MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HubertChen | 2025-10-01 20:47:50+00:00
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by rockercoaster | 2025-10-01 20:47:50+00:00
> So maybe a case of HN comments being "more on point than the article", but primarily in the way that it directly illustrates what the author is saying: engineers routinely bail out of the politics, to their own detriment.

IDK about everyone else, but I pretty routinely bail out of the politics of decisions when it's mostly to the company's detriment. Starts to look like an uphill battle against people above me on the food chain? Sure man, go ahead, not my money you're wasting. The only politicking worth doing in those cases is making sure I'm outside the blast radius if it's something so bad it's gonna eventually blow up. Luckily big businesses move so slowly that this rarely takes less than a year, and often quite a bit more.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 20:47:54+00:00
I'm not the one who flags him, HN does. If you think HN is "hiding from the truth" by doing so, email dang at hn@ycombinator.com to ensure Lunduke's opinions are protected from unfair scrutiny.

However, in this instance I concur with HN and what seems to be the majority of the users here. Lunduke produces no actionable suggestions and stimulates no important discourse. He deliberately avoids due-diligence, ignores integral details and is justifiably dismissed as a second-class source in pretty much every domain of computer science.

If you're still willing to make a case for him, please do. It's just not the kind of politicized blogslop that HN typically rewards, regardless of what your politics are.
by Scenic0573 | 2025-10-01 20:47:59+00:00
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by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 20:48:30+00:00
Please stop spreading misinformation about life-saving medication. This is simply untrue.

https://www.lipidjournal.com/article/S1933-2874(25)00317-4/f...

> Based on the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists Collaboration meta-analysis of 27 statin RCT’s (statin vs placebo and high intensity vs moderate intensity statin), for every 1 mmol/L (∼39 mg/dL) reduction in LDL-C there is a corresponding 22% reduction in ASCVD event risk

Even people with "normal" LDL levels see reduction in risk. And people with high LDL levels might end up with a 3-4 nmol/L (or more!) reduction with combo therapy. Meanwhile statins are widely available, very cheap even without insurance, and as previously noted, have excellent side effect/safety/efficacy profiles for modern generations.

Your inaccurate information may be dissuading people who would otherwise get on these medications from doing so when it could literally be the difference between them living and dying. It's irresponsible.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 20:48:47+00:00
Ordinary people don’t have any taste in audio and neither do audiophiles the difference is the latter think they do and the former don’t.

If you have concern about your heart you should get

https://kardia.com/products

Just monitoring your heart rate through earbuds is not diagnostic of hear problems at all except for tachycardia, bradycardia and asystole.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-01 20:48:56+00:00
>Future is electric, USA can't give up its fossils and EU not happy about ICE cars being phased out(or more precisely someone else winning the phase out) but that's really inevitable

Claims like this would need to be quantified further in order to make any real predictions, but I think these sorts of predictions about future electrification may turn out to be shockingly wrong.

For example, many predict we have or will soon hit peak oil. Whereas I would wager it will continue to grow. You didn't mention global oil production, but I want to get specific. 50 years from now I think global oil production will be higher than it is today.

There is a strong desire by many for oil production to decrease and to electrify, but the incentive structure just isnt there. It's too cheap and useful and the energy demand is effectively unlimited. Im not even saying we shouldnt move away from it. Just that we wont.
by scott_w | 2025-10-01 20:49:01+00:00
None of your sources back up the claim.

Straight up FP is lying, so you’re off to a fucking awful start. You can verify this against the News Agent interview I’ve mentioned for the third time now. Watch it on YouTube.

I don’t have an Economist account but it doesn’t seem to mention coverup in be lede. Given it would be the biggest political story in Britain, I doubt it says coverup by politicians.

Al Jazeera talks about the inquiry being ordered, still no coverup.

Guardian talks about the disgustingly bad reporting standards of the police. Still no coverup by politicians.

Sky News is a timeline of inquiries. Literal opposite of a fucking coverup.

Telegraph is talking about the inquiry that Labour eventually launched. It’s lying about the use of the term coverup: no abuse was covered up by politicians by running, or not, an inquiry.

The Week is an explainer for the scandal, no coverup by politicians.

Women Against Rape are talking about the police, not politicians. Anyone knows, and I already mentioned, the failures of the police here.

Did you seriously just waste your time finding links you obviously didn’t read to still fail to answer a simple fucking question:

Where is the evidence that POLITICIANS covered up child abuse rings? That was the flagged comment and you have failed to back the claim.
by busterarm | 2025-10-01 20:49:13+00:00
They have the lowest growth of their industry (granted, they're ~25% of the market) and every company I've been involved with for the last 20 years either uses a competitor or used to be an ADP customer. ADP is terrible.

Paychex, Workday, etc have been eating at their lunch for years and years now. My perception of companies using ADP is either that they're slow behemoths or they still have some niche issue that's keeping them from switching.

ADP is also incredibly cavalier with your personal data. As a potential employee I would see its use as a strong minus.
by ge96 | 2025-10-01 20:49:20+00:00
I am a small anecdote where developers who just use chatgpt/cursor are in higher positions than me who learned to code back in 2010. Use as in "chatgpt told me..." about whatever topic. Still they are accomplishing the task (getting code out there that works).

I also had a vibe coded prototype get handed to me to fix it
by Gud | 2025-10-01 20:49:38+00:00
I work for an American mega corporation that you’ve definitely heard of - my department relies heavily on a couple of spread sheets. They have survived 3 times of corporate buy out of my factory.

The spreadsheets looked dated when I started working here, 7 years ago.

2 years ago, my latest manager tried to move the department off these spread sheets to the corporation wide system. Another corporate wide system is set to replace the system we still aren’t using by the end of 2026.

I suspect we’ll still rely on our spread sheets in 2027.
by nozzlegear | 2025-10-01 20:49:49+00:00
A great and relevant quote from a recent Noah Smith article discussing this same subject:

> The debate over whether AI is taking people’s jobs may or may not last forever. If AI takes a lot of people’s jobs, the debate will end because one side will have clearly won. But if AI doesn’t take a lot of people’s jobs, then the debate will never be resolved, because there will be a bunch of people who will still go around saying that it’s about to take everyone’s job. Sometimes those people will find some subset of workers whose employment prospects are looking weaker than others, and claim that this is the beginning of the great AI job destruction wave. And who will be able to prove them wrong?

Source: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/ai-and-jobs-again
by kalap_ur | 2025-10-01 20:49:52+00:00
There is a book called "Talent is overrated" it essentially says, you need to 1) invest time, 2) do targeted practice, and 3) have a mentor, who helps you in targeted practice. Practice alone is not enough, it must be targeted at 1) what is relevant and/or 2) where your biggest weakness is at the moment.
by ChanningAllen | 2025-10-01 20:50:01+00:00
It's doing better than ever! LLMs offer the equivalent of $500k+ in outside funding if used correctly, so there's a huge uptick in # of new bootstrapped startups.

In fact we (the Indie Hackers founders) are bootstrapping a new B2B app now that Claude Code & Codex CLI (etc) are on the org chat.
by Carinaatrix | 2025-10-01 20:50:07+00:00
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by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-01 20:50:14+00:00
Now lets understand how the French grid works.

France generally export quite large amounts of electricity. But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed to imports and they have to start up local fossil gas and coal based production.

What they have done is that they have outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors and rely on 35 GW of fossil based electricity production both inside France and their neighbors grids. Because France's nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity and too little when it is actually needed.

Their neighbors are able to both absorb the cold spell which very likely hits them as well, their own grid as the French exports stops and they start exporting to France.
by overscore | 2025-10-01 20:50:31+00:00
The formation etymology (whether from tin or onomatopoeia) is uncertain. The part that is certain is the semantic chronology. The noun tinker was used from at least the 13th century for an itinerant mender of pots, the Travellers. By the 16th century it became a slur for Travellers.

The verb to tinker doesn’t appear until the mid-17th century, first meaning to work as a tinker and only later coming to mean what you're familiar with.

So while the root word’s sound-shape is debated, the order of senses is clear: the Traveller sense comes first, the modern “casual repair” sense comes later and was derived from it. This is the etymological order given in all sources, eg https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinker
by themafia | 2025-10-01 20:50:48+00:00
> "illegally intruded into MLB computer networks"

Well.. as you yourself said: they're a billion dollar company. I expect them to secure their own infrastructure better. One guy with spare time working from home bested them? The FBI is not there to cover corporate negligence.

> He plead guilty to all of this.

Then he almost certainly would have settled very quickly in a civil case.

> You think all of that should just be settled via lawsuit, too?

Yes. It's the appropriate remedy. It's the fastest and most direct path to justice for the harmed entity.

If you're still so thirsty for blood then ask yourself if simple probation with agreed restrictions wouldn't have brought about the same outcome. Would the NFL and MLB have felt just as "protected" with this simple jurisprudence?
by mrlatinos | 2025-10-01 20:50:58+00:00
Yes, the title is editorialized and there's nothing inherently wrong with what was shared. But I do think this reflects poorly on OpenAI. They seem proud of how well Sora can create deepfakes, and share no real perspective or concern for the ethical dilemma and impact these models are already having. The marketing around Sora seems incredibly juvenile.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-01 20:51:22+00:00
Some kids are just really wild by temperament and it shows up in their first year or two on the Earth.

Short of breaking their spirit there's not much the parents can do to make them less wild. Parents have to try to find a way to let the kid be wild and feel good about being a temperamentally wild kid while also recognizing that there are limits and boundaries. A similar experience is perhaps owning a dog that needs to run around outside every day.

But nothing in the autism or ADHD diagnoses says you can't learn social skills or that they shouldn't. Nor does it require anyone to endure abuse or physical attacks.

Assuming you're not the parent (since you say the more generic "family member"), probably the best thing you can do is try to befriend this kid and learn a bit about what's like to be them. And try to find traits in yourself that help you see why they act one way or another.

Another thing to keep in mind is that things you take for granted may be very distressing to this person. They may be able to hear noises or smell smells or taste flavors that you can't. The parents have a tough job because nobody wants their kid's preferences to dictate everything, but nobody wants to knowingly make their kid distressed when they can help it. That becomes a tough tradeoff when you have someone who is easily distressed by a world that isn't really designed with their brains in mind. This is where things like earplugs and sunglasses can help. It's a bit like being hungover all the time. If you reduce the sensory input everyone becomes less irritable and more even keel.
by the_sleaze_ | 2025-10-01 20:51:29+00:00
Anxiety is not a rational thing, in the same way a friend of the family who had OCD would lambast me about the "particles" my outside shoes and the hems of my pants could bring inside all the while ignoring the giant stack of molding dishes in the sink.

It's a feeling in the body, a sense of alarm. That sinking pit of adrenaline.

I don't think I have autism but I do get ptsd type stuff occasionally.
by Freedom2 | 2025-10-01 20:51:35+00:00
My friends in the midwest say that there's actually exemptions on tariffs when it comes to buying the manufacturing equipment itself, to avoid the issues you're talking about. I think generally it's also a good thing that Americans are buying less - statistically, more stuff is made overseas than domestically. Those same friends expect purchase amounts to increase once America starts producing more on its own.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-01 20:51:59+00:00
Nit: the ADP numbers are not survey based. They come directly from adp’s payroll data set which is immense but biased. So you don’t see hiring/firing delay in the birth/death data like you do with the bls stats, but actual dataset bias is a factor. The more murky part of their numbers is how they calibrate to the bls numbers.
by kollmar28 | 2025-10-01 20:52:17+00:00
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by Spooky23 | 2025-10-01 20:52:20+00:00
Engineers are always insufferable with this stuff. I can think of dozen times where everything was perfect, except for <thing we didn’t think of> or <thing we knew but didn’t bother to engage the customer on>.

There’s a million reasons why projects fail, but astute engineering mangers who are able to understand what the business really needs are invaluable.
by TFortunato | 2025-10-01 20:52:41+00:00
At Amazon Robotics we built a robot control system that executed state charts (described in an extended version of SCXML) in real-time for managing the core behaviors of the robot.

To help people not have write the charts by hand, we built a DSL (originally in python, then in Kotlin), to author robot behaviors that then compiled down to SCXML. Conditions on guards were written in a tiny expression language we wrote, enabling you to look at various signals from the hardware and software at runtime and make decisions based off them.

The nice part of this setup was that it opened up a path for doing more formal analysis on the behavior. E.g. you could easily find "terminal" states that you could enter but not leave. You can also imagine things like checking things like which states in a parallel or in concurrently running machines, aren't allowed to be active, and verifying there is no path in the state graph that allowed that to occur. There were other nice properties as well, like getting a graphical visualization of your program state "for free"

It was definitely a more constrained model than a "full featured" programming language, but for our use case, controlling machines in a reliable way, it worked out very well!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-01 20:52:59+00:00
> The chair's main responsibility is to carry out the mandate of the Fed, which is to promote the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates

You’re correctly quoting your source. But this is crap, as their source [1] makes no reference to “moderate long-term interest rates”.

The Fed is mandated to promote “maximum employment” and “stable prices” [2]. (It defines the former as “the highest level of employment or lowest level of unemployment that the economy can sustain while maintaining a stable inflation rate.”) If inflation is unstable, the economy is above maximum employment.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_about.htm

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/mone...
by westurner | 2025-10-01 20:53:03+00:00
FWIU software jobs hiring was/is down along with the cancelling of the R&D tax credit.

From "House restores immediate R&D deduction in new tax bill" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39213002 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38988189 :

>> "Since amortization took effect [ in 2022 thanks to a time-triggered portion of the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA" 2017) ], the growth rate of R&D spending has slowed dramatically from 6.6 percent on average over the previous five years to less than one-half of 1 percent over the last 12 months," Estes said. "The [R&D] sector is down by more than 14,000 jobs"

> Hopefully R&D spending at an average of 6.6% will again translate to real growth

From "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275202 :

> Did tech reduce hiring after Section 174 R&D tax policy changes?

[...]

> From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45131866 :

>> In 2017 Trump made businesses have to amortize these [R&D] expenses over 5 years instead of deducting them, starting in 2022 (it is common for an administration to write laws that will only have a negative effect after they're gone). This move wrecked the R&D tax credit. Many US businesses stopped claiming R&D tax credits entirely as a result. Others had surprise tax bills

> People just want the same R&D tax incentives back:

> "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)" (2025 (2439 points)) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145

It is suspected that hiring levels correlate with the cancelling of the R&D Tax credit.

The TCJA (2017 Trump) cancelled the R&D tax credit.

The OBBA (2025 Trump) restored the R&D tax credit for tax year 2025.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-01 20:53:21+00:00
It depends on what type of interviews you expect. My value proposition hasn’t been my ability to write code for over a decade. It was first being the first or second technical hire by a then new director/manager/CTO brought in to lead a new initiative as a lead/architect and then working in customer facing cloud consulting roles combined with hands on keyboard coding.

With those roles, it’s all about soft skill behavioral interviews and system design. I can do those in my sleep. I just keep a career document of all of my major projects and describe them in STAR format so I can review them when needed.