MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mort96 | 2025-09-02 17:14:05+00:00
It seems like you view free speech as "everyone should be provided a platform to speak their mind", more or less. With that view, what you speak of is arguably a problem, sure.

My view of free speech is simply: the government shouldn't arrest you for publishing most things (with only certain mostly-well-defined exceptions). If there are views which are not illegal but which no platform will let you publish, I really don't see the problem. If enough people share those views they can get together and make their own platform. It's not even hard to make a platform anymore, anyone can buy a domain and set up nginx on a raspberry pi.

Freedom from government persecution on the basis of speech is extremely important to me (again, with exceptions). Freedom to publish unsavoury-but-legal content on other people's platforms is completely unimportant to me.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-09-02 17:14:32+00:00
Well this was like a huge deal at the time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazi...

I know 2024 was like a century ago though so its ok to have already forgotten! It's probably more notable event for Bluesky than Twitter at this point either way. But also either way: there is a clear contrast here with the OP article.

Either you are going out of your way to unban guys, or going out of your way to (effectively) ban them. I think its uncontroversial at the very least to note that he does seem to be making it incredibly hard to argue against the evidence of ideological commitment here, even if there are some 3D chess players out there who can maybe still see a "free speech" forest through the political trees.
by complianceowl | 2025-09-02 17:14:45+00:00
I feel sorry for people like you who can't read an article such as this one without expressing rage at the current administration. Regardless of my political positions, I've come to learn that there are enough substantive, significant issues where bipartisan unity is a no-brainer, but those in power, with all of their self-interested agendas, profit from the people being at each other's throats.

We may disagree on carbon credits, but we nobody disagrees on having clean water, sustainable sources of energy, regulations on sanitation, waste, and pollution; affordable education; term limits and abolishing lobbyists. The list goes on.

Mellow out and focus on the substance without letting your TDS flare up.
by mac-mc | 2025-09-02 17:14:52+00:00
JIRA is so dysfunctional in many places that people do a good chunk of intra-team planning in spreadsheets and docs instead, and use JIRA sparingly to make everyone faster.

I saw this effect live at my previous big tech after they moved to JIRA. JIRA got used way less than Phabricator because of all the friction it introduced and a lot more informal google docs + slack bot usage increased instead.

I remember to this day asking a report to plan more stuff in JIRA and seeing a beautiful task tree in Phabricator they did in the past. I asked why, and he shrugged and said it was just easier. That's when it really clicked for me. Linear can't come soon enough and burn JIRA to the ground.
by superkuh | 2025-09-02 17:14:55+00:00
I think the "What is an AI Booster" could've been placed a bit more towards the top of the article to explain this was about business people and corporations and not actually about AI,

>So, an AI booster is not, in many cases, an actual fan of artificial intelligence. People like Simon Willison or Max Woolf who actually work with LLMs on a daily basis don’t see the need to repeatedly harass everybody, or talk down to them about their unwillingness to pledge allegiance to the graveyard smash of generative AI. In fact, the closer I’ve found somebody to actually building things with LLMs, the less likely they are to emphatically argue that I’m missing out by not doing so myself.

>No, the AI booster is symbolically aligned with generative AI. They are fans in the same way that somebody is a fan of a sports team, their houses emblazoned with every possible piece of tat they can find, their Sundays living and dying by the success of the team, except even fans of the Dallas Cowboys have a tighter grasp on reality.
by Figs | 2025-09-02 17:15:36+00:00
A good alternative is catbox.moe

It fills the niche imgur originally did (i.e. no bullshit image host) but uses a community funding model instead. I'm pitching in $20 every month to keep it from turning into imgur. If you were thinking of putting something on imgur, please just put it on catbox instead and toss a couple bucks their way once in a while so we can continue to have nice things.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-02 17:15:52+00:00
You made the initial unsubstantiated claim. Please explore all the causes of inflation during the global pandemic: supply chain issues, (yes) stimulus spending, housing shortages, greedflation, the Russia invasion of Ukraine, etc.

Why does the ARP stick out to you as being what led this inflation, or even a net negative? Please consider the positive impacts and don't forget that the US recovered from COVID faster than other advanced economies. For however inflation screwed the working American, the ARP directly enabled these folks to pay bills, and buy things they wouldn't otherwise have been able to, screening them even more. Economists say the stimulus directly prevented deflation, which hit some other economies hard, like Japan.

Giving working people the ability to raise families, buy homes and go to school to get a good job is what supports the American dream and is what will make America thrive. Increasingly, these things are out of reach, but the ARP reminded people that enabling the American dream is a policy choice. If you think government giving support to Americans is an issue, first look at cutting support targeted toward the capital owning class.
by reissbaker | 2025-09-02 17:16:09+00:00
According to Dario, each model line has generally been profitable: i.e. $200MM to train a model that makes $1B in profit over its lifetime. But, since each model has been more and more expensive to train, they keep needing to raise more money to train the next generation of model, and the company balance sheet looks negative: i.e. they spent more this year than last (since the training cost for model N+1 is higher), and the model this year made less money this year than they spent (even if the model generation itself was profitable, model N isn't profitable enough to train model N+1 without raising — and spending — more money).

That's still a pretty good deal for an investor: if I give you $15B, you will probably make a lot more than $15B with it. But it does raise questions about when it will simply become infeasible to train the subsequent model generation due to the costs going up so much (even if, in all likelihood, that model would eventually turn a profit).
by rachofsunshine | 2025-09-02 17:16:17+00:00
Yeah, to some extent you have to be willing to deal with this stuff in recruiting, which is why I've taken on the clients under discussion at all.

In my Triplebyte postmortem (also on the blog), one of the mistakes I talked about was that Triplebyte was aggressive about trying to dictate terms. We told people how they had to hire.

Otherbranch takes a softer approach: if you ask for my opinion, I'll tell you what I think. Otherwise, I'll do my best to find you what you asked us for, with the understanding that some sets of constraints reduce the probability of success to ~zero.

That goes on the candidate side, too. I get a fair number of people who will come in and tell me "I only want a remote job where I can take a day off whenever I want and only want to work on a super clean codebase and also get paid 250k a year" - and those people are almost never going to end up with jobs. But the tradeoffs they want to make are their business, not mine, until they ask me to do otherwise.
by globnomulous | 2025-09-02 17:16:28+00:00
'Res gestae' in Latin are aren't just 'things done.' The phrase is an idiom meaning "exploits" or "deeds" -- with the implication that there's something notable about them -- e.g. they're worth recording or remembering -- i.e. 'accomplishments.' So 'res gerere' to my ear means something closer to "accomplish" than "do things."
by toast0 | 2025-09-02 17:16:40+00:00
AtomVM runs on esp32, right? It's not an ultra-cheap microcontroller, but it's pretty cheap. AtomVM isn't BEAM either, though. I have no experience with AtomVM though... it didn't seem like a good fit when I was building something with an ESP32 (I didn't see anything about outputting to LCDs, and that was reasonable with arduino libraries... I also saw a library for calendars and thought that would work for my needs and then I got dragged into making it work better), and it would have worked for the stuff i was doing with ESP8266, but I didn't know about it when I was shopping for boards, so I didn't want to pay extra.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-02 17:16:58+00:00
> You think I'm joking? There are hundreds of issues with as many emojis with no official response for years. And when you finally get a response, it's to tell you that what you're doing is wrong and a solution to your real problems is on the way. Then they proceed to keep the "solution" in canary for years on end.

It's so much easier to hire people to do prioritisation (or deprioritisation) or code of conduct enforcement or whatever than to just do good work.
by ac29 | 2025-09-02 17:17:01+00:00
> But graduating in STEM in 2009-2010 would have been awesome. right at the takeoff of a decade-long economic expansion and tech boom. It was much easier to be hired

The S is STEM is pretty broad and includes many fields that have nothing to do with "tech". I graduated with a science degree in 2009-2010 and it was fucking awful. The only job I could find was at the University I went to and it paid like $5/hr above minimum wage. I left the field entirely pretty quickly.
by davydm | 2025-09-02 17:17:02+00:00
the companies who think they can replace juniors, who learn, adapt, and improve, with llms, are going to have a nasty shock - some already are, others are banking their shocks for later

my company hasn't hired juniors in years, and the ceo is adamant that he only hires seniors, but i think they're missing out - juniors offer new perspectives and opportunities for seniors to improve their social skills via mentoring

also, the number of times i've seen something like "help, I need a coder to finish this project I started with chatgpt - 16k lines, and it nearly works" - good luck, throw that garbage in the trash, where it belongs
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by xtofalex | 2025-09-02 17:17:23+00:00
EDA (Electronic Design Automation) usually means heavy installs and a steep learning curve. With NajaEDA + Colab, you can experiment with netlist algorithms (logic pruning, ECOs, hierarchy browsing…) right in your browser — no setup required.

Try it here: https://colab.research.google.com/github/najaeda/najaeda-tut...

It’s meant as a sandbox for learning, prototyping, and teaching (not a production flow). Curious what algorithms or flows you’d like to see next!

Repo: https://github.com/najaeda/najaeda-tutorials PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/najaeda
by spwa4 | 2025-09-02 17:17:28+00:00
I can only say: welcome to the EU!

I mean, you're not there yet of course, but that's how we've all felt in the EU for at least 50 years now. If work, in any amount, cannot change your social position then the game becomes finding whatever excuse to work as little as possible.

I must say, I'm feeling depressed this month. Can't. I just can't.
by shaftway | 2025-09-02 17:17:36+00:00
I was able to break through the scam veneer on one of these calls. It was remarkably professional up until I outright called him out and told him how I knew it was a scam (the email "from Google" didn't have the right headers, he missed a bit of the terminology, didn't recognize a term, and the caller ID number was listed as being used for this scam).

I asked where he got my information, and he claimed he pulled it from Github and cross-referenced it with a large public dump.
by krunck | 2025-09-02 17:17:36+00:00
I just block them by User Agent string[1]. The rest that fake the UA get clobbered by rate limiting[2] on the web server. Not perfect, but our site is not getting hammered any more.

[1] https://perishablepress.com/ultimate-ai-block-list/

[2] https://github.com/jzdziarski/mod_evasive
by maqp | 2025-09-02 17:18:11+00:00
>You can have all the talent in the world but if you can't get 100k H100s and a dedicated power plant, you're out.

I really have to wonder, how long will it be before the competition moves into who has the most wafer-scale engines. I mean, surely the GPU is a more inefficient packaging form factor than large dies with on-board HBM, with a massive single block cooler?
by transcriptase | 2025-09-02 17:18:18+00:00
Imgur was a simple image host for forums and Reddit long before there was anything resembling a feed or even “users”. The interface was an upload button that gave you a URL that nobody else would have unless you shared it or someone guessed.

It was plumbing. And then a community formed inside it and wondered why things kept randomly showing up from above.

It’s actually pretty amusing and you sort of proved my point.
by hbn | 2025-09-02 17:19:22+00:00
What was funny is if their service is working good - i.e. someone linked an image from their site and it displays for the user - you don't even notice the work the host is doing.

But when they pulled an image and you're just shown a placeholder "PhotoBucket - image not available", you actually see their name and logo and have repeated negative associations with them. I know when I hear any of those names I just get pissed thinking about all the old forum posts and rotting internet pages I've stumbled across with the images missing.
by hakunin | 2025-09-02 17:19:26+00:00
Funny you say that, I too am an immigrant to US. Your parents probably understood the above on an intuitive level. We immigrants think of it as "goes without saying" type thing.

> It doesnt work anymore

It never worked to just work hard. People in today's society want to part with more money than ever in all of history (to buy things and services), you just need to be a part of what they want to part with their money for.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-02 17:19:31+00:00
I live near a 30+ acre flea market and farmers market, and I couldn't live without it. It's not the preppy kind of farmers market, like the kind carrying only organic hand-picked food for double the cost, but instead they cary whatever farms in the area have too much of, so staples are rarely more than $1/lb, and at the peak of a season, 50¢/lb isn't uncommon. Just last weekend, I bought a half-dozen honeydew melons for 50¢ each and a few pounds of apples for 50¢/lb. Even pomegranates are usually $1/lb.

Most vendors sell Blu-Ray movies for $1 each, and one even has them for 25¢ each. There's a guy who sells fasteners for $1/lb, so I go there first, before the hardware store, for any projects.

They also have a monthly auction, mostly of returns from hardware stores, and I buy all of my appliances and power tools from there, for usually a quarter of retail.

I once needed a powered tiller, and I bought a lot of three "broken" ones for $40. They weren't used, but one had a damaged power cable and the other was missing a wheel. I scavanged those parts from the third, which was actually damaged, and kept one of the two working ones, selling the other at the next action, and getting paid $80 for it. For an hours work, I doubled my money and got a tiller out of it.
by xtracto | 2025-09-02 17:19:31+00:00
This.

The best software devs I've hired again and again are basically people i know they are good, or someone I trust a lot recommended them. My "technical" interview is just basically trying to sell them the position.

Likewise I've had the luck of not having real technical interviews in the last 4 jobs I've had, the last being for Principal Engineer. It has been basically acquaintances referring me and soft "what's the problem to solve?" Chats.
by pxc | 2025-09-02 17:19:46+00:00
It seems that it doesn't build with releases of GCC from April 2025 onward, at least with default settings, because it doesn't build with the C23/C++23 standards.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1096790

Maybe such changes are more substantial than the typical differences between GCC releases?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-02 17:19:49+00:00
But requiring exports to be encrypted is the least one can do to maintain a degree of security while still allowing exports.

Why is the protocol dictating the user's security model? I can see why particular applications wouldn't choose to support insecure exports (and would even agree with that), but I genuinely don't understand why the protocol is dictating that an application can't allow users the freedom to choose their own security model. The same issue exists with HSTS, which I've found infuriating when the system is obviously wrong and I have to resort to absurd workarounds as a user because the application is handicapped from giving me an "ignore this" button.

Moreover, "just" password protecting a file isn't allowed by the draft CXP standard (https://fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxp-v1.0-wd-20241003.html#...), you have to use a HPKE scheme where the key exchange is manually orchestrated by the user to export offline. I get it from a security perspective, but that's stupid.
by jparishy | 2025-09-02 17:20:11+00:00
I agree, I think this is a longer way to say what I was feeling. It's a rigamarole by people with too much money. If they had less money, they wouldn't be able to do it. So at the end of the day the root cause to me is the inequality. it allows special treatment and the ability to manipulate our daily life (through social apps, news, etc) in a way that they are completely insulated from, feeling no pain whatsoever. Huge policy failure to let so few people have so much influence
by Propelloni | 2025-09-02 17:20:17+00:00
No, I can't because that's not what I said.

But I can expand on what I meant. What we currently have does not fulfil the common criteria for statehood [1]. Oslo-II was supposed to clear those status questions, but I guess that went down the drain a few years ago.

Palestine is currently not meeting the Montevideo criteria, therefore recognising it as a state is incoherent. It makes Belgium's government itself appear confused about what a state is and what is not, making it a mistake for Belgium to recognise Palestine as a state. Obviously it would be in good company, over a 100 states already have recognised Palestine over the last few decades, yet, unfathomably, Israel descended further into its apartheid regime. Alas, I guess most people are not as much of a stickler as I am if it comes to definitions of terms outside of math.

Of course you can say "to hell with the Montevideo criteria, it's just a convention", but then the Wikipedia article has an apt quote by the Swiss delegation, too:

"neither a political unit needs to be recognized to become a state, nor does a state have the obligation to recognize another one. At the same time, neither recognition is enough to create a state, nor does its absence abolish it."

HTH

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo_Convention
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-02 17:20:40+00:00
Wouldn't Apple have just done exactly that when they faced public and state pressure to unlock the iPhones of mass shooters, such as the San Bernardino shooter or the Pensacola shooter? That was their golden opportunity, but instead they refused, went to court, and forced the FBI to pay third parties to break into the phones. That's the opposite of your espionage scenario.

If Apple never decrypts a user's data, then this debate will never resolve, because there will always be people who insist that Apple's teetering on the precipice of logging decryption keys and decrypting a user's data – or worse, that they've already done it and we're just waiting for another heroic whistleblower to reveal their corruption.

> Remember, Apple is the same company that cooperated with the NSA to secretly log and feed user data to the NSA starting back in 2012, as revealed by Snowden's heroic disclosure of the PRISM program (which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge).

PRISM compelled Apple to provide the NSA with access to cloud data they already held under FISA orders. Apple was not installing spyware on people's devices as you seem to be implying.
by graemep | 2025-09-02 17:20:43+00:00
I do not know about Germany, but I would characterise Elon's attempts to gain political influence in the UK as failed.

He tried to bribe one party to accept an extremist as a member in return for a huge bribe, and he failed.

He does not seem to have much influence on public opinion.

I do not think its accurate to say he was fighting countries either. He was trying to buy influence. Its not the same thing.
by logicalfails | 2025-09-02 17:20:45+00:00
> the use of AI on the battlefield is also raising ethical concerns that machines could be left to decide the fate of combatants and civilians

This bears echos of the handwringing of nukes. Sure, we can all recognize the implicit moral qualms that AI and drones will bring. We will see news flashes of civilians being killed by drones, politicians parroting something about "poor safeguards for 'edge cases'", and NGO's yelling into the void about humanitarian issues under unjust regimes AI drones. We will wash our hands by way of virtue signaling that "we knew this would happen" or "I vote to stop AI drones" etc...

But at the end of the day, nations will utilize whatever they can to enforce their leader's aims. Drones are not the defunct landmines the UN "outlawed" nor the Nuclear weapons we merely banned from nations too weak to produce. They are cheap, and ever more accessible. Drones mark a fundamental change in warfare, not some temporary hiccup before return to norms. Ethical concerns will sadly remain just that, concerns.
by robotresearcher | 2025-09-02 17:21:15+00:00
To be complete, Elizabeth is still on a lot of Canadian money, and she was the Queen of the UK with dominion over Canada until 1984, when she became Queen of Canada, and the UK crown lost dominion over Canada.

So Elizabeth was a British monarch on Canadian money, and Canadian monarch on Canadian money, uniquely.

Of course she is no longer put on newly made money.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-02 17:21:23+00:00
By all accounts, what's in Google's racks right now (TPU v5e, v6e) is vaguely H100-adjacent, in both raw performance and supported model size.

If Google wants anything better than that? They, too, have to wait for the new hardware to arrive. Chips have a lead time - they may be your own designs, but you can't just wish them into existence.
by beabhinov | 2025-09-02 17:21:52+00:00
The future of AI is taking a surprisingly human turn. While we focus on productivity, a Harvard Business Review report predicts the top use case for AI in 2025 will be "Therapy/companionship."

This is already a reality. Research by Anthropic reveals that a growing number of individuals are using AI to dive into religious and cultural texts, seeking a deeper understanding of life's meaning.

This convergence of technology and introspection inspired me to build HeyGuru: a spiritual AI mentor on Telegram.
by yomismoaqui | 2025-09-02 17:22:33+00:00
All developers pass this magpie phase [1] and as you get older you start to see new things more critically.

I guess a desirable trait of seniority is to balance the urge to play with new toys vs the feeling that sometimes we are running in circles, repeating the same mistakes with different tech.

[1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/