MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bschne | 2025-10-02 10:59:31+00:00
I'm quite firmly on the side of "don't do bad stuff", even way before crossing the line to wondering how you'd look in the proverbial orange jumpsuit. But two things about this are often under-discussed IMO.

Firstly, personal costs can be high even before full-blown whistleblowing, the struggles of which are well reported. The best case is usually that you're looking for a new job. It is clear to me that that's better than committing a crime or gravely unethical action, but not everyone always has good alternatives, enough financial safety, and no major economic responsibilities to cover at home.

This also goes for mental costs: I have previously come close to burnout spending months trying to rectify a clearly very bad and doomed situation. The only reward at the other end was the bitter vindication of seeing a project I deeply cared about crash and burn from afar after cutting my losses. And I personally know people who suffered far greater damage and took longer to recover from it, even in cases where they merely uncovered some big skeleton in the closet that was not even the fault of anyone currently in charge or clearly malicious. In many cases, management will be somewhere between actively complicit and themselves stuck in a bad situation with barely enough (perceived) agency to fix things the right way, which doesn't help.

Secondly, short of "going to war" and dedicating your entire life to changing something, saving yourself is usually the best you can hope for. That's obviously better than being complicit and possibly liable. I also like being able to sleep at night knowing I have principles. But if you have the righteousness to refuse to become complicit, it's quite frustrating to come to terms with the fact that you mostly won't be able to set things straight properly unless you are in a very influential position. I know that's often not really my responsibility if I'm not higher up, but it still doesn't sit right with me that I can't do more.
by muzani | 2025-10-02 10:59:48+00:00
It seems like the real root of the issue is that people want jobs so they would feel valued. They may hate those jobs but it's part of their identity.

Say an artist can just retire on UBI. Would they be happy drawing whatever they like? No, someone has to buy it. If they make art that just gets distributed for free and fed to AI, they'd be pretty damn unhappy.
by rbanffy | 2025-10-02 10:59:54+00:00
It does, but it's also more expensive and might take longer to prep and launch. This splits launch and delivery in two separate steps.

I confess I'm struggling to find a payload that can remain in space for weeks or months and still be delivered by a highly visible fireball (for most of the trajectory) and an easily trackable lander to someone on the ground who would rather not have their precise position known. But that's just me.

Sounds a bit overengineered for civilian applications.
by scott_w | 2025-10-02 11:00:00+00:00
You claimed that politicians are covering up child sex trafficking. Big claims require big evidence. If this were true, it would be the biggest scandal in British political history and everyone would know about it. Instead, you talk of the Rotherham scandal, which is not “politicians covering up/shielding from prosecution.”

The fact you’re telling me “do your own research,” tells me you’re lying through your teeth because you can’t just show me the front page of a mainstream newspaper. The only person to even try showed evidence to the contrary: multiple parliamentary inquiries and debates.

One last time: where is your evidence for the extraordinary claim that British politicians (Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem) have been covering up a sex child abuse scandal?
by melicerte | 2025-10-02 11:00:18+00:00
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by bloak | 2025-10-02 11:01:34+00:00
> UK libel law routinely covers up all sorts of things which the public would benefit from having revealed, simply by the threat of an expensive lawsuit. It makes investigative journalism really uneconomic.

But the worst horror stories date from before it was last reformed, in 2013, I think, and I feel the need to patriotically point out that Australian libel law is even worse!
by sharperguy | 2025-10-02 11:02:25+00:00
It's all about balance. Private venues want their customers to have the best experience they can so they will want to come back. The purple lanyard solution MIGHT work, depending on the ratio of people wearing them and the number of people filming. Or it might be that lots of people want to film and the one guy with the purple lanyard keeps getting in the shot and ruining it. Or it might be too many people want to film and end up ignoring it. But in the best case, it allows youtubers to make their videos while not requiring those who don't want to be in them to stay home, as non-customers.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-02 11:02:39+00:00
This is worth emphasizing. At scale, and when you have the resources to really screw around with them to tune your pipeline, rerankers aren't bad, they're just much worse/harder to use out of the box. LLMs buy you easy robustness, baseline quality and capabilities in exchange for cost and latency, which is a good tradeoff until you have strong PMF and you're trying to increase margins.
by mlrtime | 2025-10-02 11:02:52+00:00
Brother, I'm in the same boat as you.

This unhappiness that your wife has will not go away and you will deal with situation at some point. These hard conversations have a way of finding you.

I won't tell you to tear up the pre-nup, but I highly recommend coming up with a compromise (over time) that meets both of your needs.
by rtp4me | 2025-10-02 11:03:26+00:00
Not really. Have spare drives on the shelf and use the "remote-hands" feature from the CoLo provider. Just open a ticket to have the drive swapped. Pretty easy. For remote server connections just use IPMI/iKVM and iPXE. Again, not too difficult.

The biggest hurdle is getting a mgmt system in place to alert you when something goes wrong - especially at this size. Grafana, Loki, monit, etc are all good tools to leverage that provide quick fault identification.
by draculazmm | 2025-10-02 11:03:27+00:00
Hey, thanks so much for the kind words and the great suggestion! I really appreciate you taking the time to check it out.

Jigsawstack looks really interesting! I'll definitely check out their approach, especially for the bounding boxes and attributes, as that's something I'm actively looking to refine.

Thanks again for the feedback and for sharing the link!
by cornholio | 2025-10-02 11:04:54+00:00
30PB / 100Gbps comes down to about a month, 4 links would give you a week, so that seems pretty quite acceptable for a training run, especially since you can overlap the initial loading of the array with the first training, i.e train as data becomes available.

It goes without saying any data pre-processing needs to be done before writing, at the storage site, or on the training GPUs.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 11:06:09+00:00
I have some repair shop experience, and in my experience, a massive bottleneck in repairing truly complex devices is diagnostics. Often, things are "repaired" by swapping large components until the issue goes away, because diagnosing issues in any more detail is more of an arcane art than something you can teach an average technician to do.

And I can't help but think: what would a cutting edge "CLI ninja" LLM like Claude be able to do if given access to a diagnostic interface that exposes all the logs and sensor readings, a list of known common issues and faults, and a full technical reference manual?
by rglullis | 2025-10-02 11:06:59+00:00
You are preaching to the choir: https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/115300000651115849

You don't need to convince me, you need to convince the millions of people who prefer the convenience of "Free as in Beer SaaS" over the resilience and self-sufficiency that we get by hosting our own systems.
by rtp4me | 2025-10-02 11:07:56+00:00
Thanks for this. I agree, there seems to be some sort of resistance to building and maintaining a CoLo infrastructure. In reality, it is not too difficult. As I mentioned above, spare parts on the shelve with the CoLo "remote hands" support and a good monitoring system can lessen the impact of almost any catastrophic issue.

For the record, I have built (and currently maintain) a number of CoLo deployments. Our systems have been running for +10 years with very little failure of either drives or PSUs. In fact, our PSU failure rate is probably 1 every 3-4 years, and we probably loose a couple of drives per year. All in all, the systems are very reliable.
by tinodb | 2025-10-02 11:08:05+00:00
We have a GH workflow that spins up Claude with a prompt like this and it works quite well:

—

You are going to create a summary of the important changes for a PR created by dependabot:

1. Read the body of PR $ARGUMENTS with the `gh` cmdline tool. 2. Create a todo list for yourself for each package in PLAN.md. 3. For each todo, read the releases page(s) (add /releases to the github repo url) to cover the update range. 4. Summarize breaking changes and CVE updates, see template at the end. Grouped into Dev Dependencies and Production Dependencies. 5. For production dependencies, find code usages (with `rg`/`grep`) and determine if breaking changes will affect us. Add a list of all found usages, linking to the direct line on github (like https://github.com/solarmonkey/app/blob/master/frontend/some...). Finish each with a verdict: unsure/likely OK/*may break*/*SURELY BREAKING*! 6. Fill the table up top with the verdicts 7. Write the filled out template to `deps_update_analysis.md`. Don't add a final summary or conclusive thoughts. The template is all we need.

[snip template to fill]
by sarchertech | 2025-10-02 11:08:44+00:00
The last 2 companies I worked at since 2020 100% overtired. Both of than had way more developers than they knew what to do with.

That’s a big part of where things like micro services come from.

>Moreover, look at the hiring numbers in earnings calls. These companies did not slow down hiring. They slowed down hiring in North America.

I don’t think this is true. IT jobs in India are down 10%.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
by josh_hunt | 2025-10-02 11:09:03+00:00
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by bluGill | 2025-10-02 11:09:03+00:00
playing golf is what gets you in a place where you can be invited. Eventually 3 people will have a round planned - but a round is 4 people so they will take anyone who is able to play right then. If you can't play golf you are not invited - or if you say you do but can't you get black listed.

note that you need lots of other social skills to use this opportunity. They are playing a game and you are a side character - if you say too much you are out of line. However you can talk for 2 minutes (out of more than an hour long round) - use your minute well.
by gampleman | 2025-10-02 11:09:26+00:00
> not everyone always has good alternatives, enough financial safety, and no major economic responsibilities to cover at home.

I recommend planning for this (if you can). Set money aside sufficient to cover your costs until you can get another job so that you can quit at any time. Negotiate your deals so that you don't end up with substantial golden handcuffs (i.e. cash > equity, especially with long vesting periods).

This helps a lot with maintaining an ethical position, but is also helpful for other negotiations. Effectively you are maintaining a good BATNA[1].

[1]: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/valuation/wh...
by bsenftner | 2025-10-02 11:09:41+00:00
I've been doing this tech nonsense at moderately high levels for over 45 years now, and over the years I've had business dealings with members of these "30 under 30" lists, and every single fucking time it's a conman, a grifter. I don't even bother with heavily marketed individuals nor their flagships anymore. They are nonsense.
by thyristan | 2025-10-02 11:10:03+00:00
It only works because doctors have a self-governing body of other doctors as an oversight, usually called a chamber, board, Kammer, etc. This chamber is responsible for licensing doctors to perform medicine and has the power to withdraw that license upon violations of the Hippocratic Oath, other ethical violations and other professional misconduct or malpractice.

Unless you want this kind of arrangement for developers, the oath isn't any good.

Also, the Hippocratic Oath has tons of variants, nobody uses the original one anymore because there are things in there that went out of fashion over the last 2000 years. E.g. operating on people suffering from kidney stones used to be prohibited: "I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone[...]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath ). Similar prohibitions exist nowadays for abortions or euthanasia, but only in some places. In others, doctors are free to or even required to perform those. In software development, I would imagine even more variety in the allowed/prohibited-list.
by Aachen | 2025-10-02 11:12:53+00:00
None of that sounds related to the format?

- A text to speech engine should work better with the original html structure where it sees bold tags, headings, and full sentences ra-

ther than broken-off ones

- Keeping PDFs organised, how would that differ from keeping any other filetype organised? I don't understand what difference you, "by implication", attribute to a file ending in .html or .pdf for being able to handle them en masse. If anything, searching across them will be vastly easier for software (self-written or third-party) and more reliable because it's all plain text

- Text and audio rendering syncing, I have no experience with but that doesn't sound like it ought to fundamentally work for a display format and not for the source text format. Of course, the software has to have support for this format (and otherwise it's trivial to pdfify a html but vice versa is nearly impossible)
by PhilippGille | 2025-10-02 11:13:38+00:00
When b = 'x' is true for many rows and you select * or multiple columns, then it's the opposite, because reading all row data is slower in column based data structures than in row based ones.

IMO it's easier to explain in terms of workload:

- OLTP (T = transactional workloads), row based, for operating on rows - OLAP (A = analytical workloads), column based, for operating on columns (sum/min/max/...)
by trustlesecurity | 2025-10-02 11:13:46+00:00
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by 2716057 | 2025-10-02 11:15:29+00:00
Nice work, could be useful to beginners!

Consider handling extreme cases gracefully with a "it is not recommended to go running/cycling outside in these conditions". Otherwise I get

It will be -37°C, clear, windy so you should wear:

Hat

Long sleeves

Jacket

Gloves

Leggings

brrrrr....
by metalman | 2025-10-02 11:16:25+00:00
goes all the way back w3 have Leonardos note books, some of them anyway, with his work inventing flying machines alongside note to get money for his house keeper, and the trials of running the various workshops producing lesser works to fund, what was a considerable operation. I have built stuff for artists, and have had scammers try and download the whole creative and making of art pieces, with some "artists" finnaly bieng forced to leave when it beacame clear that they did nothing but sell other peoples work. Also have had my designs ripped off, and then mass produced in China.......stopped, and forever, going to "shows"....now never make nice stuff....fuck that...just practical stuff that is essentialy generic
by da_chicken | 2025-10-02 11:16:27+00:00
> WTF has happened to Google?

They're a publicly traded company, so the shareholders are the primary customer.

They're an advertising and data harvesting company with significant investment in free-to-consumer services, so users are viewed as products. That means user support looks like overhead.

They're extremely large and extremely diverse, so losing business is not a significant concern.

The problem is that they have too many incentives to not care about you at all, even at the rates you're paying.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-10-02 11:16:56+00:00
I'm less confident. Your description highlights a real problem but this particular solution looks like an attempt to shoe horn a technical solution to a political people problem. It feels like one of these great ideas that years later results in 1000s of different decoders, breakages and a nightmare to maintain. Then someone starts an initiative to move decoding from being bundled and to instead just defining the data format.

Sometimes the best option is to do the hard political work and improve the standard and get everyone moving with it. People have pushed parquet and arrow. Which they are absolutely great technologies that I use regularly but 8 years after someone asked how to write parquet in java, the best answer is to use duckdb: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47355038/how-to-generate...

Not having a good parquet writer for java shows a poor attempt at pushing forward a standard. Similarly arrow has problems in java land. If they can't be bothered to consider how to actually implement and roll out standards to a top 5 language, I'm not sure I want them throwing WASM into the mix will fix it.
by promiseofbeans | 2025-10-02 11:17:49+00:00
There are libraries that let you generate minecraft structure files programmatically [0]. These can then be pasted into the world.

You still need to come up with the circuitry for all the maths and figure out how to represent all the state with red stone, but once you get the little bits done it’s quite a quick process filling in weights and duplicating logic sections

[0]: E.g. https://github.com/BenBenBenB/nbt-structure-utils
by tripzilch | 2025-10-02 11:18:27+00:00
> This works, but it looks kind of ugly

Maybe I'm weird but I prefer the way zero padding looks :)

I personally think the misalignment of lines where the numbers have different lengths looks (a lot) uglier than having zero padding. Sometimes it even throws _me_ off because the numbers have different lengths and ... well it just doesn't look sorted to me! :)

So the bonus of zero padding is that it'll be sorted correctly even if the file manager tries to be "smart" and sort incorrectly.
by whitehexagon | 2025-10-02 11:18:52+00:00
"As long as a project is not organized as a legal or commercial entity, the CRA requires only a basic "readme" with a security contact."

I share code for the good of the industry and society. A lot of what developers do, is solving problems, and the solutions can often be time consuming and difficult to find. So there is a lot of value in Open Source.

What I will not do, is accept personal liability in any way for those solutions I share. Then it becomes a professional partnership, and I will expect a contract and compensation.

CRA has a simple effect for me, I will no longer share code. I have deleted my github account because of this trend to "know your developer", and as a small stand agAInst our rush towards AGI. I wonder where the liability lies for all this AI/LLM regurgitated copyrighted code?
by bellamoon544 | 2025-10-02 11:19:06+00:00
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by nkax0 | 2025-10-02 11:19:09+00:00
I suspect that the people who enjoy the blood sport are disproportionately drawn to the kind of places that loudly proclaim "no politics" or "we're all equal" without having the proper defenses in place.

Or perhaps, more accurately, they're drawn to places without defenses: both those that are pretend egalitarian but have informal power hierarchies without accountability; as well as those that outright say "we're in it for the game", like the stereotypical high-pressure investment bank.
by yorwba | 2025-10-02 11:20:48+00:00
> war is still extremely physical, moving through dense obstacle filled environments or large open fields while wearing thick outfits and carrying equipment.

This requires endurance, not strength. Training to do this regularly won't give you bulging muscles. For those, you need short bursts of targeted high-intensity exercise. So a physically fit soldier won't necessarily look strong. Think marathon runner, not bodybuilder.

I agree that the article isn't particularly well-written, but I think it's trying to express the idea that military effectiveness isn't linked to maintaining a particular warrior esthetic.
by Aachen | 2025-10-02 11:23:34+00:00
I noticed when trying it out for this comment, but then looked around when it was introduced and it seems recent (as in, an LTS distribution won't have it). Someone on stackoverflow said they get "unknown option --embed-resources". The old option will work for everyone and is also simpler, one instead of two parameters. People whose client supports the new option will see the upgrade suggestion when they run this. In the end I saw mainly downsides to mentioning the new rather than the old way