MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benchly | 2025-11-12 11:46:57+00:00
You're missing something, but that's sorta the point. The idea of what a full-stack developer or back-end engineer or hacker (or whatever term we want to bandy about) looks like is largely based on stereotyping and a bit of myth. You can't tell what someone does for a living just by looking at them all of the time, but you can some of the time, so it's easy to play on that by dressing the part because we humans can be easily tricked into trusting our own information by default. If you cosplay as a network engineer, it's pretty likely that's what most people will think you do.

Say you're red teaming, and you are on-site looking to gain access to the server closet of a business. Some initial setup about you being there comes into play, but once there, it's up to you to look like you belong there, when some unwitting person with access to the server closet will lead you to it, then leave you to do your thing on the pleasant notion that you'll have the "problem" fixed by the end of the day. This is an ultra-simple scenario used as an example, but looking the part sometimes means having some stickers on your laptop that tell people you're really into a specific language or tool chain, or that you've been in the SOC trenches long enough to know what a lot of those inside jokes mean. Details often sell the lie.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-12 11:47:57+00:00
> Score Probability

> 0 0.3679

> 1 0.3679

> 2 0.1839

> 3 0.0613

> 4 0.0153

> 5 0.0031

For 0, it's a well known [1] result 1/e, I remember a puzzle where people left their hat and then pick one randomly.

Looking at the table it looks like the general formula is 1/(e*n!) that is a Possion distribution. Compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution#Examples_...

Anyway, I'm not sure if my observation helps too much to solve the original problem.

[1] at least I know it :)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-12 11:48:21+00:00
I assume so. The folks that designed the scanners were no slouches. I suspect that they never completely turned off any LEDs, so there was always some deliberate “slop.” With LEDs, however, you can explicitly control that. They probably had some kind of filter, also. I never took one apart, though.

I got the response curves by feeding in a special slide with a diffraction grating.

The curves were markedly different from an incandescent light source.
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 11:48:30+00:00
> It is kind of vague IMO.

How much more clear can they reasonably be?

It seems a big waste of effort to maintain -say- a damnable Trello board with upcoming priorities and roadmaps <strike>and Kickstarter stretch goals</strike> when their bug tracker and mailing list are visible to the public. (Though, it seems that they've recently put the list behind some broken moderation software, so you have to go to -say- the IETF's archive of the thing to read it. "AI" crawlers ruin everything.)

EDIT: Do note that that tax return you found is for the Network Time Foundation, not the NTP Project. I don't know if the two are separate entities for tax purposes, but do note that the NTF supports several projects, of which the NTP Project is one. The NTP Project is just for NTP.
by u8080 | 2025-11-12 11:48:45+00:00
For real quality improvement which is 48kHz stereo + mic, you'll also need GMAP(Gaming Audio Profile) support both on BLE adapter and headset.

I've tried multiple combinations with my WH-1000XM6 and WF-1000XM5, but nothing works stable on Windows. Linux requires hand-patching bluez and friends which also failed for me. Android does not support GMAP and just when using LE, a lot of messengers unable to detect it properly(Google Meet works, Telegram and Viber does not).

I've finally gave up on that idea. Just thinking about fact we cannot use duplex wireless audio in 2025 pisses me off so much tbh.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-12 11:49:49+00:00
Yes, you can snapshot your entire life and try to have it be isolated from online. I know because I do this all the time, but the reality is the world moves forward, and the point of the post is that the trend is towards these customer hostile patterns and away from ownership. As someone focused on digital sovereignty, I very much notice this trend, so I think the point is valid.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-12 11:49:50+00:00
The problem with claims of telepathy is that they disappear when actually tested with sufficient controls to disallow cheating. Have a look at James Randi's Paranormal Challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_...

Your "scientist" seems to be somewhat of an idiot - that particular telepathy claim could be fairly well tested with a supply of sick and well kids and sufficient barriers to prevent sound/sight/smell from providing clues to the kid being tested. It's the kind of double-blind test that has been used to test if dogs can diagnose disorders e.g. Parkinson's.

Interestingly, there's a woman who can detect Parkinson's through smell alone. When she was initially tested (double-blind sniffing of t-shirts that had been worn overnight) she identified all the diagnosed Parkinson's sufferers correctly, but also diagnosed one other person. However, a few months later, that participant was also diagnosed with Parkinson's which means that there should be chemical markers (that produce the scent) that could lead to early diagnosis.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/8202745...
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-12 11:51:32+00:00
My man, you're literally moving all the goalposts as we speak.

It's not just "long context" - you demand "infinite context" and "any length" now. Even humans don't have that. "No tools" is no longer enough - what, do you demand "no prompts" now too? Having LLMs decompose tasks and prompt each other the way humans do is suddenly a no-no?
by sfn42 | 2025-11-12 11:52:07+00:00
If you can justify with good reasons why you absolutely need this other tool then that's fair game - hence the data science example where I allow for specialists to use specialized languages for specialized tasks.

I'm talking about general software development and web dev in particular. There's a trend where you'll see one org has or web app using .net ad react, another using next.js, another using Java and Vue, one djnago and htmx, and so on.

And there is literally no reason for any of these choices, they're all fairly basic web applications that could have all been made in literally any half decent web stack. So whether the devs who made these choices knew or not, they made them based on preference not any kind of reason or need, they're all nails and any hammer would have done the job just fine.
by blitzar | 2025-11-12 11:52:08+00:00
In a documentary about a homeless encampment (in america) I viewed not long ago, the residents had spliced into a lamp post to provide power to their and their neighbours tents. It was truly a hacker inspired, move fast and break things approach.

This research seems to be inspired by the same content and appears to be an attempt to commercialise the same technology.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-12 11:53:05+00:00
Well, the _corporate_ stickers are a major giveaway, of course; if you have 15 AWS-related stickers it is highly likely that you work at Amazon, say, and it may not necessarily be wise to make it clear that your laptop is an Amazon corporate laptop, in public.

Beyond that, you could _maybe_ use it to identify a person's interests for social engineering purposes, but that feels a lot more tenuous.
by curiouscube | 2025-11-12 11:54:52+00:00
One theory of how humans work is the so called predictive coding approach. Basically the theory assumes that human brains work similar to a kalman filter, that is, we have an internal model of the world that does a prediction of the world and then checks if the prediction is congruent with the observed changes in reality. Learning then comes down to minimizing the error between this internal model and the actual observations, this is sometimes called the free energy principle. Specifically when researchers are talking about world models they tend to refer to internal models that model the actual external world, that is they can predict what happens next based on input streams like vision.

Why is this idea of a world model helpful? Because it allows multiple interesting things, like predict what happens next, model counterfactuals (what would happen if I do X or don't do X) and many other things that tend to be needed for actual principled reasoning.
by Retric | 2025-11-12 11:55:14+00:00
I agree that the F-22 is gorgeous, but it is also extremely expensive to operate, couldn’t be exported, can’t do carrier launch or VTOL so the demand was inherently lower.

That said, we could have made more than 195 of the them, but even at 750 it would have still been significantly more expensive per aircraft than the F-35 and it wouldn’t have let us cancel the F-35 program.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 11:55:22+00:00
I used to put stickers on my desktop PC and laptop when I was in my early 20s. Then I realised my laptop was kinda free advertising for whatever companies product I had stuck on the back.

Now it seems have come very "corporate cringe", similar to the 16 pieces of flair at Chotchkie's. It also looks a bit childish IMO.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-12 11:55:31+00:00
It goes even further sometimes, I've seen someone in the Go community slack announce they are going to dial back their activity because of Very Serious Clauses in their Apple contract.

That seems to imply that Apple employees are prohibited from being good internet citizens and e.g. helping people out with any kind of software issue. This presumably includes contributing to open source, although I'm sure they can get approval for that. But the fact they have to get approval for it is already a chilling effect.
by autoexec | 2025-11-12 11:56:00+00:00
> It's completely fine for me to go and perform (not record - that does need a license) the latest hit song until my heart is content.

Only in private. Copyright law can give the owner exclusive rights to perform a song publicly. If the lawyers can convince a judge that your singing counts as a public performance you can end up on the hook for not getting or being covered under a performance license.

https://lawwithmiller.com/blogs/copyrights/cover-me-im-legal...
by cornonthecobra | 2025-11-12 11:56:17+00:00
I've spent the last 32 years pushing every employer I've had to contribute back to open source. Because of the sector I work in, more often than not I'm constrained by incredibly tight NDAs.

I can usually stop short of providing code and file a bug that explains the replication case and how to fix it. I've taken patches and upstreamed them pseudonymously on my own time when the employer believed the GPL meant they couldn't own the modifications.

If after all that you still want to label me a moocher at cons, that's your choice.
by HugoTea | 2025-11-12 11:56:20+00:00
The Gov.uk design team published research around data entry for dates https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/asking-for-a-date... Ultimately they found the best experience was three text boxes, day, month and year. They also have this "pattern" for helping with implementation https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/dates/
by drob518 | 2025-11-12 11:56:30+00:00
In the early 1990s, HP had a product called “SoftPC” that was used to emulate x86 on PA-RISC. IIRC, however, this was an OEM product written externally. My recollection of how it worked was similar to what is described in the Dynamo paper. I’m wondering if HP bought the technology and whether Dynamo was a later iteration of it? Essentially, it was a tracing JIT. Regardless, all these ideas ended up morphing into Rosetta (versions 1 and 2), though as I understand it, Rosetta also uses a couple hardware hooks to speed up some cases that would be slow if just performed in software.
by ncruces | 2025-11-12 11:56:32+00:00
I thought this was mostly about what kind of chargers are in there. But since the paper is not available, I guess we don't even know that.

I guess an open question (at least for me) is whether, in an urban setting, it's better to install a dozen fast chargers, or hundreds of slower chargers – like two for all 100 street lamps in an area.

What's more useful? Particularly in areas where people do drive a bit (the school run, shopping, whatever) but don't drive that much (they use transit, no huge daily commutes).

For me (apartment, shared garage, hard to adapt) I guess a more easily available but slower charger that replenishes the few kms that I drive every other day during a night seems more useful than scheduling a couple hours on fast charger on the supermarket… just to get there and find it's unavailable.

But they only installed 30 chargers, so it'll be hard to draw conclusions.
by sfn42 | 2025-11-12 11:56:34+00:00
So you don't like .NET, that's fine. I'm not saying everyone needs to use .NET. I'm saying pick one thing and stick with it.

That said I think you're exaggerating those complaints, the docs for C# are quite good imo and I've been working with ASP.NET web apps for half a decade so far and I'm not seeing any problems like you're describing.

Maybe you're miffed about the Framework to Core/.NET switch? That was a bit of a doozy but the ecosystem is so much better for it I'd say it was worth it.
by u8080 | 2025-11-12 11:56:41+00:00
WH-1000XM6 should support GMAP according to reddit, however Mediatek PCIE Wi-Fi/BT combos seems have crap drivers and I was not able to make it working. And Intel ones does not work with AMD CPUs(sounds like bullshit, but it requires some Intel proprietary DSP driver to supposedly "decode LC3").
by GaryBluto | 2025-11-12 11:59:12+00:00
> Politics [is] often allowed here.

This is in no way tech related, nor something all good Hackers would be interested in. There is no reason for it to be here rather than a generic news aggregator and it is likely to cause unneeded arguing.

> Seeing as how you've only been on HN for 40 days (your account age), maybe you're not aware.

I have multiple accounts but nice attempt to be condescending.
by kamaal | 2025-11-12 12:00:09+00:00
More importantly even if you do want it, and there are business situations that support your ambitions. You still have to do get into the managerial powerplay, which quite honestly takes a separate kind of skill set, time and effort. Which Im guessing the academia oriented people aren't willing to do.

Its pretty much dog eat dog at top management positions.

Its not exactly a space for free thinking timelines.
by buran77 | 2025-11-12 12:00:22+00:00
> By suspecting you of a crime first

My friend, suspecting you of a crime is the easiest thing to do. Just putting your data outside of UK jurisdiction makes you suspicious. Ever tried going into the US and refusing to unlock your phone if asked at the border because "you have rights"?

> through legal due process

"Legal due process" is literally just what the law says. In this case a backdoor is the legal due process. The UK government took aim at Apple and Google because they wanted a one stop shop for their data access needs, and didn't want to bother going after you "the criminal" individually. If Apple and Google didn't exist and everyone starting backing up their data in some far away, untouchable jurisdiction (should you trust one) you think the UK government wouldn't tighten the noose around individuals the same way? Most governments are going in this direction anyway.

The government showed its intentions with this move: have easy access to your data. They'll keep pursuing that goal no matter what, gatekeepers or not. They define the due process. In this particular case the problem isn't that Apple is a gatekeeper but that the government wants things they shouldn't (by my definition) have.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 12:00:53+00:00
The problem is that a lot of that has been ruined by corporate cringe and "weird funny stuff" is no longer weird and funny, especially when you have a bunch of influencers trying to either monetise it, sanitise it and/or attach their personal brand to it.

e.g. One of the biggest people that does Debian content, does a bunch of absolute cringe behaviour associated with them where I almost want to die of second hand embarrassment.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-12 12:02:07+00:00
Subscriptions can create an illusion of a deal, because in principle, you’re ostensibly able to benefit more for a fixed price. But are you?

Netflix is a good example. You can watch as much as you want for a flat rate, but how many people watch enough to justify the monthly fee? (Putting aside the question of whether watching so much is actually a benefit in the first place.) Companies recognize the distinction between potential use and actual use, and so in practice, many are paying more for less and subsidizing the outliers that consume more. When actual use exceeds predicted use, the company will raise the price of subscription.

Subscriptions make sense for situations where there are regular maintenance costs or where the benefits are received at a steady and proportional rate.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-11-12 12:02:15+00:00
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by 6510 | 2025-11-12 12:02:15+00:00
If you know they are going to be like that you could try getting the information out of them as early as possible. Ask a bit to much about every detail, find the point where it annoys them then try not to cross it. When you inevitably do remind him of the previous rewrites and the time it consumed. It is our job to perfect this system. It gets considerably harder to request changes after you've asked not to be bothered with every detail.

That said, I will never work for a company unless I get to make all of the decisions, write all of the code and do all of the maintenance. The work one person can get done cowboy coding a pile of spaghetti is mind blowing. Cleaning up the mess later is so much easier and so satisfying if it was your own making. Until recently this was a bad formula as it makes for a terrible bus factor but now that we have LLMs it suddenly seems entirely reasonable.
by martijn_himself | 2025-11-12 12:02:29+00:00
I usually feel ambivalence with announcements of new C# versions.

Yes, a lot of great features have been added over the years. But it also introduces some amount of cognitive load and confusion. Take the first new feature in the example:

> Field-backed properties simplify property declarations by eliminating the need for explicit backing fields. The compiler generates the backing field automatically, making your code cleaner and more maintainable.

Huh, I thought we have had this for years, what were they called, ah Auto-Implemented Properties- so why is there a need for this? In this example:

// Automatic backing field with custom logic public string Name { get => field; set => field = value?.Trim() ?? string.Empty; }

Ah so it's a way to access the backing field of Auto-Implemented Properties if you need more logic. And in the above can we just say:

get;

or do you need to refer to the field keyword explicitly in the getter if we use it in the setter?

I feel like the documentation is always somewhat lacking in explaining the reasoning behind new features and how it evolves the language from earlier versions.
by bmitch3020 | 2025-11-12 12:03:07+00:00
While the data is interesting, this graphic is a terrible choice. There's no value to being a pie chart where every slice is the same width. And the colors only seem to be a second indicator of the same percentage.

This could have been a standard bar chart, allowing all the text to be easily read. And the colors could have indicated something like the average income to make it easier to see the outliers.
by reegnz | 2025-11-12 12:03:28+00:00
The trick I'm using (at least on laptops, cannot do this on phones AFAICT) is to change the input device to the laptop's own microphone to get my earphones to not use HFP (Hands Free Profile) and instead stay in a better quality codec (AAC, LDAC, AptX, SBC, whatever your devices agree upon).

Sound quality for my calls on both sides improved dramatically! Since I've discovered this, I tell all my colleagues in our zoom meetings to switch microphones and it's immediately better for everyone on the call (not just the user that was using HFP).

This is because if you use the hands free profile, it'll use a codec that encodes your voice in a terribly bad bitrate, and even worse, the sound you hear in the headphones is also using a terribly low bitrate.

They should finally fix HFP (Hands Free Profile) spec as it's literally impacting call quality for billions of people.

Edit: apparently LE audio is a thing, but device support is still terrible.
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-12 12:05:15+00:00
The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff:

> If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next?

The article in question is titled “Auto sales rev up in October” and is an exceedingly dry slab of statistic-laden prose, of the sort that LLMs love to err in (though there’s no indication of whether they have or not), and for which alternative (non-prose) presentations can be drastically better. Honestly, if the entire thing came from “here’s tabular data, select insights and churn out prose”… I can understand not wanting to do such drudgework.
by benchly | 2025-11-12 12:05:18+00:00
I have one on my laptop that says "Fuck Your Algorithm." It's like a fine wine that gets more potent by the week, but it's about as political as my stickers get. The rest are just cool art I enjoy, usually from artists I meet at street fairs and whatnot, since it's an easy way to throw them a few supportive bucks without breaking my own wallet.

Saying they don't age well is pretty generalizing, given the variety of ways one can express themselves with stickers that aren't necessarily topical or political.
by sfn42 | 2025-11-12 12:05:27+00:00
Yeah, .NET is a truck and React is a bicycle. Nobody sad you can't use different tools for different tasks.

I'm saying use one tool for one task. One type of truck. One type of bicycle. Maybe some companies need both a small and a large truck. That's all fine as long as you actually need it.

Just don't let every dev choose their own because you're gonna have a hell of a time maintaining that fleet.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-12 12:06:04+00:00
> Companies that choose to offer lump-sum permanent licenses have to make a bigger effort to convince customers to upgrade, which means the product improves.

Why can't they expand their customer base instead? With a great product, you sell millions of copies, pay everybody's salaries and pay investors.

Something like for example Affinity should in a rational market eat at least half of Adobes customer base with their current offerings. So maybe it's a problem of marketing?

I have never in my life seen an advertisement for any app with a pay-once offer, even though I have bought most of my apps as pay-once. And they're always several levels higher in quality than other offerings.