MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leeter | 2025-12-09 22:06:50+00:00
I think I said something about the stack efficiency. I was a kid that barely understood out of order execution. Register renaming and the rest was well beyond me. It was also a long time ago, so recollections are fuzzy. But, I do recall is they didn't prompt anything. I suspect the only reason I got the interview is I had done some SSE programming (AVX didn't exist yet, and to give timing context AltiVec was discussed), and they figured if I was curious enough to do that I might not be garbage.

Edit: Jogging my memory I believe they were explicit at the end of the interview they were looking for a Masters candidate. They did say I was on a good path IIRC. It wasn't a bad interview, but I was very clearly not what they were looking for.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-09 22:07:36+00:00
> Now everyone pays e.g. 30% but gets a $12,000 credit, so someone who makes $40,000 is effectively paying zero, someone who makes $80,000 is effectively paying 15% and the effective rate approaches 30% as the number goes up.

This only maybe works if you count capital gains as regular income. Otherwise they do the Steve Jobs $1 salary thing.

Even the capital gains can be largely evaded. https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidanc... https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec... etc.
by schoen | 2025-12-09 22:08:03+00:00
> It was never a reasonable goal of the WebPKI to authenticate entities

The confusing thing is that this goal nonetheless appeared in some original marketing and explanations about the web PKI from the late 1990s when it was first introduced. There was another smaller burst of this when people were arguing over the formalization of DV certificates and of Google's UI changes that stopped treating EV specially (as some people found both of those changes objectionable).

I agree with you that the goal of authenticating entities was impractical, but the mental association and expectation around it still hasn't been completely dispelled. (I think I saw some form of this when doing support on the Let's Encrypt Community Forum, as people would sometimes complain that a site shouldn't have been allowed to have a certificate, either because it wasn't the organization they expected, or because it was malicious somehow.)
by pa7ch | 2025-12-09 22:08:45+00:00
I feel like wc3 is undersung. To me it achieved the perfect balance of allowing potentially mechanically worse players to win with brilliant tactics or strategy. It put the emphasis on strategy in rts more then anything else.

As a kid I was shit at it and played customs maps and goofed with the editor. Now I've gone back to find grubby streaming and revealing the depths of the meta evolution, and counters.

I like that even when a strong meta develops people can potentially counter with strategies that aren't as well rounded for long term use but upset the current meta.
by acdha | 2025-12-09 22:09:23+00:00
> Tough love: no, they didn't. 99.9% of consumers simply can't detect a performance difference between an M4 Air and a junky Asus box (and what ones can will announce that games run much better on the windows shipwreck!), and while the Air has a huge power delta no one cares because the windows thing still lasts for 6+ hours.

This wildly, comically untrue in my experience: all of the normal people I know loooooove how fast it is and charging a few times a week. It was only the people who self-identify as PC users who said otherwise, much like the Ford guys who used to say Toyotas were junk rather than admit their preferred brand was facing tough competition.
by tmsbrg | 2025-12-09 22:09:28+00:00
> Leaders generally don't rule for life in functioning countries, and the mortality of individual Kims has not helped the people of North Korea.

I guess you'd say most people in the world don't live in functioning countries then? China, Russia, much of the middle east and Africa are not democratic and sometimes the death of a dictator is the only way to move them forward. USA and many democracies in the west are also backsliding so maybe soon few people will live in a "functioning country".

Counterpoint on Kim: The death of Stalin or Mao Zedong released a death grip on their respective countries. You can't ignore that getting rid of natural death would make individual centralization of power a worse problem.

>How are these people currently oppressing you, and how would the existence of longevity treatments make that worse?

Just one example: Trump using sanctions to block the ICC from doing it's job (and thus letting people in Gaza die and blocking steps of justice against Israel). The fact is that the centralization of power in modern times into individual hands is already unprecedented. Old people are already ruling the world and they'd do everything to rule it forever.
by Aachen | 2025-12-09 22:09:39+00:00
That's how I read it as well. I think it's wrong because I've learned the most from people one step ahead of me. Experts who are ten steps ahead have the curse of knowledge: it's extra hard to figure out what things make sense to a conference audience. Many presentations go too fast and then too slow two minutes later

Someone who just learned a thing is in the best position to give you the diff to learn it as well. At least, that was my experience running a blog as a teenager. I wrote about cool things I just learned or realised and people found that useful

Edited to add: Also, impostor syndrome. With this as the "first step" advise, you'll select people who are full of themselves and nobody else would give presentations unless their topic is super niche (not useful for most people) or they got lucky to see some big story up close (if you had a front seat during a Github outage, say). The latter is both interesting and fun but it's not the only type of talk I want to see
by Izkata | 2025-12-09 22:10:16+00:00
The very first area at the start of the game actually encouraged this if you experimented even a little: Combo is the default attack but it doesn't defeat those early enemies so they'll hit you back, but the battles start with just the right timing so if you use Critical first it'll knock them back so your next Combo would hit and defeat them without you taking any damage.
by simonw | 2025-12-09 22:10:49+00:00
One of the best topics for new speakers is "here's what I learned when I built project X".

Nobody else in the world could give that talk, because they didn't build that project.

It doesn't matter if you're not presenting anything that's ground breaking and new - what's important is that your audience gets to benefit from the same lessons that you learned.

Even if some members of the audience already knew those lessons, hearing a new way of explaining them - with new supporting stories - is still valuable.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-12-09 22:11:01+00:00
> In July of 2025 I began developing flu-like symptoms. I began to feel feverish and would go to sleep with the most intense chills of my life (it felt like what I imagine being naked at the south pole feels like) and would wake up drenched in sweat.

Fuck man if this is you go to the ER.
by cgorlla | 2025-12-09 22:11:09+00:00
We create a policy hierarchy with a graph structure, based on certain elements of generative content coming in to our system, as well as what we know about the application where it's deployed.

The main benefit is we can traverse this graph deterministically when evaluating content and determine which policies need to be applied (if any) in a more rigorous manner than just, say, stuffing 900 FINRA rules into a prompt.

On custom policies, yes, this is core functionality of our deployed product. This typically looks like PDFs, doc files, or even Slack transcripts with relevant business info. The policy engine discretizes these into tone, forbidden words, key phrases etc. that form the elements of the aforementioned graph.
by thomastodon | 2025-12-09 22:11:12+00:00
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by schoen | 2025-12-09 22:11:12+00:00
You might want to be more specific about the meaning of "between" here. It's not a cryptographic MITM attack, and if it ever facilitated someone else in performing one, that should be detectable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

(It's also true that the level of active monitoring of CT logs has never gotten very high.)
by monerozcash | 2025-12-09 22:11:40+00:00
What about the multiple people who have reported receiving incredibly useful information after asking an LLM, when doctors were useless?

Should they not have done so?

Like this guy for example, was he being stupid? https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/37561550/teen-saves-life-cha...

Or this guy? https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1krzu6t/chatgpt_an...

Or this woman? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171639

This is a real thing that's happening every day. Doctors are not very good at recognizing rare conditions.
by Aloisius | 2025-12-09 22:11:52+00:00
Some of the things we consider prerequisites of general intelligence (what we usually mean by when we talk about intelligence in these contexts) - like creativity or actual reasoning, are not present at all in LLMs.

An LLM is a very clever implementation of autocomplete. The truly vast amount of information we've fed it provides a wealth of material to search against, the language abstraction allows for autocompleting at a semantic level and we've add enough randomness to allow some variation in responses, but it is still autocomplete.

Anyone who has used an LLM enough in an uncommon domain they are very familiar with has no doubt seen evidence of the machine behind the curtain from faulty "reasoning" where it sometimes just plays madlibs to a complete lack of actual creativity.
by s17n | 2025-12-09 22:12:13+00:00
Sure, but if you look at more complex picture of engine development you could just as easily support the proposition that programmers are currently not in any danger (by pointing out that the qualitative differences between IC and steam engines were decisive when it comes to replacing horses, and the correct analogy is that much like a steam engine could never replace a horse, a transformer model can never replace a human).

Not detracting from the article, I think it's a fun way to shake your brain into the entirely appropriate space of "rapid change is possible"!
by vorpalhex | 2025-12-09 22:12:28+00:00
You've never had "the experience".

I'll share mine.

Unusual severe one sided eye pain. Go to regular doctor's, explain, get told it's a "stye" and do hot compresses.

Problem gets worse, I go to urgent care. Urgent care doc takes one look at me and immediately sends me to the ER saying it's severe and she can't diagnose it because she is unqualified.

Go to ER, get seen by two specialists, a general practicioner and a gaggle of nurses. Get told it's a bad eye infection, put on strong steroids.

Problem gets worse (more slowly at least).

Schedule an urgent appoint with an opthalmologist. For some reason the scheduling lady just like, comprehends my urgency and gets me a same day appointment.

Opthalmologist does 5 minutes of exam, puts in some eye drops and pain is immediately gone. She puts me on a very serious steroid with instructions to dose hourly and visit her daily. Only reason I am seeing out of both eyes today.

As the top comment says, do not just "trust" Doctors. About 70% of hospital deaths are due to preventable mistakes in the hospital. People who are invested in their own care, who seek second opinions, who argue (productively) with their doctor have the best outcomes by far.

Nobody said not to work with doctors, but blindly trusting a single doctor will seriously harm your outcomes.
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-12-09 22:13:05+00:00
> different people need different levels of explanation

> the further a person is from understanding how the Linux kernel works, the more iterative the explanation will need to be

Good points. Reminds me of how science is communicated. The target audience of a research paper is other researchers. If the target audience were broader, it would have to be more akin to a textbook.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-09 22:13:20+00:00
Well I seem to have thoroughly messed up my Copilot when I started using it to help me write a fanfiction. I'm not going to let it write a single word but it is helping with the reverse engineering of how the source text works and we developed a framework for understanding that text that we've also applied to other texts.

The thing is this has gotten into the personalization and now it wants to use this framework to analyze absolutely anything such as programming problems, or how to deal with interpersonal situations, training, etc. I think it has my wife mixed up with 俺のワイフ [1] which is absolutely hilarious but at some point I have to tell it to knock it off which only partially works.
by rickdeckard | 2025-12-09 22:14:08+00:00
> All the fun stuff is running on servers at the moment.

With "Apple Intelligence" it looks like Apple is setting themselves up (again) to be the gatekeeper for these kind of services, "allow" their users to participate and earn a revenue share for this, all while collecting data on what types of tasks are actually in high-demand, ready to in-source something whenever it makes economic sense for them...
by zephen | 2025-12-09 22:14:24+00:00
> how is a chatbot to know that the author of the task is a moron?

Does it matter?

The chatbot could deliver exactly what was asked for (even if it wasn't what was needed) without any angst or interpersonal issues.

Don't get me wrong. I feel you. I've been there, done that.

OTOH, maybe we should leave the morons to their shiny new toys and let them get on with specifying enough rope to hang themselves from the tallest available structure.
by waweic | 2025-12-09 22:14:30+00:00
My last interaction with the German medical system was about lyme. The doctor I consulted didn't think it was lyme at first (apparently, the rash isn't always circular and it doesn't always move). If you know you have been bitten by a tick and later you get an unexpected rash (significantly more than usual), go see a doctor (or two, as I learned).

Also: Amoxicillin is better than its reputation. Three doctors might literally recommend four different antibiotic dosages and schedules. Double-check everything; your doctor might be at the end of a 12-hour shift and is just as human as you. Lyme is very common and best treated early.

Edit: Fixed formating
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-09 22:14:33+00:00
> I don't know what you're basing any of that on. I've never heard of such a thing.

Basically everybody in Germany calls Google (and other companies that spy immensely on users) a "Datenkrake" (data kraken)

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenkrake

According to dict.cc "data kraken" is the English translation of "Datenkrake".
by zippyman55 | 2025-12-09 22:14:41+00:00
Oh!!!!! Those guys! Ok, first, it looks pretty darn impressive when you visit a national cemetery and see all those displayed. So, I am not in anyway knocking those vets who served and died.

But, I remember, Wreaths Across America was trying to build a flagpole in rural Maine, that you could see from outer space. Now, this is starting to look like a tourist exhibit to make money.

I do not want people to make money off our Vets. I want them to help the vets in every way possible. Perhaps a modest amount of money, sure. But, please, no $400K salaries.
by teknominds | 2025-12-09 22:14:43+00:00
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by calebjosue | 2025-12-09 22:14:44+00:00
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by simonw | 2025-12-09 22:14:49+00:00
One tip I've found really useful over the past few years is to always try and include a "STAR moment" in a talk - where STAR stands for "Something They'll Always Remember".

Effectively it means try and have at least one memorable surprise or gimmick in your talk. If someone watches a dozen talks at a conference you want them to be able to say "Oh, I remember your talk, it was the one with ..." when they meet you in the corridor.

I deployed my pelican on a bicycle benchmark as a STAR moment last year and it was really effective: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/

At PyCon a couple of years ago I used a vibe-coded counter of the number of times I said "AI" out loud: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/14/pycon/#pycon-2024.043....
by plaidphantom | 2025-12-09 22:14:50+00:00
They explicitly address this in the article:

"Initially, we experimented by building this as an app on Pebble, since it has a mic and I’m always wearing one. But, I realized quickly that this was suboptimal - it required me to use my other hand to press the button to start recording (lift-to-wake gestures and wake-words are too unreliable). This was tough to use while bicycling or carrying stuff."

This interacts directly with the Pebble App, so I would be shocked if the watches never get an equivalent app.
by pedrozieg | 2025-12-09 22:16:01+00:00
It’s easy to forget how awful TLS was before Let’s Encrypt: you’d pay per-hostname, file tickets, manually validate domains, and then babysit a 1-year cert renewal calendar. Today it’s basically “install an ACME client once and forget it” and the web quietly shifted from <30% HTTPS to ~80% globally and ~95% in the US in a few years.

The impressive bit isn’t just the crypto, it’s that they attacked the operational problem: automation (ACME), good client ecosystem, and a nonprofit CA that’s fine with being invisible infrastructure. A boring, free cert became the default.

The next 10 years feel harder: shrinking lifetimes (45-day certs are coming) means “click to install cert” can’t exist anymore, and there’s still a huge long tail of internal dashboards, random appliances, and IoT gear that don’t have good automation hooks. We’ve solved “public websites on Linux boxes,” but not “everything else on the network.”
by Supermancho | 2025-12-09 22:16:13+00:00
More examples/better models and less footguns. In programming, the fewer (assumed correct) abstractions, the more room for error. Humans learned this awhile ago, which is why your average programmer doesn't remember a lick of ASM, or have to. One of the reasons I don't trust vibe coding lower level languages is that I don't have multiple tools with which to cross check the AI output. Even the best AI models routinely produce code that does not compile, much less account for all side effects. Often, the output outright curtails functionality. It casually makes tradeoffs that a human would not make (usually). In C, AI use is a dangerous proposition.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-12-09 22:16:21+00:00
Nope, not really ;-)

It's just that when this came up shortly after april the first this year, there was nothing to it, only circular references, supported by nice sloppy ai-gfx, and nothing else. It was an assumption/speculation, uttered by someone, endlessly repeated and overamplified.

I don't see any reason why it should be different this time.

Beggars for clicks.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-09 22:16:40+00:00
Hasn’t worked based on the evidence, so we’re moving on to something effective. Australia is up first, others will follow, just as we limit access to nicotine and other drugs or harmful products. The data is robust social media is toxic to kids, and Meta even knew about it and doesn’t care.

Social media bans are like GLP-1s: we know that will power is not a thing, so we use an intervention to help the human. Same deal. “Just do better good luck” is not actionable.

“We have seen the enemy and he is Big Tech.”
by FieryMechanic | 2025-12-09 22:16:55+00:00
I am not saying they aren't games. What I am saying is that I enjoy stuff now that has basically no plot and let's me get on with the game.

Half of Final Fantasy X (and I think a little later they released a movie both for Final Fantasy VII and the standalone movie the Spirit Within) was Square showing off how good their CGI animation was, which at the time was very good.

CGI cut scenes went from "this is a cool thing I see between levels" on the PS1 to "this is a tedious interruption".
by fn-mote | 2025-12-09 22:17:03+00:00
> Franklin's name is a link to a paywalled Medium article.

I'm frustrated that in 2025, I am reading a dismissal of Franklin's contributions because someone has never heard of her and clicks on a link to Medium article to draw their conclusions. Wikipedia would be better. The 1950's was so long ago that there are (gasp) actual paper books on this history of the discovery of the double helix.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-09 22:17:23+00:00
There are entire classes in graduate school (I am an MBA dropout) that specifically focus on Management Accounting used to make internal decisions that are different than the accounting that you have to do for public accounting.

I don’t care about the GAAP depreciation guidelines when I’m deciding something if my own internal metrics show that I can get twice the useful life out of equipment