MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-02 00:24:23+00:00
Drunk driver, war, etc. Am I callous to believe that the two are not equally deserving of our empathy?

I've always thought that a good comparison was drug addiction. Ultimately, what's the difference between someone who engages in high-risk extreme sports and someone who just sits at home doing meth in the basement?

They are both doing dangerous, unnecessary things to manipulate their brain chemistry, without creating or learning anything useful or affecting anything in the larger world around them. Why is one considered heroic and adventurous, and the other criminal or at best pathetic?

I'm not saying that pleasure-seeking for its own sake is inherently bad or wrong, but how would you compare and contrast the behavior of a drug addict and a high-risk climber, if you were explaining it to an alien anthropologist?
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-02 00:25:03+00:00
I saw this myself. When Amazon started Amazoning with me and I knew the PIP was coming, I didn’t panic. I did just enough to make them think I was taking the “focus” seriously, waited until my next vest and then the “severance or PIP offer”.

For those who don’t know how toxic Amazon really is, once you get the try to work through the PIP or severance offer, if you try to work through the PIP and fail (and you will), your severance amount is decreased to a third of the original.

But you can appeal the failed pip and if your appeal is denied, that gets cut to another 1/2.

So $40K would have quickly become less than $7K.

All of my coworkers on H1B were scared shitless it would happen to them. I was doing my 40 hours a week during my focus, refusing extra work, going on vacations and of course putting feelers out to all of my former clients (working in AWS’s consulting department) and former coworkers.

I had already paid off all of our debt, built up savings, sold all of my AMZN stock, and moved to state tax free Florida.

I knew someone would give me a job or a contract. H1B visa holders can’t work contracts and maintain their status.
by jart | 2025-09-02 00:25:18+00:00
Cloudflare protected people from DDOS. They stopped abusive individuals from removing websites and their content from the Internet. Now Cloudflare is inventing new ways to prevent us from accessing information. They've become the people they swore they would fight. You either die young or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. The side that is good is the side that fights for knowledge and to make it plentiful and available to everyone, including robots. That's what's going to make society flourish. Not this scheming and rent-seeking. Building an empire that panders to resentfulness is like building on sand.
by big_youth | 2025-09-02 00:25:42+00:00
> I thought this was common knowledge on HN?

Just as an aside but I would never say this, this is why people hate security teams. I'm a security 'expert' with 15+ years in the industry including speaking at DEFCON, Blackhat, and all that.

I had no idea about these issues and have never heard of PASETO until now! I'm actually a few months in into my startup and we are using JWT for a lot of stuff so this is very relevant. Thanks for sharing! But if I can't keep up with everything then devs who don't do this all day simply cannot.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-02 00:26:19+00:00
> Well, you don't get to take someone's land, enforce apartheid, close 2 million people in a cage and claim you want peace either.

The palestinains started pretty much every war. Israel won them. If the palestinians didnt want to be stuck in gaza they shouldnt have started and lost all those wars. Now they have to live with the consequences. To be clear I dont think gazans are wrong for being pissed about their situation. I do think theyre wrong for doing absolutely nothing to improve it though. I think theyre wrong for starting wars they cant win and then complaining when they dont win them.

> the idea that Palestinians are rabid animals, more interested in destroying the others than in their own happiness.

Maybe if they stopped devoting all their resources to destroying israel and invested in themselves people wouldnt think this(to be clear I dont, although I do think Hamas leadership largely does thinks this). The bottom of the idea that hamas wants to destroy israel is hamas, repeatedly saying they want to destroy israel. Why shouldnt I trust what they constantly say?

> What is the point of acting like Israel doesn't have the means of wiping Hamas 100 times over?

Who is acting like this? Israel shown restraint which hamas has never done. You are right, they could kill every single person in gaza quite easily, they dont want to. The same cant be said for hamas and how they feel about israelis.

> Well, you don't get to take someone's land, enforce apartheid, close 2 million people in a cage and claim you want peace either.

Why not? Why should Israel, with the power to wipe palestine off the map, settle for anything less? The problem with hamas launching rockets is that they cant back it up when israel correctly sees that as a declaration of war.

> You take the rockets, ffs, in fact you deserve much bigger ones.

And this mentality is why the israelis have decided a genocide is their best option
by kylecazar | 2025-09-02 00:26:29+00:00
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Hello! I'm a technical product manager/lead looking for a new role (I've had luck on here previously). I've worked at startups and in the enterprise, across a few spaces, and was PM #1 twice. My favorite products have manifested as platforms, and I particularly enjoy building for a developer-user (API's, SDK's), but those aren't hard requirements.

Ideally I am building something important, that will challenge me, on a team that will do the same. I've been consulting for a while and am looking to join a company in a permanent, full-time role.

Thanks!
by nickysielicki | 2025-09-02 00:26:50+00:00
Frankly, this is strictly a positive signal to me.

Fargate and lambda are fundamentally very different from EC2/nitro under the hood, with a very different risk profile in terms of security. The reason you can't run GPU workloads on top of fargate and lambda is because exposing physical 3rd-party hardware to untrusted customer code dramatically increases the startup and shutdown costs (ie: validating that the hardware is still functional, healthy, and hasn't been tampered with in any way). That means scrubbing takes a long time and you can't handle capacity surges as easily as you can with paravirtualized traditional compute workloads.

There are a lot of business-minded non-technical people running AWS, some of which are sure to be loudly complaining about this horrible loss of revenue... which simply lets you know that when push comes to shove, the right voices are still winning inside AWS (eg: the voices that put security above everything else, where it belongs).
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-02 00:27:05+00:00
If the punishment from the state is a slap on the wrist, it doesn’t justify retaliatory murder, but justifiable homicide when you know you’ll be raped again and perhaps killed yourself changes the calculus. No one should take matters into their own hands, but no one should be put in a position where that seems remotely appropriate.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/khachaturyan-s... | https://archive.is/L5KXZ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachaturyan_sisters_case
by kadoban | 2025-09-02 00:27:47+00:00
> Poor man’s version of this which requires no training would be to evaluate positions at low depth and high depth and select positions where the best move switches.

I've looked at the ~same problem in go instead of chess quite a bit. It turns out that that strategy does remarkably poorly, mostly because weak players don't just have low-depth thinking, they also do random weird shit and miss entire patterns. Eg in go if you run a strong go engine at _zero_ thinking (just take the model's best guess first move), it's already damn close to pro level.

Getting them to play anything like a beginner, or even intermediate player is functionally impossible. You _may_ be able to trick one into playing as weak as a beginner player if you really try, but it would feel _nothing_ like one.

> Training neural nets to model behavior at different levels is also possible but high rated players are inherently more difficult to model.

Maybe more difficult to model (not sure tbh, but granted for the moment), but it's _far_ easier to generate training data for strong players via reinforcement learning approaches.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-02 00:27:47+00:00
I’ve seen a few submissions have their titles changed in the last few months. I was led to believe that submissions should not deviate from the original title under any circumstance other than those described on the guidelines.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Has this policy been relaxed recently? I never liked it as I find a lot of submissions can be unintentionally misleading when the original title is used.
by eru | 2025-09-02 00:28:20+00:00
> Or how about when the criminals discover that they can avoid being shot by dressing up in police uniforms, fooling all of the smart guns?

Dressing up in police uniforms is illegal in some jurisdictions (like Germany).

And you might say 'Oh, but criminals won't be deterred by legality or lack thereof.' Remember: the point is to make crime more expensive, so this would be yet another element on which you could get someone behind bars. Either as a separate offense, if you can't make anything else stick or as aggravating circumstances.

> A very similar story is the idea of a drink driving detector in every vehicle. It sounds good when you imagine it being perfect. It doesn’t sound so good when you realize that even a 99.99% false positive avoidance means your own car is almost guaranteed lock you out of driving it some day by mistake during its lifetime, potentially when you need to drive it for work, an appointment, or even an emergency due to a false positive.

So? Might still be a good trade-off overall, especially if that car is cheaper to own than one without the restriction.

Cars fail sometimes, so your life can't depend on 100% uptime of your car anyway.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-09-02 00:29:04+00:00
The social sciences getting involved with AI “alignment” is a huge part of the problem. It is a field with some very strange notions of ethics far removed from western liberal ideals of truth, liberty, and individual responsibility.

Anything one does to “align” AI necessarily permutes the statistical space away from logic and reason, in favor of defending protected classes of problems and people.

AI is merely a tool; it does not have agency and it does not act independently of the individual leveraging the tool. Alignment inherently robs that individual of their agency.

It is not the AI company’s responsibility to prevent harm beyond ensuring that their tool is as accurate and coherent as possible. It is the tool users’ responsibility.
by fuzztester | 2025-09-02 00:29:29+00:00
I've read many times in the past that a lot of EDA-related software is written in Tcl and Tk.

Electronic Design Automation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automation

See:

https://www.tcl-lang.org/about/uses.html

The section about Embedded Development.

CAD is mentioned there too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design
by shagie | 2025-09-02 00:29:38+00:00
I am reminded of the Uncomfortable Amazon Truths ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20980025 ) by Corey Quinn.

While they're protected now, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20980557 quotes the one I recall...

- Nobody has figured out how to make money from AI/ML other than by selling you a pile of compute and storage for your AI/ML misadventures.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1173367909369802752.html maintains the entire chain of tweets.
by technothrasher | 2025-09-02 00:29:43+00:00
> and even a - frankly absurd, but popcorn-worthy fun - Hollywood film starring Brad Pitt.

Yeah, "F1 the movie" was ridiculous; some of the lines had me laughing out loud at how corny they were. But it was certainly popcorn-worthy, and it had enough Easter eggs for actual F1 fans to keep them entertained. It was hilarious to watch one of the podium scenes where Leclerc had this look of, "am I doing this acting thing right, guys?" that was precious.

But if you want an actual good F1 movie, "Rush" is very well done. It tells the story of the rivalry between drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt during the 1970s.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-02 00:30:25+00:00
Laptop manufacturers are most definitely not designing their laptops to run at the top of the thermal envelope for 100% of the time, and honestly that's probably the right choice because no one does that – that's what you pay for when you buy high end servers, and the fact these corners are cut is why consumer hardware is so much cheaper.

If you run the software they provide and their guardrails aren't strict enough, that's clearly a warranty case. But if you modify the software to remove their guardrails, it feels reasonable that they can deny a warranty fix.

Overclocking is perhaps a clearer cut version of this – it's a "software change", but can affect the hardware lifespan.
by interstice | 2025-09-02 00:30:38+00:00
I've been thinking a lot recently about edge/client layer data sync, interesting to hear where others are at. Noria seems to have got as far as a smart way to store and manage tabular data, however this doesn't seem to help much when the frontend is built on blobs & if one isn't prepared to write the additional layer for read/write on top of the rest of the fetching system.

The dumb/MVP approach I'd like to try sometime is close-to-client read only sqlite db's that get managed in the background and neatly handled by wrapper functions around things like fetch. The part I've been slowly thinking about is Noria style efficient handling of data structures while allowing for 'raw' queries, ideally I'd like to set this up so the frontend doesn't need an additional layers worth of read/write functionality just to have CDN-like behaviour. Maybe something like plugins to [de/re]normalise different kinds of blob to tables (from gql, groqd, etc). I'd also like to include a realtime cache invalidation/update system to keep all clients in sync without cache clearing... If I ever get that far.
by demarq | 2025-09-02 00:30:52+00:00
things that you think sound good, might not sound good to the authority in charge of determining what is good.

For example using your LLM to criticise, ask questions or perform civil work that is deemed undesirable becomes evil.

You can use google to find how the UK government for example has been using "law" and "terrorism" charges against people for simply tweeting or holding a placard they deem critical of Israel.

Anthropic is showing off these capabilities in order to secure defence contracts. "We have the ability to surveil and engage threats, hire us please".

Anthropic is not a tiny start up exploring AI, it's a behemoth bank rolled by the likes of Google and Amazon. It's a big bet. While money is drying up for AI, there is always one last bastion for endless cash, defence contracts.

You just need a threat.
by eru | 2025-09-02 00:31:08+00:00
> [0]: My favorite "fun" fact is that the Holocaust was legal. You can kill a couple million people if you write a law that says killing those people is legal.

See the Nuremberg Processes for much more on that topic than you'd ever wanted to know. 'Legal' is a complicated concept.

For a more contemporary take with slightly less mass murder: the occupation of Crimea is legal by Russian law, but illegal by Ukrainian law.

Or how both Chinas claim the whole of China. (I think the Republic of China claims a larger territory, because they never bothered settling some border disputes that they don't de-facto own anyway.) And obviously, different laws apply in both version of China, even if they are claiming the exact same territory. Some act can be both legal and illegal.
by screye | 2025-09-02 00:31:47+00:00
Amazon and Apple have never had fundamental research groups. Even before LLMs, the top big-tech fundamental labs were FAIR, Google Research and MSR.

It has never been in Amazon or Apple's DNA to chase a product that doesn't have clear revenue outcomes (as long as adoption lands). AI is no different.

IMO, it's the right decision for Amazon and wrong decision for Apple.
by gary_0 | 2025-09-02 00:32:17+00:00
The existence of SIMD has knock-on effects on the design of the execution unit and the FPUs, though, since it's usually the only way to fully utilize them for float/arithmetic workloads. And newer SIMD features like AVX/AVX2 have a pretty big effect on the whole CPU design; it was widely reported that Intel and AMD went to a lot of trouble to make it viable, even though most software probably isn't even compiled with AVX support enabled.

Also SIMD is just one example. Modern DMA controllers are probably another good example but I know less about them (although I did try some weird things with the one in the Raspberry Pi). Or niche OS features like shared memory--pipes are usually all you need, and don't break the multitasking paradigm, but in the few cases where shared memory is needed it speeds things up tremendously.
by fuzztester | 2025-09-02 00:32:28+00:00
Pasting that section's content here:

Because Tcl is a very compact language, and is easily integrated with special hardware, it is a popular choice for embedded development. You'll find Tcl hidden away on many devices, including many networking products from Cisco and others, and set-top boxes including Tivo. Embedding Tcl within other software projects is of course also hugely popular, and has become the dominant control language in some industries, such as in electronic design automation (EDA) and computer-aided design (CAD) applications.
by oddmade | 2025-09-02 00:32:48+00:00
https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms

"Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all our right, title, and interest (if any) in Outputs."

..and if you read the terms you find a very long list of what they deem acceptable.

I see now they also added "Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes" ...

..so paying 100usd a month for a code assistant is now a hobby ?
by neilv | 2025-09-02 00:32:50+00:00
One downside to not having much text on your slides is that the slides alone are then not as useful as a reference to attendees later.

When I do low-text slides anyway, sometimes I've used the "notes" field of the presentation program to write out complete text of a version of the speech, for my eyes only. Then I don't read the notes while presenting, but I've gone through that writing exercise, to think through the content and presentation more rigorously than is necessary to slap some headings on slides.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-02 00:32:59+00:00
> Sure we might not have Mario Kart World or Zelda or other Nintendo specific titles

Well, that's why people buy Nintendo consoles. You don't buy a Switch 2, you buy the device needed to play Mario Kart and Zelda, whatever it is.

In general, consoles are defined by their games, they are not general purpose machines and everything is to be seen from this angle. Hardwares specs don't matter, what matter is how well the games you want to play run. It is even more so with Nintendo as they have generally less powerful hardware with some of the best games as exclusive licenses.
by robertjpayne | 2025-09-02 00:33:42+00:00
It's not actually that concerning. RN's pods are vended via npm not trunk so trunk going read-only will not have an outsized impact on RN.

The risk is that over time Cocoapods will no longer work to integrate dependencies with ways Xcode wants them to be.

Switching to SPM is a massive undertaking for a large project with many intertwined dependencies and configuration options. It's far less configurable than Cocoapods with basically no scripting options during install.

Their progress already is pretty decent!
by tzs | 2025-09-02 00:34:02+00:00
> The founding fathers would hate to have seen property taxes. It's so unamerican and against freedom.

Every one of the original 13 states had property taxes when they won their independence from the British. They all kept those taxes throughout the process of forming the US, and they have all kept those taxes ever since. Furthermore, every state that joined the US after that either had property tax when they joined or instituted one soon after.

Every Founding Father therefore did see property taxes. Did they hate them?

Thomas Jefferson advocated a progressive property tax that would exempt the value of property below a certain point and tax the rest with the tax rising in a geometric progression as the value rises.

George Washington didn't specifically say what he thought of property taxes, but his state, Virginia, had a property tax and as one of the largest landowners in the state he was one of those taxed the most. So if he hated property taxes it wasn't enough to actually try to change them or write about it.

Benjamin Franklin believed that property was a product of social convention and thus legitimately subject to government regulation and taxation for the public good.

John Adams was OK with property taxes, as long as they were equitable. When he was President there was an armed revolt in eastern Pennsylvania over federal taxes on houses, land, and slaves and Adams sent in federal marshals to put it down.

Alexander Hamilton regarded them as legitimate, as did James Madison. Like Washington I don't think they said whether they preferred them or preferred other taxes to raise money the government needed.

When John Jay was government of New York the state had a property tax. Like Washington he did not publish an opinion on it or try to do anything to end it.

That's doesn't sound like any of them hated them.
by akk0 | 2025-09-02 00:34:08+00:00
I wouldn't be so quick to equate differences in personal anecdotes with stark country-level differences (though it's plausible that everything is worse in America as usual)

I grew up in a low income neighborhood in the Netherlands and many times saw people be utterly terrified of CPS. In many cases these were households where outside help could've been really useful, but even in the worst cases where heavy CPS involvement was the only option (real "take the child away" cases), the child's situation often unfortunately hardly got better, just different. In less intense cases CPS involvement often just seemed to thrust a compliance burden on households without offering much real support, mostly just leaving people feeling guilty and stigmatized. Overall still better for them to exist than not, and budget cuts and restructuring really hurt the situation later, but still an organization with very real odds of making the situation worse, sometimes catastrophically worse.