MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Theodores | 2025-09-14 20:25:53+00:00
The bad guys might seem to have won but the story isn't over yet!

The screen thing has been going on for a century or more, whether that be the nonsense we have now or the nonsense we had when TV ruled the world, or the silver-screen before that.

Arguably the aftermath of 9/11 was crazier than what we have now, before that we had the joys of the Cold War, before that WW2 and, before that WW1. Right now, we still have whole cities getting razed off the map, but, in the WW2 days that was a daily occurence.

Everything must be destroyed for there to be a 'new ark'. This is the story with many a religion, and many a religion was founded in 'end times', hence there is this common eschatology. Normally there is some heaven-sent messiah character that magically fixes all the problems caused by man by undocumented means as part of this story. We even have some fundamentalists that want to blow up the world just to bring on this scenario, and you can't reason with these people.

The parties of the left and the right have died intellectually in the West. DJT is in the White House ruling by decree and tweet right now, which we can deal with. However, the Democrats and the Republicans are both as dead as a dodo, with it being the same in the USA's mini-me, the UK, where both Labour and the Conservatives are finished.

The secret services have successfully managed to nip in the bud anything that could be an alternative, in particular any eco-friendly save-the-earth ideology. That was easy for them to do, they just had to infiltrate whatever was going and present those guys as crazy. For an example, look at what happened to 'Extinction Rebellion' - they went extinct.

It is glass half-empty or glass half-full, and, if you want to look at it positively, the decks are getting well and truly cleared for something new, and the new does not necessarily mean a choice between a Hitler, a DJT, a benevolent dictator, Skynet or whomever the promised messiah is.

There are plenty of countries that have lived through terrible times to come out of it with a sensible grown adult taking the leadership role. I am loathed to provide examples of that because anyone that lifts millions out of poverty will be negatively portrayed in Western media, but there are examples today in Africa, South America and Asia.

However, one example I can give you is that of the post-war UK. Despite everything being destroyed, the post war Labour government built the health service, built the schools, built the houses and got the country back on its feet, with the accomplishments recognised by those today on both the left and the right. Sure, it has been decline all the way since then, but the bad guys didn't win and there was a 'new ark'.

Trust the process. The post 9/11 repetitive negative thinking, when every day had a colour-coded terror alert level led to moral and cognitive decline, with this excellent situation where left-right Western politics is dead, which is where we want to be for the new.
by sublinear | 2025-09-14 20:26:05+00:00
You shouldn't try to squash these thoughts, but don't believe you're going to predict much either.

If you're early in your career, do everything you can to set yourself up for financial stability. If you're already there, work on your confidence and your skills. The biggest positive changes in my career came from doing what felt right and not backing down. If there was ever an industry in need of more courage and wisdom, it's software.

Anyway, I also hate when articles try to popularize vocabulary that makes information less accessible. It's not "spiral", but "ruminate".
by fruitworks | 2025-09-14 20:28:48+00:00
>If the message is flagged, it can be sent over an encrypted HTTPS channel to authorities

okay, but how do you prevent me from intercepting that communication.

Or even running my own copy of the local model and determing ahead of time whether it will trip the alarm. If the attacker has access to the model, they can effectively make a GAN to modify images to get past the filter.
by convolvatron | 2025-09-14 20:28:58+00:00
that is a pain. oswiki is a good resource, and there are also a huge number of examples. but it still takes a day. context save and restore and interrupts is another speed bump. but its no different than any other development banging your head against the wall exercise, and its pretty rewarding to have smoothed all that over and go to town on bespoke scheduler design.
by layer8 | 2025-09-14 20:29:35+00:00
The worst case is when only approved hardware and software will be legal, and every level of infrastructure will be enforcing that. You can say good bye to decentralized solutions then.

Note how Apple is already a bit like that, banning certain torrenting apps even from alternative app stores [0]. I’m just mentioning that as a demonstration of the feasibility of such closed and controlled ecosystems. Now restrict ISP network traffic to packets signed by approved hardware, and there aren’t that many practical loopholes left.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45098411
by jrrrp | 2025-09-14 20:29:49+00:00
I highlight as a way to categorize my annotations. I highlight in Zotero as I go, and in the highlight's comment section briefly jot down why (e.g. something to follow up on, or whether this reminded me of something else it contrasts with). I dedicate a certain colour to "background references I should have", another to ~ "things I disagree with" etc., which I find useful when coming back over the paper to type up my notes.

In a sense the highlighting is just a way to localize my thoughts to a particular passage of the text, and the colours (or even highlighting at all) are secondary.

There's some considerable duplication of effort (notes in Zotero, then I type up notes in Obsidian, then also extract out some of those ideas into their own files). But, much like the recent posts about "outsourcing thinking" and GP noting that people sometimes do nothing with their highlights, I find that the work is useful for understanding and remembering.

Out of interest, why have you been considering Logseq?
by EGreg | 2025-09-14 20:29:55+00:00
It’s right there in the name: Chat Control. Take them at their word!

Look at Australia’s “hacking” bill. It was about letting the government hack (take over) your account and post as you. The “hacking” referred to ahat THEY would do — to YOUR accounts:

https://www.accessnow.org/surveillance-state-incoming-with-a...

Australians even made a movie about a dystopian future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8
by stevesimmons | 2025-09-14 20:30:20+00:00
I find this a curious hypothesis, to say the least.

So I'm a marathon runner (ran a 3:08 marathon this morning, actually, at age 55). The carbs I eat are neither excessive, nor low fibre.

And all the endurance athletes I know are extremely aware of their diets and the importance of eating the right mix of high quality foods.
by buildbot | 2025-09-14 20:30:57+00:00
The PA-RISC processor are really cool - the C8900 has a 64MB external shared L2, and a 768KB I & D cache per core. That's more I & D cache than any modern processor I am aware of, and more last level cache than basically anything but an AMD X3D or the last 5-10 years of X86 server chips. It's much slower of course than any modern cache.

The older 8500 has an article available with a die shot: https://ardent-tool.com/CPU/docs/MPR/19971117/111505.pdf It's like 75% cache even back then. (Fast SRAM With Integrated CPU is extremely accurate, lol).
by more_corn | 2025-09-14 20:32:40+00:00
Now take your time. Most of the important thoughts in life are ones you can take your time with. It’s all good as long as you get there eventually.

In fact we might all be slow thinkers. Wisdom might mean thinking slowly and carefully, with acknowledgment of as many external factors as possible.

Heck that might be what life is about, getting to the highest possible point of wisdom even if it takes a long time.
by atombender | 2025-09-14 20:32:45+00:00
Pilocarpine has been already approved in the US since 2021 under the trade name Vuity (pilocarpine hydrochloride 1.25%), which was discussed on HN [1]. Another version, Qlosi (pilocarpine HC 0.4%), was approved in 2023.

It seems that this formulation differs by adding naproxen, an NSAID. I'm not sure why they believe this is needed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509163
by kelnos | 2025-09-14 20:33:30+00:00
> I'd say that you care about it being UNIX-like, not UNIX®.

Right, but I think GP's point is that if Apple didn't feel pressured to get macOS UNIX-certified, then they wouldn't even bother to be UNIX-like. That is, all sorts of UNIX-required command-line tools would start to disappear from the default install, and things like POSIX conformance would take a back-burner, etc.

Not sure if I agree with that, but that's what GP seems to be suggesting.

> For example, I wish that grep on macOS was closer to GNU grep.

This has nothing to do with UNIX conformance; this just comes from macOS's BSD background, which does not use the GNU core utils. If the Linux folks wanted to go through UNIX conformance testing, they wouldn't have to switch away from GNU tools. And macOS could swap out the BSD-sourced tools for GNU tools and still get their UNIX certification.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-14 20:33:56+00:00
Key enablers that ensured those plans fall apart were PC platform and default code freedom on it. It doesn't work because anyone can just compile the clean versions of apps using gcc, on PC. Same cannot be guaranteed on Android and is not even happening on iOS.

We shouldn't have shrugged off the weird feeling of shackles on our wrist when iOS(iPhoneOS) was first released. We should not have relied on geohot stopping by and dropping a jailbreak he found. We should have voted to force it open by law.
by mvanbaak | 2025-09-14 20:34:11+00:00
if anything should come out of this is that car manufacturers need to come up with a way so it's not this dead simple to steal cars. And it is not that hard. They already have all the tech ready with good security systems. but you know what? those are expensive. and that is something they dont want. so they go with the cheap alternative, which has been cracked 1000+ times already.

So instead of breaking the privacy of everyone, this should only impact the manufacturers.

Just my 0.02
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-14 20:34:25+00:00
lol.

My deeply unpopular opinion is that "leet code style" interviews are actually pretty decent at avoiding false positives. Obviously some specific questions are gotcha trivia and many interviewers are bad no matter the question. But they're a reasonably accurate proxy. Their issue is false negatives.

End of the day the ONLY question an interview sets out to answer is "will this candidate be successful in this role". Interviews are strictly a proxy for "the real job". So arguments that "it's not reflective of the real job" are utterly irrelevant. It is not possible for ANY interview to fully reflect the real job. And you can't ask someone to quit a steady job to trial for 3 to 6 months to see if they're a good fit or not. So we're stuck with proxies.

I definitely think it's important for people who are hired to write code to in some form demonstrate that they are capable of writing code. That seems reasonable. But we can't expect candidates to write a big project for every place they apply. That's too much. And almost all candidates can't share code from their prior job. And solo GitHub side project are quite frankly not relevant for 99.99% of candidates. (And maybe more).

The one tried and trued method of hiring is to hire people you've worked with before who were good. This is not scalable.

Hiring is hard. Really really hard. I find that the vast majority of leet code complaints come from people who don't hire. If anyone ever cracks the puzzle of how to hire better they'll have a monumental competitive advantage. Many many have tried. So far none of have succeeded.
by asyx | 2025-09-14 20:34:33+00:00
This is true of course but the counter argument is that running your own infrastructure is probably not a problem for international criminal gangs but your group chat with the boys is not gunna go through some AI garbage filter and in the end we are still going to get our cars stolen but now the police is knocking because I called Merz a fascist bastard and once the actual fascist win an election they are going to knock on everybody’s door who called Weidel a pick me girl in Turkish.

In summary, without stupid jokes about German politics, the actual stated goal is unachievable but the real world consequences in a Europe that is sprinting to the far right are incredibly dangerous.
by sillyfluke | 2025-09-14 20:34:41+00:00
just purely as a thought experiment and devil's advocacy: to create new avenues of growth and control for the oligarchy. The fall of the Soviet Union, for example, turned out to be a boon for them and they were able to replace the politburo with their own fiefdoms. By destroying the US goverment functions they will be able to privatize the profits (for their companies) and socialize the costs (pollution and shitty water) for the rest of the population. The price of clean water will go up and the people that can afford it will buy whatever anti-PFAS tech they're selling (providing growth for their companies), and the poor well...who cares. They will obtain greater leverage with the US government because they will be seen as saviors since the government will have no competent agencies left, including the military. And the government will helplessly cede more and more power over to them.
by rstat1 | 2025-09-14 20:34:50+00:00
>>Why do you assume something like that? Do you actually know the arguments that the parties in favor of this kind of regulation are presenting? And can you dismiss them based on objective facts?

The moment anyone brings up the whole "just put a backdoor in that only we can access" despite years of people who actually know better saying that's not possible, is the moment when any further arguments become moot and not worth any further engagement or assumptions of good intention.

That's the single argument all these stupid "chat control" like proposals are based on.
by codegeek | 2025-09-14 20:36:06+00:00
" Worked in a few startups, also mainly on full-stack projects."

How did you do at those startups ? Your best bet is approach them again and ask for a potential role. Without some connections, it is extremely difficult to get a full tiem job right now in tech especially as an entry level person.

Some suggestions for you:

1. Get focussed on one stack. This is the unfortunate reality. You don't have enough real world experience to say "I can pick up any stack especially with AI". Thats what everyone else is saying. Too much noise. You need to separate yourself from the rest.

Get really really good at one stack (pick whatever you are already experienced with and double down). Then create a project or two in it (as real world as possible). Put it on a personal website. Something that shows. Don't just do the usual low quality "bootcamp" stuff. Those won't fly.

2. Approach any existing network of people you have worked with/for. You mentioned working at startups already. Start there.

3. Approach smaller companies/other startups (after #1 above) on Linkedin and make a specific case to founders directly. This is not hard. If needed, get subscription to Sales Navigator (if you can afford) and search for companies in the less than 50 employee range. Find their CEO/CTO and hit them up directly with specific message on why YOU and why you want to work for THEM. No generic BS. Be specific.

4. Be very very flexible. Mention that you will relocate for the job. Forget about Working from Home. Find whatever you can and move for it if needed. Show that you mean serious business.

These are some of the strategies that may help. It is very hard right now though. All the best.
by coke12 | 2025-09-14 20:36:40+00:00
The description/assessment of tasks is all plausible, but agreed, some of the execution can be surprisingly boneheaded :)

Case in point, I am building a cellular automata-based physics system, and there is seemingly nothing I can do to affirm that row 0 is "down" and row 255 is "up". The system just cannot grok it on a consistent basis. It has the ability to take screenshots, write unit tests, etc, it's just blind to the kind of intuitive logic we get with our human world model. So the code frequently regresses and gravity starts going in the wrong direction.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-14 20:37:11+00:00
The more “terms of art” a field uses, the more errors the AI makes and the harder time it has understanding. Hence, areas like law and medicine, rich in specialized jargon, frequently pose challenges for AI.

I use it for legal work and I find it just has issues when a term is defined in a very very specific way in one section and another way in another. It obviously has a lot of semantics when they rewrite the definitions of words in separate code sections and separate contracts.
by WCSTombs | 2025-09-14 20:37:26+00:00
If you find yourself needing einsum a lot, consider using the Xarray [1] package instead, which lets you name the axes of your arrays. Broadcasting and axis alignment is then automatically done by matching names. You don't need einsum then usually, since you can just use "dot" or "sum". However, if you do need einsum or other functions from NumPy, you can easily drop down to the NumPy level and re-add the Xarray metadata when you're done.

[1] https://xarray.dev
by Etheryte | 2025-09-14 20:37:42+00:00
I don't really see the problem. A hundred of those lines is just imports and the rest is already split into logical groups with comment sections. Most of this is not mentally taxing code either, you can just read it straight. Sure, it would be nice to split it up, but it really isn't as much of a problem here as you make it out to be.
by esafak | 2025-09-14 20:37:52+00:00
> First you have to give someone the right to define what these virtues mean in practice. Then you need to somehow impose them on the wider population. This is a rather dangerous tool and I think actual examples of such a top down approach working in democratic societies are quite rare.

Once you have a democracy, you are not supposed to dictate from the top but distribute political power, and decision-making. The US has seen the executive's usurpation of power from the other branches of government since the turn of the century. Such an unbalanced government is by definition inimical to democracy.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-14 20:38:09+00:00
> ~0 in 2021

Sure. This is a nice indication you're doing a little sleight of hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_San_Jose_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Boulder_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_FedEx_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atlanta_spa_shootings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Rock_Hill_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Muskogee_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Chicago%E2%80%93Evanston_...

I'm sure you knew all their perpetrators' names by heart, right?

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48276

> Active shooter incidents that meet the federal standard for mass killings have at least three fatalities in a single incident, not including the shooter. If the police are notified of the incident after it has concluded or the event occurs in a sparsely populated public place, then it is not considered by the FBI to be an active shooter incident.

> Incidents resulting from self-defense, gang violence, drug violence, domestic or residential disputes, hostage situations, or crossfire as a byproduct of another ongoing criminal act, as well as acts that do not put other people in peril, are also not considered active shooter incidents.

The Kirk shooting, therefore, was not an "active shooter" by this definition, either. I suspect that definition would be a surprise to the folks there.
by jph | 2025-09-14 20:38:26+00:00
One improvement is to start using an AGENTS file. There are many. Here's the repo that I personally use thanks to Pontus Abrahamsson and using TypeScript:

https://github.com/pontusab/directories

If you prefer AGENTS.md files using markdown, I've extracted them into my own repo:

https://github.com/SixArm/ai-agents-tips
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-14 20:39:39+00:00
It is a mixed bag for citizens. If they want to go abroad or buy something abroad, they have to go through a complex dance to get the dollars they need. In the past this was harder, then easier, then harder again...so whatever. It makes moving abroad more appealing to some Chinese (so they can earn a convertible currency rather than yuan), which isn't ideal for the Chinese government.

I definitely don't think they should move to a convertible currency without a more stable financial system. They also rely on yuan being saved in China (because you can't invest your money easily outside) to drive cheaper investment capital in China.
by thisisit | 2025-09-14 20:39:45+00:00
Even the best of people can fall for scams. It depends on how much you need the money. No one starts off thinking they are going to be scammed. The design ensures people enter this trap slowly. When people are hesitant they are given a taste of success - the 500%. Some people tap out here. Others want to continue to try their luck. But often they are stopped with reverse psychology that there are no low pay jobs and they need to pitch in more money.
by kelnos | 2025-09-14 20:40:08+00:00
> And wow, did I feel like superman when I got back racing my peers.

Huh, interesting. A friend of mine moved from sea level to ~6000 ft a few years ago. She said it took her a bit of time to get used to running at the new altitude, but eventually felt as comfortable with it as she had down here at sea level. I asked her if running feels easier to her at sea level now, when she comes down the mountain to visit, and she said it doesn't; it's basically the same as it used to be when she lived here.

Maybe the extra 4600ft you went up to made a difference in that, and of course everyone is different, but that's still interesting to me.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-09-14 20:40:19+00:00
I have a curved monitor on my regular desk, and a flat panel on my treadmill desk. Switching between the two takes a few minutes of adjustment for things to look right.

I had a similar peculiarity with eyeglasses. I'd always had great vision, but middle age recently hit me like a truck, and my eyes have started to go. I got a prescription, and there was a difference between the two eyes. For the first few days, everything looked misshapen, larger on one side than the other, until my brain compensated. Most curious.
by Aloisius | 2025-09-14 20:40:39+00:00
Australia has an entry for a major city per state not because someone decided it was a good idea, but for the same reason Boise got one - they were the largest city in a jurisdiction that sometime after 1970 changed its timezone so it didn't match anyone else which necessitated adding an entry in order to record the unique timezone rules for them.

For instance, both Sydney and Melbourne both have entries because Victoria and New South Wales have started/ended daylight savings time in various years since 1970 on different dates like in 1990 when in Victoria it ended on March 18 while in New South Wales it ended on March 4.

It's also why Broken Hill has an entry despite being in New South Wales, they're in their own timezone.
by pas | 2025-09-14 20:41:01+00:00
track cars then and shipping containers and whatnot, not people's conversations.

we all pay the price, yes, but we also all enjoy the prosperity it brings us.

at best these are arguments for finally making cars harder to steal. (and for people to own fewer of them and just rent them when they need it. and the renter company can then store them in a big fucking lot with security if they want to.)

...

as other commenters pointed it out, the technology is out there.

sure, it might not convince enough voters, we'll see. but it's sure as shit that these networks are not going back to pen and paper.