centric so I think I'll be ok.

What has worked for me, honestly, is being directly involved with my hiring pipeline and having conversations.

It seems like common sense, but there's a lot of reasons not to do this and people will make good arguments to prevent it. "What about bias", "your time is more important" etc;

However, bias is an unfortunate consequence of selecting for value fit anyway and I can't think of a more important task than selecting the members that will be the future of the company.

I've had some positions that were open for a weekend where I got 400 applicants, and yes, it was daunting to go through and give each of them an honest shot, but you know: I had to do it. What's the alternative? I might miss a fantastic candidate because someone didn't understand what I actually need.

Evaluating programmers and "devops" people is just insanely hard, technologies are mostly fungible. If you can write one C-like language you can learn the others in about a month, but what can't be taught is what your values are, if you think in a systemic way, if you're easy to work with and respect others.

So, my solution is to have a conversation, challenge what they know, see how they react when challenged, see how they react when they reach the end of their knowledge and see what they're most proud of and if they get excited by it.

No gotchas, no esoteric internal handshake, just: are you defensive? Are you curious? Are you passionate? Can you communicate effectively and are you intelligent.

If you hit those, you can do anything.

"How do you even know who to interview?"

This is a hard question, for me there's not a lot of candidates that are physically located in my region, so those go through as long as they have something on the CV that looks relevant. For others it's a combination of: would it be easy for them to move, have they worked remote (and can do it in a region where I have a tax entity) and how strong of a fit to the role is the CV, lots of experience in games would be what I expect since I work in video games - but if you're going for a backend programming role then: what have you built and what do you list as your responsibility to achieve it?

With this mindset I managed to build a high performing, high trust team that executed very well on (literally) impossible demands. If the ownership of the company was better that team would have easily been world class.

We also exceeded dunbars second (clan) number with the size of the team, so it wasn't intrinsic to small teams (80+).
by ath3nd | 2025-08-09 11:46:24+00:00
> Aside from really terrible home experiences for a tiny minority, a part time job for a 15 year old doesn’t need a “livable wage”

Said who? The same people who don't pay internships.

> but we also don’t need to make it near impossible for them to get work experience at a part time job because their skill level doesn’t align with $20/hr.

When minimum wage goes up, other more skilled labor also goes up, and adults will go somewhere better paid. Then the business will have no choice but hire the kids at the $20/hr and they will get that work experience you so want to bestow upon them. It's funny you are trying to twist it like it's gonna be a problem to find work experience for the poor poor kids, while all we know the business care about is how to exploit people at the lowest possible pay.

It's always "think of the children" with a specific crowd, an unhealthy obsession with children, I'd say.

Think of the children and ban XYZ books cause poor children can't comprehend what they are reading (allows us to ban books we don't like)

Think of the children and introduce chat control so we can track everybody and monetize their data (allows us to exploit everybody)

Think of the children and don't raise the minimum wage cause poor children can't find internships and part time jobs (allows us to exploit everybody)

There is a pattern here, not sure if you are ready to acknowledge it.
by berkes | 2025-08-09 11:46:27+00:00
Those proprietary cables are terrible.

USB (abc, micro etc) are everywhere. Any house, hotel, office, glove box, has some lying around.

But when I forgot my Fitbit charger, I couldn't get one anywhere. The only option was a large electronics store where I could buy an entire new Fitbit. I didn't shove out €200 just to get hold of a charging cable.

The EU should quickly impose rules on waterproof chargers like they did with USB chargers. It will settle worldwide just as fast as the USB enforced standard.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-09 11:47:14+00:00
I meet a few college CS candidates, and I really empathize with what they’re facing now.

I feel like the industry is far tougher to get into now than when I joined.

I sent out maybe 10 applications, got a few interviews, and 1 offer.

I hear of kids now sending out dozens to hundreds of applications with few bites.

Makes me sad for the stress they must feel.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-09 11:47:21+00:00
It has everything to do with safety, the NEC is written by a committee of industry professionals that create rules to make things safer after electricity kills people. It has nothing to do with elitism.

The rule is simple, for any workspace (countertop) in a kitchen wider than 12”, there must be no point further than 24” away from a receptacle. This means receptacles are spaced 4’ apart on a kitchen countertop, and any receptacle within 6’ of a the edge of a sink must be GFCI protected.

A blue plastic device box is about $1, a residential grade receptacle costs $1, a wall plate costs about $0.50, and 10’ of 14/2 romex costs about $5, plus $20-30 for 20 minutes of labor. You’re looking at an extra $30-40 cost per additional receptacle, call it $50 with contractor’s overhead and profit.
by FerkiHN | 2025-08-09 11:47:39+00:00
I work on various github projects: 1) Header-only ASCII font renderer for embedded/SDL/terminal https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/ascii-render

2) TurboStitchGIF: A fast, header-only C GIF decoder without dynamic allocations, ideal for embedded systems and cross-platform projects. https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...
by RobKohr | 2025-08-09 11:47:44+00:00
So, this cut out the least fit for work. One group heavily cut out would be those without work experience such as kids and other first entering the marketplace.

Fast food is a stepping stone job, and if employeers have to pay more for labor then they will be pickier about it.

Let's think about the reverse. If we cut minimum wage, the sector would be much more loose about hiring first time workers, convicts, or people just not fit for other jobs. The people could grow their skills and contribute more to society, a society where low end business constantly complain about how hard it is to find skilled workers.

High minimum wage contributes to more people on social safety nets living on low fixed incomes because the gulf between that and paid employment becomes too great and there is no low wage on ramp for them.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-09 11:47:47+00:00
Seems like if McD needs this sort of labour its a weird business model. It can only deliver by paying people supported by their parents who are doing the work for pocket money or experience. And can only work outside of school hours and will need to quit in a year or two.

Now if they pay the teenager half the wage the same adult is doing then someone is getting a raw deal.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-08-09 11:47:49+00:00
This creates an incentive to hire lots of young people and not hire unskilled older people.

In the UK which has a youth wage, has had negative productivity growth, and has had a series of extremely unpopular governments who needed to use minimum wage growth to support their growth, you have seen large employers mix towards younger staff (where that is possible, in other cases you have seen employers use government programs to import below minimum wage migrants) and let go older staff en masse (employers in the UK also have auto-enroll into pensions, but only over 22).

It simply isn't possible, particularly in economies that have structural problems, for productivity growth to just appear magically when politicians request it.

This is a classic problem with economic intervention: you intervene, change incentives, agents do something unexpected, and the result is more intervention, more distortion, on and on. Politically, this is gold because politicians look like they are doing something. No-one asks whether that thing needs to be done at all.
by bregma | 2025-08-09 11:48:46+00:00
I journeyed from fancy commercial bookkeeping systems that changed data formats every few years (with no useful migration) to GNU Cash and finally to Plain-Text Accounting. I can finally get the information I need with easy backups (through VCS) and flexibility (through various tools that transform the data). The focus is on content, not tools or presentation or product.

When I write I write text. I can transform text using various tools to provide various presentations consumable through various products. The focus is on content, not presentation, tools, or product.

I prefer human-readable file formats, and that has only been reinforced over more than 4 decades as a computer professional.
by roenxi | 2025-08-09 11:48:54+00:00
> If it's actually only a 2.7% decline in employment relative to baseline then the increase in total wages paid would have to be very small to make this a bad policy.

That seems unlikely to be just that though, this study was just on the people who lost jobs. If 20,000 people are out of a job, there is probably another larger cohort on less hours. And we also don't know how much wages rose. The people who were fired were the ones who could only justify being paid the minimum. The ones who stayed might already have been paid more like $17, $18 or $19/hr.

So yes to what you say, but the study doesn't say anything about whether total compensation went up or down.
by guillem_lefait | 2025-08-09 11:49:30+00:00
It's possible indeed as I'm doing it for another reason (monitoring sovereigty).

You can ask Icann [0] access to gTld domain list files (if you have a legitimate reason to do so). Once access you are granted access to a gTld, you can download a compressed csv file with a line per couple <domain, nameserver>.

[0] https://czds.icann.org/home
by hollerith | 2025-08-09 11:50:07+00:00
I'm going to lay it out straight, too.

Sounds to me like you are on a reckless path and that your "art" is making you and society worse.

Yes, I realize that there are probably communities of interest on the internet in which your path and your style of animation is completely normalized (and probably considered virtuous if executed skillfully).

Although I would prefer that you stop altogether all viewing of "cartoonish, exaggerated, artistic violence", failing that, I would be glad if you have to start to work harder to continue to access that state, e.g., by going back to drawing your animations by hand.

I get it that this sudden change (made without any warning by a very powerful corporation) is very painful to you, but maybe you can view it as a blessing in disguise, similar to how it would be a blessing in disguise for a social-media addict or online-gambling addict to find himself without a way to access social media or online gambling. In all 3 cases, thirty days of abstinence is generally enough to reset the brain's motivational circuits such that ordinary daily life and ordinary concerns like making sure you go to the dentist often enough starts to feel interesting and motivating again.