MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TechfolioDev | 2025-09-30 01:30:24+00:00
hi there,

when linkedin came out in 2003, it filled a gap. it provided a platform for people to share their resumes, work experience, and a space to do business. but as the internet has evolved, so have the needs and required format to convey skills and experience.

i tried to approach this problem by creating a private network for developers and companies to connect. you can find a job on there too, but its main focus is more about showcasing your stack (e.g. a profile is made up of code reviews, a project showcase, system design interview with report), i intentionally left out work exp. and resume since a user can just link their linkedin, and would want an employer to look at a devs work objectively.

then company profiles are about showcasing jobs, work culture, and interview process.

im really tired of the resume process on conventional job boards (which provide little context) and the public nature of linkedin and I feel like there is a better way. if you're interested in supporting a project like this, please feel free to sign up or reach out to me directly. i am just transitioning to promotion cycle for this and would like to collaborate with anyone who shares the values that this type of format offers.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-30 01:32:23+00:00
This is one of my hopes for Large LANGUAGE Models is that they aid in JIT emulation of the "languages" of OSes and assembly between architectures.

The amount of software preservation that could occur by having LLMs port binaries to new architectures (and maybe do reverse engineering of the source code) is something that is well short of AGI, but would be tremendously useful.

Alas I don't think any LLM vendor will pay much attention to this, there is too much money in Javascript/HTML primarily and the other mainstream langs secondarily.

But LLMs should in theory be able to navigate the edge cases of doing things in different OSes / Windowing toolkits / etc better than straight decompiler/recompilers would be able to.

This is related to a big potential area for LLMs: porting legacy enterprise code to newer systems, just like this guy did.
by kragen | 2025-09-30 01:32:50+00:00
Tanenbaum's textbook is highly readable, comprehensive (surveys every major known solution to each major prpblem), and mostly correct. xv6 may be a smaller, more old-fashioned, and more practical approach. RISC-V makes the usually hairy and convoluted issues of paging and virtual memory seem simple. QEMU's GDB server, OpenOCD, JTAG, and SWD can greatly reduce the amount of time you waste wondering why things won't boot. Sigrok/Pulseview may greatly speed up your device driver debugging. But I haven't written an operating system beyond some simple cooperative task-switching code, so take this with a grain of salt.
by nerdralph | 2025-09-30 01:34:03+00:00
We need more data on bifacial performance in order to simulate the performance. I've done some experiments with vertical bifacial TOPCon panels, and the lower production vs 45-degree tilt seems to be offset by the lower mounting costs.

I run a solar company, and for ground mount systems the cost of the frames and foundations is more than the panels. With vertical PV it doesn't matter if power production is maximized, what matters is return on investment.
by stopachka | 2025-09-30 01:34:27+00:00
I'm converting PG's essays into latex. It generates 4 "volumes", each with it's own mobile + PDF. It's still early, but am really happy with it so far!

Demo: https://x.com/stopachka/status/1972122239123521614

Github: https://github.com/stopachka/pg-essays
by cyphar | 2025-09-30 01:34:28+00:00
The idea that not using the "fork" button on GitHub is somehow obscuring authorship is unhinged -- the actual license only requires you keep license headers intact (if your license headers don't convey authorship properly, you should fix that -- as an aside, this is why I don't like the "Copyright X project and contributors" thing). AFAICS, the fork even has the full commit history of the original project (which isn't even a GPL requirement) so I fail to see how anyone could reasonably see this as obscuring ownership.

As someone who has dealt with people maliciously stripping out copyright headers before, this example just smells of someone running out of examples while trying to construct a list of petty grievances. Yes, the README of the fork was updated to stop referencing the original project, what would you expect from a fork? Would it have been nice to add a note that it was forked from another project? Yes (and he did exactly that a month later), but it's really not required and I disagree not doing so it somehow hypocritical.

And yes, GitHub forks still have a lot of limitations. I wouldn't use them when creating new projects either.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-09-30 01:34:49+00:00
But all that information is in the engineering files that are neither the schematic or the layout. You might guess some information from the layout, but on some crazy HDI PCB like the iPhone uses, you'll be missing most of the information needed to take advantage of it.

Any signal that uses passive termination, and would therefore show up in the schematic, is basically a tacit admission that this line needs something, but basically anything remotely close to 50Ω will do. Which is something you could've gathered by inspection of the final product.
by rtpg | 2025-09-30 01:34:54+00:00
Postgres is pretty good about using index data from multiple single column indices... if you don't order results! Otherwise the planner will get in the way and do nonsense.

A bunch of people spend years studying computer science and trees etc, and then when we actually need to care about that stuff the databases absolutely do not want us to declare the plan. Very annoying.

Think about how people would be guided to do the right thing on indices if they had to say "go along this index to get my data" in a "planned mode" when dealing with bad performance? So many data layout and index issues would become immediately obvious. You wouldn't magically get as many benefits from DB updates, granted.
by drdaeman | 2025-09-30 01:35:29+00:00
> At Moneo, we believe technology cannot be separated from humanity. Code is never neutral. Whether written by human hands or by AI, every line carries the values, choices, and intentions of the people who shape it.

A lot of emotion here muddies the picture, implying that somehow if a disagreeable person touches something it's tainted by that person's values. As if a web framework or an affordable car is somehow committing crimes against the humanity. It can help to do so, but not by itself.

I agree that technology cannot be separated from humanity, of course - simply because only humans can give meaning to things (and ideas only exist in our minds). There's simply no one else sentient out there to do so. And, indeed, any product is shaped by choices and intentions of its designers - that's what design process is about. But it's only product-related choices, not just everything about the designers' lives - YMMV, but the ignorance of missing out this important piece ruins the article for me. Maybe it's an intentional flamebait to get more attention, maybe it's just a lapse in judgement from emotions - I cannot possibly know. But I don't like it, as it feels an emotion-driven perversion of logic to me.

Consider Volkswagen. Surely, the cars don't carry the horrible values of the people who shaped them. Was it a good idea to stay away from the technology when Germany was controlled by a madman? Absolutely - but not because of the technology itself, and rather because of finances (paying for products or services gives money to horrible people) and attention (merely using a product where others could see it is a form of advertising). I believe that losing this distinction doesn't do anyone any good. Things (including immaterial ones such as code) can be neutral. They only aren't when they're intentionally designed to do something non-neutral.
by zeroq | 2025-09-30 01:35:31+00:00
disclaimer: I really have no idea about OSes, but hey...

Maybe it's a matter of marketing the product and managing expectations, but many of these projects are A ok being "legacy and obsolete" just for the sake of simplicity for introducing basic concepts.

Let's take two random examples.

(1) "let's create 3D graphics from scratch" It's quite easy to grab "graphics gems" and create a comprehensive tutorial on software renderer. Sure it won't be practical, and sure it will likely end on phong shading, but for those wanting to understand how 3d models are translated into pixels on screen it's way more approachable than studying papers on nanites.

(2) "let's crate a browser from scratch" It's been widely discussed that creating a new browser today would be complete madness (yet there's Ladybird!), but shaving the scope, even if it wouldn't be able to run most modern websites would be a interesting journey for someone who'd interested in how things work.

PS. Ages ago I've done a Flash webpage that was supposed to mimic a desktop computer for ad campaign for tv show. Webpage acted as a personal computer of main character and people could lurk into it between episodes to read his emails, check his browser history, etc. I took it as a learning opportunity to learn about OS architecture and spent ungodly amount of unpaid overtime to make it as close to win3.1 running on dos as possible. Was it really an OS? Of course not, but it was a learning opportunity to get a grasp of certain things and it was extremely rewarding to have an easter egg with a command.com you could launch and interact with the system.

Would I ever try to build a real OS. Hell no, I'm not as smart as lcamtuf to invite couple friends for drinks and start Argante. :)
by hollerith | 2025-09-30 01:35:35+00:00
If you have a shop in a house in Thailand and a crazy person decides he likes the shop and stays in front of it all day yelling, in Thailand, the people in the house call the police, who make the crazy person leave. In the US, every person, crazy or not, has Freedoms and Rights, and the police won't do anything to help the people in the house because it would be wrong according the the US way of thinking to curtail the Rights and Freedoms of the crazy person (who is yelling all day near the shop, which is very near the house).

Consequently, owners of houses in the US try to make it as boring as possible and as useless as possible for any crazy person, homeless person or group of teenagers to hang around near the house. One way they do this is to make sure the house is surrounded only by other houses, trees, parking spaces and roads (and there is not anything as useful or interesting as a shop in easy walking distance).

This is a bit of an exaggeration, but it is directionally accurate.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-30 01:35:54+00:00
One quote that really stood out to me:

> Rodney: The robots—they’re not embodied. I always say about a physical robot, the physical appearance makes a promise about what it can do. The Roomba was this little disc on the floor. It didn’t promise much—you saw it and thought, that’s not going to clean the windows. But you can imagine it cleaning the floor. But the human form sort of promises it can do anything a human can. And that’s why it’s so attractive to people—it’s selling a promise that is amazing.
by dehrmann | 2025-09-30 01:36:06+00:00
I buy that vibe coding doesn't work at that scale, and there will always be an investor that thinks it does (these aren't being led by traditional tech investors) who's willing to pay, thinking there's an opportunity.

The NDAs don't matter. If there's an exception for tooling like Github, that'll be enough, and enterprise AI code platforms will all hear the same concern and say they don't retain anything. What does matter is there isn't much training data on programming for modern consoles.
by borroka | 2025-09-30 01:36:51+00:00
You cannot compare the cigarette tax to a study saying that even minimal alcohol consumption increases the risk of dementia. If you increase the price of wine 5x, I am sure fewer people would drink, but that's a very wild extrapolation, context-wise, of this conversation.

The same applies to abortion laws: not even in my wildest dreams would I compare their effects on abortion rates to the effects on behavior that the results of the study discussed in this thread would cause.
by xphos | 2025-09-30 01:37:31+00:00
I think this is an easy position to state but difficult to hold and defend. Norms and traditions are important just look at America right now when the president decided the norms established by a bunch of dumb dead people don't matter. I think the position is easy to state because a lot of people of the past did horrible things in the context of the present. But they also at many different generations opposed horrible things when no one else did. What Thomas Jefferson said for example in the declaration of independence all Man are created equal mattered for the emancipation in 1865 and also mattered to woman 1920.

The words of dead people shape a tremendous amount of law and norms that make the world better. The importantance incrementalism cannot be overstated nor can the infuration at that said incrementalism can be overstated, in the past and now. To say we don't care because we can't see the relevance is observational error.

I'd be curious of your country of origin because I guarentee you have legacy members of culture that matter politically speaking. But there are also examples of mathematicians long dead that have had lasting effect on things we still teach today. They are founders of a different field of sorts.
by borroka | 2025-09-30 01:40:45+00:00
I guess I was imprecise with my language and did not think about the father-in-law effect. He surely responded extremely quickly to the study just published. However, I would advise waiting for further studies, replications, etc.

Let me rephrase it: I doubt that the results of this study will change the minds of a significant number of people who enjoy drinking a glass of wine every now and then.
by davidmckayv | 2025-09-30 01:41:02+00:00
You're conflating individual criminal liability with mandated prior restraint. If someone tells a chatbot they're going to commit a crime and the AI helps them, prosecute under existing law. But the company doesn't have knowledge of every individual interaction. That's not how the knowledge requirement works. You can't bootstrap individual criminal use into "the company should have known someone might use this for crimes, therefore they must filter everything."

The "companies want this" argument is irrelevant. Even if true, it doesn't make prior restraint constitutional. The government can't delegate its censorship powers to willing corporations. If companies are worried about liability, the answer is tort reform or clarifying safe harbor provisions, not building state-mandated filtering infrastructure.

On whether AI output is the company's speech: The First Amendment issue here isn't whose speech it is. It's that the government is compelling content-based restrictions. SB 53 doesn't just hold companies liable after harm occurs. It requires them to assess "dangerous capabilities" and implement "mitigations" before anyone gets hurt. That's prior restraint regardless of whether you call it the company's speech or not.

Your argument about LLMs being imperfect actually proves my point. You're saying mistakes will happen, so we need a framework. But the framework you're defending says the government gets to define what counts as dangerous and mandate filtering for it. That's exactly the infrastructure I'm warning about. Today it's "we can't perfectly control the models." Tomorrow it's "since we have to filter anyway, here are some other categories the state defines as harmful."

Given companies can't control their models perfectly due to the nature of AI technology, that's a product liability question, not a reason to establish government-mandated content filtering.
by nis0s | 2025-09-30 01:41:55+00:00
Collectively, at least, people have always been fascinated by this idea of humanity, and the ideals it encompasses, but ten different people will have a different definition of what it means to be human. That’s fine, actually, because it demonstrates that people perhaps have ideas beyond biological impulses, and aspire to be more than feed-fuck-fight agents.

It’s understandable that we developed these traits (rather ironically) because at some point in the distant past the most important and pressing thing we did was band together to fight and kill megafauna, and that required all kinds of hard and soft skills.

Being able to throw projectiles with precision, communicate intent and purpose of moves during an attack, intuitively understand the danger a fellow group member might encounter (empathy), or caring for the wounded. All of this was done in the service of food, which helped our brains become what they are today.

I am skipping a lot of steps in between, but humans are set apart from the rest of the animal kingdom and whatever else today we call life on earth by our brain, and what it accomplishes, not just for us but others, including non-humans.

The most interesting thing our brains have thus far enabled is the capability to prod ponderables about the human condition, namely why do we live and die. Why is there something and not nothing. Nothing that asks these sorts of questions is bounded only by primal desires. But I think the sad part is that we’re often disappointed by the answers the universe provides.

Nothing is more telling of this than the stories we like to tell about ourselves, as many creation myths from different societies say all kinds of things about the origins of humanity, its purpose, or its final destination.

Humanity has all kinds of ideas about itself, and I hope it gets to live up to some of them.
by gyomu | 2025-09-30 01:42:46+00:00
> It comes down to speed: show me the simulated, high-res book with pages I can handle and access exactly as fast as the real physical book in my real physical hands, and we can begin the conversation. The video game players will want to say “easy, no problem”, but a moment’s reflection — how do I hold a book in my hands? What do I do with it? What kind of physical feedback does that require? — reveals that it is, in fact, a huge problem.

That's a part of the equation for sure.

The other one that I keep coming back to is how the object captures your attention, and what it does/doesn't do to steer it, and what affordances it offers for it to flit to something else.

On a digital general purpose device, you are always one swipe, one notification banner away, from jumping into whatever other activity you want. Closing a book, putting it away, grabbing the TV remote, turning on the TV inherently has much more friction than swiping right on the home bar out of a reader app and straight into Tiktok.

This is why single purpose devices like eReaders are compelling - while they do not address this first half of the equation the author mentions, they do address the second half.

(but of course a beautiful object of a book will always command attention more effectively than the exact same book, but in PDF form on a tablet)

To try and and attempt an analogy, it's like trying to cook a healthy meal when you have a fridge only stocked with veggies/fish, vs one that maybe has some veggies at the back but also tons of snacks and instant food at the front.

We like to think we are masters of our attention and willpower, but as many already know it's really the environment does a large chunk of the deciding for us. If you want to make more intentional decisions, your first order of business should be to shape your environment (a hack monks have known for millenia).
by churchill | 2025-09-30 01:44:02+00:00
Yes, I know it's happening right now, but there are evangelical boomer types that i expect to carry their Zionism to the grave.

Fun fact: Pew research recently published a chart/matrix [0] showing how different religious groups in the US see each other and evangelicals had a +37 favorable rating for Jews, while vice versa, it was something shocking like -50 unfavourability/dislike. Utter contempt.

Not surprising to anyone in the know though that the Jewish community largely despise evangelicals & Christians while the other sides falls over themselves to be friendly.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1i2rf1z/wh...
by FridgeSeal | 2025-09-30 01:44:06+00:00
I’d actually argue that we have some absolutely fantastic tools already that are the equivalent of the things like CBC and power tools.

Dev tooling has gotten pretty solid these days, LSP’s and debug protocols, massively improved type-system UX, libs and frameworks with massively improved DX, deployment tools that are basically zero touch, fantastic observability tooling, super powerful IDE’s.

The CNC machine doesn’t wander off and start lathing watermelons when you’re not looking and your planar doesn’t turn into a spaghetti monster and eat your dog if you accidentally plane some wood on the wrong day of the week.
by davidw | 2025-09-30 01:45:13+00:00
No, it's mostly just car-brain where people think that cities should be designed around cars cars and cars, and then if there's room left over, maybe some shops and homes.

So they worry about a neighborhood shop taking up the precious, precious parking spots or causing 'traffic!' even if in reality it reduces it because people have something close by their home they could even walk or bike to.
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-30 01:45:39+00:00
> I have no idea how people who start non profits actually do and how they get enough money to work in correct circles and so on and how that would work, I will still get a degree of course and I am thinking of starting a fundme page

My wife works in non-profit consulting and has mostly worked with people who have great ideas but need help learning how to get funding and structure their non-profit for success. I asked her if there is a website to share with you that has good info, and she said your local library should have people who can help you with anything related to getting a non-profit rolling (try the next library over if not). I had no idea they have these resources either, but public libraries are amazing places and here's further proof.

Here's a page from a library where we used to live: https://poudrelibraries.org/business/

Scroll down to the section for "Nonprofit Success" and maybe you can find some ideas that will help you. I think you're on the right track about open source education and evangelizing (the tech world used to call its influencers stuff like "open source evangelist" or ".NET evangelist"... not sure if it's still that culty or not).

Best of luck with everything, and if you have any questions or want to chat I just followed you on Github. You can email me at my-github-username at protonmail dot com anytime, if you have non-profit questions I can ask my wife for her thoughts, she's been doing this for years and seems to have it pretty well mastered from what I can tell. She's built a business by herself from scratch and does so well she's the bigger earner of the family. So anyway, she just helps non-profits and makes a living from it, so you can definitely do something with open source! Work on making your writing and communication more effective and I think you will find the people to help you reach your dreams along the way.

Don't lose hope if you can help it, things like the news and politics are discouraging right now but I find that times like this light a fire in me to make sure I'm doing the right things and help keep us from getting in deeper problems. I get complacent more during less chaotic times, so I try to make the best of it and it usually works out. Take care, friend!

edit: I just realized that from the local times you mention, you are likely not in the United States. I'm not sure if libraries in Europe and elsewhere have this information or not. Maybe it can give you an idea of what kind of information to look for in your local resources.