MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-15 01:44:33+00:00
Perhaps the most telling portion of their decision is:

Quality concerns. Popular LLMs are really great at generating plausibly looking, but meaningless content. They are capable of providing good assistance if you are careful enough, but we can't really rely on that. At this point, they pose both the risk of lowering the quality of Gentoo projects, and of requiring an unfair human effort from developers and users to review contributions and detect the mistakes resulting from the use of AI.

The first non-title sentence is the most notable to consider, with the rest providing reasoning difficult to refute.
by adrr | 2025-09-15 01:45:22+00:00
>Bullshit research like this, written by attorneys, including arguments like claim 11 which tries to hide the fact that solar only produces energy during daylight, annd does not account for storage/firming costs are not helping move our national energy dialog forward.

Current cost: ~$140–$200 per MWh discharged (Latest Lazard LCOS reports). Price will get cut in half when sodium batteries production ramps up over next few years. Solar + Battery and Wind + battery is the cheapest form electricity outside of hydro.

> As someone who lives in New York City and is drowning in inflated energy bills, lacking any engineering explanation why my residential electricity $/MWh is triple that of Beijing, I am sick and tired of phony academic papers such as this that begin with a conclusion and work backward to fabricate extremely misleading arguments.

Majority of electricity cost is delivery not generation. In NYC, you have an aging electrical system that needed to be replaced 20 years ago. Then the billions spent to harden to system from global warming effects like Hurricane Sandy. Most of Coned electricity is natural gas and natural gas prices are up 50% compared to last year(August 2024 prices compared August 2025).
by teminal | 2025-09-15 01:45:50+00:00
sorry about that.

i apply to jobs mainly through linkedin, yc, emails, and company career pages, sometimes even dming people on linkedin.

in the last month i’ve applied to over 100+ jobs, including some random ones not really based on location, and i also try to talk to people directly.

in the interview process, many times i make it to the final round, sometimes not.

I haven't worked with any recruiters mostly local startups with small teams.

i've already done 5+ internships and 2 fullstack client projects, so i'm wondering if i should focus on applying for more internships in frontend, or just focus on full-time roles now?
by mrajagopalan | 2025-09-15 01:46:04+00:00
A bit late to this discussion — but we've been looking at this problem for a while and have implemented a cryptographic approach I wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45244297_ID

TL;DR: We treat AI components like untrusted network services and apply mTLS-style verification. The aha! was in making security invisible to developers. It works.

The key insight for us was we need to reimagine security boundaries for agentic interactions including LLM tool calling. We built "Authenticated Workflows" - cryptographic enforcement at the tool layer. Intent is signed before the LLM sees it, tools verify independently, policies are cryptographically bound. Even confused LLMs can't forge signatures.

Technical details here: https://www.macawsecurity.com/blog/zero-trust-tool-calling-f...

Feedback and inputs much appreciated.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-15 01:46:46+00:00
The reasons from the article are about the quality of food through cooking consistency and how easy non-stick cookware is to use.

If there is proven data that the danger is meaningful how can those be arguments worth considering? There may be alternative cooking methods as people cooked without non-stick cookware for the vast majority of human history and consistency is just a quality level of food.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 01:47:25+00:00
> opinions that were contributing to making the lives of several demographic groups more unsafe

Mere opinions cannot do this, even in principle.

As I'm sure you're aware, merely voicing opinions doesn't cause people to agree, either.

> The first amendment is important, but it has boundaries, and Kirk made a living from being very close (arguably sometimes over) these boundaries.

The boundaries are far tighter than you imply. Nothing I have seen him say comes anywhere close at all. Even the most uncharitable representations being spread around of his out-of-context excerpts would absolutely be protected speech in the USA. I am not a lawyer but I have spent a lot of time researching this. When Kirk and others like him say that US law does not recognize a concept of "hate speech", they are objectively correct. Wikipedia agrees:

> Hate speech in the United States cannot be directly regulated by the government due to the fundamental right to freedom of speech protected by the Constitution.[1] While "hate speech" is not a legal term in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that most of what would qualify as hate speech in other western countries is legally protected speech under the First Amendment. In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker's viewpoint.[2]

Note that this was a unanimous reaffirmation, in quite recent, very ideologically polarized history.
by bb88 | 2025-09-15 01:47:35+00:00
My personal hypothesis, is that cravings (drug, sugar, food, sex, alcohol, socializing, etc) fill a need for stimulation. Most people get that through maybe watching sports, reading books, or if you can, mental stimulation (math, science, programming, 3d printing, juggling, etc). Or maybe some combination of all of them. If you didn't have very many friends growing up, it felt agonizing with a deep desire to fit in -- that was the "social" craving kicking in early in life.

Some of those cravings exist to extend life and to help the species multiply. Some of them were artificial (drugs, alcohol, gambling, computer gaming).

GLP-1 agonists (wegovy, zepbound) are prescribed for certain addictions other than obesity. This shows that we don't understand addiction at all.
by efreak | 2025-09-15 01:47:42+00:00
With narrow spacing and poor kerning it can get much worse, especially if you're reading printed text; I've seen some extremely bad fonts used in print, (usually in italics or titles, but sometimes in the body text as well): m and rn, cl and d, lo and b, jo and p, ijl1, GC0OQ, italic Q2.
by bleepblap | 2025-09-15 01:49:37+00:00
>> Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in blatant copyright violations to train their models. > I thought we (FOSS) were anti copyright?

Absolutely not! Every major FOSS license has copyright as its enforcement method -- "if you don't do X (share code with customers, etc depending on license) you lose the right to copy the code"
by jaggederest | 2025-09-15 01:50:53+00:00
> feels like something pretty straight forward to fix.

It is actually not. This is something I learned as a lad working in a bakery, professional bakers use all kinds of ingredients not readily available at home. Especially in e.g. boxed cake mix, it's actually a half dozen ingredients that are totally impractical to keep on hand. Various gums, starches, dextrins, mono- and di-glycerides, surfactants, encapsulated flavors, specific leavening ratios, basically the whole chemistry set.

The annoying thing is, the ingredient list says "modified food starch", but it could be any of a half a dozen different kinds of modified food starch, with different properties depending on how it's been modified and what the composition of the original starch was. Some are gelling, some are thickening, some are thinning, etc.

That's also why making your own cakes trying to imitate them quickly becomes a fool's errand. You're never going to beat the chemistry that's in the box, and even if you did it would look more like molecular gastronomy than baking.
by NathanielBaking | 2025-09-15 01:53:10+00:00
The thing that resonated the most with me was the idea that slow processors need to focus on strategic thinking. I am a 60 year old and now retired software developer. I keep myself busy by actively continuing to code every day. I definitely have experienced a slowing of thinking in the last ten years. I have read that this could be because I have more information to sift and sort but being honest with myself, the machinery is not as well tuned as it once was.

I am fine with all this. I love coding and I doubt I will ever stop doing it for pleasure. I have had to become more methodical and intentional with my time on the laptop but reflecting on this piece, being more strategic would be a wise thing for me to contemplate on.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-15 01:53:29+00:00
>> Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in blatant copyright violations to train their models.

> I thought we (FOSS) were anti copyright?

No free and open source software (FOSS) distribution model is "anti-copyright." Quite to the contrary, FOSS licenses are well defined[0] and either address copyright directly or rely on copyright being retained by the original author.

0 - https://opensource.org/licenses
by bruce511 | 2025-09-15 01:54:03+00:00
I am not an academic, so I'll leave the formal stuff to others. However I have been running a residential dollar system for 2 years, and tracking the numbers, so here's my data for what it's worth.

Firstly, as a return on capital spent, I'm seeing a return of 16% per annum. As electricity prices increase, that trends up.

Secondly we're purchasing about 66% less energy annually. In summer months around 85% of daily (electrical) energy use is self-generated. Most of our annual grid consumption occurs during 2 months in winter. (We still produce then, but not enough to run our electric heating.)

Next year I'm switching to an EV, which can be charged from my current excess (unused) daytime generation for approx 9 months in the year.

I can't speak to grid-scale costs, but for me anyway, generation cost is 0. (Capital cost was real, but return on capital is 16% and rising, which is better than my retirement account.)

So, if you want to reduce your energy costs, self production is the best route. If you can't do that, then it's unlikely that you (as the consumer) will benefit much. The supplier will likely supply at market rates (set by the most expensive source) and the gap is their profit not yours.

We may in future move to a pricing model that favors cheap electricity during the day, and more expensive at night, but at least where I am that's not a thing yet.

So, generally speaking, it's a lot cheaper to use electric over gasoline for transport. Electric from solar is cheaper to produce than burning fossils. Whether that translates into cheaper for you though depends on market forces. If you're in the US, we'll, good luck with that. It seems to me that suppliers in the US price based on what the consumer will pay, and less on input cost.

Of course all my numbers will vary a lot based on location. YMMV.
by Lerc | 2025-09-15 01:54:09+00:00
Having done a fair degree of programming in Wirthwhile languages, I think the only main design decision that I think was a mistake was the variables at the top.

I'm not sure of the value of seeing all of the variables used listed in one place, it has certainly led to me encountering a identifier scrolling up to determine the type then scrolling back down. When the variable is only used on a few consecutive lines it's just adding work to read and adding work to create. I daresay I have written harder to read code than I intended because I didn't want to go up and declare another variable for short term use. The temptation to inline the expression is always there, because you know what all the parts mean when you write it. It's only when you come back later that you get the regret.

It's possible it could be mitigated by defining something like (not sure if this is a valid grammar)

stmt_sequence = {decl_sequence}. stmt {";" stmt} [";"].

and bring in scoping on statement sequences. maybe call it stmt_block so that stmt_sequence can be a component that really is just a sequence of statements.
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 01:54:23+00:00
It seems to me that only kellogs, post (and maybe malt-o-meal?) make raisin bran, the rest are the above with a different name. I buyithe brand name anyway as quality control will sell marginal (safe to eat but batch was mixed wrong) product to the other labels they won't to themselves. (these days i make my own meals from scratch, when I used to I bought the brand after getting burned on generics)
by rmunn | 2025-09-15 01:54:26+00:00
That is indeed why they limited it, but that was a mistake. I want to call UTF-16 a mistake all on its own, but since it predated UTF-8, I can't entirely do so. But limiting the Unicode range to only what's allowed in UTF-16 was shortsighted. They should, instead, have allowed UTF-8 to continue to address 31 bits, and if the standard grew past 21 bits, then UTF-16 would be deprecated. (Going into depth would take an essay, and at this point nobody cares about hearing it, so I'll refrain).
by verteu | 2025-09-15 01:54:38+00:00
Probably nothing.

It seems quite reasonable that unrealized capital gains would be treated differently for "a primary residence" vs "a multi-billion-dollar stake in a company controlled by the owner."

A far better question is: Why does my company pay me in cash (40% marginal tax rate) instead of "equity shares of 'special partnership units' representing the value added by verteu's labor" (20% capital gains tax)?

Or: "How did Mitt Romney's Roth IRA grow to $100,000,000 with a $7,000 annual contribution limit?"
by g-b-r | 2025-09-15 01:54:44+00:00
It would easily mean that you're required to have an unmodified device, running a locked down system, to be able to access any service that uses age verification.

Although, a much more sensible alternative, would be to have parents (that do want the control) give their sons devices that send the "minor alert" signal, and have the services detect that.
by masswerk | 2025-09-15 01:54:56+00:00
That's totally correct! I once replaced some blurry scans from the 6502 manual by SVG versions, and, while I was at it, I coded them by hand (really, because for this particular job it seemed easier than doing it in a drawing program.) While nobody will notice, it's satisfactory.

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/6502/6502_instruction_set.html#stack
by snailmailman | 2025-09-15 01:55:11+00:00
This isn’t surprising to me at all. These services put too much trust in “the most common answer” when that might not be the correct answer. Just because people think one thing doesn’t make it true. It’s super easy to spread misinformation online. And if you can SEO to the top, the AI will think your site is correct.

I see factually incorrect “ai summaries” in search results all the time and see that it cites ai-generated slop blogposts that SEO-hacked themselves into taking up the entire first page of search results. This is most common for recent stuff where the answer simply isn’t certain but these AI services will assert something random with confidence.

Not even for news stuff specifically, I’ve been searching about a new video game that I’ve been playing and keep getting misleading obviously incorrect information. Detailed, accurate game walkthroughs and wiki pages dont exist yet so the ai will hallucinate anything, and so will the blogspam articles trying to get SEO ad revenue.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-15 01:55:36+00:00
Is your idea that that would always work? Like:

s := "Hello world".; -- equivalent to "Hello world\n"

Or only in `print`? If only in `print`, then you've suddenly made a context-sensitive grammar. And if the former, just use "Hello world\n" instead, since the tokenizer already supports that.
by teminal | 2025-09-15 01:55:43+00:00
thanks for the advice.

my college is average it had a job placement office but in the final year due to some issues i couldn't able to sit any of the placements

i don't know about alumni association but there are some people from the college who are at good position but what is the right way to approach them also when i talked with some recent college senior working in a company they only say me like master your skill try learning this

why this is happening though i know am not that kind of genius but i had build stuffs i can get things done

how to approach people correctly do i directly say i need job hire me
by klaff | 2025-09-15 01:56:19+00:00
I remember the cans of Hershey's syrup, you opened them with a church key. This was the same era of oil cans with the special opener/spout you had to use. BTW, there's an unopened can of it on ebay for $25, claimed to be from the '60s, and is 5 1/2 ounces.
by bigglywiggler | 2025-09-15 01:56:34+00:00
It wasn't that long and it didn't meander much. It's clear that you didn't realy understand what I was saying. Sure, Pebbles weren't cheap garbage but mine literally died the second that I tried to use it the way that it was used in their ads. I didn't care about the less developed functionality at all. You still don't address the fact that the vast majority of tech out there right now is e-waste.

The point which I was making is that Eric and the pebble team complained about Apple instead of competing in the space that they themselves had created. They were first to market with a smart watch and instead of just finding the consumer base which exists for what they had built and catering to them they tried to appeal to literally everyone and lost. They lost to literally better devices, better screens, better hardware, better software and better capabilities across all ecosystems. Cheap devices using Google's watch OS wiped the floor with Pebble. They had a loyal fanbase who liked the watch for what it was. I was part of that fanbase.

I suggest that if they had just did what they could for apple users and moved on to focus on the nerdy, first adopter types who actually liked their product and are somehow still coming back for it now then they'd have succeeded. It's hard to understand why they spent so much time and money focusing on ios notifications when Android also has a much higher market share and the majority of their customers were/are there anyway. They could have continued to develop their device in that direction and probably still been around today. they could have made better e-ink screens, better colour, better battery life, better charging hardware, better build quality, better waterproofing, built-in GPS, a real attempt at fostering a developer ecosystem for their OS or any number of other great features but they spent gorillions on ios notifications?

I'd also like to take a second to point out that they sold out to fitbit at the behest of their VC overlords because they were insolvent and ditched their userbase hard. Fitbit absolutely bought them out in order to take their IP and kill them as competitors for good. Complaining about Apple on the relaunch and relying on a community of enthusiasts to maintain an opensource codebase for their OS after Google bought out fitbit isn't really very customer focused of them.

Myreply to your question is why should they be able to have that functionality? Why should Apple allow other companies to compete with them within it's walled garden whch they made effort building and have the features that they designed and spent money developing? Why can't other companies develp their own cool features and their own ecosystems? It may benefit some people who want to use non-Apple stuff with Apple stuff but how does this actually benefit Apple and it's customers?
by llbbdd | 2025-09-15 01:56:38+00:00
Yeah, there's a pervasive and strange focus on purity in cooking, for whatever definition satisfies that term. All food is the result of a sequence of chemical and physical reactions; understanding those reactions might take away some of the magic but also allows you to systemically and precisely hone the outcome. I think some people resent that the magic can be explained and improved.
by aGHz | 2025-09-15 01:57:29+00:00
Keep an anxiety log for a few months. In my experience, this feeling of correctness is a retrospective impression that relies heavily on confirmation bias, and in reality is nowhere near that high. Either way, a concrete log will confirm or deny it.

If it's truly correct, then I'd say it's not anxiety and that you're probably more attuned to subtle cues. You can learn to pay conscious attention to these cues, evaluate them, and decide strategically if you want to act on them. The idea is to keep your advantage without the negative emotional reaction.

If it's not that accurate, having proof can help you internalize that you're just going through some particular emotional process, without according it any undue weight. Having let go of that, you can start picking up mechanical tricks for anxiety management, like breathing techniques.
by _alternator_ | 2025-09-15 01:58:05+00:00
Did my PhD in the area of compressed sensing; took a couple classes from Emmanuel Candés while he was at Caltech.

The leap from the RIP to consciousness is … big. But the wonder of mathematics does this kind of thing to me too. Sometimes you see a result so cool and wild that you have the sense that it encodes a secret of the universe; this feeling is why I got into mathematics to begin with.
by joshvm | 2025-09-15 01:58:51+00:00
Something that I didn't notice until I lived in the US was the implicit availability of standard ingredients, like graham crackers. So many classic American recipes are very simple but assume you have access to that one brand of canned pumpkin or cherries that everyone uses to make their pie with. It makes online recipes a lot easier.

A beverage example is the Piña Colada. The original recipe calls for Coco Lopez (see the Regan, The Joy of Mixology), and while you could substitute for some other coconut cream (confusingly, not cream of coconut), it's got the expected amount of sugar and thickeners in that make the classic drink. It's a specialty food in Europe and I assumed it was an antiquity, but no, our local supermarket sells it.
by bcrl | 2025-09-15 01:58:57+00:00
The P4's main problem wasn't so much the 30 stage pipeline. It was the fact that the CPU went off into la-la land for 4000+ cycles when replays occurred. The trigger could be anything as simple as a misaligned load or microcode for an 8 byte rep ; movs or a page fault. As a result, the performance of the design was very fragile and too sensitive to extremely small changes in code and data layout, in large part because of how the features to support high clock speeds all fit together. Performance tuning could often get substantial improvements for complex code paths, but the optimizations were frequently useless for other microarchitectures that didn't have the same glass jaws.

Hyperthreading was much less of a concern given that threading of software was only ramping up for mainstream x86.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-15 01:59:05+00:00
I loved using chat rooms on AOL in the late 90s, later I moved to IRC (dalnet, efnet) and made some close friends. The interactions saved me from horrible depression as in my suburban area I had trouble making friends.

The reason I believe things are different is that the Internet was tech people. People more likely to be logical and rational. Once "regular" people came on they brought their stupidity with them.