MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 20:54:03+00:00
> If they say "I just had a kid, I spend time with them", is a good example.

Your understanding of these laws is flawed. A candidate volunteering information doesn't make the company liable for discrimination against them.

It's a common misconception that if topics like having kids or being married comes up in an interview then the company is liable to be sued for discrimination. It should be obvious that a candidate can't entrap a company by injecting this information into the interview when it wasn't asked. Even if the interviewers do ask, a discrimination lawsuit has a much higher bar than the topic simply coming up in the interview. It has to be demonstrated that the information was used to discriminate against the applicant, not just that it was discussed.

Your interpretation of my question is also flawed. I'm not asking "Tell me what you do in your free time." I'm asking them if they have anything outside of work that they'd like to share that would help their case.

> I suggest you talk to your HR department.

Please read my entire comment. The legal team reviewed our interview process and had no problems with it.

I think maybe your HR department has tried extra hard to scare you away from subjects they want to avoid, which has led to a misunderstanding of how the law actually works. It's common for HR professionals to tell interviewers that there are "illegal questions" or that if a topic comes up at all then you're going to get sued for discrimination. In reality, the legal bar for these cases is much higher. HR professionals just want to scare interviewers away entirely and drive the point home.

Asking candidates if they have an additional experience to share isn't an invitation for discrimination lawsuits. I suggest you open your mind a little bit and consider that some candidates may have more to offer than appears on the bullet points under each job on their resume.
by yardstick | 2025-10-10 20:54:06+00:00
It’s been years but I’ve likely used NAT to redirect ICMP pings so the local firewall responds rather than whatever boat they were trying to reach.

Systems change - a server that once used to respond to pings may no longer do so, but client software may not be updated to stop doing pings before connecting to the actual service on the server. In an ideal world the client code would be updated, in practice: hello firewall.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-10 20:54:11+00:00
> The fact that it's the 1st amendment indicates that founding fathers thought that it is indeed the greatest injury us government can inflict on us citizens.

By that argument the greatest injury that they were addressing was a weak central government that couldn’t provide for the security and financing of the state. It’s literally called the first amendment because the Bill of Rights was an addendum to the constitution.
by abbadadda | 2025-10-10 20:55:07+00:00
Have you looked at AMD’s financials? They are fine. Intel is massively fucking up in the CPU space and they’re benefiting from that in a big way. Yes, they’re late to GPUs, but every percentage of market share they do make inroads on is raising the boat. They’re not sinking by any means and there are more revenue streams for AMD than just CPUs/GPUs.
by Spivak | 2025-10-10 20:55:57+00:00
I can actually give a very specific real life example of political ads working because I have a friend who was part of the campaign. In Ohio there was a constitutional amendment on the ballot to legalize abortion. The orgs that spent millions of dollars getting it on the ballot were constantly polling to figure where they stand in terms of it passing. As a just in case they made a "break glass" ad campaign which talked about a 10 year old rape victim that had to be driven across state lines to get an abortion. At the 11th hour a few days before the vote they realized it wasn't going to pass. So they took that ad and blasted it across the state, you legitimately couldn't watch TV for more than 30 minutes and not see it at least twice. It covered every streaming service, youtube, facebook ads, tv. The polls went from 48-49% to almost 60% in favor and it passed.
by spopejoy | 2025-10-10 20:56:20+00:00
We're so far from that though. Even if we magically jump over the failure rates we're discussing here, the safety considerations seem to be far worse. These things are heavy and dangerous, c.f. Rodney Brooks' "never follow a robot up stairs" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-...
by maelito | 2025-10-10 20:56:37+00:00
Hi, thanks for these info.

I have a web app that produces atproto records, app.cartes.comment.

My server listens to Jetstream and builds its DB based on this. But what about if my server goes down for say 4 days ? How can I rebuild my DB to catch up those days ?

It looks like Jetstream cannot work for this.

My need is simple : give me all the records of the collection on the whole atmosphere. How to do this ?
by jerf | 2025-10-10 20:56:48+00:00
This sort of thing is definitely in the class of "are you experiencing problems? if not don't worry about it".

If you are experiencing problems, this might give you an angle to think about that you hadn't otherwise, if you just naively assume Wifi is as good as a dedicated wire. Modern Wifi has an awful lot of resources, though. I only notice degradation of any kind when I have one computer doing a full-speed transfer for quite a while to another, but that's a pretty exceptional case and not one I'm going to run any more wires around for for something that happens less than once a month.
by saghm | 2025-10-10 20:56:52+00:00
It's not logically inconsistent for someone to think that one proposal is worse than the status quo without having an alternative that's better than the status quo. Maybe the reason that nothing has been done yet is because every "solution" that's been proposed including this one, are worse than the problem it's supposed to solve.

The internet is also full of bad takes like "the ends justify the means" and "the solution to this problem is obvious and no one has done it because they're evil/stupid/lazy".
by fragmede | 2025-10-10 20:57:29+00:00
How do you want to define grifter? He shows up, makes a lot of big promises, talks a lot of shit, doesn't actually engage with any real criticism, gets paid for it, and then exits, stage left. He could be right, he could be wrong, but he leaves no room for debate. If all you want is someone to yell at you about how right your feelings on something are, I mean, hey, I have a therapist too. I don't ask her for financial advice though.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-10-10 20:57:40+00:00
I'll disagree with your "disagreement" - of course, I went to a relatively unique school: Waterloo computer engineering with co-op in the 90s. 8 study semesters, 6 work semesters. Clearly lets you see what "work" is like, and which parts of your studies seem relevant. Obviously, no one will use 100% of their engineering courses - they're designed to cover a lot of material but not specialize in anything.

True, grad school was focused on making professors - I did a master's, ended up being a lecturer for a while. Now a 20+ year software developer in the valley. But undergrad was focused on blending theoretical and practical skills. If they didn't, employers would have stopped coming back to hire co-op students, and would stop hiring the students at a high rate when they graduate.

I COULD have learned a lot of software myself - I was already coding in multiple languages before attending and had a side-software-contract before ever going in - and that was before the "web", so I had to buy and study books and magazines and I was able to do that reasonably well (IMHO).

Yet I never regretted my time in school. In fact, I had a job offer with my last employer before going back to grad school, and they hired me as a summer contractor at a very nice hourly rate back then.
by Animats | 2025-10-10 20:57:49+00:00
Yes, Musk said something like that a few weeks ago in September.[1] Musk says a lot of things. As of August 2025, Tesla's position was that the old technology plus expected improvement was good enough.[2]

There was a rumor a few months ago that Tesla had bought Quantumscape. But that deal does not seem to have happened. Quantumscape is still publicly traded. Ticker symbol QS. Up 350% this year. Latest deal is a partnership with Murata for ceramic separators. They made enough sample batteries to power a motorcycle in Dubai. All the serious players can make high-cost samples now.

[1] https://elonbuzz.com/elon-musk-announces-all-new-solid-state...

[2] https://www.topspeed.com/tesla-stand-on-solid-state-batterie...
by youainti | 2025-10-10 20:58:18+00:00
It might be helpful to look at this classic post by Joel Spolsky [0]. He discusses many of the points you brought up. I found it most helpful to pull out some of the principles he discusses and then ask "What would this look like when applied to [job in question]?"

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
by sampo | 2025-10-10 20:58:21+00:00
Not related to the article, but related to Frank Herbert's Dune:

The Dune ecosystem is much less thought out than it appears to be. Herbert drops bits and pieces about the Dune ecology here and there so getting an overall picture is difficult, so we don't realize how silly it is.

* We don't know where sand plankton comes from.

* Sand plankton lives in the top layers of desert sand, eats spice.

* Some of the tiny sand plankton individuals grow larger, migrate deeper down, and become sand trout.

* Sand trout excrement combines with water pockets deep below, is biologically active, grows, releases gases and explodes, transporting it back to surface, becomes spice.

* We don't know what sand trout eats, but it should eat something in order to produce excrement.

* Some sand trouts grow larger, become sand worms.

* Sand worms eat sand plankton.

So the thole ecosystem consists only one species, with 3 life stages: (1) sand plankton, (2) sand trout, (3) sand worm. And stage 1 lives by eating the excrement of stage 2, and stage 3 lives by eating stage 1.

Ecologically and energetically this is silly. The species just eats itself and its own excrement, and there appears to be no energy input to the system.
by Kon5ole | 2025-10-10 20:58:36+00:00
>No, the subsidies don’t stop at installation - they often just really begin.[..] Often wealthier households have been able to sell back their electricity to the grid at the retail rate.

It's not a subsidy to be allowed to sell a thing you produce at market price. If taxes were used to pay a guaranteed price above market rate to solar panel owners sure, but that's not the case (generally speaking, local political absurdities may exist of course).

>Providing the infrastructure and reliability of the grid is very expensive,

There is no additional infrastructure needed to cover rooftop solar though. It's just electricity being added to an existing grid.

If someone is increasing your power bill and blaming it on some one else's solar panels, I'd say you are being scammed and I would not take such claims at face value! "Yeah you have to pay cause Jim got solar panels, so we had to uhm, you know, we had to, err, well you have to pay more anyway". ;-)

>a dollar spent subsidizing utility solar will go much, much further to decarbonizing the grid than a dollar spent subsidizing rooftop residential solar.

But this is a choice that doesn't exist. We are not talking about a bunch of money that has been collected and is being spent on people's rooftop solar instead of being spent on utility solar. There is no money except the homeowner's money that is being spent here, and they can only choose to get rooftop solar.

>This sort of wealth transfer to the more wealthy actually hurts everyone in the long run. The goal is to decarbonize the grid - not implement some kind of a reverse Robinhood scheme.

Rooftop solar decarbonizes the grid faster than anything else at the moment, since lots of people get to decide for themselves instead of waiting for politicians. It transfers no money from anyone but from the homeowners to makers of solar panels.

It also lowers the production price of electricity, which should lower the purchase price too, unless you are in the hands of corrupt politicans and utility cos.
by ch4s3 | 2025-10-10 20:58:55+00:00
> Will you still have democracy once Corina Machado realizes her plan to privatize oil companies?

Yes. Norway is basically the only real democracy with a nationalized oil firm, and they found oil after having been a democracy for like 100 years. Everywhere else state oil companies are piggy banks for tyrants and prevent the country from investing in economic development because they don’t need private tax revenues. State oil companies are a trap.
by I_complete_me | 2025-10-10 20:59:25+00:00
May I interject with my pathetic attempt at a Classification of Intelligences ala Linnaeus

Pre-AI :: Examples :: Timeline

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NHI Non-human Intelligence :: e.g. dolphins, apes, crows etc. :: millions of years

HI Human Intelligence :: e.g. Einstein, Trump, Confuscius, Homer :: thousands of years

Post-AI

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AI Artificial Intelligence :: ChatGTP, Gemini, many others :: countable months

AGI :: Artificial General Intelligence ; not there yet; :: zero

AIApHI AI Assisted/Approved/Audited Human Intelligence :: See AI :: countable months

HIApAI Human Intelligence Assisted/Approved/Audited AI :: The Future? :: zero

I have mentioned no individuals here to avoid legal action. My point on AI is ... wait and see. Chill.
by nis0s | 2025-10-10 20:59:41+00:00
> Yes, I'd rather live in a "Western" country than any of the "adversaries"

It’s important to reflect on why you say this because when push comes to shove, the moral relativism rings a hollow tone. The preceding parts of your post are just part of the education instilled in you from having been exposed to enlightenment-influenced frameworks.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 21:00:00+00:00
> And that's unprovoked. That doesn't conflict with what I said (I intentionally included it).

How is asking a direct question to the candidate "unprovoked"? This doesn't make sense.

> Whenever someone is interesting in sharing, they present the work themselves. They provide their GitHub link, or include it on their resume, mention it, etc.

No, they do not always do this. This isn't a good assumption. Asking candidates if they have anything extra to share reveals additional projects quite frequently. I would know because I do ask.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-10 21:00:28+00:00
This is what vexes me about the lack of emphasis on highway self-driving. Everyone's obsessed with robo taxis.

An overnight trip that's automated could go at 40 mph and get seriously good gas mileage. I mean man with four people would probably get almost 100 miles per gallon.

And this would eliminate a lot of short-range flights

It should be a lot easier to implement than having to worry about a whole class of problems that robo taxis in cities have
by cmehdy | 2025-10-10 21:00:42+00:00
I work at a company that invented an internal syntax to compile into C++ code, that still relies on c-shell and conventions taken when OS/2 was in use there, and with a web of Jenkins instances and homemade wrappers and DBs to build that stuff.

I can safely say that title exists already. And I value my current experience as a humbling example of what is to come as software becomes an older industry, and not just a world of startups and their freshest languages/frameworks/tools.
by o11c | 2025-10-10 21:01:18+00:00
I never once said we had to settle for this solution. I absolutely said that there is a real problem, and the people in the best position to make a real solution have absolutely no desire to do anything about it.

Remember that previous status quo was "I'd rather make money off of child abuse, because nobody is stopping us". This is the end result of self-regulation, so show me something better.
by kjksf | 2025-10-10 21:01:33+00:00
There was a wave of violent disruptions across many universities under the guise of protests.

"protestors" took over libraries, disrupted lectures, vandalized university property, used the power of the mob to intimidate students who disagreed.

The universities have rules against all of that but failed to stop it, leading to weeks long disruptions on campus.

There are videos of all that on the internet.

And you're playing dumb asking what actions do they mean. Those actions: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=university+prot...

Actions like setting fire to university, which apparently happened yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqhFZZ9zyA

Actions like smashing windows by masked hooligans: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CH2kUU3h9j4

Actins like breaking cop's nose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMssP-A09A

As to defining a "woman" as anything else than a woman: it's modern day flat earthism, not something a serious person should entertain.
by aseg | 2025-10-10 21:01:54+00:00
Slightly meta-level: I'm glad the authors finds the ICLR reviews useful, and this illustrates one of the successes of ICLR's policy of always open sourcing the reviews (regardless of whether the paper is accepted or rejected).

The authors benefit from having "testimonials" of how anonymous reviewers interpreted their works, and it also allows opens the door to people outside of the classic academic pipeline to see the behind the scenes arguments to accept/reject a paper.

Here are the reviews for this paper btw: https://openreview.net/forum?id=xNsIfzlefG

And here's a list of all the rejected papers: https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2025/Conference#tab-...
by pragma_x | 2025-10-10 21:02:03+00:00
That's... no, servers sending HTML to the client was where we started with all this.

That's why the H in HTTP and in HTML stand for "Hypertext." Any time a webserver replies with something other than markup, _that's_ the extension/exception to that very old design.

Now, if you're talking about the separation of user-interface, data, logic, and where HTML fits in, that's a much bigger discussion.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-10 21:02:08+00:00
My feeling is that the tech industry has been in, "hot water" since at least 2018 and has been using private equity and bullshit hype-trains to garner interest in new technologies in lieu of the public getting hip to the fact that mostly computers are spying on you, making you mentally ill, and stealing your data in exchange for, "being able to participate." As pointed out by others OpenAI and the rest of the AI ecosystem will need a financial miracle to stay afloat and offer their products for a competitive price.

There's so much of what, "AI" is becoming that just seems like a massive psy-op to breathe one last breath of life into what is the skeleton of the old Silicon Valley. Innovation is possible but if the future really is liberal authoritarianism/oligarchy there's no room in the contrived market for, "innovative products that greatly improve human life."

There's hope in: https://worrydream.com/
by bsimpson | 2025-10-10 21:02:08+00:00
I had a spare pair of Hue lights that I mounted behind my Android TV. Bummer I can't use Hue Sync on built-in streaming apps.

Only time they get used is when I'm playing Fortnite. I had Huenicorn set up for NixOS, but I haven't bothered trying again in SteamOS.
by legitster | 2025-10-10 21:03:29+00:00
I think this is a bit unfair. In 2017 said they were going to have the technology by 2021. They are a couple of years late, but they say they have the technology in test cars now and are moving to production.

Given it was over 20 years before Lithium batteries were first proposed and when they were commercially viable, we're probably being a bit harsh.
by sgjohnson | 2025-10-10 21:03:31+00:00
If you cut into the final reserve, it’s a full-blown emergency requiring a mayday call.

This should not happen. So what’s there to investigate? How it was allowed to happen, and how to prevent it from happening again.

EDIT: it’s a mayday even earlier than that. It’s a mayday once the pilots know that they WILL land with less than the final reserve.
by creer | 2025-10-10 21:03:47+00:00
Please maintain your professional social contacts!

It's fine not to have a native interest in that. But it's part of the job. No blog or bragging needed. No Linkedin needed even, if you really don't want that one. Catalog and maintain some minimal contact with these people who have seen your work: bosses, colleagues, juniors, vendors, consultants, anyone. Expose a few EXTRA people now and then, so they can see your work. This way, when you need to find a new job after many years hidden in just one department, you will have all these people who moved - sometimes frequently - and only wished they could have taken you with them at the time.

And that has nothing to do with "10x" - no matter the skill level you think you have, you'll be better off with a wide set of people who know you. "Know you" to any degree - often people will prefer you to going through the circus of interviewing for pretty random results.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-10 21:03:52+00:00
For a variety of reasons it is interesting.

Max charge rate is frequently dependent on battery size. A larger battery can absorb more power per unit of time. If you get 50% range in an hour of fast charging, the 1000 mile range car is much better for long distance travel.

Having to only charge your car every 1k miles opens up a lot of use cases. People living in places where they have to street park, and can't charge at night, might feel a lot better about electric cars if they only have to charge once a month.

Towing range is a major issue with the current generation of electric vehicles.

Auxiliary power uses are also appealing to a lot of people. 1000 miles of range can also translate to 500 miles of range and 100kw of power. Think about ambulances, cop cars and other service vehicles that just run their engines for an entire shift to keep the electricity flowing. Plenty of people travel with generators for personal and professional reasons. No need if your car has power to spare.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-10 21:04:46+00:00
> Is there something that makes it all "just work"?

Stripe?

You can geolocate via IP as a first pass for the frontend, check the card’s country code for the order, and then the billing/shipping/account address if it’s really that important (like when your service has different costs depending on locality).

I’m sure there are services that can handle it for you but it’s so simple to implement price discrimination to whatever threshold you want that I’ve never checked. The hard part was always figuring out the false positive/negative rate and the frontend flow when the different steps disagree on location, but those are edge cases that don’t really matter with zero marginal cost digital goods.