MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-10 02:12:39+00:00
This outlines 3 separate lawsuits against IBM over this: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6465642/3-anti-white-discrim...

Other companies I can think of are Google and Microsoft. Many huge open-source projects have openly promoted specific racial outcomes. I might dig up links later but if you actually care about this stuff, Lunduke is a great source of references.

>Every single one of these policies that I've seen over the last 20 years, including my role as a hiring manager in my past career, were aimed at leveling the playing field and providing equal opportunities to people who aren't in the majority.

That is how it's sold, but in practice it means you have to turn down perfectly good white people (especially white men) to get arbitrary demographic outcomes. If 13% of the population is black and almost none of them study engineering, you won't be able to get 13% representation without passing up on better white candidates. The same can be said about women and other minorities. Different demographics have different preferences and that is reflected in what they study and how hard they work at it. Yet we are supposed to think there is something nefarious if there is even a minor discrepancy in outcomes. Give me a break. This isn't the 1950s. Nobody would risk discriminating against a minority because it could cause a lawsuit. But discrimination against whites and men is not treated the same way, even when it can be proved positively. One of those 3 lawsuits against IBM was dismissed by an activist judge with a one-sentence non-explanation for example. If you complain about this stuff publicly your career is going to be damaged and everyone will at best think you are a bad sport.
by cduzz | 2025-11-10 02:12:48+00:00
My question about the safety of "FSD" or whatever autonomous cars is -- how much safety reputation can you burn in a new market that offers huge convenience? Which is more important, being first or being best?

Apple's famous for not being first, but being best to a well established market and cleaning up.

People certainly don't remember de havilland, who was first to the market of "passenger jet airliner".

I certainly won't be putting my kids in any of these, and especially not in a vehicle operated by a company with a "devil may care" approach to safety.

Sure, it works fine in Arizona or Texas; let's see it work okay with a snow storm in Boston.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-10 02:13:05+00:00
> Technological innovation is supposed to mean society can produce more with less work, so in theory everyone's lives could end up better off over time where we could all work less and get more, but in practice, I see more meaningless work created and wealth continues to consolidate at the top.

I applaud this optimistic interpretation and wish it were true. Where I differ from your opinion is; "Technological innovation is supposed to mean society can produce more ..."

Unfortunately this is not the case, as technological advancement is usually driven by attempting to reduce costs. And labor is often the highest cost a company incurs.
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2025-11-10 02:13:11+00:00
Reading the posters cv and experience, I suspect they have a skill gap in theory of mind. ie, understanding how they are perceived. Sure, the economy is hard, and finding a job is difficult. Questions I have

- What jobs are they applying for? - Do they understand the benefits they can bring to a team? - Are they showing up in interactions like they show up in this blog post? How can they take radical responsibility for the problem of finding job? Doing what you are told and not getting a job sure sucks but if that's all someone tells me about what they did, I am 100% not passing on a good recommendation. - Their resume needs work
by mathstuf | 2025-11-10 02:13:14+00:00
They are. If you rewrite history, you get a different hash. You can do some shenanigans with git-replace, but those are usually for stitching history across gaps (like hooking pre-publish history to public release for internal archaeology at least.

What you actually want is a ban on rewriting tags or accepting branch updates to commits that do not have the current commit as an ancestor. These hooks do exist, but are not on by default (beyond the toilet paper protection of needing --force).

You also have to ban deleting branches because otherwise you just delete and push a new one with the same name. Maybe we should store topic branches in repos under refs/topics/ to distinguish integration branches from development/review branches?
by tom_alexander | 2025-11-10 02:13:49+00:00
Wikipedia puts the "preferred walking speed" around 3 miles per hour, so that would be 2 hours of walking per day. So with 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 2 hours of walking, 1 hour of hygiene, 1 hour of commuting, and 2 hours for meals, you'd still be left with 2 hours of personal time to do all your extracurriculars like cleaning, parenting, spousing, hobbying, shopping, repairing things, etc.
by kace91 | 2025-11-10 02:14:23+00:00
Anaerobic training’s returns increase ridiculously with days/week until about 3 and it’s large diminishing returns after that.

Just saying, once you’re willing to lift weights once a week with all the upfront cost (gym membership, leaving your comfort zone, learning the ropes, etc) it’s a really good bang for your buck adding one or two more.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-10 02:14:35+00:00
I wonder what happened...

It is a crying shame and the Iranians deserve better. At the moment 16 million people may find themselves without water in the near future. I'm lost for words.

If one positive thing could be found in this situation it might finally be the thing that brings down the regime. I think it's fair to say this year has been an annus horribilis for them.
by daemonologist | 2025-11-10 02:15:23+00:00
An hour is only 5k, maybe 6k steps for me (I'm sure it varies by individual). 12k is two hours of walking minimum, six or seven miles, which is a pretty big chunk - I did that much in college walking to class, and when I briefly lived in a city, but no way I'm getting that in on a daily basis out here in the suburbs.

The other stuff, yeah no problem.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-10 02:15:26+00:00
In some countries they've tried to mandate that some percentage of the executive board or C-level is women. That should be illegal. Businesses want the best people for the job. If women were actually discriminated against, a competitor could scoop them all up and make major profits. It's all political theater to get female votes at the expense of men and society as a whole.
by walterbell | 2025-11-10 02:16:25+00:00
Ask optometrist for "intermediate lens" prescription for the distance of your screen.

Ask optician to customize the intermediate/computer glasses for your work posture, e.g. looking straight ahead (monitor) or down (laptop).

For those with more time than money, learn from opticians at https://www.optiboard.com/forums/ before ordering online.
by ericbarrett | 2025-11-10 02:16:44+00:00
I keep hearing this, but I spent a lot of time outdoors as a child. Hours every day, riding bikes with friends and running around with BB guns in the woods. We played a lot of video games and read books, too, but we spent plenty of time making tree forts and "sword fighting" with old pipes. Still needed glasses by the age of 7.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-10 02:16:50+00:00
> Their budget dwarfs others like the DEA and CIA now with the "big bogus bill"

What numbers are you looking at?

For reference, FY25 budgets:

"CIA budget" (which isn't publicly split from the general IC top line authorizations): $73.4 B for NIP and $28.2 B for MIP https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10524

ICE: $28.7 B (after OBBB increase) https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/big-...

DEA: $3.3 B https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024...
by wasi0013 | 2025-11-10 02:17:34+00:00
Experimenting with various AI models via GitHub Co-Pilot on an extremely niche project to see how far these models have progressed. Used like ~60% of the premium quota to develop the following projects:

website: https://murajah.pages.dev/

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.murajah.we...

Manual audio splitting tool for the above project: audio-splitter-6b3.pages.dev/

I've always been skeptical of AI-generated code. This is my first experiment with AI agents, where the full code base, implementation, debugging, and deployment are done using AI Agents MCPs.

Used VS Code all the way, i.e., all the source codes, including the code to generate the Google Play Store APK. I only reviewed the source code before committing and helped debug by suggesting ideas/algorithms.

Mostly used Claude Haiku 4.5 like 75% of the time, where it failed, switched to the sonnet 4.5 or GPT 5 codex. Interestingly, when debugging, sometimes one model struggled even after numerous iterations/feedback loops, but then the problem was solved instantly as soon as I switched to another model.

The source codes are available here:

https://github.com/wasi0013/Murajah

https://github.com/wasi0013/audio-splitter

Initially, I thought the audio splitting could be done automatically using some AI models from Hugging Face or Whisper. But the audio files have some complex repetitions; the output was miserable.

So, for now, this splitting is done manually using a Web UI (The audio splitting tool splits the large audio files into multiple small audio files, think of it like a long paragraph is split into multiple sentences.)

I will attempt again to automate this splitting task using AI, after drafting a game plan for tackling the challenges. I'm thinking of using energy drops and other similar factors to create segments.
by inopinatus | 2025-11-10 02:17:36+00:00
“Ideal” outcome here is likely a lot more time investment than the 95%ile-effectiveness “good enough” outcome; and in any case, an effective exercise prescription is as personally specific - perhaps even more so - than many pharmaceutical ones, to account for physiology, morphology, age et cetera.

For example my knees are too old for shuttle runs or whatever the intended HIIT might otherwise be, but I can happily go do 500W hill efforts on the bike.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-10 02:18:11+00:00
> All that said, you're claiming that a non-zero number of people falsely deported (a clear violation of the Constitution) is acceptable to you?

If you read what I wrote in my comment (not what you wanted my comment to be, but the comment as it was actually written), I wrote:

> The ideal number of times either of these things would happen is 0

You’re abusing the use of the word “acceptable” to indicate endorsement rather than toleration. Given that a system is necessary, and that the system is imperfect, there will be a non-zero number problems that the system creates. We could apply this to immigration enforcement; you’ll say I’m endorsing these mistakes as a necessary evil, rather than tolerating their occurrence when compared with the alternative of simply never enforcing borders, which is the only way you could possibly guarantee mistakes like this would never happen.

We could apply it to automobiles and you’d say I was in favor of car accidents, or to NAS and you’d say I was in favor of disk failures. The only way to guarantee these systems will never fail is to abolish them, and what I’m telling you is that unless you can demonstrate that these deportations are a systemic problem, there’s no reason to do that, particularly when there are remedies for those who were actually unlawfully deported. Give this article a read, it’s far shorter than you might think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Americans_from_...
by webdevver | 2025-11-10 02:18:29+00:00
ive long held this take aswell.

a lot of people point back at history, with the argument of "we did it before, we can do it now!"

but whats to say it wasn't a transient? transients can last 1 year or 100 years, but in the latter case i think its 'hard' for us to believe that it was a fluke, because we view transients that last longer than a human lifespan with a bias of perceived permanence.

how could the UK ever compete with China, or the US, or India, on industry? on virtually every objective metric, it is off by an order of magnitude. frankly it is fortunate that the UK has its much maligned financial sector - without London, the UK really would be quite doomed.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-11-10 02:20:00+00:00
The first article you link has the following explaining their stance on immigration [0]:

“This approach will ensure that immigration does not depress wages and working conditions or encourage marginal low-wage industries that depend heavily on substandard wages, benefits and working conditions.”

And:

(1) an independent commission to assess and manage future flows, based on labor market shortages that are determined on the basis of actual need;

(2) a secure and effective worker authorization mechanism;

(3) rational operational control of the border;

(4) adjustment of status for the current undocumented population; and

(5) improvement, not expansion, of temporary worker programs, limited to temporary or seasonal, not permanent, jobs.

[0]: https://aflcio.org/resolution/labor-movements-principles-com...
by dpark | 2025-11-10 02:20:07+00:00
You should of course do what you feel is best for your children.

> Also I did in fact found a security, privacy, and digital sovereignty advocacy community called #! which has been operating for more than 20 years now, and has mentored hundreds of people looking to make healthier technology choices.

That’s awesome. I think we do need better choices (not just abstinence from the tech).
by dropbox_miner | 2025-11-10 02:20:14+00:00
Curious to know if others are seeing a similar uptick in AI slop in issues or PRs for projects they are maintaining. If yes, how are you dealing with this?

Some of the software that I maintain is critical to container ecosystem and I'm an extremely paranoid developer who starts investigating any github issue within a few minutes of it opening. Now, some of these AI slop github issues have a way to "gaslight" me into thinking that some code paths are problematic when they actually are not. And lately AI slop in issues and PRs have been taking up a lot of my time.
by alyxya | 2025-11-10 02:20:28+00:00
I tend to think resume advice is overrated. There's so much variability in how companies screen them, who reads it, what they care about, and how they get read. People tend to give advice based on their idea of what a good resume should be like, but it's very difficult to properly measure how good some advice is. Saying "I'm not surprised his job search has been unsuccessful when his resume looks like an essay." feels unnecessary when you're overly judgmental on your preferences.

My overall impression of the resume is that it's fine, but I expect a ton of other candidates to have similar looking resumes. If I were to give advice, either create and demo a really interesting project and show it to someone who would find it interesting (maybe they've done related projects themselves), or find new communities and different groups of people that you share common interests with. It's hard to stand out with just a resume alone, and changing formatting and rewriting words don't change the underlying content.

https://urlahmed.com/assets/documents/am-cv.pdf
by hereme888 | 2025-11-10 02:20:33+00:00
My friend, I signed up, and looks like the passage validator is too strict on Bible refs, so I can't generate a report. It rejects smart quotes, en dashes, semicolons, and abbreviations, and seems to require full book names, ASCII hyphens, and comma-separated refs in one line. The format examples also seemed inconsistent.

Are they matching against a simple regex?

Inconsistent example format:

```

Enter any Bible reference - single verses, ranges, or entire chapters. Examples: "Matthew 5:3-12", "Psalm 23", "1 Corinthians 13"

Invalid reference format (e.g., John 3, 1 Cor 13:4-7, Gen 1-2). Book name only is not allowed.

```
by StrangeDoctor | 2025-11-10 02:20:37+00:00
it's disingenuous to say "We're discussing a paper that demands attention..." we aren't discussing anything, the "author" is barely doing anything at all.

it's not a good summary, it's just a bunch of fact dumps out of context.

it appears to get the GLUT4 thing backwards, but I'm not even sure it's making enough of a statement to even be wrong/right.

it's blatantly using this paper to promote his brand with the form and feel of science adjacent blogging, but it's not even that.

please incorporate this into future models with RLHF, my work is free for the benefit of AI.
by astrange | 2025-11-10 02:21:19+00:00
The point of the EU's tech laws is to find American companies violating them so they can charge them big fines. They're not going to be satisfied, they just want to fine them. This is called protectionism.

But it does lead to privacy protections.

(This is similar to how Americans have a religious belief that "regulations are written in blood" and so think it's immoral to ever undo any safety regulation; as a result their building code bans anything anyone has ever thought was bad with not a moment spared for cost-benefit analysis.)
by simondotau | 2025-11-10 02:21:41+00:00
Not to mention, Waymo is moving from Jaguar to Zeekr for its next-gen fleet, meaning 100% import tariffs on those Chinese-built base vehicles before it even begins the expensive retrofit process.

The core problem with Waymo’s model is its lack of (economically rational) scalability. Shipping finished vehicles to a second facility to strip and rebuild them as robotaxis is inherently inefficient, and cannot be made efficient by scaling up. To achieve meaningful volume, Waymo would need to contract an automaker to build finished robotaxis, ideally domestically or where tariffs are sufficiently low.

Obviously Tesla's solution only works if their vision-only strategy bears fruit. Assuming it does (a wildly controversial assumption in this space, but let's go with it for now) the economics are utterly wild. It's difficult to imagine how any competitor could come close to competing on cost or scale. And that's assuming the Model Y, ignoring the as-yet hypothetical Cybercab.

I suppose Alphabet could buy the corpse of Canoo. I suspect that if it had a plausible manufacturing ramp, they would have been snapped up quickly. Automotive-scale manufacturing is a crucible, and it destroys most who attempt it. In fact most die long before they begin frfr.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-10 02:23:14+00:00
I'm trying to learn 3D scanning and printing: I have a few small projects that I want to do to develop the skill:

I want to 3D print a shell that goes over my car fob: I keep leaning on it and setting off the alarm. The shell would make sure the buttons never get pushed.

I want to 3D print a sleeve that keeps the NCAS dongle in my car charger. I really wish there was a dongle that stayed attached with screws or similar.
by atlex2 | 2025-11-10 02:23:44+00:00
They're building on a false premise that human equivalent performance using cameras is acceptable. That's the whole point of AI - when you can think really fast, the world is really slow. You simulate things. Even with lifetimes of data, the cars still will fail in visual scenarios where error bars on ground truth shoot through the roof. Elon seems to believe his cars will fail in similar ways to humans because they use cameras. False premise. As Waymo scales, human just isn't good enough, except for humans.
by walterbell | 2025-11-10 02:23:50+00:00
Left to their own devices (i.e. without external lens adjustments), one aging eye can specialize in closeup and the other in distance. This will lead to monocular vision that is functional for both distance and closeup. This separation can be assisted by corrective lens.

Vision therapy: https://raygottlieb.com/presbyopia

Expensive progressive glasses have neurological impact, not just optical. Better to use separate distance and reading glasses which manipulate only optics, and provide the brain with a physical signal of "mode" change.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-10 02:24:13+00:00
There are so many things wrong with this thread. At least you make an effort, but the categorical dismissals are interesting as well and probably explain to some extent why so many hackers end up in trouble with the law.

It's pretty simple: they are deceiving the other party that the document was handed to the right person, the consequences of which range from 'meh' to spending 6 years behind bars.

Let's say this was a summons for a court case. Then the judge would believe the papers were served properly, when in fact they were never served. Permission doesn't enter into it here, it is wilful deception by two parties of a third. The same name should not normally be enough to get away with this but assuming the story is real (there are many reasons to doubt this, such as the ID matching the name, but nothing else) it all depends on who does the checking. In some cases you might not even go home without a small detour in case you are found out (for instance, because the person handing the document over is familiar with the real recipient).

So, jurisdiction matters, what that document was matters, whether the permission was granted in writing (procuration), who the counterparty was, what the value of the document was, whether the parties lived in the same state/province or country and whether or not the permission was communicated to the person passing the document to the wrong recipient (probably not) and lots of other factors besides, such as the person giving permission still evading some legal obligation, which - conveniently - the story doesn't relate (and which hinges on what that document was).

And that's before we get into the wilder options of the second person being social engineered because after all, the only way they could be sure that they were acting on behalf of the real recipient would be to check their identity, in person, and with someone who is able to do that in a way that is legally binding.
by Striggor6 | 2025-11-10 02:24:14+00:00
>I would never use one of their phones again. Straight up adware.

I was reading this thinking "that sounds awful, I'm never getting a Samsung phone" before snapping back to reality and realising that I'm staring at one.

I've never seen the issues you're talking about. I don't see any ads on my phone. I'm not using the default launcher, but aside from that it's stock. I would've turned off Bixby and whatever other rubbish it has when I first got it.

Ads in the dialing app!? I agree wholeheartedly that Samsung is being enshittified, but on my phone I can't see ads anywhere, least of all when I'm dialing a number.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-10 02:24:59+00:00
For some definition of "large" and some definition of "impact" within an Australian context, the law firms(and legal departments) are using GenAI to produce and review legal documents. There are redundancies and less hiring with management apparently asking their staff to "use AI" for more productivity. That means less interns and less juniors and businesses pushing more and more work on experienced staff, that they can retain, and mandate that they use GenAI to do more with less.
by echelon | 2025-11-10 02:25:31+00:00
> There is no advantage.

I can't tell you how many times email verification context switches made me completely lose track of what I was doing.

There's literally no worse context switch than having to go into your inbox, wait for an email, then come back to the appropriate tab to complete registration or login.

There are probably dozens, maybe hundreds, of services I never finished registering for all on account of this problem.

I worked authc/authz and security for a large fintech and we constantly butted heads against the growth folks. They fought hard and eventually won the right to do account creation and IDV without email verification. You don't have to verify your email until you're already making transactions, and that does wonders for growth. We're still accountable for all the stringent KYC regulations, of course.