MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 20:23:32+00:00
They quote the key points more or less accurately, although it must be noted that Damore's reference to "neuroticism" referenced an established concept in psychology and psychometrics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism); this does not correspond to a lay understanding, and it is simply factually incorrect to say that he described women as "more neurotic".

Note that Wikipedia endorses Damore's claim there: "A research [sic] over large samples has shown that levels of neuroticism are higher in women than men.[25]" Similarly, greater variability in male IQ is backed by research. Findings like these adequately support the core of Damore's argument, i.e. that disparate outcomes in race- and gender-blind processes do not evidence any form of unconscious bias and do not demonstrate any moral failing in the hiring process.

The NLRB's findings refer to a supposed "effort to cloak with 'scientific' references and analysis", scare quotes theirs, as if to imply that the findings are not backed by science or that appeals to science are being used fraudulently here. Both are false. Similarly, the NLRB claims that Damore invoked "stereotypes" (their word, not scare quotes) in presenting this analysis, which is also false.

The NLRB further supposes that remarks such as the ones they quoted, were somehow "discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment". I find the claim of discrimination specious. Observing that one population demonstrates a wider range of capability than another in certain standardized testing, is not discriminating against either group, especially when no claim is made about mean ability. As for "sexual harassment", I genuinely cannot understand how any reasonable person could ever have alleged this in good faith. There is no flirtation here, no attempt at intimidation, no intent to offend or degrade, nothing. What Damore said, objectively, was no more "sexist" than observing that men are taller than women on average (Cohen's d of 1.86, by the way: https://copernicanrevolution.org/psychology-of-gender/sex-di...). Putting this in the same category as unwanted sexual advances is beyond ludicrous.

The NLRB finally notes that "Numerous employees complained to the Employer that the memorandum was discriminatory against..." All people who made such complains were objectively incorrect in their assessment. The words cited, nor anything else in the memo, plainly do not support such a conclusion.

Essentially, they haven't actually done any "interpretation" here; they have simply made absurd assertions about the effect of the material, in support of absurd assertions made by Damore's coworkers — which assertions are based on a reading that is at best rendered inaccurate by ideological blinders.
by vsgherzi | 2025-11-11 20:24:17+00:00
I understand ffmpeg being angry at the workload but this is how it is with large open source projects. Ffmpeg has no obligation to fix any of this. Open source is a gift and is provided as is. If Google demanded a fix I could see this being an issue. As it is right now it just seems like a bad look. If they wanted compensation then they should change the model, there's nothing wrong with that. Google found a bug, they reported it. If it's a valid bug then it's a valid bug end of story. Software owes it to its users to be secure, but again it's up to the maintainers if they also believe that. Maybe this pushes Google to make an alternative, which I'd be excited for.
by 0xTJ | 2025-11-11 20:24:25+00:00
Even with almost all of my work done on a computer, with Python, MATLAB, etc. available in a few keypresses, I still keep a calculator on hand. I haven't come across a desktop calculator (including direct 1:1 software recreations of classic calculators) that's quite as user-friendly and efficient as grabbing a scientific calculator off my desk and typing in there.

There are just some user interface advantages for me in having a physical calculator. The only thing stopping me from buying this is the price tag.
by almosthere | 2025-11-11 20:24:26+00:00
The problem with science approaching telepathy tapes is that a parent will say:

My kid knows when another kid is sick.

Scientist: We have to apply scientific rigor, so let's ask him for tomorrow's lotto numbers.

Parents: Yeah, we said he can tell you when another kid is sick and it's 100% correct every time.

Scientist: That proves this is all bullshit.
Ask HN: How to find something to work on for myself?
by StuckWorking | 2025-11-11 20:24:30+00:00
I feel absolutely stuck. I'm employed as a founding engineer at a small start up, I've created the vast majority of the technology and stack that generates millions in revenue a year.

Yet I can't think of anything to work on myself, or where to apply my efforts for my own thing. I read of people saying 'target what you know' but I don't find it helpful. I don't really have much friction in my day job. I don't want to create a super-spread sheet or yet another dev tool.

I don't want to try to monetize my interests outside of work (reading, art).

I look for ideas off of what is posted on Acquire.com but inspiration doesn't strike. I'm scared of dedicating a lot of time to an idea I don't feel great about only for it to not make money. What would motivate me is a clear path towards making money. If I was confident that whatever I build could be sold to customers, then I could figure out the in-between steps.

I just feel like I'm stuck at step 0 on trying to find something to build and I'm stuck working a job, that while it pays well, will never give me financial freedom.

Just wondering if anyone has felt this way and has any advice..
by joshkel | 2025-11-11 20:24:41+00:00
In a follow-up tweet, Mark Atwood eloborates: "Amazon was very carefully complying with the licenses on FFmpeg. One of my jobs there was to make sure the company was doing so. Continuing to make sure the company was was often the reason I was having a meeting like that inside the company."

I interpret this as meaning there was an implied "if you screw this up" at the end of "they could kill three major product lines with an email."
by nemothekid | 2025-11-11 20:25:20+00:00
>Are you okay not being told a tool you're using has a vulnerability in it because the devs don't have time to fix it?

Yes? It's in the license

>NO WARRANTY

>15. BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE LIBRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE LIBRARY "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If I really care, I can submit a patch or pay someone to. The ffmpeg devs don't owe me anything.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-11 20:25:23+00:00
"Cloth" is the correct one, sorry for not reading the link closely. I chose to share that one because of the illustrative photo, but they are incorrect in calling it "piece of clothing"

See: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/185792 and https://us.isseymiyake.com/pages/apocable?srsltid=AfmBOopZJL...

(You can also see an archival garment in the Met article that closely resembles the iPhone Pocket btw)
by leadgrids | 2025-11-11 20:25:42+00:00
There are millions of app creators now, many can't even get their first customer. That's why we built LeadGrids.

LeadGrids is a powerful, AI lead generation platform that scans thousands of online conversations to find customers who are actively looking for your product or service.

How it works: Tell LeadGrids about your business and we find reddit users who are ready to pay. You can contact them on our platform.

No more cold outreach or spamming your product in launch platforms!

This is the most crazy part:

We launched recently and already have 140 paying customers!

LeadGrids is perfect for: SaaS Founders Agencies Consultants App Builders Freelancers
by dizzant | 2025-11-11 20:25:46+00:00
> many programmers are smart, and if instead of creating a magic system they have no access to, you show them the data structure, the tradeoffs, they can build more things, and model their use cases in specific ways. And your system will be simpler, too.

Basically my entire full-time job is spent prosecuting this argument. It is indeed true that many programmers are smart, but it is equally true that many programmers _are not_ smart, and those programmers have to contribute too. More hands is usually better than simpler systems for reasons that have nothing to do with technical proficiency.
by gnavadev | 2025-11-11 20:25:58+00:00
Location: Corvallis, OR, US

Remote: Preferred, also open to in-person

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- Backend: Python, Django (Vanilla & DRF), FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL - Frontend: TypeScript, React, Vue, Next.js - DevOps/Cloud: AWS (S3, Lambda, DynamoDB), Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins - AI/ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, SciKit-learn, OpenCV - Other: Kafka, OpenSearch, Selenium, Storybook, BeautifulSoup - LLM Integrations: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek - Can brew a very nice coffee

Résumé/CV: https://linktr.ee/gabrielnavainfo Also, Feel free to drop a post-it at https://gnava-postit.vercel.app/

Email: gabrielnavactw@gmail.com

Additional Info:

Currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science at Oregon State University.

~3 years of professional experience in full-stack and AI/ML development.

Looking for internship or full-time opportunities that support CPT/OPT candidates (F1 visa).

Country of Origin: Brazil
by mihaaly | 2025-11-11 20:26:07+00:00
All big. 5 the same size category, barely different.

Then they push a tiny-tiny device, the watch. Inbetween? Empty desert.

They do not do things smartly but by force. Like the omission of physical home button, notch, no jack, clud first, and a lot of other things forced on us. Some decide to live with, or even adapt the love of it, despite never ever asked for it. Using the force like Darth Vader.
by _ks3e | 2025-11-11 20:26:20+00:00
It's nice to see some high-performance linear algebra code done in a modern lanugage! Would love to see more!

Is your approach specific to the case where the matrix fits inside cache, but the memory footprint of the basis causes performance issues? Most of the communication-avoiding Krylov works I've seen, e.g [0,1] seem to assume that if the matrix fits, so will its basis, and so end up doing some partitioning row-wise for the 'large matrix' case; I'm curious what your application is.

[0] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-..., e.g. page 25. [1] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-...
by Loquebantur | 2025-11-11 20:26:27+00:00
Your assessment of "magical thinking" being impervious to criticism funnily applies just the same to the attitude exhibited here regarding "fringed" ideas like "telepathy". The "Telepathy Tapes" are "new information", people's attitudes stay the same regardless.

"Predictive power" isn't the source of truth in science, evidence for that attribute is. Given even only a hint of such evidence, scientists are supposed to work in order to acquire more, not to ignore the hint because that work would inconvenience them.

You claim that "alien hypothesis" was implausible, but that statement would require solid arguments in its favor. And those don't exist. You rather argue from ignorance, but absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Again, your pretense of "no predictions, no evidence, no way to test it" is simply counter-factual. You argue from ignorance. (To reiterate, evidence isn't the same as "proof")
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-11 20:26:27+00:00
This matches my experience as well. As a FF user, I very occasionally encounter problems, but these don't seem to be correlated to their using CF protections. Much more often I find sites broken that rely on cloud domains with bad reputations, which my DNS filters block.

I was actually wondering if the stuff that Mozilla's talking about here will be used by bad bot people to try to circumvent CF's abuse protections. As I recall from when I was working with them, CF's service relies in part on being able to identify botnet attacks by doing its own fingerprinting.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 20:26:36+00:00
Gaming OS? I guess if your gaming's heavy on online multiplayer games that insist on rootkits, and you're not willing to do that on a console instead (you can connect mice and keyboards to those now).

2025 is the year I finally removed Windows entirely from my life, thanks to SteamOS and Bazzite. It'd been solely for gaming for 25ish years, for me, having been (in various versions) my primary desktop OS for another sevenish years or so before that (3.1 was my first, and before that, MS-DOS) and now it's for... nothing. I truly have no use for it whatsoever.
by leadgrids | 2025-11-11 20:26:53+00:00
There are millions of app creators now, many can't even get their first customer. That's why we built https://leadgrids.com.

LeadGrids is a powerful, AI lead generation platform that scans thousands of online conversations to find customers who are actively looking for your product or service.

How it works: Tell LeadGrids about your business and we find reddit users who are ready to pay. You can contact them on our platform.

No more cold outreach or spamming your product in launch platforms!

This is the most crazy part:

We launched recently and already have 140 paying customers!

LeadGrids is perfect for: SaaS Founders Agencies Consultants App Builders Freelancers
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 20:26:54+00:00
It's really sad when seeing this incident, and then looking at the larger picture of FOSS volunteer work and seeing that there's no one to replace the old guard once they retire out. The programmers of old never seemed to realize that volunteer work is only done when you're in a position of privrledge, and less people these days have that.

Mix that with incidents like this and you basically are seeing the real time stagnation of open source contributions. You'll only contribute if you work at a top company who chooses to have staff support it.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-11 20:26:57+00:00
I did a quick chat gpt research fact check on this and did not find any obvious red flags. That's not a substitute for good research, obviously. I don't think it matters unless they are off by something outrageous like at least an order of magnitude. That would push it close enough to a one tenth of a percent that you could argue it's rivaling some of the more minor sources of emissions like aviation (2-3% I believe). You'd still be off by another order of magnitude. I don't have any reason to believe that that is the case. But please do share if you have other/better information.

I agree with you that reports like this typically have agendas and lots of little white lies, half truths, or assumptions that you might challenge. The question is are they overstating or understating the problem. And why. I can't judge that. I have my suspicions but I kept those out of my original comment; other of course than pointing out that based on the published numbers, this is does not seem like it actually is a very big problem.
by freedomben | 2025-11-11 20:27:08+00:00
I would love to see Google contribute here, but I think that's a different issue.

Are the bug reports accurate? If so, then they are contributing just as if I found them and sent a bug report, I'd be contributing. Of course a PR that fixes the bug is much better than just a report, but reports have value, too.

The alternative is to leave it unfound, which is not a better alternative in my opinion. It's still there and potentially exploitable even when unreported.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-11 20:27:16+00:00
It's not translated from Japanese, it's originally in English. "A-POC" for "A Piece of Cloth". It refers to garments sewn from a single cut of a ream of cloth. It was translated into Japanese as 一枚の布 which isn't any more meaningful, but the original trademark is in English.

edit: What are you disagreeing with? That's what I'm referring to. The Issey Miyake trademark, which the label uses as "A-POC" as an English acronym, and translates into Japanese only to explain it to the domestic market rather than as the trademark itself. I linked that MoMa article elsewhere in this thread
by Findecanor | 2025-11-11 20:27:48+00:00
There existed watches with the same digits, features and buttons before that, but they were in steel. 1989 is about when Casio transitioned from metal to resin.

The metal watches were succeeded by the A158W, which is chrome-plated resin on the outside, same electronics module as the F-91W on the inside, and likewise is still in production.

After the resin case of my A158W eventually broke, I got a vintage W-34 with a broken movement and put the A158W's module inside. (It will get a SensorWatch PCB once I am done with my firmware mods)

Steel replacement cases for a F-91W are now also available on Aliexpress, so you don't have to hunt down a vintage watch if you want real steel.
by gambiting | 2025-11-11 20:28:03+00:00
But.....we agree that Covid exists, right? And that vaccines against it, just like vaccines against flu, do generally help by increasing your resistance to the ilness itself and its side effects.

If we agree on it....why wouldn't you take it? I got the impression from your post that you generally aren't going to?

Or more simply....who cares what Fauci said? I literally had to look up who that is.
by billy99k | 2025-11-11 20:28:32+00:00
If you rely on Youtube ad revenue, they control you. As we've seen during the previous 8 years or so, when you say something that goes against the narrative that Youtube wants to push, your videos get demonitized.

Regardless of the platform, as soon as you get some traction, it's best to start building private memberships or some other form of income stream.
by atmavatar | 2025-11-11 20:28:52+00:00
I would point out that the anti-vaxx campaign about vaccines causing autism is a multi-decade propaganda campaign that absolutely harms people.

However, being as that is merely a to quoque fallacy, I'm rather curious: do you have any examples of said campaigns run by the healthcare/pharma industry? And, more importantly, do you have any evidence such campaigns have anything to do with vaccines?

Note: the Purdue/Sackler campaign surrounding opiods is already well-known, but AFAICT, it has no relationship with vaccines.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-11 20:29:03+00:00
> I think this came out a little wrong

I think it came out exactly perfectly. Unrelated to this specific topic, I've been thinking a lot lately about reward vs punishment as a framework for promoting pro-social environments. I didn't read far into what you said. I was merely pattern matching it back to the common mistakes I see and want to discourage.

> but if a tool did it then not mentioning it feels dishonest in more ways than one.

Yeah, plagiarism is shockingly common. It's a sign of lacking the skill or ability to entertain 2rd order, or 3rd order thoughts/ideas.
by esrauch | 2025-11-11 20:29:11+00:00
Google Project Zero just looks for security issues in popular open source packages, regardless of if Google itself even uses those packages or not.

So I'm not sure what GPLv3 really has to do with it in this case, if it under was a "No billion dollar company allowed" non-free-but-source-available license, this same thing would have happened if the project was popular enough for Project Zero to have looked at it for security issues.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-11 20:29:30+00:00
> MacOS is really a subpar development experience to me and it's plagued with issues, from very subpar docker support and performance to it's far from flawless experience on many languages I use regularly (e.g. Haskell) that are far from the Linux standard.

Aside from that, the window management in macOS leaves a lot to be desired still without third party tools, and even with them it's not fantastic.

Don't get me wrong, I love my macbook pro, but bugs & privacy issues aside with Windows, I'd prefer to just use it on my macbook's hardware. I've been full time on macOS since the M1 air and I still can't grok the app v. window model macOS uses. I'm sure it made sense when workflows were centered around documents, but they aren't anymore, and over half the apps are just browsers. I prefer each instance to be standalone like Windows and Linux do it.

Then again, I'm not a dev, I'm an IT manager. My day to day involves multiple browser windows each with many tabs, spreadsheets, meetings, & notetaking on my iPad, etc. macOS's workflow of "focus on one or two "apps" at a time" doesn't work for me. I'll stand by my statement that Windows is still the king of "general business productivity."
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-11 20:29:41+00:00
Foucault? In my mind he's a conservative. His early books (Discipline and Punish and Birth of the Clinic) are brilliant and cover the ground that anarchists like Murray Bookchin do, debunking them all the way. Clinic also explains why health care is never going to seem affordable because, even if Bill Gates could afford CABG surgery and you couldn't, he's got to get millions of people to get the surgery so that the techniques are developed enough that the survival odds are good.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 20:29:42+00:00
> Why would you refuse a request to state your preferred pronouns?

Because I reject the underlying conceptual framework, as well as the worldview that makes such a "preference" important or valuable.

> If you're asked and refuse to say, how are people to know which ones to use?

By making their own judgement, as is everyone's natural right.

It is simply not reasonable to demand that others see you as you see yourself. It is correct and just that people are permitted to see others as they will.

When we speak of "pronouns" in this context, we speak of third-person pronouns. Therefore, it is inherent to the concept that I am not privy to the discussion when they are used to refer to me. To refer to others in third person, knowingly, in front of them, is in my view at least unprofessional and likely rude — as it entails speaking on that person's behalf.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-11-11 20:30:03+00:00
> I still think about the way the CEO of Nokia back in 2010 describing what it would be like for them to abandon their in-house OS for Android: "Peeing yourself to stay warm"

This has intrigued me because eventually that’s what they ended up doing - although with two major caveats.

Firstly, the mobile space did not have room for 3 players - MS tried very hard and their Nokia phones were pretty good. But it was just one platform too many. They just couldn’t find a niche for itself as Android was being used everywhere due to their open source branch. Proves the point made by you though, there wasn’t space for a second Android if MS were to embrace open source. Nokia tried hard with Meego - I loved the UI but the market was moving at light speed back then.

Secondly, HMD started by branching off from the Nokia of yore and their Android devices are also very good.

I’ll always miss my old Nokias, they were the duopoly with the BlackBerry in the pre-smartphone era.
by knollimar | 2025-11-11 20:30:31+00:00
I think it's absurd. In my opinion the copy is for copying the usable part (e.g. installation).

Is running a program making a copy? If I run it on some distributed system is it then making more copies than allowed? This gets insane quickly.

I think it's just a bandaid for fixing removable drive installations. These should have had their own laws/rules/etc.

It has knock-on effects like being able to enforce other IP law to someone you just licensed your software to.

Similarly I think this is more an "interpret words to get the desired outcome instead of the likely spirit or meaning of the words".