MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stevewodil | 2025-11-03 18:32:20+00:00
>according to GM, the company can create an even better experience for drivers by dropping Apple and making its own software

History has shown that most (especially legacy) car manufacturers make crappy software. I simply don't believe that GM will make exceptional infotainment software and additionally there's no doubt they will charge some subscription fee for parts of the software. It will not be up to the same standard as Tesla or Rivian's software where I can partially accept this argument.

I love CarPlay and my phone already has all the features I need in the car in terms of music, maps, responding to messages, etc. CarPlay is a requirement for me when looking at a car (even rentals).
by darajava | 2025-11-03 18:32:21+00:00
Product Consultant / AudioDiary / https://audiodiary.ai / Remote / CONTRACT / flexible hours / Up to $250 daily or performance-based - subject to discussion.

Our app, AudioDiary, has recently been through a period of highly organic growth. We need a someone with successful experience in scaling apps to help us grow more intentionally. We're open to any kind of improvement, from product to app store presence and beyond—the main goal being growth.

AudioDiary is a new and exciting project that's already helping thousands of people. We have big ambitions and we hope that working with us could be the start of something wonderful.

If interested, send us an email that includes your relevant work experience, in particular your success stories with growing new products.

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by fschuett | 2025-11-03 18:32:26+00:00
Location: Germany

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Anywhere, as long as the salary matches the local living costs, I'm not bound by family or similar

Technologies: I have about 6 YOE in Rust, so that's my daily driver and it's what I'm best at. Other than that, Python, general frontend tech (JS / HTML / CSS, but I don't use frameworks), SEO and graphic design

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17pG-DUswO19foUCrctVR40jE5S-..., https://www.linkedin.com/in/fschuttmaps4print, https://github.com/fschutt

Email: See Resume.

I am mostly a self-taught Rust engineer who tried (unsuccessfully, so far) to build a cartography startup. But I still need a regular day job, even if everything goes well, but I have lots of experience in Rust by now. After school, I only had some training in government administration, but never wanted to work there. Learned C++ in my free type, then switched to Rust in 2017 to create my own GIS / graphics applications. That work resulted in the https://azul.rs GUI framework (still working on it).

I finished multiple smaller projects for the German government (had to get "some" job because I ran out of money building Azul), but sadly all my designs got rejected due to German bureaucracy. I am good at thinking through systems, ownership and understanding the entire product, as well as rendering, performance, Linux / open-source and software architecture.

Not interested in crypto or defense sector.
by prmph | 2025-11-03 18:32:34+00:00
> An A.I smarter than a Nobel prize winner.

I don't even know what this means.

If we assembled the sum total of all published human knowledge on a storage medium and gave a computer the ability to search it extremely well in order to answer any question falling within its domain, there, you would have a Nobel Prize beating "A.I".

But this is as "earth-shattering" (/s) as the idea that human knowledge can be stored outside the brain (on paper, flash drives, etc), or that the answer to complex questions can be deterministic.

And then there is the fact that this Noble winner beating "A.I" is highly unlikely to propound any ground-breaking novel ways of thinking and promote and explain it to general acceptance.
by steveklabnik | 2025-11-03 18:32:58+00:00
C2Rust is the largest project here, it was born out of corrode. The general idea of it is to do a direct C -> unsafe Rust port, and then also provide tooling to convert unsafe Rust -> safe Rust, as a secondary tool to be used as a second step. I don't think they've shipped much of that second tool yet, but I haven't checked in in a while.
by jcotton42 | 2025-11-03 18:33:02+00:00
> I'll have my car a lot longer than I have my phone

Doesn't that make CarPlay/Android Auto a good thing? Provided the car supports both platforms, it means you can change phones during your car's lifespan without having to worry about losing features, and you get new phones as your phone upgrades without having to change your car.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-11-03 18:33:19+00:00
SEEKING WORK | US | Remote OK

I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I can help you build a Platform Engineering practice from the very beginning. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard
by somullane | 2025-11-03 18:33:25+00:00
BluWave | Machine Learning Engineer | Hybrid, Seattle or Nashville | Full-time

BluWave runs the leading marketplace connecting private equity firms with elite, third-party service providers. We're hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to own, architect, and evolve the core recommendation systems that drive our business.

We're looking for an engineer with 2+ years experience building and deploying production ML models. You'll own the full ML lifecycle using our stack (Python, Docker, Azure, Milvus, Snowflake).

See more details and apply here: https://20220112223644_yer4zwtstda5jc3k.applytojob.com/apply...
by ahepp | 2025-11-03 18:33:42+00:00
I've done something like this in the past, it works really well. Have you used Poudriere? I never tried it, but it sounds promising. Ansible is a good idea as well. I just wrote some shell scripts that parsed a file with some packages and hooks to set up the jails.

These days I have my FreeBSD server providing NFS for a k3s instance on a different box.
by mddr | 2025-11-03 18:33:48+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Lead Infrastructure Engineer

I am a Lead Infrastructure Engineer with 20+ years of experience.

Whether your team is stuck troubleshooting infra issues, needs extra hands on an infra-heavy project or is just lacking tech leadership on the DevOps topics, contact me and we'll figure it out.

I prefer to work along the existing engineering teams, mentoring or training them while working together on the real tasks. This is a very effective and also a flexible way to learn and as a bonus, some work gets done on the way.

I am located in EU (Estonia) and work remotely with occasional on-site visits.

The usual topics are various AWS services, Elastic Stack, Linux, wide range of troubleshooting, infrastructure as code, logging & monitoring, managing cloud costs, but I find it rewarding to venture into new areas together with the team.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martitaremaa/

Contact: hn at kibe.ee
by srpablo | 2025-11-03 18:34:02+00:00
I'm really torn -- you and your engineers should be excited to work on your codebase. You should enter it and be like "yes, I've made good choices and this is a codebase I appreciate, and it has promise." If you have a set of storylines that make this migration appropriate, and its still early in the company that you can even do this in 3 days, then by all means, do it! And good luck. It'll never be cheaper to do it, and you are going to be "wearing" it for your company's lifetime.

But a part of me is reading this and thinking "friend... if PostHog was able to do what they're doing on the stack you're abandoning, do you think that stack is actually going to limit your scalability in any way that matters?" Like, you have the counterexample right there! Other companies are making the "technically worse" choice but making it work.

I love coding and I recognize that human beings are made of narratives, but this feels like 3 days you could have spent on customer needs or feature dev or marketing, and instead you rolled around in the code mud for a bit. It's fine to do that every now and then, and if this was a more radical jump (e.g. a BEAM language like Elixir or Gleam, or hell, even Golang, which has that preemptive scheduler + fast compiles/binary deploys + designed around a type system...) than I'd buy it more. And I'm not in your shoes so it's easy to armchair quarterback. But it smells a bit like getting in your head on technical narratives that are more fun to apply your creativity to, instead of the ones your company really needs.
by aiauthoritydev | 2025-11-03 18:34:05+00:00
A real tree grown from scratch is a real proof of real work while peer review is nothing but an example of otherwise unemployable person wasting their productive life on wordcelling for fake prestige.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If you seek evidence you must put good faith efforts in finding the evidence or evidence of absence before asking others to waste time nullifying your claims for which you have produced no evidence.

> India State of Forest Reports (ISFR)

Published every 2 years shows strong growth in India's forests. Though their methodology, methods of calculation have been questions the general trend of forestation is not questioned by anyone.

Indian government has had many programs for forestation. I am not familiar with all regions but I am specifically aware of western Ghats in India. These very ghats were once nearly destroyed by "experts" writing in "peer reviewed" journals who introduced non-native fast growth trees in the region as replacement for native trees. These trees such as Acacia etc. were very detrimental for local wildlife and rest of the ecosystem.

While I am skeptical of government initiatives in general, they have worked for India's western ghats pretty well mostly due to urbanization. These initiatives pay local communities and farmers to grow and plant trees. A lot of scams happen and money gets stolen. Survival rate of trees remains at 30% instead of expected 60%. Trees planted are often of only 3-4 varieties and sometimes non-native but all things considered it works out positively.
by gf000 | 2025-11-03 18:34:11+00:00
> It's not a living thing inside the computer, it's just the inference building text token by token using probabilities based on the pre-computed model.

Sure, and humans are just biochemical reactions moving muscles as their interface with the physical word.

I think the model of operation is not a good criticism, but please see my reply to the root comment in this thread where I detail my thoughts a bit.
by JCM9 | 2025-11-03 18:34:25+00:00
OpenAI is generating $13B a year in revenue. Let’s be generous and say $20B. They’ve signed commitments to spend something like $1.4 trillion on compute. An asset that to date has proven to have a hyper-depreciation cycle.

Someone has to come up with $1.4 trillion in actual cash, fast, or this whole thing comes crashing down. Why? At the end of all this circular financing and deals are folks that actually want real cash (eg electricity utilities that aren’t going to accept OpenAI shares for payment).

If the above doesn’t freak you about a bit at how bonkers this whole thing has become then you need a reality check. “Selling ads” on ChatGPT ain’t gonna close that hole.
by sixo | 2025-11-03 18:34:29+00:00
Location: Currently NC, but I'd like to move back to NYC. Open to in-person in either state.

Remote: Open to full remote or hybrid in NC/NYC

Willing to relocate: only on the East coast.

Technologies: Python, SQL, some Scala, some Typescript. DBT, Postgres, Spark, Flink. Various AWS like Kinesis, Firehose, Glue, Redshift. Various data pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/skritch/resume/blob/master/resume.pdf

Email: sam.kritch@gmail.com

I'd be interested in working on any of: data platforms, data pipelines, data engineering, or data-intensive backend applications. I would enjoy either a greenfield/early-stage data team where I could create a lot of value quickly, or, a more mature team with some veterans I can learn from.
by ciju | 2025-11-03 18:34:33+00:00
It's local-first in the sense that all your financial data is local (synched across your devices), and backed up to your dropbox. Firebase is for auth (e.g. for us to know who you are, manage subscription etc). None of your financial data is kept there. We don't have a decent way to set up and track subscription without that central piece (firebase).

In other words, when the company goes down, there are two concerns:

1st whether you will have access to your data. Yes, and no one else has access to it.

2nd whether you will be able to use the app. We plan to open-source the app when/before that happens. This part, you have to trust us. We don't see an easy way out of this, yet.
by maxglute | 2025-11-03 18:34:49+00:00
>very edge of Argentina's territorial waters

The edge of EEZs, aka the high seas, aka fucking international waters. There's lots of documentation of PRC DWF legally fishing where they're entitled that useful idiots think is illegal activity because US was pumping propaganda bux and generating false narratives / wedge issues countries PRC was cozying up with and rationalize deploying their coast guards to undermine PRC interests.

There's occasionally misbehavior, i.e. AIS shenanigans for incursions from minority of vessels, but PRC bheavior proportionally is slightly BETTER than other DWFs, i.e. SKR, TW, ES. TLDR if an a countries entire extract model falls because some foreign vessels pops a few nautical miles into 200 mile long EEZ, i.e. a few % of occasional incursion, then their national fishing managment models are not sustainable.

BTW, there's a reason only few ships are ever interdicted, because in aggregate, PRC DWF is just not a fucking issue. There were actual attemps where US coast guards tried to board PRC DWF fleets on high seas, again, international waters, and was lolled off. So the answer to all those asking why DWF fleets aren't sunk (I assume in good faith they mean all DWF and not just PRC's), the answer is simple: most operate legally, in international waters, pillaging the commons unsustainably as they are entitled to.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-11-03 18:35:02+00:00
I ask myself what am I going to do to compensate once I am done building the current project.

And when am I going to be finished, or at least hit a worthwhile milestone?

There really should be some celebration due, and it most likely is going to be with people who have no understanding of what you are doing so often on your own.

It's not the manstream but it is actually normal if you're an individual craftsman.

At one time some of the most high-tech were called "watchmakers" :)
by tristanlarson | 2025-11-03 18:35:04+00:00
Location: Ames, IA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Linux, Active Directory, Docker, Proxmox, Kubernetes, Cloudflare

Résumé/CV: https://resume.tristan.network

Email: trst1129@iastate.edu

Sophomore Cybersecurity Engineering major at Iowa State University, working on campus as a Systems Support Technician.

I’m looking for an internship to get real world experience. See my website for my projects and my LinkedIn for relevant experience: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-larson-804b4915b
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-03 18:35:16+00:00
> Unless we can find indications that humans can exceed the Turing computable - something we as of yet have no indication is even theoretically possible - there is no rational reason to think it can't.

But doesn't this rely on the same thing you suggest we don't have, which is a working and definable definition of consciousness?

I think a lot of the 'well, we can't define consciousness so we don't know what it is so it's worthless to think about' argument - not only from you but from others - is hiding the ball. The heuristic, human consideration of whether something is conscious is an okay approximation so long as we avoid the trap of 'well, it has natural language, so it must be conscious.'

There's a huge challenge in the way LLMs can seem like they are speaking out of intellect and not just pattern predicting, but there's very little meaningful argument that they are actually thinking in any way similarly to what you or I do in writing these comments. The fact that we don't have a perfect, rigorous definition, and tend to rely on 'I know it when I see it,' does not mean LLMs do have it or that it will be trivial to get to them.

All that is to say that when you say:

> I also don't know for sure whether or not you are "possessed of subjective experience" as I can't measure it.

"Knowing for sure" is not required. A reasonable suspicion one way or the other based on experience is a good place to start. I also identified two specific things LLMs don't do - they are not self-motivated or goal-directed without prompting, and there is no evidence they possess a sense of self, even with the challenge of lack of definition that we face.
by macNchz | 2025-11-03 18:35:23+00:00
I think this is a good analogy, though something I've noticed is that as reddit has taken their product direction more towards social media, it seems that it has been harder to maintain quality in smaller discussion subreddits, because popular posts get picked up and injected into non-subscribers' feeds, so the ability to have a subreddit approaching HN's level of conversation is reduced.

Increasingly it seems users have no concept of subreddits at all, and simply consume a singular home feed (I don't actually know what the new user experience of signing up for reddit on the app looks like, but this is my impression), more like the major social media platforms.

I've been using reddit for a long time and still check it, but I've become considerably less engaged as they've moved towards this kind of lowest-common-denominator slop trough feed approach.
by mentos | 2025-11-03 18:35:47+00:00
We have examples of non sentience everywhere already with animals. And then an example of sentience with humans. So if you diff our brains the difference lies within a module in our prefrontal cortex. It’s a black box of logic but I can ‘understand’ or be willing to accept that it’s owed to ‘just’ more grey matter adding the self awareness to the rest of the system.

But to me the big mystery is how animals have sensation at all to begin with. What gives rise to that is a greater mystery to me personally.

There are examples of people who have no ability to feel pain yet are still able to think. Now I wonder if they ever experience mental anguish.
by nekusar | 2025-11-03 18:36:13+00:00
I'd argue that "No Socials November" should be "No corporate Socials November".

Places like the Fediverse (Mastodon, Peertube, Lemmy, pixelfed, etc) are that non-corporate non-gamified breath of fresh air.

Sure, there's less people on those networks, but that too is a great benefit - less bots and less "temperature". And 10 years ago, in 2015, we already saw videos analyzing social media hatred with CGP Grey's "This video will make you angry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

But why anger? Because anger and screaming at people is a guaranteed way to make "engagement", which seems to be the predominant way to prove to advertisers of "people per month". But is it good? Absolutely not. Its poison, slowly but surely. But how do we avoid the poison? The root cause here is money from advertising, which is from engagement.

But you cut out the profit motive, you also cut out advertisers, and you also cut out arbitrary and forced anger-gagement. And that, is the Fediverse.

The opposite is your Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit. And they're full of bots, quazi and directly hateful content posted for "engagement", and the same set of hate memes populated froom 1 site to all the rest by bots. No wonder people hate this type of social media. It's wholly toxic and poisonous.
by Zambyte | 2025-11-03 18:36:36+00:00
> Facebook and Google aren't rich from selling ads, they're rich from all of the ad infrastructure and quite frankly their ability to follow you around on the internet.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/

> Besides, how are ads on ChatGPT supposed to work?

"How do I do XYZ?" "Product ABC can do XYZ for you."
by 6d6b73 | 2025-11-03 18:36:42+00:00
What if that's the hell or heaven some of us were told about? If you live a good life, having it flashed in front of you could be a calming thing, but if you've been a person that caused lots of pain to other people, being reminded of it in the last few seconds of your life — that's a hellish experience. However, what if you've been a generally good person but were a subject of rape or some heinous crimes — having to relive that again... that's even worse than hell..
by skeptrune | 2025-11-03 18:36:44+00:00
I know that this is supposed to be targeted at NextCloud in particular, but I think it's a good standalone "you should care about how much JavaScript you ship" post as well.

What frustrates me about modern web development is that everyone is focused on making it work much more than they are making it sure it works fast. Then when you go to push back, the response is always something like "we need to not spend time over-optimizing."

Sent this straight to the team slack haha.
by Nevermark | 2025-11-03 18:36:44+00:00
> Over time you slowly build out a list of good "node papers" (mostly literature reviews) and useful terms to speed up this process, but it's always gonna be super time consuming.

One of the many many (for me) indispensable uses for language models is ... language.

Whether I am carefully creating terminology for ideas I want to be able to make sense out of in a time-resilient way, or discovering the esoteric terminology of some area I am unfamiliar with. The vocabulary, epistemological reasoning, and genuinely creative coining of terms, that LLMs excel at, is an incredible upgrade.
by aklise | 2025-11-03 18:37:15+00:00
SEEKING FREELANCER -

We are a post seed startup that's looking to bring on a core engineer. Our stack is build with typescript in AWS (all serverless). We're looking for a senior engineer who's experienced working with AWS, AWS Lambda, Stepfunctions, CDK, etc.

It's important to us that the person we bring on can understand business problems and be proactive in suggesting technical direction. We are a small team so everyone is working on the entire stack vs siloed positions.

Please don't waste our mutual time if you're not specifically qualified for this role.

How to apply - send me a email austin [at] goroam [.] io and with a link to your linkedin, a few sentences on why you're interested, and what your hourly rate is. If you can't use ChatGPT (I hope you don't actually use ChatGPT) to follow these instructions you're not a good fit for our role =).
by whstl | 2025-11-03 18:37:21+00:00
To me there were two ways of using social media: #1 interacting with people I know about things in my life and #2 interacting with third-party content and then people I don't really know.

To me Facebook, Instagram and Twitter went completely downhill when it became about #2 for me and my social circle. Twitter was the first, followed by Facebook and then Instagram. I just deleted them in that order. To me they became divisive, angry, political, it made following certain friends impossible, it made people addicted to it, it generated influencers, it made certain friends behave strangely IRL (communicating via meme language only).

HN is definitely #2, but way less political due to moderation.