MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by garciasn | 2025-12-01 21:22:55+00:00
I agree with each and every single slide in this presentation; I do. I also know that in each and every company I have ever worked for, none of this is going to fly. Especially, "Attending meetings is a choice." Just like paying taxes is a choice; got it.

---

For decades, I have been asking for agendas; I have asked for clarification on what to do to prepare; I have even suggested that we have solid outcomes. None of which are followed nor what anyone else wants.

Even as a leader at organizations where I can enforce this on my team, it makes absolutely no difference. Hell, Google Calendar (we use Workspace at my current org) doesn't even have solid support for good meeting invite commentary. And, even if it did, 99.99999% of folks wouldn't read any of it anyway.
by rybosworld | 2025-12-01 21:22:58+00:00
The talking point of "Rent control = bad" has always been disingenuous because it's parroted most often by the people who will be hurt from it the most (landlords). Home supply is already artificially constrained, regardless of rent control. Mostly because wealthy landlords form cartels to prevent new housing in major metro areas.

Rent control is just one tool that can be used to regulate housing, and it works in conjunction with other tools (e.g. rent control exceptions for new construction).

The U.S. already has an excessively de-regulated housing market, and it clearly has not worked for most people. Anyone that says regulation is bad here is almost certainly protecting their self interests.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-01 21:23:11+00:00
Good luck making OpenAI and Google cry uncle. They have the US government on their side. They will not be allowed to fail, and they know it.

What I appreciate about the Chinese efforts is that they are being forced to get more intelligence from less hardware, and they are not only releasing their work products but documenting the R&D behind them at least as well as our own closed-source companies do.

A good reason to stir up dumping accusations and anti-China bias would be if they stopped publishing not just the open-source models, but the technical papers that go with them. Until that happens, I think it's better to prefer more charitable explanations for their posture.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-01 21:24:03+00:00
> Facts: there's abundance of testimony that would secure conviction in court regarding abductions, encounters (of variosu "kinds"), and "multi-sensor data".

A hypothetical assumption is not a fact.

I believe there exists life outside of Earth's ecosystem. Probably sentient life. I doubt any such extra-terrestrial sentient life is ever going to physically reach Earth, even via an "unmanned" probe. The timescales are simply too untenable. And I do not believe we have ever been reached by any such, so this isn't a "pre-disclosure" era.

In fact, if a government chose to unequivocally confirm aliens had visited, I would think it far more likely that they are lying for self-interested reasons. Trump might do so tomorrow, in fact; his mendacity and self-delusion are both in a race for the bottom.
by jrm4 | 2025-12-01 21:24:05+00:00
Yeah, but those perceived strengths and weaknesses I'd say more often than not end up being non-issues i.e. popular chatter about whether a language is good or not and how it is used in real life pretty much never line up.

And my guess is that this "disparity" only widens with AI.

I'm not saying discussions like this aren't theoretically interesting or that people who are into it shouldn't have them. But my guess is they overwhelmingly won't matter large-scale.
by globular-toast | 2025-12-01 21:24:46+00:00
This is something that's annoyed me for ages. Why are extractor fans so loud and horrible sounding when PC fans are almost silent? I'm surprised someone like Noctua doesn't go into house fans. But maybe the market isn't there as they're more difficult to fit and people seem to keep them for decades. Or perhaps they just wouldn't work as well outside of that nice cosy PC case.
by pickpuck | 2025-12-01 21:25:03+00:00
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by Lammy | 2025-12-01 21:25:03+00:00
I have an older-gen aftermarket-mobo X210 (Kaby Lake iirc?) and I really really loved it, but the eDP flex-PCB for the upgraded screen eventually gave out (stock screen was LVDS), making the display only work at the one exact hinge angle where the broken trace still makes contact. The inability to just go to a storefront and buy that part is why I switched to a Framework 12 instead.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-01 21:25:15+00:00
COBOL is used for the longest continuously running systems, particularly in the financial industry, many of which have been in production since the 1960s - mainly on mainframes, but noawadays also increasingly in cloud environments. There's nothing that comes close to the level of reliability that these offer, with the next closest probably being Fortran, Ada and Erlang.

I found this article with some numbers [0], with the top one being that "95% of ATM swipes rely on COBOL code". If you just need to maintain something in production, and only occasionally update the business logic, without having to upgrade the architecture, COBOL is the way to go.

[0] https://www.pragmaticcoders.com/resources/legacy-code-stats
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-01 21:25:29+00:00
Had an idea

These are ideals but in reality your boss calls a meeting you go and forget the rules.

So...

What if there were decoy meetings. Useless fake ones where if you accept you get a reminder of the rules.

People are motivated by power lines so doing this reverses it so that non attendance or thinking about attendance is aligned.
by movedx | 2025-12-01 21:25:37+00:00
> FreeBSD doesn't afford you any more or less control over how the system works than Linux.

And yet, I'm constantly patching and working around lib issues on Linux (on the desktop), but never with FreeBSD. That's the point being made. Linux is a lot of stuff mashed together to make a system, and it works really well, but FreeBSD is a collection of components carefully curated and maintained as one and works very, very well most of the time.

If Linux works for you, use it. No one is trying to convert you.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-01 21:25:42+00:00
Again I think there’s a better way if we push through the concept of a fair game, and just focus on fun. It should be possible and accepted to block (and never match with going forward) players who are just… unfun. Annoying, poor sports, or cheaters. Heck, maybe player-curated and shared matching and blocking lists could become a thing.

Games are a social thing we do to have fun, there’s no obligation to spend your limited social free time hanging out with annoying people.
by majdalsado | 2025-12-01 21:26:13+00:00
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by hackmaxim | 2025-12-01 21:26:17+00:00
Yes, of course!

Tasks must be coding problems to complete in a set of open-source repositories. We have eight repositories now and will add more in the future. You can source tasks by identifying merged commits into these repos, and making the following: - A well-defined task description (what should the AI do?) - A golden solution (can be sourced by the implementation in the merge commit) - A test patch (can be sourced from the merge commit, this is a testing suite that verifies whether the AI's solution is correct).

If you can make a task that is hard enough for our AI, you will get paid a fixed amount. That's it!

Once you are approved onto the site, there will be a more detailed tech spec + payment info + a tutorial.
by roywiggins | 2025-12-01 21:26:20+00:00
>... the standout was a version that came to be called HH internally. Users preferred its responses and were more likely to come back to it daily...

> But there was another test before rolling out HH to all users: what the company calls a “vibe check,” run by Model Behavior, a team responsible for ChatGPT’s tone...

> That team said that HH felt off, according to a member of Model Behavior. It was too eager to keep the conversation going and to validate the user with over-the-top language...

> But when decision time came, performance metrics won out over vibes. HH was released on Friday, April 25.

https://archive.is/v4dPa

They ended up having to roll HH back.
by ericst | 2025-12-01 21:26:56+00:00
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by swatcoder | 2025-12-01 21:27:10+00:00
You lob it the beginning of a document and let it toss back the rest.

That's all that the LLM itself does at the end of the day.

All the post-training to bias results, routing to different models, tool calling for command execution and text insertion, injected "system prompts" to shape user experience, etc are all just layers built on top of the "magic" of text completion.

And if your question was more practical: where made available, you get access to that underlying layer via an API or through a self-hosted model, making use of it with your own code or with a third-party site/software product.
by folkhack | 2025-12-01 21:27:54+00:00
Often, corporate culture is more about maintaining status-quo vs. actually achieving or organizing efforts. People often just want to hear themselves talk, stroke their ego, and position/politic. As an IC/leader/owner this can be _so_ annoying.

Anecdotally - this happens at the majority of places/teams/situations unless it's a very small, and coherent team.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-01 21:28:00+00:00
Someone still has to come up with the A and B to do AB testing. I'm sure that "Yes" "Not now, I hate kittens" gets better metrics in the AB test than "Yes "No," but I find it implausible that the person who came up with the first one wasn't intentionally coercing the user into doing what they want.
by samuelstros | 2025-12-01 21:28:27+00:00
Initial reaction: Looks too complicated & too niche of a problem to appeal to a sustainably large user group.

GDocs might be annoying to track who read the RFC etc. etc. but everyone is familiar with it.

I write RFCs, I share RFCs and your tool seems to require a substantial amount of buy in

- register

- unclear what the writing experience is

- outdated / overloaded UI

The last RFC I wrote was in hackmd (https://hackmd.io/Jjy-afCWS4CAFlHa62anMQ) because

- I wanted Markdown to store the RFC in git eventually

- Google Docs has issues with Markdown rouundtrips

- I didn't want to use git to write with VSCode (although... I actually did. I let CLaude Code write most of the RFC under my guidance, then put it into hackmd for easy sharing)

I hope the feedback helps!
by alexpotato | 2025-12-01 21:29:15+00:00
Sad Servers is great for trying out how to fix scenarios that you would probably run into while working in the real world.

If you are looking into more of the "people" side of things, I would HIGHLY recommend Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [0]. A big part of being a team lead and/or working at a larger firm is understanding where people are coming from and then convincing them that your solution is "win/win". The book is great at highlighting multiple different tactics to do that.

Turn the Ship Around [1] is also great at giving examples of how to "change organizations in place". If you end up at larger firms, there will be a LOT of legacy infra and processes that you may want to improve. Marquet gives excellent examples of how to change things WHILE ALSO getting buy in from the team.

0 - https://amzn.to/48dBSn2

1 - https://amzn.to/4pfL2Wb
by hocuspocus | 2025-12-01 21:29:26+00:00
If you work on internal libraries and apps, on a team with established practices, sbt shouldn't be a regular source of friction. It's really not that hard to define re-usable templates (you can even use Giter8!) for the typical multi-module build in a work setting. 99% of my projects either publish libraries to an internal Maven mirror, or packages apps with the native packager plugin, often OCI images nowadays. Sbt can be easily bootstrapped behind a Maven Central mirror entirely, you just need a single bash script. Sure the Maven and Gradle integrations in IntelliJ IDEA are more polished, but I'd pick sbt over these two without thinking, even for pure Java projects. Nowadays Mill is even better in many cases.

And the fact Bazel rules exist for a language doesn't say much about its native toolchain really. Large scale polyglot codebases and especially monorepos don't play nice with common tooling. But anyway you're missing my point. Developer friendly toolchains are the exception, not the norm. There's some impact on industry adoption, but not a huge one all things considered. Otherwise nobody would have touched Python before 2024.
by dasil003 | 2025-12-01 21:29:43+00:00
That's such a reductive statement. Yes there are always some unproductive meetings one has to attend. On the other hand, you'd be surprised how many leaders and middle-managers viscerally understand the cost of low-value meetings, and are doing everything they can to empower individuals to manage their own time. They might not call bullshit in a group setting (after all, as the slides call out: critical feedback should be given 1-1), but rest assured plenty of folks understand and will not hold it against you if you vote with your attendance.
by kgwxd | 2025-12-01 21:29:50+00:00
It's a perfect litmus test as far as I'm concerned. If a company believes it's ok to put things like that on my machine, I don't want them anywhere near it, even if they were to "compromise" to work on Linux. Relying on a users machine to snitch on them is dumb at every level. Fix your hearts or die.
by hasperdi | 2025-12-01 21:29:57+00:00
As pointed out by a sibling comment. MOE consists of a router and a number of experts (eg 8). These experts can be imagined as parts of the brain with specialization, although in reality they probably don't work exactly like that. These aren't separate models, they are components of a single large model.

Typically, input gets routed to a number of of experts eg. top 2, leaving the others inactive. This reduces number of activation / processing requirements.

Mistral is an example of a model that's designed like this. Clever people created converters to transform dense models to MOE models. These days many popular models are also available in MOE configuration
by bri3d | 2025-12-01 21:30:12+00:00
Video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/089CBuGTkcY (it's also in the article; my ad blocker must have gotten me on this one). Amazon are not having a good run with these lately.

The double crane cable incident ( https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/us/arizona-amazon-drones-cras... ) and the LIDAR failsafe issue ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/amazon-re... ) were both rather surprising from a process and management standpoint. This issue seems more like a run of the mill "problem with drone delivery conceptually" that Amazon will have to deal with.
by jnmandal | 2025-12-01 21:30:34+00:00
Cyanosis is the medical term is but I should clarify its not like their skin was purple all the time. What happens is that if you drink a lot of the polluted well water then when your veins narrow (like from cold) it gets a more purplish hue. This happens naturally (like when your lips are cold after swimming) but its just more noticeable if you are drinking polluted well water from farming runoff.

A thing kids would do at my school is stick their hand out the window of the bus in the fall/winter and then compare whose hand is "more purple". Dumb kid stuff. I still remember a single person I knew whose cheeks would be super purple every time we came inside from playing in the winter. Almost like the character in the willy wonka movies.

So like its well known the color is simply more noticeable when you are being constantly exposed to nitrates. The person I am thinking of -- he was almost certainly drinking bad well water at home, perhaps for his whole life. I can't imagine that was only from the fountains at school. As far as I know its not a huge deal but like the article is saying... it quite obviously has knock on health effects.
by 122506 | 2025-12-01 21:30:35+00:00
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by dpark | 2025-12-01 21:30:50+00:00
This is such a bizarre response to me saying Google was not part of the founding WHATWG group. It’s like you want to have an argument but don’t have anything to argue about.

“Oh, yeah? Well they paid Hickson’s salary. And the WHATWG doesn’t matter anyway. And also Google is really powerful.”

Um, ok.

WHATWG was founded in 2004 by Mozilla, Opera, and Apple. Google had no browser at that point and didn’t hire Ian Hickson until 2005.

Google is currently a WHATWG member and clearly wields a great deal of influence there. And yeah, the 4 trillion dollar internet giant is powerful. No argument there.
by hyc_symas | 2025-12-01 21:31:10+00:00
Not every.

LMDB is optimized for read-heavy workloads. I make no particular claims about write-heavy workloads.

Because it's so efficient, it can retain more useful data in-memory than other DBs for a given RAM size. For DBs much larger than RAM it will get more useful work done with the available RAM than other DBs. You can examine the benchmark reports linked above, they provide not just the data but also the analysis of why the results are as they are.
by gerikson | 2025-12-01 21:31:11+00:00
Since the start, each problem has 2 parts (2 "stars"). Part one sets up the problem, ensures you have parsed the input correctly, etc. After submitting the correct answer to that part, part 2 is revealed, which sometimes expands the proplem space, adds new limits, etc. Something that solves part 1 might be inadequate for part 2.
by nagaiaida | 2025-12-01 21:31:16+00:00
on what hypothetical grounds would you be more meaningfully able to sue the american maker of a self-hosted statistical language model that you select your own runtime sampling parameters for after random subtle security vulnerabilities came out the other side when you asked it for very secure code?

put another way, how do you propose to tell this subtle nefarious chinese sabotage you baselessly imply to be commonplace from the very real limitations of this technology in the first place?
by zdragnar | 2025-12-01 21:31:18+00:00
Let's look at the original quote:

> "Remember, if you flip a coin 200 times and it comes heads up exactly 100 times, the chances are the coin is actually unfair. You should expect to see something like 93 or 107 instead".

Inverting the statement makes it read something like this:

You are more likely to not get 100/100 than you are to get exactly 100/100

...which is exactly what I was saying. Nobody is arguing that there is a single value that might be more likely than 100/100. Rather, the argument is that a 100/100 result is suspiciously fair.
by movedx | 2025-12-01 21:31:23+00:00
You couldn't be further from the truth, though.

What you're saying here is: someone new to this simply uses Docker and everything just works and is fine. The support is heavily reduced (for you, not the user) and so everything is good.

And that mentality is why we have crazy botnets doing terabytes per-second attacks these days -- your users just firing up a VM, using "docker compose up", and walking away because "it just works". The reality is, that system falls out of date pretty quickly, and exploit is found and patched, but that patch never sees the light of day for that user.

It's awesome you can get a user up and running so quickly, but the sheer amount of work required to actually maintain a server is too much for the average EVE Online player trying to run some ESI tool