MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pstuart | 2025-09-01 18:19:43+00:00
The mask debacle has interesting angles on why it happened: https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-...

My take is that they fucked up but in an understandable way (rather than some evil conspiracy).

I remain convinced that Trump was against masks because it would mess up his bronzer and ruin the illusion it's intended to convey.
by Grosvenor | 2025-09-01 18:20:05+00:00
____ ||""|| ||__|| jgs[ -=.]`) ====== 0

SEEKING WORK - Data scientist, data/software consulting & fractional leadership, Canada/remote worldwide, email in profile.

I'm a data scientist and I look for hard problems to solve. Hair on fire "This is causing lemon-law recalls and we can't solve it." type problems - I've done a few of those. I have 15+ years experience helping companies plan, prototype, and productionize sane data science solutions.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique skillset. I've worked with names you know in automotive, aviation, tech, and other spaces. Recently I've been working with Oil & Gas - Production estimates, pricing, failure analysis, and other interesting things.

I've worked on projects including LLMs, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, vehicle route planning in constrained environments, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, maritime piracy, and more.

Don't hesittate to get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.
by Grosvenor | 2025-09-01 18:20:12+00:00
____ ||""|| ||__|| jgs[ -=.]`) ====== 0

SEEKING WORK - Data scientist, data/software consulting & fractional leadership, Canada/remote worldwide, email in profile.

I'm a data scientist and I look for hard problems to solve. Hair on fire "This is causing lemon-law recalls and we can't solve it." type problems - I've done a few of those. I have 15+ years experience helping companies plan, prototype, and productionize sane data science solutions.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique skillset. I've worked with names you know in automotive, aviation, tech, and other spaces. Recently I've been working with Oil & Gas - Production estimates, pricing, failure analysis, and other interesting things.

I've worked on projects including LLMs, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, vehicle route planning in constrained environments, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, maritime piracy, and more.

Don't hesittate to get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.
by ptrj_ | 2025-09-01 18:21:15+00:00
> In python there are hidden sharp edges and depending on what dependencies you use you can get into deadlocks in production without ever knowing you were in danger.

I've heard of deadlocks when using aiohttp or maybe httpx (e.g. due to hidden async-related globals), but have never managed myself to get any system based on asyncio + concurrent.futures + urllib (i.e. stdlib-only) to deadlock, including w/ some mix of asyncio and threading locks.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-01 18:21:45+00:00
I found it is very accurate for legacy static-web content. E.g. if you ask something that could easily be answered by looking at wikipedia or which has been answered in blogs, it will usually be right.

But for anything dynamic (i.e. all of social media), it is very easy for the AI overview to screw up. Especially once it has to make relational connections between things.

In general people expect too much here. Google AI overview is in no way better than Claude, Grok or ChatGPT with web search. In fact it is inferior in many ways. If you look for the kind of information which LLMs really excel at, there's no need to go to Google. And if you're not, then you'll also be better off with the others. This whole thing only exists because google is seeing OpenAI eat into its information search monopoly.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-01 18:22:05+00:00
> One could say that it actually liberates the part of the population that doesn't support terrorism.

But the genocide here includes the gazans that do not support terrorism. In fact the terrorists are basically the only group in gaza that are immune to the genocide because they control the government and are able to monopolize food distribution. We have seen over and over and over again that counter terrorism only has two ways to succeed. Either the population has to willingly install a government that can counter the terrorists or the counter terrorism group has to kill every single person in the region. Everyone can see which option israel is going for here
by rust-dev | 2025-09-01 18:22:31+00:00
Location: Brazil Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Blockchain, ZK, SvelteKit, PostgreSQL Résumé/CV: On request Email: rust-devel@proton.me

Senior engineer with 9 years of professional and open-source Rust experience seeking remote development opportunities in the web3 space. My expertise in Rust allow me to tackle (relatively fast) any associated challenge, from virtual machines and compilers to backends and smart contracts. I also have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science what it is worth.

Rate: $50/hour or $100k/year (fiat or crypto accepted)
by EthanHeilman | 2025-09-01 18:23:18+00:00
As far as I can tell this is not a misconception, I am just not communicating clearly enough. I figured I could make the point at a higher level.

You can construct a statement in an axiomatic system complex enough to express arithmetic:

1. Which is true,

2. AND which can be proved to be true under the assumption the system is consistent,

3. and which can not be proven true within that axiomatic system because you can't prove consistency of the system itself within the axiomatic system itself.

The crass positivist position would be that such undecidable statements are meaningless, i.e. neither true nor false. The incompleteness theorems provide a strong counter-example: a statement which can not be proved within that axiomatic system, but is true (if the system is consistent). The positivists must then amend their position to include things which can't be proved within the axiomatic system but can be proved true. This resulted in the watered down late-positivism.
by nikolay | 2025-09-01 18:23:30+00:00
Shahed evolved into Geran, then Geran 2, and now Geran 3 with jet engine, recently confirmed in use in Ukraine by Kyiv. So, Russia is innovating at a high pace. I'm concerned that America cannot innovate so quickly and cost-efficiently. Everything needs to go through tons of red tape, hourly rates are crazy, and the end product is extremely expensive and hard to maintain and evolve. Anduril to me is not America's answer. America needs on the battlefield innovation and means to share feedback in real-time. We're behind! That's my concern.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-01 18:23:46+00:00
> once we start talking about the kind of software large corporations (like AWS) will have an interest in

I'm not sure why someone who is spending their limited free time building software to give away for free would want Amazon as a downstream consumer

Do you enjoy spending your nights and weekends dealing with CVE reports, while a high-6-figure BigTech engineer nags you that they need it fixed?
by ycombinete | 2025-09-01 18:24:04+00:00
In Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt talks about how we all have a basic setting for these kind of things.

We can move the bar around but it always tends back toward that default.

He uses the example of this being why people who read self help book always seem to be reading a new self help book.

That little euphoric moment of clarity and fresh outlook only last a few months or so until you’re back at your regular old self and need a new epiphany.
by gkbrk | 2025-09-01 18:24:16+00:00
> Now, no LLM is currently anywhere near doing that for ElasticSearch.

You could probably feed all of ElasticSearch into an LLM and ask it to "reimplement it" successfully. But why would you even bother? There's already an existing open-source alternative called OpenSearch [1].

[1]: https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch
by ericpauley | 2025-09-01 18:24:51+00:00
Terrace Networks | Security Data Systems Engineer | REMOTE (US) | https://www.terracenetworks.com

We’re hiring engineers to build the next generation of large-scale network threat intelligence. Our distributed vantage point is one of the world’s most diverse, and we’re using AI to make sense of global attack data in real time.

I’m Eric, co-founder and CEO. Our founding team includes researchers with decades of security experience and multiple successful startup exits.

We’re looking for full-time engineers who thrive at the intersection of systems, security, and machine learning. Ideal candidates bring a strong background in systems engineering, familiarity with modern ML for text/log analysis, and interest in automated response systems (e.g. LLM-based agents for classification, triage, response). Proven success working remotely is a plus.

We've recently closed our seed round; pay+equity will be based on experience and fit.

*Tech:* Go, Linux, TCP/IP internals, Terraform, DynamoDB, LLMs (Claude, etc.)

Apply here → https://www.terracenetworks.com/careers
by mandeepj | 2025-09-01 18:26:26+00:00
> make me question the longevity of the human race.

You know what’s low-brow, lazy and low IQ? The mindset to question everything!

Have you heard about - everything is not for everyone? If not, you have now.

> The difference is, we left that at the playground at 8 years old.

No, you didn’t!! You are still holding on to it to your dear chest.
by weston | 2025-09-01 18:26:42+00:00
Location: Remote (U.S.-based) Remote: Yes (open to frequent travel for events + meetups + conferences) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript (React, Node), TypeScript, Python, Ruby, etc. Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/westonludeke GitHub: https://github.com/westonludeke Email: westonludeke [at] gmail.com

At Pythagora (YC W24), I built Developer Relations 0 -> 1 from scratch as the first customer-facing hire on a 5-person team:

* Launched and scaled all developer community channels (Discord, GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Reddit)

* Wrote, updated, and improved all product documentation & READMEs

* Shipped full-stack demo apps and wrote technical tutorials

* Created YouTube videos and blog posts that grew our developer reach by 4×

* Led marketing campaigns that drove tens of thousands of engineers to new product launches

* Partnered with engineering and founders to shape the product roadmap through community feedback

Before that, I worked at Streak (YC S11) for 7 years on their support team. I studied software engineering on the side. My GitHub includes both technical projects as well as examples of DevRel content I've created: https://github.com/westonludeke
by shakesbeard | 2025-09-01 18:26:56+00:00
We've only made good experiences with layered architecture (onion architecture in particular, which is quite straight forward). We also never built it with the idea in mind to ever replace the storage engine. No, the big, big benefit has been that we can test everything without ever mocking a single class.

I also don't get the point about "going back to IoC" ... how is that mutually exclusive from using a layered architecture. This section was weird and didn't offer any good alternative.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-09-01 18:27:20+00:00
This. Instead of using your expertise doing science, we are spending huge amounts of time begging for money and writing grants that tries to hide the real complexities from reviewers who are mostly not experts in the precise area and are not equipped to understand a plainly truthful presentatio....and so we write grants that don't exactly lie, but surely do ommit complexities that might lead non-expert reviewers down a false path, and trust that the one or two people on the review who know enough to recognize the omission will also and understand the reason for the omission (not a true weakness scientifically, just in terms of grantsmanship).

See how much of a waste of time it is?
by wcunning | 2025-09-01 18:27:20+00:00
Location: Detroit, MI

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Embedded systems, automotive, machine learning, signal processing, data science, real time computing, safety processes (MISRA, ISO26262, etc), MATLAB, FPGA.

Resume: LinkedIn -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/wcunning

Email: wdocunningham \@\ gmail.com

Background: Masters in control theory and signal processing, working in the auto industry for the last 7 years, first on low level powertrain software then the last year or so on LIDAR/computer vision for autonomous vehicles. I've done the most work in C, but I'm now contributing to safety development work with the Rust consortium and Ferrous Systems through my current employer. Recently had to read the Linux kernel source and use the BCC tool suite to find a subtle issue in the network stack causing high latency on sensor data for AV, also coincidentally fixed most of the network timing infrastructure.

Currently doing software defined vehicle software architecture with a focus on fail-safe and fail-operational, loosely coupled, distributed systems. This includes some standards contributions and work with high level suppliers like Nvidia and Renesas for next-generation software/hardware system co-development.

Primary skills include hard real time embedded systems, safety critical applications, firmware development, system integration and complex hardware/software interaction debugging, along with detailed data analysis problems.

Side interests include machining, 3D printing, embedded system development, coffee roasting and furniture making.
by sivakusayan | 2025-09-01 18:27:24+00:00
It bothered me a bit that I couldn't find a mathematical analysis of the "minimizing structure size by reordering member fields while respecting alignment" problem, so I decided to play around with a simple version of the problem myself. Not sure how useful this is in practice, but I was able to answer part of my curiosity at least.

Would be happy to answer any questions!
by dewey | 2025-09-01 18:28:11+00:00
MIT was always the easy default that every project used, you just select it from the GitHub dropdown and you are done when setting up a new project. I think you can't really blame people for using it.

Especially when your project is new it's also not often clear that this project will become something more serious later where you have to worry about such things as people cloning your project.
by johnmoberg | 2025-09-01 18:28:35+00:00
Tandem Health | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | On-site in Stockholm, Sweden | Full time

At Tandem Health we're building a clinician copilot to allow clinicians to focus on care rather than administration. We’re building, launching and iterating quickly, and already have >2000 organizations using our product.

Our core product listens in to the patient-clinician encounter to generate medical records, allowing clinicians to save 5-10 minutes per patient. No longer do clinicians have to catch up on administration after hours. Some even tell us that their partners notice they're much more relaxed after starting to use our product, and we couldn't be happier :)

We just raised a $50M Series A and are now expanding our Stockholm team with exceptional engineers! We use Python (backend), TypeScript/React (frontend) and C# (Windows app) and our infrastructure runs on Kubernetes in Azure. We're scaling rapidly in terms of # of users and are especially keen to talk to seasoned backend, data and infrastructure engineers.

Even if we don’t have a role out for your specific skill set, we’d love to talk! Our tech team is small but growing and you’ll have an outsized impact on an important problem.

More info at https://www.tandemhealth.ai/recruitment

Feel free to reach out to john.moberg@tandemhealth.ai if you have any questions
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-01 18:28:49+00:00
Personally I don’t like the idea of a property tax. You don’t really own your house if some city politicians can just vote for higher and higher taxes continuously and confiscate what you are supposed to “own” when you can’t pay or refuse to pay.

Plus the increase in tax from arbitrary assessments of value is just weird. Why should a house worth more pay more? There should be fixed pricing for the services the city offers (like electricity or whatever), unrelated to how your house gets appraised.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-01 18:28:56+00:00
Yes, having the incentive so that people create and release works is better than people not releasing the works. If people want to release free they can under out current system.

It's not lawless anarchy, it's just less of the works that copyright rewards (you get more of what you reward). So all those free books/music/movies that are made each year you still have, but you have less professionals taking a year off to go write their book. You have less decent funding for educations books. You have less sharing of knowledge and ideas, and I would say that makes society worse. If people were going to release it for free, they would be doing that today. People just don't work like that.
by chistev | 2025-09-01 18:29:16+00:00
‎I have extensive experience building software with Python and Javascript (along with their respective frameworks and libraries). ‎

‎ ‎Location: Nigeria

‎ ‎ ‎Remote: Yes

‎ ‎ ‎Willing to relocate: No

‎ ‎ ‎Technologies: ‎ ‎- Frontend: HTML, CSS, Vanilla JavaScript, TypeScript, Svelte, Three.js

‎ ‎- Backend: Django, Express.js

‎ ‎‎- Others: Experience integrating third-party APIs like Stripe, Flutterwave, Coda, Circle.so, Dropbox, Google authentication, Brevo, OpenAI etc.

‎ ‎ ‎Résumé/CV: My Github is https://github.com/chistev but my professional projects are private.

‎ ‎ ‎Personal Website: https://www.rxjourney.net/

‎ ‎ ‎My Resume contains personal identifying information. Would share that over email.

‎ ‎ ‎Email: chistev12 at gmail dot com
by elcritch | 2025-09-01 18:29:33+00:00
There's a wrapper for unreal engine using the C++ interopt. It's doable but not automatic. https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE

Mentally I view Nim as a better, safer, easier C++ now. Anything I wanted to do in C/C++ I can do in Nim, but far easier. Not exactly a Carbon competitor but still an alt C++ 2.0 with C++ interopt.
by cnst | 2025-09-01 18:29:36+00:00
> types of solutions engineers even consider

I think the issue is actually the opposite.

With the cloud, the engineers fail to see the actual cost of their inefficient scaled-out code, because someone else (the CFO) pays the bill; and the answer to any issue, is simply adding more "workers" and more "cloud", since they're basically "free" from the perspective of the employee. (And the more "cloud" something is, like, the serverless, the more "free", completely inverting the economics of making a profit on the service — when the CFO tells you that your AWS bill is too high, you move everything from the EC2 to AWS Lambda, since the salesperson from AWS tells you that serverless is far cheaper, only for the bill to get even higher, for reasons unknown, of course.)

Whom the cloud tax actually constrains are the entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs. If you have to pay $5000/mo to AWS just for the infra, you can only go so long without lots of revenue, and you'd need to have a whopping 5k/mo+ worth of revenue before breaking even. Yet with a $200/mo like at OVH or Hetzner, you can afford to let it grow at negligible cost to yourself, and it can basically start being profitable with the first few users.

Don't believe this? Look at the blog entries by the guy who bought Yahoo!'s Delicious, written before they went bankrupt and were up for sale. He was basically pointing out that the services have roughly the same number of users, and require the same engineering resources, yet one is being operated at a loss, whereas the other one makes a profit (guess which one, and guess why).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blog.pinboard.in

So, literally, the difference between the cloud and renting One Big Server, is making a loss and going out of business, and remaining in business and purchasing your underwater competitor for pennies on the dollar.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-01 18:29:45+00:00
There is actually a musician called Benn Jordan who was impersonated by someone on twitter who posted pro-Israel content [1]. That content is no longer available, but it might have snuck into the training data, i.e. Benn Jordan = pro Israel. This might also have been set in relation to the other Jordan's previous pro-Palestine comments, eventually misattributing the "I was wrong about Israel" video. It's still a clear fuckup - but I could see humans doing something similar when sloppily accruing information.

[1] https://www.webpronews.com/musician-benn-jordan-exposes-fake...
by Hydraulix989 | 2025-09-01 18:29:51+00:00
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and interpret your comment as not specifically accusatory towards Carmack:

Report someone to HR who deserves to be reported to HR, not someone who gave genuine good-faith (and in this case, correct) technical feedback that unfortunately got in the way of someone else's promo packet / empire building.

There are certainly good reasons to report someone to HR. This is not one of them. Only toxic workplaces tolerate such pettiness. And ultimately, XROS was canned by Boz anyways.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-01 18:30:02+00:00
This made me think of Google's S2. 64-bit ID for every less-than-1cm^2 roughly-square area on Earth's surface, less bits used for bigger areas.

https://s2geometry.io/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hl4KapfAENAOf4gv-pSn...
by const_cast | 2025-09-01 18:30:08+00:00
Yes I have owned many iPhones and I have known people who have bricked iPhones by installing non OEM batteries.

Maybe you got lucky or the manufacturer cheated and copied Apples chip. Probably the latter.

Which, good for the manufacturer, but kind of goes your whole ethos, doesn't it?

Regardless, none of this is really a secret. You can look it up. Its not a conspiracy - again, companies don't need a conspiracy to be pieces of shit. They can just be pieces of shit. You don't need to go bat for them buddy, I promise they don't care about you.
by AyushGarg3110 | 2025-09-01 18:30:12+00:00
Location: Delhi, India

Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, in-office

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C++, C#, Swift, Git, Object Oriented Programming

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KHQ7e31gaGsVzpUQmUHH...

Email: ayushgarg3110@gmail.com

About : I’m currently working as a Software Engineer at a product-based startup, where I have gained 1 year of experience. I am an IIT Kanpur graduate (2024) and have also completed a software engineering internship at Microsoft.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-01 18:30:13+00:00
> as long as we manage trust, ethics, and transparency

Trust, ethics and transparency are at all time lows in every corner of every capitalist industry imo

I don't know how anyone could look at the current state of things and think AI isn't being positioned to gut employment across many industries

Naive, childish and short sighted mentality imo
by gia_ferrari | 2025-09-01 18:30:13+00:00
I recently bought a really cheap Android Auto screen for my car. It had a USB-C power input. Suspicious, I opened up the supplied cigarette power adapter. The USB power pins were hooked straight to the car battery rail. On most vehicles that's connected straight back to the alternator. Hilarious. I wonder how many people fried their phones because they thought "oh, I forgot my charging cable, but I can borrow my nav screen's for a bit"...
by sunshowers | 2025-09-01 18:30:35+00:00
There are good reasons the so-called "BSD zealots" won the so-called "culture war", such as the definition of a derived work being largely uncharted territory. Did you know that there's a compelling legal argument that the GPL attaches to programs talking to each other via JSON data structures?

I think MPL 2.0 is the ideal kind of copyleft, because of its scope being very clear.