MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by l2silver | 2025-12-03 03:05:22+00:00
Alright, bring on the downvotes.

It's the bloated junior salaries that have killed their market. I never like hiring juniors, I never like working with juniors, and I'd rather pay the extra 20-30% and get someone more experienced. I'm sorry, but if you don't get into FANG, you should basically be working for nothing until you have some experience. It's cruel, it's not fair, but it's just not worth it for the employer. Especially in today's world where there is no company loyalty.

All this BS about AI taking away the stuff that juniors did, in my field, software development, that was never the case. I never worked in a place where the juniors had different work than the seniors. We all did the same things, except the juniors sucked at it, and required handholding, and it would have been faster and better if they weren't there.

The real trick is finding companies that do very simple work, simple enough that juniors can thrive on day one. It won't be the best experience, but it is experience, and the rest is what you make of it.
by DavidLandup0 | 2025-12-03 03:05:28+00:00
Thanks for the kind words!

The speed mostly comes from building it on top of Starlette and Granian, while keeping overhead low, so I can't claim much credit on that part. In the end, business logic will be the bottleneck anyway :)

Yeah, I've seen mixed responses on SQL magic. Spring and Ruby devs I talked to seemed to like it (with Ruby active records having a similar feature), but JS, Python and other devs I talked to found it odd.

I guess it depends on the ecosystem people get used to?

Would be exciting to see Astral come out with a server! Though, with the current landscape, it feels like there isn't too much to be done without massive efforts, so I don't imagine they could justify spending the time given how well they're doing in their niche. Could be wrong, though.
by addaon | 2025-12-03 03:05:32+00:00
See my other comments in this discussion. For long m-range pulsed LiDAR, full modulation is not feasible due to the firing circuits used. Minimal modulation can be used, and jitter injection means that any incident is likely to effect a single sample, not be repeated; but the main protection is narrow field of view and a duty cycle well under 0.1%.
by solumunus | 2025-12-03 03:05:44+00:00
Same. I don’t understand how people aren’t getting this yet. I’m spending all day thinking, planning and engineering while spending very little time typing code. My productivity is through the roof. All the code in my commits is of equal quality to what I would produce myself, why wouldn’t it be? Sure one can just ask AI to do stuff and not review it and iterate, but why on earth would one do that? I’m starting to feel that anyone who’s not getting this positive experience simply isn’t good at development to begin with.
by Davidzheng | 2025-12-03 03:06:33+00:00
I don't think that counts as confirmation. 4.5 we know was a new base-model. I find it very very unlikely the base model of 4 (or 4o) is in gpt5. Also 4o is a different base model from 4 right? it's multimodal etc. Pretty sure people have leaked sizes etc and I don't think it matches up.
by smoe | 2025-12-03 03:06:52+00:00
I don't think Google is bad at building products. They definitely are excellent at scaling products.

But I reckon part of the sentiment stems from many of the more famous Google products being acquisitions orignally (Android, YouTube, Maps, Docs, Sheets, DeepMind) or originally built by individual contributors internally (Gmail).

Then here were also several times where Google came out with multiple different products with similar names replacing each other. Like when they had I don't know how many variants of chat and meeting apps replacing each other in a short period of time. And now the same thing with all the different confusing Gemini offerings. Which leads to the impression that they don't know what they are doing product wise.
by Kirby64 | 2025-12-03 03:07:10+00:00
> Lack of education IMHO is a huge part. Crypto has way more education around how to invest than equities investment. If people are investing, many are choosing crypto.

More education around investing in crypto? I think we must be exposed to some very different parts of the internet. Investing in boring index funds are very widely spread around these days. Might not be exciting, and I guess there isn’t really something to sell (unlike crypto), so perhaps that’s part of the reason.
by NBJack | 2025-12-03 03:07:13+00:00
Interesting title, but folks seem to forget the double-digit MHz processors straining to hit 30 FPS back then on Doom unless it was in a smaller rendering size. This would have killed the performance even on my mighty 486 running at 33 MHz at the time (I don't have a lot of faith in the VM demo). It remains to be seen if the music files are small enough to keep the game to its original ~2 x 1.44MB installation disk size.

Still neat.

I recall Windows 3.1 was sometimes shipped with a speaker driver that could emulate a very basic audio card on a traditional PC speaker almost entirely in software.
by ljhsiung | 2025-12-03 03:07:27+00:00
While I definitely agree CEO pay is quite egregious, in theory, to mitigate short-sighted quarterly earnings hyperoptimization, couldn't a board simply tie equity incentives to performance targets and timeframes though?

Lip Bu Tan, for instance, has performance targets on a five year timeline, which are all negated if the stock falls below a certain threshhold in 3 years. [1]

Or, ever controversial Elon Musk, certainly has an (also egregious) $1 Trillion dollar pay package, but it has some pretty extreme goals over 10 years, such as shipping 1 million Optimus robots [2].

All in all, we can debate about the Goodharting of these metrics (as Musk is keen to do), but I feel boards of these public companies are trying to make more long-term plans, or at least moving away from tying goals to pure quarterly metrics. Perhaps we can argue about the execution of them.

Note: I own neither of these stocks and my only vested interest is buying the S&P.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/new-intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-to-... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk6kvyxvzo
by suprjami | 2025-12-03 03:07:31+00:00
No, that isn't correct.

Brendan was in charge of a company built on LGBT people. For him to turn around and donate to anti-LGBT political causes was not appropriate. The company fairly lost faith in him. How can you work somewhere your boss hates you so badly he campaigns against your basic human rights?

However, Brendan also did not increase his own pay by hundreds of percent while laying off over a quarter of the staff, which is what the executive teams since Brendan have done.

The bad stuff in Firefox started when the C-suite, now lead by an ex-McKinsey CEO, started lining their own pockets instead of running a technology company.
by calebio | 2025-12-03 03:08:55+00:00
I think part of the problem is that prior to WhatsApp's E2EE implementation in like 2014, TLS was very often called "End to End Encryption" as the ends were Client and Server/Service Provider. It got redefined and now the new usage is way more popular than the old one.

I can't blame most people for calling TLS "E2EE", even some folks in industry, but it's not great for a company to advertise that you offer X if the meaning of X has shifted so drastically in the last decade.
by alwillis | 2025-12-03 03:08:57+00:00
> Mac, alt-minus.

I've been using Macs for decades; it's called the Option key; no seasoned Mac user calls it "Alt".

I know when a PC-style keyboard is attached to a Mac, the Alt key functions as the Option key. [1]

- Option-minus creates an en dash

- Option-Shift-minus creates an em dash

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/intro-to-mac-keyboa...

[2]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-...
by boxedemp | 2025-12-03 03:10:45+00:00
Nobody really knows the future. What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs.

Now that compute is being used for transformers and machine learning, but we really don't know what it'll be used for in 10 years.

It might all be for naught, or maybe transformers will become more useful, or maybe something else.

'no way' is very absolute. Unlikely, perhaps.
by themk | 2025-12-03 03:11:04+00:00
There is nothing special about the [IO a] -> IO [a] in Haskell. You can iterate over it using the "normal" methods of iterating just fine.

forM ios $ \io -> io

But there are better ways to do it (e.g. sequence), but those are also not "special" to IO in any way. They are common abstractions usable by any Monad.
Ask HN: Why is everyone in tech so performative/two faced
by bunnybomb2 | 2025-12-03 03:11:29+00:00
I am not technical I just like building and making friends and having fun inventing

It feels 70% of people I meet, are trying to determine what you can get them, if u r important enough or trying to butter you up in a coffee chat

What happened to building cool stuff, not having a ego and being real. Sorry if this isnt allowed. I dont know where else to post. Am i hanging out in the wrong crowds?
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-12-03 03:11:55+00:00
For a game that did this incredibly well look at Star Control 2.

Amazing .mod based techno music via pc speaker that mixed in sound effects, even including short vocal clips (pkunk insults). All running on a humble 286 which played the game well while managing this. For those that say this was a choice due to poor pc speaker quality the toys for bob engineers pulled it off with incredible results years prior.

It was just a pain to do.
by rich_sasha | 2025-12-03 03:12:15+00:00
I wonder if this would very quickly get politicised.

Because what would you teach in these classes? I guess you'd start with, avoid debt, spend according to your means etc.

Next minute some politician will be concerned voters take it too seriously and start judging them by their ability to stick to budgets. Nononono. Let's make that curriculum less revolutionary.

Then I suppose there's corporate interest too. Surely spending withing your means is un-American? Let's include in the lessons stuff about spreading the cost of your purchase over 3 years on a credit card. And did you know Visa, our educational partner, offers you a student credit card with just 280% annual interest and 0.001% cashback, just to get you to dip your toes in the world of crippling debt? I mean, sustainable personal finance. And if that all gets too much, here's some opioid painkillers. There, much better.
by cryptonector | 2025-12-03 03:13:13+00:00
Yes, it's about a lot more than that. It's about automatically and recursively encoding/decoding through "typed hole". A typed hole is where you have a struct with one field that denotes the type of the other, and the other is basically a byte string whose value is an encoding of a value of a type identified by the other field. Typed holes are surprisingly common in protocols. Typically you first decode the outer value, then you inspect the typed hole's type ID field, then you decode the typed hole's value accordingly, and this is code you have to write by hand. Whereas with automatic handling of typed holes just one invocation of the codec is sufficient (as opposed to one codec invocation for the outermost value plus one invocation for every typed hole).
by geoduck14 | 2025-12-03 03:13:35+00:00
This is exactly what E2EE means. I used to work at a bank, and our data was E2EE, and we had to certify that it was E2EE - from the person paying, through the networks, through the DNS and Load balancers, until it got to the servers. Only at the servers could it be unencrypted and a (authoried) human could look at it.

Of course, only authorized users could see the data, but that was a different compliance line item.
by suprjami | 2025-12-03 03:13:36+00:00
I miss it too, but I don't see how Mozilla Prism can be related to the company's success or failure.

How do you suggest Electron makes money for OpenJS?

You can still make PWAs backed by Firefox:

https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

This has not made Linux Mint any richer.
by bncndn0956 | 2025-12-03 03:13:49+00:00
It's good we are building all this excess capacity which will be used for applications in other fields or research or open up new fields.

I think the dilemma I see with building so much data centers so fast is exactly like whether I should buy latest iPhone now or should wait few years when the specs or form factor improves later on. The thing is we have proven tech with current AI models so waiting for better tech to develop on small scale before scaling up is a bad strategy.
by Royce-CMR | 2025-12-03 03:14:17+00:00
I think the safety of other humans eyes (lidar exposure) is the real negative for lidar use.

The MKBHD YouTube video where he shows his phone camera has burned out pixels from lidar equipped car reviews is revealing (if I recall correctly, he proceeds to show it live). I don't want that pointed at my eye.

I love lidar from an engineering / capability perspective. But I grew up with the "don't look in a laser!" warnings everywhere even on super low power units... and it's weird that those have somehow gone away. :P
by sometimes_all | 2025-12-03 03:14:49+00:00
Yeah it was an absolute nightmare trying to figure out the difference, and I still do not know the correct answer to this, and by the looks of it, neither does Google support, because they were as clueless as I was when I asked them about it.

One thing I read on a reddit thread [1] was that the AI pro 2 TB plan explicitly allows sharing the AI and storage benefits when you enable family sharing on them, while the 5 TB plan doesn't.

However, when I went to sign up, the 5 TB plan wasn't available at all! It's only their lite and basic plans (the one with 30 and 100 GB of storage); the 5TB one only showed up after I signed up for the pro plan, and judging by how the UX looked, you pay an extra amount on top of your AI pro plan.

Now I definitely need family sharing, but I don't need the full 2 TB, let alone 5 TB, so I didn't bother checking further about the 5TB plan.

Also, I am in India, maybe things are different in your region?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleOne/comments/1nib21a/solved_g...
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-03 03:15:06+00:00
Just a minor correction, but I think it's important because some comments here seem to be giving bad information, but on OpenAI's model site it says that the knowledge cutoff for gpt-5 is Sept 30, 2024, https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/compare, which is later than the June 01, 2024 date of GPT-4.1.

Now I don't know if this means that OpenAI was able to add that 3 months of data to earlier models by tuning or if it was a "from scratch" pre-training run, but it has to be a substantial difference in the models.
by -warren | 2025-12-03 03:15:07+00:00
I'm going to date myself here. In 199x, we had a 286 and loved a game called "Command HQ" that had lovely gameplay and sound to boot! Then we got the ol' Packard bell 486 with a sound blaster. We played the same game (which had midi output too) for the first time and my father and I cried -- it was unbelievable.

That's when I first became enamoured with the "art of the possible" and this has driven my career.

I fully believe that doom could have had pc speaker sound; after all w3d did!
by 20rfe7ziz | 2025-12-03 03:15:57+00:00
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by Detrytus | 2025-12-03 03:16:23+00:00
"Totalitarian nightmare" is the natural state of the mankind. At the end of the day we are just animals, seeking to establish dominance over other animals. Couple centuries of democracy were an anomaly, raising from the fact that industrial revolution needed educated people as factory workers, but did not create effective tools of control over those (now educated and therefore more conscious and politically active) masses until very recently.
by amluto | 2025-12-03 03:17:20+00:00
> I don't want to find out my math library is caching results on disk, or allocating megabytes to memoize. I want to know what functions I can use in a freestanding environment, or somewhere resource constrained.

On that vein, I would often like to know whether the function I can is creating a task/thread/greenlet/whatever that will continue executing, concurrently, after it returns. Making that be part of the signature is approximately called “structured concurrency”, and Zig’s design seems to conflate that with taking an io parameter. This seems a bit disappointing to me.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-03 03:17:27+00:00
No, I don’t trust a word Sundar or Satya say about AI either. CEOs should be hyping anything they’re invested in, it’s literally their job. But convincing investors that every thing they don’t invest in heavily is worthless garbage is effectively part of their job too.

What is more convincing is when someone invests heavily (and is involved heavily) and then decides to stop sending good money after bad (in their estimation). Not that they’re automatically right, but is at least pay attention to their rationales. You learn very little about the real world by listening to the most motivated reasoner’s nearly fact-free bloviation.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-12-03 03:17:47+00:00
Search engines aren't just some database lookups, is the thing. There's actually quite a bit of linear alegbra involved in both, for page ranking especially

Anyways these sorts of comparisons make no sense to begin with, and quite obviously at the moment the worst actors cough xAI cough who are deploying massively polluting generators into residential neighborhoods are much worse than, say, Google Search
by amrocha | 2025-12-03 03:17:57+00:00
Yes, I have quit a remote company because it wasn’t for me. I deliberately live somewhere with a good commute.

These are choices I made for myself. If you can’t make the same choices that’s fine, but don’t come in to every thread about RTO and start saying that I’m a lazy irresponsible disrespectful person because I prefer to work in an office.

I’m not saying every company needs to be like this, but that companies like this should be allowed to exist without you remote work zealots belittling everyone who works there. Go work somewhere else!
by frankhsu | 2025-12-03 03:18:00+00:00
Really nice tool, Thank you! I had confronted some issues after cloned the repo and installed the node_modules. I'm using node.js v20, when I tried "node webclone.js --help" the terminal catch a error of "Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /Users/fangyexu/Desktop/dev-s/_github/webclone/node_modules/yargs/index.mjs not supported."

Then I just throwed it to my Cursor and it help me solved the issue.
by bunnybomb2 | 2025-12-03 03:18:14+00:00
nothing that interesting or has made lots of money. Ive been making little projects and i like new ideas and inventing

made a couple social networks in high school + sold counterfeit hall passes i tried making a snowball gun toy lots of random businesses like 10+ and dropshipping right now working on a startup related to odor in healthcare/crime scene settings

Im not the coolest SaaS person on the block.. but just my take on what ive observed
by ants_everywhere | 2025-12-03 03:18:22+00:00
It's true that it's about totalitarianism to some extent. But we have Orwell's actual words here that it's chiefly about communism

> [Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted in the English speaking countries, and was no longer a mere extension of the Russian Foreign Office.

And of course Animal Farm is only about communism (as opposed to communism + fascism). And the lesser known Homage to Catalonia depicts the communist suppression of other socialist groups.

By all this I just mean to say when you're reading Nineteen Eighty-Four what he's describing is barely a fictionalization of what was already going on in the Soviet Union. There's just not a lot in the book that is specifically Nazi or Fascist.

I don't have any opinion on whether he thought there were non-totalitarian forms of communism.
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