MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paxys | 2025-12-01 22:53:52+00:00
There have never been "company hours" in tech. Until recently (before badge tracking became a thing) asking your manager what time you were expected to come in and leave would be met with blank stares. "We don't enforce set hours here, just get your work done". And conversely "I came to the office and worked 8 hours a day like you asked" is never going to be accepted as an excuse when you fail to meet your targets at the end of the quarter or miss a page in the middle of the night. Heck you can't even work on your own projects after hours or patent your own ideas because the knowledge in your head is company property. Simply put - they are hiring you for your skills and your output, not for warming a seat at an office for 8 hours a day. Tech companies have always treated employees like adults and expected adult behavior in return, and both sides have benefited greatly from this arrangement. Sadly it seems like the new crop of tech leadership seems adamant on making their companies more like a call center.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-12-01 22:54:20+00:00
Had the same reaction when I saw how the 40K was calculated (BTW I strongly believe in Medicare for all to control costs and to pay for civilization. To be paid out of progressive taxes on all income).

If Aaronontheweb had the misfortune of getting seriously sick, required surgery .. he would pay $7,150 for something that could easily cost $100K+++. Saying he's paying premiums just for having a baby really feels like weaselly logic .. so he thinks he or the rest of his family will absolutely never fall sick? What if a cancer diagnosis hits one of you out of the blue (I hope it doesn't, but that's what insurance is for).
by alistairSH | 2025-12-01 22:54:22+00:00
Same. Even outside the holiday season, there are 5+ package truck deliveries/day on my little street (12 houses). That's UPS, FedEx, USPS, usually multiple Amazon (which always surprises me), plus a couple unmarked vans. Plus couriers in cars. Plus food delivery, at least 2 a night. Almost all the Amazon vans are now electric Rivians or GMCs.

That's a LOT of drone traffic, given there's near zero ability to double up on a single stop as there is today.
by hekkle | 2025-12-01 22:54:29+00:00
Putting the flags in Firefox just seems logical not "Hostile Design". Yes, there could be an easier way to turn it off, such as a menu item, but the flags need to be there first before the menu entry can exist.

The author claims to be an "IaaS engineer", surely, he can figure out how to write a firefox plugin, that can do what he wants, and use that to help non-technical users, and if it becomes popular enough will probably effect the change he wishes to see.
by crabmusket | 2025-12-01 22:54:35+00:00
I think I confused two different discussions on Exponent. Here's one episode where they discuss the stack, particularly in reference to net neutrality:

https://exponent.fm/episode-168-a-community-of-loonies/

But I'm sure I remember an episode where they discuss Matthew Prince and some neo-nazi site.

The "principle stack" is a separate concept which I haven't yet found.
by lproven | 2025-12-01 22:55:27+00:00
Oh my word. I did not see that earlier thread. I knew Thien-Thi when he lived and worked in Brno for a while around 2015. He was a fascinating man, and I very much enjoyed talking with him over a few beers several times. Very sad news indeed. My condolences to you and to the rest of his family.
by lambda_foo | 2025-12-01 22:55:45+00:00
It's really fascinating the different little evaluators that exist in DWARF. I started writing one for the DWARF expression format (https://github.com/tmcgilchrist/durin/pull/7) that I'm integrating with a debugger and free-monad/effect handler style code to lookup the missing data to provide for the Requires* callbacks.

Then there is the line number evaluation, which I haven't started on.

Building a Debugger by Sy Brand (https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger) is an awesome book if you want to learn more about this. It covers DWARF 4 and you build a full debugger in C++17 for Linux/x86_64. Can't recommend that book highly enough!
by dang | 2025-12-01 22:55:46+00:00
> makes you think you can do the same for the replies

We can't, and that's the issue. There's no fair way of adjudicating which such complaints are true and valid, vs. which are partly true but distorted, vs. which are outright false.

It seems to me that the status quo is the least-bad feasible option, which is why we stick with it, even though of course it has downsides. I still think the Who Is Hiring threads are valuable, even with those downsides, and trying to do significantly better is one of those things it's important to say 'no' to. The problem is not that it wouldn't be valuable—it's that it would be valuable, but would consume too much of our limited resources and ultimately distract from the main goal of trying to run a good (or good-enough) forum.
by jmb714 | 2025-12-01 22:55:49+00:00
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by cyberax | 2025-12-01 22:56:13+00:00
It doesn't. But if there is an elementary antiderivative, the Risch algorithm will find it (given the caveats listed in the Wikipedia article). But it might require a lot of substitutions, making its manual application impractical.

Another caveat is that Risch algorithm applies only to antiderivatives, not to the definite integrals. Some definite integrals can be computed without finding the antiderivative, often with the help of Feynman's trick.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-12-01 22:56:21+00:00
> How will the Google/Anthropic/OpenAI's of the world make money on AI if open models are competitive with their models?

They won't. Actually, even if open models aren't competitive, they still won't. Hasn't this been clear since a while already?

There's no moat in models, investments in pure models has only been to chase AGI, all other investment (the majority, from Google, Amazon, etc.) has been on products using LLMs, not models themselves.

This is not like the gold rush where the ones who made good money were the ones selling shovels, it's another kind of gold rush where you make money selling shovels but the gold itself is actually worthless.
by parliament32 | 2025-12-01 22:56:48+00:00
> if you make the wrong decision I will say no

While I know your heart is in the right place, as someone with a reporting structure on both sides, I can tell you that this kind of handholding is the entire reason they keep making bad decisions. You must let people fail, and from there your entire job is ensuring that winding back that decision is the responsibility of the people who made it. Few decisions are irreversible, and everything will almost always work out in the end despite how it feels at the time -- but letting people fail, then making them clean up after themselves, is possibly the absolute best teaching method out there.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-01 22:56:50+00:00
> Your boss

That requires your boss to be good at meetings, and in particular to take extra care of preparing meetings with well crafted agendas and not just setting up random spots where they spend the first 5min remembering the actually ultra important thing they needed to discuss with you.

I've never seen an org where that applies to most higher ups. In particular for stuff they don't want to leave in writing or are delicate subjects.
by sofixa | 2025-12-01 22:56:51+00:00
> So you are bearing the full cost of extremely high quality health insurance in a western country.

Overinflated imaginary cost*

There is no way that a medical consultation of 15 minutes actually cost $32k. Examples like this are aplenty, but only from the US. My favourite one was an itemised bill for birth that included a $1k for skin contact with the newborn.
by _-_-__-_-_- | 2025-12-01 22:56:54+00:00
Please note that this is the natural birth of an otherwise healthy child.

In Canada, provincial healthcare and private insurers have not kept pace with the needs and advancements in the areas of alternative methods of conception (IUI, IVF...). Yes, a naturally born baby wouldn't cost the parent(s) much medically. But, if you cannot have a child naturally, medication and procedures (lab testing, blood testing, artificial insemination...) are only partially covered and the amount corporate or union-backed insurers will pay varies widly by doctor and by patient. A couple struggling to conceive will easily pay 15-40K per child after the first procedure.

Funnily enough, friends who have jobs in the USA, but live in Canada often have better insurance that fully covers all of the costs after the deductible. It ends up costing much less to have IUI or IVF procedures with Canadian doctors using American insurers (of course they will take the money).
by bbor | 2025-12-01 22:57:17+00:00
I mean, there are lots of models that run on home graphics cards. I'm having trouble finding reliable requirements for this new version, but V3 (from February) has a 32B parameter model that runs on "16GB or more" of VRAM[1], which is very doable for professionals in the first world. Quantization can also help immensely.

Of course, the smaller models aren't as good at complex reasoning as the bigger ones, but that seems like an inherently-impossible goal; there will always be more powerful programs that can only run in datacenters (as long as our techniques are constrained by compute, I guess).

FWIW, the small models of today are a lot better than anything I thought I'd live to see as of 5 years ago! Gemma3n (which is built to run on phones[2]!) handily beats ChatGPT 3.5 from January 2023 -- rank ~128 vs. rank ~194 on LLMArena[3].

[1] https://blogs.novita.ai/what-are-the-requirements-for-deepse...

[2] https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3n-E4B-it

[3] https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall [1] https://blogs.novita.ai/what-are-the-requirements-for-deepse...
by munk-a | 2025-12-01 22:57:30+00:00
You are correct that caring is important - but it also isn't your responsibility at the end of the day. If you don't care you're doing it wrong - if you let it eat you up inside whenever anything goes wrong you're also doing it wrong.

Work-life balance is mostly talked about in terms of time commitments but there is also an emotional commitment you need to balance. It's unhealthy to be too far in either extreme and, especially folks that are naturally empathetic, should be more wary of falling into the trap of overinvesting in a workplace and suffering mentally for it.
by a_tartaruga | 2025-12-01 22:57:53+00:00
Home birth is absolutely a rational choice in many cases. The author had a very strong reason to require hospital birth but in scenarios with lower risk it is safer in some respects to avoid the hospital.

It will still cost you 5 - 10k for a good midwife and you'll still want to be insured in case you need to transfer. So it only knocks off 5-10k from the total.
by swalberg | 2025-12-01 22:57:58+00:00
Father of 3 here, first two were home births, the third had complications and ended up being a hospital birth. I was initially skeptical for the same reasons but the first meeting with the midwife convinced me that they were taking every precaution and had the training to deal with whatever might come up.

The majority of births are simple if you let them be and the midwives go to great lengths to make sure the conditions are right for a successful event. In the case of our third we hit some conditions leading up to the delivery date that disqualified us for a home birth so we seamlessly transitioned into the hospital system (where the midwife still delivered the baby)
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 22:58:00+00:00
Good thing this is not an average user then. This is someone programming a computer, which is a skill that requires being more than simply a user.

I'm sorry, but how low is the bar when "make backups" is "too difficult" for someone who's trying to program a computer? The entire point of programming a computer is knowing how it works and knowing what you're doing. If you can't make backups, frankly, you shouldn't be programming, because backups are a lot easier than programming...
by BeetleB | 2025-12-01 22:58:25+00:00
> 15 out of the top 50 and 4/6 top hospitals in the world are in the US

Outliers do not say much about the overall quality of healthcare in a country. Rather obvious lesson in statistics.

Reminds me of the Russian mathematician who moved to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of his essays were criticizing American students, but in one essay he was quite frank:

Russians who graduate with math degrees are better than Americans who do so, by a wide margin. However, the average American is better at math because they still get access to some math education in university and do not need to be a top student for admission. Whereas in Russia, if you didn't meet a rather high bar, you simply couldn't get admitted as an engineering/physics/math program, and thus couldn't further your math education (I believe he said the cutoff was even before university).

Country with the top mathematicians, but country with worse math outcomes.
by jmb714 | 2025-12-01 22:58:34+00:00
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by mattcantstop | 2025-12-01 22:58:47+00:00
I have the opposite viewpoint, and I lean heavily progressive in most of my views.

Healthcare in the United States isn't a market, and that is why it is so terrible. For instance, there is no reasonable ability to compare prices of services. Prices are entirely hidden. Then there is the "with insurance" price vs cash prices.

Healthcare doesn't function as a market, to our detriment.
by warkdarrior | 2025-12-01 22:58:56+00:00
>> As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

> If it's in the hands of the users, i.e. open source, it can be disabled at any moment, which is exactly what my reply already addressed.

The point is that with the help of hardware-backed DRM on the client, the Matrix server could send data only to unmodified clients. You modified your client in a way that does not match what the Matrix server expects? No data for you.
by qeternity | 2025-12-01 22:58:58+00:00
> DeepSeek and Qwen will function on cheap GPUs that other models will simply choke on.

Uh, Deepseek will not (unless you are referring to one of their older R1 finetuned variants). But any flagship Deepseek model will require 16x A100/H100+ with NVL in FP8.
by magneticnorth | 2025-12-01 22:59:01+00:00
YMMV whether this will fly in your company culture, but I titled mine "Focus time, please ask before scheduling".

And when people inevitably didn't ask, I'd just decline unless I especially wanted to attend. I find myself getting invited to meetings sometimes just because the organizer wants to be inclusive and make sure everyone is looped in who might want to be, and I figure that's what's going on if they added me without asking.

If it's really important for me to be there, they'll see my time block and ask me.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-01 22:59:01+00:00
I'm sure this will sound a bit whack to some of the sorts on here but honestly, who cares?

I was at the principal engineers offsite summit in scenic Cle Ellum when they supposedly announced prime Air.

I know, I know, what the f** ever, but there was something very ominous and significant at this unveiling. If this were my demo and my unveiling, I would have had a drone pick up a package at one side of the auditorium and drop it off at the other side of the auditorium.

What we got was a mock package and a mock drone and lots of talky talk from a guy who didn't last long at Amazon. This set the tone for everything going forward. And the engineers of tech, the real engineers of tech, not the toxic empathy talkers who can't do anything (tm), need to put these people in their place or the enshittification will continue unopposed.

I'm mostly out of f**s here having made what I needed to make but it's fun to post here in a position of not caring what people think of me anymore. Make of that what you will.

Edit: Come on PE snowflakes! You want to talk about that thread on the principal engineering list about how long it had been since any of you had actually written a line of code? I do. It explains a lot about you guys.

And don't get me started about that urgent missive about only hiring fungible people. Because fungible equals generalist and that's why both you and Google have the horrible retention rates you have. I can tell I'm not the only one that was in the room for that ridiculous presentation from the downvotes. Keep going and no worries, Amazon will have more than enough money to acquihire the people that actually solve these problems.
by Onavo | 2025-12-01 22:59:54+00:00
Supposedly the main blocker for launching is because Apple would consider it reputational damage if the AI hallucinates. They have a very conservative approach when it comes to LLMs (on the other hand they are happy to scan all your photos and messages in the guise of child safety and send the data to the government and ChatControl).

Problem is, Siri is already damaging Apple's reputation with how useless it is..
by jdboyd | 2025-12-01 23:00:11+00:00
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by sofixa | 2025-12-01 23:00:36+00:00
In economics 101 one of the first things they teach you is supply and demand, and inelastic goods. Food and healthcare are the two main examples of inelastic goods, where demand is heavily disconnected from supply. There are of course nuances (you can eat just beans and rice, or do the bare minimum of healthcare/medicine to survive), but both are not things you have a lot of choice to consume or not.
by throwaway150 | 2025-12-01 23:00:36+00:00
As someone who has lived in several countries, I do not believe every developed nation achieves better healthcare outcomes than the United States. Many European countries, as well as Canada, offer some form of universal coverage with free general treatment but waiting times for appointments and procedures can vary widely. That said, I still think universal healthcare is preferable, as these systems tend to prioritize urgent cases effectively and ensure that emergency treatment is fully covered for free.

I think, it's only the Asian countries who have got cheap, easy, and effective healthcare where you can not only get appointments quickly but you can get treatment for cheap too but their emergency services are not always as streamlined as those in more developed systems. There is no clear overall winner. Some places excel in certain aspects. Others perform better in different areas.
by jswelker | 2025-12-01 23:01:13+00:00
I got very excited during the Grusch hearing time period a few years ago and followed the UAP community for a few months (years?). It seemed very legit at the start, but how long has it been now with still zero evidence from that whole congressional whistleblower song and dance? So many grifters came out of the woodwork and made little influencer careers on "just two more weeks" promises. And so much overlap between the UAP community and D-list congressional MAGA shysters during that time.

I want to believe. But unfortunately I don't.

The testimony evidence would not stand up in court. Testimony is admissable, but only after some ground facts are established. In a murder case, we presumably have a body or some very suspicious missing person report. If I went to the cops and said "Bob killed a guy. I know there's no body, but trust me bro, I am very credible for X reasons." They are not going to put Bob in jail on that alone.

So yeah we have a lot of testimony. But testimony is corroborating evidence. But there is nothing here to corroborate.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 23:01:36+00:00
Because the marketing copy says that all you have to do is have a dream and you, too, can vibe code your very own money-making React app! Just type in what you want and the magical black box will vomit up an app for you, no esoteric programming knowledge required.

And then everyone is surprised when newbies take this advice at face value.
by the_af | 2025-12-01 23:01:57+00:00
Tangent: the analysis linked to by the article to another article about rhetorical tricks is pretty interesting. I hadn't realized it consciously, but LLMs really go beyond the em-dashes thing, and part of their tell-tale signs is indeed "punched up paragraphs". Every paragraphs has to be played for maximum effect, contain an opposition of ideas/metaphors, and end with a mic drop!

Some of it is normal in humans, but LLMs do it all the goddamn time, if not told otherwise.

I think it might be for engagement (like the sycophancy) but also because they must have been trained in online conversation, where we humans tend to be more melodramatic and less "normal" in our conversation.
by badbotty | 2025-12-01 23:02:03+00:00
I'm a React dev and have been mentoring a junior. React's hooks, when and why they run, is very unintiuative for them. Skill issue is part of it, but React's immutable prop diffing forces the use of hooks and understanding how the framework uses them. Moving to a re-render model which always rebuilds the vdom tree allows callbacks, state to be defined outside of the render method without framework abstractions wrapping them. I'm not familiar with what Remix is doing but it looks a lot like Mithril.js, and working with Mithril is really enjoyable after working with React for as long as I have.