MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iLoveOncall | 2025-09-01 19:26:53+00:00
Yeah Amazon is massively struggling to hire due to the extremely bad reputation of Andy Jasshole and the RTO 5 policy, and this is not exclusive to AI talents, but is the case for every single role. We have had reqs open for a year in my team and nobody wants to join.

Truthfully, I don't think anyone would recommend their acquaintances to join Amazon right now.

That said, Amazon is actually winning the AI war. They're selling shovels (Bedrock) in the gold rush.
by robwwilliams | 2025-09-01 19:27:10+00:00
This is perhaps a good argument for AI-enhanced reviews.

in my experience since 1982, reviewers will pick you to death. Peers know the real complexity. Sure, you will occasionally get reviewers who completely miss the point, but it is usually more common that your negative reviewers know way more than you do or they have a different ax to grind then the one you want to grind.
by simianwords | 2025-09-01 19:27:22+00:00
> However, the overall track record for technology being revolutionary on its own is poor. For the last 20-some-odd years, technological progress has been reduced to maximizing attention in the form of gimmicks, addiction, and apps nobody needs.

This is missing forest for the trees. There is no doubt technology has completely revolutionized almost all aspects of life. I mean just take twitter, YouTube or even WhatsApp. A person from 1800s would hardly recognize the advancement made in the last 30-40 years. It would seem like completely magic to them.
by felix-h | 2025-09-01 19:27:38+00:00
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by pcrh | 2025-09-01 19:28:51+00:00
Most grant awarding processes operate similarly to bids for tender. That is, the awarding body invites researchers to submit proposals that fall within its remit.

The submitted proposals can involve including a year or more of "pilot data", being experiments showing that the proposed approach is feasible. In addition 3 or 4 months of writing and admin (budgets,legal requirements, etc) are needed to complete the application.

So an application can easily be 1.5 to 2 man-years of work to prepare.

A screening process then takes place. This involves the awarding organization vetting the credentials of the applicants, as well as recruiting specialists to give their expert opinion. This takes at least 6 months.

Then there will be panel of experts who review all the above and vote. The vote is "taken into consideration" by the executive of the awarding body who make the final decisions. They might award funding for three years of work for maybe 10-15% of applicants.

As you can see, it is a massively burdensome process, with typically a very poor return on investment on the behalf of researchers.

And no, I don't think current AI is anywhere near competent enough to replace most of this process, apart from maybe the admin and legal sides.
by drob518 | 2025-09-01 19:28:54+00:00
The problem with GPL was "tainting." It was never clear in what cases you could use GPL without it dragging all your code into being freely available. LGPL was supposed to help with that; AGPL made it even worse. The lawyers were terribly confused and recommended you just not use anything with "GPL" in the license.

The reason why MIT/BSD licenses flourished is that they were easy to understand. As long as you didn't sue the original author or try to claim the code was written by you, you were free to do almost anything with it, including mixing it in with other for-profit code.

Whether that's an abomination or a blessing depends on your corporate vs. free software politics.
by gschoeni | 2025-09-01 19:29:08+00:00
One of the maintainers of the Open Source project "Oxen" here. Our VCS scales for binary data better than git does, and was built to solve some of the problems with git-lfs and git-annex.

We've had a few requests to integrate with music production workflows, but haven't taken it on yet. If anyone wants to collaborate to integrate Oxen with their DAW or workflow let us know! Here's the project:

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen
by quintes | 2025-09-01 19:29:51+00:00
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by shmerl | 2025-09-01 19:30:25+00:00
On the userland side, there is some good progress of using thunking to run 32-bit Windows programs in Wine on Linux without the need for 32-bit libraries (the only edge case remaining is thunking 32-bit OpenGL which is lacking needed extensions for acceptable performance). But the same can't be said for a bunch of legacy 32-bit native Linux stuff like games which commonly have no source to rebuild them.

May be someone can develop such thunking for legacy Linux userland.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-01 19:31:45+00:00
> "can't participate in society without an apple or google account".

Wow. You nailed it. Thank you.

When desktop operating systems were dominant, the need for the freedom to control your own software installation was beyond obvious.

But now our phones are an even more dominant/necessary computing/communication tool.

Apple and Google's appeal to security is such a fig leaf. They can continue to lock down our phones, add even more security.

BUT, simply provide a way for users to mindfully bypass that. They could make the pass through screen as scary as they feel they need to. That's it.

(If they did that, customer pressure would naturally build over time, for less draconian warnings, as other verifiably/clearly responsible sources became popular.

Another benefit. Apple would soon put its considerable resources competing to delivering the most robust security of a more valuable kind. The kind that enforces the walls between unpermissioned/dark behavior without limiting desired behavior and innovation. That would create healthier quality-loyalty based "lock in" that their vertical integration and high focus DNA already gives them advantages to "win".)
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-09-01 19:31:56+00:00
I have had multiple recruiter reachouts from AWS who obviously read my resume and are interested in short cutting me into a senior role at AWS doing interesting things, but at this point AWS reputation is so bad I don’t even entertain such offers.

For senior in-demand talent you are not desperate, and really only desperate people go to work for AWS as they don’t have any better options at a company which respects their employees.
by upboundspiral | 2025-09-01 19:32:14+00:00
I've started self-hosting searxng (aggregeate search from duckduckgo, Google, etc), and it has been amazing. You can toggle the search engines you want to query, has additional filters for science/IT/music (instead of only maps, images, and general search). No AI summaries, no ads, no distractions.
by breadwinner | 2025-09-01 19:32:49+00:00
Ballmer's chief mistake was sticking to what worked in the past. He was not willing to let go of the Windows monopoly, and Azure in its early days was based on Windows servers. Then Satya came in and said, no it is OK to support Linux, and in fact it is OK to run Microsoft's own services on Linux. It is OK to support Open Source, and in fact we'll open source some of our stuff. That put Microsoft back on track. For now.

Satya's mistake though is that he has filled Microsoft with average people. The best fresh graduates from the top colleges went to Google and Facebook in the last decade -- because they paid significantly more -- and Microsoft picked up the rest. What is the impact of that? Microsoft's execution ability is lower, and we'll see the impact of that in the coming years.

Another of Satya's mistakes is his faux pas related to women employees. He was accused -- unfairly in my opinion -- of saying women employees should not ask for a raise. He did no such thing. He said employees should not ask for a raise (not women employees specifically) and instead should rely on the system to give you the appropriate raise at the appropriate time. But since he said that at a women's conference the accusation stood that he meant women employees specifically. Satya has had to fight against this accusation and he has done so by establishing a quota system for promoting women employees. Executive compensation at all levels at Microsoft is directly tied to promotion of women employees, and as a result, a lot of women now occupy positions they would not otherwise. Again, the impact is decreased ability to execute.

Microsoft today is the second most valuable company behind Nvidia. But you wouldn't know that looking at their products. They don't have any interesting new products. To some extend they are coasting. Will their success continue into the next decade? It's going to be interesting to watch.
by cesaref | 2025-09-01 19:32:57+00:00
They are vitamin C to the mixture, which is actually what is developing the film. There's a commercial developer (Xtol) made by Kodak which is I believe vitamin C based, and it's a very good developer.

It would be interesting to know if the caffeine in the red bull is making a significant contribution I guess, otherwise the jagerbomb isn't really doing that much I think.
by rincebrain | 2025-09-01 19:33:38+00:00
(All personal opinion, etc.)

I'm not actually sure what a better way to square the circle of not making the large entities that have developed a weird patronage relationship with open source projects run away while also avoiding the kinds of problem that the GPLv3 and AGPL are hoping to deal with, would be. Limiting the virality scope might be beneficial there, but I'm not sure how you would word that in a way that's not gameable.

It feels like we've wound up in a weird position where because so many GPLv2 projects moved to GPLv3, companies were startled into paying attention to the risks involved in a new license with open questions about how it would shake out in actual courts, as well as being jolted to the very real possibility it could happen again, and took the path of risk reduction by moving toward platforms where that couldn't happen.

You might compare it to everyone pointing to Solaris's source closing as a reason to not trust Oracle about MySQL's license remaining GPLv2. (As it turned out, so far, they haven't changed the license, but there was certainly a lot of fearmongering about that at the time.)

So I think I agree that it's not so much a coordinated effort to steer anything as the direct effects of companies avoiding funding that space, as well as the knock-on effect that anyone whose goals involve large companies using their product and leveraging that avoids picking a license that precludes that in turn.
by jakereps | 2025-09-01 19:33:45+00:00
> like a "keep my recurring alarm on, but skip it tomorrow" button (useful for when you don't want to wake up early on labor day)

If you use the Sleep feature, instead of a plain alarm for an “alarm clock,” it has had this feature for quite a few years now. Any modification made to Sleep, which is manageable from within the same Alarm app, prompts to ask if you’d like to change your entire sleep schedule or just apply the modification (shut off, or reschedule) to the next one up.
by josephg | 2025-09-01 19:34:03+00:00
The threat model I think about a lot is supply chain attacks.

We’ve found out about a handful of such attacks over the last few years - like xz. And I’ve seen the number of random dependencies which get pulled in by most nodejs, cargo or python projects. The dependencies just scroll on by. There is no vetting process for putting code in npm or cargo. Nobody signs off on anything. Nobody reads the source code. There are no checks, and you can put anything in there.

If malicious code slipped in, would you even notice? I probably wouldn’t. How terrifying.

Linux’s security model means that any malicious code in a crate can run as me and access all of my files. Or delete them or whatever it wants to do. To me this is crazy. There’s no reason to give arbitrary untrusted code full permissions to all of my files and data - but there we have it.

I worry that it’s only a matter of time before we see more attacks like this. It’s such an obvious attack. And our lax endpoint security makes the vulnerability a way bigger problem than it needs to be. It would be trivial for a remote attacker to install C&C software on my computer. They could grab my SSH certificates and install backdoors in any of my projects on github. Read my email. Impersonate me. Crypto locker my stuff. Install malicious extensions into my web browser. And on and on.

None of this would be possible with proper isolation. There’s no reason a build.rs file needs write access to my whole filesystem. It’s crazy.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-09-01 19:34:23+00:00
We trust a lot of organizations to not do illegal things to us. It's not really any different with Apple. You're trusting that the computer you're using to post your comment doesn't have a hardware back door in it. Except I'd argue that the incentives for Apple to do this are less than they would be for other companies. Not blind faith.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-09-01 19:34:40+00:00
No. The trope that faster speeds are more dangerous is at least misleading, and possibly outright false.

It's certainly true that a given accident would be more severe if speeds are higher. That's just physics.

However, in at least some circumstances, accidents are more likely to occur at slower speeds. In your example, rush hour has both more accidents and slower speeds. But also, there's a well-documented effect of a "risk thermostat", where people tend to balance risk such that they exhibit less care when other things would be making things safer. Thus, when speeds are slower, people perceive greater safety and are (maybe subconsciously) more willing to engage in offsetting risks such as playing with their phones or just daydreaming, just because they can. The result is that slower speeds can lead to a greater quantity of accidents (even if those accidents are of lower severity because they were slower).

What remains to be proven is how those two effects offset each other. It's not clear whether the "greater severity" or "more accidents" effect dominates the overall picture.
by timjulien | 2025-09-01 19:34:45+00:00
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by jll29 | 2025-09-01 19:35:55+00:00
>the complexity of chess is not as high as we think, and that there exist a neural network of less than 10B float32 weights which can encode perfect play.

That is certainly not the mainstream view, so you will have to support your conjecture by some evidence if you would like to convince people that you are right (or demonstrate it empirically end-to-end).
by SkiFire13 | 2025-09-01 19:36:17+00:00
> The same is true of DLLs. They don't do anything by themselves; they are merely blocks of bytes mapped into memory.

FYI just loading a DLL can execute code.

> Why is tracking the lifetime of a function pointer different from tracking the lifetime of any other pointer?

Technically speaking none, but historically this is something that nobody did, so we are full of code that assumes function pointers to have a static lifetime. It's a social problem.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-01 19:36:18+00:00
Yup, this happens for any technology with journalists. A noob journo will be absolutely clear that it's crucial they interviewed Jim Smith and not Jane Smith even if it so happens that gender was not at all important to the story, like maybe Smith witnessed a massive lightning bolt destroying the bandstand.

But they will muddle bits and bytes, nanograms and milligrams, volts and amps and they barely even seem to notice that they did it.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-01 19:36:36+00:00
It's clear that you can opt out of AIT (mm wave) scanning if you don't have SSSS and uncertain otherwise.

From the TSA website, https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/factsheets/technology , "Most passengers have the opportunity to decline AIT screening in favor of physical screening. However, some passengers will not be able to opt out of AIT screening if their boarding pass indicates that they have been selected for enhanced screening."
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-01 19:37:10+00:00
> We didn't even realize that until recently.

How recent? IQ tests have been around for over 100 years.

> I think you'd be surprised how economic status can take a brilliant mind and squash it, or a rigid society can take a uniquely thoughtful mind and squash it

I do not disagree with this premise, but how would knowing an IQ score materially affect this? People aren't awarded medical degrees, doctorates of law, etc. by IQ alone. One still needs to put forth the effort and motivation to succeed. One's IQ has little predictability when it comes to stress tolerance, motivation, conscientiousness, etc..

> You should see how easy it is to get a basketball scholarship if you're over 7 feet tall. And for good reason.

How easy is it? How many people are even over 7ft to begin with? I'm not certain the number is large enough to truly make a difference. Also, I believe academic scholarships should not be awarded for athletics in the first place, but that is a different discussion.

> Can't make tall people grow more either.

Lionel Messi would disagree. There are also other methods like limb lengthening surgery, which I would strongly not recommend lol.

> much easier time with the sport

True, but easier != better. In some cases, it may though.

> Should we just waste this wonderful natural gift in the name of fairness?

Not putting people on a pedestal does not equate to wasting their gift. I believe we should treat the exceptional as normal until they are able to self-actualize. History presents us with a graveyard of childhood prodigies that never amounted to anything in adulthood. After all, the candle that burns twice as bright burns twice as fast.

I have asked this throughout this thread, and no one has given me an answer. When people mention 'gifts' people tend to talk about proclivities in typically one domain.

Take Von Neumann, for example. He was a mathematical god-like being, but he was not exceptional in musical abilities, art, athletics, etc.. He was allegedly able to multiple/divide two eight-digit numbers in his head at the age of 6. I will ask my question once again: what could IQ test tell us about Von Neumann (which he never took) that we did not already know? Terrance Tao, Einstein, etc.. didn't either. Do you believe they turned out alright?

What about Feynman that allegedly scored worse than his sister (125 vs. 128)? Most gifted programs that require an IQ assessment usually require an IQ >= 130. That would mean Feynman would have passed over. Which is precisely my point -- there are a lot of people that do not fit the mold that would be passed over because of some arbitrary point of datum.

Lewis Terman also tried this same experiment which took place over decades. None of his "Termites" (his group of 1000s of +130 IQ children) became anything remotely noteworthy. Two children excluded for being too unintelligent won Nobel Prizes in separate fields.

No matter what IQ is, one thing is clear -- it ain't everything.
by mdp2021 | 2025-09-01 19:37:12+00:00
> populism [vs] democracy

"Democracy" is a system (relative delegation of power to masses), "populism" is a drive (attempting the seduction of masses through visceral calls). Not the same plane.

> pro democracy, how can you be against the choice of the majority of the people

"Democracy" does not reduce to "accepting any will of any majority". An economy, in classical theory, fails if a base of informed rational agents is not built. Similarly, the "choice of the people" is theoretical, potential, ideal.